THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19, 191,3.
GREAT ADVANCE IN
EPPINTISSEEN
Visitors to Brilliant Automobile
Show Amazed at New
Features.
RADICAL CHANGES ARE FEW
Devices. Which Contribute to Effici
ency and Ease or Control Are
Feature of Exhibit Port
land Folk Attend.
NEW YORK. Jan. 18. (Special.)
Visitors to the 13th National automo
bii show, which closed tonight after
type. Two of these have demountable
lima, which Is a atep in advance of
European practice, while the rest have
special devices, which allow the wheels
to be placed and locked on the hub In
a "Jiffy." Several new designs of wood
wheel demountable rims are also
shown.
Gasoline motor -builders have some
thing new to show In the way of six
cylinder machines, while several radi
cal designs In valve construction are on
exhibition. There is one motor in par
ticular which has. been taken up ex
tensively and discussed by the Ameri
can Society of Automobile Engineers.
It has crescent-shaped sliding- valves,
which operate in grooves cut Into the
cylinder walls. These valves are ac
tuated by means of box cams, one set
on either side of the cylinders. This
new motor is said to have extraordi
narily high compression, and to develop
great power at moderate speeds.
Left-Hand Drives Inrrerwe.
While the older motor companies
have not made any startling changes
in essential design, they have made
their motors extremely neat and clean
in appearance. This includes the com
plete inclosing of the valves in cages,
covering the electric wires in conduits
and providing better "means of mount
ing the Intake and exhaust manifolds,
the magneto and the pumps.
Last year only 13 per rent of the
cars shown had the steering wheel lo
cated on the left-hand sjde of the car.
In the majority of these" cases the con
trol levers were centrally located, al
though a few had the levers at the left
AUTO CREDIT PLAN
IS FOUND SAFE IDEA
Leavitt Manager in Portland
Says Mortgaged Homes
Will Not Result.
APPLICANTS CAN AFFORD
Fred. Howe Declares Income and
Business Standing of Prospective
Bayer Investigated; Merits
of Scheme Revealed.
Strange things often happen in the
automobile business. The salesman's
life is not a continual round of rou-
case. why Is it that they have not pur
chased before? The average man
spenos a certain portion of his income
on what may be claimed to be luxuries
that is, pleasures for -himself and
family. Many have desired to spend
thim monev motoring, but the original
.Investment has deterred them. Our
plan permits tnem to enjoy auiuuiuun.
Ing and merely means to them a di
verting of the purchase price of other
luxuries to the enjoyment of the
motor car.
"The same pessimists have contend
ed that the expense of the motor car
will usually take the surplus money of
a man who only can afford 'to buy a
machine by the means we offer. I
contend, and always have contended,
that if an owner takes the proper care
of his automobile, that the expenses
will be much cheaper than those of his
other pleasures. In support of this con
tention I would like to quote the fol-
1 ... n lallar r-faivri fjTI HI S T R Tl 1 P V (T.
Seovern, as owner of an Overland. This
letter tells of a service that can De en
Joyed by every owner of an Overland.
Seovern writes:
Actual Expense Shown.
"'It will be of interest to you to know
from actual use how muoh it really
costs to run a model 46 Overland, such
T m driving around the city at pres
ent, and for that purpose I append here
with the expense Incurred by me dur
ing the six months that I have been
nneratinir this machine. From April 14.
1911. until October 14. 1911. during
which period I UBed my car continuous
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VIEW OP MADISOX-SO.CARE GARDE N EXHIBIT, WHERE ACME OF MOTOR CAR PERFECTION LURED THOUSANDS OF V ISITORS.
the most brilliant and successful ex
hibit In history, were, literally amazed
at the advance that has been made dur
ing the last season in pleasure-car
construction. This does not mean that
many radical changes have been made
In mechanical construction, but refers
more particularly to the very complete
equipment that is being offered.
I' This has been referred to as an
, equipment year." and the show visitor
I learned the truth of this phrase In no
i uncertain manner. Investigation
showed that fulry 90 per cent of the
f manufacturers exhibiting here are fur
nishing tneir cars wun more
accessories than ever before and more
than ever dreamed of only four years
ago. This equipment does not include
a lot of superfluous and useless parts,
but such devices which make for more
efficient operation and ease of control
of the car, with less labor for the
driver.
The show management struck a pop
ular cord when It announced one ad
mission price for both parts of the
show Madison Square Garden and
Grund Central Palace. Every after
noon and night both places were
crowded with Interested visitors. More
cars were exhibited, more results ob
tained and larger crowds attracted
than ever before. It is estimated that
fully 20.000 more visited the show than
last year.
Pari He Coast Folk Pcraent.
Kollowing a week of unvarying suc
cess, the pleasure car division of the
show closed tonight. Next week the
commercial motor vehicles will mo
nopolise the spotlight.
Among the Portland and Pacific Coast
people who visited the show were H. L.
Keats, the Chalmers and Peerless dis
tributer for the Northwest: F. W. Vor.
ler. Hudson and Reo distributer; L. H.
Rose, the Flanders district manager,
and Kdward Oohen. Maxwell dealer:
Xorman Mevaux, Tony Nichols and C.
A. Wtnstock. of San Francisco; Harry
A. Lord. Los Angeles: Ralph Tuttle.
Walla Waila.
Illustrating the trend toward self
starter, where only three years ago
only two manufacturers furnished self
starters with their cars, this year there
. are scarcely a dozen out of nearly S00
pleasure cars that are not equipped
with some form of self-starter. These
starters may be divided Into five
classes, as follows: Electric, com
pressed air. acetylene, gasoline or other
volatile liquid and spring starters.
The first type to appear as an in
tegral part of a car was the compressed
air starter: then came the spring
starter and then that depending upon
the explosion of acetylene gas In the
cylinders to start the motor. At last
ear's show 33 per cent of the cars on
on exhibition were equipped with acety
lene starters. 41 per rent with com
pressed air or gas and only Si per cent
with electric starters. This year It Is
estimated that more than CO per cent
f the cars have electric starting and
lighting systems.
Wire Wkeela Are Adopted.
One Important trend In design is seen
In the adoption of wire wheels by
several carbullders. Wire wheels have
been quite common in Europe for sev
eral yeara, but it is only within the
last season that they have been seri
ously considered by the American man.
ufacturer. At last year's show wnly
one company exhibited wire wheels,
while this year no less than five wheei
builders are showing hose of the wire
of the driver. This year it will be
seen that about 30 per cent of the cars
will have left-hand drive, while many
of those cars which retain the right
hand drive have adopted the center
control levers. Such an arrangement
allows access to the front seats from
either side of the car.
Cole Technical Bulletin
Used As Text Book
Profeaaor of Physics In Indiana
High School Impressed by Publics
tlon and Authorise Its Adoption.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 18. (Spe
cial.) The Cole Technical Bulletin,
a comprehensive talk on the con
struction of the automobile, has been
adopted as a text book In the Bloora
Ington, Ind., High Scnool. The book
describes so that any layman can un
derstand the construction of the auto
mobile, telling what each part is made
of and its particular function. It is
Issued under the signature of Charles
Crawford, chief engineer of the Cole
Motor Car Company.
E. R. Glen, professor of physics at
the Bloomington High School, came
Into possession of the Technical Bulle
tin. He Immediately provided copies
for ti'.e students as a supplementary
text book.
This Cole technical publication is a
hand book for th-s motor wise, no mat
ter what car they are using. Copies of
it can be found in various places from
the New York Public Library to the
Bureau of Public Works, Manilla.
With the Cole Blue Book, written in
a straightforward and natural manner,
the concise and lucid Technical Bulle
tin, It Is claimed, covers the whole field
of automobile service.
Carbon Preventive Tested.
"Six Little Yankees" Is the name of a
carbon preventive lauded by Eastern
motorists. The preparation removes
all carbon deposits from the cylinders
and prevents trouble that the average
autolst often wonders about. Numer
ous testimonials from automobilists
who have tested "Six Little Yankees
give proof that it does not injure i-.e
motor In any manner. J. Stanley
Clemence. city sales manager for Bal
lou t Wright, tried the preparation last
week and became so enthusiastic about
it that he Immediately communicated
with the manufacturers with the view
of handling it h re.
winton Official Visit.
C. F. Miller, chief of the Winton
forces in the Northwest, was in Port
land last week for a brief conference
with Manager Roberts, of the Portland
Winton branch. Miller, who makes his
headquarters in Seattle, looks for a big
boom in Winton business here since
the direct factory branch' has been es
tablished. Miller has had unusual suc
cess In Seattle. The Puget Sound city
Is the best Winton place in the West.
He expects Portland to attain like
prominence.
lr. addition ta its aerop!sne fleet the
French army '.til tv equipped with a
squadron or swift dirigible balloons that will
carry machine funs.
tine duties. The unusual, the unex
pected, occurs frequently. Dealers
maintain that it has ceased to be a
"game." Notwithstanding this opin
ion, the elements of a "game" continue
to cling to the business, albeit not to
such a marked degree as two or three
years ago. Therefore, paradoxical as
it may seem, the new credit plan an
nounced by J.iW. LeaAltt & Co. failed
to produce the surprise anticipated.
When Fred Howe, the Leavitt man
ager In Portland, announced that Over
lands would be sold on credit, it was
predicted that scores of people not in
a position to own an automobile would
Immediately apply for a Toledo ma
chine. Thus far this theory has been
cock-hatted. Before letting a car out
on time, the applicant's financial
standing Is thoroughly investigated. If
it is found that lie has an insufficient
Income, he of course is turned down.
To date Howe's force has been unable
to find one of those who would mort
gage his home for the luxury of an au
tomobile. Scheme Debatable at First.
"It was a debatable question as to
the practicability of the scheme from
the . business standpoint," said Man
ager Howe, In discussing the result of
the determination of the company to
follow the new procedure. "There
were those who thought that this an
nouncement would create a rush f
persons to obtain a car whose finan
cial position would not warrant such
a purchase. Undoubtedly there are
some who buy-motor cars who cannot
afford them, but I have been surprised
since we made the decision to find that,
although many have come in to take
advantage of the offer, that we have
yet to discover the first one whom we
consider not in a position to own an
automobile."
Evidently the public is not going so
crazy over automobiles as many would
have us believe. While admitting
there are a certain number who buy
when they should be thinking of other
investments, Howe declares that the
per cent is so small as to be almost
unnotlceable. Pessimists say that the
motor car is sending the Nation to its
ruin, that people are mortgaging their
nomes and otherwise going hopelessly
into debt, just to get hold of a vehicle
that will run by moving a few levers.
Applicants Standing Good.
"Like every other business in ex
tending credit," continued Howe, "we
must know that the person's credit is
good; that he is in a position to fulfill
his obligations. We are not selling
cars to persons who cannot afford
them; that is. while the motor car has
become virtually a necessity, yet it has
not reached that stage where it takes
Its place with the other commodities of
life.
"Those who have come in and taken
advantage of our offer have been per
sons with a business who need their
capital to carry on the same. Their
credit Is good In the financial world,
and their income is such that they can
take advantage of the offer.
"The same lrRB come to light through
the application o several who have
good - salaried positions. They have
money in the bank or invested. To pay
the full price for the car would mean
the disturbance of these bank ac
counts or investments. Their income
permits of the purchase of a motor car.
"Some have thought if tbla were the
ly In my business of collecting and cov
ered 4044 miles, it cost me as follows:
Six dry batteries 1-80
23 gallons gasoline..... 3IM5
15 gallons cylinder oil -35
5 pounds heavy grease .45
1 gallon very heavy oil
8-lnch section on tire 4.00
Leather belt for fan '5
Rubber tubing for gas lamps -80
Total 154.80
" 'No item appears here for new tires,
as I kept them in good shape by the use
of a steam vulcanizer, and expect to
get fully 8000 or 10,000 miles from
them.'
"Now," concluded Howe, "It does not
take a great mind to perceive that an
Overland is a comparatively inexpensive
luxury. Of course, the case .cited is a
little out of the ordinary. However, it
is by no means the exception. There
are, hundreds of Overland owners who
operate their cars on little or nothing.
If a man is careful in driving and takes
the same care of his car as a farmer
does his horse, there would be no big
maintenance bills." -
PHILOMATH AFTER SCHOOL
Committee Xamed to Try and Se
cure Federated College,
PHILOMATH, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Philomath Com
mercial Club on last Monday evening
S3 citizens were named as a commit
tee to take' up the matter of securing
the new Federated College for Philo
math. This movement, if secured for Philo
math, will bring all the educational
Interests of the United Brethren,
United Evangelical churches and Evan
gelical Association to this place and an
endowment fund of $200,000.
In order to be considered as a loca
tion Philomath must raise $30,000 be
fore February 21. The committee of
33 citizens were given a banquet Thurs
day evening and completed plans for a
complete canvass In order to secure
the necessary funds. The committee
expects to' secure the amount within
30 days.
On account of the many natural ad
vantages, the splendid college build
ings and campus, fine mountain water
and a dry town, it is expected this col
lege will ba located here.
SNOW THIRTY FEET DEEP
Southern Oregon Expects Early
Spring and: Large Crop to Follow.
GRANTS PASS, Or., Jan. 18. (Spe
cial.) Reports from mlllmen, miners,
packers and trappers are that the
mountains of Southern Oregon have
more snow than for several years past
at this time of year.
Miners , say that the trail leading
from West Fork over to Mule Creek
down Lower Rogue River is covered
with from 5 to 30 feet of snow.
A watchman from Swede Basin Mill
reported that In coming out he en
countered snow four feet deep on a
leveL About 20 Inches of snow is on
Hayes Hill, on the stage line from here
to Crescent Crty.
It Is predicted here that heavy
Winter at this time indicates an early
Spring with heavy fruit crops
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AKRON. OHIO.
No-Rim-Cut Tires
Used as Equipment on Largest Single
Shipment of Automobiles Ever Made
Nothing but GOODYEAR TIRES on 375 Buick Automobiles Shipped in One
. Trainload to the Howard Automobile Co., of San Francisco.
This Letter Tells Why:
Howard "automobiue'Companv'
ftCIWICS dim. WTT. a.
VACf COAST
, January fith,1913
Goodyear Tlr & Rubber. Company,
Tan Koas Avenue & Sutter Street,
Ban Franoieoo, Cal. '
Gentlemen!
fa take pleasure" In advlelr-g you tnatf
the 375 Buiok automobiles in our epeolal train- ,
load of 75 oarloada, which haa Just arrlved.wera
all equipped with Goodyear No-fli-Cut-Tlres.
We have bad ao 'far this eeaaon,approxii
aately thirteen hundred lSia Bulcke equipped with,'
. OoodvearHrea'. our reaeon for using your tires
In euoh lares quantities being that we know of no
other tirs that would giro us the satisfaction and
aeVrioe we are now getting. In fact, ws have spaoi
fied a preferamoe for Gopdyearequipinent. for.tna
last fire years. ' . ,
""assuring you again of our appreciation
not only of the. quality of your tire, but p.f the,
eerrios extended-to Buiok owners as well. as euiw
ssItss, wsjbsg to remain
Toura very truly,
Howard automobile Conpony;
C.6.BJ
MILEAGE TESTS WIN FOR GOODYEAR
For years and years we have built tires solely by the mileage test. And motorists
are coming more and more to the making of mileage comparisons. Nothing in
the world accounts for Goodyear popularity save the lessened cost per mile.
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., Akron, Ohio
This company has no connection whatever with any other rubber concern which uses the Goodyear name.
Portland Branch 62 Seventh Street Phones: Main 2190, A 4046
TRIG TRIP ENDED
Worst Part of World Tour
Found in United States.
AUT0ISTS DENIED SHELTER
Feminine Motorist Tells Thrilling
Tale of Battle With Raging Bliz
zards While Crossing Sew
Mexico on Way Home.
n.t.rmlnRtiAn ' tn rnmDlete their
world tour brought Mrs William A.
Hall, of New York, and her son, Mel
vin. Into a series of motoring adven
tures that at times bordered on the
desperate. When Mr. Hall hurried home
from Europe expecting to enjoy a
family reunion at home he learned that
his wife and son were iigniingr 011-
la PacbnH in thfl Rock?
Mountains. He met them at Colorado
Springs, but his attempt' to persuade
them to give up me iaai ieg ui mew
ifi nnn.miift trln was not successful.
They have arrived home safely.
Touring tnrougn jiurope, we unou,
the Philippines and Japan brought no
v. ,,inicottmlaa as worn encountered
by Mrs. Hall and her sou in crossing
the united states, ty way 01 me suum
ern route. Snow storms and zero wea
ther, out of season, upset their sched
ule. '
Mrs Hall set forth vividly in a let
.A vf uaii .the conditions they
have faced while driving through New
Mexico.
Zen Weather Trying;.
"We have had about the most strenu
ous times of our lives in this part of
the trip," she wrote. "It is only a few
weeks, yet It seems centuries since we
left' San Diego and entered this cli
mate that has withered and frozen us
with zero weather and blizzards.
"It Is enough of an undertaking at
any time to cross the continent, but
only mad folk like ourselves would at-
. n. t. e . tM Bufltnn Not that I
would give it up now, or would have
I .Ha kaiHntl nff KllH TO Hiari Oil IU
MAnlno. With nn RhA Iter from bliz-J
xards, facing the prospect 01 uw
from 25 to luu miles mrousn win
for help. Is a fearful wear and tear on
one's nerves.
"The Isolation of the country is ap
palling and with every machine but
our own crippled, with broken axles,
. , wk&Ala ilrk'lnff U H H f f Si
broken radiators and abandoned in the
deserts, you can imagine wnemer n
needed courage to start out into the
i . ii r h.va lain awake nierhts
invv "ii. ,
thinking of It. when I have been shiver
ing In some barren mue room, wiui .i
mv furs and clothing piled on to keep
out the biting cold.
"In the Wlent we naa pjemy i wn.i
we thought was hardship but it was
always warm and there was no actual
terror of being left out over night. But
this if you lose your way. you can
only go on and on for hours, without
meeting anyone or coming to a habita
tion. You get out of water, out of
gasoline, even out of food. From
Springerville to Albuquerque it is over
100 miles without, a sign of life, and
most of the -way over such .roads as
would wreck most automobiles.
"In spite of diagrams, maps and every
safeguard possible, we lost our way
and found ourselves at night going
deeper and deeper into a canyon. We
discovered the camp-fire of some Mexi
cans, whose Spanish and English we
understood enough to know that we
were 25 miles from Albuquerque, In
Hell's Canyon, which led on and 6n to
some mines.
Squaw Refuses Shelter.
"The wonderful Packard struggled
back again, through snow fords, rocky
boulders and rroyoes. Never yet has
It gone back on us. We had been five
hours going 18 miles in a snow storm,
when a squaw wife refused us shelter.
Forty-two miles ahead of us lay a road
over a pass, the worst stretch In the
country, and blocked with snow. I was
frantic. No amount of pleading af
fected the Indian woman, finally I
went to a hut nearby andfound the
half-breed daughter, who came over to
Intercede. To stay out In that storm
meant only one thing..
"Finally we were given two rooms,
and there we remained two days dur
ing the blizzard. We lived on our tinned
supplies, soups, crackers, sardines and
meat paste. I was afraid they would
turn us out if we asked for anything.
I did all the work and then paid them
$5 when we left,.tlfc roof they had so
grudgingly given us. I had a miser
able awakening toward the spirit one
meets out here. It is not pleasant for
an American to. think about after the
courtesy and desire to please that one
encounters everywhere in the Orient."
Natives of Burma have superstitious rev
erence for a huge boulder which is o deli
cately poiied on the edge of a rounded
cliff on Kelssa Heights that It trembles In
ths wind. They bellevs It Is held in posi
tion by a hair of Buddha.
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Automobile
Lubrication
Zerolene leaves prao
tically no carbon. It
"stands up" under aay
speed and heat.
Sold In hi, l and S-galloa
cans the small cans flat
shape, easy to handle Just
fit In the tool-box.
Fr Pa la Everywacra.
Standard Gil Company
(California)
Portland. Ian Franoiaeo..
Do You Want to Buy an Automobile
On the Monthly Payment Plan?
If you do, and haven't enough money to pay cash, we will loud
you two-thirds of the purchase price.
You ean repay us in twelve 'monthly installments. No brokerage
charged and only interest at 8 per cent per annum.
INVESTIGATE THIS PLAN
Automobile Buyers Finance Co.
Thad Sweek, Gen. Mgr. 612 Swetland Building.
Phone: Main 4871.