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TITE SUNDAY OR EG ONI AX. PORTLAND, MAT 23, 1915. AUTOIST IS PAINTER SCENES ON ROAD FROM ASHLAND TO CALIFORNIA LINE BUICK TRUCK Capacity 3t Ton P. E. Sands Compelled to Erase Sign Put Up in Forest. 4 IS ft 1 v FORESTER OVERSEES JOB - ,r sV " J V-S? Achievement of Flanders 2 0 in 1912 Told In Work of Art on Canyon "Wall Plstasteful to Govern mcnt and Ordered Off. -Kp lit i . v V'-v J si ' a - Tit. . : . . : (m? Cam 1 , ;j ' .t f. i It is very seldom that the frovern raent interferes with automobile deal era but It did so in the case of P. E. Bands, President of the Waterhouse Sanda Motors Company, Seattle, Wash., a, few days ago when it forced htm temporarily to drop his business and became a painter just a common, or dinary painter at that. One day while, Walter G. Hellan. Forest Rangrer in the employ of the Iepartment of Agriculture, was pene trating the depths of the Wenatchee National Forest in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, in the State of "Washington, he discovered that some one had broken the rules of the Secre tary of Agriculture by painting a mam Tnoth ugn on a tremendous rock over looking Lake Keechelus, in the Cascade Mountain!!, which read "Flanders 20 I'irst to Hazclton I'acific Highway Pathfinder. Infringement I Noted The manufacturers of this car were duly notified of the infringement and when the matter was traced down the original culprit was foMnd to be P. 35. Sands, formerly branch manager ol the Studebaker Corporation, at Seattle, "who, in the Summer of 1S12, won the trophy offered by the PacTfic Highway Association by driving the first car through from Seattle to Hazelton, B. C. At the time this exploit was achieved the Snoqualmic Pass, which in the only Tiighway crossing the Cascade Moun tains in the State of Washington, was the terror of motorists throughout that state and its almost unsurmountable iif f iculties for motor cars had been heralded from one end of the continent to the other. Snoqualmle was the first huge ob stacle in the way of Sands' exploit, but as soon as he had overcome it he fig ured one of his great difficulties was over and blazoned his success on the mountain side, overlooking beautiful Lake Keechelus, by an inscription in dicating the success of his undertak ing. I'nlntinK Party Ormnlird. Even though the terrors of Sno qualmle Pass have been materially lessened by the construction of a prac ticable road, which In the Summer time will permit motorists to cross the Cas cade Kam,'o Into the western slope of Washington, on a through tour to Se attle, and then go northward or south ward as they wish, without difficulty yet at the time the order was issued by the Department of Agriculture for the removal of the sign the Pass was not feasible for automobiles. How ever, the Reynolds Motor Company of KUensburg, the first city across the mountain range, on the east of the slope, entered Into the spirit of the undertaking willingly and not only nent a powerful Studebaker "Six" with the painting-out party to the scene of the undertaking, but sent with it as an exemplification of the earlier trip to Hazelton a Studebaker Flanders "20." Both cars rode merrily over the road to Lake Keechelus, over what Is now known as the Sunset Highway, passing through valleys and peaks, cold and Hiiow-capped, until they reached the fated sign. The Forest Ranger, Walter 2iellan, assumed the duties of Master of Ceremonies; Mr. Sands mixed -up his little can of paint, pulled out his new hrusb. and proceeded to paint out th aign. The job was almost as arduous M.s steeple painting, for the sign was vrp 30 feet high, on a big rock, witfc slight chances for a foot hold and the work was accomplished only wlta treat difficulty. WESTERX TRIP IS DKSCRIBED Motorists rian Tonr to Fairs by Way of Oregon and Portland. From the Lincoln Highway Bulletin.) Beginning this year the people of the Kaetern United States will be able to plan and execute automobile trips across the Continent to any part of the Pacific Coast, and, once arrived here, they may safely and expeditiously travel throughout all parts of this country, from Sumas to San Diego and from Crater Lake to Carson City, over the splendid road system already de veloped and perfected. The Automobile Club-of Seattle has started a campaign for the rapid im provement of the Northwest Trail, join ing the Lincoln Highway at Cheyenne, Wyo.. cutting diagonally across Wyo jtiing. through the Yellowstone, and continuing across Montana, with a side trip to Glacier National Park, made possible by the road constructed by Flathead Motor Club of Kallspell; then through Washington by way of the Asnoqualmie Pass into Seattle. Journeying southward over the Pa cific Highway, there will be oppor tunities to drive in Rainier National Park and In Oregon to visit Crater I-ake National Park, besides taking a look at the famous Columbia River Highway, which begins at Portland. The Yosemite Valley Park is now avail able to motor tourists and is within easy distance of San Francisco. MAX, 7 0, BUYS lflS FIRST AUTO Wife, 68. A1m Plans to Become Adept in Handling Car. Having reached the three-score-and-ten years allotcd as the life span of the average mortal, Henry F. Busking, 172 J Park avenue, Indianapolis, recent ly decided that he had denied himself . The pleasures of motoring long enough. In company with his wife, who had just turned her 68th year, he visited the salesroom of the Steinhart-Eekler Company, dealers for Dodge Brothers. and purchased a new five-passenger louring cur. Mr. Busking, who is a master me chanic in the employ of a big Hoosier concern, told the Dodge dealer that he had put off buying a motor car because he did not believe they had reached the desired state of perfection. One by one he had watched his neighbors go over to the new fad. but he remained firm until he read Dodge Brothers' an nouncement some months back. 'Wife and I read over the specifica tions and decided that this was Just the car we had been waiting for." said Mr. Busking. "We always have wanted a car that both of us could drive, and with the electric starter, lights and other equipment on our new machine, there is no reason why my wife can not drive as well as I. We intend to become experts at this motoring busi ness within a short time." I-iebanon-Foster Anto Line Starts. LEBANON. Or., May 22 (Special.) Lebanon and Foster have a daily auto truck passenger and freight service. The truck leaves Foster at 8 o'clock each morning and arrives at Lebanon F " 1 fr C f 'J 1 ' i Ut'l " . ' PORTIONS OF BAD SO-M1LK ROUTE THAT IS BEING PAVED. While browsing around in Southern Oregon recently, lining ujj tire sales, Fred W. Thatcher, manager of the Portland branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, got hold of the first pictures illustrating the compre hensive road work that is nomr being carried on in the Siskiyou Mountains on the Oregon side. The pictures were taken by representatives of the Powell Auto Company, the Maxwell, Buick and Firestone agent at Ashland. To lessen the annoying grade over the Siskiyous. a new grade that will reduce the abruptness of the climb materially has been surveyed. When all of the preliminary grading has been accomplished the entire 20-mile stretch of road , from Ashland' to the California state line will be paved with the same character of hard-surface that has made the 20 miles extending from Ashland north throught Medford to Central Point famous far beyond the borders of Oregon. At present the work Is being carried on at a point about' half way between Ashland and the state line. "When the money appropriated has been spent to pave this road the worst stretch of the Pacific Highway in Oregon will have been erased and the Southern Oregon counties will set an example of 40 miles of paved road leading right up to the threshold of California. 1 about 10 o'clock: on the return, leaves Lebanon for Foster at 2 P. M., making the distance of 20 miles in about two hours. This new service is provided by J. A. Coulter & Son, of Sweet Home. "Bible" Is Followed in Auto Manufacturing Plant. Every Detail of Construction of Chalmers Cars Mont lie as Dig Book Directs. 'I the Chalmers factory . recently," said H. L. Keats, the local Chalmers and Saxon distributor yesterday. "I was going through the big factory and every once in a while I heard a foreman say, 'What does the Bible say about that?' "Of course my curiosity became aroused after a while and I asked the official who was with me what all this talk about the 'Bible' was. He smiled and took me over to a great big book. PORTLAND MOTORISTS CLAIM RECORD OF BEING FIRST TO REACH SEASIDE THIS YEAR. S. . ',' H -J nyT if 1 -! k s s i J. . vx- A. MI I.KOllD AND PARTY IN THEIR CAR. SEASIDE. Or., May 15. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. A. Mulford, of Portland, accompanied by Mrs. F. Prayton, formed the first automo bile party to arrive at Seaside this season. Mr. Mulford and his party left Portland last Saturday, morning at 4 o'clock and did not arrive in Seaside until 7:30 that night. In spite of the fact that the trip was a trying one. a trip beset with much deep mud and rough roads, Mr. and Mrs. Mulford and their guest, Mrs. Prayton, after passing a couple of weeks in Seaside, will make the return trip to Portland by auto. On leaving Portland Saturday morning, Mr. Mulford selected to drive his car over the old road. The first part of the trip was made over the road that leads to Hillsboro, but the party ' turned off before reaching there and passed through Buxton. From this point, al most all the way. It was a case of bucking mud and traveling over roads that were in wretched shape. At several points between Buxton, Banks. Mist and Jewel, the big car had to be dug out of the mud, yet in spite of this, Mr. Mulford, after having his car overhauled, discov ered the machine had stood up under the heavy going and, beyond a more than general coating of mud, had not suffered much. " - "-T'rt- one of the biggest and fattest that I ever saw outside of a museum. "It was the shop 'Bible' or Instruc tion book on automobile building from A to Z, and in all my career as an automobile expert I must say that I never saw anything like it anywhere. Every operation was detailed down to the minutest point. And after a de scription of each operation was the one word 'inspect.' And that word 'in spect' appeared thousands of times. "I never saw such inspection any where. We are accustomed to look on inspection as a once-in-a-while neces sity, but in this plant were enough in spectors to man an ordinary factory. And they were right on the job with microscopes and delicate measuring in struments, to make sure that every piece was just like its mate."' Claquato Road Traversed. CENTRALIA. Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) The first automobile that ever traversed the full length of the old military road between Centralia and Claquato was driven over it a week ago by L. E. Titus. The day before A , ft, . j. ,V JP -.-r" -in,-.- 3k ( .. 1-.-.... . r . vf . 'it 2S4'M 4 Centralia business men spent the day on the road, grading and clearing it. Mr. Titus, accompanied by George Wil liams, chairman of the road committee of the Commercial Club, had no trouble in getting through, showing the ef fective work done on Good Roads day. The Claquato road makes a most scenic drive. BARNET OLDFIELD IS PEEVED Famous Driver Sars American Will Not Pay Him What He's Worth. INDIANAPOLIS, May 22. Barney Oldfield has his dander up. He is peeved over the treatment accorded him by American motor car manufac turers, none of whom, he ' says, ap preciates his true worth and ability. "Why am I driving a foreign car in the Indianapolis races this year?" asks Barney. "For the simple reason that no one In the United States will pay me 'hat I am worth. All these Americans are afraid I will get all the publicity, to the detriment of their car. If taey had any sense, they'd give me a con tract that would make my name and the car synonymous, like the Peerless Green Dragon and I formerly were. Then we'd both cash in." Barney, incidentally, says he is far from being all in, as many of his friends and. he himself, by the way, once feared. He is confirmed in this belief by the fact that Lautenschlager, winner, of the last French Grand Prix, is 45 years old. Barney, being some Summers younger than that, thinks he will last a long time to come. RIDGKFIBLD ROAD SUTIVET OX Estimates Awaited on Work on Route to Be Built to Pioneer. RIDGEFTELD. Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) County Engineer Scwartz has been surveying the two miles of road to be constructed between Ridgefleld and Pioneer during the past week and the estimates on the work are about ready. As soon as the estimates can be completed bids will be asked, as the work is to be lot by contract. Considerable road grading is being done on the Pioner road east of Ridgefield, where it is intended to place a crushed-rock surface later in the season. The road between Sara and Ridgefield is being entirely re built and surfaced with crushed rock. An accident to the locomotive on the Sara logging railroad has held opera tions up for a few days, as the crushed rock is hauled to Sara from over the logging road from Knapp'c Station, on the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. HIGHWAY SIGNS BEING PUT UP Scenic Route Between North Yakima and Walla Walla Marked. WALLA WALLA. Wash., May 22 (Special.) Colonel W. W. Robertson and E. 6. Hotchkiss, of North Yakima, left Thursday for Lewiston. putting up heavy iron signs 24 by 30 inches, marking the scenic route. Ten were erected between North Yakima and Walla Walla. Each sign shows the distance from the point it is located to Spokane. Lewiston, Walla Walla, North Yakima and Ellensburg. Road to Be Built Near Salmon Creek. RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) Work on the six miles of new work on the Pacific Highway, Just beyond Salmon Creek will be started within 30 days. The Commissioners have obtained all the right of way necessary and bids were asked for on the work by the State Highway Com mission Wednesday. . x B. . .1. W .--Si -t- ' vx - w '... JC ' ".ISM . s . n- . ... Id fiWT.. . .... i Ol : r For the Jitney and Stage Man A VALVE-IN-HEAD BUSINESS CAR A Buick built for business purposes. Inexpensive to operate. Equipped with the Buick Valve-In-Head Motor, which insures fuel economy, more power and greater flexibility. This Buick truck is electrically lighted and correct in principle, embodying all the time-tried and proven Buick engineering euccesses. PRICE Including Express Body .With Wing Boards, Portland SI 375 Chassis (Complete Car, Less Body, Seat and Cushions), Portland $1273 Buick Trucks are' exactly suited for merchants and manufacturers, also for municipal state and public uses. Solve your transportation problems with a Buick Truck it costs less to maintain than a team and will do four times as much work. Howard Automobile Co. Fourteenth and Davis. AUTO ASSET TO FARMER RECREATIOV INCREASES WORK POWER, SAYS MAKER. John JV. Willys Thinks Isolation of Rural Life Overcome by Speed l Pleasure of Car. The motor car has furnished a wel come relief from the monotony of life which was long the lot of the average farmer. Although usually well-to-do the farmer found that his necessary isolation kept him from enjoying the full benefits of frequent association with his neighbors and friends. Kay means of communication were lacking. It is only within recent years that any progress has been made in this direc tion. It is the big need far relaxation and pleasure that the automobile has filled for the farmer. ' This 'point is made plain by John N. Willys, president of the Willys-Overland Company, which sells more than half of its entire out put to residents of rural communities. "The farmer does not have to stay at home if he has a car," Mr. Willys says. "He does not feel himself rooted to the soil. His wife and children will be happier and more contented. An automobile brings freedom free dom from isolation, freedom from lone liness, freedom from the limitations of time and distance. "To the farmer, a car Is far more than a mere luxury. It is a vital neces sity to him and his family. It offers a welcome relief. It makes him a bet ter worker by giving him recreation and pleasure he could not otherwise have. Its broadening mental effect is one of its greatest benefits to him. "Once the farmer has an automobile he soon finds himself looking forward to Summer evening rides with his fam ily with the cool breeze blowing away the fever heat of the day's work in the fields. He finds himself able to go on pleasure trips, to picnics and so on, with his wife and children, which hitherto he was unable to enjoy be cause of the distance to be covered in the time at his disposal. Many a man has reported that he doesn't feel the hard work of harvest time as much as he did before his car gave him the needed relaxation. . "A man can't get the same rest and relaxation out of a horse. In the first place, there is no relief for a farmer in driving a horse. In the second place, the chances are he is sorry for the brute. If a man has any sympathy and feeling for animals, he knows that they must have rest over night and on Sun days. A horse is too slow and the distance he can cover is too small for anyone really to get any great amount of recreation from an evening's drive. At the same time, an automobile costs money only when In actual use. unlike the horse, which is a constant expense. "In Winter Instead of hugging the fire, trying to keep warm, and dread ing the next trip he will have to make to town, the farmer can go and come with comfort and just as often as he plea ses." Touring Information 'T" don t ra'n tne roads in Eaet X ern Oregon are pretty sure to be O. K., but if it does rain at all hard you might as well make up your mind to stay in until the weather settles down again." This is tne adice given by Henry L. Mann, the Hajnes agent for this terri tory, who has just returned from ar. automobile trip from The Dalles to Pendleton and Walla Walla. Mr. Mann shipped the Haynes to The Dalles and drove it past the Celllo Canal across the beautiful Deschutes and John Day rivers to lone in one day. On this trip two SI toll stations were encountered, at Miller's Bridge and at McDonald's Ferry. Before leaving lone a cloudburst pre sented itself and the roads in that vi cinity' were almost bottomless with mud. In many places, Mr. Mann re ports, the car was burled to the run ning boards. As a whole, however, the roads were pretty good all the way from The Dalles to Pendleton, despite the unfavorable weather conditions. It was one day's trip to Pendleton, where he made delivery of the Haynes Light Six to C. V. McKinney. president of the Harney County National Bank, of Burns. "Then I left for Walla Walla and Spokane to attend the auto show at the latter place," said Mr. Mann yes terday. "The Spokane show was held in the famous Davenport Hotel and was a crackerjack. Mel G. Johnson, of Port land, who was present, shared thl option with. me. And you ought to see Mel G. Johnson. Mgr. the crops in Eastern Oregon and East ern Washington." Then he branched off on a lamenta tion of the fact that he was again en tirely out of cars. Koy Wilson, the veteran automobile explorer, says the roads of the Willa nuna and Yamhill River districts were in better shape last Sunday than ever before In the history of man. Mr. Wilson, who sells Nationals, Chalmers and Hupmobiles for the Iul-mage-Manley Auto Company, Inveigled C. J. Cook. It. W. Price and C. . 11a worth to step into his Hupmobtle for the trip. "There were only three places on the entire trip where I had to fall back on the low gear and all of those places were along the Rex-Tigard ville stretch." said Mr. Wilson after he had concluded elaborating on the number and size of the fish he caught. "We went by way of Amity instead of Jlc Minnviile and the road was in the best condition I have found it in seven years that I have been traveling over that way." There is one secret connected with the trip which it wouldn't be fair make Mr. Wilson subscribe to: there is a report current that the car covereu the 61 miles to Willamina In two hours and IS minutes, which the laws of simple arithmetic establish as a run ning average of 27 miles an hour. Henry Wagner. Jr., is said to have reached Portland from Eugene last Sunday in four hours and 18 minutes. This is remarkable running time for the distance, which speedometers usu ally record as 140.2 miles. The time made by Mr. Wagner with his big Packard is said to be the record for the trip. The previous record, also made by Mr. Wagner four years ago with his Packard roadster, was four hours and a half. W. S. Parks and wife, G. J. McHenry and. Miss J. Helmick. of Vancouver, IS. C, have just reached San Francisco after an interesting tour In a Chalmers car down the Coast Parks, in speaking of the trip, says: "While the trip was somewhat wild on account of weather conditions and tried our car to what seemed almost mechan ical limits at times, yet this season of the year is a grand one in the moun tains. "From Vancouver we went to Seattle, a run of 160 miles, SO of which was traveling over a boulevard. From Se attle to Portland the roads are good to Chehalis, but from the latter place to Portland we found cough going, especially along the Columbia River. Just as soon as the weather clears up this section of the road is to be im proved. "From Portland to Tbe Dalles we had to ship. They are working on the road and it will not be open until July. From The Dalles we went to Lakevlew over a good road. It is splendidly laid out, which can be appreciated when at the latter point we had climbed 400 feet on high and hardly realized that we were taking a grade. "From Lakeview we dropped rfiown Burd Ring X Opening X 816-817 Lewis Building xy - cvn " - ' Main 4555, A 2550. Into California by way of Alturaa. At the latter point, which is only 40 miles from Mt. lessen, we had a splendid view of that peak in Its eruption. " I'OKI) 11ACKK1) I'Olt IMW:SM)KNT Car Muker Sugsoled as Man to Put In liuelnoH MctlitxN. BOSTON". Mass., May S3. Henry Ford is being boomed for Preii.tnt of th-j United States. Hi: backer Is .lames Parker, prescient of the i'Mia;e Motor Compa ny, of Hoit'n, i:o Inserted the following advertisement in a recent Is sue of a local newsiHipcr: "I sincerely believe tnal Henry Ford should I)h elected President of the United Slates. I will y 15 for the best letter telling why lie should re ceive the nomination." According to Mr. Parker) he has re ceived a large number of letters from business men from over the coun try indorhing the proposed nomination of the l-etroil motorcar maker. In advocating Henry Ford for President. Mr. Parker say that the manufacturer philanthropist is better fitted to put the Government of the Unltetl States on a business basis than any other man eligible for the office. 9000 Cadillac Kiglits Produced. The number of Cadillac Eights pro duced and delivered, up to May 12. exceeded 9000. The ilrst cars of this model were shipped In October, the production necessarily beginning at the rate of only a few a lay. At present, 100 to 125 cnrB of the eight-cylinder type are built dally at the Cadillac plant. April " was the liirgeist month in the 12 years' history of the Cadil lac Company. Production- and ship ments for that month totaled 2325 care. You All KnowthePortlandRose but you don't know wlirif ou can jcet hiKhest rash market price for your crmp rubber and metal. Notice to Irrt nr Owner, Garirr, VuUanizer. Aulonibtl! 'om pan t.i, Huppty House and Rubber Ojrnpanl Wr can py you lh follow lug prices for scrap rubber: No. 1 fliilo lir-, a'i mandanl cuar.ntrd makes, free from trnd - on t p'. Mt I bi ud leather or unguaranteed auto tir, 4 fcj cents per pound. No. - and bolted -on type auto tire, !! standard guaranteed tnakeH, f Irom ateet stud leather or unguaranteed auto Urea, S centa per pound. We don't buy hard, oxidized or nnruar anteed auto tires. Pure rum live inner tubes free from cloth and brau. 18 rents per pound. Compound live inner tub, free from cloth and bras. 11 renia per pound. We Aon't buy from Junk peddlers or Junk dealers. A phono rati will brtna- our representa tive., who will call and buy what you hav. Positively Ihe larset, oldent and moat reliable dealrrs In scrap material In Oregon. J. 1JSVK, Wholrale 1ealerw In All tirade of Scrap Rubber, Metals and at Iron. Office and metal place. Columbia St. phone Main Dli. Rubber Warehouse. 2S Hall Ht. Iron Tarda, K. E. Corner Water and Mill Streets. will be standard in all 1916 Packard Motor Cars. Rings for any car now in stock at Portland. Ash your garage man to put a set in your car. Sales Co. Marshall 303