TIIE SUNDAY : OREGONIAX FORTLA2TD," FEBRUARY 21. 1915.
ROUTE : MAPPED OUT -
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.