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6 Automobile Show iiri Our Mew IBuildimec All This Wee IN OCEAN TO OCEAN TOUR 12 PREMIER CARS ESTABLISHED WORLD'S RECORD PREMIER'S -wonderful chassis which made this trip possible is the outgrowth of knowledge gained during a long life of epoch-making road perform ances, the last of which was thi3 famous transcontinental tour of twelve PREMIERS, driven by owners and carrying families and friends to the number of forty men, women and childen, not one of whom was lost, as all twelve cars finished after aver aging 163 miles a day in accord ance with schedule in this 4763 mile trip across the American continent. Every feature of PREMIER will be explained by our corps of experts at PRE MIER exhibit, where all 6how visitors are heartily welcomed. THE QUALITY CAR Northwest Auto Co. 617 Washington Street A THE MOTOR THAT SUPPLANTED THE WORLD'S BEST A Silent Knight Motor Can Be Seen In Actual Demonstration All This Week The Czar of Russia Owns a Knight-Motored Car Sales Doubled to aoea the Emperor of Germany. So do the Kings of England. Bel gium, Spain. Co do mora than I90f men. en both Idea the Atlantic, who demand the best the world can offer In their pleasure cars. In Europe the list of KnJght own ers Is the Blue Book of Motordom. Panhard. the pride of Frsnee Mi nerva, Belgium's greatest car both have come to this sleeve-valve motor. Thus the four leading cars of the Old World have recognized that the poppet valve must go. . Last Summer, after two years of testing, the Stearns cam into line. We have built Stearns cars for 18 years. They have attained an im mense popularity. But the first announcement of this sleeve-valve motor doubled our sales in a month. It compelled us to lease a new factory Hundreds of men who got early de liveries have run these cars thou sands of miles. And the letters we get from them form the highest tribute ever paid an Americas car. 50 Per Cent More Power Daimler the leading car of Eng land eice 1908 has been a Knight motored car. Mercedes the monarch of the Ger man field Is now a Knight-type car. And the Mercedea engine, which the Knight-type supplanted, waa consid ered the master engine of the world. The World- To Get Rid of . Every great designer who still em ploys poppet valves is seeking a way to get rid of them. We adopted the Knight way because we regard It the ideal solution. And the foremost engineers have agreed with us. But those who belittle it to sell cars without it are seeking other means to this end. That ia the' record of the Knight type motor after three yeara of the limelight. Five of the world's greatest makers adopt it. And 8000 owners of high grade cars have become Knlght-type enthusiasts. Consider these facts when somebody warns you that the Steams-Knight is an experiment. Wide Effort Poppet Valves - valves aren't tight, there is vast waste of power. Cams are required, and cams get noisy when they wear. Timing gears are used, and their humming can be heard. Thus silence Is made Impossible. Power and efficiency are greatly re duced. And every designer knows it. The cylinders in the Steams-Knight are 4xB inches. By accepted standards such an en gine is rated at 2S.9 horsepower. But we guarantee that this engine will show an excess of not less than 60 per cent. This is due to the absence of poppet valves and their leakage. And to the spherical shape of the explosion chamber. That's an immense item. No large cylinders, no greater con sumption of gasoline. Yet half again as much power as the rating calla for. Think what that means. Won Dewar Trophy In the Greatest Test on Record The Royal Automobile Club of Eng land offers the Dewar Trophy. It is offered for the greatest achievement of the year in automo bile engineering. In 1909 this trophy was won by the Knlght-type motor. It was won In a test beyond prece dent a test which engineers called impossible a test which no poppet valve motor aver will attempt. At the end of the test which equaled two years of ordinary service the engines developed more power than they did at the start. And , they showed not a sign of wear. Such is the verdict of the world's foremost authority on the sleeve valve type of motor found in the Stearns-Knight. For poppet valves form the greatest shortcoming In modern gasoline en gines. They axe noisy and slow and leaky. There are two in each cylinder springing shut hundreds of times per minute. They require frequent grinding. Whea carbon accumulates, so the The Stearns-Knight engine has no timing gears, no springs, no cams, no poppet valves. There is no carbon trouble, no valve grinding, no leakage. The action is silent and certain. No man who knows half what we know about it will consider a poppet valve motor. No Leading Car Can Lead for Long Without It The Silent Power The silence of the Stearns-Knight Is ajmeet uncanny. Whan turning Idly at the curb there la soarcely sound or vibration to show the engine is running. The car glides en the road." says en ef the owners, "as though it were sliding en runners." Every evidence of effort to which one is aacusUmed 1 lacking In the Bum, On hills the Stearns-Knight showa that persistent power known in elec tric motors. In traffic one may run at walking speed on high gear, then quickly ac celerate to any speed wanted without any jumping or pounding. The four-cyjinder Knight type of fer all the flexibility of the six cylinder poppet valve. The Knight-type motor, after years of tests, has been adopted by the world's best cars. Each, to' adopt It, displaced a poppet-valve engine as good as men can make. What 1 done by Daimler, Mercedes, Panhard and Minerva in so vital a matter must be done by all great cars soon or late. The leading cars of the future will be Knlght-type cars. The evidence ia overwhelming. No lesser features can ever out weigh this silence, this power, thU efficiency. Come and See Erery motor car lover should sea this car. It is the topio of the hour la Motordom. Come and look it over. Then let ua put the angina to any test you wanU Equipment Wane Ante-Meter. Biiko' Windshield, Model K. Ilk Mohair Toe aad Over. Veeta D 7 a n m e Kleetrle Lighting ays-teas. Continental Q. D. Dtmes't nble Rims (two extra rlni). Klaxen Horn 1h BaJb Horn. Trunk Hark, Re be Rail, f-'eot Real, etc Touring Car Toy Tonneau Roadster $3500 ti) THE F. B. STEARNS COMPANY, STEARNS-KNIGHT AUTO CO. 615-17 Washington Street Portland, Or. Phones Marshall 4022 and A 4959 fil'KEHZIE TRIP RUE Route Declared One of Most Beautiful in State. FISH FREQUENT STREAMS M. C. Dickinson. With Party. Makes Three-Day Toar in automobile Prom Portland to Foley Springs and Return. One of the most earnest enthusiasms rf M. C. Dickinson. manager of the Hotel Oregon, is the three-day motor tr:p to Foley Springs. 0 miles eat of jine. and return. Mr. Dickinson was over the route In a Locomobile with a party of friends, late in the Autumn and says he has never, throughout hi varied motoring experiences, made a trip so thoroughly delightful. "I heard a lot about the beauties of the road along- the banks of the Mc Kenste." sad Mr. Dickinson, "but my anticipations failed utterly to meaaure up to the delightful marvels that un folded with every mile, when once we had penetrated into the beautiful wilderness through which the famous stream runa Cleaeene Dlmrtn Rente. "To w. J. Clemena belongs the glory of having discovered this splendid motor route, over which he first went a little more than a year ago. under the guidance of J. W. McClung.- a pioneer merchant of Eugene. Mr. McClung makes annual pilgrimages to Foley Springs, fishing along the river, and I believe It waa bia 40th annual trip that he made with Mr. Clemens In his auto mobile. "We left portlsnd at noon." con tinued Mr. Dickinson, "and easily reached Eur'ne that evening. The trip from Eugene to Foley springs, which is over ordinary country roads for (0 miles, la aet down as a sis-hour trip, but I waa ambitious and made it In five hours and five minutes. We lert Eugene at A. M. and pulled up at the old log cabin, which marks the end of the route, at 11:01 A- M. We sampled the Invigorating mineral wa ter and had lunch and then aet out leisurely en the return trip. risking In Gee. "We stopped at varioui places en the return trip, and enjoyed several hours of sport In this veritable fisherman's paradlae. The daintily colored trout were plentiful, and flashed alluringly In the clear water ef the McKensle In the soft Autumn sunlight which shim mered through the overhanging trees and foliage. I believe there were 3 of the rainbow-tinted beautlea on our string when we boarded the auto at the last stop. We had them fried tor our late dinner In Eugene, reaching there about P. M. "We had no motor trouble on the entire trip, aave at a little stream about 48 miles from Eugene In return ing. Here the rear wheels of the car dropped Into a bed of slow quicksand Just as we had forded the stream and started up the steep bank on the op posite side. We were helped out of this predicament by a man mho eame along with' two pack ponies. The ponies were hitched to a rope that we tied around the front axle, and we lost only half an hour. If the man with the ponies had not happened along it surely would have taxed our Ingenuity to find a way out. for the wheeli had sunk to the hubs and the bank was steep and slippery. This road is to be Improved and put in good shape early In the Spring, and should be one of the most popular for touring In Ore gon." LANDS ARE OFFERED CHEAP Settlers' Ateney In Southwestern Washington Llsta 7000 Acres. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Feb. 10. (Spe cial.) The Southwest Washington Settlers' Agency has chosen several of ita local agents in different towns in the state as follows: Toledo. H. H. Hurst: Aberdeen. S. K. Bowes & Co.; Hoqulam. Grays Harbor Land Com pany; Castle Rock. C. R. Bell; Laurel. A. F. Peek: Yacolt. O. J. Olson; Seat tle, David P. Eastman. Lowman build ing. To date, without a canvass having been made of the district of South west Washington, the agency has up ward of 7000 acres of logged off lands listed at prlcea ranging from 15 to J50 per acre. Numerous inquiries have been received and the work will now be pushed. Saw T.ealand dealers recently shipped ev eral consignment of froien ducks to Lon don th good results. Thev sold for shout 75 cents each, and when ready for the table are said to have averaged up to the nsllsb product. SPECIAL GARS PLANNED NEW MOTOR SPEED CREATION'S TO EXTER RACE. Machines Combining European and Original Ideas Will Be Seen in Big Sweepstakes.' INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 10. Two special motor speed creations, which bid fair to mark a new epoch In the building of racing automobiles, have been entered In the second annual 600 mile International Sweepstakes race to be run Decoration day. May 30, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, by the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Com pany, of Racine, Wis. The entry was made on New Year's day, and la the first to be made for any race in the year 1912. The two cars are to be constructed along lines followed by the most suc cessful European racing car manufac turers, and will introduce two new features. Inasmuch as they will have wire wheels and a specially construct ed left-hand drive which has not been used heretofore. The general lines of construction which will be followed out promise to make the cars the most spectacular in appearance yet built in America The engtneera at the Case factory assert the speed which these two cars will be able to attain will not be less than two miles per minute on the straightaways and that they will be able to negotiate the full 1-mlle dis tance of the Motor Speedway at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Louis Dis brow, the famous Eastern- driver, and Joe Jagersberger, the "Flying Dutch man," have been named to pilot the entries. ' Disbrow has been racing for six yeara, starting first with a Rainier and later making a showing with the same car In several 24-hour races at Brighton Beach. New York. In 1909 he won the 110.000 Atlanta Trophy race of 200 miles. In 1910 he drove a Knox. .winning many hill climbs and making records at Wllkes-Barre and Osslnlng. In 1910 Disbrow alternated between the National and Pope-Hartford, finish ing fourth In the Vanderbllt cup race In the National after he had been de layed 17 minutes through an accident with spectators. He also finished In both the Vanderbllt and Grand Prize races In a "Pope-Hummer" in 1911. Disbrow holds the world's beach rec ord for one hour standing start, mak ing 81.65 miles. The other Case driver. Joe Jagers- berger. is a native of Vienna, and eame to America in 1902 with Harry Herk ness, who at that time owned racing machines. Jagersberger set the 100 mile American track record In 1903, which record stood for three years. In this race Oeorge Robertson, one of the most famous American drivers, rode as Jagersberger's mechanician. Many of his notable performances have been made in Mercedes cars, one of which was in Fairmount Park, in Philadel phia, In 1910, when he finished third in a Mercedes owned by E. J. Schroeder. of New York. Jagersberger took the car after an accident three days before the race and rebuilt it entirely. Over Two Score Have Filed Now, SALEM. Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) George J. Cameron, District Attorney from Multnomah County; John P. Rusk, of La Grande, candidate for Representative in Congress from the Second District, and Charles H. Carey, candidate for delegate to the Repub lican National convention, all filed their petitions for nomination with the Secretary of State today. So far there have been 36 Republicans and 10 Dem ocrats who have filed their declarations to be candidates for office. By suspending a feed bag- from a bracket en a horse's collar instead of by straps from Its head, an Illinois Inventor believes Teas feed will be wasted and an animak will have more freedom ef motion. -j
