The Sunday Oregonian., October 25, 1914, SECTION FOUR, Page 9, Image 59

TTTE RFTTDAT OTtT'XIOXTAX. POItTLANTJ. OCTOBER 2."?. 1914.
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RAGES TAKE F
1915 Exposition Vanderbilt
Cup Entries Sought.
$10,000 CASH PRIZES UP
Several Big Factories, Out of Game
for Years, Expected to Enter
CarsRecord Crowds Promised
America's Great Drivers.
BY LEOX J. PINKSON.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 24. Spe
clal.) Tho big machinery necessary
for the staging of the Vanderbilt cup
and Grand Prize races as special at
tractions for the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Imposition has finally been
completed, and the coming: week win
see it started into action, when entry
blanke for the two automobile racing
classics will be distributed.
The minor details necessary before
Actual work in securing entries could
be got under way now have been com
Dieted, and. according to W. I Hugh-
son, special racing commissioner for
the exposition.- and Hollia cooiey,
commissioner of special events, who are
In direct charge of the races, no time
is going to be lost In getting the
pledges of the best drivers obtainable
, to appear in either one or both of the
biz1 races.
The successful staging of the Van
derbilt and Grand Prize races in
Southern California this year has set a
high standard for the exposition offi
c tills to strive for. but notwithstanding
the European trouble, which hae elira
luated the possibility of many of the
rack foreign drivers to appear, the
local boosters feel confident that they
will have the biggest field that ever
Malted in these contests, because of
the fact that the largest purses ever
offered for automobile speed contests
will be hung up.
According to advance sheets of the
entry blanks that are now in the bands
of the printer, the Vanderbilt cup race,
which is scheduled to be run on Wash
ington's birthday, will be for a distance
of approximately 500 miles, and in ad
dition to the famous Vanderbilt trophy
some $10,000 in gold prises will be
distributed among the winners. The
Grand Prize race is to be run two
weeks later, and the winner of this
400-mile contest will divide some $8000
in gold prizes.
The course picked for the two races
will cover a five-mile circuit of the ex
position ground. It will extend from
the racetrack to the eastern extremity
of the main exhibition place and has
been so mapped out that it will .be
perfectly safe for both the competing
drivers and the spectators. The path
way between the buildings is wide and
there will be but two right-angle
turns for the racers to make. Pro
visions for banking these turns have
already been made and extra care 13
being taken in the construction of the
roadways that are to be used for the
rac 2s.
On his recent visit to San Francisco
Fred Wagner, the noted automobile
racing starter, went over the course
and placed his stamp of approval upon
it. stating that in his opinion the path
way would prove one of the best and
most safe ever used for these two
classics. Wagner 'has been chosen to
represent tho exposition in the Hast,
and if he is as enthusiastic over the
races as he was when he was in San
Francisco early this year he should
have no difficulty In rounding up the
"best racing drivers ' the country af
fords. Interest in automobile road-racing is
steadily increasing and it would not be
surprising to see several of the big
motor vehicle factories that withdrew
from the racing game a few years ago
have entries in the coming classics.
The fact that the speed carnival is
going to be an exposition attraction as
sures one of the biggest crowds of spec
tators that ever witnessed a motor-car
race, and creditable performances of
machines In the contests will certainly
lo much to boost them among the enthusiasts.
The racss are going to put California
in the very center of the automobile
spotlight, and the motorists here
ehould do all they can to' make the
meet a huge success.
grain are not forthcoming, they hold
their crops until the buyers from the
big mills decide to meet them at tneir
own figure. More than J50.600.000 will
be paid to Nebraska farmers alone,
this year, for the bumper crops of that
state.
"The prosperous conditions of the
farmers' exchequer is reflected in the
sale of motor cars in that section.
Kvery dealer with whom I talked on
my trip has sold his entire allotment
of cars. Several dealers who have re
cently taken on Dodge Bros' Una have
received deposits on cars, aitnougn tne
purchasers, of course, know nothing
of the car's appearance or price. It is
freely, predicted by Western automo
bile, men that a shortage in motor cars
will result from the unprecedented de
mand."
Although traveling through his ter
ritory for only a short period, Mr.
Hurst quickly disposed of every car
assigned by Dodge Bros, to his district.
His trip to Detroit was made to so
licit additional cars, and he has se
cured the promise of General Sales
Managar Philip to increase his allot
ment or tne new cars, which Dodge
Bros, will bring out next month.
OVERLAND Ft Ail HONORED
JOH3T WILLIS MADB MEMBER OF
RICE LEADERS.
STUDEBAKERA1DS SOUTH
VEHICLE CORPORATION BUYS COT.
TON IX THREE CITIES.
President Declare Purchase Is Obliga
tion Owed Plasters Who Have Been
Patrons of Firm tor Years.
SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Oct. 24. In a
novel and thoroughly typically Ameri
can way, the Studebaker Corporation
of South Bend and Detroit has entered
the cotton tnarket on a large scale, buy
ing orders having been forwarded to
day to the managers of its branches in
Atlanta, Dallas and St. Louis, through
which centers is handled the distribu
tion throughout the South of the firm's
automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles.
The first order Is for the purchase of
600 bales. This cotton will be bought
at 10 cents a pound.
"We are buying this cotton." said
President Fish, "because of our belief
that, in the conditions which now pre
vail, we owe a definite duty to the
Southern planters, who are suffering so
distressingly as the result of the Euro
pean war. We are making this expen
diture in a way which will enable us
to place every'cent of it with the South
ern farmers the producers. Not one
bale will be bought through speculators
or middlemen.
"We have abundant confidence in the
South and in the future of Its great
staple. Far mora influential in deter
mining our present course was, how
ever, our own feeling of obligation to
the Southern planters, virtually all of
whom are our customers and many of
whom have bought Studebaker goods
for two generations.
"Our Investment in cotton virtually
will be a loan in which we- asume the
entire risk. If we are able eventually
to dispose of our cotton at an advanced
price, we will turn over the ultimate
profit to the growers from whom we
bought it.
"Our Investment is contingent on no
purchase of our own goods and had no
strings whatever attached to it. We
also aim to make the distribution of
our investment as broad as possible. In
this . undertaking we shall work in
close touch with our vehicle and auto
mobile dealers, thus availing ourselves
of an advisory representation in vir
tually every cotton-growing county in
the (southern states."
The details of the Studebaker plan
are in onarge of Assistant Sales Man
agar Thieien, of the vehicle division
here.
Manager of Local Branch mt jr. W,
Leavitt A Co. Reports Sales of 17
Models SO and 81 In Week.
Manager Fred West, of tho local
branch of J. W. Leavitt & Co.. is Juet
"chock full of good news these days.
The latest bit. which appeals to him
particularly, is the fact that John N.
Wyllis, president of the Overland Com
pany, has been made a member of Rice
Leaders' of the World Association.
The Rice Leaders of the World are
new In trade circles. They were or
ganized a little more than a year ago
by a group of Eastern manufacturers
and since then they havo broadened
their organization until it includes
about 2a leading manufacturers.
In scope and constitution tne organ
ization is really a business fraternity.
Its members are selected by the as
sociation for service, honor, integrity
and quality. Only one man or com
pany of each branch of manufacture or
business activity can be a member.
When the leader is picked, by the asso
elation, and has passed with all the
other members, he is invited to join.
"Because of membership in the Rice
Leaders Association, we feel particu
larly proud," 6ays Mr. West. "Member
ship in that is something which no
amount of money can buy and that we.
of all manufacturers, should have been
chosen seems to be gratification in
itself."
Another bit of news which Mr. West
had to get rid of, is the fact that bus!
ness is picking up with a jump. The
sales of the week amounted to 17 mod
els 80 and 81.
Those sales cleaned out the first
supply of the new model touring car,
the model o l rr, ol which four cars
were received here earlier In the week.
The counry seems to be doing well,
for the majority of the cars went to
outside points. Pendleton took five.
Monroe one, Eugene one, Oregon City
tour, ana noon ttiver one. uive re
mained in Portland.
The Portland Overland branch also
has made a change in its sales sya
tern. The second-hand stock of the
company will be handled for J. W. Lea
vitt at Co. by vv illiams & Preston, under
the direction of the Overland branch
and with the quarters next door, as
formerly.
TRUCKS SPEED APPLES
LOADS lll URlED TO SCHOOLS FAR
APART OVER CITY.
Day Gives Cars Opportunity to Show
Worth and 30,000 Gifts Are Car
ried In Three Honrs.
Apple Day offered Portland automo
bile dealers a chance to show the ef
f iciency of modern delivery service, for
it took eight automobiles but three
hours to distribute 20,000 apples over
a territory which was more than 12
miles one way and more than eight
through the shortest diameter.
The Portland dealers were called in
on the spur of the. moment. In five
minutrs A. H. Brown, of the Studebaker
Corporation, who had charge of the de
livery, got seven other trucks besides
his own, and the crew appeared at the
Portland Commercial Club.
Their duty was to take the many
tons of fruit to the public schools. It
looked like a big job and meant some
furious work on the part of the men
who loaded and unloaded, but In three
hours every apple at the Commercial
Club was at its destination.
The work they did would have been
a two-days' job for eight teams, for
almost every foot of the city had to
be covered in the many trips. Fifty-
nine schools were served by the autos.
The furthest removed were those at
Leuis and St. Johns, points which are
about Id miles apart by streetcar route.
The dealers who helped the children
celebrate -Apple Day were: F. C. Riggs,
Oregon Jlotor Car Company, Studebaker
. orporation,. Howard Auto Company, J
W. Leavitt & Co., H. I Keats, Foixl
Motor Car Company and Pierce-Arrow
?ales Company.
GKAIX DEMAXD BOOSTS AUTOS
Record-Breaking Sale of Cars Re
ported Among Omaha Farmers.
A record-breaking sale of motor
cars following the harvesting of the
biggest crops In years In the grain
belt states Is reported by C. H. Hurst,
district representative for Dodge
Bros., at Omaha. Mr. Hurst has just
arrived in Detroit, after an automobile
trip of several thousand miles through
the states of Iowa, Nebraska and South
Dakota.
"The West has never seen conditions
equal to the prosperity of the present
season. says Mr. Hurst. "Since ths
war, wheat- has advanced 18 to
rents a bushel. Corn and oats have
shot us 10 and 11 cents a bushel, and
this advance comes in the face of the
biggest crops in the past five years.
"Naturally the farmers are jubllan
and are making the most of the op
portunity. If tho high prices asked for
MR. GAROE OPTIMISTIC
AUTOMOBILE DEALER THINKS
GOOD TIMES ARE AT HAND.
Answers to Queries
c.
Unreasoning; Fear Regarding; Election
Retards Deals Assured Mo Matter
How Voters Decide.
Like thousands of other business
men, the auto dealers are watching the
coming eleotion, and all are confident
that just as soon as the election is laid
on the shelf, business will assume a
more sensible aspect.
Just one of the men to venture that
opinion is W. C. Garbe, of the Oregon
Motor Car Company, distributors of
the Studebaker line, for Portland.
"There is absolutely no reason for
the continuation of the state of mind
which has caused people to be rather
backward about investments. The
East already has discovered this and
before long the thaw will be felt here.
'An election which carries the weight
that ours does, is naturally a time for
thought with many people. Some do
not stop to reason. "
"For example, we have half a dozen
sales which we are sure of, no matter
how the election goes. The persons in
volved have no preferences which they
believe will make or break the state
and either way it goes, their business
is ours. But merely the American idea
of a 'hunch' holds them on" until after
the election. I agree with Mr. Wilson
that the situation mostly is psycho
logical,"
MXX SPENDS. $146, 000 OX CARS
Dealers Estimate Auto 'Sales Reach
$400 a Day for Year. '
ALBANY, Or., Oct 24. (Special.)
Four hundred dollars a day was spent
for automobiles in the immediate vicin
ity of Albany during the year ending
September 1, 1914. Thi3 is the estimate
of local dealers.
The figures show that during that
year 164 cars were sold to persons in
this city or in Linn County within a
radius of 15 miles of Albany. The total
cost of these cars was $146,300. It is
said that almost 100 of the cars
sold here last year were purchased by
farmers.
This column is conducted by the service
men ct Portland's biggest automobile
branches. Queries should reach the Auto
Editor of The Oregronlan before Thursday of
wco ween, suggestions are always welcome.
is. P.. Portland Is the road to
Salem passable? Can a machine
get over the Rex-Tigard villa stretch
The road to Salem is used by several
machines each week, but all 'of them
are coming and going by way of Sher
wood. The Rex-Tigardvllle stretch is
under the care of roadirtakers and lrn
passaoie in this rainy weather.
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R. C, Portland Can an ordinary au
tomobile engine be used in marine
work. - My engine is a four-cylinder,
lour-cycle and though the chassis
pretty well hammered up, the engine is
in good condition. I want to put it in
a speed boat.
Ans. -While some engines can be op
erated successfully in motorboats, th
majority do not lend themselves to this
purpose because the base must be fairly
level, while the marine work necessi
tates a tilt, towards the back. This
disturbs the oiling systems of the ma
jority, but this fault can be remedied
by adopting a marine oiling system.
Auto Ed.
One of the most neglected parts of
the up-to-the-minute automobile of
the present day is the storage battery.
A few hints on battery care will help
a good deal and nayave considerable
trouble.
When a storage battery, through ac
cident or otherwise, gets into trouble.
It should receive the same prompt at
tention as any other vital part of the
car.
Tou would not continue to drive on
a flat tire or with a punctured and
empty radiator; or, if you did, you
would expect to pay for it in a good
sized repair bill. Therefore, take the
trouble to notice, when putting water
into the cells (and this should be done
twice a month), if any cell is dry or
needs considerably more water than
the others. If it does, it suggests a
leaky jar.
If in doubt, remove the battery from
the car and the cell from the battery,
and test by filling to the proper level,
drying the outside and letting it stand
on a sheet of dry paper over night.
A battery must have water. It can't
work without it.
Don't expect the battery to deliver
more .current to the lamps and start
ing motor, the electric horn and the
ignition system, than you put into it
by running the engine. It can't be
done. -
Keep the battery clean and also firm
ly fixed in place by means of tho hold
downs. Don't use a 12-inch monkey-wrench
hacked by all your physical strength,
or a hammer and cold chisel, to set up
the connections. These are prolific
causes of cracked and leaky jars.
If your battery lacks water because
evaporation has not been made good,
or a leaky jar neglected, it will stay
on the job and do the work for a while.
If the solution is an inch below the
plate tops and the battery still work
ing, water will save it.
If the solution is two inches below
the plate tops and the battery still
working, water may save it.
If the solution is three inches below
the plate tops and -battery still work
ing feebly, too late for water to save it.
' Then there is ths car owner who
seems to think, if he considers his bat.
tery at all, that it is a modern edition
of the widow's curse.
Night after night he leaves his car
standing for hours with all lamps burn
ing, and drives it but little.
To the battery, this kind of treat.
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The Advantages
of Magneto Ignition
THE new Overland is equipped with
the finest high tension magneto.
This is entirely, independent of
the starting and lighting system.
High tension magneto ignition is con
ceded by the great majority of experts and
engineers to be the most efficient. Also it
is the most expensive.
t All high-priced cars are equipped with
a magneto.
- Most popular priced cars have no
magneto. Only the cheaper and less effec
tive battery ignition is furnished.
Those manufacturers who use the bat
tery ignition do so to cut down their manu
facturing costs. They do not furnish a mag"
neto because it is too costly.
A high tension magneto is furnished
, with the Overland because
it means a faster getaway, .
it means a livelier motor.
it means more power at all speeds.
it keeps th.e motor cool.1
it develops more power due to a
hotter spark, which increases its heat as die
motor speed increases.
The heat of an Overland spark, by
actual test, is ten 'times greater than the
spark of the ordinary battery ignition.
The . high tension
requires no dry cells.
Overland magneto
The absence of a high tension magneto
on a car is an indication that the car is not
all it should be. Something very important
is lacking, consequently there might be
many other important things left off, of
which you are not aware.
The Overland has every practical and
essential improvement.
When you purchase an Overland you
get the most stylish, most comfortable, most
convenient, most complete and most care
fully constructed car for the price in the
world.
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ment is a oasa of everything going out
and nothing, or little, coming in.
If a man will operate his car in this
way, he should have his battery re.
moved from the oar and charged on the
bench regularly.
An easy way to find a short circuit
in your wiring is to turn on all lamps,
but remove the bulbs from the socket.
Then remove the connecting link from
between two of the cells of the battery.
leaving all other connections undis
turbed. Then connect one of the lamp
bulbs between the two cells in place of
the link that has been removed. If
the lamp burns brightly, there is "a.
heavy leak. If it burns dimly there is
a. slight leak. If tne niament is not
even red, there is probably no leak.
A storage battery will outlive the car
of which it is a part if care is given.
It requires attention but twice a month.
These small, but important, matters
are looked after by the Buick service
department each week, sending the
Buick owners - cheerfully on their
way without delay. Hiats by l.ouls
BuntzelL.
GAB IS SALESMAN'S AID
ADVANTAGES DESCRIBEP BY REP
RESENTATIVE OP BIG FACTORY.
GOOD ROADS ARE PROMISED
Arrangements Made to Improve
Highways Around Vapata.
WAPATO, Wash., Oct 24. (Special.)
There is to be a concerted action for
better roads in this section of the res
ervation this Fait The Farmers' Union
has appointed a committee to work in
conjunction with the Commercial Club
and County Commissioners.
The Commissioners have promised to
devote the greater portion of the high
way tax of the district to tnis section
this year, and with gratuitous work on
the pari of the farmers and donations
from the Commercial Club, it is esti
mated that several miles of good gravel
road will be constructed.
There are more than 300 miles of
roads on the reservation which need
attention, but on account of the smi(
amount of assessable property slow
progress has been made.
Expensive Conrtesj-. '
(Washington Star.) ...
"You slept all through my speech
said the stateman.
"I tried to be considerate and stay
away, ' replied the member of Congress.
"But I couldn't afford to let politene.
cost me a day s wages.
Travel Declared Facilitated so That 10
Ttovraa Are Visited Ksvr Where
Only Three Used to Be Made.
The fact that the automobile must
be rated aa a necessity in up-to-date
salesmanship is growing more appar
ent every day.
J. S. Ryland. the eastern representa
tive of the Ralston Purina Company,
gives some interesting facts and fig
ures illustrating the usefulness of a car
in calling upon the trade. He says:
"For the salesman who has to cover
considerable territory - every day the
automobile is not a fad or a luxury It
is a necessity.
"I used to think that I was doing
well when I averaged three towns a
day. Now, with a roadster car, I
make from eight to ten and do it
easily. f
"Yesterday I left my home in New
York City at 8 o'clock in the morning,
called on the dealers In Edgewater,
Fort Lee, Leonia, Engtewood. Nyack.
Westwood, Oradell and Hackensack, N.
J., and returned to my garage. In One
Hundred and Tenth street. New York,
at -o'clock.
"To cover this territory by train and
trolley ordinarily would take from two
to three days.
"A car makes opportunities for you.
In one place a dealer said he might
possibly order a car of feed if a cer
tain customer could be converted to
its use. "Jump in and we'll drive over
and see iblm,' I said. This customer's
dairy was about two and one-half
miles distant. If I had Deen afoot,
carrying a heavy sample case, I would
never have suggested any such thing.
Even if I had been willing to make the
trip, the dealer would have refused.
But in this case he willingly climbed
into my car. In 10 minutes we reached
the farm, the prospective customer was
won over and t-e dealer ordered the
feed.
"At another place on th:s same trip
a clerk explained that the dealer was
away on the outskirts of the town, su
pervising the building of his new resi
dence. If I had been traveling by
train or trolley I certainly would not
have tritd to reach him. But J sim
ply started up my engine and inside
of 29 minutes had his order. I could
relate many more Instances of this na
ture. '
A car relieves the salesman of the
time table burden. He is his own train,
his own trolley, always able to go when
he is ready to go. It saves loss of
time, it Increases efficiency and it is
economical. I find that the t of
gasoline is just about one-half the
amount usually paid out for railroad
and trolley fares."
Mr. Ryland Is a strong champion of
the Metz roadster, particularly because
of Its gearless transmission, and has
just ordered two Metz cars for the use
of his bead salesmen in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
The Metz Company, of Waltham,
Mass., recently issued a cleverly illus
trated booklet addressed to the heads
of sales departments and entitled "Sell
ing by Automobile." It shows in many
ways the benefits derived by the sales
man from the use of the automobile,
.t is published for free distribution
Motorcycle Notes
Another American motorcycle which
has just been commandeered by the
Belgians is that of H. G. Gault, of
Steubenvllle, O.. who was touring in
Europe. When his machine was con
fiscated Gault Joined the Red Cross
relief corps.
Four days and a half. That's the
time it took .Carl H. Swartz and Hur
ley Burchell to ride their motorcycles
from Freeport. IIL, to New York City.
It is said that 71 motorcycles were
Included In the British expeditionary
force.
F. C. Van Olsen. who recently made
a cross-continental motorcycle trip to
New York, has started back to Cali
fornia. He is making tle return trip
over the Southern route.
Jimmie Walker, of Bridgeport, Conn
has Just returned from & motorcycle
tour covering 32 states. Walker trav.
eled In the interest of the concern by
which he ts employed, and has been
on the road since May 19.
Miss HaUie Hccles was one of he
most enthusiastic participants in. the
recent endurance run of the Yonkers
(N. Y.) Motorcycle Club, and although
the course was one of the worst Im
aginable, she declares that she is ready
to enter the next contest.
A party of Kentucky motorcyclists,
headed by W. T. Mavis, of Maysville,
are making a tour to Denver.
A recent Government report shows
16,000 motorcycles egistered in Italy.
B. O. Brown, of Boston, Mass., spent
his vacation on a motorcycle tour
through Nova Scotia.
MOTORCYCLE JiODELS ARRIVE
New Harley-Davidson Has Three
Speeds and Price Is Lower.
The ultimate in motorcycle construc
tion seems to be offered the devotees
of "chug cycles" in the new modeb
Harley-Davidson, which now is appear-.
ing in Portland. -'
It is known as the three-speed model.
11-F, and the only difference between
it and a motorcar seems to be the ab
sence of a reverse gear. It is rated
at. 11 horsepower, seemes amply pro
vided and will be the Btapl- product of
the Harley-Davidson factory in 1915.
The three-speed device is embraced
in a special unit, placed half way be
tween the rear sprocket and the motor.
The builders claim many things for the
three-speed.
In tests it has taken the steepest of
grades without hesitation and its like
ness to the working of the four,
wheeled brother makes riding comfort
able under all conditions.
Another refinement of which tho
Harley-Davidson people are proud is
the oiling system, into which a rotary
valve and plunger has been developed
into an automatic feed which has sonio
commendable features.
The motor itstlf is new throughout
It has 2 distiun changes and refine
ments not found in the old models.
The prices on all models are lower than
they were before.
The Music Lovers.
tTit-Bits.)
She Did you enjoy the opera last
night. Herr Schwartz?
lie No; I couldn't hear anything.
he Why not?
He Two ladies sat in front of me
and chatted the whole evening Ubout
how much they loved music