The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 21, 1915, SECTION FOUR, Image 53

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY : OREGONIAX FORTLA2TD," FEBRUARY 21. 1915. ROUTE : MAPPED OUT - TO SAN FRANG1SG0 Proposal Made to Designate Regular Road From Seattle for Use by Autoists. . SIDE TRIPS SUGGESTED Tent City at Southern Terminus on lay and Control Stations at Convenient Points Along Lino Part of Plan". A definite programme for the estab lishment of a touring: route tor auio mobillsts going: from Seattle through Portland to San "Francisco has been mapped out. Vallejo, on San Francisco Bay. is suggested as the southern terminus of the route. L. H. Griffith, of Seattle, one of the prime movers In the plan, announces that he has com pleted all arrangements for the routing. At the southern terminus, which will be connected with San Francisco by bay steamers, a tract of about 25 acres has been procured for the location of a tent city and the parking of automo biles. .. -. Special tent cities will also be estarj llshed at various controls along the rout for the convenience of all travel ers. The path will lead over the Pacific Highway, the greater part" of which Is said to be In fair condition with long stretches of paved roadway. Unless of the offered side trips are taken it Is predicted that the trip from terminus to terminus may be made in lx days. Aside from Portland, where all tour lt undoubtedly will tarry for a con siderable time, Medford will be one of the principal stops, ilere me jaexson County Fair orrounds have been pro cured and arrangements made for side trips over the Hall auto stage line to Crater Lake National Park. Other control stations In Oregon will be established on the Mistletoe Farm, between Medford and Roseburg. on the north aTork of the Umpq.ua River, near Roseburg, Boswell Springs, near urain. In Douglas County, Eugene and Albany. The owners of 26 motor buses repre senting an investment of $110,000 met last week at 615 Washington street, to perfect a permanent organization of the Portland Auto Bus Association. C. 1 Boss accepted the presidency of the organization for a temporary term of three months. In the hope of regulating the motor bus business and differentiating It trom the "hit and miss" Jitney Cars, rules were adopted which provide that each i member must file with the association officers a specific route and time table which cannot, under penalty or line, be departed from. It was ajso provided that any mem ber of the association was at liberty to Issue books of tickets allowing adults 24 rides and school children 34 rides for the uniform price of Jl. As soon as all routes, and a central sta tion have been established, a system of transfers will be outlined with the ap proval -of -the City Commissioner of Public Utilities. , It is also provided that each bus hall be properly illuminated at night. In case belated passengers destined for a district are not served by other transportation, any member of the as sociation may extend his schedule after hours to accommodate such passengers. Provision -Is also made by the board of directors for the purpose of creating a fund to provide the public with suitable- and adequate liability Insurance. Alleging an unjust concellation of agency contract without sufficient rea son or cause the Pacific Motors Com pany has instituted suit in this city against the Maxwell Motor Sales Com pany, of Detroit, Mich., and requests damages of $62,000. Th Pacific Motors Company; a local corporation, of which E. E. Cohen is h. Hani nMimfl 1QO SKCIH VI . 11 . Ma-rwoll car in this territory on Au gust 15 and continued In that capacity until January 30, the closing night of h. Pnrtianii Automobile Show, when the Maxwell factory notified the local firm that Its contract had Deen can celled. - " Immediately thereafter the Maxwell agency was taken up by a new corpora tion the H. C. Skinner Company. In his complaint W. C. Bristol, attorney Pacific Motors Company, al leges that a considerable amount of money has been spent by Mr. Cohen and his associates In organizing the agency during the dull months of the year, in advertising the Maxwell car at the show and in other ways. Just when the benefits are about to be reaped on the investment through the sale of cars, the agency Is snatched away without Just cause, he alleges. Mr. Cohen says that his company con tracted for 3S5 cars for the year and that it had ordered 130 cars for de livery In this -territory during the first three months of the calendar year. "Although the suit in no way affects the H. C. Skinner Company. I have suf ficient Information as to the merits of the charges to predict that the case will never come to trial." said Mr. Skin ner yesterday. - There. is at least one automobile In the City of Portland that will not be affected by that provision In the traf fic ordinance adopted by the "city fathers" last week, which prohibits the use of dazzlifig headlights. When Louis Goldsmith returned re cently from Los Angeles and San Fran cisco he brought a set of newly pat ented crystal headlights for installa tion on the beautiful seven-passenger Ptevens-Duryea owned by his mother. Mm. Rudolph Goldsmith. The rays of light thrown out by these new lights are brilliant, but they have been eoftened by the manipulation of reflectors so that a person may stand Immediately in front of the lights when they are turned on full force without being blinded In the least. This style of light has become exceedingly popular In California, where ordinances similar' to the new Portland law have been in force for some time. of a .pneumatic-tired wheel placed be side the rear of' tie bicycle and con taining a complete power unit. Includ ing a motor, magneto, carburetor, driv ine eear and gasoline tank. The extra wheel may be taken off at any time; and the. bicycle operated by the pedals. C. H. Mead, manager of the West Coast Supply Company, has been busy during the past lew days demonstrating the motor -wheel. '. The Garage, and Repairmen's Asso ciation, held its . regular meeting Wednesday . evening, a majority of the garage owners of Portland being iq attendance. C. H. Williams, manager of the Port land branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, addressed the asso ciation along the fines of standardiza tion and maintenance of prices, also explaining the Stevens bill and the Federal Trade Commission act. which are to come up before Congress this coming session. He spoke in favor of tho two bills and asked the associa tion members to support them and to notify the Congressmen from this dis trict of their views.- . ,. ROADS ARE BEIXG IMPROVED Pink Highway Constructed .From Morton to Bremer, Wash. S MORTON, Wash., Feb. 20. (Special.) There Is considerable road work go ing on now in the vicinity of Morton and in other sections of eastern Lewis. County. A 6tretch of plank road has been built west of Morton leading to the Bremer vicinity. Four teams are also engaged In hauling gravel from SCENIC BEAUTYTOLD Auto Club Booklet for Fair Pic " turjes Wonder Travel. BEST ROADS ARE LISTED Attractive Nooks In Oregon Pictured n 64 Pages'of Color and Print. Directory bt Best Hotels to ' Be Included In Work. .' BT CLEMENT W. AOSJUN. SecretaryofBookCommin.ee. Besides "opening the trade commerce of the world for the Pacific Coast, the Panama Canal and the Exposition in its honor at San Francisco will bring to the Coast thousands of visitors dur ing the coming year. It is only natural that all will go to California. Oregon Is bidding for a large percentage of the travel, at least one way, so Its nat ural attractions may be seen by the tourists. The Portland Automobile Club is making a special Inducement through the medium of a booklet tnat- BAKER COUNTY ROADS AS GOOD IN WINTER AS IN SUMMER. - -k & J w-- if WW" HIGHWAYS WHERE FARMERS WORKED I.AST FALI. NOT AFFECTED BT tAI3l Oil THAW, the river bed near the station to va.1 rlous sections east and west of here. If the special appropriation of $20,- 00 asked for state road No. 18 between here and Glenoma is made by the Leg islature County Commissioner. Bivin will be renuested to put the county money It was expected to expend on this road on the road between here and Bremer. The idea Is being fathered Dy the Morton Commercial Club. ROAD WORK MEETS TEST BAKER FARMERS BY JOINT LABOR wix good Winter routes. Efforts of Special Day Prove Silccesa When Highways, Usually Impass able, Say Open il Year. BAKER. Or., Feb. 20.4-(Special.) Farmers- of Baker County In the vicin ity of Wingvllle, Pocahontas, Haines, Rairview and Missouri Flat are realiz ing the benefits of concerted action on the roads. Near Baker roads which until this year have, been virtually Im passable, because of mud in rainy weather anrt after a thaw, are this vear solid hicrhwavs. This is the result of good roads days hefd by the farmers of these sections loot Fall. Haker citizens jomtsu i" tho movement and several big delega tlons went out snd worked all day B-rnvellinc leveling and otherwise working on the roads. Split log road drags were used on many ot the high ways and the result has beensurpris ing. v . Whlln the roads to the north are good, those to the southeast, toward Burnt River, are soft and almost Im passable. These roads have had but little work done on them except by the countv road supervisors and the contrast between them and the roads where the farmers donated their serv ices is marked. Splendid roads also prevail in .fine Valley and Eagle Valley, where the lanchers devoted several days last Sum ner to putting In gravel. - Autoists find the traveling between aaer and, these valleys good. $2500 SCBSCRIB'EBFOR ROADS People of District 30 Raise Fund tor Volunteer Work. . . " Few automobile owners', are ever willing to admit to a dealer-that they are at fault when their machine gets "sick and dies" on them, but Dr. S. M. f-trohecker is a rare exception to the rule. . . . Recently Edward E. Gerlinger.' gen eral manager of the Gerlinger Motor car Company, mailed this bill to Ir. Strohecker: "One hour's labor going to Thirteenth and 'VTaehington streets to start car and adjust carburetor. 1 1." As he returned the invoice with a check to cover payment. Jr. Strohecker crossed out the citation and wrote: "To penalty for trying to run a car with too little gasoline In the tank to feed properly. The joke is on me. No re ceipt necessary." Mr. Gerlinger Is still smiling and still wondering. No llttl amount of interest has been aroused In Portland by tho appearance of a device by which an ordinary bi cycle may be converted Into a motor cycle. It Is a motor wheel consisting ALBANY, Or. Feb. 20. (Special.) T,nnl nf Road District NO. 41), in Linn County, which lies northwest of Scio and Just across the North Santiam River from Stayton. have subscribed $2500 in money and work for volunteer road building this Spring and Summer. This was accomplished in spite of the fact that the people of the district will pay a father heavy special road tax. Last Fall the people of the district met and voted a five-mill special road tax to raise funds for road-building. This special road tax will yield $1899.65. With J949.S7 to be received from the County road taxes the total will be t )cai S! The neoDle of the district wish to complete a series of crushed gravel roads and knew this -amount would not be sufficient, so enthusiastic residents started out and have raised $251)0 more. Tliree Silent Knights to Enter. PORT JEFFERSON. N. Y Feb. 20. Three Knight-motored cars are prom ised for the next Indianapolis 600-mile race by Finley R. Porter, one of Amer ica's most noted automobile designers, of this city, who is at present .prepar ing to engage In the manufacture of F R. P. cars on his own account.-Porter says his cars will have a piston dis placement of 207 cubuc Inches, with a bore and stroke of 3.8 by 6.2. respect ively. They are expected to develop a brake horsepower of 130. at 3500 and a speed of 105 miles an hour. pn' the road. Porter will carry on his manu facturing operations at Indianapolis, he says. He formerly was chief en gineer of the Mercer company. will describe the scenic spots and the highways of the state. The publication Is the largest ever undertaken In the- Interests ot scenic Oregon. Its 64 pages and covers in colors will depict the new Columbia River Highway, the Crater Lake rark, the wonderful scenery in the Cascade and Coast Mountains, especially Mount Hood, the Three Sisters, Mount Jeffer son, the Caves in Josephine County, the beach resorts and ,the rugged bouth ern Oregon coast. Wonders to Be Illustrated. Photographs by the best photograph ers of the historical' and unusual won ders of nature will be used to illustrate the booklet. Special attention will be given the Pacific Highway routes and also the "Old Oregon Trail," which Eastern Oregon hope3 to have In good shape for automobile tourists who will come westward over the Lincoln Highway as far as Ogden and then branch off to the Northwest through Idaho and across the Snake River, through Baker, Pendleton and connect with the Colum bia Highway at The Dalles. Roads to ' Tillamook, especially over the cutoff which is being made at the present time in Tillamook County, will be described so people can drive from Portland through McMinnville, New berg and Sheridan to the coast and then" return via Clatsop beaches and Astoria and over the Columbia River Highway back to the Rose City. Clubs Indorse Booklet. Indorsements have been given the booklet committee by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Commercial Club and many other bodies. Cities throughout the state also have offered to assist actively In its preparation. Arrangements are being made where by the Rotary Club will use 10,000 or more copies to be sent to other Rotary Clubs throughout the country. In this way the books will reach the people for whom they are intended. The busi ness men will find them of great4 as sistance in, making the Summer's itinerary. Members of the Oregon State Hotel Association have expressed a desire to arrange for a lot of the Automobile Club books for distribution at their booth in the Panama-Pacific Interna tional Exposition at San Francisco. Directory of ' Hotels to Be Run. For this reason a directory of the best hotels in the state will be run. This can be used with assurance by the prospective travelers, for the names will be carefully selected with a view to' comfort, first-class quarters and de sirable location convenient to' the man who cares to tour the state in an automobile. Word has been received by the com mittee that Glendale will build a huge arch over the Pacific Highway where it runs through that place. The steel structure will be righted at night with hundreds of pmall electric globes and will be a guiding mark for many miles. A large fountain also will be built under the arch. Sanitary drinking ar rangements will be Installed and also fawcet and hose for the convenience of dry radiators. The club booklet committee, which consists of James D. Abbott, chairman; Phil Metschan, Jr., of the Imperial Ho tel, and C F. Wright, of Ballou & Wright, has . had & busy week getting preparations under way. It now has the work well organized and will hurry so an early date of publication can be announced. ' ' American Road Builders Elect. George TV. Tlllson, .consulting engi neer to the president of the Borough 0f Brooklyn. New York, was elected presi dent of the American Road Builders' Association, which held its regular an nual meeting at the Hotel Astor on Friday, February 5, New York City. Other executive officers for 1915 were elected as follows: First vice-president, A. W. Dean, chief engineer of the Mas sachusetts' Highway Commission: sec ond vice-president, Austin B. Fletcher, state highway engineer of California; third vice-president, S. Percy Hooker, state superintendent of. highways of New Hampshire; secretary, E. L. Pow ers, editor "Good Roads;" treasurer, Major W. W. Crosby, consulting engi neer, Baltimore, Ma. C iT. T7mT. V 1-'. t.-:x.l, Mem MS mm SIC" ftleV. Modl 80 Controls ilia Simplified D nvmi On the Qverland (Model 80) steering col umn is a set of electric buttons. By just gently pressing these buttons, the car is electrically started, stopped and lighted. i'J mm Mm mm No other method is as simple, as acces sible, as positive or as reliable. "But"- you say "other cars have this advantage." Certainly but only those cars that sell at a much higher price. Why pay more? Buy an Overland and save money. rV. ..TT. !Vr.t.i km v.ii'4?iv Model 80 S Passenger Touring Car $1075 M.ddSI.Readttu' Modal 80. Readitar Six-Modal 82. 7 Paw. T MmU1 80.4 Pan. Coup. 8798 $1060 Car 81475 $1600 Allpricnf. : . TtUdt Model 81 S Passenger Touring Car $850 rV5 J. W. LEAVITT & CO., DISTRIBUTORS 529 Washington St., Portland, Oregon Thones: Marshall 3333, A 2111 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio alJl-vT - a . .-m.. ' r Vaa a. . TRAGTOR PROVES AUTO GENERAL FARM UTILITY New Invention Makes Pleasure Car Available for Plowing, Harrowing, . Seeding, Harvesting or Other Power Work, Says Dennis StovalL BY DENNIS H. STOVALL .HILOMATH, Or., Feb. 20. (Special.) t An American Invention that is proving successful on the farm and which makes it possible for the auto mobile to be used for plowing, harrow ing, seeding, grain cutting and harvest ing. Is a motor tractor. This farm trac tor is employed solely' in connection with an ordinary automobile. It iso designed that it can be attached or oe tached in five or ten minutes. Last vear. the motor tractor was tried out on many farms, large and small. and With cars of all 6izes and makes. It was found that it would displace from six to 30 horses, making It pos sible for the farmer to do practically all his ordinary work with his motor car and in addition have power for op- I erating a woodsaw, thresher, corn cut ter or anv other kind of stationary machinery for which power Is needed To furnish power for operating ma chinery a belt pulley is attached to the rear gearing of the tractor, ana so ar ranged that the drive wheels can be thrown out and only -he pulley Itself operated, thus relieving the motor car of the strain In a manner similar to that in traction work. The drive or traction wheels are 18 Inches wide and six feet in diameter. The welKht of the tractor is 6800 pounds, or almost three tons. This is lighter than the average tractor, but is heavy enough to give the traction and pulling power needed for such ma chines. Conical spurs are fastened to the wheel surface 'to prevent slipping on soft, muddy or hilly ground. In fact, 8 TOL'RIXG CAR CONVERTED INTO FARM TRACTOR FOR PLOW'j-VG AND OTHER TRACTION WORK. a 25 horsepower motor car, attached to this tractor, can easily pull four to six 14-inch plows. It can be turned as short as the car Itself will turn and guided About just as easily as a motor car, running at only two or three miles an hour. Only the front tires or the car touch the ground, and so much of the weight of the car is removed that the wear on these is slight compared with the wear sustained during ordin ary road work. One Western rancher who employs such a tractor and who formerly used and kept ten horses now keeps only one general utility horse. It does many tasks that horses could not do, such as cutting the Winter's supply ot wood, pumping water, . operating the dairy churn, and doing all manner of power service. When it is idle it needs only a safe shelter from rain and storm. On this Western ranch a 14-year-old boy "drove" the car for all the plow ing, harrowing and seeding, a task that would have required nine horses of three teams each and three men, if done the old way. L SHIP HAS 0 X TRAPS HOOT "Solace," Sailing for Fair, Takes Outfit to Accommodate Men. Indicative of the widespreadlng In fluence of trap shooting It is noted that the United States ship Solace, which shortly sails from New Tork for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, Is to have trap-shooting layout on board so that the officers and men can enjoy all the delights of this sport while on the high seas. The officers of his arm of Uncle Sam's service are "neutral"' In the matter of warfare, and but take out their natural bent for tirearms and shooting in this sane, delightful pastime of trap shooting. This furnishes Just one more instance of the widespread Interest in trap shooting and the strong hold It Is ob taining on all classes and conditions of men. We feel assured that the sport has a pretty strong grip on Its de votees when they desire it so greatly that they must needs take their traps along when on the ocean, so as not to miss their regular competition. Prob ably when the Solace reaches the expo sition at San Francisco this novelty will be so exploited that It. will give the sport of trap shooting a tre mendous amount of advertising and a forward Impetus that will spread to all sections of this land, I ACCOMMODATIONS FOR l'AK CF.ItS AI1K l ii:Ar.i. klle M(h His I Murk In 1'mr, Many Flad Mariana M-M fc Anto for Their Aeed. "Many drivers prefer lo handle big, powerful rar. This not alon because of lis Increased arconunodn tion for pansensers, but brrnnse nt the pleasure of driving a lrg, pow erful machine." said C. L. lings, local Hudson distributor, yestrrdny. "The vogue of the-light lx has Ic come so wldo that some t-"plo e m to think that there is nothing le? be considered except th locl)rll,- slzed light cur. Nevertheless there exists a numerous i-lnp to whom u large, powerful car, sut-li for InntHiN: as the Hudson Nix-.4, appeals more strongly than does the otnnllrr or, With Its two auxiliary ton orn n seats, the Hudson Slx-u arrnmiiipri,ii-.i geven people with the Kieteit or itr. The divided front sent makes it c.ui for people to move about In the ri' without the nc-cCKslty of lmvlng H. There la ample room for lupskgo unl the carrying capacity of the car i very great. The feeling that he ti beneath the hood something battel than 60 horsepower avuWuble t th turn of a finger or a preMuro of tho pedal Is' very gratifying to the drive -. On the suburban roads ard on rro- country tours the big 54 reigns su preme in the minus of many motorists. "Objection sometimes is maoe tiiai It Is difficult to handle a larso car In congested traffic, but owners and driv ers of tho Hudson Mx-m mKo no sun complaint. The car Is so nesimy rn- glned. so excellently controlled, aioi the ateerlng connections end front wheels are so admirably adjuslert tint no difficulty whatever la experience.! n handling ever eo large a car in dense truffle" .1. K. Hexham, official photographer of the t'nlvcrilly of Misxourl at Colum hla. uses a motorcycle in in annul he country to take i.tintograpn I r th Agricultural Lporlu.ent Maticu.