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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1913)
FULL TBA1NLQAD OF STREET CROSSINGS AND BRIDGES IN NEED OF ATTENTION TO SAVE TIRES Motorists and Drivers Find That Bumps From Poorly-Cared For Roadways Are Cause of Heavy Expense Plates of Metal on Flooring of Broadway Bridge Give Great Inconvenience, Even When Autos Are Going Slowly. Buy No Winter Tire Until You See This Goodyear Innovation This Anti-Skid with Plain-Tread Smoothness This Thick, Tough, Sharp, Enduring BUICKS SENT WEST Shipment Breaking Previous .Records Comes to Howard Automobile Company. eather Tread All-W ABOUT 425 CARS IN LOT Second Big Allotment for Pacific Coast Trade During Tear Made I Vp of 1914 Models and Is Valued at $525,000. Once more all existing- world's rec ords have been shattered by the Bulck car ana a Uulck organization. This latest world's record comes as xne result of the work done by C. S. Howard, head of the Howard Auto mobile Company, Pacific Coast dls- irinutors of Bulck and National cars, wnen on his recent trip to the big .ti ujviv pxa.ni ac f lint. Mien. In speaking of this new record Mr. nowara says: The Bulck factory is to ship the jiiwara AiuomoDiie company a solid trainload of 88 double-deck 1 freight cars, containing from 415 to 425 of 1914 model Buicks, between. November 1 and 10. This shipment, which is the largest and most valuable shipment of ursi-ciass ireignt ever made in '.he world, is valued at approximately OZo.ouo, and breaks the previous worm s record, also held by the How ard Automobile Company. This rec ord was the shipment of 75 double- decked freight cars, containing 375 Buicks, valued at $432,000, which ar rived here January 2, 1913. Allotment Ik Additional. "This trainload of more than 400 Buicks is an additional allotment which I was able to secure from the factory, and in no way interferes with our regular allotment, which is 10 per cent of the factory output. This per centage at the present time is more than 100 cars a week; in .other words wa will receive more than 825 new 1914 model Buicks between now and November 29. This number will just about put us even with our orders, and we hope to be able to make imme diate delivery on some of the models for a short time at least. '.'The demand for the new models has been so heavy that we have been un able to retain demonstrators for our own use. and any number of sales have lipen lost through our inability to make or promise delivery. The train load shipment will contain quite a number of the new six-cylinder cars. ThJs is the first year the factory has ever placed a six on the market, al though they have been experimenting with sixes very extensively for two years, and the present model has been In the hands of the experimenting de partment for the last year. Motor Is dnnrnnteed. fThe motor used in this new model is ' of the famous overhead valve type and is guaranteed by the makers to develop more power and use a lower grade of gasoline than any other type of motor made. The motor has a 3 lnch bore and a five-inch stroke, and the cylinders are cast in pairs. The Dejco lighting," starting and ignition system is built right into the car it self and has been simplified to a point; where it is practically trouble proof. ' The steering wheel Is located on the left-hand side, while the emerge ency brake and gear shift lever are in the center of the car, handy to the driver's right hand. A full floating rear axle is used, and the car has an unusually smooth-acting breaking sys tem. There are two Independent pairs of brakes, each pair working on drums on the rear wheels. "The lines and finish on the new six compare very favorably with the style and finish on the most expensive cars, and are very much better than any thing heretofore seen on a six selling at anything near the Buick price. With all due modesty, I think we may be permitted to say that this does not look as if we found business anything but brisk." , Vgy 1 """" i ' ' 'i . . t?v M Ti Vily :i CLUB TO HAVE DINNER AUTOMOBIliISTS TO "PROMOTION" JOIN IN FEAST. BIG Banquet to Be Given November 17 Alined to Increase Membership i and Boost Good Roada. A mammoth dinner is being arranged for members of the Portland Automo bile Club and their friends to be given at the Hotel Oregon at 6:30 o'clock Kovember 12. It will be called the Auto Club promotion dinner, and as its name implies, will be held partly with the viewpoint of increasing the mem bership up to the 1000 mark, when it is proposed that the lists be closed. In addition it will be decidedly a good roads meeting for such real workers lor the cause of good roads as ex-Senator Jonathan Bourne will deliver ad dresses showing what work is needed right now and in the future and the best means of setting about that work, how the National Government is help ing and the benefits of combination In such matters. The membership committee under the chairmanship of C. F. Wright, is re sponsible for the idea, which has met with favor on all sides. "We now have 750 members in good standing," said Mr. Wright." and we want every member to come and bring at least one friend who is eligible for membership, and by the way, do not forget this is not a stag party at all we are expecting as many ladies as men. Then we will outline the Ideas, the plans and the prospects of the club to them first and afterwards the good roads experts, probably, too, the Mayor and other city officials will outline. city plans and we can get one of the County Commissioners to outline the county's plans. I am not going to say until next Sundiiy who are on the programme, but I will say that we have some good speakers and what Is more, men who who do not waste time over their remarks." Children Suffer Cedar Poison. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) Edna and Paul Dent, the small children of J. W. Dent, are stricken with cedar poison, the disease being contracted, by drinking milk from a cow with the same disease. The chil dren's lives were saved after stren uous work by a physician. Hunter Back From Hills. HOOD RIVER. Or., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) Dr. P. F. Hawkins, a dentist who has spent the past month hunting in the mountains of Eastern Washing ton near Dayton, returned today wipii bis family. He reports the sport fine. Ni-s ?iZZ'" i."Wiisw(....: -n i) !-. -- .-v. -." . .: MdtW MiimnWtif M : .V TT . f 1 1 J- -9&!f V . - i , . . -w I N VIEW of the fact that there Is so much general activity in connection with good roads, it is pertinent to cast the eye around to see if everything is as it should be, not 1n connection with the roads, but with the streets. Port land has some excellent streets, even If they are narrow, but recently the conditions at some of the crossings have become deplorable, in the opinion of motorists, drivers of other vehicles and pedestrians alike. No one loves to see a street torn up (ask the business nien on Fourth street), but, all the same, where the roadway has sunk seriously, conditions should be righted at the earliest possible convenience. One of The Oregonian staff photog raphers was taken over some of the worst spots recently, and he should have written an article on bumps, for he spoke freely on his return. However, he secured some photographs showing the conditions, and now it is up to the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany to bring about their speedy Im provement. There is danger, too, In the poor con dition of some of the bridges. On the new Broadway bridge iron or steel plates stick up in a particularly dan gerous manner for tires, because they are sharp-edged, and there have been numerous complaints recently of cut tires from that bridge alone, even when drivers have been going slowly. So, too, on the wooden bridges there are f I"-1 'I f 'J'S' l," n, 3t v ' 'J loose nails galore and also nails stick -I This Is where the Bridge Commissioner lng up an inch and even two Inches. I can get busy. NEW HOME IS ARRANGED STI DEBAKER BCIUIXG UNDER GOES ALTERATION'S. Changes Made to Accommodate Ore gon Motor Car Company, Which Moves In. Carpenters, workmen, piles of wood and a thousand and one other things have been seen around the Studebaker building, at Seventeenth and Chapman streets, in the past few days. They have been engaged in rushing through all the alterations necessitated by the advent of the Oregon Motor Car Com pany, which handles the retail end of the Studebaker business locally, and which was. formerly located, at 69 to 63 Twenty-third street. The change was brought about In or der to enable the retail company to give their customers better service through the use of greater floor space and bet ter facilities. To aid in this end they have appointed as head foreman D. E. Crawford, a Studebaker expert for the past eight years and a man of wide ex perience in the automobile game. Al House will have charge, as before, of the service department. ' " The entire two lower floors of the building will be occupied by the Ore gon Motor Car Company, which Is starting an innovation in Portland by carrying not merely a stock of parts for Studebaker machines, but also an automobile store, where owners may buy all the thousand and one things connected with an automobile without having to go to the necessity of going elsewhere. Tlveir former home on Twenty-third street did not remain vacant for long, for H. W. Curtis, the well known Pa cific Coast manager of the Apperson (Jack Rabbit) Motor Car Company, has leased the building. This week will see the establishment of the local Ap person branch in this "new home. Mr. Curtis will act as local manager in ad- dltlon to having charge of the com pany's Interests in the Northwest as before. Medford Will Send Delegation. MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) Medford will have a delegation of IOC people at the get-together meeting at Grants Pass November 6 if present la?,? carred out. At a meeting of the Commercial Club tonight it was nave a special car btiH to members each pledged to sell 10 tick, ets. The meeting is for the purpose of forming a definite organization and making detailed plans for an exhibit at Ashland during the Panama fair and a campaign to induce tourists during that year to stop in Southern Oregon. Electricity is universally used In the Stavanger district of Norway as a result of the cheap hydro-electric power made pos sible by many waterfalls. Even the peas ants and fishermen dwelling; on the fiord islands have electric lighting In their homes. Here is a tire which you can see excels all other anti-skids. It gvea yoa on dry roads all the ad vantage all tho . smoothness, all the economy of the plain-tread tire. On wet roads soft or solid It gives an almost resistless grip. The tread is double-thick. It is made of extra -tough rubber, toughened by a secret process. The grips are deep and endur ing. They last for thousands of miles, and never all wear off. The edges are sharp, and they stay sharp. And these edges, set at 45 degrees, face the skidding direction. The surfaces are broad and flat, giv ing plain-tread smoothness. The blocks are in alignment, following the tire's direction. So there is no vibration as with scattered projections. Then the blocks widen out so they meet at the base. Thus every strain 3 spread over the fabric the same as with smooth-tread tires. That's immensely important rate projections center the strains at little points in the fab ric, causing a short-lived tire. Make a moment's compari son, and for all wheels at all seasons you are bound to adopt these treads. There are eight vital advantages which you will find in no other anti-skid. uOODFeAR Sepa- AKKOIUJtUS No-Rim-Cut Tires With All -Weather Treads Even last summer, All Weather treads outsold our plain treads with users. In winter these treads are essential. They should go on every wheel. Noth ing of the kind has been made to com pare with them. You can see that at a glance. Eight Others Cost More There are eight anti-skids wnlch cost more than All-Weathers, despite all our advantages. The reason is, each comes on a tire which has a much smaller out put. Then mark the fact that Ail-Weather treads come on No-Rim-Cnt tires, the most popular tires In the world. These are the tires that can't rim-cut. These are the tires which are final cured on air, at an extra cost of $1,500 daily. This is done to save count less blow-outs. And these are the only tires in which hundreds of large rubber rivets are formed to prevent tread separation. You get all these exclusive features when you get No-Rim-Cut tires. They combat the three greatest tire troubles. They save so much that these tires for years have held the topmost place in Tiredom. And no man who knows them can fail to adopt them. Come let us prove this to you. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY. AKRON, OHIO This Company has no connection whatever with any othor rubber concern whlon use. tue Goodyear name. Toronto, Canada London, England Mexico City, Mexico Btancha. mad Aaencie. In 103 Principal Cities DEALERS EVERYWHERE Writ. Us on Anything You Want in Rubbw PORTLAND BRANCH, 62 BROADWAY Phones Pac Main 2 1 SO and Home A 4046 BOISE 1M BUY PLANT CITY COXSIDERIJi'G PT7RCHASE OF ARROWROCK POWER, Government Is Willing to Sell En ergy Developed at Big Dam in Idaho. BOISE. Idaho. Nov. 1. (Special.) A movement has been started in this city to secure electric energy from the Gov ernment at the Arrowrock dam site to supply a municipal power plant. Rep resentative citizens have opened nego tiations with the Government. George v . Fletcher, president of the Idaho National Bank, and Jay A. Czizek, local engineer, have been appointed committee to investigate the cost of installing the distributing system in this city. Norman M. Ruick will ascer tain the proper course to follow to place the matter before the Govern ment, and Charles B. Irwin has been empowered to solicit signatures of con sumers. The Boise Municipal Improve ment League is back of the movement. That the Government Is willing to meet the league half way. Is evident from a letter it has received from A. P. Davis, acting director of the Interior Department, in which he says In part: "A considerable amount of power has been developed at the diversion dam and now is used for the construction of the storage dam at Arrowrock. After that dam Is completed this power will be available for other use, and the de partment would be glad to make mu tually beneficial arrangements for its use In the city of Boise. There is also a large amount of power that will be developed at Arrowrock dam after Its completion, and the department will be pleased to arrange for its development also by the city of Boise. This office will be pleased to receive and consider any proposition on this subject which the city of Boise or municipalities of the region may oeslre to make. Defeat Means Bad Name. Scio News. While all the bills are worthy, the university appropriation is by far the most Important to the state, as its de feat would work more harm to the commonwealth than can well be reck oned in dollars and cents. Such a le liberate blow aimed at our foremost educational institution would give Or egon undesirable notoriety all over the United States. - A in n o o in z e m e jm 1 1 On account of insufficient floor space in our old building on Twenty-third Street, we have been obliged to move into larger quarters.' We have leased the first two floors of the Studebaker Corporation Building, corner Chapman and Alder Streets. ' This space will be devoted exclusively to the Studebaker retail business in Portland, giving us ample room to give prompt and efficient service to all Studebaker owners. A complete line of Automobile Supplies and Sundries will be carried on the first floor for the convenience of our owners. 1914 Studebaker Models Now on Display Co, on OF Local Distributers Studebaker Automobiles .Temporary Tel. Main 5969. ' Chapman and Alder Big Drop in Prices Size No. 2, Up to 30 H. P., $110 Attached Size No. 3, Over 30 H. P., $125 Attached MECHANICAL SELF-STARTERS The Only System That Can Be Attached After Car Leaves Factory Detachable Separate Complete Absolutely Guaranteed American Ever Ready Company 534 Alder Street, Portland Lo Angelea, Cel.. 412 East Klnth St. San Francisco, Cnl 7C5 Folium St. . 30; Seattle. Wash'. ' Maritime BIdg. Attention A.utorraolbile ers Accessory dealers and garage owners. You are all invited to an open adjourned meet ing of The Portland Automobile Trade As sociation, to be held at the Oregon Hotel, 6 P. M., Monday Nov. 3. The important subjects to be discussed are: Ati Automo bile Show, Freight Rates, Permanent Or ganization, Election of Second Vice-President, etc.