TTTE STJKDAY OREGOXIAX.' ' PORTLAND. BIARCII--21,r 1915. ' -
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EAST IS INTERESTED
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Numerous Inquiries Are Made
of Portland Automobile As
sociation Head.
r. Truck Buyer
SEATTLE ASKS FACTS, TOO
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VALVE-IN-HEAD
yy& MOTOR CARS
OREGON
ROUTES
M
onnd City Will Send Thousands of
Motor Tourists Through Here,
. Writes Autolst, and Others
From Elsewhere Coming.
BT CHESTER A- MOORES.
Borne inkling of the general Interest
throughout the United States in the
feasibility of the respective transconti
nental routes leading- to the Exposition
cities of California may be had from
various letters of inquiry which pour
Into the hands of W. J. Clemens, presi
dent of the Portland Automobile Club
almost dally. '
A letter received by Mr. Clemens yes
terday from R. O. Smith, of New York
City, chief cleric of the bureau of tours
of the Automobile Club or .America,
follows:
"Wo anticipate an unusual volume of
transcontinental traffic during the
coming season and are therefore tak
Jng the liberty of asking- you for any
information concerning routes In that
section which you think would be of
interest to our members.
"We are particularly desirous of as
certaining the condition of the roads
over the Pacific Highway between
Portland and San Francisco, as well as
hotel and garage accommodations,
points of scenic and historical inter
est along the road, and any other in
fnrmation which vou think would be
good for us to have on file. Prints of
photographs which are suitaDie lor re
production in our Club Journal will be
especially appreciated as well as an ac
count of any short trips radiating from
Portland to points if interest.
"We would like also to ascertain if
there is a feasible run east from Port
land along the Columbia River to
Walla Walla and thence north to Spo
kane. What is the condition of this
road and are the grades excessive?
Likewise is the route from Walla Walla
southeast to Salt Lake-City via Baker
and Boise one which oan be covered
with any degree of comfort by an au
tomobile during July or August?"
Another letter came last week from
the Tacoma Automobile Club announc
ing that thit organization was con
templating making a run to Portland
during the coming Rose Festival and
inquirirg for detailed road and tour
ing Information.-
F. M. Fretwell. of the Seattle Auto
mobile Club writes that from indica
tions his club "will be able to send
several thousand tourists over the Ore
gon roads en route to California." He
also says that he had always doubted
the truth of Major Bowlby's report on
the condition of the Pacific Highway.
In the act of wrestling with count
less letters of road inquiry, Mr. Clem
ens heaved a sigh of mingled satisfac
tion and relief as he recalled that the
Portland Automobile Club will elect a
new president .April . at a meeting to
be held at the Commercial Club. Mr.
Clemens Insists that he will not accept
the office another time and C. F. Swi
gert is being urged to accept the post.
Did you know that every road super
visor is directed by law to erect road
signs at all crossroads within his dis
trict and that they are not entitled o
their pay until they have satisfied the
County Court that all such road posts
have been set in place? Such is the
case, according to a decision of Attorney-General
Brown.
Attorney-General Brown was asked
recently to interpret the' following sec
tion (6317 of Lord's Oregon Laws as
set out at pages 2276 and 2277 of the
code):
"Every supervisor shall erect and
keep up at the forks of every highway
and every crossing of public roads
within his road district a guide or
finger board, containing an inscription,
In legible letters, directing the way
and specifying the distance to the next
town, or public place situated on each
road, respectively; provided that the
road supervisions shall not be paid
after submitting their report to tile
County Court until they have shown to
the satisfaction of the court that the
provisions of this section have been
compiled with."
The Attorney-General says that the
words "shall" and "shall not" in the
above section are mandatory and that
it is imperative that all supervisors
carry out the duties imposed upon
them by the law.
To demonstrate their unselfish in
terest in the success of the $1,250,000
bond election, the members of the
Portland Automobile Trade Association
and of the Portland Garage and Re
pairmen's Association have launched a
campaign to secure garages and other
suitable spaces free of rent for polling
places, thus saving the county about
$S000 in the expenses of the election.
The former organization has agreed to
canvass the West Side precincts and
the latter the East Side districts.
Wherever possible judges and clerks
will be asked to donate their services.
W. J. Voit, of San Francisco. Pacific
Coast sales manager of Diamond tires,
was in Portland last week visiting the
Diamond distributors in this field. Ar
cher & Wiggins, Marshall-Wells Hard
ware Company, R. E. Blodgett and the
Western Coast Hardware & Auto Sup
ply Company. After a trip to Seattle
and Spokane he will return to Portland.
Mr. Voit reported that conditions for
. the tire business were better than he
had ever seen them, but that he had no
way of tell-ng whether or not the pres
ent prices, which are the lowest in his
tory, would prevail for any length of
time. He says the Diamond and Good
rich companies have never regretted
their step in leading the procession in
tho recent cuts in tire prices.
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About a dozen dealers in electric ve
hicles, central station and storage bat
tery people met at the Hazelwood last
Monday noon to effect a temporary or
ganization of the-Electric Vehicle Club
of Portland. Will Spalding, the Miiburn
and Walker agent, was chosen tempo
rary president. -Meetings will be held
each Monday.
.There will be no automobile show at
Seattle this year. Joseph M. Reig. who
-went to Seattle several weeks ago to
promote an exhibition there, has re
turned with the message that there is
"nothing doing." The Seattle dealers
gave the excuse that it was too late in
the season and Joe's insistence that
many Eastern cities were still to stage
Allows was futile.
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THERE is one man in Portland who
has a different automobile at his
disposal each Sunday in the
month. He is Orange M. Clark, presi
dent of the Clark & Wilson Lumber
Company, chairman of the Panama
Pacific Exposition Commission of Ore
gon and president of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Clark has been an enthusiastic
motorist for about 10 years and says
he has owned eight cars in that span
of time, as nearly as he can recall. His
first car was an old-fashioned Olds
moblle and he now has a Packard, a
Franklin, a Chalmers and an Ohio elec
tric to rely upon.
Last year Mr. Clark spent several
months touring .6000 miles through
Africa and Europe in his Chalmers.
Within the next 10 days he will ship
his car to San- Francisco and use It
in driving over California roads.
On week days Mr. Clark and his
family find adequate' use for ' his cars
and they are fond of passing Sundays
along Portland's boulevards and out on
the open roads of the country adjacent
to Portland. Every day Mr. Clark uses
one of his cars to carry him from the
mill along the Llnnton road to his city
office, where he spends, afternoons.
"Sometimes I begin to think I am
almost car poor," remarked Mr. Clark
Jokingfy yesterday as he slid behind
the wheel of his big Packard. "Bui i
guess I could hardly conduct business
any longer without them.
ADVIGEFORTOURISTS
Taking Meals at Regular
Hours Advocated.
BAGGAGE REQUIRES CARE
Owing to the great influx of 1915 or
ders, the Studebaker automobile facto
ries. In Detroit, are now working over
time. The company is employing as
many men as the capacity of the plant
wm permit and even with this large
farce tincls It necessary to work several
liours each evening.
Motorists Warned Against Xegptiat-
lng Slippery Koads Without
Proper Precaution to Pre
vent Skidding Accidents.
F. W. MUU.KR.
The pleasure of a two weeks' tour
through the country generally greatly
depends on the physical health of the
tourists, and there is not a better way
to keep this at par than regular meals.
Endeavor to take meals at the regular
hours. Breakfast may be a little early,
but if so have lunch at the noon hour
and not at 10 or 2 o'clock. It is hard
to get a good lunch at 2 o'clock, it takes
more time than 12 o'clock, and it not
so good.
It will always prove a good invest
ment to be regular in this respect You
will get better service and will keep
In better health. Going without lunch
is a poor policy. It means an extra
heavy dinner at night, wnicn, tonowea
by early retirement. Is anything but
good for 'the motorists.
The hundreds or tourists wno wiu
leave during the next few weeks on a
vacation will find greatly increased
pleasure on the trip if adequate bag
gage facilities are provided and if pro
vided in a rational manner. Organiza
tion in this respect is of prime impor
tance. If the trip Is to extend over a
few weeks provide yourselves with bag
gage trunks or suit cases especially In
tended for the work.
Care In Baggage Advocated.
If ordinary suit cases are taken and
thrown into the tonneau they will be
In a badly disfigured condition before
the trip is half over,' and it is ques
tionable if they will ever be respectable
for other services after the completion
of the trip.
It is money saveed to get suitable
baggage facilities - and to have them
properly fitted in place before the trip
starts. The rear baggage trunk Is gen
erally satisfactory; there are others
for the side of the car and others for
the tonneau. If spare tires are carried
on the rear advantage will have to be
taken of the running board and per
haps the space within the spare casings.
It is a good investment to have some
form of waterproof carryall to hang
from the robe rail at the back of the
front seat. Such a carryall will keep
extra coats and wraps free from dust
and protect them from rains. The added
comfort of such fixtures cannot be
overlooked. . .
When traveling tin wet, muddy or
slippery roads the motorist should drive
slowly and cautiously. Skidding is not
an airy fairy fancy of a fertile imag
ination. Every motorist who has ex
perienced the sensation of -having his
car frantically try to slide from under
him and go slithering into a tree, curb
or passing vehicle is well aware that
skidding is a dangerous fact that calls
for drastic preventive measures.
Skidding is the greatest danger that
besets the motorist. It comes without
warning, turns pleasure into peril and
takes enormous toll in human lives and
wrecked cars. . -
Skidding Pleasure' Foe.
To match man's strength against the
crushing power of a skidding car is
usually futile, often fatal, always folly.
Skidding is no respecter of person.
purse, time, place or conditions. Pride,
strength, will and bank accounts fall
before its relentless force.
Statistics prove that fully 90 per cent
of motorcar accidents and fatalities are
due directly or indirectly to skidding.
When a car starts to go it's usually a
"goner." There is no time to wait or
cogitate. There is no chance to adjust
differences between the car and the
slippery street. The only thing to do
is to surrender to the inevitable
Life can be lost but once frightful
Injuries may happen frequently. You
cannot afford to deny yourself, your
family or others the luxury of a physi
cal existence. You cannot afford to
coax calamity. Then why drive a car
unequipped to conquer the hazards of
slippery streets and roads?
You would consider it foolhardy to
drive a car with faulty brakes. Yet the
best brakes cannot prevent skidding.
There must be even and secure traction
action not merely brake action.
Brakes can only control the rotary mo
tion of the wheels. They cannot stop
the side glide of rubber tires.. Rubber
alone is not a skid preventive. Rubber
slips never grips. Rubber will agree
to anything the road has to offer. It
Is the weaker element. It slides on wet
pavements and roads like a cake of
soap rubbed on the moistened hands.
Rubber lacks the bite-and-hang-on
ability to prevent skidding.
Nothing has ever been created in the
way of anti-skid devices to equal tirj
chains. It doesn't require the gift it
second sight to see why this Is true.
AUTO COST IS 4 - CEXTS MILE
Chicagoan Tabulates Expense ol
Running Jeffery Fonr.
. For a fraction -more than four cents
a mile, actual out-of-pocket expense,
the owner of a Jeffery Four automo
bile has run his car a distance of 8000
miles In Chicago during the season
March 25-November 10, 1915. The items
entering into the cost statement are
as follows:
Variable EipfMe.
Gasoline (523 gallons) $ 73.30
Oil (20A eallons) 7.90
Grease 4.33
Tire expense . .. - lOl.oO
Toots and equipment.' li.47
Labor 27. us
Repair parts 3.80
IS
INTERCITY CONTESTS TO BE BIG
FEATURE OUT CIRCUIT.
Speed Event to Start In Portland May
1 Nine Town Included In List
for 1015 Races.
The Northwest Automobile Associa
tion has Invited a auto race con
testants to assemble in Portland the
last week of April for the opening of
the racing season under the auspices
of that organization. The itinerary an
nounced by Robert A. Hiller, manager,
is as follows:
Portland, May 1-2. '
Salem, May 8.
Vancouver, Wash., May 12-13.
' Centnalla-Chehalls. May 23.
Seattle, Wash., Ma- 29-80. . .
North Yakima, June 0-6.
Walla Walla, June 12-13.
Spokane, June 18-19-.
This arrangement of dates gives the
drivers two weeks in which to make
adjustments and tune up their ma
chines for the Tacoma intercity trophy.
It is the object of the Northwest
Automobile Association to promote
yearly intercity auto race meets over
this circuit; to encourage competition;
to bring together the fastest machines
and crack drivers of this section; to
discourage the racing team or hippo
drome methods of the past; to give the
spectators real racing contests at a
reasonable price and to conduct the
meets under sanction of the American
Automobile Association. .
Plans of an entire reorganization of
the Northwest Automobile' Association
next Fall are already being discussed
whereby directors from each city will
be elected. Manager Hiller has received
advices of the preparation of racing
machines from almost every city on the
circuit, with possibly two or more from
Tacoma,
The official entries for the Portland
meet will not close until April 26, but
it is known that Ernest Schneider, of
North Yakima, will send over the fast
car he purchased from Brock just after
the Tacoma meet. Seattle will send
several machines, including Jim Par
sons' Stutz, Chauncey Wright's Mer
cer. George Neep's Velle and Harry
D. Stratton's Mercer. Jean Romano's
Romano, which made a world's record
of 22 minutes 74 seconds for 25 miles
over the Rose City Speedway last June,
will be driven by Charles Latta this
year. Other Seattle, possibilities are
already in sight, with two entries now
known from Spokane. C. C. Clinton is
putting his machines In racing com
mission to uphold Portland's entries.
With the meet still six weeks away.
every indication points to a brilliant
auto race meet of actual contests.
Sleighbells Save Geese. From Mink.
COTTAGE GROVE, Or., March 20.
(Special.) Harry Parker, of Lund
Park, has discovered a certain method
for protecting his ducks from mink.
Not long ago he purchased a flock, but
noticed soon tha,t a duck was missing
occasionally, due to the mink in the
neighborhood. A friend suggested that
he tie sleigh bells on the ducks, and
since then they have not been molested.
Men attending the pans In salt ?rk
are generally supposed to be exempt from
cholera. i,maIlDox. scarlet fever and in
fluenza.
Total t 1237.78
Fixed Expense.
Taxes and Insurance $ 40.60
Rent of garage 3.02
Total
Grand total
Mileage (8000)
Direct expense per mile
Overhead expense per mile
93.S2
$331.4(1
. .1 .0297
. . .0117
Total expense per mile $ .0414
Mileage per gallon of gasoline.... ...13.3
Mileage per gallon of oil... ......400.0
An-itemized statement of the repair
parts may be interesting.
Spring for brake pedal.... .'. ,.f .40
Lieht bulbs (spare) 1.50
Gaskets - .30
Fan belt - tio
Fan belt - 1.4u
Fuses - .
Spark plug 1.00
Total ' . . . . :jjjjjjjJJLL1. 13.80
CHAIX ASSEMBLES CAR QUICKLY
Saxon Factory Speeds Vp Output by
Use of Xew Machinery.
An " electrically- driven endless chain
which will carry Saxon cars through
the- various assembling departments
with greater speed is the latest inno
vation at the plant of the Saxon Mo
tor Company in Detroit. The Saxon
Company has begun the Installation of
this apparatus. With its completion
this company will have the most up-to-
date and efficient assembling plant in
Detroit, it is said.
Plans for this "endless chain" sys
tem have been approved. 'and It Is ex
pected that the system will be com
pleted within a few weeks. This chain
will carry the machines through the
different stages of assembling from
the time that a Saxon is nothing more
than a frame, axle and set of .wheels
until it is ready, to be driven to the
loading dock. '"...".
Run for Your Life
For sure as you're horn.
Here comes the car with the Stewart Horn!
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DIAMOND TIRES
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The arrival of the new
Buick Truck marks a
new era in economical
hauling for the com
mercial world!
Representative business houses everywhere are
using them. Let us tell you of the Portland firms
that find the Buick way Cheaper, Quicker and
More Dependable.
$1375 F. 0. B. Portland With Howard Service
Howard Auto Company
MEL. G. JOHNSON, Manager
Fourteenth and Davis Sts.
Phones: Main 4550, A 2550
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Weighs nearly
a ton less
$1485
Price nearly
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because it weighs half. See it today.
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