The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, March 21, 1915, SECTION FOUR, Image 58

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Newspaper Page Text1 THE SUXDAY OltEGOXIAN', PORTLAND, MARCH 31. 191 J. . - 10 GRATER LAKE DRIVE ATTRACTIVE TRIP Roads to Be Clear-of Snow, Now 20 Feet, Probably About July 1. TRIP MAY BE MADE IN DAY PORTLAND AUTOMOBILE CLUB TO DEPICT SOUTHERN OREGON rrrrf777 srrfMfflfi?77s. - sSfffflffiTftfr ffJ77s. .v7?F ROAD SCENES IN ITS SCENIC OREGON BOOKLET. jffj fyMh JTy mT Pacific Highway Affords Route as I l ar as 3Iedford, Which Is Only Five Honrs Distant by Auto, t. Scenic Beauty Inspires. their own machines I Hpriile to drive to Crater Lake I Ts.rlrnal park one of the famous won ders of the West, have an unusual trip in store. Crater Lake is located about 5 miles from Medford,. in Southern Oregon, at an elevation of 6177 feet above the level of the sea. It may be easily from the west, east or ..nth itm nrincioal entrances branch- Ins off of the Pacific Highway at Mod lord, from Klamath Falls and from The Xhiiles-Califernia Highway at Bend or Redmond. . When is the best time to visit Crater t.vt s.ntember. perhaps, ine r.n srtends from July 1 to October, daring which time accommodations are open to the public. The roads in the park are generally blocked with snow until after June, thus rendering auto mobile trafric almost impossible. At present there are about 20 feet or snow in the park and the roads are ilways covered with from two to 20 ieet of snow except during the Sum mer months. Ordinarily the snow is not off the roads until about July 1. jind then the roads are often good until October. They are usually passable in the middle or latter part of June. Volcanic Crater Nearly Hid. Many attempts have been made to describe the wonderful beauty and ir resistible charm of Crater Lake. Beau liful and -wonderful as it is, the lake serves only to conceal in large meas ure the greater wonder, the stupen dous volcanic crater within which it rests. The rim of the crater is the wreck of Mount Mazama. t one time this was a majestic peak, rivaling and perhaps surpassing in height and grandeur either Mount Shasta or Mount Rainier. By an an ient volcanic cataclysm it blew its lieud off and then sank into the bowels of the earth, leaving a, rugged, irreg ular rim surrounding a caldron 4000 loet deep and nearly six miles in di- aIAnoficr island in the lake is called the Phantom Ship, a rugged, pinnacled jnonolith of basalt that bears a re semblance to a ship. It was formed from the rim of the crater by erosion before the lake had reached its present level. , Portland automobile fans -wishing to enjoy a Summer trip to the lake may follow the Pacific highway up the Wil lamete Valley, over the Umpq.ua divide and through the Rogue River Vailley to Medford. the metropolis of Southern Oregon. From here Crater Lake is only about a five hours" drive over sood roads. Portland Only Day'a Drive. The return drive to Portland may be made via the Pinnacles and Sand Creek Canyon and out through the east en trance of the park to Prineville, which can be reached in a day's run. From Prineville there is choice of routes. One may go to Mecca through the Warm Spring Indian Reservation to Slmnasho and over the Barlow road past lit Hood to Portland or may con tinue north through Hay Creek, Shan iko and Biggs, crossing the Columbia Silver at Maryhill Ferry. From this point the tourists may pro ceed west to ' White Salmon over a 6 per cent grade, cross again to the Ore gon shore and continue on to Portland over the magnificent Columbia high Way. A shorter, but much more dif iicult route to Portland is the pass up the middle fork of the Willamete River between Crescent and Springfield. Choice of Routes Afforded. ; The trip from San Francisco to Cra ter Lake by auto is equally attractive aind offers a choice of routes between the Pacific highway and the rout .through Sacramento and on to Susan--vllle. Lookout. Molln, Klamath Falls via Xake Tahoe. Eagle Lake and Tule Lake. Auto tourists from Eastern points jnay follow the Lincoln highway to Chl sgo. then the Yellowstone trail, through Milwaukee, St. Paul, Aberdeen, crossing the Missouri River at Mo bridge, thence to Hettinger and Terry, following up the Yellowstone River to Oardlner, Montana, the northern en trance to Yellowstone Park, Spokane, via Livingston. Helena, Thompson Falls, JJurke. Wallace and Coeur d'Alena. From Spokane there is a choice of routes. One can go west to Seattle over rhe Snoqualmie Pass and thence down the Pacific Highway to Portland, or Fouth via Spangle, Plaza, Rosalia, Thornton. Colfax, Dayton, Walla Walla and Pendleton to Biggs, crossing the Columbia River at Maryhill. Eastern tourists -who proceed direct to their objective, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, should, when leaving San Francisco for home, by all mean a proceed north over the Pacific highway, through'the great Sacramento Valley, up the Sacramento Canyon and across the Siskiyou Mountains to Med ford, Oregon. After a visit to Crater Lake there is the choice of routes north and east- KiCER GETS BRIDE AND WIXS Marriage of Darius Resta Followed by Victory on Track. INDIANAPOLIS, March 20. The triumph of Darius Kesta in both the Vanderbllt and Grand Prize races at S"an Francisco recently was one fea ture of a romance as picturesque as they make 'em. Years apo. in London. Resta was introduced to the late Spencer Wish art's sister. After a few brief mo ments of companionship they separated. Kesta returning to his work and she sailing for "the States" again. A cor respondence ensued, however, which kept-th pair much engrossed. Evi dently Cupid had landed hard. Yet no opportunity presented itself to meet again. With the outbreak of the war, however, and the consequent abandonment of racing abroad, the moment finally arrived. A fat Amer ican contract was ottered to Resta and lie immediately set sail for the prom ised .land, where both a fortune and a bride, .awaited him. The bride came first. Resta and Miss Wisnart being married shortly after Jilo arrival. The fortune followed soon-aftcrward with Resta's dual tri umph at San Francisco. Should the Englishman be able to keep up his sensational work at Indianapolis, where a gross purse of $50,000 is ot tered, he will be "fixed" for life. ..Many Riders Join F. A. M. During the month of February 42? riders became affiliated with the Fed eration of American Motorcyclists. There were also 218 renewals, making the total number of cards issued during 'A th: month 4. This snows a gai over the corespondlng month last yes. u iv't " wvfi- r f v Will I j&$iy?-? 1W"M'W'''''''I"J J S I.iH.'Vl l&M ?flfr? v , : Jl - JmS xvr". "- :ff l4;,v- 4 -4 -Jk&7 .. TOJi.m ,,. ..,,. .u,lt,,,tJ, ...... , .iM-OywriMuui.,- ., .ey- whwSC-'s JChiL Improved 'S?oacfan la?8?- SSW Ore9oSZieZ.,n ' ' Xf : - in L.alirornia Ml VIEWS TAKEN Automobile Club Booklet Promised Soon. Is COMMERCIAL CLUB ASSISTS Fair Literature Declared to Be Too Descriptive and Oregon Contrl tmtion Will Be "Almost Entirely Pictorial. BY CLEMENT TV. AUSMAN, Secretary Booklet Committee. Now that the Commercial Club pub licity department Is assisting the Port land Automobile Club booklet commit tee, it will not be long until the novel publication will be off the press. Dur ing the past week representatives of the organizations have been out get ting new pictures and other matter for the booklet. The highways about Portland have been covered and some of the hustlers have been in Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Hood River, The Dalles. Bend, Redmond and Prineville. As Eugene will be a stopping place for many because of the side trips to be taken to Foley Springs, to resorts along the McKenzle River and to num erous other places, extra space will be given that city. Albany will be featured, as there are many mineral and -hot springs in its vicinity. At this time it is hard for the Ore gon people to realize that Jackson County, in Southern Oregon, has more LOW-PRICED ELECTRIC CAR MAKES INITiAL APPEARANCE IN PORTLAND. Vw Y'-vrf- f : V- zr V H4 J "V t VI ILL SPALDING. PORTLAND AGEXT, STKPP1G BIKX DEMOXSTRATOR. The low-priced electric pleasure vehicle made its advent in Port land last week when Will Spalding received his Milburn Light Elec tric demonstrator from the Milburn Wagon Company, of Toledo, O. Mr. Spalding is an experienced "electric man" but he entered the automobile business in Portland only last October, when he took the line of Walker Electric Trucks, which he will continue to handle in conjunction with the Milburn. Mr. Spalding formerly was manager of the electric light company at Tillamook and afterwards a construc tion engineer with the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company. The Milburn is the world's first light electric," said Mr. Spalding, as he stepped out of his demonstrator yesterday. "It weighs nearly a ton less than the large, heavy electrics. And, because of Its lightness, it costs half or less than half, to operate and maintain. The Milburn Light Electric is not simply a smaller edition of the ordinary electric cai- It is a new idea in electrics. ' . "In it the usual excess weight and bulkiness have been eliminated by radically different designing and the use of better materials. "Our chief engineer passed months in Europe, studying and inves tigating the most advanced ideas and methods of the foreign auto- . mobile manufacturers. The best of what he learned abrcad. as well as the best of American practice, is incorporated in the Milburn Light Electric." than 15 miles of hard-surfaced roads, being th,e first county to take up the question of permanent roads in a prac tical manner. New grades through the mountains to the California-Oregon line have been made and all bad patches and turns eliminated; in fact, the ter rors of the Siskiyous are a thing of the past. Pacific Highway Improved. All last Summer work progressed on the Pacific Highway throughout the length of the state, and, while the whole is by no means hard-surfaced, much of it has been improved. Auto mobiles have always been able to travel the highway throughout the touring season, and this year will find the trip much easier than it ever has been. All this contrary to State Highway Engineer Bowlby's letter to a Seattle automobilist, saying that the Pacific Highway for quite a distance in Ore gon would not be passable for tourists. The Seattle Automobile Club has writ ten to individual towns along the route asking full information regarding the real condition of the road, as they evi dently did not put much credence in the engineer's letter. There will be enough travel, both by visitors and local motorists, through the state for the communities along the various routes to take care of and giving preferences of one over the other when all are passable is apt to create bad feeling between the vari ous sections. . . Three Ronces to Be Described. Our booklet will describe the Coast road, the Pacific Highway and also the Central Oregon route so that the pros pective visitor can select the one that most appeals to him. Some will want to be within hearing of the roar of the breakers on the beach, others will want to drive past farming and fruit grow ing sections and again there will be those who delight in the wilderness of Central and Eastern Oregon where deer, coyotes and cowboys gaze at the passing automobile. Commercial and auto clubs through out the state are materially assisting in the stupendous work of getting out this book on Oregon's scenery. All are enthusiastic over the idea for it is one that has never been tried anywhere. 1 FROM HIS MIL. I i Studebaker Features Electric Lighting and Starting Full Floating Rear Axle Timken ' Bearings SafetyTread Rear Tires One-man Type Top. Studebaker ROADSTER, - $ 885 Studebaker FOUR, - - 984 Studebaker LIGHT SIX. - - 138S Studebaker SIX 7 passenger, 1460 F.O.B. Detroit Usually the scenic spots of a state are interspersed with statistics. time tables and cold facts about so much wheat growing on a certain acreage, so many onions growing in a small patch and such and such a herd of dairy cows producing in a year so many pounds of butter fat in their milk which brought in revenue a certain number of dollars over and above the expense of feeding the aforesaid cows. Descriptive Books Numerous. . We have advance information from the Exposition authorities there are 7877 books, more or less, of that de scription being placed in the pockets and handbags of the Fair visitors daily and we know full well that the holder will not have an opportunity to read, if he cares to do so, for nearly three years after his return home. He wants to see what's to be seen In the shortest possible time and there fore will read at once anything that assists him in reaching nature's yard. It is with this idea in view that the booklet editors are compiling their copy. They are gathering concise facts about roads, directions, distances and the most desirable and wonderful of Oregon's many wonders. The views will be new and artistic CAR HELD TO SLOWEST TIME Cadillac Slakes 1.86 Miles an Hour In Seattle, Wash., Test. Since the introduction of the Cadil lac Eight motorists have heard much about the continuous flow of power produced by the eight-cylinder engine and a recent test, demonstrates the great flexibility of the latest Cadillac motor. This took place In Seattle. Wash., and was conducted by M. S. Brigham, of that city, with a Cadillac carrying five passengers, three of whom were designated observers. For a distance of 1211 feet, on a level pavement, the Cadillac, in high gear, averaged a speed of 1.86 miles per hour. At times the speedometer registered as low as one mile, fluctuat ing between that mark and two miles per hour over the entire distance. Af ter the car had been throttled down the driver left his seat and for an ei tire block walked backward in front of the slow-moving Cadillac, which pursued its way without attention to throttle or steering wheel. The time consumed in making the distance of 1211 feet was eight minutes. .i.ht nH ,htAA-ef tha nocnnfis bv the stop watch held by one of the ovservers. This is said to be a new low maw ior a motor car trave'ing in high gear. Motorcycle 'Military Corps Xext. Colonel Mortimer Delano, chief of the First Aviation Corps. United States Army, has started a movement to or ganize motorcycle companies from all of the F. A. M. clubs for volunteer military service. If the enthusiasm with which the scheme has been re ceived by the clubs to which it has so far been presented can be used as a guide, the movement will meetwith unlimited success. For instance, in Mil waukee when Colonel Delano presented his plan, 35 riders, immediately agreed to Join the corps and it is anticipated that the majority of the remaining members of the Milwaukee Motorcycle Club will also enlist. i registered last year ' That's what California thinks of the cars that Studebaker builds. And it represents MORE cars than most man ufacturers produce in a whole year. And MORE sales than were made in California of any other car that sells for more than $500. It's a record that Studebaker justly takes pride in. For California is one spot in the country on which every maker of cars focuses his strongest efforts. The buyer in California' has his choice. of every car that's built in the United States. And to OUTSELL every other car priced at more than ;V$500 in this keenly contested market means iust ONE thins: that Cali- t Hi. P:H P3 K H H (S hi fl -99 M- JP 7 r-vit jfsr jfj jr-n Tzar au".y,:: :.ju THE OREGON MOTOR Chapman at Alder Street, Portland Dealers. Phones WiiMiiiJAawpFaaavJlijJitx.lllilJPiyii.ii WAY TO SALEM Average of 12 Miles an Hour Reported Over Highway. LOW GEAR IS LITTLE USED Conditions Along Pacific Koute Jn Southern Oregon Is Reported as Rapidly Mending Cold Opens Koad for Time In Winter. Judging from reports emanating from those who should know the roads from Portland to Salem and from there to Cottage Grove are now in passable condition and another two weeks of favorable weather should correct all present deficiencies. The Oregonian is advised that Mr. and Mrs. Barton Riggs made the trip T'nT-tinTiH to Snlom over the Pa cific Highway (east side) a week ago yesterday in their Fora macnine. reti ring tire trouble they averaged about 14 on tinnr and fnnnfi nnlv abOUt one-fourth of a mile of low gear near Brooks, in Marion uoor.iy. Mr. Riggs reports that workmen are now dragging the roads and hauling gravel. This, together with the large amount of graveling done during the Winter, should make the east side drive excellent for tourists during the coming Summer, he says. While in Canby Mr. Riggs met an Overland en route for Portland. - Hisbway Section Reported Better. O. B. Woodson, proprietor of the Cottage Grove garage at Cottage Grove, who was a business visitor at the local Buick ' agency last week, re ports that road conditions along the Pacific Highway in Southern Oregon are improving rapidly. Although the Southern Oregon leg of the cross-state trip is not yet open for through traffic, he cays it will be passable within the next 30 days. vr. xxTnnA urtri cava thnt the Pacific Highway from Portland to Cottage Grove Is passaoie ana mat me ucal two weeks will find this stretch of highway in excellent condition. The highway southward from Cot tage Grove is passable to a point be yond the stretch of road built at the northerly approach of Pass Creek Can yon last year. There is a distance of probably half a mile in the Pass Creek Canyon where the mud is so deep that automobile tourists have been compelled to resort to towing. Cold Makes Stretches Passable. it. KTC7tnAfn TAnnrts that SL most unusual condition prevailed on two oc- caslons auring ine pai nucr. wui" Irar the two long cold spells of Win- tkA .nail thrnlle-hnnt tht Pflfiififl Highwey was frozen so that a number f ornia has accepted the Studebaker Car as the BEST year-round car that is manufactured. To the man who is just buying a car, this wonderful preference shown for Studebaker is much more conclusive than a score of victories in races, for the simple reason that this preference is based not on a specialized perform ance by a specially doctored car but on a regular car's reputation for year round, day-after-day service on any roads, in any weather and at any time of the year on' the EXTRA service and longer life and CERTAINTY of operation and the scores of little refine- ments ot design tnac are car 0 will nv iMta vmi ltk hltU m at anv road,. Llka to hava VOU dHv m..U too. That'a br c.-K.1... r... n....nM Mfrv othar a wide m.rain last year and why Studebakar ear. ar aucb (avarlta la California. Coma in or phoae for a car. of automobiles passed both up and down the road, but with the thawing of the road it again was rendered im passable. A departure in freight transporta tion has Just been inaugurated at Cot tage Grove. A truck has been placed on the run from Cottage Grove to the Bohemian mining district. 35 miles east, almost on the line between Lane and Douglas counties, and all supplies for that camp now will be taken in by motor transportation. Three Wheels Used on Trip. A. Q. Herring and L. J. Amsboy have arrived in Pomona, Cai., on the last lap of their transcontinental motorcycle trip from New York to San Francisco. JE'FFERY COMFORT Ba:;::-: 141 'field six which is not only heavy and luxurious but so shaped as to give support to the passenger's body where it most needs support. In other words, after endless experiments the front and rear seats have been tilted just enough to give a restful position, even after long hours of riding. Furthermore, the curve of the upholstery fits and supports the back in such a way as to remove the temptation to slide down in the seat in order to assume a comfortable position. The effect is much the same as that of a well-designed and upholstered rocking chair. THE THOMAS B. JEFFERY COMPANY Main Office and Works, Kenosha, Wis. Frank C. Riggs Company Distributers for Oregon and So. Washington 23d and Washington sta, Portland, Or. duih into uus But 8KB th ears for vAurmalt Rtda In them. W cladlr put nr at th. crthr' to maka th thm ud anr tit tha beat war to tall WHY ear aalllna- at ovar a.00 br uch CAR CO. Main 9402, A 7656 They are traveling on a motorcycle with sidecar and carry a message from the Mayor of New York City to tha Mayor of San Francisco. Fire Buslncfi Require Many Hand. To raise and manufacture the cotton required by the Goodyear Tire aV Rub ber Company for tire fabric and other factory work requires the labor of 4676 persons, distributed as follows: Raising cotton, 4H00; manufacture of fabric In cotton mills. 1000. Durlnr 1814 the company used 7.G00.OCO pounds of fabric, which. If laid out In a strip a yard wide, would reach farther than from San Francisco to New York. Tha baromfar waa Invanlwl tn Ta.4.1. A ,style carriage must ride comfort- The Chester- is a car de- Ion? coun- try driving as well as city use. 1 nai is why you will find cantilever springs used and unnolsterv ably. of 238.