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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1916)
( 1 10 TTT75 OKEQONTA??,. rOT?TT.Ap, . MAT 14, 191G. KISSELKAR HOME TO BE DEDICATED EXTERIOR AXD INTERIOR VIEWS OF NEW HOME OF PACIFIC KISSELKAR BRANCH ON DAVIS AND BROADWAY. Week of Celebration of Erec tion of $25,000 Building Will Open Tomorrow. . . - 1 , .-1. ... 5 I -.. . A. S. ROBINSON IS AT HELM 1 r -I JiV F7r TJ m hi &3 a j ': f 1 'J1 V m V 1 yp j Warning Signals jpif Motor Drive Has Operated P OSS . r Headquarters of Company Located at Broadway and Davis Street Is Along Automobile Row. Big Parade Is Held. BT CHESTER A- MOOEES. What Is generally regarded as the most practical. If not also the hand somest, automobile building In Portland will, for the week commencing tomor row, be open for the inspection of all users and fanciers of the motorcar. The new building is located on the northeast corner of Davis street and Broadway in the newly created auto mobile row of Lower Broadway and will house the Portland headquarters of the Pacific KisselKar branch, of which A. S. Robinson, a real veteran of the automobile industry, is the active head. To celebrate the completion of the new building a monster parade was held through the principal business streets of Portland yesterday noon which at tracted many thousands of spectators to the carlines. At the head of the pro cession sailed the famous old 1910 KisselKar, which carried George Beck, the Blue-Book man, on so. many trall tolazing trips in Oregon. Band llnji Place In Parade. There was also a band in the pro cession and a long chain of KlsselKars and Briscoes driven by Portland own ers, some of whom are women, and also a battery of KisselKar trucks, but per haps the knockout feature of the parade was a model of the new building mounted on a Kissel truck. A sign on this truck extended the general public a hearty invitation to attend the formal dedication of the building this week, for which 2000 engraved Invitations have been sent out to prominent busi ness men and club members of Port land. And right here let It be said that those who do not attend the coming reception are going to miss a happy time and the sight of a beautiful build ing dressed and decorated to a queen's taste. Mr. Robinson is mighty proud of his new home, as he has a right to be, and he has left no stone unturned to make the dedication week a rousing success from curtain to curtain. V. L. Hughson, head of the Pacific KisselKar branch, is expected to ar rive today from San Francisco with Mrs. Hughson. It is Mr. Hughson'a first visit to Portland since the loca tion of the KisselKar branch in this city, but he has been here many times in connection- with business relations with the Portland branch of Hughson & Morton. Music to King In Building. During the coming week the new building is to ring with delightful music furnished In part by electrical contrivances that reach to various parts of the building. The salesroom is to be a temporary garden of floral bouquets with green palms and various other supplements. A portion of the upper floor will be transformed into a Japanese tea garden, where real Japanese girls are to serve tea and wafers to the women visitors and cigars to the men. In ail prob ability artistic souvenirs will be given the guests, although we musn't say so unqualifiedly, because no one should attend for that reason alone. The new building Is a two-story structure of brick and concrete that has cost the owners of the property be tween $23,000 and $25,000. The plans were drawn by Sutton & ,v hltney. Port' land architects. Office Are Attractive. The salesroom extends across the full Broadway front of the lower floor and Is 30 feet deep with tile floors. Light Ing is effected by 500-watt nitrogen lamps that are said to make the big room almost as light as midnight as it Is at midday. The interior finish is ma hogany with marble base. Between the salesroom and the gar' age at the rear are a chain of at tractive offices which are to house Manager Robinson, Del Wright, the re tail salesmanager; a private office for closing, and the telephone, bookkeep Ing and stenographic departments. One particular feature is a large vault' room, where office supplies can be kept in good order. The automobile entrance to the gar age is from the Davis-street side, where a. wide doorway has been provided that will permit at least two cars to pass each other. In addition to wide stalls for the live storage of cars and space for a garage office, two compartments have been set aside for the wash rack and an oil room. A 10,000-pound hydro air elevator leads to the top floor, where the service department, the stock-room and bins, the dead storage room and a light and airy shop-room are located. Floor Baaed With Cement. The floor of the shop is based with cement, but it has been coated with a wooden floor in order to give the shop men better working conditions. This entire shop, which extends across the full Davis-street side of the upper floor. can be shut off entirely by the use of sliding doors. Pits have been dug under the floor of the shop to give the men an opportunity to work on cars from below, and electrical conectlons have been provided to facilitate their work. There is a second wash rack on this floor. The stock-room Is served with an electric dumb waiter that connects with the bookkeeping department. Another modern convenience on the upper floor is & long combination washing and drinking stand. The entire building Is heated by steam and hot water, and the vacuum cleansing system extends throughout. Signs tn Copper and Gold. Across the front of the building huge goia leners leu that Ulssel-Kars. Bris coes and KisselKar trucks are handled In the building, and glass and copper signs at the corners convey a like message. The windows will not be lit tered with signs of any sort, as Mr. noorason is quite wining that passers Dy snail nave a full opportunity to peer Into his salesroom. A large elec trie sign is to be erected on the roof later on. During a recent visit In Portland W. Ia. Campbell, secretary of the head of fices of the Pacific Kissel-Kar branch at San Francisco, assured Mr. Robinso that the business of the Portland branch would increase to such bound within the course of the coming year or two mat soon the new buildin would be too email to hold all depart Dents. Walt and see If this prediction does not come true, . HA ri: ffi M MDTDB TRIP HELD BEST WRITER SAYS COUNTRY IS INTI MATELY REVEALED. Superiority to Train Mean of Travel Educator Contended In Editorial. 'Motoring- has made the whole coun try neighbors," says the Western Motor In a current editorial. A train, with all due honor and re- pect to the speedy limited and Its cushioned Pullman, is at its very best, a prison, framing in its squared win dows isolated sections of the country- id e. Even the art critic might well weary at several days' viewing nothing but landscapes, even when limned by that consummate artist. Nature. The motorist is the courier who marks his journey by the crossroads. ranch gate and the straggling village. The train like a screaming meteor is blind to all things save the clicking 1 yes which semaphores its progress. and is a slave of minutes. Time is the master of the train. "To these things the motorist is, or can be at choice, indifferent. He notes the crops and sees that the farmer has painted his barn, also that the roadside dwellers have patched their road up with pridefJl thoroughness. He ob serves the new schoolhouse which the thriving rural community has demanded and secured, and reads the signs of tne times in the stable-born garages. 'Beyond this, upon reaching a me tropolis if that be upon his course, or his destination, he has not leaped blindly from station to station, knowing nothing save his own garden, but has weaved a strand all along his road, a personal Journey -which brings his journey's end intimately near to his starting point. 'Thus the motorists have spun tneir web along the highways, until un known distances have become instead panorama of human activity, long or short, but to the wise, invariably and intensely interesting." V ?. T: .1 .1- .... . Studebaker Corporation was made on April 29, the output being 490 auto mobiles, representing a value of apr proximately a half million dollars. NIQHT STUDY ADVANCES 5IAXY Employes of Packard Motor Com pany Report Benefits. ' A large number of former factory employes of the Packard Motor Car Company have been promoted to posi tions In the engineering department, as the result of their study in the fac tory night school. A class of 80 has just completed the ' prescribed course in mathematics and mechanical draw ing, and has rece'ived certificates. The entire enrollment is more than 150. Harvey Saul, of the Packard employ ment department, said that one of the students had much difficulty in holding his Job before he attended the evening classes, inasmuch a.s he was not an efficient workman, and did not fit in any of the numerous department In which he was given opportunities. This man led the rlags in mechanical draw ing, however, and has been in the n- trlnjerlng department for some time. He is considered one of the best draughtsmen in the factory. OWNERS ARE PROtD OK CARS Records of Feats by Others Is Re garded as Stimulus. The day when an automobile owner could be awed by tales of remarkable performance seems to have passed. In stead or saying "wonderful," "mar velous, or some other equally sur prised word, the average motorist, read ing of a certain feat, is more likely to write in to the factory and comment that "such and such a performance was nne. but you ought to see what I did In my cap. The fellow who describes the 10-foot fish he caught on his latest trip has nothing for enthusiasm on the auto mobile owner, the chief difference being that the evidence of the automoblllst is more likely to be taken at its face value. TRUCK HID FUBL1SHED GOODTEAR COMPAirr PROVIDES BISTS ON EFFICIENCY. SAFETY FIRST IS URGED USE OF PROPER SIGNALS HELD PRIME REQUIREMENT. Mechanical Assistants Recommended for Nearly An Classes of Work That Brlna- Resalta. Not every truck owner realizes how much more efficient trucks can be made by the adaption of the proper devices for handling the load. These mechan ical aids are now so numerous that there is practically no class of mer chandise which cannot be handled bet ter by their assistance. Whether it bo coal or lumber, dry goods or building material, there is an efficient way to load, carry and deliver. Such devices have been aescriDea from time to time in various magazines. newspapers and trade publications. All of the most important of these have now been collected and are set forth in one article appropriately illustrated under the title "Devices That Make for Motor Truck Efficiency," and appear ing as an introduction to volume IV of "Motor Trucks of America," published by the B. F. Goodrich Company. Akron, O. This 144-page volume an edition of which is published annually is now ready for distribution, and a copy can be procured on application at the Port land Goodrich branch, at Broadway and Burnside streets. "Motor Trucks of America has be come an institution. Because it con tains the detailed specifications of all the important motor trucks made in the United States, furnished by the manu facturers themselves, it has come to be regarded as the most authoritative compendium of information regarding present-day motor trucks that is pub lished. While truck agents and truck salesmen keep this book with them as amatter of course, it is also intended for truck owners and those who are in terested in or contemplating the pur chase of motor trucks. Every man in Portland interested In motor trucking in all its Interesting phases should make it a point to get in touch with the local Goodrich branch and make application for this authoritative reference work. A copy is free. 490 Cars Shipped In One Day. The biggest single day's shipment of Studebaker car la ut history ol the TIME IDEAL FOR MOTORISO Car Owners Are Assured of an En Joyable Summer. Now that the sun is warm, the trees in bud and the flowers in bloom, va cation is more and more the dominat ing conversational theme. "Where are you going this Summer?" To those who do not own cars this is often a perplexing question, for they are perforce bound to ironclad time tables and inflexible steel rails. But to the motorist a planned route is unnecessary. It is safe to start without a thought of destination to be a real nomad. Steer wherever, from day to day, the fancy dictates. Good roads are everywhere. Good hotels are Great Number ef Accidents ta New York Cited as Brief la Behalf of Good Waralnsrs. "With city traffic conditions as they are today, a man should have no more right to operate his automobile with out an efficient warning signal than a steamboat captain would have to sail his vessel in a tog without a proper warning signal." remarked a. traffic officer recently. "If a vessel captain were caught doing such a thing he would Immediate ly be taken before the authorities, lose his captain's certificate and the chances are that he would land in JalL The same penalty should be Inflicted on the automobile drivers who will risk not only their lives, but the lives of others. on the old-fashioned horn3 or buzzers for warning signals, when such prod ucts as the Stewart signals are avail able at prices so low that they are within the reach of everyone." "Did you ever stop to appreciate the fact that during 1915 there were 23. 980 persons injured or killed In New York City alone and that nearly 60 per cent of the persons killed tn street accidents were struck by automobiles?" said an official of the Stewart Com pany, .v'lth such a situation con fronting the public, it Is th : positive duty of every automobile driver to safeguard himself and others against accidents. In most cases the accidents are due to lack of proper warning signals, therefore, it is essential for all carowners to see that their cars are equipped with warning signals which can be heard under all conditions and which are In perfect order all the time. "The tremendous popularity of the pleasure car and the increasing neces sity for commercial mo-nr vehicles con vinced me a long time ago that soon the streets would become so congested with automobiles that danger would be Imminent unless the cars carried proper warning signals." everywhere.- What matters direction 1100 to 1400 feet. Water Power Is Limited. MEDFORD, Or.. May 18. By the rul ing of State Water Superintendent James T. Chinook, the California-Ore gon Power Company's claim to 1500 second-feet on Upper Rogue River was denied and 800 second feet allowed. This will permit ranchers on the Upper Rogue to have water for irrigation pur poses wnicn has not been possible here tofore. The company's claim, according to Mr. Chinook. . would have been in the nature of granting a monopoly, as the. low flow of the river varies from NEW CAR CLIMBS TO TOP OF PORTLAND HEIGHTS AT SPEED OF 28 MILES AN HOUR ON HIGH GEAR WITH 4 PASSENGERS. t-wwwiyv, W' . '. "' . ' 1 1 ""' 1 .vt- J- .,-,-, -.'--.:. .. ..'I'm I v..:.;.:;,.... '.U: .v d v.- ; . -fe J r ' ' "' l' " V; ' . V ' ; i Pierce- Arrew Equipped. "SS," Which New Sella for S4345 Pertlaad Polly C C Pagan. Realdeat Satesaaaa. Stands at Right. i A Clear Road Nothing adds to the pleasure and relaxation of driving an automobile like a clear road ahead. In dense city traffic or on unknown country pikes a Stewart Warning Signal on your car will guarantee you a clear road every minute. Don't sit tense and rigid every second trying to guess what others are going to do and if you don't guess, have a smashed car a lawsuit a trip to the . hospital unnecessary trouble and expense. And don't wait until fter you have a serious accident to discard a weak little buzzer, or bulb horn. Put a Stewart Warning Signal on your car today and countless times every day its penetrating, clear blast will command a clear road and safety for you,' your family and your car. The Stewart (hand) Sig nal was $5 last year. So many thousands were sold for safety iniurance that our volume has been doubled and there has been a consequent reduction in price to $3.50. Many' prefer a motor driven signal. The Stewart has all the power, dura bility and features of any signal on the market yet its price is only $6. Any automobile equipped with Stewart Products has eQ around quality. In selecting your next car see that it is fully equipped urith Stewart Vacuum Sys tem, Stewart Tire Pump and Stewart Speedometer It unS cost you no more. For Sala by Accessory Dealers, Automobile Daalera and Garages Everywhere . Stewart Products Serv'ce Stations 333 Ankeny St. Phone Broadway 5666 IT i R 1 Ko car is better than Us extessorU lEiii 1jtViM vjir-r.. 4 ADS SELL CHALMERS MILLION DOLLARS TO BE SPEJIT I THIS YEAR BT FIRM. - "New types naturally have their at traction, but the serious-minded person looking for a real investment, and who cannot afford to play with an experl- ment. wants a model which has proved, its reliability and established its worth by lona- use in the hands of thousands tf owners." Newspaper Advertlslas; Possi to Be Beat Method for Disposing of Aatos Bla- Campata-a Om. ' "Money makes the mare fro." Is the old saying. Hurt Chalmers has changed it to "advertising makes the cars go," and so firm is Chalmers in his belief that tl.000.000 will be spent this year telling the public about Chal mers cars. Newspaper advertising I" the back bone of the Chalmers campaign, though of course some of the great National weeklies and magazines are also used. Paul Smith, vlce-presidcni tn charge of sales, says this of newspaper adver tising: "The local newspaper Is now the me dium. It is the solar plexus blow which hits at the door of each home in each dealer's town. And that means sales now. The National weekly and magasine is necessary, but the timely blow is delivered by the dally paper in each district.. As a proof of our abso lute faith in this fact ,e are using MOO newspapers throughout the country several times each month in the cam paign we are now waging." In a recent taia ueiore tne Portland Chamber of Commerce Hugh Chalmers said: "Advertising Increases my sales so that I simply cannot afford to do with out it The only man who can't adver tise Is the one with so much business he can't handle It. or the man with so little business It Is not worth while. Our secret of advertising is as simple as A B C. Be honest, be sensible and be persistent.' HUFF TALKS ON SHOW LESSON Dodge Bros. Chief Engineer Ear Public Wants Standard Valne Car. In reviewing what the automobile ihovi brought forth, Russell ' Huff, chief engineer of Dodge Bros., says: "One of Ihr impressive facts as re vealed by an analysis of the inquiries received from automobile show visitors s the growing respect of the public fer the established models ef motor car. REDUCED PRICES PENNSYLVANIA TIRES EFFECTIVE MAY 15 VACUUM CUP TIRES Guaranteed per warranty tag attached to each casing for 6000 miles. EBONT BLACK RIBBED TREAD TIRES Guaranteed per warranty tag at tached to each casing for 5000 miles. Price. $14.20 ., 18.75 .. 20.75 .. 29.25 30.30 .. 43.40 52.75 Sizes. Price. .30x3 $12.05 ,.30x3tt 15.65 ..32x3 17.65 ..33x4 24.80 ....34x4 25.75 36x4 36.S0 37x5 44.80 Other Sizes in Proportion. The shove new lists place these famous tires on a price basis compar able to ordinary makes, while their unusual service quality is rigidly ' maintained. Ask your friends who are using them! A. J. WINTERS CO., Distributors W?pSGaUouf fr 67 Sixth St., Portland, Oregon WMW& tie Opening the Season Now that good roads are fat order, ou'd better make sure of your st orate battery. Bring it around and learn what real service means. Storage Battery Service Co. 80 Broadway North Frem inspection ef njr battery at any time V 7 v