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TTTT3 KU.VOAT OllEOO'NTAX. POTSTTLATTD, APTSTL 26, 19t4.
JOYS OF DIGGING
DEEP SfiOW TOLO
Walter Giffard Gives Second
Installment of Story on Trip
to Mount Hood.
WORKERS HIGHLY PRAISED
fear of Unscrupulous Flan to Wrest
Laurels From Mitchell Party
. reads to Midnight Vigil on
Mountainside.
BT WALTER GIFFAB.&.
Part II of the story at tha Mitchell' Climb
to fame at Mount Hood.)
Armed with what looked like enough
s food to satisfy an army en route for
Mexico. Coalman and his gang of
'workers, numbering 10 In all,- were on
hand at Rhododendron before t A. M.
on the Monday morning. Seven of
them went on up in the car, the others
going with the provisions in Mr. Four
bion's wagon.
From the outset the spirit of the
task seemed to have pervaded 'one and
t all. Every one was talking of the rec
ord, for to those men such an event
was of as much importance as a Presi
dential election and every one of them,
(knowing Oamon Royal from his previ
ous attempts and Mr. Mitchell from
their dealings with the firm), was per
sonally anxious titat the Mitchell six
should get through.
They brought with them, however,
news that was somewhat disturbing. It
was to the effect that other attempts
"were to be ma.de to get through ahead
of us. At first we paid no attention,
but when the telephone Bcemed to be
busy both at Government Camp and
at Rhododendron with men Inquiring as
to our progress, and when we heard
the like from still further sources we
--began to plan tor the frustration of the
others.
It was not that we feared any auto
mobile would get ahead of us in the
snow because no party could have dug
half as fast as us for the simple reason
that all the men of the district were in
our gang, and what is more. Coalman
had given his word, with a trace of a
smile, that he would look after that
end of it. v What we did tear was that
some unscrupulous private individual
might abstract a bolt or screw at
night, when practically all the digging
was done and slip through ahead,
while we busied ourselves looking for
it
Watch Is Kept.
To prevent this, each of the last two
nights Royal, Smith and Mr. Fran
setti sat up In watches with two dogs
of the last named. Moon and Shine,
tied close to the car. which was placed
In a narrow spot in the road. It was
perhaps a foolish and unnecessary pre
caution and we even laughed over it
afterwards but it serves to show more
plainly, perhaps, than anything else
how our minds were set, once the start
had been made, on winning the Camp
and the cup over all rivals.
Really, looking back ' on It, I think
that every member of the party was
for the time afflicted with a species of
monomania, for otherwise I am at a
loss to explain how we kept on at full
pressure all the time. It seemed to af
fect them all, too, Coalman and his
gang, Franzetti and , Mrs. Franzettl,
Maraschino all were equally anxious,
all Imbued with the same spirit.
As the days wore on we got less and
less sleep, for there was an Increasing
amount to do. Each day we started
work a little earlier and ended a trifle
later. Each day the camp was closer
but each day the fear that some one
else would step in at the last mpment
grew heavier. Fox and Pridmore at the
camp told us of a Portland party plan
ning to be out about Wednesday and
of course Hlgley, the stage driver, was
a force to be reckoned with as he had
set his heart ' on getting the cup.
Work Declared Wonderful.
A.nd the way the boys worked was
wonderful. Never a grouch, never any
thing but the best of good nature, a
spirit of jocularity permeating the
whole gang.
The first day we covered nine-tenths
of a mile from the middle of Laurel
Hill. Of course, at the outset, there
were some bare places and this helped
us Immensely, but it was not long be
fore we struck It solid all' the way,
averaging three feet deep and reach
ing to a height in places of 5 feet 6
Inches.
Someone asked me why we did not
deflate our tires and ride Over the
snow. This may be possible With over
sized tlrea. and an exceptionally light
roadster under certain conditions but.
with the snow as it was, such a feat
would be impossible for any car. The
un was shining the first two days and
except In the early morning before the
frost had worn off the snow was soft,
wet and heavy. It would not pack to
bear the weight of a man. let alone a
car. The last two days, when rain and
sleet fell incessantly. It wae even worse.
Shoveling snow is not a delight al
together; it is hard work even for ex
perienced woodsmen. Remember that
we had to cut a roadway eight feet
wide, leaving not more than eight
leches of snow at the bottom for the
car to buck. We would have left none
at all only at that rate we should have
been forced to 'take an extra day.
Tip Given Shovelera.
To the amateur I offer thin mtTlm.
based on hard experience: Io not toss
light shovelfulB ot snow far from the
road and think that it is easy work.
You will make no progress and your
r.anos win Duster lust the same.
Start out by dividing your snow into
sections of about a cubic foot. After
a day or two you will be able to take
a cube of, say 14 Inches, but lust a
cubic foot will be quite sufficient the
first day. What is more. I beseech
you. take it very slowly at the start.
If you have ever thought the working
man in the street is using his shovel in
an indolent -manner, don't think " so
again until you have shoveled snow for
four days. Then criticise if you must,
but remember that to be able to judge
properly you must start in work at 6
A, M.. you must have only 45 minute
for lunch and you must continue work
ing until 6 P. M.
You will find, on the morning of the
econd oay, mat your hands will hardlv
open, they have become so used to the
grip of a shovel. The second day Is
the worst of all. It is hard to start,
but by the third day. though you may
be a trifle tired, the work will have
become automatic. Four days is quite
enougn, though. Even the gang, ac
customed to such work, said they
would never do It again at less than
double ordinary wages.
Team Work Tried.
The method of procedure we em
ployed was this. Fellows paired off
and took sections of about 10 yards
In length. As soon as 30 yards were
finished. Royal started the Mitchell go
ing and, giving her the gun, would
drive her over the stretch. Frequent
Jy the roadway wss not quits wid'
enousrh: the sides would catch, in a
bend, the fenders and running boards
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would scrape off and carry away large
chunks of snow, and the car would
have to back up in her tracks and
make another run at it. She Shivered
through and through sometimes, from
the jars 'of the snow walls, and the
rear wheels would be turning without
getting any traction, despite the fact
that there were two sets Of chains on
the rear wheels and one on front. In
places, too, trees had been blown down
across the road and covered with snow,
and while It was easy enough to saw
away or chop to pieces the big trunks.
yet many a small one went by unnoticed.
to offer strenuous opposition to the
car and damage to tires and chains.
Never was man's pristine and innate
savagery brought out as at the noon
day lunch. Twelve human animals
stoon not upon the order of politeness,
but grabbed what first came to their
hands; it mattered not the order la
which food was eaten. Here we had
no meat Course followed by dessert
or any such trifling details as that;
meat and fruit, liquid and solid went
down together, hardly digested at all
and then foK a few minutes men
stretched themselves for a rest.
Toralng Place Necenarv.
From then till 6 o'clock shoveling
was the order of the day; next a spot
was dug out for the car to turn round
n and workers were carried back to
their camp and to dinner. After dinner
we went over the car carefully, tight-
nlng all bolts and nuts loosened by
the terrific strain, ailing her up with
oil and gasoline so that she would be
ready with the first glimpse of sun in
the morning.
Tuesdav we made lust half a mile.
It was all solid work, an even 400
yards by lunch and another 400- by the
time Coalman gave the order to stop
work. The progress we had made was
not sufficient for him, and so he told
seven men to stop up at the camp so
as to be still earlier on hand next
morning, and only three returned with
us to Rhododendron.
By this time the excitement had
grown on us all and when he learned
that progress was none too good,
Franzetti, genial host at -the tavern,
offered to send up Maraschino to help.
Marashino earned my undying admi
ration by coming up without any
breakfast at all and never referring tc
it, until he had reached the scene of
our labors. Then, I think, be had fig
ured he could do better work with
something under his belt, so he ate
three biscuits! As he said at lunch,
those three biscuits had come out at
the heel ot his boot long before the
mid-day meal was, ready, but he nrad
up for it then.
Progress Growa Slower.
'Wednesday we made a trifle less
progress ' than the day before, even
with an extra man working. Snow was
so solidly deep that where it was over
four feet we made exceedingly slow
progress. A 10-yard stretch under
these conditions seemed as if it never
would be conquered, and when the
car went through, the snow was piled
away above our heads on each side.
In the afternoon it began to rain,
making the road where the car had
gone a mixture of snow and mud.
That night all -the men remained up
at-Government Camp, working In the
moonlight for a couple of hours after
supper, until Stopped by a solid down
pour. The next morning at 5:30 o'clock
they began shoveling from the Camp
towards the car a wily move of Coal
man's, as it turned out and we started
from the car's end. Rain!, It never
ceased a steady downpour, soaking
everyone to the skin. Had they not
been the essence of cheerfulness and
the best of sportsmen to the backbone
they Would all have left the work until
a better day. Franzetti came up. too,
at mid-day bringing his team, as he
wanted the honor of having the first
pair of horses up after us He added
his brawny arm to the contest, while
the women kept coffee hot and kept
dry what clothes they could. In
thousand and one ways the women did
all they could to help in the work,
Even shoveling at times.
- '(To Be Conduded.
R. A. Hummel, formerly with the
Seattle branch, is now doing great
things for Bert Roberts and the Win-
ton company. In fact. Bert think.- -'-
the best salesman that has p?- ar
for a long, long -.v!-!le.
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PAOKARDS 500 SHORT
DETROIT COSCEHS IS FIRST TO AX
NOUJiCB STOCK DEPLETED.
2014 Cars Are Sold This Tear, Against
1882 Daring: Previous Bum Year
of 1910, and Flood Coatlnaea.
The first automobile manufacturer in
the country to declare a shortage of
cars for this season . is the Packard
Motor Car Company. During the first
seven months of that company's fiscal
year, starting last September the total
sales for motor carriages has been
2014. For the corresponding period of
the 1910 season, the Packard Company's
previous banner year, 1882 cars were
sold.
"By- a flood of orders, the Packard
Motor Car Company is marooned on a
pinnacle of success, declares President
Henry B Joy. "At present we ar un
able to turn out cars In sufficient quan
tity to supply those patrons of high-
class vehicles who know that the best
is Cheapest in the long run. Our aim
has always been to establish a . name
for character and quality of our product
so our vehicles will be regarded as
pre-eminent In the vehicle trade.
"The buying public has out the stamD
of approval on Packard vehicles by
such liberal patronage that the com
pany s allotted produce for the year
will . be E00 cars short of market re
quirements. This year's business ex
ceeds that of a corresponding period
Of last year by 4Z2 motor carriages. It
is greater than tne company s banner
year by 132 cars. This Is a remarkable
success, in the face of prevalent busi
ness conditions.
"The largest week in the comoany's
history closed April 11 with 160 sales
of motor carriages. On April 8. we re.
ceived a total of 83 orders from our
dealers, each one representing, a sale
to a customer. -
"Orders for Inclosed bodies to be de
livered in Septemebr and October are
beginning to develop by reason of the
company's explanation that unless or
dered sufficiently in advance deliveries
in time for the first Inclement Fall
weather will not be possible, except In
standard paint and upholstering.
1000 MACHINES BTTILT DAILY
Cacti Man in Ford Factory Completes
Four Automobiles Each Day.
DETROIT. Mich., April" 25. tSpe-
cial.) The fact that an automobile fac
tory is turning out 1000 complete cars
per day, which is the present manufac
turing programme in the Ford factory,
is enough In Itself, but it grows in big.
ness when contributing facts are given.
Figuring on the basis of an eight
hour day, 120 cars must be completed
each working hour. As 250 men are
employed on the assembling Job. each
man completes four cars per day.
In completing the 1000-car dally
quota these 250 men handle a total of
500 tons of materials. This quantity Is
made up of 4000 tires. 1000 gallons of
gasoline, 1000 pints of oil, 5000 pounds
of grease. 3000 gallons of water in the
cars' radiators, 2000 springs, 5000 lamps,
48,000 wheel spokes and no less than
200,000 cotter pins.
Unique Campaign Is Planned.
When the curtain goes up on the
Spring campaign of the Firestone Tire
& Rubber Company three life-like cut
outs representing the three classes
most interested In tires, the dealer,
owner and chauffeur, will appear in
the windows of practically every store
that sells Firestone tires. Each figure
holds a realistic reproduction of a Non
Skid tire. An appropriate sentiment
is expressed by each.
Firestone dealers. In addition, will be
supplied, with miniature cutouts for
Insertion in mall and outgoing pack
ages. Special stationery will bear lm
prints of the cutouts. Miniatures of
the smiling chauffeur, the owner and
the shrewd dealer will be distributed
iio tne car users of tomorrow, the chll
1 Ona.
AMERICAN GARS ARE
APPROVED ABROAD
Englishman Pleased at Test of
Buick Made on Roads
in Oregon.
EQUIPMENT IS ATTRACTIVE
Self-Starter and Self-Lighter on
Eu ropean Machines Have Sot
Been Successful in the Past,
Says Major Flower.
Gome Interesting information as to
the future of American cars on . the
other side of the water, the Increased
cost of motoring generally in England
and the unqualified admiration for th
power and the general completeness ot
standard products of this country was
given in the course of a run over some
of the local roads by Major Flower, ot
Stratford-upon-Avon, who waa in Port
land last week.
Major Flower Is an ardent motorist.
He has owned numerous makes of cars
and is Informed generally on the
mechanism of the average car. Conse
quently his opinions are considered au
thoritative. In order to see some of the local
country, ride on a couple of the best
roads, visit the quarters of the Auto
mobile Club and see for himself what
one of the best-known popular-priced
American cars will do in an average
run. Major Flower rode in a Buick 25
roadster to the Sandybr!dge, going out
via Sandy road and returning through
Gresham. Once outside the business
section he ran on high gear all the way
out and In. The little car made the
clubhouse hill easily, even without a
run. The same was true of the hill
betweeu Falrvlew and the Twelve-Mlla
House, considered a deceptive ascent.
' American Car Favored.
At the conclusion of the run Major
Flower made the statement that the
next car he would but at home would
be an American car, equipped with
self-starter and electrio lighting.
Starters In England at present are
equipped only on a very few cars, he
said. In the majority of cases they
are not satisfactory, being undependa
ble, due, he thought, partly to the ex
treme variations that they get from
day to day In climate. Possibly the
reason is that In the old country they
have not yet caught up with America
In this branch, where this country cer
tainly has led the world. That is
why American cars, which through
quantity production can be produced
cheaply, have a great future before
them in Europe.
When assured that It Is only seldom
that an electrio starter, such as the
Delco or Gray & Davis or any one of
half a dosen good makes, fails to act.
Major Flower was much Impressed. He
saw at once the great advantages to
be derived, both from the viewpoint of
comfort, celerity and safety, and said
that the only thing holding back both
manufacturers and buyers alike at home
Is the present fear of lack of efficiency
in the starting systems employed there.
English Taxes Heavy.
The reason why the horsepower of
cars in England is small compared
with what It is in America is due not
merely, as many people suppose, to the
smooth roads, but quite as much to the
heavy taxation. Cars there are taxed
in proportion to the horsepower. Cars
under 16 horsepower are subject to a
tax of four guineas, or about $20; un
der ' 20 horsepower about $80. and so
on In an increasing scale, until the
poor, unfortunate man who owns a 60
horsepower car is being ta"xed about
$150 per year.
There is, though, a foolish method in
vogue of judging the power and that is
entirely by the bore. In other words,
for example, a company like the Vul
can, which builds three models, all the
same bore, but varying in stroke from
120 to 150 millimeters, has its three
models rated at the same horsepower.
One reason, he said, why people, for
instance, buy Fords there is that they
imagine they are getting a much
greater .horsepower, for the car is
rated as about 20 horsepower, where
as many other cars, rated at 16 horse
power, have much more power..
Gasoline Problem Worry. "
While gasoline, due in part again to
a tax of 6 cents a gallon, is much dear
er than it is here, the quality would
seem to be much better. They sell it
in three qualities, costing 42 cents, 3U
cents and 34 cents a gallon, and on the
best quality Major Flower gets about
26 miles to the gallon when touring.
Many people, he said, were using ben
sol, a great favorite in Germany. This
fuel sells at 28 cents and it is possible
to get over 20. miles to the - gallon,
though the main point against It seems
to be In the nature of the deposit left
In the valves and piston heads. This
deposit is not hard like ordinary car
bon, but soft ana greasy, something
like bard treacle. It is more difficult
to remove on this account, because of
its penetrating qualities.
Small cars abroad as well as large
cars are equipped more often with four
speeds and there is not the same craze
to see how tar a car will go on high. In
the natter of four speeds forward for
small cars America Is quite likely to
Automobile Oil Free
One quart of highest grade Pennsylvania Lubri
cating Oil given to each automobile owner who pre
sents this coupon, properly signed, to the Factory
3Iotor Car Repair Company, 690-96 Kearney street,
near Twenty-first. No obligation on your part.
COUPON. .
Name
Address
Make of car . :
Void after May 3. Only one quart of oil to
each owner.
FACTORY MOTOR CAR
REPAIR CO.
690-96 Kearney, Near Twenty-first.
One of the largest Motor Car Repair Shops on the
Pacific Coast. Gear cutting a specialty. General
machine works.
follow England's example, because It
is really on the smaller cars, rather
than on the large ones, that greater
variation of gear ratio is needed. Fre
quently, as most drivers know, a car
which will not quite do a. hill comfort
ably on high will be turning the engine
over very fast on second and would
have done the hill easily with some
gear ratio between the high and the
intermediate.
MOTOItMETER COMPAXV STJES
Action Brought Against Stewart
Warner Corporation.
The Motometer Company, exclusive
licensee of United States letters pat
ent No. 1.090.776, Issued March 17. 1914.
for heat indicating system and appa
ratus for internal combustion engines,
and Harrison H. Boyce. patent owner,
have brought suit for threatened In
fringement by the Stewart-Warner
Speedometer Corporation of New York.
The suit was flltd on April 11 In the
United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. On
April 13 Jndge Hand signed an order to
show cause why an injunction should
not be issued against the Stewart
Warner Company.
More Army Motorcycle Ordered.
A thorough test of the practicability
of motorcycles for use in connection
with the field artillery Is being made
at Fort Riley. Kan. The machines will
be given a year's trial under all sorts
of conditions, at the end of which time
a report will be made to the WarDe
partment as to the efficiency of the
two-wheeler. Its cost and general
adaptability to army work. If this
report is favorable It will perhaps
mean that many of the army posts
throughout the country will be
equipped with motorcycles .
PISTON RINGS VITAL
ONE-PIECE DESIGN FAILS TO MEET
service: TESTS.
Perfect Kit aieceaaary te Prevent Aay
Escape of Gaaea or Ingress of
Oil to the Chamber.
The important part that piston tings
play in the operation ot an automobile
engine Is clearly derined by a writer
In the Scientific American recently. De
scribing how the engine Is built and
put together and the relationship of its
various parts, he says:
"No matter how perfect the fit of
the piston in its cylinder. It is neces
sary to use piston rings to prevent the
leakage of the high-pressure gases. To
form these rings so that they will bear
only on all parts of the cylinder while
in operation calls for expert desinglng."
Where perfect fit In piston rings is
lacking detrimental consequences must
surely follow. First, compression Is
lowered and power goes to waste, sur
plus oil is allowed to work its way
past the rings and form carbon deposit
in the combustion chamber, and the
friction and wear due. to any such
looseness must result In eventual
breakage of parts.
It cannot be said that the form of
piston rings, known as the one-piece
type, with which most engines are
equipped by their makers, perform la
proper lashion those functions defined
by the writer. A one-piece ring has
but a single point of expansion and
its bearing must- by very reason of
this design, be uneven. Its open vent
provides a way both for the escape
of gas and the Ingress of surplus oil.
It carries Its imperfections further by
wearing and scoring the cylinder as
soon as the least looseness develops.
The automobile owner who discovers
his engine Is deficient in the delivery
of power, who has been worried over
carbonization troubles and suspects
that more internal wear and tear IS
going on than is right, might be sur
prised to learn bow much of all these
things his one-piece rings are fairly
responsible for. Such conditions can
be readily overcome by installing la
their place rings that oan more prop
erly claim to be the result of expert
designing and can -prove It by efficient
leak-proof service.
Xaval Militia Member Gets Orders.
LA GRANDE, Or.. April 25. (Spe
cial.) George Ooodbrod, son of General
Goodbrod. a member of the state Naval
Militia and an expert wireless oper
ator, was notified by Portland officials
to report to his command at Portland
for possible duty with his organization.
A Ruined Automobile
may result from an unavoid
able accident. The cost f
Insurance la Insignificant
compnred to the possibility
of loss. Insure threagk
rHE QKGGO.V JJOME JJUILDER8,
O. IC Jeffery, Pres.
Northwestern Bank Bldg.
XV. J. McCommon, Mgr.
Insurance Dept.
Wanted to Buy
All graded scrap rubber and metals. h!-het
ra?h prlcea paid. phone us and our man
will call and buy what you have.
J. Leve, Wholesale ix-alrr m Hcrap Bobber.
Metal and taut Iran.
IKS folnmhla Wr. phone Main i9S,
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TOtCH rEEGEG TREADS WEAR MCCH LONGER
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OAK STREET. CORNER SIXTH,
nnttR 'PPl,rr;S. SPORTING GOODS.
All Roads Smooth Roads
when equipped with
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S Our Demonstration
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BROADWAY AT OAK
BOWSER
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NORTHWEST AUTO CO.
Factory Distributors of
Cole, Lozier, Reo Cars
BROADWAY AT COUCH STREET
Main 8887 A 4959
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prepared to resrlnd motor cylinders, make oversize pistons, piston
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list and our booklet. AUTOMOBILE INFORMATION.
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Welding '
Aluminum crank cases and b oken cylinders our specialty. All work
guaranteed. .
Cook & Gill Co.
' Union Ave. N. Cor. Qllaaa 8t
Portland. Orasoa
Phaneai C 1140 Eaat 4814.
OPfiM svxdays. " -For
th convenience- of our customer and others requlrinr emer
gency repairs or adjustments, we have decided to keep open Sundays
throughout the Summer .months.
SAW'"!
If your pocketbook could talk
it would recommend the Ford.
The man who obeys the voice of
economy invests his dollars in
the Universal car. He knows it
teerves his every purpose best
and at lowest cost. Buy yours
today.
Five hundred dollars is the price of tbe
Ford runabout; the touring ear is five
. fifty; the town car seven fifty f. o. b.
Detroit, complete with equipment. Get
catalog and particulars from Ford Motor
Company, Eleventh and Division streets,
Portland. Phones Sellwood 431, B-2341.
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