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Newspaper Page Textv ii EARLY-SEASON TRIP MADE THROUGH CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK - 14 Msvc- vS MOTOR WORl-D Obtain Parts for Orphan Cars: April Where to . ' T :st for Eeady Reference An Up-to-date Last ior a ! C.Jty?n Blvd.. CWCS", Mi CoroP petTOlt S'.VfVl !" Ti'mi. Ohio ' Aitn mrlcn TEte SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTXAKD, MAY 2i, 1916. .... " "Sf -''v'; I r s&rvV - t - g -?c;rVu- - 5tW -c-- -o M EDFOKD, Or., May 20. (Special.) r Although they were unable to J reach Crater Lake and break, all records for automobile travel to that scenic wonder for this time of year, Seeley Hall, S. S. Chadding-ton, of San i''ranciai:o, and E. F. Weston, of this city, have just returned from a trip on the Crater Lake Highway, which sets a new record for early motor travel, in Southern Oregon. "She party left Med ford Sunday in a Chevrolet at 1:40 P.M. and reached Prospect at 5 o'clock. Monday morning at 5 A. M. they left for the Crater Lake National Forest and here the trouble began. Not only did a storm of snow and rain rage most of the time, but at places the .snow drifts in the road were from eight to 10 feet deep, while giant trees had fallen over the highway and obstruct ed traffic entirely. By driving over the snow where the crust permitted, digging a thoroughfare through the drifts at other places and at times con structing a road of fallen trees and branches, the car was pushed on 14 miles in 12 hours, when the party camped in the open for the night. The -next day the Journey was con tinued under- conditions that were even worse, but finally Whisky Creek, about seven miles from Crater - Lake, was reached. Realizing that the road fur ther on was impassable, the party turned about and the return trip was made to Medford. It is believed this is the first time an automobile of any kind has eer traveled so far in Crater Lake THRILLS COST MONEY Millionaire Sportsman Likes to See His Auto Win. DEATH DARED ON TRACKS Pario Kesta in Only Four Months Gets $39,000 for Driving 1700 Miles Impossible Soon Conies to Pass, Scoffers Abashed. To spend $50,000 before you find out whether your car can compete in the race is not what one would call an economical sport. One New York mil lionaire says: "I realize it is an ex travagant sport, but it is in my blood. I ara trying to get a young driver from Kurope and a European car." If this New Yorker succeeds it will cost nim more than $50,0u0, just because "it is in his blood." Two years ago this same sportsman bought a car. paid all the preparatory expenses that required months of hard work, which entailed a cost greater than the salary of the President of the United States, and then sat on an up turned oil can for six hours in the boil ing sun and was sufficiently repaid to see his car cross the tape -the winner for 500 miles' racing. The driver got all the prize money. Such is the cost and the sportsman ship of tWe men who participate in this sport for kings. Incidentally the drivers those who survive and win in their gamble of shaking dice with death make the Wall-street gamblers pale by comparison. Darlo Mesta Paid High. Take one Dario Jtesta, who came to America last year from Europe. His earnings in four months totaled S39 - 000. To annex this much of perfectly good made-in-U.-s.-A. money, D. Resta traveled 1700 miles! Figuring Resta drove at the rate of 80 to 100 miles an hour, every mile that he traveled was worth $22.94 to him. He has received $1746 an hour, or about $29.10 a min ute. Ioes John 15. Rockefeller's fortune increase at such a rate as this? His annual dividends from the Standard Oil mint are estimated at $10,000,000. At this rate there is a difference of $604 between his hourly income and that of Resta. - . . Glancing over our shoulder at what, historically speaking, was only yester day, the first automobile race in the world was held n 1895 in Chicago. Spectators strolled leisurely alongside the competing cars. Joking, encourag ing or ridiculing the drivers. Today the largest paid admission to any sport ing event in the history of the world has been to a speedway race. Need loss to say. not one of these spectators could have been bribed to step upon the track where the roaring steel tuounts were at their devilish play. In SOS four lndianapolia business ' f ( 1 Ii in 1 'it n ' " 1 j 1 j 1 . 1 1 totems 'Hi f jL I rl 1 SCO-.,.1 fe - 283T National forest so early in the season-Creek on record was made May The earliest previous trip to Whiskyl915. men were having a midnight lunch under the spreading maples at the In diana State Fairgrounds.. Before them. on a mile dirt track, & car was puffing and struggling along in desperate ef forts to negotiate a 24-hour endurance race. That night these four men dreamed a dream. At sun-up they rode to the outskirts of the city, where the Hoosier farmers were . starting their day's plowing. Told in tabloid, they bought these peaceful cornfields, braved the crit icism of their friends, defied fate and invested hundreds of thousands of dol lars into perfectly good, fertile fields and metamorphosed, said fields into America's finest speedway in time for America s first speedway race in 1909. Even then to think of 75 miles an hour was to be classed as a fanatic, or at least a radical. Today 110 miles an hour! Well, such speed is only a step ping stone to what the dare-devils at the wheel hope to attain. The sixth an nual international sweepstakes race will be held on this paved oval at In dianapolis May 30. Among the notables from Europe is Josef Christiaens, who has been given release from military duty in England. He has been dropping explosives from aeroplanes and is coming to the States for some excitement at the wheel of a British car, a Sunbeam. Other Euro peans are expected to brave the float ing mines and periscopic perils in order to risk their lives for the glory and fortune in this hazardous, extravagant sport. Many cities have followed the ex ample set near the center of population. New York. Chicago and Minneap'olis are three conspicuous additions to the speedway sport. Nine tracks were in operation last year. Twelve different races were seen on these speedways, in which the monetary, reward was $291,000. Many other cities have their speed ways on paper. For thrill engendering, spectacular and sensational one-day shows the speedway race dwarfs all other amusements or sports. No other can claim such homage from Its dev otees. NKW FIRM TO SELL CAR PARTS Walter K. Flanders Takes Oyer De funct XT. S. Motor Company. Because of the rapid increase of manufacturing operations at the plant of the Maxwell Motor ' Company, in Newcastle, Ind., It ia" announced that the sale and manufacture of parts for the Stoddard-Day ton, Brush, -Columbia and Alden-Sampson cars will be taken over by "the Standard Motor Parts Com pany, of Newcastle. Ever since the Maxwell located one of its mammoth plants at Newcastle, it has operated in the Indiana city the greatest service station in the history of the industry. Here has been located the largest stock of repair parts in the world. . When the United States Motor Com pany went out of business a few years ago, there were thousands of owners of the above-named cars who naturally thought that they would be unable to get repair parts thereafter. These fears were "unfounded, however, be cause when Walter E. Flanders took over the remnants of the defunct United States Motor Company he arranged to manufacture and supply parts for all of the above cars at the Newcastle plant of the Maxwell Motor Company. No obligation - was entailed on.- the Maxwell Company to maintain this store of parte, but not only was it done. but owners have been given a 24-hour guaranteed service: at ail times, u 1 it - ! 5 -v. .--r ,'' 20, TIRE TEST IS GIVEN Goodyear Company Decides on Right Inflation Pressure. CARE PROVES PROFITABLE Air Should , Be Replenished Be fore Pressure Drops 2 0 Per Cent, Say Experts, After Mak ing Long Investigation. Each year car users give more, thought to the little things that add to tire mileage and reduce tire cost per mile. Consequently a great deal of careful attention has been given the new Inflation pressure table recently made public by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. For years tire man ufacturers have asked motorists to consider their tires." At first these pleas fell on deat ears, the art of riding had not othen developed as if has lat terly. Now, however, it is fashionable and profitable for car owners to care for their tires; to repair small cuts before they do big injuries, and Inflate their tires without letting them wait for the warning and destructive bumps that come when pressure becomes too low. A few years ago Goodyear, published a table of inflation pressures. It was up to the minute then. But car weights and many other things change, so that the Goodyear experimental men were some time ago instructed to go into LATEST INFORMATION ON ROADS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. The Columbia River Highway la open and is in good condition for the full length of Multnomah County, and is,-for the most part.' In good condition in Hood River County, although there is a short patch of rather rough road at the western end of the highway in the latter county. Ruthton Hill, where an accident occurred. Fri day, is said to be slippery. The road Is in good condition from Hood River to The Dalles and to Eastern and Central Oregon points where highway conditions have been good for some time. The road leading to Seattle, especially the one via Vancouver, Wash., is said to be In good con dition, as is the Pacific Highway south to California. The Capitol Highway is in good condition to McMlnnville and Willamina, but a continua tion of this trip to Tillamook Is hardly advisable at this time. The road to Astoria is not yet reported open. ;d mi ci y 'l .ftp 4 - 4? "ill A Arnold pi- ' v Anchor Anhut. l..k IrownUkar, i puritan purit1 CartiOT U".:il.n MOW'S' Mitlon.. Auto Crtere- Clrk-Crt" . n.hn..-""ViAi.imbla Ef fcorb I n rr. . - r.uHr.. ' Jhr meant crouton. cutt.n....;;-; Autc (jr."-- fe.vton Vl 3Jn .Oonnot.----"- C Tnbl eeW,t.Ch.tum - -,.-,.,10 V.hlel..,T7triruchln4 Slmor. - Clmoro oryrt ewina r. a. Faie-1-j."u.mbu. 'I'." :T ' . J F I r prT..-.-:::::::::Eiyru. Gnoro. mm Orout...- Hirt-Kr.W ,tt..- the subject tlftTroughly and work out a new table. The result of their investigation has been tested and checked in every way. In fact, several other tire manufactur ers have already adopted it and have written Goodyear acknowledging that fact. It is worth the careful study of every motorist. If it is followed, ad ditional tire service is certain. And It may be well to note the last line. Its message is significant, it follows: Gross carrying capacity of tires Inflated Tiro section diameter. Wtm&$$&k!i! Ato PmrU . . Pnrt tin ' n jrik hart. Ind.. zlo... ' . . 1 m W tCm0Mt& See the Studebaker Camp Exhibit in H. Jenning & Sons' ' m rMmMMMf Window at Fifth and Washington - di' Oregon Motor-Car Co. t&tf' - Local Studebaker Distributors ' Phone Broadway 616 Park and Davis Sts. - ' ' pressure. Inch. CM. Fftb. 3 3Vi 4 44 5 DM 27 3( S.M .... 32 85 290 360 ft.. 8 40 3S 410 60O .... .... 41 45 875 4rt0 MO 75 45 fiO 415 fil5 !25 750 S75 10O0 1140 ro nr. o .V55 6;o' sl-.i imo uoo I2."i 64 60 !)W BIS 75 poO-1050 1200 1370 6D 5 ... 70 81.1 975 11S5 1K 14S0 B3 70 ... 721. K75 1050 122S J40O 1505 65 75 ... ... 40 1125 130O 15W 1710 72 ft 1O0O 1200 l-ino 16W 1025 77 S5 ... 1275 145 1700 1940 PI BO ... ... ... 1360 1570 1SOO 2O50 84 05 1660 IflOO 2165 DO 100 2000 2280 Before pressure drops 2o per cent tiro should bo relnflated. TIKE NEEDS EVEN STRENGTH All Paris Should Be Built for Equal Service, Is Declaration. "Al parts of an automobile tire, like those of the famous " 'one-h&ss shay should be built to give equal service, declared J. A. Leatherman. Portland manager of the Goodyear Tire ft Rubber Co. "Uniformity in the wearlnar qualities of fabric, friction, breaker strip, tread rubber,- bead and sidewall is essential if the tire is to be brought up to this position with due consider ation -of type of rlnr, character of roads, rate of speed and the weight to be carried. An automobile tire should be designed with the idea of giving the user the lowest possible cost per mile. "It is easy to strengthen some one part but difficult' to accomplish this without weakening sone other feature, or nullifying the effect of the Improve ment 'by some other part not lasting as long as the part improved. Bo that special abnormal features in a tire are of no particular advantage, and only serve to increase the cost of-the tire as well as the cost per mile." SECOND PRIZE WON IN 2 YEARS Cadillac Takes Annual Tire Mileage Contest Honors. For the second time in two years a Cadillac has won first prize in the an nual tire mileage contest conducted by the AJax Rubber Company. Inc. The result of the contest, which covers year's use of its tires, has Just been announced by the Aiax Company. This year the first prize of $500 goes to George C. Mathis, who secured the remarkable tire service represented in 27,220 miles. Mr. Mathis drives a Cadillac for Mrs. J. D. Jackson, of New Haven, Conn. His record Is 5200 miles better than that of last season's head winner. Garth C. Jensen, who hungr up a marK or zi.vtis miles, also with Cadillac, owned by John N. Weisby. of Stevens Point, Wis. It is required that contesting mileages be sworn to by the owner of the car and also by the driver wiUpre one is employed. Mathis won etikiller prize with the same car in last yir"s contest, with a record of 14,400 miles, PufU 7 W M....,rf better reason r.v.v.v...A iL. 1 Auto Ji iw ColunDu ""V . SJ .r-T ill JLUtO -p i -v-;. in rrim. fijj Pa" 52 MI , lohn c John q V.V;.bor&ncA Autor o -f t i'TvSw." lioit--"; AUto '-ports Co puritan Macly- n ..-wauW ; jj.w cotuif ..3 4m;jll, V.V ."-VX." O. BaxU .--- i m. q OUTPUT PLANS EXTEND A. g. ROBINSON POISTS OCT HOW HIS PREDICTION CAME TRITE. Estimate of 100,000 Sales 1m ISIS Falls Few Tttonsand Below Mark, bat Now Has Been Reached. The roseate, prospects of the motor truck Industry, which has made par ticularly striking strides in the last year, has caused greatly increased 1916 schedules at all the big factories build ing commercial cars. "Five years ago people laughed at me when I said that, by the beginning of 1916, the number of trucks sold In this country would exceed 100.000, says A. S. Robinson, of the Portland KlsselKar branch. "It is true that my prediction fell a few thousand below the' mark, but It has now been reached, and I am ready to make a further prophecy. By 1920 the United States will number on Its streets and high ways at least 250.000 trucks. Further more, this present year will see a large percentage of the increase. For years the truck Industry has had not alone to overcome the natural prejudice of business men against any thing that so revolutionizes business methods as does the truck, but also to light sentimentalism. Most men who own horses love them, and It is quite natural that they should. They have disliked to admit that there could be a more efficient servant than old Dob bin. even in the face of fact. "But competition -gradually and sure ly has settled that. Dobbin s faith fulness and willingness are still appre elated, but so are . his limitations. Every business man now knows that the motor truck must be employed If the beBt delivery and haulage results are to be obtained. It ia. therefore, no longer necessary to convince him of anything but the difference, in trucks and which Is the best one to meet his demands. GRANT. SIX MAKES HARD TRIP Car Forges AVay Through Sand anfl Snow to Peak's Sammtt. Through snow and sand, oyer boule vird aiui mountain road, a "Grant Six made one. of the most remarkable mo tor achievements o the season last The car was called up to visit Knlghfs Camp, in Big Bear Valley. Camp Baldy and the summit of Mount Wilson. California. In one day. It was in the nature of a carburetor and ef ficiencv test and resulted in an altitude and endurance record for car and car buretor alike. With Milo Beklns .of the Bekins- Speers Company, and W. M. Jenkins, of the Master Carburetor Company, alter nating at the wheel, tho car went into Bear Valley over the Santa Ana Can yon and Clark grade route. The return trip was made by the same route The car i-Detrated San Antonio Can yon to Camp Baldy and climbed to the Summit of Mount. wUbon. registering ' IaSJSVSmH SI Soth Bend, Ind. . D.trolt, Mich. . Walk.rvilte. Ont. J j j 1 S!Tv.Vi..--V;;;;;;tou!rl 1 I It 1 1 k T'.,". . "Intr-S " " 1 1 I ever see a for buying a STUDEBAKER than THIS? '- ' - - i " Just for a minute, let's forget this talk of Values and prices and H. P." and "r. p. m. and all the usual reasons for buying this or that car. Let's take another angle on it this "Directory of Orphans." And not from the " where to buy parts' side of it that's only incidental but from the big, basic, underlying reason that such lists have to be published the very fact that there are so many car manufacturers who gave up business. ; You can appreciate that to stay in this business, a maker of cars MUST give 100 value and to give a 100 value, he , must have the ideals, the resources, the manufacturing fa cilities. If he lacks them, he goes into lists like this. And you can also appreciate that YOU. the buyer, with all of your knowledge of cars, have to take 90 of what you pay for in. a car on the maker's say-so. If that's the case, isn't this Directory of Orphans' the strong est imaginable reason for YOUR buying a Studebaker a car from a manufacturer who has been in business for 64 years who ranks as one of the world's great manufacturing insti tutions whose financial resources and manufacturing facilities 'are unexcelled by any other maker and whose daily increas ing VOLUME and sales prove VALUE as nothing else can ? We invite you' to see the cars that will never be orphans." '13 I :l PTIIPiPDAlfrD ' 111 1 m m w m m m. W W m - w a at all three places, before returning to Iios Angeles. The entire trip covered a aiBianc ui 248 miles and the total altitude climbed was 18.616 feet. The car was a stock model and one which has been given severe usage already. It is a veteran of long, hard trips, having made three trips from Los Angeles to San Fran cisco and return. New Car Owner in County ACCORDING to the records of M. O. Wllklne, the following temporary police permits were Issued last week for cars registered this year for the first time: J. J Carlln. 614 Williams, StudebsVer. U W. Elliott, IT. 8. :ustom-Hous, Butck. Nat Costorlxo. 1S BrMdwty drive. Kord. Columbia. Realty Investment Company. UH1 East Forty-fifth North. Ford. Timothy Caasy, 445 Kast Eighteenth North. ode. . - j c, FUrrell, Twenty-first and Bandy, Ford. , . William Ptraon. Oraham. Or.. Ovorlanfl. Irving A. Houser. Kenton Station. Maxwell. K. c. Bateman, 2t2 East Forty-avenlb, Saxon. C. J. Anderaon, Sevcnteeth and Center, Ford. F. B. Sherloln, Bt Vlneanfs Hospital, Saxon. . K. B. Wllllston, 860 Bast Fifty-seventh, Mitchell. A. 8. Wells. 7.10 Multnomah. Chevrolet. R. V. Ntcholds. r.o- Alhina avenue. Ford. M P. Cady. Beaverton. studebaker. Wlllard Commission Company. Union Stockyards. Haynea. B. s. Huntington, 80 Lewis building;. Chalmers. Rufus M. Eckerson. Reed College. Ford. V. A. from, 41!2 Chamber of Commerce bolldtn. Case. Jesslo I. Sherlock. 1S32 B. Yamhill. Ford. C. T. Newman. 40 Kront, Ford- C. H. K. E. Farrington. 4S5 East Twenty-fifth North, Maxwell. R. E. Oliver. 5U7 Corbett building. Chevrolet. . , Dr. W. H. Ewina;. 84 Belmont, Reo. J. Clark. Camas. Wash.. Reo. A. B. Cone. 170 East Thirty-eighth, Reo. I. If. Flelschner. 23 Broadway. Dodge. D. W. Trunure. 871 Bcott. Olds. H. N. Ward. S35 E. Thirty-fifth. Maxwell. William Harris. 1030 Pacific, Chalmers. Walter K. Tborne, 7-W Montgomery. 'Overland. Elisabeth P. 6terna, Toncalla. Reo. ' Mra K. Rawn. S3 Si Fifth, studebaker. A. 8. le .Pue. 10 Vernon. Overland. D. IJnk. Qoble. or.. Dodge, V. H. Heeley. Saxon. J. I- Hayes, Halsey. Or., Overland. J. Olrshburger. Rhertdan, Dodge. ' K. H. Orlffln. Venable Hotel, Maxwell. Mam'tu Olsen, 32 Multnomah. Cartercar. James Brown, bhei-w-ood. Ford. A. G. Neuman. Amity. Ford. E. J. Kellsr. ( Missouri. Chevrolet. J. B. Ohelton, B922 Fortieth avenue South east. Ford. William Kaknltx. R. F. T. 1. box oft-. Ford. V. Jensen. 621 Washington. Velle. Jamea ehloth. East Sixth and Oak. Ford. T. M. Wall. 113 North Kllpatrlck. Ford. J. S. Moltxnar, Thirteenth and Everett. Ford. . W. P. Calkin. 13 Hood. Maxwell. Morris Davlon, 2DO Grant, Grant. J. M. Bradburn. R. 1, box . Ford. Ooi-lon Voorhtea. 406 Lewia, Chalmers. I Mra Grace Anderson. 715 East Seventy seventh. Ford. E. 8. Halt, 1 North Front, Ford, Jamea Hislop. '3 Front. Bulck. T. Olazier. Cascade Locks, Chalmers. A. 8. Thompaon. Aurora, Studebaker. R. J. Van Luren, 371 Twenty-fourth North. Chevrolet. Roy O. Burdette. Fort Montgomery, Saxon H. t. Dubln. 734 Second. Ford. J. F. Bear. 85 East Thirty-sixth. Chevrolet. W. W. Jones. 225 E. Fifty-fifth. Maxwell. K. Cook, 32 North Sixteenth. Chevrolet. -31 in M. liruce, tuast blxteentn, Chevrolet. H. WeM. fVapoonRe. 1 mils'. G, E. Curveli. 116S . Fourteenth. N., Furd. AUTOS HIGHBRQWEDJQQ STYLES Oh- CARS FOLIAJW OMi:X, . CLATVRK OK HORSK VKHICLES. Some New Mamea Are Added. However, to Describe and Sell Marhinea (o Smart People. How many Fortlanders know the whys and wherefores of the many high- sounding names that have been at tached to the automobile industry? The brougham is a small town car. The name is very often misapplied, aa the true brougham does not have a window in the quarter back of the door. The berllne- Is an inclosed car with, senarate comnnrtment for the driver. Virtually It Is a limousine with the driver Inclosed. Tho cabriolet is also of the town car. cla.s and is generally understood. The coupele-t ia made with the ex - driver and the title Is amplified to the extension is not Included the name1 Is simply coupelet. and where the top does not fold down It Is called a coupe. The coupe Is used to denote the small iiii.iu9u iii iu n y naiu ii. in i iivi bodies, what the runabout Is In Summer bodies. The limousine Is too well known to need a description and the small limou sine is the "town car" sixe. The limouslne-landaulet is the most popular typo of falling top body and comprises the essential features of the) limousine with the added feature of an openable top. The clover leaf runabout is the name) applied to this body on account of the seat arrangement being in the form of a three-leaf clover. The sedan Is the most general word used to designate the inclosed drive body having the doors on each side and about the middle of the body. Various names are applied to this type, as sin gle compartment, inside drive. Inclosed drive, etc but the name sedan will be the one most generally accepted, as It Is a single word and conveys the mean ing to the majority of the buyers defi nitely. PRICE Or TIRES IS' REDUCED Pennsylvania Distributor Here An- nounces Lower Cost. Contrary to the general belief that prices on automobile tires would soon soar upwards, A. J. Winters Company, local distributors for Pennsylvania vacuum cup and ebony tread announce a substantial reduction on all sixes of Pennsylvania tires, effective May IS. "The large Increase in prodaetlon has enabled the manufacturers to low er the prices without changing the high quality and standard," says Mr. Winters. "Coming at the beginning of the motoring season, the motorist is particularly fortunate In being able to effect a saving on his tire expense. As lUere is no indication that gaso line ,ill drop to a normal level, the stuinx which this reduction makes possible should be welcomed by all."