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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1913)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTIiATTD, 'NOVE3IBER 2, 1913. 9 WOMAN WILL RACE Mrs. Northam's Car to Start in California Run. EXPERT IS HIRED TO DRIVE Fair Manufacturer Will Try to Carry Away Ixs An peles -Phoenix Prize Owner of Seven Auto mobiles Also Likes Babies. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1. (Special.) Mrs. Leota K. Stoney Nortfiam, auto mobile enthusiast, owner of seven cars, luck In the race," says the Los Angeles woman motorist. "However, we know the chances we take, we have the sport ing: Instinct and we can lose joyously in case we have to." Not only does she understand the mechanism of her racer and touring: cars, but through association with her husband, the late Mr. Northam. who was an inventor and manufacturer, Mrs Northam has acquired a wide knowl edge of the principles of machinery. Though she formerly spent her time almost without interruption in motoring- and social pastimes, since the death of her husband about a year ago she has undertaken the settlement of hla estate and has taken complete charge of the Northam manufacturing plant. "1 do everything but carry a tin pail." says this beautiful worker. "Week in and week out I have arrived at the shop at 8 o'clock tn the morning, staying until 6 In the evening. But I enjoy it Even after I have disposed of the business I shall never return to bridge and theater parties and re ceptions. Being a society woman Is a profession and a difficult one, clever women are engaged In it, but none of them have anything to show for their labor. "Two things I love, babies and auto mobiles," says Mrs. Northam. Omar Toft, Mrs. Northam's driver. SERVICE IS TAUGHT Fred W. Vogler Counsels All Dealers to "Show." OWNER "KNOWS MORE" Need for Making Reasonable Charge in Plan of Kxploltlng "Free" Offer Is Told "Bluff" Advised Against. ' There is an old proverb that was ap plied with some considerable sense and reason the other day to that much- OLD-TIME HILL, WELL KNOWN BY MOTORISTS, ENTIRELY ELIMINATED NEAR COTTAGE GROVE. jP' c W!iw'wl7t' " T" "w- T L 1 4 v ' ' ' "a- t'i-'" w1 f.zj' -j k "J 19).V-( - " i. 1 (Wi je,- COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) Probably no greater Improvements have been made In any one Lane County road during the past year than those on the road between this city and London. The fea ture of the work on this road ia the entire elimination of the Shortridge Hill, a landmark of a half century and the ford of the 'Coast Fork. These were done away with by the purchase by residents of that section of the country of a right away around both, a distance of a mile or more. The new road has a slight grade, Is of convenient width and has been well supplied with gravel to be worked In this Winter. Hills have been cut down and fills made .with the dirt at several points on the London road, which leaves the city by way of Sixth street, which is being hard-surfaced for three-quarters of a mile beyond the city limits. The Pacific Highway, for a mile north and south of the city, has been macadamized and the new steel bridge to let the highway Into the city by way of Ninth street. Is under course of construction. and the only woman in the country who enters her racing machine in the long distance road races of the Pacific Coast, will have the official recogni tion of the State of Arizona in the race November 3 from Los Angeles to Phoe nix. Mrs. Northam' formerly made her home in Arizona and she and her fam ily were friends of George W. P. Hunt, of that state, before Mr. Hunt became Governor and while he was a member of the Arizona Legislature. In a tele gram which Mrs. Northam received last week. Governor Hunt says: "X sincerely hope that the good fortune which attended you while you were a resident of Arizona will be with you and your driver In the great race to Phoenix." Mrs. Northam's "boys" the mechanic and the driver who won eighth money and brought the Northam car in fifth in the race July 4 from Los Angeles to San Francisco, have just returned from an inspection of the road which will be traveled in the November race. "It's the kind of road that will eat up tires as fast as we can put them on," is the report. Up to date, Mrs. Northam is the only woman who has entered her car, a Simplex 60-70, built for road racing, in the Los Angeles-Phoenix race. Under the ruling of the American Automobile Association and the Western Automo bile Association, which will have charge of the race, women will be ex cluded from riding in the racing cars. "But I shall be there with my heart In my throat waiting to welcome the 'boys.' " says Mrs. Northam. The cars will leave Los Angeles at daylight November 8 and will arrive in Phoenix two days later. There proD ably will be 25 cars in the race. "I have faith in the boys and I have faith in my car It is built like a bat tleshipand we expect to have good has won honors In his profession and has been a driver In the grand prize races In Paris. The Northam car . will retain its Panama-Pacific number In the November races No. 6.' POLK TO HAVE HEN SHOW Poultry Association 'Announces Dates for Annual Exhibit. MONMOUTH, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) That Polk County will have a poultry show is the announcement made by the Polk County Poultry Association, and the dates have been set for December 9, 10, 11 and 12. Plans are perfected and committees appointed to the vari ous tasks requisite to the making of a first-class exhibition. Two new sil ver cups have been presented !" the association to be awarded on Buff Leg horn exhibits. "The pronounced success of last year's show is evidence that the ex hibition this year will be better." said a member of the association yester day. "Because some of the prize birds were not in condition for the exhibi tion during the county fair, some of the best pens in the county were not shown at that time. There is no foundation to the rumor that the poultry show will be abandoned on account of the county fair. There are a large number of cups and other trophies now in posses sion of the association which must be competed for at least two more times before permanent possession can be claimed." J. M. Card has been elected presi dent of the association for the ensuing year. - - V X. - V V v - ,-- f.- i V '':-- rv:i '.T vv V , s a. , - r -4 fx I i ' - J v 1 I MRS. LEOTA K. STONEY NOnTIIAW. vaunted word "service," as talked by the motorcar dealer. It is "seeing la believing" and the necessity of its application was brought out strongly the other day by Fred W. Vogler at a luncheon of automobile dealers. The talk had started along the lines of the great steps in education taken by the average prospect and the wider scope of the knowledge of the average owner of today as compared with the owner of even a short time back. It a ail along the lines I was taking the other week, with regard to the way demonstrations are dylne out." said Mr. Vogler, "and the way people are beginning to realize that it is bet ter lo buy a car. which oerhana is not quite one's highest favorite, from a reputable dealer with a high-standing firm behind him than it is to buy the real car of one's choice if it Is poorly represented locally. Service Strong Point. "It's Just the Same With aervie tn. day. It was a strong talking- ooint at first with a lot of dealers, whorealized the value of it in aiding sales. But the trouble was they got too extrava gant in their promises and they were not exactly, truthful in telling what vney nau in me way of parts cached away upstairs. In the lone run. of course, their little game Just killed it self, and Incidentally helped to the very utmt-st those dealers who were trying genuinely io SiVe an trie service they could. "When people are told today that such and such a Arm Is able to look after them from service viewpoint, having such a wonderful stock up stairs, the man will take a Mlssourlan attitude and say: Til go up -with you and take a look. In some cases he finds that Jie has called a dealer's bluff and saved himself much trouble. 'We happen to have a very large as sortment of parte, between $30,000 and $35,000 worth. Let me tell you. when a man comes Into our office, we don't wait for him to ask us about our parts. We talk service to him and we say 'you must come up and see for yourself, seeing Is believing, you know.' We insist that he does see for him self. Service Kot F"ree. ' "Then another thing I would always disillusionize him about is that Bervice Is not always going to coBt him III ff j tfn il Four or Five-Passenger Phaeton touring body type $2975 Seven-Passenger Touring Body $175 Extra Limousine, $4300 Equipment 1914 Oldsmobile, Model 54 Combination toctrtc and ll aid and tall tampa. apaalal OldtmabiW daaiffn. Special daatffn Oldamofaiia alactrio haad lamps. Spaclal design thrifwiy adjustable vantllatins wind ahiald. Top. boot and patent adjuatabla aida curtalna. 9Q miiaa apoadomatar. Adjuatabla iUm aattlnc and winding Waltham clock. Raar tira irons, capacity for two tlraa. Da mountabla rimt,oniftra. Import ad horaa-bair tonneau mat, . Motor-driven air pump. Famous Delca starting, lighting; and Ignition system. Electric light in tonnaau. Extension alactria trouble lamp. Tools, jack. Patented bow separating top holders. Adjustable auxiliary seats In seven-pasaenger. (Extra, at additional coat, wire wheels i special Oldsmoblio touring trunks.) Motor. 60 horsepower, six-oyilnders. unit power plant throe-point suspension. Bore AlAz stroke 64. Extreme length or four and nva-paaaencar ntodr els, IS feat. Extreme length of seven-passenger, 17 feat Springs front, aeml-alli ptla. Springs rear 44 alliptic under slung. Tires 36 a S both front end resvr. Gabriel snub bora, ICiexon horn. Established !6SO incorporated 1699 Here is the Greatest Six-Cylinder Car Ever Produced OUR entire sales organization, engineering depart ment and factory managers not only endorse the statement that this is the greatest six-cylinder car ever produced, but insist upon advertising it as such there is no other expression which so adequately and truthfully describes the new 1914 Oldsmobile Model 54. We have never before in our sixteen years of auto mobile manufacturing made so strong a statement. Our policy has ever been, and will continue to be, a truthful adherence to facts, and when we commit ourselves we believe we can prove by demonstration or comparison that we have not overestimated the position occupied by Model 54 among sixes. The motor of this new Oldsmobile 13 a marvel. To perfect it, the largest corps of engineers, engaged in the exclusive business of designing and building automobile motors, have labored for years. They feel (and we believe you will agree) that thla product i3 the most efficient six-cylinder motor either in this country or abroad. Not too light not too heavy perfect in balance and control it is all that knowing motorists mean by the term "light on its feet." -The 1914 Oldsmobile is not a triumph for ourselves exclu sively, but one in which every American can share. Europe's most noted car builders have yet to produce a car that will sur pass this Oldsmobile in appearance, completeness or performance. The 1914 Oldsmobile can now be seen at our salesrooms. You will enjoy looking over this "greatest of all sixes." J914 DELIVERIES NOW READY Gerlinger Motor Car Co. Iff ' ' J-fl( 694 Wasllinton St" Cor' KinS Portland, Or. - II I ' "" " ; ill nothing. I tell a man frankly that we have a uniform rate of charges, that it does not matter whether he has money to burn with a pleasure car only or not, he won't get charged any more than the man who can just afford his car and has to have it for business. "It's all very fine and nice to be told 'Oh, there's nothing to pay for that,' but nine times out of ten he pays for it in other ways. Let me give you an example. Suppose a man bursts a tire out on the road without an extra one. He telephones In and the company says: 'We are sending a man out right away. Your car will be home almost as soon as you are.' Our friend comet on into town, leaving his car there just as it is. The dealer does not bother to attend to the matter righ--on the spot, with the result that tht rugs and perhaps some of the tools o fixtures on the machine are stolen Now that man is charged nothing foi such a service, yet he has to pay dearlj for it in the end because he has to buj new tools or a new rug or something Rcgnlar Scale lireed. "Compare that with the dealer whi keeps one or even two cars, and ha: one and a man on hand to attend t such matters. Within five minutes c the receipt of that call he is off fo the scene of the blowout: generally knowing that the car really will b sent out at once, the man waits fc it, and saves the expense of hiring Nothing Is stolen, nothing lost and h has to pay, perhaps, at the rate of t To Automobile Ow t We could not get ready to make the special announcement for today. Full particulars will be given in next Sunday's Oregonian. The White Company E. W. Hill, Mgr. Broadway, Near Oak "In the Business District for Your Convenience" an hour for such a service. Now which of those two really is service? am I not right in saying that there are times when service should cost a man? Why should the dealer pay for a blowout when It is not his fault? "Another thing: Have a scale of regular charges, let anyone see that ha is being charged at the same rate for the same kind of work as other people and you establish confidence In your dealings whl will react ' to voui credit, and confidence is the one thing needed right now in the game." Centralla Would Promote Benedict. CENTRALIA. Wash., Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) It was learned yesterday that a movement is on foot here. to secure the appointment of Postmaster Benedict as State Representative to succeed L. W. Field, who has purchased a lumber yard at Woodland and lfft the county. Mr. Benedict was appointed postmaster bv PrfiKiiiAnt Tu ft tn aiiri) hla r.tw and at the time of his appointment was the youngest second-class postmaster in the United States. A record session of chSH was held re cently In a game between Frank J. Marshal), the American champion, and O. Duras, lbs Bohemian champion. Marshall won after a 10 hours' contest. In which the loser took 48 minutes for the consideration of one TV10V. - I! 1 Fj-a . Ill u III 1 1 1 The Ford Town Car serves every closed-ear purpose best. It costs least to buy and least to maintain and is comfortable and dependable. The lowest-priced, most economical closed car on the market. Six-passenger 4 cylinder 20 horsepower. Price includes speed ometer, two 6-inch g-as lamps, generator, three oil lamps, horn and tools, including jack f. o. b. Detroit. Get particulars from Ford Motor Company, 61 Union Avenue, Corner East Davis St., Portland, or direct from Detroit Factory. " Ford lodel T Town Car $750 jl II ; i 1 wv -, 1 -i n
