The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, March 21, 1915, SECTION FOUR, Image 56

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 21, 1913. TBVITT ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE OF NEW OVERLAND HOME TO RISE IN PORTLAND AND OFFICERS J. W. LEAVITT & CO. . OF How much per- f TO HAVE NEW HOME DELIVERED Mile? 8 COMMA Agreement Signed for 10-Year t Xease on Four-Story Build ing to Be Erected. GAY LOMBARD WILL BUILD Officials of Concern Handling Over land Cars and W illys Trucks ,' ' to Swell Portland Invest I ment to $250,000. J. Convinced of Portland's promising fir lure as an automobile distributing cen ter, the executive officer of J. W Leavitt A Co.. dealers in the Overland car and the Willys utility truck, have entered into & 10-year lease agreement with Gay Lombard for the use of four-story brick building that is to Cover 90 by 100 feet of Mr. Lombard's Vacant property on the southwest cor ner of Davis street and Broadway. -.- This announcement not only reflects the faith of the Leavitt company in Portland, but illustrates the realization f its officers tnat this city is deserv ing- of more attention. For five years the Leavitt organization has occupied a two-story brlCK building near Six teenth and Washington streets. Even though an adjacent frame building was added to the plant about two years ago, tiie company finds Itself cramped for space, and has ordered the Immediate erection of the new building, which will be ready for occupancy nearly a year before the lease on the present building expires. The action involves a certain sacrifice, but the company has decided to pay the year's rent on the vacated quarters and get what it can in return rentals. Plans Are Approved. .' Architects Jacooberger & Smith will complete the working drawings tor the new- Leavitt home in a few days and contracts for the work will be let as soon as possible. The plans and the lease have already been approved by J. ' W. Leavitt, president of the com anr. and by A. D. Plughoff, its vice- president and general manager. .. Accompanied by Mr. Van Bever, i representative from the Overland fac tury. Mr. Plughoff, who was the "mail behind the gun" in the proposal to erect the up-to-date plant, arrived hi Portland yesterday from Ban Fran Cisco, the head offices of the company, t put the finishing touches on the arrangements. - When the local branch of the Leavitt company moves into its new home, about June X, it will have one of the finest automobile plants In the North V'est, with a total floor space of ap proximately 35.000 square feet. The corner of the first floor will be f:tted up for the new cir salesroom, and a similar salesroom for used cars will have Its frontage on Broadway. In addition 25x00 feet of space will Be provided on the Davis-street side nearest Park street. ; The second floor will be divided Into the general offices and the stock de partment. Here nenrly $25,000 worth of Overland parts will be deposited so that any Overland owner may have any part, no matter how old his car may be. Third Floor to He Shop. - The third floor will be used exclu sively for the shop and a considerable Investment will be made in new ma- chinery for this department The ware house and the painting and electrical plants will be located on the fourth floor. The exterior Is to be of red and buff brick and the interior of heavy mill construction. The show windows will be of plate glass and a complete finish will be given the interior wooaworK an the lower floors. A large freight elevator is to be Installed to facilitate the ready handling of cars. . It is understood that the Leavitt Company has an investment of nearly (175.000 in Portland and that the in creased facilities and stock that i ill be required at the new plant will swell this investment to nearly $2o0.000. $4O,000 to $50,000 to Be Spent. Mr. Lombard will spend between 140,000 and $50,000 on the building, which Is to rest on valuaabla property In the downtown district. "After many visits to Portland I am thoroughly convinced of its future both as a city and as the heart of permanent automobile business of tre mendous importance, says Mr. Plug hoff. "You have wonderful scenic ad' vantages and many unusual resources that presage advancement. The only Important remaining need to mako this ; a, great country is good roads. l ou .can see what we think of Portland by ur present building venture. If we . uiren't sure of Portland s future, we ' L .J 1 W! i umu i, no uuAocxwa ut vxi uiq id- year lease. Although the Leavitt Company has . j been represented in the Northwest only about live years, it has become one ox the most substantial firms In this ter ritory. Much of the credit for thd phe siomenal success has been due to the M blgh character and ability of tho men who have been In direct charge of the Work in this locality. Mr. Prdlrr Here Two Yean. W. J. Pedler, assistant general man j.-ager of the Leavitt Company, who ex crcises direct charge over the entire Northwest territory, including Seattle, pokane and Portland, has been 1c rated in this city about two years. He lias been connected with the J. W. Leavitt Company 18 years, commenc . .Ing with Mr. Leavitt, as did Mr. Plug- , .lmff. when the company handled the Cleveland and Snell bicycles. Last year 500 Overlands were dls- " tributed in the state of Oregon and Mr. " Pedler feels certain that figure will 'bo reached this year easily. He has seven salesmen. 12 men in the shop and three in his office. , . Considering sales the country over. . February was the biggest month in the history of the Overland organiza ' i:on. February. 1915, was 31 per cent . better than February, 1914, and 100 per , cent better than February, 1913. MijHSMilSils w f1"-tin- ii ii ii m i MliiiiMii mi mi i ii i mm i iummnsMiMMwi wit'1' " " m - ."ft or -the Over-fen c$s4uomobi'2e. i feKiiiiiiiiiii v r? ' ' ft -t t r ROAD MEET' CULLED Delegates to Represent States at Convention. IGHWAY PROBLEM TOPIC 15EAVTV NOT NEEDED IX HORN Outside of Car Is Not Logical Loca tion for Alarm, Says Manufacturer. ' Beauty is a useless thing in a motor htrn, according to Will H. Oakes of the Oakes Company of Indianapolis, manufacturer of the Beartone horn and fan combined. Mr. Oakes, who will ' be in Portland soon on a personal trade Investigating trip through the West says, that the logical place for a "horn is not on the outside of a car. 'no matter how well polished It may t, but under the hood and In front of the motor. He says that manufacturers of cars dive shifted the horn from one nlace ; t another on the outside of the car in an unsuccessful attempt to find a con venient place to put it. Next they put It under the hood, but at the side of the motor, where the pressure from the fan chokes the sound of the born back Governors Indorse Movement and Commercial Bodies Elect Men to SessionFederal Aid and Leg . islatlon to Be Discussed. The third annual convention of the Tri-State Good Roads Association, com prising California, Oregon and Wash ington, Is called to meet in San Fran cisco during the week beginning A.ig ust 2, 1915, which is specially designat ed by the officers and directors of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi tion as "the Tri-State Good Roads Association day." Plans are completed for the congress of good roads which will be held at San Francisco during the week begin ning August 2. and which will be rep resented by more than 30 leading good roads and highway bodies of the coun try. This will be the first good roads congress of its kind ever held on the Pacific Coast. Bodies to Send Delegrates. Delegates from every leading good roads and highway association, the al lied Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast, supervisors and other of ficials will participate in the speaking programme of the congress. The purpose of the congress will be to bring a- representative body ef au tomobile and business interests to gether, where questions dealing with good roads and kindred subjects will be discussed. Matters of legislation. the question of securing Federal aid in constructing roads, the work of fur thering lateral roads, bond Issues and the subject of convict labor will be taken up in detail by the delegates. Invitations have been extended to 32 of the National Good Roads Associa tions throughout the United States, and cordial approval has been given by the V.J. Pedler; JSorihwesl Zfano per af Door of. Over&nc2 'Can chief executives of the three Coast States. Governors on Committee. The advisory committee in detail is as follows: Governor Hiram W. John son, of California; Governor James Withycombe, of Oregon; Governor Ernest Lister, of Washington; Robert Newton Lynch, vice-president and di rector California Development Board, San Francisco; C. C. Chapman, secre tary-manager to the Portland Commer cial Club, Portland, Or.; G. A. David son, president of the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego; James A. Barr, director of congresses of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi tion: C. B. Yandell, secretary of the Seattle Commercial Club; Joseph E. Caine, managing director Commercial Club, Oakland, Cal.; Frank Wiggins, secretary Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Cal. The officers of the association are: Captain Walter Coggeshall, president. Eureka, Cal.; Judge W. S. Worden, treasurer, Klamath Falls, Or.; Geoffrey Winslow, director, Tacoma, Wash.; J H. Albert, director, Salem, Or.; George E. Boos, executive secretary, San Fran cisco. Orders 22 0 Motorcycles. Two hundred and twenty motorcy cles ordered by one concern! That's just what the New Tork Telephone Company has done ordered 220 ma chines for the use of its collectors, messengers and trouble men. One of the other largest single orders for motorcycles was that of the Ford Au tomobile Company several months ago. The Ford company ordered 50 machines for use in its service department. HUDSON SIX MAKES HIT AN INTERESTING TEST PROVES WEIGHT OF MACHINE. Hudson Light Six 10 Talked About by Motorists and C. L. Bon Gives Figures Which Don't Lie. Many Portland motorists are still talking about the exhibit of the Hud son Light Six-40 at the recent Portland Automobile Show, where a standard model was placed on a large platform scale and weighed publicly in the pres ence of the visitors at the show. The weight of the car was 2860 pounds, equipped fully with the i ception of gasoline and water. The correctness of this figure is guaran teed by the Fairbanks-Morse Company, upon whose scales the Hudson was weighed. "An interesting test In this direction. which can be demonstrated anywhere at any time. Is to take four of the or' dinary small standard platform scales and place one wheel of the Hudson Six-40 on each of the scales," said C, L. Boss, Oregon distributor of the Hud son, yesterday. "The weights then will be found to approximate within a few ounces of the following: Right front wheel, 758 Dounds: left front wheel, 761 pounds right rear wheel, 762 pounds; left rear wheel, 758 pounds. This manes a to PORTLAXD DEALER PROVES LIGHT WEIGHT OF CAR BY UNIQUE METHOD. fc-s. L J i I -I - V4i- ITS - 'S.T-T-'TSt.S5 HUDSON LIGHT SIX REGISTERING 286a POINDS ON GUARANTEED SCALES. THAT'S the Tire Question in a Nut shell! Not "how much does the Tire Cost" "how much Rubber is in it" "how many layers of Cotton fabric" or "how many different Vulcanizings does it go through." Because, Results have shown that some of the Tires which have most Cotton, Rub ber, Weight and stiffness, give much less MILEAGE and Resilience than other tires made lighter by more expert workmen, through more direct and precise Methods. Nor is so-called "Mileage Guarantee" worth considering in purchasing of Tires. Because, no Tires are actually guar anteed to give definite Mileage, no matter what the surface reading may suggest. , Such "Guarantee" would be impractica ble with the best Tire ever made, or that ever will be made. This, unless the Tire User could, in turn, guarantee the kind of roads over which he would always drive, the kind of driving his Chauffeur would always do, and the air pressure he would always carry on each Tire. THE "Mileage Guarantee" is there fore a deceptive Misnomer. It does not guarantee given Mileage but is only a figure arbitrarily named "as a Basis for Adjustment" on Claims made for defective Workmanship or Materials. Read any of these "Guarantees" that are printed (or havj the verbal ones defined) and you will see that they don't guaran tee anything except that the Maker alone shall decide yerything such "Guarantee" is sup posed to cover. ."he larger the Milage "Guarantee" the - higher the price must the Maker charge, to cover (as with Life Insurance) the increased "risk" of replacing Tires that are reasonably sure to wear out, in considerable numbers, before they have given the "Guaranteed" Mileage. t The Careful Driver, over good roads and streets, would thus Pay more than the Tire is worth, so that the Reckless Driver, or he who must continually drive over bad. roads and streets, might get Mileage he is not entitled to, at the Careful Driver's expense. THE Goodrich Safety Tread Is the fairest-priced Tire, of similar Qual- ity, in the field. Ten to 30otrw than other Tires that give less Mileage on average performance, less effective Traction, with more Vibration, and greater tendency to separate the layers of Fabric and of Tread. . Compare the "Goodrich Safety" Mileage Cost with that of any other Tire in the field, and ACT on what the Comparison shows you. Note the following' table of comparative prices on non-skid tires. Columns headed CA," "B," and "D" represent four highly advertised tires t Goodrich OTHER MAKES Size Safety Tresj "A1 B" "C" D" 30Z3 9.45 '10.55 '10.95 '16.35 '18.10 30x3'2 12.20 13.35 14.20 21.70 23.60 32z312 14.C0 15.40 16.30 22.85 25.30 34Z4 20.35 22.30 23.80 31.15 33.55 36x4 28.70 32.15 33.50 41.85 41.40 37x5 1 33.90 39.801 41.801 49.85 52.05 Thim irnthm Famomm Goodrich Safttf Triad If yoa ire charted lets for any other maJca than Goodrich, they are taking it out of the tirej if 70a aro charged more, they ara taking it oat of you. . .kid,ar.jutr.j - itia ts. v. uuuurauti iu., Akron, Ohio ' Portland Branch, Broadway at Burnside St. GOODRICH FAIR-LISTED TIRES tal of 3029 pounds. Theae weights. owever, are for the car completely equipped, including full gasoline and water supply and with the spare tire on the aide." Mr. Boss says the Hudson Company always Is willing to prove any state ments made In its literature or in its advertising', and that this test of the car on the public scales is evidence of the correctness of the statements made as to light weight of the Hudson. RACER USES "CHAIX TREAD" Bob Armstrong Says "Race for Life" Permits Taking No Chances. Visitors in the Zone at the Panama- Paclflo International Exposition who have seen the concession known aa the Itaoe for Life," have been greatly im pressed with the ingenuity and dare devil driving that Bob Armstrong ex hibits in piloting his car around the track. Taking these death-defying curves in his Haynes car. equipped with United States "Chain Tread" tires. t a speed which most motorists would hardly consider safe on a perfectly level course, Armstrong administers innumerable thrills to throngs who dally congregate to see this hazardous bit of exhibition driving. "There are many things to be con sidered in my line of work," said Arm strong, "and primarily the one of safe ty comes flrst in Importance. I cannot afford to take any chances on having either my motor's or any of the car's equipment go back on me while trav eling at the rate I have to to climb the sides of the bowl in the "Bace for Life." $500,000 ROAD IS TIiAVXED Head of Umatilla Farmers' Union Revives Campaign. PENDLETON', Or., March' 20. (Spe cial.) President R. 0. Earnhart, of the Umatilla County organisation of the Farmers' Union, has revived the cam paign for the construction of a hard surface road from Pendleton to the Columbia Biver. The farmers of the Holdman. and Cold Springs section had completed tentative arrangements for building the road under a state aid plan but the failure of tlie Legislature to enact the necessary legislation spoiled their plans and the matter had been dropped temporarily. Now Mr. Earnhart comes forward with a plan to build a road to cost 1500,000. He would raise $100,000 by public subscription and would ask the county to Issue bonds for the rest. His plan calls for the construction, of a trunk line highway from " Pendleton north and went through the wheat country to Cold SprinKS landing-. This road is to be connected with the pres ent Pendleton-Walla Walla highway with a spur from noar Fulton to 8ax station, thus extending the benefit of the highway to a great portion of the wheat producing land of the county. DOUGLAS IS TO GIVE $20,000 Total or $40,000 to Be Expended on Pacific Highway in County. BOSEBUItG. Or, March SO. (Spe cial.) Following an appropriation of J20.000 by the State Highway Commis sion, with which to improve the Pacific Highway between Canyon Creek Can yon and the Josephine County Una, County Judge Marsters today an nounced that Douglas County would appropriate a like sum In the Improve ment of the road. it Is believed that $40,000 will con vert the present almost Impassable highway Into a smooth and serviceable road. Work has begun In Canyon Creek Canyon, and reducing and other wise Improving the road over Wolf Creek Mountain will begin In a few days. It Is ths plan of the County Court to have the highway ready early In May. Let Your Motor Car Reflect Your Taste However lovely and becoming: a gown may be, it loses its joy when duplicated. The purely personal element is gone. So with the car you drive ; to be really a personal possession it must be unlike others; it must reflect the taste, not of the multitude, but of its individual owner. You can have precisely that individual distinction when you own a Winton Six. 'Let us tell you the details in person. Two models, both sixes. The New Size at $2283, and the 48 II. P. at $3230 The Winton Motor Car Co. 23d and Washington Streets. Phone Main 4244 f (nto the trumpet . . r