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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1916)
ft TTTE SUNDAY OREGOXTA7T, PORTLAND, 3IAX 14. 1910. COLUMBIA RIVER IS SEATTLE MAN DRIVES NEW MITCHELL ROADSTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO PORTLAND IN FIVE DAYS. TOURISTS' MAGNET 9 . v jX Philadelphia Motorists Drive to Portland Over Pacific highway; Describe Routes -1" 12,000 MILES IN 5 MONTHS r.iV.-t Visitors Pushing on East, but Plan to Return to Oregon and Do Great Drive Again Next Tear in Big Cadillac. No visiting motorist ever described Pacific Highway touring more tersely and accurately than G. T. Harris, of Philadelphia, who arrived in Portland a week ago in a Cadillac that had been driven all the way from Riverside. Southern California, "During dry weather the Paclflo Highway In Oregon is a fair and square proposition and will not give trouble, but when things are wet under foot you can expect to be hauled out," re marked Mr Harris at the Hotel Port land, when asked for his estimate of the Oregon road. Anyone who has traveled over the full Oregon chapter of the Pacific High way in various degrees of weather will agree that Mr. Harris has stated the case exactly. "Luckily we didn't have any trouble at all, because it didn't rain upon us until Swe reached Eugene," said Mr. Harris. "That made things rather sloppy for us in some places, but there Is a solid roadbed pretty much all the way from Eugene to Portland, so we didn't meet the perplexing problems we would have found farther south In case rain had overtaken us earlier." Evidently the former soft patch of road near Comstock, in Pass Creek Canyon, has been patched up with planking as reported, because Mr. Har ris is the first tourist to arrive who hasn't recalled difficulty at that point. In the four-cylinder car which was driven by J. A. Harries, of Riverside, the owner, wrere Mr. and Mrs. Harries, their daughter and a friend, all of Philadelphia. The trip from Riverside north to San Francisco was over the ridge route through Bakerafield. which is paved for virtually the full distance. Between Redding . and Dunsmuir, in Northern California, Mr. Harris reports that the road was a trifle too narrow for comfort, with only two feet to spare on the edges of the cliffs. He said he didn't think this section of high way would be safe in wet weather. No trouble at all was experienced in com ing over the Siskiyous. Mr. Harris and bis Immediate party are now on their way home after spending ttfe season In their Winter borne at Riverside. In the Autumn they plan meeting Mr. Herries and his car at Denver and will then set forth LATEST INFORMATION OB TAINABLE: ON ROADS. Thanks to the good weather of the past few days, the full length of the Columbia River Highway from. Portland to Hood River and The Dalles is in good shape for travel, although there may be a few soft spots at the upper end. The Paclflo Highway south to California and north to Seattle via Vancouver also is said to be in good condition. Two machines completed the Portland-Spokane run last week, reporting good conditions on the average. After 'an extensive trip through all of the Eastern and Central Oregon country. J. A. Reed, a road man who works out of Boise, Idaho, reported to The Oregonlan last week that these roads are in bet ter shape than he has seen them for six years. He made the full trip from The Dalles to Lakeview and also went east. All of the main trunk roads leading out of Portland are known to be in good condition today, although paving and con struction activities near the end of theBase Dine road and on the St. Helens and the Palatine Hill roads will necessitate short de tours for a few days at least. The' Canyon road will be closed within a few days for paving activity, but it will be possible to employ as a substitute the Hum phrey boulevard, which is always solid. Considerable work Is to be done on the Capitol Highway leading to the Willamette Valley via the West Side route, but it will be kept open. Crews are busy paving the Sandy cut-off along the east bank of the Sandy River between Troutdale and the Auto Club bridge, and this win be com pleted within less than a month, it is estimated. on a tour of Yellowstone National Park. On their way back to Riverside they contemplate driving into Portland over the Columbia River Highway. "During the past five months we have driven more than 12,000 miles, but In all that time I did not see anything quite like the Columbia Highway." Bald Mr. Harris last week after his trip from Portland to the end of the pavement- on the highway. "Every where I have gone recently . I have heard your great boulevard spoken of highly and these comments w re&llv the principal magnets In bringing me ruruana. i nope to come back this way after my trip to Yellowstone next Autumn and again drive over the highway between here and Riverside, where I am to take delivery of a Cad illac Eight upon my return to our Win ter home." Mr. Harris is retired and has spent much of his time during recent years motoring over the famous roads of the luiuy. j-ie aiso nas a home in th Adirondacks. WOMAN MAKES FORTY TAIjKS Miss Cowgill Travels 356 Miles to Carry On CluJ Work. OREGON AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE, Corvallis. May 13. (Special.) Three hundred and fifty-six miles in a Ford ear. 40 picture talks and canning dem onstrations and speaking to 1108 per sons In one week is the record made by Miss Helen CowgiU. assistant state agent or boys' and girls club work. In Wasco County last week. Most of this tour was conducted through the rural districts of Wasco County. Many of the districts visited were widely separated and roads were not especialy conducive to speed, yet th work had been so well planned by County School Superinten dent Bonney, said Miss Cowglll in mak ing her report, that it was a pleasure to carry it out. From the number attending the lec tures and demonstrations and the in terest displayed by them, club work in Wasco County is said to be in an excel lent condition. The week's work closed with a teachers' Institute at haniko Saturday. 7X rTHchrll iter Put fo i 9. ff I-m LONG RUN IS MADE N. Helgert Arrives in Portland From San Francisco. TRIP TAKES FIVE DAYS Only Two Bad Spots Reported and No Chains Are Csed oh Mitchell, Which Never Gave Trouble to Extent of Puncture.- Although he took his time along the road and stopped here and there to snap photographs and enjoy the scenery, N. Helgert, of Seattle, managed fo put a 1916 Mitchell roadster over the Pa cific Highway between San Francisco and Portland within the course of five days. Mr. Helgert was one of the first to make the San Francisco-Portland trip this year, the first car from the south having arrived only three weeks ago. Upon his arrival in Portland the other day Mr. Helgert said that he had come through without chains, a feat that is remarkable considering the condition of some of the roads. He said also that in more than S500 miles of touring through California, Including the trip from San Francisco to Port land, he was not bothered a single time by punctures, the bogie of tourists. He thinks this Is a pretty good showing for the tires. ' In reporting road 'conditions, Mr. Helgert said: "The worst roads en countered were near Red Bluff, Cal., and Drain, Or. For several miles In these stretches I didn't know what might happen next, the mud being hub deep nearly all the way and unexpected chuckholes very frequent. The Pass Creek Canyon was also in very bad shape and required a great deal of low gear work, as well as very careful going to avoid being mired. "This is the kind of driving that tests the power of your motor as noth ing else will. I feel there isn't a con dition that my Mitchell cannot over come provided it has any chance at all. The main thing in taking these long hard trips is to keep your car in good condition. Go over it and see that It Is properly adjusted every day and you will be surprised how much more en joyable your trip will be. The roads from Eugene to Portland are in better shape than I expected, in Bplte of the rain that has fallen in me past iew W JiTr 8 Hel e-prt snent several days cov ering the drives in and around Port land and left late last wee lor ceai- tle. It is nearly three months since Mr. Helgert set out upon his tour, as he shipped from Seattle to ban jiran cisco February 12. BEAVERTON TRIP TAKEN ROADS GOOD MOST OS" WAT AND SCENERY FOUND CHARMING. Perfume From ' a Hundred Orchards and Laslly-Ascendins; Smoke Charm Varioua The city motorist who wants to add to his collection of "Little Journeys on Sunny Days" will find the Canyon road route a pleasant one Just now. Last week; in a Chalmers Slx-30. the writer spent a pleasant hour and one half along this delightful road. -Just where Jefferson street, a-weary of clanging car and rattling milk wagon, turns toward the cool woodland. Can yon road begins. One quick turn and the city Is lert oenina. lne.roaa oecn ons Invitingly, wandering upward on an easy grade, under an overhanging canopy of verdure, penciled in every conceivable shade of green. A little way up the. hill, at the side of the road, rests a great stone watering trough, but the sturdy Chalmers is not thirsty. Instead, some little boys are sailing their armadas on the clear, cold water. Another group across the road is gathering wild flowers. At the-city's gate the county road pavement begins, ending at the Wash ington County line, save a small strip : Just this side of the little town of Sylvan, where workmen are just Begin ning to make ready to complete the Unit The unpaved part of the city road has been good, but the' stretch of paved county road is like a city street. Beyond, where the paving ends, Washington County announces Itself with the proverbial "Jolt"; however, the road tnto Beaverton Is very fair, and not at all dusty as it will be later in the season. Roundiig a curve In the road, beauti ful Tualatin Valley bursts" into view, clad in a filmy robe of emeraltL The perfume of blossoming orchards fills "Spy Jvr " Srrf'y 7itJfpg. 2 ' mmm the air; Incense from a bundred farm houses curls lazily upward. We stop the sof tly-pun ing motor of our Chal mers and spend a few moments in silent contemplation. It is Springtime in Ore gon! At Sylvan, returning, we point the Chalmers into one of the smooth boule vards that lead from the Heights down lo the city, where we take our places eniug .n our endeavor, and in our minds a vision of cooi woodland, of splashing brook, of little children s voices, and far off. we fancy we hear the lark sinking its Spring songl Movie Made of Auto Factory. C. R. Bosworth and Joseph de Frenes, photographers of the Lyman H. Howe Films Company, bad many new and novel experiences in making the new picture The Manufacture of an Auto mobile" Just filmed at the Willys Overland plant, Toledo. Working with company of nearly 20.000 actors. each one going about his daily tasks without posing, was a new- sort of studio to them and one that proved full of possibilities. HIGHWAY PRAISES SUNG H. H. RICE. OF NORD YKE-M ARMON COMPANY. LATEST CONVERT. Light Metals and Ability to Procure Speed tf Necessary Declared Modern Builder's Aim. Another convert to the great club of Columbia River Highway boosters was made last Friday when H. H. Rice. manager of the Nordyke-Marmon Com pany, of Indianapolis, Ind, drove over the highway as the guest of Charles M. Menzies, sales manager of the Northwest Auto Company, Marmon, Reo and Cole dealers in this field. They rode In one of the Marmon cars, which, of course, made the trip all the more enjoyable. The demand for our product has been so much greater than we antici pated and the shortage of matertals has been so serious that we really have had a pretty lively time back at Jhe factory this year," said Mr. Rice at the Portland Hotel before leaving yester day. "Originally we had figured on building only 600 Marmons between January 1 and July 31. but we have been compelled to double our produc tion In spite of the material shortage. Light metals will mark the rift be tween the old and the new manufac turers of motorcars. The tendency is not so much for speed as for the abil ity to speed and the construction that allows for quick and easy -acceleration. This can hardly te accomplished when heavy metals are used in automobile construction. Lynlte aluminum has been used to such an extent in the Marmon 34 that Its weight has been reduced by more than 1000 pounds and Its ability has been materially Increased." KANSAS COUNTY HOLDS RECORD Every Other Family In Pawnee County Owns an Automobile. Every other family in Pawnee Coun ty, Kansas, has an automobile. This is probably the world's record. Census experts figure an average Kansas fam ily at four and a half persona Pawnee has an automobile for every nine per sons. Stafford has one for every 12 and Mcpherson for every 13. Kansas has 77,000 automobiles regis tered. There are perhaps 1000 more in the hands of dealers. Two years ago the state had 34.945. More than 1750.000 is invested in automobiles in the state. now on exhibition at our salesroom Built for those who can appreciate real value in a high-grade light car. tc&::::::::!!!iAT Portland THE OLDSMOBILE CO. OF OREGON Broadway and Couch San SMALL TOWNS BUYERS DEMAND TOR COaMERCUI. GARS IN COUNTRY IS HEAVY. Om City of S8VMW Takes) Mara Traae Vehicles Than Amy Tare Lars; Places. The theory that the market for com mercial cars is restricted pretty much to large cities Is disproved la figures compiled by the Studebaker Corpo ration and announced through Henry T. Myers, sales manager of the com mercial car division. "Commercial car sales la towns from S000 to 60.000 inhabitants are consider ably greater In proportion to the popu lation than In the large 011188. says Mr. Myers., ""we can name Instances I even where Studebaker commercial car Bales In oertain small towns have been in excess of pleasure car sales during I the past four moneha 4 "There are several Studebaker com mercial car dealers who In the past three months have sold between is end I 2b commercial cars In towns of not I over 46.J00 population. One dealer who I lives in a town of a population of 6.- 000 people has sold as many commercial I cars to merchants, liverymen and farm- I Phone Bdwy. 1640 Chassis OPENING Broadway at Davis MONDAY, MAY 15 Open Evenings - Tea Room Music Opening of the Magnificent New Home of The Pacific KisselKar Branch Broadway at Davis Street, Monday, May 15 HE OCCASION continuous open house throughout the week open evenings musical Droeramme. The entire public is most cordially invited to come and inspect the new building, which is one of the finest in the Northwest a fitting home for KisselKars, Kissel Trucks and Briscoes. The Pacific KisselKar Branch Pacific Coast Distributors Los Angeles Oakland Pasadena San. Diego Francisco ers as the total sales of each of three large branches. "Selllna- commercial cars Is not a matter of location or population. It Is wholly a matter of setting out and go ing after commercial car business along well-denned and systematica lines. Of the 10,000 half-ton and one-ton models to be produced during 181 by tho Sum.hnk.r Corporation, a larire Trie Big Idea. Back of Buick Success Back of every commercial success there is a b!gr idea. The bigness of the success Is always in proportion to the bigness and soundness of the idea. The public has discovered that back of every Buick motorcar there is a fixed and definite engineering' idea as big and sound as the motorcar industry itself. The idea is the Buick Valve-In-Head motor. It is an idea that has been the cornerstone of Buick success. In time we confidently predict that it will be the universally accepted principle of motorcar design. Manufacturers are today adopting this idea as rapidly, if more reluctantly, than the publio. The public proved it long ago. and one by one the manufacturers are admitting its sound ness. It is the biggest idea ever conceived la connection with the development and taann. facture of motor-propelled vehicles. The demand for Buick Valve-in-Head motorcars has always been and is now in exact ratio to the spread of knowledge concerning the methods of designing and building motorcars. Today this demand is so insistent that even the greatly enlarged -Buick plant cannot fully supply it. Howard Automobile Co. FOURTEENTH AND DAVIS STS. will be observed by proportion have been spoken for by distributors In towns of a sire that were not considered sertonsly as a mar ket for commercial cars two years ago. Five Additions Made In Tear. The Hay nee Automobile Company Is completing the fifth addition to Its plant within the present fiscal year. The new stmetore that Is bel.nr cum. cilve-in-Head Motor Cars Pacific Coast Distributors We Can Give Almost Immediate Deliveries pleted at the present time will house the production of the "Light Twelve" car. It is expected that the manufac ture of the high-power, lightweight car will be under way by June 10. RoymlUee ots oil and mining developments, rents on state lands, leases and fees pour In so rapldlr to the state of Wyoming that she may soon be hi the poKltlon of not having te ralae any taxes at all tor support ox the atate government. MAIN 1130, A 2330