The Sunday Oregonian., May 25, 1913, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 50

- TTTTC rDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 23, 1913. - "
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BEAUTIFUL VARIETY OF SCENERY ALONG GERMANTOWN ROAD
BEGONE.DULLGARE
GERMANTQWN TRIP
IDEAL AUTO JAUNT
CRIES PRESS CLUB
DON'T HUMP WHEN YOU PUMP
Put on a. Mayo Spark Plug Pump
"When You Inflate Your Auto Tires
ARCHER AND WIGGINS
OAK STREET, CORNER SIXTH
AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES SPORTING GOODS
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Garbe and Winchell, Retail
Linnton Road Pursued Past
Claremont Offers Varie
f ties of Beauty.
Studebaker Men, Offer 25
Automobiles.
ST. HELENS IS LOCALE
SCENES SHIFT RAPIDLY
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Return bj Skyline Boulevard nd
"Cornell Highway Affords Rare
Views nd Opportunities for
Camera Enthusiasts.
BY WALTER GIFFARD.
. Those who wish to take a short spin.
In which there would seem to be every
variety of the beauties of nature
crowded Into" a little space, cannot do
better than take the IJnnton road as
far as Claremont. and then follow the
bend to the left up the Qermantown
road until the top of this steep hill Is
reached. There a turn to the left brings
one onto the Skyline boulevard, which
In turn leads onto tbe Cornell road, and
so back to the city.
: One or . two thine are necessary.
First of all It is no good Itolnf at all
unless the car is a s;ood hill climber
and comfortable to ride In. Secondly,
a fine day is essential. Thirdly, a cam
era, the logical adjunct of a fine day. .
With A. E. Neate at the wheel of a
new Cole 40. that had been run Just
enough to be In fine trim, the writer
and some friends took this spin last
Thursday. The Impressions that remain
are still vivid. First of all the run is
on the level by the banks of the Wil
lamette, the road a long, straight
strrtch. much of the dust, which on
previous Sundays had been so obnox
ious, having been laid by a fresh coat
ing of oil and tar. This part, of Itself,
only a short time ago most have been
very plrturesque. Today the march of
civilization Is seen In countless tele
graph poles. In unsightly advertising
signs and in the discoloraton of the
slough due to the washing down of
mud and earth from the heights.
Ioarwoo4 Mrewa Path.
Just as Claremont is reached the
Oermantown road appears on the left,
what looks at first like a short but
verr steep bit of a hill turning out
to be. of course, one long continual as
cent, beautiful to a degree.
A never-ending: succession of curves
first hides from view the picturesque
Willamette Valley, only to see It re
appear again a moment later, this time
still further below, with 8t. Johns In
the distance, standing out clearly In
the rare atmosphers.
Still up toward the heavy timber led
the road, now changing occasionally
into longer stretches with overnang
irr trees and bushes, the sunlight
streaming through the leaves and
painting Xature In her prettiest color
ing. Dogwood bloomed profusely,
ferns literally strewed one's path and
high above all else towered the dark
blue-green trees, with here and there
a solitary stricken stump, standing
gaard like a sentinel crow.
Once the top of the hill Is reached
there Is a choice of routes, the one
leading straight onwards, the other,
the Skyline boulevard, bearing off to
the left. The road Is by no means In
vitfng to look at, but m-ith the recent
dry weather there Is only one bad spot,
the rest being rutty, and of course,
somewhat bumpy, but all the same
very fair going. It Is worth while tak
ing this road because the change In
the landscape Is rather remarkable.
The tall trees disappear to a great ex
tent. On the right and ahead of one Is
the fertile Tualatin Valley, and for the
most par.t the land Is tinder cultivation.
River View la Fine.
A short distance further along there
is an exceptionally fine view of the
river and the city on the left with the
Tualatin Valley on the right, for the
boulevard runs right along the top of
the ridge. Thereafter It is a gradual
descent varied by an occasional In
clined stretch, the road improving as
one goes along until It forms a junc
tion with the Cornell, a delightful
piece of smooth, soft running and well
engineered road, spoilt only at the end
by a rough piece. This was caused dur
ing the Winter by the heavy truck and
wagon work necessitated by the re
moval of the landslide, but It should
receive immediate attention, as one Is
apt to forget the good that lies behind
it. for it Is right on the edge of the
city.
So ends a spin which for variety of
roads, of scenery and of grades can
hardly be excelled around the city.
On the way out. the surface varies
from dust-laden to well-oiled, which In
Its turn gtve way to asphalt for quite
a distance. Then com&s the road op
the Germantown hill, good surface all
the way. followed by the mud and
dirt Skyline, a terror In Winter or
after a heavy rain and this in turn
changes again to the beautiful surface
of the Cornell.
Srrmrm Shift Rapidly.
At one moment the heart of civili
sation is at hand: the next one is
lost almost In the primitive
woods. A moment later rural scenes
catch the eye. only to fade away once
more before the path' that leads by the
side of the tree-laden ridge. Another
second, as It were, and the residential
section of the Heights is before you.
with the business heart Just down
below. Truly a wonderful series of
changes, with a fasrlnstion and appeal
all Its own.
The pleasure In aurh a trip of course
can be heightened or marred by the
performance of the car In which one
travels. It would be useless with an
automobile that could not perform
aril on hills, that was not well up
holstered and that does not have
perfect control. In this connection
It la only fair to say that the
Cole showed herself a real
power on these hard hills, the engine
ran smoothly with never a falter, but
always the purr of a well-contented
animal: In fact, she behaved like an ar
istocrat, conscious of what was 'ex
pected from her.
GOLDEN DALE BUYS MACHINES
Twenty New Automobiles Is Record
Set by 'Washington Community.
GOLDEXPALK. Wash, May
Special. I uoKlendale cltixens and
farmers of the Klickitat Valley are still
In the market for automobiles, as evi
denced by. the sale of 20 new. up-to
date cars during the' past (0 days. Pur
chasers of machines are as fellows
Goldendale. t A. Smith. Sheriff; George
It. Hyatt, mercnant: a. a. Handera, mer.
rbant: A. K. Coley. banker; Andrew
Bruner. sawmill man: John Atkinson,
- -etlred farmer: Ledbetter-Wallace Com
pany and Waters-Rothschild Company,
merchants. anx tne j. t. Cameron Lura
ber Company. Farmers who have pur
abased cars are: Goldendale. Otto Pe
ters. Mose Claussen. George W. Gard
Tier. Albert Johnson and George H.
TJarlamP; Centervllle. George Gamer
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lALOMi THE SK1LINE 4LVXl KIAXT FOLIAGE AND WEALTH OF TREES.
FICTLRESQ.UE
and M M. Moran; Blckleton. J. N. Jen
..n and Klower Bros. W. G. Faulkner,
a Blckleton merchant, and L. V. Baker,
merchant of Blocicnouse, nave
bought new machines.
PLEA IS TOR BETTER ROADS
Highways Mark Kntl. of Oregon and
Beginning of California.
COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. May 24.
(Special.) Oregon needs to do a lot
of road work betore the Exposition in
honor of the opening jof the Panama
ITS ORIGIN.
By Homer McKee.
Among the various thlnss to hlch
th earth Is heir, there is a great
Brain which dreams and a great
Hand which Does. And the great
Brain trerks with the great Hand,
not tor you nor for m, bat fr
Man. The great Brain and the great
Hand made space and time, and de
signed these to be the eternal ene
mies of man.
Then the great Brain and the
great Hand agreed that man should
never yield te his enemies. Time
and Space, tut should fight on and
on until some mighty weapon of
annihilation should be discovered.
Thus It came about that the
strength of the oak. the speed of
the winds, the soft, pad-footed
stasltb of the panther, the tlreless
nrss of the seasons and the beauty
f vines that cling were gathered
tosether by the great Brain and the
,rt Hand and put Into a single
thing which should be the all-powerful
servant of man. And they
called the thing Motor Car.
Canal If it wishes to secure the
through automobile traffic, in the opln-
i f-.ntaln R. W. CreswelL a "sea
dor" from San Diego. who passed
through here Tuesday on his sdvertis
Ir.g trip for the San Diego Exposition.
Th. rntaln is accompanied by Mrs.
Creswell, who heartily seconded the
remarks of her husband and. spoke
vividly of the trip through Pass Creek
Canyon. The party carried Its own
household goods and kitchen utensils,
the machine being handily converted
into a. bedroom and kitchen In a few
mintttAfl
Captain Creswell said that the boun
dary line between ta:irornia an Ore
gon is easily discernible by the differ
ence In roads ami is anxious that
rood roads associations make exten
sive preparations for the heavy auto
mobile traffic that will follow the Pa
rifi lilihviy If the roads are made
easily passable.
Breaking Sales Record.
In three of the four weeks of April,
the Studeoaker selling organization in
the Vnlted Statea broke the sales rec
ord of the second week In June. 1912,
la wbloh the high mark of former his
tory had been set. Complete returns
for April win Indicate the retail sale
of over BOOO Studeoaker cars, according
to Assistant Sales Manager rbtlp.
0ILI1 SERVICE DUE
Howard Automobile Company
Installs New Feature.
WEEKLY CARE IS OFFERED
Buick and National Owners to Bene
fit From Innovation Added by
Mel .Johnson, Which He Says
Means Life to Cars. '
The lubrication of an automobile Is
one of the most important items In its
maintenance, and the attention that is
given to lubrication details determines
to a great extent the kind of service
the car will render. That much Is ad
mitted by any owner of an automobile
who knows anything at al about his
car. The trouble is that quite a large
percentage do not know sufficient about
their car to appreciate either such a
point or any one of half a dozen others.
In these days of sen-Ice, as best un
derstood by the word, it takes a very
go-ahead concern to seize on some new
feature that can be added to the de
partinent. Therefore, all credit to the
Portland branch of the Howard Auto
mobile Company for putting Into force
a system that will Insure proper at
tentlon to this detail of lubrication.
Johaeoa Coacelvea Plan.
Mel Johnson, the local manager, who,
by the way. Is making marked progress
towards recovery from his throat trou
ble, made this announcement yesterday:
"We are putting in a service system
that will Insure every Buick and Na
tional owner having his car looked over
and oiled once a week free of charge.
Briefly, this system consists of a card
bearing the owner's name, the date of
purchase, the model of his car, and
the motor. The card la divided Into two
sections. One contains a list of the
chief mechanical features, while the
other contains a list of the principal
points needing lubrication. The border
of the card Is made up of a series of
squares which are numbered from one
to 32.
When a new car Is-purchased, one
of these cards is made out and turned
over to the head of the service depart
ment, who files it with the next week's
cards. The new owner Is Instructed to
take his car to the service department
once each week and have it looked over
and oiled. When this inspection is
made the man In charge of the work
makes a note of any parts that are
being neglected. This enables the serv
ice department to give such further in
structions to the owner as may be necessary.
When the car is delivered back to
the owner the service card is punched
In the No. 1 sauare and advanced to
the next week's file. This operation is
reneated 52 weeks.
Should an owner neglect or forget
to bring his car in for inspection his
card will be found in the file at the end
of the week and a note sent him call'
Ine- attention to the oversight.
"This is In addition to the sen-Ice
which we have always rendered ' Buick
owners," says Johnson, "and while.lt
entails considerable labor and expense
on our part, we. believe that It will be
money well spent and will give us a
9TREXCOUS ' TIMES.
These are strenuous times. And
they're getting strenuousser every
day.
One time a man worked on tbe
early-to-bed, early-to-rlse principle,
and got there most tlmes - -
Now a fellow has to get up over
night or the other man is there first
waiting to swat you over the head
with a club. (
Our forefathers thought it great
business to go as far as a hundred
miles by road, once In a lifetime
and so it was. Ko 'many of us do
it in a day and come back home to
upper.
That's what the automobile has
done.
Active Journalists Already Looking
fWward "With Great Expectation
to Gay Time on Outing
on June 8.
Baseball fans, motorboat enthusiasts,
tennis players, to say nothing of the
woman with a new hat or a Spring
creation may and very likely are pray
ing; all they know how for fine weather
these days. Their prayers, however,
would bear about as much comparison
as a drop of water does to a whdle
ocean, when compared with the prayers,
the petitions, rogations, orisons, to say
nothing of the Importunities and sup
plications of certain active, able and
energetic members of the Press Club.
Fortunately Weather Forecaster
Beals is a member of the club, and so
the matter should be satisfactorily ar
ranged, all that Is now wanted ap
parently being the absence of Juppiter
Pluvlus. Supposing it isn t line on
June S Beals won't show up around
for many a long day.
For be it known that this Is the day
when members of the Press Club, active
members, members who write for a
living in preference to doing any hard
work, will be. given an automobile ride.
As a rule it is only a chosen few to
whom the wonder and delight of sit
ting in a eelf-propelled vehicle, luxuriously-
upholstered with 10-inch cush
ions, is granted and that because their
work takes them either among the
dealers or the plutocrats.
Just Imagine, two names most talked
of at the club these days are those of
one Garbe and one Winchell, who Be
tween them dispose of Studebakers to
residents of the Rose City. Why?
Simply because they thoughof the in
sufferable condition of tiff average
pen pusher and offered to alleviate
their lot by conveying them to one of
Nature', beautv spots, St. Helens, for
one whole day away from paper and
print and city 'editors and copy readers.
(The last two are put in out of defer
ence to an old time idea, or axiom.
that thev are to be avoided on every
possible oocaslon for some reason un
known.)
Th thev will fish, those who are
niscatorlal artists, or sit and dream
stanzas and write odes to forests and
trees. Then they will come back again,
b ih.v wont, lollinr at their ease in
Studebaker automobiles.
The automobile editor hopes to have
gained enough copy for the following
week from them to avoid doing any
himself, on the ground that new im-
nresaions always are interesting.
Certainly It will be a great sight to
see the 25 cars set off laden with over
100 carefree, riotous, pleasure-seeking
Journalists. Our thanks go up and out
towards these benefactors, but we pity
them in that, they cannot have any
idea of the "stupendoslty" of their undertaking.
BAD ROADS RESPONSIBLE
COVDITiOX CALLS FOR RIGID,
FLEXIBLE MACHINE.
chance to prove our theory that a
Buick which (8 properly taken care of
will last indefinitely." ,
A German military urueon proposes port
able crematories to follow the army In
warfare.
Modern 'Six Far Outstrips European
Competitors With Their Smooth,
Perfectly Graded Roads.
. a matter of fact our bad Amer
km rruula are responsible for the
production of our marvelously efficient
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automohlies, sam r. v . yuB..,
tributer for the Hudson and Keo auto
mobiles. "Any disinterested automo
bile man who is familiar with European
and American machines win reaany
nif th. Immense superiority of the
home nroduct. With out modern 'sixes'
we have far outstripped our European
competitors.
The condition of the American
miii necessitates a machine of won
derful flexibility and most rigid con
struction. It was tne oesire ior n-iKiiit-
that set the brightest engineer
ing brains in the American automobile
industry to work on the 'Six.' The ex
cellent results obtained are reflected
In the rapidly increasing demand for
this type of power plant.
"Some advocates of the 'Four" cite
European practice as a foundation for
their arguments. Really there, is about
as muoh comparison between American
ar,A Ruronean road conditions as there
Is between a wheelbarrow and an aero
plane.
"European roads are what we term
boulevards, smooth, perfectly graded
and kept up In perfect shape all the
time. Tbe roads of Europe are the
highways for her armies and no
chances can be taken by letting road
conditions prevent rapid mobilization.
"A car with five Inches clearance Is
successfully operated over them In
fact, but few have more than six. How
far would such a car go on a run, say,
from Portland to San Francisco?
"Fifteen and 20 horsepower is ample
for European road conditions even with
S500-pound cars: How would that com-
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blnatlon appeal to the American motor,
ingr public?
"No, there Is no comparison, ana it
Is misleading to try and make one.
Conditions are so much at variance.
American roads today demand, and for
many years will continue to demand,
the wonderfully smooth, flexible, cas-
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car as built by America's leading
automobile engineers."
A E1u bottle blnwlne marhlne Invented
In Germany has a peed of 20O0 bottles an
hour, equal to the work of W0 expert glass,
hlnwers. '
Let Tiret are not an accident or an
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facture of high grade rubber goods.
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including a non-skid type that is orig
inal with the Lee Tire and that grips
the road with all the tenacity of chains.
Reduced Prices Effective April 1. Ask for Quotations.
You'll find that enterprising dealers everywhere arc fast
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