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WHEN the automobile was in
what now might be called the
ancient history stage E. J. Jae
jrer, member of the pioneer jewelry
firm of Jaeger Bros., bought hia first
car, one of the first two-cylinder tour
ist autos that ever graced the streets
of Portland. Since then he has owned
two Studebakers and now he pins his
faith to a Reo.
Mr. Jaeger served his constituency
in the State Legislature twice and was
until recently president of the Port
land Retail Merchants' Association.
For a full quarter of a century he has
been engaged in the jewelry business
in Portland.
Almost every Sunday the year
around Mr. Jaeger and his family use
their car for a trip here, there and
everywhere. Last Summer they made
a three weeks' record 400-mile round
trip up the McKenzle River and they
have explored various other remote
sections of Oregon.
In the near future he will commence
running back and forth between Port
land and his newly-erected beach home
at Gearhart and In the latter part ot
August Mr. Jaeger and his family ex
pect to drive to California in their lieo.
Although Mr. Jaeger Is happiest
when touring overland In an automo
bile he is not opposed to other modes
of travel. Two years ago. when the
Shriners held their convention In Hon
olulu. Mr. Jaeger accompanied his fel
lows on a tour of the Orient and the
islands of the Pacific. Many of the pic
tures he took on this trip were pub
lished at that time, together with In
teresting descriptive articles on the
life in the KaL
WONDERS OF AUTO TRIP AROUND MOUNT HOOD TOLD
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lumbia River with most of it shut from
view. The present grade around Mit
chell's Point Is a corking climb of 25
or SO per cent, and all motorists should
hail the announcement that the new 6
per cent grade through the wonderful
windowed tunnel will be open for autos
very soon. The six miles from Mit
chell's Point into Hood River are 'pleas
ant driving.
At 40 minutes past 8 o'clock, while
the people of Hood River were just
about stirring around to get breakfast.
we new through the main streets, stop
ping only long enough to learn from a
garage man the which and why of the
road to The Dalles.
Soon we came to a long hill that
overlooked the picturesque Hood River
Valley. We seemed to be at the back
door of Mount Hood. This superb land
scape was visible for several miles of
upgrade that did not end until we
reached Grand View farm, which is
located five miles out of Hood River at
an elevation of 1500 feet.
Not long after we left this vision of
the green Hood River Valley in the
background the verdure of the hills
commenced to fade away gradually
into the typical bleakness of the great
Central Oregon country. Lava rock on
the hills was an evidence of this tran
sition Still, however, we could see
the Columbia River. The road all the
way from Hood River to The dalles is
fine, and no tourist should fear it, pro
viding his motor will pull up grades
that run as high as 20 per cent and he
has brakes that will hold the car on
the down-grade. This stretch of the
Columbia Highway is smoother than
the same highway from Portland east,
though, of course, the grades are older
and narrower. The word boulevard best
describes this road.
Hbrinem in Charge of CUy.
Our. speedometer at Hood River had
registered B9.1 miles and at The Dalles
it showed 93.4 miles. We arrived in
The Dalles several minutes before the
clocks struck 10. A band of Shriners
had captured the city on their way to
Portland, and the onslaught wa oasv
pickings, for few of the citizens were
about so early. We scratched our
heads seriously as we realized that we
had driven all the way froi- Portland'
that morning. , As we drove into
garage to load up with gasoline and
verily the fact that no one had looped
Mount Hood ahead of us, we ran across
" Oro Holdinan, who selU Firestone tires
' in Portland. "Judie" had driven hla
Buick up from Portland over the high
way the day before and was about to
return over the same route.
Here's a good Joke on The Dalles.
Just after we had congratulated our
selves on the fine quality of the road
from The Dalles to Hood River, w
asked the garage men how the road
was to Dufur and- Tygh Valley. They
.. replied that it was oniy fair, but on fur-
- ther questioning they assured us that
? it was much better than the road
- from Hood River. They said the road
p from Hood River, to The Dalles wasn't
, thought much of in that country. All
of which goes to prove the character
of Central Oregon roads, which were
evidently born good and just grew up
like Topsy.
If you go through The Dalles soon,
Inquire whether or not Second street
- the natural avenue of exit, is still
.-being worked on. We found that it
c was and were compelled to go out
Jackson street to the bluff overlooking
...ths Celno Canal location.
Before the canal is reached the Du
- fur road branches off to the right and
""all at once the traveler gets at real
whiff of sagebrush. At this point
the writer was prompted to doff his
coat, and after we had traveled for
hours through the desert-like country,
he suffered for his carelessness. Ever
hear of a fellow getting his entire
back sunburned through his shirt?
Well, that's what happened to me
last Sunday, and every Jolt antl lunge
that the car took through those 30
miles back of Mount Hood recalled
and re-enacted the thrashings of by
gone school days In addition to the
hypnotism of this desolate country be
tween The Dalles and Tygh Valley a
surprising feature was a 20.000-acre
orchard of apples Irrigated under the
direction of the Dufur Orchard Com
pany. And the snow-capped mountains
were still in view.
Roads Drrlrrl Wonderful.
I venture that the average Western
Oregonian will be as much impressed
and Interested by this Central Oregon
country as Dy anything else seen on
the wonderful loop. The roads ud
there are "roller coaster" creations with
great rolling wheat fields banking either
side of the road. A man can take a hill
in this country without fearing a jar
ring Jon at the bottom.
As you enter the mysterious Tvgh
Valley you can almost believe that
you are in Arizona. We entered the
Valley over a long and steep down
grade that would probably frighten
the ordinary traveler. While Mr. Wag
ner was Jumping out every few minutes
to take a picture along this road.
'Heinie" blew his honk contraptions
full blast and the situation was such
that it took nearly two seconds for
the echo to reach us from the other
side of the great, bald canyon.
The road is narrow in this country
and woe unto the man who allows one
of his wheels to get even a whisper
over the ridge. And every member of
The Oregonian crew wfll never forget
how nearly we came viewing a catas
trophe of just this sort.
As Heinie was letting the big Pack
ard drop slowly down the long grade
we saw a. band of gypsies stalled on
the same road at a point some quarter
of a mile across a gap in the canyon.
The men in the party were waving
their arms at us almost frantically,
and we guessed at once that some
thing was up. As we swung around
the next curve we discovered that
eight wagonloads of gypsies were try
ing to pass a Federal truck that was
loaded to the guards with furniture
en route from The Dalles to Tygh
Valley.
The entire outfit had been held up
for an hour and a half on the curve
while the gypsies were changing four
wheels oi their wagons. We drew up
behind the truck at the curve and
jumped out to do what we could to
help solve the riddle. There's wasn't
much room to pass at best, but in this
Instance great gobs of furniture
bulged out at the 'side of the auto
truck and there 'wasn't much room on
the canyon side of the road. At one
time while we were there the hind
wheels of one of the gypsy wagons,
while trying to pass the truck, was
within an inch of the ridge, and we
looked any moment for a big crash.
ItondM Continue to lie Flor.
Finally the four horses were un
hitched and the wheels of the wagon
Jacked up and thrown in a few Inches.
Then all men present literally put
their shoulders to the wheels and the
wagon was half carried, half pushed
around the brink. At last the eight
gypsy wagons had slid past 'somehow
or other and had bIho managed to pass
a horse and buggy that was waiting
higher on tho hillside.
; The gypsy band had a small circus
outfit that they had driven all the
way from California en route to Pen
dleton. They had their ticket wagon,
queen gypsy and all. During the tens
est part of the mixup at the curve the
queen gypsy, who was driving the sec
ond wagon. yelled across at the
woman who had been riding with her
husband In the truck.
"Want your fortune told, lady?" ah
asked. .
"I should say not. I think we hare
fortune enough right here." came the
reply. And all of us were too serious
to smile at the retort.
After leaving the town of Tygh 'Val
ley a little farther on we were treated
to some views of sagebrush country
which we interpreted as "grand can
yon stuff." The road continued to be
line all of the 13 miles from Tygh Val
ley to Waplnitla. which we reached at
a minute past 1 o'clock. At that time
we had traveled 140.S miles after eat
ing a hasty breakfast at Portland, and
I warf hungrier than Joe Knowles ever
pretended to be.
But the road was so good and we
were making such good time that
Heinle held rlrmly to his previous an
nouncement that we would reach the
heart of the mountains before stopping
for lunch. I almost despised Heinie for
"them cruel orders." but I hadn't had
any share In putting up the lunch and
the darned old automobile wasn't mine,
so I didn't have much to say about my
Innermost feelings.
Government ("nmp Soon Rrarkrd,
Several "years" after passing Wapl
nitla, at eight minutes before two, to
be exact, we did stop along Bear Creek
for lunch, and such a lunch other mor
tals never enjoyed. It wouldn't be
quite fair to announce everything that
we enjoyed during this repast excent
to confess that there was an endless
supply of a half dozen different kinds
of sandwiches, all sorts of salad, a
couple of bottles of coffee anl another
course that seemed appropriate after
a trip over the Columbia Hlsrhwav.
We stopped here for considerably
more than an hour and were driving
in and out around the pine trees for i
hour and a half before we came to
Frog Lake, a wonderful sight that none
of us had heard of before. This lake,
BIG COLE EIGHT DASHES THROUGH PORTLAND EN ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO.
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Rothweller, the Seattle
M. ROTHUEILER AND PARTY OK SEATTLE IX THEIR CAR AD :. M
XORTHWKST ALTO CO.MPA.MY AT LEFT.
"I call this rig the first real automobile tht T hnv vr iirivan"irmi.i.j tt xr
agent for the Cole, as he curbed his Cole Eight In front of the Northwest Auto Company last week." after having
driven the car overland from Seattle en route to San Francisco. ,
... ne "aas soutn of Kelso, Wash., were made mighty bad by the recent rains, but they were 'duck soup' for
this big wagon."
,, -.U!?, JT' Rothweller on his trip to California are Mrs. Rothweller and two children, his mother-in-law and
Mr c. M. trailer, all of Seattle. They left Portland over the . regular Pacific Highway, and will proceed over
that course all the way to San Francisco.. ,
f4DTDR CAR
It was our expectation, from the first, that this car
would play a large part in determining motor
car values.
We said as much in our advertisements almost a
year ago.
We expected it to set up in the public mind a model
and a pattern of what a car of moderate price
should be.
We expected that it would encourage buyers to
judge motor cars by the standard of quality
not by price.
Surely the results have more than realized our
expectations.
Surely you can see that the car is considered a
criterion of what constitutes real worth.
Once a man has driven the car, - even for a few
miles, nothing can distract his mind from its
performance and its quality.
He thinks of the price only in relation to the re
markable value it buys.
That is why the first 20,000 fell so far short of sup
plying the demand.
That is why the second 20,000 are being absorbed
with equal eagerness.
DDDGE.BRDTKER5. Detroit
The price of the car
complete is $785
Lo.b. Detroit
Covey Motor Car Co.
Washington Street at 21t.
Tills Is Cleamop Week
-See the Bargains We Offer-
Used Aotoimolbile
We have a few used automobiles, which have been exchanged on new
CHALMERS SIXES. They are late model, dependable cars, in good condi
tion, and are being offered at very attractive prices. Terms if desired. In
cluded are such makes as:
CHALMERS MARMON
PEERLESS SAXON
CADILLAC BUICK
BAKER ELECTRIC
In justice to yourself, you should look these cars over and get our prices.
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tucked away behind Mount Hood, is a
perfect picture.
Then It wasn't Ions until we reached
Government Cmp to receive the con
gratulations of Lfc F. Prldemore. the
proprietor, who said he was certain
our car was the first to circle Mount
Hood. Iess than four months before
he had patted Jlmmie Clark on the
back for driving a band of us to Gov
ernment Camp from Portland, the first
car to make that trip during 1915.
Soon after passing Toll Gate on our
descent we had our first blowout and
were held up for some time as a re
sult. Then It was less than a mile
over a dandy road to Rhododendron
Tavern, where we stopped fr a few
minutes to shake hands with Kmll
Franaetti. the hospitable proprietor.
After leaving BriKhtwooJ we took the
bridge across to the Marmot and Bull
Kun road and then came seootlnir all
the way to Gresham, the road being
fine from Bull Run on.
Moat of Roate In -ood Coaaltlon.
On the whole the road to Mount
Hood Is now in stood condition and It
probably will remain so for the rest
of the season unless heavy rains muss
thlnKB up. We ran Into a (Treat deal
of mud at the upper end of the Mar
mot cutoff, but later on a fine flank
road opened out before us. and with it
the throttle. Just the other aide ol
Powell Valley the road is particularly
Hood. Heinie steered us over the
Powell Valley road and into Portland
over the Burnside bridfte. This length
ened our time and distance, as 'It ne
cessitated a relay back south attain to
pull up at The Creronian building,
which we reached shortly after
o'clock, with a speedometer read Inn of
235.7 miles for the day's loop.
Mr. Wagner and his son have toured
across the entire continent by auto
mobile, and both declare that the circle
around Mount Hood Involves every con
ceivable combination of scenery and
road that enters into transcontinental
touring. By making the loop of Mount
Hood they say a motorist encounters
every variety of road and every variety
of scenery that Is afforded on a tour
entirely across the United States. It
is a miniature transcontinental tour,
they say, that beats any theoretical
combination of National parks and
boulevards possible.
A road Is already proposed between
Government Camp and Hood Hlver
back of Mount Hood that would also
permit a flirtation with the mountain
peak all day lone But this road,
commendable though It Is, could not
Include the variety offered by the ride
through the wheat and desert lands of
Central Ore eon. and that atmosphere
is needed to give the loop the universal
effect..
It's a Problem
Hard to solve until vou use Iia
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Don't pay more than Diamond
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etter at prices htsher thnn Dia
monds, if you pay 1-ss, thev are
rotbinir the tire if you pay
more, they are robbln? you. Tube
Hans are gratis with each order.
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