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VnE SUXDAT OIIEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, RKTTEMBEIi 20, 1014. IDEAL RQAD FOUND I RUN TQ mm Shad 0. Krantz Writes Pleasure of Tour From Cleveland to Falls. ' of PACIFIC FARMS IMITATED Routes of Auto Highways Purposely Avoid Cities - KiclT Tomato Fields and Thriving Vine yards Are Passed. BY SHAD O. KKAN'TZ. (Following Is an account of an automobile trip from Cleveland. O.. to Niagara Falls, T.. recently made by Mr. and Mrs. Shad O. Krantz. of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kratch. of Massillon, O. Mr. Krar.tz as a member of The Oregonlan Staff. Automobile Editor.) They left Cleveland late one Monday evening:, traveling- that night to Paines ville. O.. 28.4 miles. From Cleveland to Wllloughby, a distance of 18 miles, the roada are paved with hard pressed brick set on a concrete bed. There are many miles of this - kind of paving through Northern Ohio. From Wlll oughby to Painesville the roads are mostly of sand, but worn hard and smooth by constant travel, and well oiled. Through this section are the homes ' of many Cleveland millionaires. John D. Rockefeller's "Forest" Hill' estate lies along the south side of the road at the outskirts of Cleveland. Wide epreading oak and maple trees line the highway on either side. At Men tor, four miles west of Painesville, Is the fine old home of President Gar field's family. It was on this same farm that Garfield was born. Pretty Town Traversed. Painesville Is a little college town. It has a population of about 10,000 per sons, wide, well-shaded streets and many picturesque homes. It is reputed to be one of the prettiest places in America and outward appearances bear out that reputation. At Painesville the party stopped for the night. The next day's trip was a pleasant one from Painesville to Buffalo, N. Y., a distance of 160.2 miles, but on ac count of construction work on some of the roads in New York State it was necessary to detour about 15 miles. It took about eight hours to make this run from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. with an hour's stop at Brie, Pa., at noon for dinner. Now, the roads through all this part of the country Eastern Ohio, North ern Pennsylvania and Western New York are goodvand constantly being made better. The roads consist mostly of the native dirt rolled and oiled. In some places they have Been treated with a macadam dressing and in spots where the rains of previous Winters have cut Into them, a layer of crushed rock has been applied with good effect. Pennsylvania Roads Smooth. In Pennsylvania the state highway department is making extensive im provements. It proposes to treat all Its trunk" roada with a macadam sur face. In some locaities, however, par ticularly on the approaches to the email towns and cities,' the roada have been paved with brick set in concrete. This forms t a very smooth, even sur face and is a delight to motorists. With the exception of three or four breaks where the road dips into a ra vine and out again, the Cleveland-Buffalo highway is so smooth and level as to be almost uninteresting. But the country through which it passes is one of constantly changing view and presents a wide variety of Interesting and instructive industrial and agricultural life. The New York Central's "Lake Shore" line parallels the trunk highway through this part of the country and crosses it repeatedly. But grade cross ings are avoided. Almost invariably' the automobile road passes under the railroad. The New York Central main tains a four-track system between Cleveland and Buffalo. It is ballasted with white crushed rock, equipped with tvlock signals and with various other 'devices of modern railroading. The railroad really adds to rather than de tracts from the scenic beauty of the country. Road Skirts Lake Krlc. The main highway skirts the shores of Lake Erie most of the way. At times it runs close to the edge of the lake and st other points is more than 10 miles distant. The country is dotted at frequent intervals with farmhouses and small, thriving communities. There v Is no better agricultural land In the United States than this along the south shore of Lake Erie. None is cultivated more intensively. You can judge a farm by its barn. Invariably the barns in this part of the country are well-built and expansive. Few there are without silos. Generally these silos are built of tiling, but a few are of wood. An enterprising monument agent must have visited this district some time, for nearly every farmyard has Its statute or similar work of "art." ' The farmers seem to be improving the strain of their livestock. In for mer years a herd of 20 cattle . might have no two of exactly the same breed. They were all cross-breds or mongrel. Now all that has changed. The farm ers have learned to standardize their herds. Jerseys, Holsteins and Guern seys seem to be . popular among the dairy herds. They also have a Red Polled family there that is an effec tive milk producer. Vineyards Are Numerous. Diversif Ication is the rule among the farmers. But they seem, also, to prac- tic specialization, for miles and miles through Northern New York State the road runs through territory seemingly devoted to nothing but grape culture. Concord, grapes grow, oh vines about four feet from the ground. The vines arji well pruned and carefully culti vated. Here and there are small plants de voted to the manufacture of a cele brated and much-advertised brand of grape Juice. These explain the pres ence of the vineyards. Whole trainloads of grapes are shipped annually to East ern and Western markets. At more frequent intervals are ancient wine cellars the remnants of a period -when this territory was given largely to the production of grapes to be pressed into wine. But the farmers and manufacturers anticipated the "dr.y" wave' that now is affecting that part of the country and are giving their attention to grape juice instead of wine. interspersing the 'grape-growing sec tions are large areas covered with to mato plants. The tomato season was at its height at the time of this tour. Farmers were picking and boxing them, women and children working with the men in the fields. All along the road were heavy farm wagons, loaded high with boxes fllled with red ripe toma toes. Occasionally along the toad were factories in which various of flie well known branks of catsup are made and once in a while a plant producing canned tomato soup. Here, too, are scattered remains of the .old orchard's many of them now abandoned that in former years helped to give fame to this part of the country as an appre-producing section. But the Western apple-grower came into the field and with his scientific culture and his enterprising market methods literally took the business away from the New Yorkers. Conse quently some of the old orchards had to suspend operations as it were. But it didn't take the New York or chardists long to learn the lesson. Now they, too. are grafting, pruning and spraying their trees. In scores of places they are setting out new trees. Along the Cleveland-Buffalo roadare thousands of acres set out with new orchards. Some of these trees will come into early bearing. The New York orchardists argue that if they produced high-grade apples 60 years ago without special attention, the, same territory should produce a higher grade of fruit now, with fertilization, cultivation and scientific methods. With the advantage of being - nearer the market, these orchards threaten soon to become close competitors of the Northwest. A few years asro this part of New York Stat? was liberally sprinkled with "abandoned farms." places that the owners had deserted because they no longer could be worked at a profit- But all that these farms lacked were rota tion of crops, diversification and scien tific management. "Worthies" Parma Worked, After a few thousand such farms had been "abandoned" the New York Cen tra! Railroad bought a couple of them at the prevailing . market price and started to farm them in the way that they ought to be farmed. The result was that these "worthless" farms started to produce a profit after the first year. The farmers soon took the hint. Now these old places rapidly are being taken up and made to produce as well as ever. Officials of the New York railroads are doing Just as much "immigration" work as those of the Western lines. They say that the opportunity for suc cessful farming is Just as great there as it is out here. They insist, too, that the average price of farm land is substantially lower In New York State than it is in Oregon. Somehow Oretron has acquired an un enviable reputation in the Bast for the high price of its real estate and it will be an uphill job for a good many years to make them believe otherwise if It Isn't true. Road Avoids Touns. There is another thing about the road that ought to be mentioned. That is, the road seems to avoid important towns and eitie3. And this is not without cause. Automobilists, in trav eling on a trunk highway, don't like to pass through a lot of towns.- Noth ing causes them to lose more time. Generally speed restrictions are se vere and as a rule the smaller the town the slower the speed. Another thing. It is sometimes hard for an automo bile party going into a strange town to find the right way out. Compara tively big towns, like Dunkirk and Jamestown, N Y., which might be in cluded in the main route without much deviation from the course, are left in the distance. On the road between Buffalo and Al bany, Rochester. N. Y., a city as big as Portland, is purposely avoided. It has been reported that studied ef forts are being made in Western Ore gon to have the Pacific Highway built through as many towns and villages as possible. Now if that is accomplished l" "i"way win become unpopular with tourists. Tourists don't want to stop In these small places, excepting possibly for gasoline, and generally it o icnuw wno sets up his tank in front of a farmhouse that gets the Duhiness anyway. If they have to stay in one of these towns all night a e."iuo ium fan oirect tnem there Portland, .Vtw York. Seen. In spite of this effort to avoid the irBer Places. the Cleveland-BufTalo road passes through, sonifr important towns. Principal among them is Krie. v, w. y about 75.000. Among .... uwiorg are ABinabula, Ohio, Con- uoam, Mjnio, at the eastern end of vuicn more ih a toll bridge: Freedonia, ... ., triutu is une or tnA nrott cut lit tle places on the route, and Broeton, N. v which is to be remembered as tlie boyhood home of A. C. Jackson, of y. naim. men there is a place called oruana. N, ., about 52 miles west u"io, . i x resembles its Oregon namesake only In that it has a postof- ... a a piace or about 500 resi aents. T!m road all the wav is well flapped bj the Goodrich guide posts. One unpleasant part of the trip la the entrance to Buffalo. The road here is alonpr what they call Hamburg turnpike. It is a rough street alonir tne lakefront and through a maze of lurnaces. steel plants and rail road yards But they ar hiillrilna- new entrance to Buffalo, which will be cou.v next year, tney say. 18 a nne city of shaded streets expansive parks, monuments, art galleries and palatial homen The road from Buffalo to Niagara "alls, 26 miles. Is paved with brick. It is a popular route of travel. Along " vo.u ware iron ainnmnht dloated by their lloense taga. from al IV r- .Sl"1' ,n tne Union east of the Mississippi River ami some from Kansas, Minnesota and other Western states. . u Niagara Falls! It is still ninn. .., nesa at the old stand and has lost none of its advertised aiorv thrn,.h .n .k. years that it has been subjected to the Delivery of Reform Talk. KxL-hansre. Hii much of tiic reform talk is de livered ror a consideration. Now is the time to have'your Automobile Top re-covered or. repaired and your car repaint ed, foredoors with flush sides built in before it starts in to rain for good. We have the best equipped Automobile Paint Shop, Auto Body and Wheel Works and Auto Top and Seat Cover Fac tory in Portland. Oregon Top Company (Formerly 13. 8th and Hawthorne.) The Auto Painting Co. Incorporated. (Formerly Covey Bid jr.) The AUTO BODY AND WHEEL WORKS. Pi.'W. Cor. 14th and Cornell Sts. Phone Main 1944. - - :lfflMijjjpIUinWmHM!l mm Car of: American Family For the third time the Hupp Motpr Car Company has produced a car which; we 'believe, will prove immeasurably superior to any that assumes to compete with it. The first Hupmobile 20 made for itself, and held against all rivalry, an immense following, at home and abroad. . The "32 " put the Hupmobile into another class and surpassed the " 20 " in world-wide popularity. This new Hupmobile bids fair to eclipse thernboth, as the very utmost a motorist can desire. A highly specialized, individualized Hupznobilized motor car- which gives you, we believe, more service and comfort for your money than you can find if you comb the market a dozen times over. , . . ' Listen to the details : Every Improvement Important Ease, convenience and economy of opera tion are furthered by : pads on foot Specifications Mora Power Motor. 3 -Inch bore X S-ineh stroke; cylinders oast en bloc, with water jacket apace between barrels 1 valves 1 H -inch clear diameter, mushroom tappets, with special shape cams, very quiet; valve spring" chamber closed by oil-tight cover, so that contacts are made in an oil bath. New shape combustion chamber, larger valves and larger cylinder bore produce more power. Multiple disc dutch, with thirteen 13-inch -plates. New Typo Carburetor Horlsontal type bolted directly to cylin der block. Ga passage between cylin ders." so that Intake manifold is heated Ita entire length, assuring complete va porisation of even the heaviest gasoline. Improved Oiling A system already highly efficient made still better.' Pressure feed from flywheel -to main bearings and connecting: rod bearings ; cylinder walls lubricated by mist from crankshaft. Modern Ignition Ignition from storage battery, with au tomatic spark advance. Type rapidly being adopted by progressive engineers. Single Unit Electrical System Generator and starting" motor combined, driven by silent chain from front end of crankshaft. Supplies Current for start ing, ignition and lighting. Makes motor non-stallable. Westlnghouse 13-volt system. Longer Wheelbase Mora Room Wheelbaae,- 1T inches;- tires, - 14x4 inches. Roomy 6-passengrr body ; 1 inches more leg-room in front, 7 inches more in tonna&u ; full tufted upholstery ; concealed door hinges, flush handles. Front springs, 7 inches long, practically flat: rear springs, semi-elliptic, 63 Inches long, awung under ajcle ; springs self oiling. Braxes, 14 Inches in diameter. Loft Steer, Canter Control Steering wheel at laft ; gear change and hand brake levers at driver's right. Speed ometer, starting and lighting " switches mounted flush In center, of cowl board. Speedometer dr'e from transmission. Non-Clare, Dimmer Headlights Hupmobile design. Upper half of head slight glass corrugated. Kills reflector Flare, complying with many city ordin ances and giving full illumination on road One bulb in headlights, dimmed at will through resistance in switch. No side-lamps. Equipment and Other Details . 1 (-gallon gasoline tank in cowl; ratn vlslon windshield, fixed uprights, lower half adjustable for ventilation. One man type top, attaching to windshield. Crowned fenders, with fiat edge and without beading. - Tall lamp exclusive Hupmobile design, illuminates license plate and entire width of road for con siderable distance behind ear. Non-skid tires on rear. Demountable rims, ear- rier at rear for spare rim and tire. Lighting and Ignition switches controlled by Tale locks. Speedometer. Robe rail, foot rail and cocoa mat in tonneau. ' Color, blue-black with maroon running gear. , Fries T. O. B. Detroit. Left steer with, center control Larger steering wheel Easier steering Easier clutch action Throttle and carburetor control levers on steer . ing wheel Automatic spark advance New starter that makes motor non-stallable Foot throttle in improved position Larger brakes Swiveled pedals Lighting and ignition switches at center of cowl board . Non-skid tires on rear More power " Larger valves Heated intake passage Improved carburetion Improved ignition Improved motor lebri cap tion One-man type top y The pafeseng"ers are afforded greater ease and comfort by : A larger body Ample room for five pas sengers Deeper seats, with same comfortable Hupmobile tilt Larger wheels and tires Serai-elliptic rear springs Deeper, softer, full-rafted upholstery More leg room in front and in tonneau Longer wheelbaae Wider doors Side curtains to swing with door Model $ 32 1050 With electric starter and lights, over-sise tires, demountable rims, tire carrier at rear and all regular equipment ffn with regular equipment U JU enly.PricaCe.b.retrolt This new Hupmobile simply declines to be classed with anything of like price in externals, in performance, in economy. You can't compare it, because nothing near it in price will bear comparison. If you've had Hupmobile experience, go see the new car, expecting to find all the good points you have known, and a wealth of added value. If you know the Hupmobile only by reputation, you will find that the new I car goes far beyond the best you have ever heard of former models. p - Hupp Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. DULMAGE, MANLEY AUTO CO. Distributors for Oregon and Washington 46-48 North 20th Street, Portland, Oregon ill V-7 y Hill. i!ll!llllIIIIIll!l!IIIIIl!ll!lllll!lll!Jl I
