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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1913)
1 I THIS 8UJNDAI OKUOAIAJ, FOKTLAXD, JUNK 1, 1913. GOOD RUN IS IDE The Dalles to Pendleton Trip Done in Under 8 Hours. 1910 LOZIER CAR IS USED AY. E. Furnish and Party Make 183 Miles in Seven Hours and 50 Min utes AA'ithout Effort;' Koads Found in Good 'Order. More than ordinary tribute, of a mute nature, was paid to a 1910 Lozier a few days ago, when its owner. W. E. Furnish, covered the distance between The Dalles and .Pendleton in seven hours and 50 minutes, with four pas sengers aboard. The former best time generally is reckoned at eight hours, and the run is all the more meritor ious when it is remembered that Mr. Furnish, except for one brief brush with a lone driver, always paid atten tion to the comfort of the passengers to the exclusion of any attempt at record -breaking- speed. Mr. Furnish, who lives at 503 Clif ton street, shipped his car on boat to The Dalles on May 17. The following day at 8 o'clock in the morning the party, consisting of the owner, with Miss Kathleen Furnish and Mrs. Fur nish and Robert Starkweather, started off. The route led by way of Wasco, lone and Stanfield, passing to the north of Heppner, towards Pendleton. At Stanfield the party stopped to go over the Furnish irrigation project, which comprises 10,000 acres. Here, too, the night was passed. The time to Stan field -was six hours and 40 minutes and the speedometer read 152 miles. Car Gives IV o Trouble. The following morning they drove the remaining 31 miles to Pendleton In one hour and 10 minutes. Mr. Fur nish said yesterday that he could have lowered his time by fully an hour, had he not driven at speeds which allowed for touring comfort for the women and so as to take no chances of alarm ing them. They had no trouble either of tire or of mechanism or in fact any adjustments -whatever. "We had one friendly brush with a man driving alone," said the owner, "but finally lost him on a long- grade about a mile out of Wasco and this was the only time we made any effort at racing or disregarded chuck holes and bumps. "The roads were In a fair state ex cept when he passed through a couple of showers. This made the going slip pery for some eight or nine miles at a stretch. The worst bit of road that we encountered was between the John Day River and lone along Rock Creek. Snndy Koad Now Good. "There is one hill going into the John Day ferry which is IS per cent grade and, what is more, it is rough wasted on the lower or outer side. Consequent ly it needs careful driving and a good engine. "The Sandy road 30 miles this' side of Kcho we covered without any dif ficulty, contrary to what most people experience. This in a measure is due to the fact that It Is now in the best possible condition for traveling and probably will not be anywhere nearly as good later in the season." From all accounts the party had a most pleasant trip, the roads being better than they had expected and the weather for the most part being good. The car was on its best behavior all the time and its record on the trip, together with what it has been put to in the past, is but another tribute to the lasting qualities of the Lozier. HUP INCREASES PRODUCTION Factory Builds Three Times as Many Cars as a Year Ago. "We will build and j ship 100 Hupmo blles a day from May 1 on," is the proud assertion made recently by C. D. Hastings, general manager of Hupp Motor Car Company. "Every one at the factory is actively interested to see that our production reaches this stand ard and each department has taken it upon its own shoulders to see that 100 Hupmoblles leave the factory every 24 hours. "Our new factory manager, Mr. Hum phrey, who has been connected with the auto business since the days of the 'one-lunger,' entered our organization last Winter, and since then has been liinktng rapid prcgress in increasing Hupmobile production. Many addi tions have been made to our factory in the last year and the plant is now nearly double the size it was then. "When we moved into our new plant a year ago this mohth the total floor space used for manufacturing Hupmo blles comprised over 150,000 square feet. Tn September last 25,000 square feet were added in the shape of a final assembly room, where'nothing but the finishing touches are put on Hupmo blles. Since then we have been adding space all the time, being forced to put up a tent even for assembling work." 38,000,000 FEET OF WIRE CSED Miles of Copper Strands Are" Put in Magnetos on Year's Ford Output. Mere figures fail to carry any sig nificance when the Ford plant at De troit is under discussion. The fact that 200,000 -motor cars will be produced this yt-ar means but little until a basis of comparison is arrived at. A writer in the American Machinist who is writing of the Ford company under the general head of "Building an COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF AUTO RACES GIVEN OUT William Schimpf, Chairman of Big Contest Board, Sends Revised List With Approximate Dates Portland on List. From William Schlmpf, the chairman of the contest board of the American Automobile Association, comes a list of the contests arranged for the year, with their approximate dates. Those marked () have been sanctioned of ficially already, while those marked (X) are tinder the sanction of the A. C. A. May 29-30 Inter-Club reliability to In dian;! polls. Chicago Motor Club vs. Illinois Athletia Club. May SO 5H-mlIe race, Indianapolis Mo tor Speedway. May 30 Track meeting", "White Plains, X. V.. ileorga H. Long. June 7 Inter-Club raliabiMty. Quaker City Moiir Club, auto clubs of Delaware County, 1'htladelphia and Gerraantown. June 10 Reliability, Columbus, O., Auto Club. June 1-4-13 Track, San Francisco. K- A. Morose. June 10 Algonquin hill climb, Chicago Motor Club. June Itl Hill climb, Cincinnati. O-. Auto Director Association. June 21-22 Track, Portland, Or., E. A. Moros, June 23 Reliability, Des Moines,' Iowa State Auto Association. June Xoa -mo tor-stop run, Chicago to Boston, Chicago Automobiie Club. Automobile Every 40 Seconds gives some interesting figures. For instance, the National Acme Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, used 22 carloads of steel bars to make the 4,500,000 -inch nuts used on the Ford cars. The holes in these nuts if placed end to end would make a little tunnel from the Acme plant in Cleve land to the Ford plant in Detroit and extend 25 miles up into Michigan. Another example worked out has to do with the copper wire in the mag netos of the Ford cars. There are 16 spools, each wound with 12 feefc of copper wire, in each magneto. If the wire used in the 200,000 Fords made this year were straightened out into one wire it would give a strand 38, 400,000 feet long. This is equivalent to 7274 miles, or almost enough to reach through the earth and tickle the soles of a Chinaman's foot, CASCADE ROAD TO BE REBUIIT Changes in Grades on Road Into Eastern Oregon Start Soon. EUGENE. Or, May 31. (Special.) Engineer Ralph Hunt, who last year established grades for a better road across the Cascades by the McKcnzie route, will leave here the middle of June to set the final stakes prepara tory to making the proposed changes. As a result of the work some of the present grades of 25 per cent will be reduced to a maximum of 10 per cent. HHls that in the past have given I'NCLE JED'S REMTNISCEXSES. When fust I loved MIrandy Jane, An axed her fer ter be my bride; I thought 'twas doin mighty fine Ter take her for a buggy ride. When we'd bin married twenty year I found ter dew the thing In style, I'd got ter take my hard -earned dough An buy her an an-toe-mo -bile. But now so fast does things prog ress. Ter show my love for 'Randy Jane, I gotter make another move, A a' go in for an ary -plane. I alters tries ter dew my best. But midst this whirl o wheels an things, I guess ter find a quiet, spot, I'll hev ter wait till I gits wings. particular trouble to automoblllsts are in Strawberry canyon and at Millican and Dead Horse grades. The work is being carried on by the county in co operation with C. R. Seitz, Supervisor of the Cascade National Forest, within which the proposed changes of road are to be made. When these improvements have been completed the McKenzie route will offer, perhaps, the best way from the Willamette Valley into Eastern Ore gon. AUTO HALL IS l!i DOUBT DEALERS HAVE EYES OX SAX FRANCISCO EXPOSITION. W. A. Wildrlck, Portland Agent for Michigan Company, Discusses Delay in Plans. "The eyes of the motor world are now turned on the question as to whether the contemplated automobile hall for the 1915 Exposition at San Francisco is to be a reality," says W. A. Wildrlck, local manager of the Michigan Auto & Buggy Company. "I have recently re ceived notice from the factory at Kala mazoo that we have taken a space 50 by 100 feet. In case this automobile show is held. There seems to be some delay, resulting from calling oft the plans, at least temporarily. "Robert Crothers, of San Francisco, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin and director of the Panama-Pacific Ex position, is now in the F.as seeing the different manufacturers. "Upon Investigation and after talk ing with manufacturers who have re cently been on the Pacific Coast, Mr. Crothers found that there had been a wrong impression in regard to the San Francisco Fair. I find that at other expositions exhibitors have not been allowed to sell their cars or even to change their exhibit,' says Mr. Croth ers. 'We intend to make this auto mobile exhibition hall a place of busi ness. I am endeavoring to bring about the exhibition hall just the same, be lieving as I do, that the plan we had in mind was evidently not placed in the rieht llEht before the makers.' " Mr. Wildrick is of the opinion that the former plan of the exposition of ficials in not allowing exhibitors to change models on the floor, was per fectlv fair. He says such a procedure would cause confusion and confusion is the last thing the exhibitors desire. "An automobile hall," he says, "such as the one proposed, would prove of good advantage to the automobile busi ness in general. Nine visitors out of 10 will, no doubt, enjoy one or more automobile rides over California's fa mous roads and boulevards, and see ing the latest models in an attractive display should prove interesting to them. It should in a way make them more desirous than ever to become an owner." Mirror Has Its Uses. While the trick is of course a very old one, it often is not remembered that a small mirror is exceedingly useful to reflect a ray of light on a dark spot on a nvotor for instance, the breaker box of a magneto. This is particularly use ful where the motor is not very ac cessible and examinations have to be made at long range. June Track, Davenport. Ia., Davenport Auto Club. N July 4 JOO-mlle track race, Columbus, O-, Auto Club. July 4 Panama-Pacific road race, L.es Angeles to San Francisco. July 4 Track, Taylor, Tex., Auto Club. July 4 Track, Washington, D. C, Na tional Capital Motorcycle Club. July 5-i Road races, Tacoraa, Wash., Ta- coma Carnival Association, Montamara Fes-" to Axito Committee. July 4-5 Track meetings. Sioux City Auto Club and si peed way Association. July 11 National reliability tour. A. A. A. Ju'.y 20 Track, Seattle, Wash., E. A. Mo ross. July 21-23 Tour. Grand Rapids Auto Club. July 2S-2TV-30 Beach races, Galveston, Tex., Auto Club. 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