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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1914)
mg. auAUAl UKEGOXIAX. rORTLAM), APRIL 5. 1914. 3 MERGERS ENTER BIG 500-MILE RACE Eddie PuIIen, Spencer Wishart and Possibly Caleb Bragg to Be at Wheels. MACHINES IN GOOD SHAPE Cars Ones Driven In California Speed Events, In Which One of Drivers Named Took Grand Prize. Tire Consumption Problem: INDIANAPOLIS. April 4. (Special.) Three Mercers have been entered in the next 600-mile race on the Indian apolis motor speedway, with Eddie Pullen, winner of the recent Grand Prize race at Santa Monica; Spencer Wishart, and one other, yet to be an nounced, at the wheeL While the choice of third man Is, of course, prob lematical. It is said that Caleb Bragg-, multimillionaire, who is at present in Switzerland, attempting to prolong the Winter, has first call. This combina tion should make one of the greatest in the history of the game. It Is thought. . The cars of the outfit will comprise the two machines driven by Pullen and Wishart during the recent California races, and the 300-inch Job that fin ished second in the sweepstakes event last season. Either Pullen or his al ternate will handle the latter. It Is said, Wishart having been definitely as signed to one of the big busses. These measure 44 5 cubic Inches each, barely under the speedway limit. Where Mercer will finish this sea son, say racing experts, all depends on tire consumption, as the cars them selves are now in grand trim. Last year, with the exception of the small est, they were still green, with the re sult that they were eliminated in short order. At present their only fault Is to be found in a trifle excess weight, their poundage being 2400, approxi mately one-fifth more than that of the foreign creations. No fear is felt on this score by the team Itself, however. Wishart says that at Santa Monica his tubes stood up beautifully, necessitating not a sin gle change while he was in the race, while Pullen did almost equally well. As far as speed Is concerned, the Mer cers are said to be there "40 ways from 6unday," Wishart averaging 85.4 miles an hour before he went out In the Grand Prize recently, and Pullen doing 78.72 for the entire contest. With such class it is going to take a hard drive to beat the yellow-Jacketed space eat ers, it Is predicted. Advance seat sale Indications point to the greatest crowd in motor history. More than 100,000 people are expected. Entries are coming in at an encourag ing rate, 18 now being registered, to gether with those of the Mercer and De Palms, announced today and yes terday, respectively. The field, at present, stands as fol lows: Burman. driving his own car; Anderson, Stutz; Cooper, Stutz; Keene, BuUet; Goux. Peugeot: Boillot. Peu geot; Chassagne. Sunbeam:' Guyot, De lage; Christaens, Excelsior; Duray, Peugeot: Klein, King; Thomas, Delage; Burman, no name; Da Palma, Mercedes; Pullen. Wishart and one other. Mercer. Duty doxe ist thanked Policeman Tries to Stop Runaway Car and Hits Pedestrian. Although he did his best to stop a runaway automobile in Newark, N. J. Patrolman Cornelius Hearn received no thanks; instead he is the defendant In a suit brought by Charles Musgrave, who claims that the runaway car knocked him down, li Hearn had not tried to stop the car he woul ; have been censured and perhaps been brought up on charges, and, as 1 Is, he has not escaped. The car was running along Orange treet when Hearn saw it. and he leaped In. Not knowing how to stop the vehicle, he grasped the steering wheel and hoped the gasoline would run out shortly. He dodged one trolley car, turned a corner and started for the Fifth precinct station, but within a block of the station had to dodge another oar, and In so doing ran onto the sidewalk and struck Musgrave. The latter demands $5000. The court admitted this was an in teresting question. In that the police man was not familiar with automobiles and yet was doing his duty at the time. BAD PISTONS MEAN LEAK OXE-P1ECE WSO DESIGN ARE FRO. NOUNCED DEFICIENT. Higli-Priced Tires Since Our Reductions, 16 Makes Cost You More Than Goodyears fr Careful Owners Are Urged te Study This Snbjeet In Interest of Real Economy An article In a recent number of the Scientific American laya down this axiom: "The performance of the motor of any gasoline-driven vehicle depends upon the maintenance of the compres sion, and the efficiency of the motor depends to a considerable degree upon keeping this at maximum point." The agency most depended upon to effect this necessary compression is the piston ring. A set of these rings en circles each piston head for the purpose of securing that closeness of contact within the cylinder which It is impos sible for the piston head itself to ob tain without creating such friction as to lose most of the power communicat ed to it. Perfect mechanical fit, therefore. Is the primary requisite of proper piston ring service such delicate adjustment of contact as to make radical pressure equal throughout its whole circumfer ence and furnish no opportunity for compression to leak past. Yet. at the same time, to do this without setting Up friction or causing wear. With such qualifications as these con sidered as essential to efficient per formance, the owner will find ample Justification for blaming his piston rings for any fuel waste and cylinder wear If they turn out to be of the one piece type most in use. Because of fundemental faults In the design of the one-piece ring -it is Im possible for It to prove efficient. It Is not gas tight, because it possesses open expansion vents and Its pressure against the cylinder is unequally dis tributed. It quickly loses its spring and commences to wear and score the cylinder. It allows surplus oil to work up Into the combustion chamber, to the detriment of both the motor and Its operation. a Careful nuanra wi.-. i i . -"cuevfl in econ omy of fuel and want long service from ... . . , " una xne Piton rings worthy of close attention. The facta an these: No-Rim-Cat tires, because oi costly features, used to cost one fifth more than other standard tires. Yet they excelled so far that they soon outsold any other tire in the world, as they do today With mammoth output came lower factory cost. Our overhead cost dropped 24 per cent. New factories, new machinery, new efficiency brought costs down and down. And we dropped our profits until last year they averaged per cent. During 1913 No-Rim-Cat prices dropped 28 per cent. Largely, of course, because of rubber reductions. They reached s point which other makers of good tires do not care to reach. Now 16 makes sell higher than Goodyear prices some almost one-half higher. And every tire user wants to know what justifies these prices. .V V -J W W 'w ' laws IV I- I Our answer is this: Those higher prices can't be justified in any way whatever. We have had scores of expert working for years to find ways to better Nc-Rim-Cut tires. And they all agree that better tires are impossible. Then No-Rim-Cut tires' have four costly features found in no other tire. One makes rim-cutting impossible. One saves countless blow-outs, and it adds to our tire cost $1,500 daily. One lessens by . 60 per cent the danger of loose treads. And one is our double-thick All Weather tread. Mark this. Not another tire at any price has one of these costly features. No-Rim-Cut Tires With AH-Wether Tread, or Smooth w - iower prices are easily ex plained. Higher prices lack a single shred of basis, save smaller output or a larger profit. Those are the facts. You don't care to pay for chimerical advantage, and extra price buys nothing else. TlS: 22 .J2?JL rubber COMPANY, jKRON, OHIO Any Dealer can supply you Goodyear Tire. If the wanted s dm m stock be will telephone our Local Branch. CM93) V V TIRES WIDELY SOLO Stockholm and Portland Taxi Companies Buy Product. 'NOBBY TREAD" IS CHOSEN Swedish Concern, After Exhaustive Tests, Said to Have Purchased $34,000 Worth In ISIS and Oregon Man Is Satisfied. BT C H. MATER. It ia a far cry from Stockholm. Swe den, to Portland, Or., not ao far, how ever, but that both cities have found a common ground on which they have arrived at the same decision respect- ng an important part of their city transportation problems. In the Swedish capital Baekuahl & Co. are the principal taxicab operators, and their cabs can be seen at all times, in all sections of Stockholm, In serv ice transporting: residents and visitors to their respective destinations. It is a significant fact that this company, which Is In such a fine noaltlnn tn judge motorcars and accessories, after tnorough and exhaustive tests with va rious makes of tires, adopted the United States "Nobby Tread," and during- 1913 purchased $34,000 worth of these tires for their taxlcaba. Oregon Company Follows Suit. In Portland, which is some 8000 or 9000 miles from Stockholm, the Oregon Taxicab Company, the largest In the city. Has arrived at the same conclu sion In respect to the tire equipment for Its taxis and from now on will use nothing by "Nobby Tread" times on Its cars. "A taxicab company, like any other concern, wishing to buy supplies, acoes sories or tires, is influenced primarily by quality and price," remarked TV. H. Warrens, superintendent of the Oregon Taxicab Company, "and when our com pany Is in need -of anything it is bought on just that basis. "We are large users ox motorcars and accessories and we have found by past experience that when we find a car or any accessory which gives satisfaction It pays to buy that car or article right along. Quality Ia Indicated. "In the case of tires, we have prob ably used more makes than any other single company, and the tact that we have equipped all our taxis with 'Nobby Treads' must mean something to every user of automobile tires. "The decision to use these tires exclu sively was not made until we were en tirely satisfied that they offered the best value and gave the longest Ben-ice of any tire we have tried on the market. The only thing we feel sorry about Is that this move on our part was not made some years ago, which would have saved us much time and money." COUNTY ROADS ARE IMPROVED Old Government Military AVajr lead ing From Monti cello Is Fixed. CHEHALIS. Wash, April 4. (Spe cial.) Extensive improvements In the county roads In and about the town of Napavine have been put under way since Supervisor Johnson assumed his duties. For the first time in Lewis County a donkey engine was used by a supervisor In clearing up a new piece of road and putting it In shape. This was done on the road leading to the Emery & Nelson mill. Great economy in labor and team work was effected by Mr. Johnson. As soon as the weather will permit gravel teams will surface the road leading toward Chehalis from the Shaver mill. On the old military road between Napavine and Newaukura schoolhouse. west of the railroad, grading and other work is well under WT for a much needed road that later will be' surfaced. This Is over the old Government military road lead ing from Monticello to Olympia ds SHIOX TIRES OX 3IANTT CARS Reports From "Big Six" Show Indi cate) Popularity. Reports from the "big six" National utomoblle shows, the last of which osedln Boston a few days ago. prove COMING EVENTS IX)B MOTOR. CYCLISTS. Badurance testa, club runs and race meets for motorcyclists so far scheduled are: t . April 18-19 Sacramento. caL Mo torcycle ' day and race meet. April 28-29 Savannah. Ga. 80O xnlle endurance run. May 29-80 Toledo, O. Meet of Interstate Racing Association. May 80 Peoria. 111. Ktcl meet. May 80 Oakland. CaL Oakland Motorcycle Club endurance ran to Fremo, May 80 Washing-ton, D. c Race meet of National Capital Motorcycle Club.' July 4 Stockton. Cal. Club run to Lake Tahoa. July 4 Dodse City. Kan. Interna tional SUO-mlle race. July San Francisco. Cal. Eu Francisco Motorcycle Club 810-mile enduranoe run. October 12-1T Chicago, m. Annual motorcycle show. the growing popularity of cushion tires. At these shows, 184 electric cars were exhibited. Of this number. 70 were equipped with Mots high effici ency cushion tires. 80 were fitted with special pneumatics and the remainder used other types. CYCLEC.UI BllEHS ARE AIR.MES Millionaire Guardsman and Sports man Broker First Imp Purchasers. It seems to be a coincidence that the two first cyclecar buyers In both New York and New Jersey wore Aero Club members and experienced aviators, but the fact remains that both H. H. Brown, the millionaire guardsman and aviator, and William Bouldln, the sportsman broker, who bought Imp cars at the New York show, have the honor of be ing the first cyclecar users In their re spective states. William Bouldln. of East Orange, N. J., la an aviator of note and holder of the Aero Club of America's pilot 11 cense and was a member of the auto METZ Glidden Tour Winner F. O. B. FACTORY. ELECTRIC STARTER AND LIGHT ING MODELS NOW HERE. - UNITED AUTO CO. DISTRIBUTORS. Stxteeath d Alder. Phones A 7178. M 433 7. polo team which won the amateur American championship last year. Mr. Bouldln was honored by the Cy clecar Club of New Jersey, at Its an nual meeting March 17. at Newark N J., by being elected first vice-president or the organisation. Woodmen Meet at Jn notion City. JTJKCTIO.V CITY. Or, April 4. Spe- "no trienial eesxlnn rr tk. fom can msk m a motor t- Light Enough for Economy Heavy Enough for Safety ical of tires and sparing of fueL It will give as much mileage ner Pallor. "tTe.M:L"Six" " "f""-f rSS'MSKSS trJiZr J l0in8r troKe Ilhtad molor (only 3V-inch bore by 5V2-inch 1 1 W- develP? P ? ? horsepower on a minimum amount of gasoline. And it is so perfectly balanced that it is unusually easy on tires But the 1915 Chalmers "Light Six" is heavy enough for safety and comfort on any road. Heavy enough, too, for that greater economy which comes from endurance, from freedom of repair bills. Don't Buy Too Light a Car Flimsiness skimping in the vital parts of a car is expensive. It means constant repair, which are both costly and dangerous. So the 1915 Master "Light Six" is a me dium weight car. It has a four-fold margin of safety in every part. The difference in gasoline cost between the sturdy Master "Light Six" and a too light, flimsy car can't amount to $25 in 10,000 miles. And $25 won't buy many re pairs if you get a car so light that it shakes itself to pieces in ordinary service. Medium weight is right weight. The 1915 Master "Light Six," like all Chalmers cars, is built to give satisfactory service, through many seasons. Take the Chalmers Road Test Apply the same logic to your purchase of a motor car that you would to anything else. Let us give you the Chalmers Standard Road Test in a 1915 Master "Light Six " and prove to you that it is light enough to give every economy of upkeep and heavy enough to insure safety in any emergency, comfort on any road. Let us show you why tJiis 1915 Chalmers model is the most won derful automobile value ever built. Such a claim for a car built by an un known company wouldn't mean much. But that claim made for the newest product of the Chalmers Motor Company means a reat deal. It means that here is a 1915 "Light Six" at the astonishingly low price of $1800 on which one of the largest companies in America stakes its reputation. It means that you can't afford to buy any car at any price until you have made us prove our claim, that the 1915 Master "Light Six" is the greatest motor car value ever produced. Arrange for the Chalmers Test Ride todav. ISIS Master T.lakt Sis" Tourl.c Car S1SOO ISIS Master I.Ust Ma" Coupeiet UOSO Larnr Master "Ms." 2. ss4 a pasaeacer. 2175 Lara-er Master "Sta." ssnn!,, ty 2275 KmllT ee.nJpse4. (... Detroit) H. L. Keats Auto Company Broadway and Burnside Modern Woodmen was held In this city April 1. In the Oddfellows Hall. There were a number of delegates from dif ferent mrtii nf 9Hm fni.n.u 11. V 1 . wuu.. .11. clerk called the meeting to order and lunico it over 10 j. rt. istarr. as chair man, and David Link, as clerk, both of the Eusrene camp. The delearate elected to (to to the state camp meet- ' " " J mini o are. K. w. Starr, of Kucrene camp; A. S. row ell. of v mm., urqyr; tno alternates were t W. Holl. of Crow camp, and W. H. Mulm, of Eugene camp. A banquet was served. Motor Car Dealers! Motor Car Owners! You Can Both Make Money With the Empire Gasoline Ecoeomizer NOT LIKE COMMON GAS SAVERS. IT'S DIFFERENT Dealers Read This: There are two ways for an automobile dealer to make money: First, to sell an article on which you make a substantial profit! and, second, to sell an article with which your customers will be pleased. The first is the cash asset; the second, the good-will return. You make a mighty good cash profit on the Empire Gasoline Econ omizer. That profit is net, because it does not require increased selling expense Just let's look for a minute at what the automo bile owner gains. First off let us say that the Empire Economizer is not a carbu retor in any sense. A carburetor is only a "miiing pot" for gasoline and air. The finer part of vaporization cannot be controlled by any car buretor, no matter how good it is. The Empire Economizer is an automatic "regulator" of the gaso line and air mixture ; it works with your throttle. A good carburetor is absolutely essential to the perfect workinr of your car. But no carburetor, however good, can do its own work and the work of tho Empire Economizer. Air is mixed with liquid gasoline ti form a gas vapor in your car buretor. J Air Is Just as necessary to the explosion as Is the crasollne .nt0her"".n0toeprnqarn!,0,ln WUh "Park: U wlU n,Jr flm' speed's of you? "bUr"t0r mad" that ucceB'uy controls the air at all drlvineqUenUy tn" exPloBlo, approaches the flame point some time tn automobTiS"''' bt" and heat ' th rtes source of trouble In aa Owners Read This: Bead the guarantee below and see if you think we have confidence In our product: We claim that this instrument will reduce your gasoline bill from 20 per cent to 80 per cent. That it will keep your spark plugs clean. That it will keep carbon out of your cylinders. That your motor will run better, freer and more efficiently. And if the Empire Gasoline Economizer fails to satisfy you in any particular, we don't want you to keep it. The Empire Gasoline Economizer is attached to your manifold above the carburetor. It holds back the too-rich mixture from the carburetor and mixes with it more air. The Empire Gasoline Economizer can be attached to your car bv any garage man in an hour. Tou should not pay over $2 to have it installed. Remember, the Empire Economizer is not only connected to your intake manifold, but to your throttle. It acts when you act ; when you increase the speed of your motor you add more air. Adding air causes the saving in gasoline bills. Send a $10 bill and your business card. You 11 receive the instru ment prepaid. And, remember, we are just as interested in having you send it back if you are not absolutely satisfied after a 30 or 60-day trial. Be sure to mail the coupon. Everybody Read This: When you buy an Empire Gasoline Economizer your absolute satisfaction is guaranteed If at anv time you are not entirely satisfied with its operation, you may return it to us, regardless of its condition tnd we 11 send you your money instantly. We do not wish to keep money that you'd rather not have given us t If these facts have convinced you, say so; send your check or a $10 bill and we'll forward you the instrii ment. If you are not satisfied in 30 or 60 days, we'll send your money back instantly BALLOU & WRIGHT, DISTRIBUTORS Phones: Marshall S860, A 6638 Broadway at Oak, Portland, Or. Just what is your dealer proposition f My name is Address I sell (State ears) Dealers You say you ean save money on my gasoline bills. I would like to know how you will do it. My name is Address My ear is It has a -n Owners Mote Tin la the Proper Blank and Mail Today
