The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 25, 1914, SECTION SEVEN, Page 3, Image 73

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    TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 25, 1914.
DEALERS PLANNING FOR
ROSE FESTIVAL PARADE
Determination Expressed That Auto Parade Shall Play Noteworthy Part
in Festival Wider Range of Classes With Many Prizes Desired.
HUDSON Six-40
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(f. o. b. Detroit)
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BY FRANK C. RIGGS.
Chairman Rose Show Committee on Auto
mobile Parade.
NE would have thought that the
dealers would have been far too
busy with the show to discuss
the prospects for the next automo
bile parade In the Rose Festival.
Such, however. Is by no means the
case, for if ever" I was surprised
In my life, it was at the hearty
way in which those automobile dealers,
to whom I have spoken, expressed theii
determination to make the next parade
something worth while and not a
f iasi'o.
They look upon the show week as a
suitable one in which they would all
be present to discuss the different sug-!
Kestions which have been put up to rai
and our committee for improving this
feature and making- it the best of all
tuo numerous features of the festival.
Among thev. suggestions I have re
ceived are some which struck us all as
being worthy and practically certain
to be adopted. One of taese was to
have more prizes of less value, each di
vided up into classes so that at least
each entrant would have an opportu
nity to win in his own class. Classes
should also be more numerous and more
defined.
For Instance, dealers themselves
could have a separate class for gaso
line pleasure cars, electrics and trucks.
These could be divided into classes
for roadsters, small cars and for large
touring cars and for limousines. There
could be classes where the expendi
ture was limited to a certain amount.
There could also be a class for the
cities of the state with a population of
m. fixed number of people; another for
smaller cities and still another for
towns. Farmers might have a class to
themselves. There could be divisions
too for business houses and firms, one
for the large wholesale houses and de
partment stores, another for smaller
. firms.
Then the present system of dealing
With organizations wants altering. At
firesent the smaller, though live organ
zatlons know they have not a chance
In a thousand and consequently little
wonder they do not come in. The
same has been true with the privately
owned vehicles. Of course, we shall
have the open classes just the same.
It Is absolutely necessary that we
have a large body of workers, each of
whom will look after- a certain divi
sion, and prizes could be given to the
workers who got the best results. Then
too we must rigorously exclude all ad
vertising. Last year owing to slack
methods some advertising matter got
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DEAL
ERS AND TIIKI K FLEAS
IKE CARS.
C. L. Boss & Co., Hudson.
Covey Motor Car Co., Cadillac.
Dulmage Auto Co., Hupmobile.
Gerllnger Motor Car Co., Oldsmoblle,
Oakland.
John Deere Plow Co.. Verlle.
Jerfsry Auto Sales Vo., Jeftery.
Keats Auto Co., Peerless, Chalmers,
Rauch & Lang electric.
Mitchell, Lewis & gtaver, Mitchell.
Nob Hill Garage & Auto Co., Ameri
can, StutE.
Northwest Auto Co., Cole. Lozler,
Reo.
Northwest Chevrolet Co., Chevrolet.
Oregon Mollne Plow Co., Cartercar.
Oregon Motor Car Co., Studebaker.
Pacific Motors Co., Stevens-Duryea,
Chandler, False. MarwplL
Frank C. Rlggs Co., Packard, De
troit electric
T. A. Rlggs, King.
United Auto Co., Metz.
White Motor Car Co., White.
Winton Motor Car Co., Wlnton.
Trucks.
C. L. Boss & Co., Reo.
Gsrllnger Motor Car Co., Federal,
Standard and Menominee.
Keats Auto Co., Peerless, Stewart.
Frank C. Rlggs Co., Packard.
White, White.
Accessory Dealers.
Archer tc Wiggins.
Auto Painting Co.
Ballou & Wright.
Berger Cyclecar & Supply Co.
Blodgett Vulcanizing Co.
Chanslor Lyon.
Fred Dundee.
Gas, Power 4 Supply Co. (motor
boats). Landy Auto Co.
Motometer Co. -New
York Anto Painting Co.
Standard Oil Co.
Into the parade and was ejected only
with difficulty.
'One more suggestion will be suffi
cient for the present- It has been pro
posed Dy more man one person that a
decided stand be taken in the matter
of decoration. Last year It was given
out at first that only roses were to be
considered for the prizes and when
this rule was abandoned many people
were not made acquainted with the al
teration. we must have a hard and
fast rule on this whichever- way the
matter is settled.
First Glidden Tour Contest
Run Ten Years Ago
National Automobile Cross - Conti
nent lOventu Anions; Most Impor
tant Sporting; Prarrsmme.
to jacKsonvme, jj'ia. There was no
tour In 1912, but in 1913 a Bort of
owners pleasure run was held from
Minneapolis to Glazier National Park
in Montana. The trophy, however,
was awarded to a Metz car.
AMONG the most Important sporting
events in American automoblling
history are the National automobile
tours, or, as they are more familiarly
known, the Glidden tours. The latter
comes from the name of the donor of
the trophy, which was annually com
peted for, Charles J. Glidden, the fa
mous automobile elobe-trotter. ' '
The first Glidden tour, which was a
pleasure run 'rather than a contest,
took place Ln 1904, and the route cov
ered v.-as from New York to Boston.
The following year the first contest
for the Glidden trophy was held. The
route was from New York to Bretton
Woods and return, a distance of ap
proximately 807 miles, and Percy
Pierce, driving a Fierce car, was the
winner.
The route of the 1906 Glidden tour
was from Buffalo to Saratoga, to
Montreal, to Quebec, and ending at
Bretton "Woods, the distance being
about 1500 miles. Thirteen out of the
83 contestants finished with perfect
scores, but the trophy was again
awarded to Percy Pierce.
In 1U07 the character of the tour was
chunsed, and the competition lay be
tween teams of five cars representing
different automobile clubs. The team
representing the Automobile Club of
Buffalo, made up of two Pierce cars,
two Thomas cars, and a Packard,
finished first, the route followed being
from Cleveland to Chicago, to Pitts
burg, to Baltimore, to Philadelphia,
and ending in New York. The 1908
Glidden tour resulted in a tie between
the following three automobile clubs.
Automobile Club of Buffalo, represent
ed by three Pierce cars; Columbus
tOhio) Automobile Club, represented
by three Peerless cars, and the Chi
cago Motor Club, whose team was
made up of two Haynes cars and one
Oldsmoblle. The route followed was
from Pittsburg to Philadelphia, to Al
bany, to Boston, and through the
White Mountains, ending at Saratoga.
The 1909 Glidden tour started in De
. troit, and the route followed led to
Chicago, to Minneapolis, to Council
Blun3, to Denver, and back to Kansas
City. The following year it started at
Cincinnati, headed southwest to Dal
las, Texas, and then turned north,
ending at Cliicago. The trophy was
first awarded to a Premier car, but
this was protested, and as the protest
was upheld the trophy went to the
Chalmers car, which finished second,
The 1911 Gliouen tour was a manu
facturers" team contest, and the three
Maxwell cars won a signal victory.
The route followed was from New York
Early Tourists in Difficulty.
Toward the close of the 1S06 Glidden
tour a number of the contestants had
a difficult time in maintaining their
complement of passengers. "Jimmy"
Becker, who drove an Elmore, was one.
At Quebec he hired a young man to
ride with him, offering 10 per day and
all expenses. While waiting for his
starting time Becker noticed a man of
legal bearing conversing with his hired
passenger. A moment later the BL P.
demanded that Becker also Insure his
life for ?5000, or he would throw up his
joo. as it was his starting- time Beck
er called to his mechanician to hang
on to the H. P. and. letting In his
clutch, the car shot down the street.
on the beginning of that memorable
ride through the mountains of south
era Quebec and northern Maine.
-T-nuuun no longer tilling a prom-
X lnent place among the localities fa
vored by the great auto racing public,
many drivers past and present still
hold a tender corner in their hearts for
$1000 CREDIT. WILL BE AWARD
ED AT SHOW.
Visitors to the automobile show to
be held this week in the Armory,
Tenth and Couch streets, have an
opportunity to receive $1000 credit
towards the purchase price of any
automobile on the floor. Each person
purchasing a ticket of admittance ln
the usual way is offered a slip with
a number on It. corresponding to
the number on his ticket. This each
may keep, if he so desires, as it will
enable him to participate. No one
who does not purchase an admit
tance ticket is eligible, though no
one who buys a tickot la bound to
enter. In other words this is not a
lottery.
It does not cost anyone a cent to
take his chance ln the obtaining of
such a large sum towards the pur
chase of a car, and It Is hardly neo
cssary to remark that $1000 will go
a lonr way towards buying an ex
ceptionally good car; ln fact there
will be Quite a number on exhibition
at about thnt figure. The show com
u.lttee decided merely to give away,
ln fhe form of credit to be applied on
the purchase of a car, a certain sum
of money. Naturally they could not
pick out any chosen Individual and
say: "Here's the money to help
buy you a car so they had to leave
It to fate to decide who should be the
lndlviduul. The closing night has
been chosen to announce the winner .
and It goes without saying that a
large crowd will be on hand.
Speeders Have Tenderness
for Ormond Beach
Famous Anto Race Course Scene of
Notable Events Rerords Made.
Broken and Remade Over Sand.
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Come, See the Greatest Thing
the Hudson Ever
2-Tcn Trucks $1825, Portland
1500-ib. Truck $725, Portland
Great Reduction in Price
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You men who watch eras in motor
car history have now something. new
to inspect.
A high-grade Six-40, with seats f or,
4 to 7, which undersells any compar- t
able Four.
A 123-inch Six, which far under-,
weighs the Fours of equal size.
And a Six which shows less opera
tive cost than any .equal-powered
Four in existence.
The man who did it is Howard E.
Coffin, the great HUDSON engineer.
The same Mr. Coffin who brought
Fours down, when modest-price buy
ers, could get only two-cylinders.
The same Mr. Coffin who built the
first great Six to sell under $3000. V
Now he builds this Six-Forty
high-grade, handsome, wonderfully
equipped to sell for $1750 F. O. B.
Detroit. He has made it weigh 500
pounds less than the HUDSON "37"
a Four. And the fuel consumption .
is one-fourth less than the HUDSON
"37."
. The Wanted Six
Think what that means I Sixes
have become almost universal with
men who don't care for cost. But the
price, the weight, the fuel cost kept
tens of thousands from them.
Now, all these points in this new
Six-40 are in favor of the Six.
. Now, legions of men who hereto
fore bought Fours can. have the
smoothness, the luxury, the flexibil
ity found only in a Six.
The Handsomest Car
And all these things come in a car
designed like the new HUDSON Six
54 the handsomest car of the sea
son. The.same streamline body, same
perfect equipment, same disappear
ing tonneau seats.
Up to six months ago, no car ever
built offered so many attractions.
Come, see it just because it marks
an innovation. See also the Cabrio
let a new roadster with "Winter and
Summer body.
Made by Hudson Motor Car Company
Detroit, Mich.
More Tons xggjj More Miles, M
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Less Cost
That's the whole story of the success of thin big Reo
Model J a heavy duty motortruck of the type you have
heretofore teen offered for tale at about . 21000 more
than we ask. Only our immense production, backed by
Reo experience and perfect organization make possible
such an astonishingly low price.
MOTOR
TRUCKS
We want to show you how this modern commercial
' machine will nt into your business. How it will earn for
you, save., for you, and increase your present volume of
business.
Then when yon see the exclusive Reo Features, that
put it ahead of all other power wagons, you will under
stand why so many business men are using Reo Motor
Trucks.
Reo Sectional Radiator Reo Right Hand Center Control;
Reo Left Side Drrre; Reo Hydraulic Governor; Reo Impregn
able Armored Front Frame $ arid other evidences of Reo superiority
of design and construction.
We'll give definite facts and Egnres if yoa say the word.
, C. L. BOSS & CO.
"i-:-ttl- " v,-!"-ti Str-t. Portland, Or.
Reo Motor Truck Co., Mfrs., Lansing, Mich
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G15-617 Washington
Street, Portland, Or.
Ormond Beach, where world's records
were made, broken and made again.
The races were run over that marvel
ous 15-mlle stretch of hard, smooth
sand that reached from Ormond to the
lighthouse, 10 miles below Daytona.
Here for seven or more successive years
there met each Winter the best speed
machines that America or Europe could
produce.
It was on this' beach that W. K. Van
derbilt, Jr., scored in his 90-horsepower
Mercedes the 39-second mile that
opened the eyes of the world at large
to the wonders of this wave-beaten
course, and the real speed possibilities
of the automobile. Sensational as was
this performance at the time, the Van
derbilt mile was later pushed far back
by successive faster miles, culminating
In Marnott's 28 1-5 mile in the Stan
ley Bteamer, and Demogeat's two miles
in 58 4-5 with the mighty Darracq.
These were the top-notch time marks
established at the original series of
Ormond-Daytona meets.
At the early Ormond meets the mil
lionaire sportsmen were conspicuous,
both as drivers and owners of racing
cars. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Henry L.
Bowden, S. D. "Stevens. Louis Bergdoli
and Edward Russell Thomas, were at
the wheels of their own speed jugger
nauts, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt, How
ard Gould and W. Gould Brokaw, hired
crack drivers to pilot their racers.
Magnalium, an alloy of aluminum
and magnesium, considerably lightei
than aluminum, which has been used
successfully for cylinders of gas en-
frines, is now being tried for the mak
ng of pistons for automobiles.
CONOMSCAL ELECTRIC
The Detroit Electric gives you all the luxury a:id distinctiveness of a lim
ousine at a far less expense.. . -
Iere are facts : The cost of storage in public garages including current, .
washing and polishing, delivery and call is $35.00 per mo. In private garages
the average monthly cost for current is less than $5.00.
The cost of gasoline is going up, while electric current is constantly . de
creasing. . ' . V
RANK C. RIGGS COMPANY
Twenty-Third and Washington
- A h I H - j - & J 1 8 s
I'foE ? til Hh"
Detroit Duplex Drive at the Auto Show
ti&JF Five Bars and a Cross Tie I
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P tffecigf p-ye thick, tough Goodrich rubber fingers
W) &$&c!3' Thev dier down through mud. slush and ooze: thev
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clean and grip the road. They stop the skid before it starts.
They give you lower-cost mileage because of the extra thickness
of rubber at the point of contact.
tooapicttfssss lire
Best in the Long Ran Best in the Short Stop
Don't experiment. Don't take chances. Look for the five bars and the cross-tie when yon
choose a non-skid tire.
Read the reduced prices below. Better still, tear out this price list and hand it to your dealer.
Don't pay more than the prices named here for the accepted standard
non-skid tires:
cj-- , - Smooth Tread Safety Tread c: Smooth Tread Safety Trsad
Prices Prices Sa Prices Prices
30x3 - - $11.70 $12.65 34 x 4Vz . $33.00 $35.00
30x3y2 - - 15.75 17.00 35 x 4Vz - - 34.00 36.05
32x32 - - 16.75 18.10 36 x 4V2 - - 35.00 37.10
33x4 - 23.55 25.25 37x5 - - 41.95 44.45
34x4 - - 2435 26.05 38 x 52 - - 54.00 57.30
There is nothing in
Goodrich Advertising that
isn't in Goodrich Goods
Portland Branch.
TIIE2 B. F GOODRICH RUBBER CO,
Broadnrsy and Bnrnilde St.
Factories: Akron. Ohio
Branches In All
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