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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1913)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 21, 1913. "plans drawn by bo ad expert to aid children in road work ROAD PRIMER IS OUT CYCLE CAR TO BE ASSEMBLED HERE DON'T BLAME US Lane County Surveyor Gives Rules for Highway Work. If You Forget the Place to. Buy Good Christmas Presents ARCHER AND WIGGINS Oak Street, Corner Sixth Automobile Supplies Sporting Goods Portland Will Have Factory Devoted to Latest Mem' ber of Auto Family. BOOK FOR SCHOOL PUPILS PRICE IS FIXED AT $395 ITnmbr of Prominent Business Men Organize Company to Build Motorerte, Which Will TaVe Xante From City. Not to be behind other cities, even the irreat automobile-producing centers ot the Kasl. such as Detroit and Indianapo lis. Portland is to have- a factory of its own in the very near future devoted to the assembling of cycleears. Los An geles was quick to see the possibilities of the cyclecar and has already a fac tory started, and Portland will be the econ1 city on the coast and one of the Very first in the rtates to commence manufacture of these light weight mo torettes. fnder the title of the Portland Cycle Car company, a number of prominent business men have formed a close cor poration with Lewis I. Thompson as president and C. J. McPherson as vice president to market a car which will Bell for 395 f. o. b. Portland. Mr. Thompson said yesterday that for the past 18 months he has been working on the best European lines to produce a cyclecar without the obvious defects f some of them and with the best points of the majority and that he had jiow produced a model which, has been tried exhaustively and which he was convinced would prove Its worth. Car Specification. Given. Judging by the specifications the leadiug features of the car would seem to be twin cylinder, lli horsepower motor, high clearance, planetary trans mission, roomy, streamline body with tandem seating, chain drive from engine sprocket to transmission, thence by V belt to rear wheels. The wheelbase is inches, the tread 40 and the weight HO pounds. The car will be known as the "Portland" cyclecar. Though a site lias not been purchased, the company lias an option on a site at St. Johns, where the factory will go up Just as loon as possible The general offices are at 302 Corbett building. The specifications of this cyclecar are as follows: Motor Two-cylinder, twp-cycle "V type cylinders set at 45 degrees. Air cooled. Ex tra flanges to Insure perfect cooling, equipped with aeroplane fan. Mechanically ' operated valves. magneto. ball-bearing crankshaft, tight-fitting pUton rings, alumi aum cranKcaae. oil gauge level, circulating 11 system Special compression release. fc.x tra heavy flywheel. Bore 89 millimeters 1314 Inches), stroke 03.3 millimeters I.I.Hi inches). Actual brake horsepower at 2.0 B. P. M. 14-hone power. Rating by 8. A. E. at 1O0O feet per minute, piston speed .S fichebler carburetor with warm-air attach ment. . . Transmission Two speeds forward ana ne reverse, positive type (no slip). Operated by foot pedals. Beits To Run 10.000 Miles. Drive Rv chain from engine sprocket to ---.., then by "V belt to rear . .!. .hiph enmnensates for differential. The rear telts are. not so long that the cost Is excessive should they need renewing and atlll of suttlclent length to secure elastic ac tion and perlect traction. . oww - -.nnrnvlmatdlv lO.OOtt miles. .,.in Th Idea of- three-point sus- nun is hers worked out and Insures per- feet flexibility and alignment as well as ease of tiding. Springs Three full elliptic springs, one In , un.l twA in rear- the drivins toraue is v.rn.-h rear springs, which keeps belts tightened. Brakes A "V" block lined with brake lining to nress rear heel pulley grooves, i . ; imw-'m Biirrare and sreat leverage. Steering Steering Is acc-ompltshed by the simplest of principles and one that nss gained great favor in Kurope. It Is by steel cable over drum through sheaves to solid front axles. Axles The axles are made out of fine steel and b ith have a truss rod which can be tightened. insuring lightness with strength. The front axle Is of the simple fifth-wheel type, proven satisfactory for cy cle cars. Wheels Are of Wire. Wheels Wire wheels with steel rims, rear pulley riveted to same. Plain casllron bear ings, four inches long, which can be re newed, are used for all wheels. This Insures a freedom from hearing trouble with practi cally no appreciable loss of power. Tlr lxl'V ln--h avlarl clincher tires in front and "rear. Plain tread In front. Chain tread in rear. Uasollne Tank In cowl of dasb. contains m gallons, enough to. run l.V miles. Tandem Heats for Two. Fenders AH metal fenders cover wheels from splash and are also fitted with metal fillers Body Seats two persons tandem, the rear ATTOMOBILE THAT I " 1 : ' - ! j ?h v- 1 - t jfX j J r -'f - T VT?T. .. ' . - . r--yw i , ' , . ' .v.VV1 ?riSFv. ?xfV v v ? V'"' -tf tv . : J 11. . . - ' - v --.tN. - 4 - : "Vi-fc'V "f ' n . .... - ..........;.-..---.v.-...-.:-t...... -- - ., ..r, I j THE PORTLAND" CTCLB CAR. j .........rTTTTT Iltll - . a. . . l I 11. siW . It Xa-VX pFraz"tt .mm A seat wide enough to carry additional child. The bodr Is constructed entirely on the streamline principle, with beveled sides and back of sheet metal over wood frame. Frame Ot white oak with steel gusset plates and corner braces bolted together; absorbs rosd shocks and Insures lightness and strength. Upholstery Upholstery Is either of car riage cloth or of lmltaton leather; inside of body covered to match. Lamps Fitted with two side lights and tall lamp. All metal parts not painted are nlckle-plated. FACTORY PACE STEADY JACK RABBIT CAB BRANCH MAN AGER TELLS OF OUTPUT. Apperaon Plant Runs Throughout Year, Making; Machines at Rate of la a Day, Bars Cartla. "There is no reason," says H. W. Cur tis, the local branch manager of the Apperson "Jack Rabbit" carg, "why the automobile business cannot be con ducted on the aame basis as any other legitimate business. "In years gone by. when the buggy and wagon business was at its height. the dealers said one need not expect to sell sleds and sleighs in Summer, but the manufacturers continued making them right through the Summer so as to be prepared, when the demand .reached Its height In Winter. "Of course It doesn't take long before a few motorcars run up into a big bunch of money, but, where the manufacturer is financially able, there is a reason. beyond the matter of delivery, why they should build automobiles at a constant, regular rate the year around. "For Instance, every Winter or Sum mer day adds just ten Apperson cars to market, and. being financially strong, the company need not necessarily sell them at that same daily rate in order to finance the next day's purchases of rough material. "Any manufacturer who has suffi cient capital can go ahead building so many cars every day all alike instead of trying to turn out a year's produc tion in four or five months during the Spring rush. It means a uniformity of product and also makes it posstDie to keep skilled mechanics in the factory the year round instead of being obliged to depend upon the second-raters under the hire and fire three-tiraes-a-year plan. "Admitting the existence of both dull and rush seasons, the same as In any other business, the Apperson company turns out the capacity of uniform cars every day of the year. The dealers get the advantage of this on account of being able to get good deliveries when cars are selling well, as they are at the present time. This will appeal to the class of buyers who are backward about purchasing a car during the Spring rush, fearing they may get a car that has been skimped." Motorcyclist Saves Woman. Frank Emery, of San Francisco. Cat, and his motorcycle, recently saved the life of Mr. Marion Bennett, of that city. Emery was riding In the vicinity when Jie learned of the serious condi tion of Mrs. Bennett, resulting from poisoning. Emery helped the stricken woman onto the front of his motor cycle and rushed with her to the hos pi tal. WILL BE ASSEMBLED AT FACTORY IN OREGON TTPICAL CROSS SCT1QNS. IrfyirrfGround Line, " """ " - 30rr sn i ' TO 8 USIU 0fLrM SOUP ROCK fti.LSIO. NEWEST SIX IS 111 TOWN PACIFIC MOTORS COMPANY KB- CEIVES LATEST CHANDLER. Recently Arrived nnd Popnlnr-Prlceel Automobile Anawera to the Entire ' Satisfaction of the Agents. The newest arrival of popular priced lx-cyllnder cars In Portland Is the Chandler Six, the agency for which In this state Is held by the Pacific Motors Company, headed by H. S. Colter. The oar reached here a ween ago ana cur ing the past seven days Mr. colter lias had this car out on all possible occa- ,AlPKTJt3 -X c iV '.ATS . yj'0" n J '. ' i 1 ,io" 40 FT otcm .an-- tilons and lie has put it to some of the severest possible - tests, all of which it has answered to the complete satisfac tion of those who have ridden in it. There are good reasons a-plenty why I the Chandler should be a good per : former and the first and far away the most essential reason is that It is the product of men who know: it is built by a company composed of men with years of experience in designing, man ufacturing and. selling cars and men wiiiwe experience iiks uhvii tuuuevicu right along with high-priced six-cylinder cars. They are all working at a nominal salary, relying on the divi dends to bring- them wealth. The first result of that naturally Is that all the heavy cost of investigation and experimentation) has been done away with. There is not in its man ufacture a single novel, untried or ex perimental feature. Cost Declared Not High. Speaking of the car, Mr. Colter, af ter returning from a trip over the Heights the other day, said: "The Chandler lightweight- six at $1785 is not only a six you can afford to buy, but It is a six you can afford to run. The statement that six-cylinder cars are costly and necessarily extrava gant in upkeep and ftiol expense is ab solutely misleading and untrue. It is true that many sixes consume gasoline extravagantly, not because they are sixes, but because they are designed by engineers lacking knowledge of proper six-cylinder design. "The Chandler, lightweight six will run 16 mile? or more per gallon of gasoline in touring over average coun try roads. How many fours of the same sise and actual power and ability can do this? And this fact repeatedly has been proven by dealers from one end of the country to the other. The remarkable fuel economy of the Chan dler lightweight six is one of the facts which I am prepared to prove. "The efficient oiling system of the Chandler lightweight six is one of its many remarkable features. Chandler cars lose no oil through waste. Every drop of oil is UBed in lubrication and one gallon is sufficient for from 400 to 700 miles of travel. As there is no oil wasted. Chandler cars never smoke, no matter how much oil is carried in the oiling system. "Consider a roomy, luxurious six cylinder car. with power to surmount all hills, strong, sturdy, swift and speedy, weighing less than S000 pounds fully equipped honest weight run ning 16 miles per gallon of gasoline, hundreds of miles with one gallon of oil and many extra hundreds of miles on one set of tires, and It can be un derstood why the Chandler lightweight six is not only a six. you can afford to buy. but a six you can afford to run. Minister Tlrle Motorcycle, There havo beon hnsta of oourtsli'ue. elopements and honeymoons in which the motorcycle figuroil largely, And in England even a motorcycle, wedding was recently oolo:r.r.lJod. But In Ham ilton, O., the lovors ne'ihsf courted, sloped nor spent their honeymoons nwheol. The minister was the one who rode the motorcycle, Three couples In different parts of the city ware to btt married the pame evening. The ceremonies were a be performed at etraotipMiy 'he ?iHa houR And-ths Rev, Q. I'hiiiips had bean engaged (n affiuiqia If, eaci buss. Mounted on U rxeteFfreie.- Rev.. Piiiiiips Mf. tha UiFcd fcftiKaa bnd married thw three aoup-.ei.. rKipietiHif all three eytoe wilaia half aa hour. -J 1 1 ! .8" j Following Out Idea of Woman, to Make Thoroughfare Construction Part of Education, Details of Building Are Explained. In connection with the plan of Miss Goldle Van Bibber to teach to the chil dren of School District No. 5, of Lane County, the elementary principles of road building, as outlined some weeks ago in The Oregonian, Hollis W. Libby Surveyor of Lane County, has prepared a primer for the children to use. It will be remembered that Miss Van Bibber's plan, approved by the County Court and commended and commented on all over the Coast, is to have the children use a short strip of road in front of or adjacent to the schoolhouse In this way they will get practical demonstration of proper methods. In the first chapter of the primer is a map and a scheme for giving in a re port. First of all, this will teach the children simple map-making as it con cerns roads: and, secondly, it will in form the County Court as to the na ture of the road on which the chil dren are working. The children will work necessarily with light tools, but It is expected that from their work, with hoes and shovels and carrying surfacing material, per haps in baskets, they will learn proper methods which will be used in actual road construction by use of graders, drags, wagons and other means of transporting material. Expert Not Available. Lane County, by reason of the large number of miles of roads which It is compelled to build and maintain, and by reason of the limited amount of money which can be expended for this purpose, is necessarily required to rely in the building and maintenance of a great part of such roads on men who are not professional road-builders. It is therefore particularly important that the people generally understand how roads should be constructed and how they should be maintained. The work which this primer is intended to assist is a part of the general plan of this county to teach the people of the coun ty as much as possible about roads. In beginning this educational work with the school children, it is felt that par ticularly good results will be obtained, because what interests the children is sure to interest and inform their par ents at the present time, and the knowledge which the children get now will serve them well in the future When they become men and women and have an active part in the road problem. The instructions contained In the primer are as follows: (Copyrighted by H. W. Libby.) Be fore beginning work on any piece of road It is well to have a plan showing as nearly as one can everything within the road limits, as well as the more Important features close to the road, such as buildings, streams and hills. A report or description also Bhould be written describing those things that are hard to place on a map, such as the condition of the road and the char acter of the ground. Scale Is Suggested. If the section of road to be worked is not more than SOO feet in length, the plan may be drawn on a scale of, say, 20 feet to the inch, which means that for every 20 feet measured on the ground one Inch is measured on the plan, and for 10 feet on the ground one half inch on the plan, and for five feet on the ground, one-fourth inch on the plan. On this scale a section of road 300 feet long and 60 feet wide would he on the plan 15 Inches long and three Inches wide. The whole sheet for this length of road and scale should be 20 inches long and 10 vinches wide. Measuring la Advised. To locate any object In the road so that it can be marked in the plan, measure from the stake at the corner of the road, then measure from the side of the road to the object. It may be easier sometimes to measure down the center of the road and then out to the right or left to the objects to be lo cated. To locate the traveled way. measure along the road to points oppo site every bend and then out to the STRENGTH OF MODERN STEEL BODY "rVORK I -"V . - Mwi ! ih-KSr X:.-' .' l-gSiSv . I v j i OVERTURNED AUTO, IX WHICH PASSENGERS ESCAPED SCATHI.ESS. The above photograph of what is apparently a bad automobile wreck offers conclusive evidence of the Urength of present-day steel automobile bodies. The overturned car shown is a Studebakor 'So, belong ing to J. W. Gallagher, of Everett. Wash., which has been in operation as an automobile ftag-e between Kverett and Granite Falls, Wash. , . Recently, when en route with a load of seven passengers, Mr. Gallagher lost control of the car while running at high speed. It left the road, dropped 85 feet Into a gulch by the roadside, turning completely over in the fall and landed upside down. . ,. It all happened so quickly that none of the seven passengers could Jump, but to a man they obeyed in stinctively the natural impulse to "duck" and crouch as low as possible in their seats The car landed sparely bottom side irp. - The glass In the windshield was broken to atoms, many radiator tubes were per forated, but the strong steel body held intact, and the seven passengers escaped without a scratch and with nothing as a remembrance o: the accident. except the severe shock. The car waa hoisted to the roadway, set to rights, found to be in aa good running order as ever be fore beyond the broken windshield, radiator and damaged top. V.. ,i r .v.. ku. rommendlna- similar experience to motorists, are loud in their praise of the strength of chassis bo severe a test without extensive Christmas Shopping For the Motorist EASY AT BALLOU & WRIGHT BROADWAY AT OAK OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. UDS0N AUTOMOBILES CIO JP Distributors for Oregon and South. "Wash. . Lm BOSS OC V0. also. Portland Agency, 615-617 Wash. St, BOWSER BetnwllBS. fb H NORTHWEST AUTO CO. " Factory Distributors of Cole ReoCars BROADWAY AT Main 88S7 AUTOMOBILE AND SHOP SUPPLIES. SparkPlugs TOOLS Brake-Lining MOTORCYCLES AND ACCESSORIES Preer Tool and Supply Co. 74 Slxtb and 811 Oak Sta. traveled way. This way of l?tta is shown on Plate 1. Thus, the fir tree shown in Plate 1 is 86 feet from the west etwl of the road and 16 feet from the side. An arrow or north point, should be placed on the plan showing what direction is north. The plan should also have a title telling: the name or number of the road and the township, section and school district in which it lies. The report or description should say: First. If the road runs over hilly grounds or on the level, or along a side hill, also if it runs throug-h forest or cleared land. If throug-h forest, then It should state the kind of timhber and whether thick or scattering:. Character of Ground Essential. Second. The character of the ground, as sandy, muddy, gravelly or if solid rock. Third. If through forest, whether the timber has been cut out of the road and the stumps grubbed out or not. Fourth. The improvement, telling what work has already been done on and body construction of the modern damage or injury. ' .ssssssssssssT PREVENTS SERIOUS INJURY IN ACCIDENT REO TRUCKS GASOLINE and OIL TANKS STORAGE SVSTEMS FOR PUBLIC AND PR1. VATS) 6ABAOB8, a. XX Stoddard. HepreeeBta UTC.Suft eeiumtta Aims, alala A7s TIRES LG1GETT, X-31 North 14th St. Mala WX COUCH STREET A 4959 PhonesMala 1683. A 1883 the roadbed, whether graded, graveled or if culverts have been placed. Fifth. The present condition of tho road and its condition at other times of the year, whether good in Summer," bad ' in Winter, whether muddy, full of holes or rocks. In fact, the condition of the surface of the road at all times of the year should be described fully. Sixth. All that is known about tho amount of traffic passing over the road should be stated. It would be well if a count was made for one week of all teams, getting the number of eacn kind, as two-horse teams, four-horse teams and automobiles or auto trucks. The plan and description should be as complete as possible and a new one made each year, . so that it can b known Just how much the condition of the road changes from year to year. Pins fashioned almost exactly like thos of the sort, known today as "safety plnfi" have been found In Etruscan and Roman tombs, and the data of these haa. In 8om Instances, been assigned to a period prtoi to the Christian era. automobile which can withstand T