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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. OCTOBER 5. 1913- S P ORT SMEN FAVOR AUT Q O VE R T R AI N FOR FISH IN G OUTING rinding Depot Schedule Inconvenient, Party Turns to Henderson Car,-Which Is Found Agency of Speed, Safety and Ideal Protection From Weather Machine Goes Where Locomotive Can't and Won't Advantages "Are Proved, Say Participants. ' - J. W. L.EAVTTT. President. A. D. PI,UGHOFF. Vice-President. A. R. THEISEN, Secy, and Trees. J. W. Leavitt & Company ESTABLISHED 1884. AUTOMOBILES 529-531 Washington Street, Portland, Or. Fred W. West, Mjr, Oregon. Marshall 2770, A 2444. Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Ancelea. U4, V 5wf 4 - t1 4 V El .- ..!, JTAt Aty -.Ali;'- . (Jr. BY WALTER GIFFARD.- . . THE value of an automobile as op posed to all other means of travel from a pleasure point of view, and Incidentally from the viewpoint of a sportsman," was brought out forcibly in a recent -trip-taken by the writer up the TVashou'gal River. Four of us wanted to. go fishing and we had tried to go the previous .week, but it was the same old story, one 'couldn't get away irom the office In time. We had been going to take the trip by train, but the confounded train left at 8:20 A. M. and there was any amount -of work .at the office to be done before then. "Make it. mid-day . and I can get off,' said one. So we Hied to the train schedule and found of course nothing within hours of that time. What s more the schedule ex pert when making up his time table evidently had not thought about fisher. men at Washougal wanting to return just at .the time that suited their con vanlence, all of which was very stupid of him. Consequently we were about to call the trip on": m fact, if I had not met Messrs. Jagger and Mann, of the Nob Hill garage, all would have bees off. ' Anto Omly Way.' i Jagger Is keen on fishing, and- had made the trip himself more than once. "There's only, one way to do it com- Zortably, he said, "and that is by auto mobile. Tou take one. of our .Hender sons, go when you like and come back when you like, and lust see If she Isn't some boat." With that kind offer "we were able to go. and at every turn the advantage of the automobile was brought out more and more forcibly. To begin with, I was ten minutes .late leaving-the office, unavoidably, but how dire would have been the result if we'd been going by train, because trains don't wait for men except when you don't want them to.- As it was nothing happened, exr cept that we were delayed that much. Then, too, we took any ' amount of Impedimenta with us all of which would have been no little trouble storing on the diminutive racks on a train, and last but by no means least, we could run along, now fast, now slow, and if we wanted to get some particularly beautiful spot all we had to do was to stop the car, take the camera and 'shoot It. . Roads Fair to Good, The spot we were aiming at was some eight, miles "up the Washougal River beyond the town of the same name. The trip, once the ferry at Vancouver has been negotiated and the bumpy first three miles out of Vancouver negotiated, is one of great beauty and of very fair to good roads except when It rains, all of which will be told later. The river winds along, now' ob scured from sight, now reappearing with the trees on the far side casting their reflections in the water, and the mountains showing dimly purple in the far distance. Orchards may be found In profusion along the road for many miles from Vancouver, while there are spots where big fir trees and other smaller trees overhang the road, their colors varying from deepest to lightest green. . The grades air the way are slight, taken all round. The busy town of Camas, with Its great paper mills Is passed on the way. and here they are- making extensive street Improvements, so much so that to get to the Washougal road a couple of short detours are necessary. On the way out we kept the same side of the river, but the road is by no means as good, as the one over the tridge and on the far side, which we took on our return. This last named, has been graveled and is very level. Once beyond Camas the road is soon running alonir the side of the Washougal, and beyond i the town of Washougal, this large mountain stream gets more' and more ' beautiful every inch of the way. The road itself Is very picturesque, if rather narrow. It is an earth road easily turned into quagmire after six or seven -hours of heavy rain, and travel is a trifle bumpy but well worth any Buch minor discom forts. If follows the stream practi cally the entire way, now looking down right over It, then hidden from view by luxuriant ferns. Car's Value Proved Again. . There was another' example of the value of a car in the way we chose our spot. We simply ran along until we found what appealed most, a lit tle roadway leading down to the riv er's bank, so that we could have the car close by, . a dip down for the fire and a level spot for a camp. ' Once there, and the camp prepared. we turned to our fishing. There is one great advantage In' this river, namely, that, though very much overfished In spots, yet,' provided one knows the pools, ample sport is to be had and the fish are of - a fine size. Some ' pools right . down - even close to the town of Washougal yielded beauties, in spite of the fact that the river was low and clear. ' There were any number of fishermen along the stream and most of them were using salmon eggs to the exclusion of the Royal Coachman or other flies. One or two of them had met with little success, though the majority had wen-filled creels. We camped early. Intending to make a very early start in the morning, and all went well . until midnight, when a cloud burst. At least that Is what it seemed like. Anyhow, down poured the rain . without the least hesitation or pity for us, and as we were getting soaked to the skin, we adjourned to the car (another advantage of an auto mobile). - There we passed the rest of the night, and whenever we woka up It was pouring just as much as ever. In the morning there was a hopeless mist as well as the rain, so that photographs were an Impossibility, and some of the best views that could have been taken were lost entirely. Rata. Makes Road Bad. After we had had enough of the rain we decided to come back, and there again came in the handlness of a car, for we Just started at the moment we wanted to. - But never again do I want to come back for eight miles on an earth road turned into about eight inches of .heavy sliding mud, with nar row turns and the stream just waiting down below. There are places on the curves wher the road has worn the Wrong way or-else been badly graded, and after the - rain It was a . miracle more than once that we did not go over, because the earthy surface just started to slide downwards and the car slid aownwaras with it, while even with chains on and traveling about two miles an hour on low gear, skidding was the order of the day. One thing that bad stretch did most effectively, namely, to bring out the good qualities of the Henderson. We had a 4-40,. and .she was well loaded up, but she pulled the hills In the mud just as-slow as we could want her to ith never a knock or a miss, while the brakes, both footbrakes, by the way, held her securely whenever they, had to be applied In a hurry. One need-1 IT f ( J, 71. i , -w f ) - September 26, 1913, Dear Sir . The Evening Telegram of Portland, in looking over the various cars represented in the city, for the purpose of giving seven away in their voting contest, decided on the OVERLAND. WHY? When a car loses its maker, through failure or otherwise, its market value drops 50 to 90 per cent instantly. More than 25 makes of cars have lost their makers within a year. Thousands Of owners suffered financial loss and annoyance. Guarantees be came worthless. Repair parts could be secured only with difficulty, even for cash in advance, and the maker's much boosted "service" proved to be a hollow promise, with uobody at the maker's plant to express regret, much less to make good. WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT? Find out, before you buy a -ar, whether the maker is solvent and likely to stay solvent. That's more important than to know the specifications "of his car. The maker who is solid, who will be in business next year and the year alter, is invariably a maker whose car has the substance that gives satisfaction. But the best car in the world isn't worth having if its maker is iu danger of being wiped out. Just keep that in mind. That's why the "Tele gram" decided on the OVERLAND. Just note the progress of the OVERLAND 4000 cars in 1910, 10,000 cars in 1911, 25,000 in 1912, 40,000 in 1913, 50,000 in 1914 and will make 75,000 in 1915. Now, Mr. Buyer, don't that look like a good car to tie tot The OVERLAND is the standard medium-priced car of the world. There are 3664 OVERLAND agencies . in the world, and every one of them carries a complete stock of parts. There is never a time when touring that you are further than twenty tniles from an OVERLAND agent, and there is never a time when one of those agents will not come to your assistance if you are in trouble, even though he may have to come the twenty miles. There are some cars on this market that have gone into the receiver's hands, and even to the wall, in the past two years, and still ask you to buy their cars. ' "Would you put your money into a bank that had closed its doors T No! Certainly not. Then why buy a car from a firm that is liable to go broke again f Look at the records of any of the so-called medium-priced cars, and you will not find one that has progressed like the OVERIjAND, in fact quite a few of them are making less cars this year than last, "Why? Because they did not sell all of their last year's output? Take another look and you will see that the firm giving the greatest service and best treatment to its customers is yours truly, J. W. LEAVITT & COMPANY, FRED W. WEST, Manager. P. S. If you want proof of this, ask an OVERLAND owner. 57 SOLD IN PAST 60 DAYS. quently coming out the winner. Preuesner also uses his motorcycle in his work as collector, and Is able to make his own repairs. ed confidence in one's car to travel that road under such conditions, and the confidence . in this case Increased with every difficulty surmounted. For such a sized car she is wonderfully light on gasoline, while even with the amount of low and second gear work which .w.e. put her to for slow going, the water never boiled, and when we got back she hadn't used more than a pint, 'and' I never once lifted the hood. Once past Washougal town the gating was all right, though very wet of course, and we reached town in com fortable time for late dinner after a most enjoyable trip, despite some of the weather. . . Racing inff to Use Tire Chains. . Something new in equipping a car for racing is to put tire- chains on It. Louis Disbrow is to put them on the Jay-Eye-See and the Simplex Zip. He says he thinks he can make better time on turns with the Weed Chains ha jtvill mount. - One-Armed Man Cyclist. A. J. Preussner, of Galveston, Tex., has but one hand, but that doesn't pre vent him from operating a motorcycle. 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