THE SUNDAT OHEGOXIAX, FOKTLAITD, JTJLT 6, 1913.
CHANTICLEER VISIT
IS FINE AUTO TRIP
Edward Week Takes Party in
Lozier on High Gear to
. Attractive Clubhouse.
SCENERY DECLARED GRAND
TRIP TO CHANTICLEER AND ROOSTER ROCK SHOWS GOOD ROADS AND BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
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'With Good Road and Excellent Ac
commodation After an Honr'i
Drive, Walter Giffard Recom
mends Spin to Motorists.
BY WALTER GIFFARD.
Nettling amid trees and overlooking
tie Columbia River at one of its pretti
est bends is a bungalow which should
lie the mecca of every motorist at one
time or another during the season. It
is called. Chanticleer, an appropriate
name seeing that it overlooks Rooster
Rock in the Columbia some 22 miles
from the hum of the city toil.
Edward Week took a party of friends
out there in his light Six Lozier the
other day partly to satisfy his own
curiosity and love -of scenery and of
course partly to prove that this was,
for his car at least, what one might call
a. hlarh-gear trip both ways.
There had been a little argument
about the possibility of taking the hills
both ways in high ana so, wnen car.
Week offered to "show" this Mls-
sourlan. naturally it was worth while
accepting.
Route la Described.
The road lies up along the dead
straight Base Line road until the turn
to the right where the Troutdale road
runs into the Base Line. From there
on, for a bit, those few who don t know
the road had better take the corners
with a certain amount of care for there
are three practically right-angled ones.
Then after winding away gently comes
the gradual slope leading to the steep
decline toward the clubhouse, and then
across the Sandy road bridge and up
the long gradual climb.
Don't take the turn to the left to
Corbett, some four or five miles from
the Club House, though a little further
on there is a sharp left-hand turn and
then onwards it Is straight until a
signpost literally hits you In the eye
with a notice that Rooster Rock is but
a mile away on your left. Chanticleer
is on your left hand, a green-roofea
flower-surroupded house with a little
drive in front of it and away down be
low it the Columbia still swollen above
Its normal size.
Road ShoTrs Improvement,
Needless to describe as far as the
Club House, the road beyond is in much
better condition than it was only a
short time ago: in fact, it is quite good
all the way with the exception of one
piece where it Is being regraded. Here
we found several teams of mules "hard
at work leveling the sandy earth, and
for quite a distance it is hard pulling
on account of the depth of the surface
loose earth. In rainy seasons it must
be heavy going, while It is apparently
a difficult matter to oil the surface on
account of the depth.
Much of the road from the Country
Club onwards to the Automobile Club
has been re-olled and is in nice condi
tion, though there are many small
holes, of the type which no car can ride
over without feeling a trifle of Jar.
These the authorities were making aa
effort to fill in by scattering gravel
over them, though it hardly looked as
If such a method would be entirely sat
isfactory, as It is too transient in na
ture. The road is too straight and of too
much sameness for the first 12 miles to
he Interesting, but the pretty Sandy
River, the bridge across it and the road
on the far side is always interesting
and well varied, with glimpses of the
Columbia stretching away to the dis
tance and the mountains forming a
jagged outline on the left.
Club House Is Attractive.
Chanticleer Itself is really beautiful,
though new. Both outside and in It
seemed to have built itself in the
scheme of nature; it stands there just
as though It were the one thing need
ed to attract attention to and to bring
out the beauties of nature spread with
bountiful hand all around.
Built right on the edge of a bluff
and. with a background of flra and pine,
their dark green forming an effective
contrast to the purple bl-e of the
mountains and the lighter blue of the
river, stands this green-roofed bunga
low. There were a number of high
priced, high-powered cars there on our
arrival and the balcony, open to the
air. was literally filled with 'guests.
Borne were being entertained there,
others evidently were just taking the
drive out to have lunch and a climb
down to the rock and then back. In
fact it was almost an exclusive club
to all appearances and that view was
borne out by the hostess, Mrs. Hender.
son, who said that the secret of her
success lay in the fact that no liquor
was served on the premises and. what
is more, that no one could drink any
liquor In her grounds.
The dinner there was certainly a
feast for a gourmand, yet absolutely
plain and in the really genuine old
fashioned style.
View la Described.
The view Is magnificent. Hundreds
of feet down stretches the Columbia,
lazily flowing away to where the moun.
tains and hills of both sides seemed to
meet and. swallow it un. little islands.
pieces of rock, jutting out jauntily here
and there. Rocks overgrown and
covered with verdure, trees, some tall
and stately, one or two standing alone,
others clustered together, but everv-
where greens blending from dark to
light, yet always harmoniously, always
aoftly.
Switzerland can offer nothing more
ceauuiui man that river those moun
tains, those trees and that little house
percnea serenely on the top. Remem
ber, too. it Is only an hour from town
Of course one can take Ionizer or one
can travel faster, but it is comfortable
going to allow Just the even hour from.
j n (jregonian Duuciing.
Trip Made on High Gear.
Now as to this being a high
trip, we must admit it, at any rate for
the JLozier we were in. The whole trip,
dow ways, except lor a necessary
change' to second when we met the
mules in the sand, was accomplished
without changing the levers at all.
Two performances in particular as
Mowing the pulling power were note
worthy: One was in a long pull up af
ter the Sandy River had been passed
Right in the middle is a bad bit of
road, tor about five yards. We slowed
up here to nine miles an hour and then
the engine picked right up and finished
the hill at 23. The other was in tak
ing the hill from the clubhouse on the
way back in high. Just outside, the
entrance to the club were two teams.
eo that it was not possible here to get
a fair run at the hill, which is a steep
one. All the same the motor never
faltered, m spite of the fact that in
one place the oil was still thick on the
surface. She pulled through without
tremor and from that on just raced un.
One could hardly fail to be struck
with the cnanee from the days when,
driving-a, horse and buggy, itwas neo
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GAR WDfTT WEAR OUT
Old "Bullet" Is Returned to
Original Driver.
MILES TRAVELED 170,000
Auto Is Xinth in Long 'Studebaker
"30" Series Early Work Done
on Two-Mile Speedway in
Atlanta, Georgia.
After five years of conscientious ef
fort by the expert drivers of factory
and branches, the Studebaker organ
ization has finally given up the at
tempt to wear out the famous old
Bullet" Studebaker "30." Sales Man
ager Benson accordingly has given the
car outright to Harry Cohen. Stude
baker dealer in Macon, Ga., who. as an
employe of the Atlanta Studebaker
branch, won the racing championship
of the South in this venerable automo
bile.
Mr. Cohen has promised to continue
the experiment. . keeping .the Stude
baker engineering department in close
touch with the results. , .
"Bullet" is the car , which for years
has attracted general attention, due to
its use in a longevity experiment of
vital interest to every motorist, pres
ent or prospective. During this process
picked drivers kept the car In almost
continual motion about the country
vii-iting branches, dealers and automo
bile shows.
Car First Shipped to South.
The car was the ninth in the long
Studeback "30" series, and the first
shipped south of the Dixie line. Its
early work was done at Atlanta, where
access was easy to. the two-mile speed
way, then in general use. Many thou
sands of miles "Bullet" covered at high
speed on this course, both in practice
runs and in many a successful racing
campaign. In the car's later work it
has been as far West as Kansas City
and as far South as Florida.
"Bullet's" record now exceeds 170,
000 miles. While this total is probauiy
surpassed by several other Studebaker
cars, the definite and unquestioned
data on "Bullet's" performance mane
the car a unique figure in American
motordom.
Car Service Equals 34 Years. I
Authorities agree that 5000 miles is a
liberal estimate of the average distance
a car will be asked to cover each year.
Figured on such a basis this Stude
baker car is already S4 years old. Up
to the present not even a touch of
fresh paint has been applied to "Bul
let's" battle-scarred exterior, which
still shows traces of the original red
in which the earliest cars of this model
were finished.
Inside the Studebaker organization
this gallant Veteran has come to own
a veritable personalitj-. That the car
has. after all its travels, been re
turned to the driver of its youth to
travel once more the red roads of old
Georgia is considered a happy chapter
in its eventful history.
GAR SALESMAN RETURNS
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QUAINTANCE HERE.
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BROADWAY AT OAK
Indian Motorcycles
Distributed In Northwest by
BALLOU & WRIGHT
Broadway, at Oak, Portland.
817 Eut Pike St, Seattle, Wash.
eesary either to ret out and push or to
give the horse a ohance or two to set
his breath. It seemed just another In.
stance of the way the Ingenuity ot man
has gradually devised machines and
matter that will annihilate space and
time.
CAR OUTPUT GROWS
WORK OX ROAD tJXDER WAY
Goldendale-Maryhlll Highway Is
Being- Improved.
GOLDENDALE, Wash., July 6. (Spe
cial.) Work op the first mile of three
miles of permanent highway that will
be completed this Summer on the road
from Goldendale to Maryhill, begin
ning at the Goldendale city limits, is
progressing rapidly. The highway will
nave a six-inch crushed rock macadam
base with an asphaltic oil covering.
The macadam will be 14 feet wide with
the grade 24 feet in width. Jeffery &
Button. jf Portland, have the contract
for the construction of the first mile
at $7925. Bids for the next two miles
will be opened by the County Commis
sioners on July 8. Most of the money
for the construction of the three miles
of road will come out of the state per
manent highway fund. The Commis
sioners of Klickitat County will apply
$6700 out of the general road, and
bridge fund on the woTk, and $2000,
necessary to complete the worlc, has
been subscribed by the citizens of
Goldendale and the farmers of the
Klickitat Valley. The work is under
the supervision of Lyman Ward, County
Engineer.
In another year it Is expected that
funds will be available to complete a
macadam road to connect with the road
built by Samuel Hill in his Maryhill
farm, which will give Goldendale a
25-minute automobile service connec
tion with the main line of. the North
Bank Road the year around.
MOtrST HOOD ROAD PASSABLE
Ascent May Be Made in Auto, Say
Tourists. ,
Tourists report that the roads lead
ing up Mount Hood are now in safe
condition tor automobiles. .Owing to
the recent heavy rains the roads be
came soft and up to a few days ago
many Portlanders had great difficulty
in going up the mountain in their ma
chines. The fair weather, of the last
few days has dried the roads and left
them in good condition.
Returning automobllists also report
that the Hotel Maulpin, on the Salmon
River, which was destroyed -by fire,
has been rebuilt so tourists can be ac
commodated with meals and lodging.
Keeton Company Car in Demand.
Three offers for the Keeton racing
car. driven so ably by Bob Burraan in
the Indianapolis 600-mile race, have
been received by the . company, and
each came by wire, the most important
communication from Arizona. To the
latter the reply was sent giving a
price of J7500, and the gentleman im
mediately replied stating that he would
take It. Five orders have been offered
the Keeton Company by mail for dupli
cates of the racing car and several
dealers have asked that a price be set.
as they have orders pending-
Auto Production for 1913 Will
Be Near Record. ;
ALMOST HALF ARE FORDS
Factory, With Sales of 19 5,000 of
Estimated 400,000 of All Makes,
in View, Announces Refusal
of Additional Orders;
Some day, perhaps, the automobile
manufacturers of this country may find
they have reached the saturation point
of the public demand, but from all ap
pearances it, is tar off.
It is a matter of wonder to those
outside of the business how the motor
car makers can continue to. dispose of
an increased production year . after
year,, but barring one or two seasons
there has never been any trouble on
this score.
Some of the most optimistic persons
believe there will be 600,000 machines
turned out during the 1913 season, now
drawing to a close, but a total of 400,
000 seems more like the real number.
Of this latter number almost' 60 per
cent are Ford cars, the "little giant" of
the industry being responsible for
about 195,000. This seems almost in
credible, as it figures out almost a car
a minute, but the shops run 24 hours a
day, with three shifts of workmen, and
have turned out as many as 1300 ma
chines in one day. ,
Additional Order Refined.
The Ford Company not only has been
able to dispose of its entire production
of 195,000 cars, but also has refused
lately all additional orders and has told
its agents to accept any cancellations
offered. This concern, with a canital
stock of $2,000,000, had net earnings in
1H2 oi ,oou,uoo and probably will
pile up net earnings for 1913 of some
$13,000,000 on a gross business of about
$110,000,000. It started ten years aaro.
with a capital of $28,000. and has never
issued bonds or borrowed money on its
notes. .
The other automobile companies
making cars selling in the neighbor
hood of $1000 also are extremely pros
perous and "apparently have not the
slightest difficulty in disposing of their
proaucts. une tienerai Motors Com
pany will turn out probably 52,000 mod.
els of 1913. the Studebaker 40.000. Wil
lys-Overland 35.000, Chalmers 8000 and
the reorganised United States Motor
Company 1000. The balance of the
400.000 win be made up by the many
smaller manuiacturers.
Average Cost May Decrease. -
Owing to the preponderance of Ford
cars, the aggregate of 400,000 probably
will average only about $725 apiece, as
compared with an average value of
$1530, estimated for the output of 1912
models. The 1913 total has a value
of about $290,000,000. as against $321.
930.000 for the 210,000 machines of 1912.
The. table f olowlng gives comparisons
with other years:
Year Cars built. Gross value.
1913 400.000 $290,000,000
1612 210.000 821.930,000
1911 140,000 175,000.000
1910 185,000 242.000,000
1909 82.000 98.400,000
1808 B5.400 83.100,000
1904 20,100 40,200,000
These figures clearly show the gen
eral, tendency toward increased produc
tion at a lower cost per car and there
seems to be no doubt that it is in the
machines selling below $1000 that a
great xuiure jies.
It has been estimated that there are
about 1,000,000 autos in actual use in
this country, . a total which far over
shadows the number for the entire bal.
ance of the world, but some automo
bllists believe the United States can ab
sorb fully 5,000,000 cars before the mar
ket reaches the saturation point.
DOXA METER TEST INTERESTIXG
Autoist-Driving Own Car Gets 100
Per Cent More Efficiency.
An interesting test of the doxameter,
the new fuel-control device invented
by John A. Doxey, was made about the
streets of Indianapolis recently, with
a five-passenger Paige-Detroit "36" be
longing to Dr. J. - D. Nusbaum. Dr.
Nusbaum, who never had seen the de
vice before, d,rove his car himself. Mo
tor spirits were used instead of gaso
line. On the first test, the engine was
throttled down to its minimum speed.
The car was then run eight miles an
hour. .Without touching the fuel sup
ply, the Doxameter was opened, and
in a distance of approximately 300
yards the car's speed rose to IS miles
an hour, a gain in engine efficiency of
100 per cent. A few minutes later,
with the hand throttle slightly opened
and the car moving at 10 miles an
hour, the doxameter was again opened
and the car promtply lifted in speed
to 19 miles an hour without consuming
additional fuel, a gain in efficiency of
30 per cent.
. Another Motorcycle Wedding;.
While motorcycle weddings and hon
eymoons are quite common in the West
ern States, especially in California,
where the riding season continues the
year round, Doylestown, Pa., is among
thejlrst to report a motorcycle wedding
n the East.
J. Harrison Clymer and Margaret S.
Seen, both enthusiastic, motorcyclists of
Sellersville, Pa., recently rode their
two-wheelers to Doylestown, procured
a license, were married, and immediate
ly started on a honeymoon awheel.
Western Fiats to Be AJax-Equipped.
E. E. Hewlett, the Los Angeles
sportsman, who is prominent in the rac
ing world, has acquired nearly all the
Western territory for the sale of Fiat
cars. Hewlett, who has been the agent
in Los Angeles, has completed negoti
ations for the Chicago district, and now
has those two cities as well as Seattle,
San Francisco and Tacoma. Hewlett
Gas made arrangements to specify Ajax
' tires on all the cars delivered to him,
iereaf ter.
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Studebaker Auto Man Leads Local
Firm to Take Agency for Xew
Saving Device.
After an absence of three years,
Charles Linsley renewed his acquaint
ance with the Rose City, coming to
work with Messrs Garbe and Winchell
in the retail sale of Studebaker cars.
During his absence he has been making
more than an ordinary name for him
self. One thing he carries with him Is a
gold pencil with a snake winding its
way around the base. That's worth
more to him than a lot of his posses
sions, for it tells the tale of his success
with Studebaker cars in New York.
Since January he has headed the list
of salesmen for the number of cars
sold in the great metropolis and, aff
air. Garbe . puts it, that is no mean
record.
When Lou Rose resigned from the
Studebaker force here three years
ago, Linsley resigned with him and
went East. He found that Studebakers
went lust as easily there as they do
here, though much of his success must
be attributed to his own energy anc
personality. For one year there he was
Just an ordinary salesman, but his sue
cess brought him the post of sales
manager.
When he heard of Mr. Garba's
taking over Studebakers under the
name of the Oregon Motor Car Com
pany, Mr. Linsley, who is a friend of
Garbe's, packed up his trunks and
came back to renew his acquaintance
with the West, for which he had al
ways had a preference, and he says he
is mighty glad to get back. Mrs. Lins
ley came with him.
While in Pittsburg Mr. Linsley in
vestigated a new device for saving
gasoline. It is called the Speeder and
since its inception only a short time
ago 176,000 of them have been sold in
Pittsburg alone. It is an apparatus for
priming the motor and keeping It free
from carbon, and it is said that it will
save 25 per cent of gas consumption, in
fact that much is guaranteed. Last
Wednesday they took a car out to the
Country Club- track and without the
speeder In operation they made 3 6-8
revolutions on a quart, but with the
speeder working the car went round
4 3-8 times, or a saving of 20.7 per
cent.
. Briefly it is a small tank on the dash
with a lever attached. Pressure on this
lever primes the motor. There is a kick
valve at the lower end of the tank for
turning on the gas it also takes the
warmer air from around the exhaust
and introduces it into the mixture.
On Mr. Linsleys recommendation the
Oregon Motor Car Company has taken
up the. agency for Oregon and Wash
ington and expects no little success
from the device, owing to its cheapness
and to the fact that it will more than
pay for itself' in a trip or two.
Demand Exceeds Supply.
F. B. Norman, manager of the Port
land branch of the Ford company, re
ports the sale of 316 automobiles for
the month of June and could easily
have doubled this could they have Ob
tained the cars. Out of the 60 dealers
controlled . by the Portland branch,
there are only five that have cars in
stock. This car shortage will probably
be eliminated in another year. ,
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Marion Wins Hill Climb.
In a recent hill-climb at Atlanta the
class for amateur drivers was won by
Dr. S Green in his Marion car, and his
time was 1:11 1-5. The grade was an
average of 3.6 per cent over a distance
of 4645 feet, ,
Auto Makes Trip From California.
CHEHAL1S. Wash., July 6. (Spe
cial.) T. X Rush, a Chehalis capital-
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Preer Tool and Supply Co.
Phones Main 183, A 1633
74 Sixth and 311 Oak Sts.
ist, who has been passing the winter
in southern California with his fam
ily, has returned home, making the
trip overland in his automobile, his son
Karl accompanying. Mr. Rush states
that until the Oregon line was reached
they had good roads most of the way.
The rains were encountered in
the mountains in northern Cali
fornia, however, and from thera
it seemed almost like a contin
uous performance. The route all
the way from southern California to
Washington was lined at various points
with automobile tourists who were
making the same trip, many of them
being in camp waiting for better
weather.
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