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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1914)
THE ' SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTXANP. JTTXE 28. 1914. business, giving the people a mall serv ice twice daily Instead of once. R. L. Calvin, who has the contract to carry iiiiiiiinininiiiiijiii is ttiUDrairaiii in d ii dm in o o o i n u d m i TtTTTT the mail from Toledo to Knab will also use an automobile and will do a pas senger business. The star route from Morton to Han dle and Lewis is one of the few big ones In Lewis Countv that will still use me Willamette Valley-Central pre' gon Outlet Safe for Autos. horse and wagon for transporting the mail, but with the completion oi-xne Nesika bridge It is announced thav there will be a daily auto stage service' from RifTe that win connect with the Che-halis-Riffe atito stage. 99 mm EflOAD OPEN CONSIDERABLE WORK DONE Several Thousand Dollars Available Jfext Month Eugene 'ow I-ess Than One Day'a Motor Car Ride to Center of State.. EUGENE, Or, June 27. The McKen zie Hiver highway, the only motor car outlet from the Willamette vauey into Central Oregon. ha8 been formally de clared open and safe for motor traffic The announcement Is made through the United States Forestry officials, who have been instrumental in building what is now practically a macadam ized highway, open to all classes of motor traffic across the Cascade Moun tains. They also have been instru mental In obtaining nearly 120.000, in cluding road district money, which will be spent to. complete the highway , this Summer. Until this year the road Has been open only to expert and adventurous drivers with a class of machines almost especially built for Climbing. Since last Summer 80 per cent grades have been cut down to 7 per cent. Although the Jlillican Hill grade has not yet been reduced and will not be for an other two months yet, this remaining obstacle is not too difficult for any careful driver.. Passing of Snow Harks Opening. The passing of snow on the summit tef the Cascades, on the lava beds at the foot of the Three Sisters, with Mount Jefferson towering to the north. Is what marks the opening of the road, or the roadwork on Deadhorse Hill, the most difficult grade, was completed last Fall. This year three miles of new road have been cut In solid rock, and only one more heavy grade is left At present Crook County, officials, tender the direction of Supervisor Mer--rlll of the Deschutes National Forest, are working with 21000 to be expended before July 1 on the sand grades on the east side of the mountains. After July 1 about $3000. of equal parts of county and Government money, will be available to complete this work. Be fore July 1 .on the west side of the summit 4500 will have been expended, and after July 1 more than $8000 is available to complete that part of the McKenzie Highway near the summit above McKenzie Bridge. ' Individual Districts Aid.' These figures do not include- the money to be spent along the McKenzie River by the individual road districts and by the county. The Blue River district has taxed itself to expend $7000 on but a few miles of road, which will connect the semi-macadam road constructed during the last two years from Eugene to Blue River with the government-county built road beyond, to and over the summit. The project for the construction of the McKenzie Highway was conceived and carried out by Clyde R. 6eitz, sup ervisor of the Cascade forest, who went out among the people of Eugene and solicited J8000 to use with money raised In a similar manner along the i (highway to spend in ro&a. oibwicuj nui able to make their own road. Rough Roads Avoided. It means that the motor car traffic through Oregon from now on may come ' through the Willamette Valley as far as Eugene, where turning east. It may cross the Cascades Into Central Ore gon over perhaps the most scenic high way in Oregon with a maximum seven per cent grade on almost macadam roads. In this way would be avoided - the rough roads and the tremendous (trades . of the Pacific Highway through the Siskiyou mountains be tween Eugene and Medford. A side at traction Is the fishing in the McKenzie River, famous over the Pacific coast, the hot springs and the Summer re sorts of this valley. Once Into Central Oregon, the motor tourist drives through the Jack-pine over roads that never are muddy or rough because of the soil formation, past Crater lake to Klamath Falls. , avoiding the mountains. From Klamath i'alls he may pass onto the Highways of California by way of Medford and the new Jackson County nignway, or tie may reach the Lincoln Highway east by way of Lake Tahoe. . Road In Good Condition. Smith Taylor, forest ranger at Para dise Station above McKenzie Bridge, In charge of the road work at Milltcan rrade. says, the wind of the last week has dried up the road, and that at present It is In as fine a condition as It will be all summer. A government telephone line, itted with weather proof telephone attached to the trees for the benefit of the tourist and the forest guard Jointly, follows the road over the summit Into Sisters. 100 miles east of Eugene. With the new highway as far com pleted as It now stands, Eugene Is sep arated from Central Oregon by . less than a day by motor car. The trip from Eugene to Bend, a distance of 140 miles, in a day will be possible for machines this Summer, according to the forestry officials. On the very summit of the Cascades, S000 feet above Eugene, there is a tretch of road, with snow patches be fclde the road the year around, and the enow caps directly above, on which a Fpeed as high as 30 and 40 miles an hour is -DOssible for seven or eicrht miles. MAIL GOES BY AUTOS DOUSES CITE WAY TO MOTORS OX LEWIS COUNTY ROUTES.' Large Increase In Tonnage Noted, bat Improved Roads Permit of . V Better Service S - CHEHALIS. Wash- June - 87. (Spe clal.) With the advent of the better roads for which Lewis County is De coming well known over the North west, automobile" mall service is being rapidly installed on the various star routes, especially on the main .roads. An automobile stage and mall service bas been in operation for some lime between Chehalls and Rlffe. and Che halls and Alpha. The distance to Rlffe Is 42 miles, while the route to Alpha is 20 miles, seven miles of which is served by automobile stage. Recent weighing of the mails on the star route out of the Chehalis post office toward Eastern Lewis County Fbowed that there-was an Increase in theVnall handled from the months end ing May 15, 1914, of more than a ton as compared with the same period in 1913. The parcel post Is largely to be credited 'with this Increase, but there has been a great development in tne country and new people are coming in. on th Wlnlock-Toledo star route T . n Patterson, the contractor, has lust purchased an automobile, which lie will use for mall and passenger EXAMEXj factory being bctlt Buick Company's Xew Plant to Be One of Best In World. A three-story fireproof . building is being built by the Bulck Motor Com pany 'at Flint" for its enamel plant. The structure will be 108 feet by 265 feet and, according to Bulck officials. It will be one of the most complete factory buildings in the world. In addition to the standard equip ment of the modern enameling plant. In the Bulck building will be Installed the monorail system for moving the raw- material and the finished product to the various parts of the factory. There will be 15 ovens and two high speed electric elevators of 4000 pounds capacity each. There will be washed air ventilation, dustless floors. Ice- copied drink in? fountains of running water, well-lighted and sanitary lunch and locker-rooms and shower baths for the employes. The work Is scheduled for. completion October L GOOD ROADS IN MEET AUTOMOBILE CLANS TO GATHER . IS WHITE MOUNTAINS. Experts to Talk on Progress Made 1 Eastern States and Subject of -Federal Aid Featured.. WASHINGTON, June 27. Governor Felker, of New Hampshire, will head the list of neted speakers who will address the good roads session of the midsummer meeting of the Amer ican Automobile Association, to be held at the Hotel Maplewood. Bethlehem, N. H.. on the afternon of July 6. White Mountain visitors generally are Invited to attend the highways gathering which will ha directed by Chairman George C. Diehl, of the A. A. A. National good roads board. State HiKhway Commissioners 8. Per nv Hooker, of New Hampshire; Lyman H. Nelson, of Maine, and Charles W. Gates, of Vermont, will tell of road development in their respective states. An address, which will have some ref erence to Federal aid. will be deliv ered by Paul D. Sargent, the -State Highway Engineer of Maine, who ww formerly acting director or tne unnea states office of nubile roads of the Department of Agriculture. Colonel W. D. Sohler, chairman oi ine uiawauuu' setts Highway Commission, also ex nects to be present. The American Automobile Association Ik accentuating this Summer New Eng land territory for the reason that a year hence there will be a decided trend to the Pacific coast on account oi tuts Panama - Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and the magnet of wonderful roads accomplishment in Southern Cal ifornia, as wen as in w cruu hu mi inEton. Early inquiries to the associa tion touring bureau, 437 Fifth avenue, indicate a substantial army of road travelers who will head westward In 1915. The rendezvous at Bethlehem will begin with arrivals on the afternoon of Julv 3. For the Fourth of July a programme of gymkhana stunts in charge of Dai H. Lewis, secretary of the Automobile Club of Buffalo, who has made a specialty of this sort of thing, is being prepared, bunoay, juiy 5, will be devoted to short tours to various points in tne wnne juounuu, with the meeting of the A. A. A. di rectors and the good roads session on the following day. There will be a scat tering of the clans on the morning of July 7, many having piannea supple mental tours Into Maine and Vermont. VISITORS TELL OF TRIP C. C. PILLING GETS FIRST LIGHT SIX CHALMERS FOR TOUR.. . Roads Found to Be In Good Condition and Ante Travels Over Worst of - Tbera Wtthont Repair. C. G. Pilling, a British Columbia, gov ernment attorney, and his brother. R. W. Pilling, both of Vancouver, B. C, arrived by automobile In Portland last Thursday evening and left Saturday morning for San Diego. ' "We are on urgent business at cer tain points en route." said Mr. Pilling, "and had planned to start from home a week earlier, but concluded to wait for the first shipment of the 1916 Chalmers light, six cars. Finally, through clever manipulation by H. W. Welch & Co., the Vancouver agents of your H. L. Keats Company here, we were enabled to secure the first 1915 light six car delivered -In . Vancouver, and left Tuesday morning. "We arrived in Seattle Wednesday morning, spent the day there and left for Portland Thursday morning, arriv ing here the same evening. So far the condition of the roads has surprised us, as we had been led to believe that they were almost impassable, owing to the late rains.. "So far we haven't made a single adjustment. Indeed, we have not even had to take out a wrench or screw driver. We have found the unusually strong headlights in the light six of great assistance, permitting unlimited night driving, even on hazardous roads. "We are rapidly creating sentiment in our section of the country in favor of the Pacific Highway improvement and extension from Vancouver to San Diego. We will ship our car to The Dalles and will penetrate California by way of Klamath Falls and Crater Lake. We expect to see come fine road when we strike your Interior country. "The further south we go the more beautiful the scenery gets. Our ached ule calls for our arrival In San Diego July SS." "BOUQUETS" HANDED AMERICA Foreigners Who Raced at Indian apolis Pleased) With Treatment. ' INDIANAPOLIS, June 27. A most charming letter..of thanks has been re ceived by the management of the Indianapolis motor speedway from the various foreigners who competed - on that course during the last 600-mile race. The missive states that never in the history of racing was an equal degree, of courtesy and consideration mani fested, not only by the racecourse offi cials proper, but by the American en trants as well. Concerning the conduct o. . latter on the track only the highest praise is heard, a more sportsmanlike contest never having been driven, It la affirmed. The communication winds up with good wishes for the well being of the Indian apolis track and American racing in general, together with the universal de fire to be present again next rear. - WRITE FOR NEW CATALOGUE . iiiiiiimiiiiiiiii CYGLEGAR MEET HELD AMATEURS OUT-DRIVE FROFISi. SIONAXS r PRE1WI5ARV. William Bouldin, Newark Millionaire Aviator and Champion' Auto Polo PUrer, la Beat Polat 'Winner. . i .... 1 .vMo.or mr.m niAt AUlCllUkO i" o. .' w . . - . held at Teaneok, N. J.. June 13, was the first event sanctioned by the Cyclecar Association of America. Held by the newly organized Cyclecar Club of New Jersey, It was a success. The events were won by amateur anvers. -who eu tirelv out-drove the paid demonstra tors In every event. William Bouldin, tne wewar mimon- .m ftvMwt .-'- auto polo player, wpn the trcphy ot tered by W. H. Mclntyre, of the Imp Cyclecar Company, for the driver win ning the greatest number of points. The events were held on a specially constructed course, 60 feet wide and ' t n ,h. f.i-tn nf thn .llh'a iDUU ICC L iuub. " " ' - president. Dr. C G. PerclvaL This was spnnKiea vim v , . - soil and sand and had a gradient of one foot in seven to make the contests hard and to test the reliability and power of the little cars. nw. i eA.v.ni ilt f ltirtr on this course waa made in 2fi seconds from a stand ing start and the reverse gear hill climb of 75 yards in 13 seconds. Both events were won by Bouldin. The belt drive cars beat the chain drive cars by 10 points, and in no instance did the air-cooled motors heat up or seize. Previous to the races a tu-miw lir lity run brought In three cars witn . Th littlit ears aver- 1 ilWb .I."! - -- es-J over 40 miles to the gallon of gas oline. Tne CiUD Will a ccai iw and ran on Labor day with the addi tion of a gallon economy fuel test "Incense Tag. ' Crwng to- thm variety -of -shapes- and ME 11 iL Introducing the New Fore Door Model Stream Line Body.PIate Glass Rain-Vision Wind Shield The Ideal Car for Cross Country Driving or City Use $495 Equipped Complete Big, roomy seats, with thick, tufted upholstery and deep cushions, built for luxurious comfort. Four-cylinder 22 .H. P. water-cooled motor, Bosch. high tension magneto, Prest-O-Lite tank, best quality Goodrich clincher tires. Fore doors of liberal dimensions, 20 inches wide. Left hand drive, with center control. Gearless transmission the kind that won. the Glidden Tour. The METZ "22" is the most compactly built car in the world, and is extremely economical in oper ation and upkeep. METZ owners travel' 28 to 32 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline, 100 miles on 1 pint of lubricating oil, and 10,000 to 12,000 miles on a single set of tires. It makes SO miles per hour, and at hill climbing is unsurpassed. Its engine develops more horse power per 100 pounds of weight than any of the big touring cars, and its gear less transmission does away entirely with gear trouble. It is easy to drive and easy to take care of ; , and it costs so little to buy it, and so little to run it, that it combines in greatest degree absolute economy with absolute luxury. 0aOOOD0DOQD0OSDDDD0DDDDQDDD0D.nDDDDDD,ODI( . WINNER. OF THE GLIDDEN TOUR riBIEKilllQOQODDQOODQ'QEIDDQQQQQQllOIIll 0 imiillllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllll - - ' - " 1 ' ' ' ' " ' s . sizes of license tag prescribed by the laws of the various states, as well as conflicts as to the manner in which tags shall be displayed, automobile manufacturers have thus far been un able to arrive at any entirely satis factory method of mounting the tag while purchasers of new cars often find it difficult to label them ln( a per fectly lawful manner. In many cases the result Is that the tags are applied in such a way that the numbers are partially obscured from certain points of view, while in others several adjustments have to" be made before the requirements of ths police are entirely satisfied. With a iew to obviating these dif ficulties, the Society of Automobile Engineers- at its Summer meeting at Cape May, June 23-27, will consider, the advisability of recommending a uni form style of tag, which could be mounted in a uniform manner, and which would not only satisfy every 1 IrW reasonable demand, but also Be a source of no trouble to the owner. Criminal ProMcntloaa Starts. OLYMPIA. Wash, June 27, (Special.) Labor Commissioner Olson has start- ASSOCIATED - . GASOLINE . More Miles to the Gallon Highest Grade Motor Fuel Because It Is ALL Gasoline . Ask Your Garage for ASSOCIATED t S 7 The METZ "22," in open competition with cars of all makes and prices, won the last Glidden Tour, from Minneapolis, Minn., to Glacier National Park, Mont., the three METZ cars being the only cars that held perfect scores, without time extension or additional allowance of any kind, for the entire eight days of the contest. The METZ cars were the lowest priced cars in the tour, and they were the only cars in it that were equipped with gearless transmission. - Mr. Chat H. Men has been building cars of this and developing their perfection, Mam pear. Ai a the METZ "22" is today the most practical car on market, regsrdlea of price, bone power, or any qualification METZ COMPANY WALTHAM, MASS. ed criminal prosecutions of the Clarke m r. - t- ...... n m IT I a .lltn.T. ana on btuau vvuiur ........... , for violation of the public work law. In each case the Commissioners are charged with employing men on road work more than elprht hours a dv. At- USE REFINED BY Associated Oil Company A. D. PARKER, Agent Phone M. 2055, Homo A-2055 Type result the other (nrnrv-Oeneral Tanner, In an fflrUI opinion rendered this w-k, held that th provisions of the puhlln work law apply to public officials employing tnrn more than eight hours, as aa t contractor. v DEC io7.o