The Sunday Oregonian., May 27, 1917, SECTION FOUR, Page 10, Image 58

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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAXD, MAY 27, 1917.
PICTURESQUE STAGE
A WHITE AUTOMOBILE ONE OF THE FIRST TO GO THROUGH YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK THIS
SPRING.
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1 75 Whites Supplant Horse
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stone Park.
WESTERN TOURING HEAVY
All Signs Point to Big Travel to
Pacific Coast to ' Take In
Scenic
Beauties of Uncle
Sam's Famous
Resorts.
All sig-ns indicate a heavy tide of
motor travel westward to the National
parks and mountain resorts during the
Rummer of 1917. The vastly increased
Cumber of automobiles in service, the
Congestion of main touring- routes, the
opening of all National parks, the
widespread improvement of Western
roads, the popularity of transconti
nental touring and the general awak
ening to the scenic resources of our
parks and mountainous sections each
is helping to turn the great flow of
motor traffic westward.
1 The first objective of iourists from
the East and Middle West naturally
will be the Rocky Mountain and tho
"Yellowstone National Parks, which are
nearest to the population centers. But
ye Yellowstone undoubtedly will be the
more popular because it fs the most
celebrated of our National playgrounds
and the latest addition to the fields of
automobile exploration.
Ploturenquf Stage Coach Passes.
-'The 1917 season at the Yellowstone
will witness the passing of the stage
coach. Six hundred or more of these
picturesque vehicles have been with
drawn from service. To take their
places and transport the thousands who
do not drive their own motor cars 175
White touring cars will be placed in
service. The Yellowstone is thus the
first National park to be placed on an
all-motor basis.
- These motor cars will enable the vis
itors to see all the geysers, boiling
springs, steaming rivers and volcanoes,
seething craters, waterfalls, gorgeous
ly colored canyons and crystal terraces
for which the Yellowstone is famous.
In addition they will penetrate Amer
ica's greatest wild animal refuge.
"The tourist may use either one of
three main entrances north, east or
west depending upon the direction
from which he approaches the park.
Geyser Basin Reached by Motor.
All of the important points in the
park are situated on a circuit which
forms the main artery of tourist travel.
This is known as the "Circle Trip." A
Kioup of phenomena famed throughout
the world may be seen near the Mam
moth Hotel. Beautiful springs, traver
tine terraces with their brilliant con
fusion of color and numerous geysers
and steam fissures beckon the tourist
as he stands on the hotel veranda.
Between Mammoth and Norris the
circuit passes the head of the Golden
Gate with Bunson's Peak rising at the
left and Terrace Mountain towering
pbove on the right. Passing Rustic
Kails, at the head of the gate, the
route enters Swan Lake Basin, where
the view takes in another mass of
peaks. Abput half way to Norris there
is a mountain of volcanic glass known
as Obsidian Cliff, which interests every
tourist.
Small Geysers Numerous.
Norris is the scene of numerous small
geysers spouting water or steam. And
as one follows the course of the Gib
bons and Firehole Rivers to Lower
Geyser Basin, the manifestations be
come greater in size and more spectac
ular. Fountain geyser and the cele
brated Paint Pots the latter a vast
caldron of seething mud are ' objects
of wonder. . Between the lower and
upper basins there are geysers and
pools too numerous to mention. Erup
tions occur at different intervals, and
it is impossible to make, the trip with
out seeing several "playing." Old
Faithful spouts every 70 minutes.
Giant geyser is in action for one and
one-half hours every seven to 12 days.
This, with the Castle, may be seen from
Old Faithful Inn.
Northward from the Lake Hotel the
road skirts the banks of the Yellow
stone River. After seven miles the
tourist usually alights to see the Mud
Volcanoes, the Dragon's Mouth and
other phenomena. Reaching the rapids
his attention is diverted by seagulls,
pelicans, eagles, fishhawks and other
wild fowl either circling far above or
fluttering about the swirling stream.
Approaching Artist's Point on n. de
tour 1000 feet above the foaming river,
the Upper Falls. Lower Falls and the
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone sud
denly amaze the visitors with their
immensity and grandeur. The steep,
fretted, sculptured sides of the canyon
are like a painter's palette upon which
is daubed and smeared in disorderly
beauty every color and shade of color
except blue. This color the heavens
supply.
Trail Rises and Falls.
This inspiring bit of wilderness is
but a short distance from the next
point , of interest, the Canyon Hotel, a
modern $750,000 hostelry giving met
ropolitan service to 750 guests. Con
tinuing, the motor car lifts its enrap
tured passengers from the luxurious
environments of the Canyon Hotel to
the lofty summit of Mount Washburn.
10.300 feet up, the highest point in the
park accessible to motor cars. The eye
may sweep the park as a whole in one
marvelous panorama of mountains, val
leys, lakes and rivers.
The descent from the summit on an
other road gives views of Tower Creek,
itself 6400 feet above sea level, and
soon reaches the bottom of the canyon
below Tower Falls. Massive cliffs
overhanging the road and stream vie
with slender spires rising from the
river's edge and towering 300 feet in
the air. -
The Petrified Forest, a few miles be
yond, is the curtainraiser to a three
mile climb through Crescent Gulch to
the Blacktail Deer Divide. Here the
road steadily drops to the Gardiner
River, completing the circle only two
miles from the Mammoth Hotel.
FORD MEX AT BE'D AGENCY
New Firm Planning to Have New
Building and Equipment.
BEND. Or.. May 26 (Special.) The
Ford agency here is now in the hands
of Ford experts. J. L. Van Huffel. for
merly traveling mechanic, and E. P.
Jech, former assistant chief clerk in
the Ford plant in this city, having been
assigned to the Bend agency.
These young men bring enthusiasm
and expert knowledge of Ford meth
ods that is sure to spell progress and
mean a great deal to Ford owners in
this and adjoining counties.
The new firm expects to have a
building -erected soon to be furnished
with the latest equipment to render
first-clasa aervice. .
AUTO PIONEER DEAD
Samuel L: Smith President of
Olds Company.
BUSINESS ENTERED EARLY
Detroit and Lansing Owe Much
of Present Business to Location
of Olds Factories in Be
ginning of Trade.
Samuel L. Smith, age 87, the pioneer
of automobile production, passed away
at his home in Detroit, Mich., Monday,
May 7. To him more than any other
one man is Southeastern Michigan in
debted for the automobile business. De
troit and Lansing owe him much for
establishing them as the homes of this
gigantic industry.
He was born in 1830 at Algonac,
Mich., on the shores of Lake St. Clair,
but a few miles from Detroit. He
early became identified with the tim
ber, lumber, shipping and railroad en
terprises -of the Lake Superior" region
and was prominent in the early de
velopment of the famous Calumet &
Hecla mines. For many years he was
a resident or Lansing, Alien, engaged
in merchandising, and later became in
terested in mines.
Mr. Smith Made President.
In the meantime Mr. Olds was la
boriously working out the problem of
the automobile, while making gaso
line engines in Lansing. Smith was
quick to see the mechanical merits of
Olds' invention. The Oldsmobile Com
pany was organized in 1899 with Smith
as president and financial sponsor and
Olds as general manager. Smith's sons.
F. L. Smith and Angus Smith, were
actively associated with the enterprise
and continued so until it became a unit
of the General Motors Company plants
established at Detroit and at Lansing,
although the business was centered at
Lansing some years later.
At a time when all the world re
garded the automobile as the rich man's
plaything and as a passing fad. Smith
and Olds, and sssociates saw clearly
the wonderful future in store for it.
backed their convictions by money and
effort on a gigantic scale and plunged
into an extensive manufacturing pro
gramme. In 1901. almost the first
year of their manufacturing existence,
they built 1400 of the curved dash
Oldsmobile runabouts so familiar to
every pioneer motorist. In 1902 they
increased this to 2500, which is a cred
itable. . production for many factories
today. ...
Early Car Found Market.
These first Oldsmobiles found a ready
market all over the world and became
the property of crowned heads of Eu
rope and prominent and prosperous
people of cities and towns of our own
and foreign countries. The Queen of
Italy, Sir Thomas Lipton and many
other notables made their initial motor
investments ' in curved dash Oldsmo
biles. And so well were these machines
built that many of them are in "con
stant use throughout the length and
breadth of the land today.
Not only was Mr. Smith s plant the
home of the first automobile to achieve
quantity production, but it was a veri
table college for automobile enterprise.
A list of the notobles who were gradu
ated from the Olds Motor Works to
form companies of their own would
read like a rollcall of the captains of
the Industry. Henry Ford had not com
menced to build cars commercially.
Dodge Bros, got their start executing
an order tor 2000 Oldsmobile trans
missions in their little machine shop.
and Henry M. Leland established the
Cadillac Company with the profits of
an order ror 2000 motors for Oldsmo
biles. Mr. Smith was married in Lansina
to Miss Seager. He is survived bv the
widow and two sons and two daugh
ters, all of whom reside in Detroit.
STEAM AUTOS ARE COMING
Nearly $15,000,000 of Doble-Detroit
Cars Under Contract.
More than 1100 dealers well scattered
throughout the United States are on
their marks, all set and ready for the
word in the big automobile sweepstakes
the distribution and sale of the Doble
Detroit cteam car to be manufactured
by the Doble-Detroit Steam Motors
Company. These 1100 men will be sell
ing Doble-Detroit steam cars next Fall,
for by that time,, it -is confidently ex
pected, deliveries .will be under way.
The formation of this great saies or
ganization has been the work of T. P.
Myers, vice-president of the General
Engineering Company. A $10,000,000
concern, the Doble-Detroit Steam Mo
tors Company, is being organized to
manufacture the $2500 Doble car and
carry on such other business in making
Doble steam power plants and the like
as may be desired.
Forty or more of the most Important
distributors have already contracted for
nearly $16,000,000 worth of Doble-Detroit
steam cars to. oe delivered be
tween September ana December of this
year. How these orders pile up is evi
denced . In tho allotments of such dis
tributors as the Pacific KlsselKar
branch, contracting for 750. -
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TROOPERS TRANSPORTED BY AUTO
MOBILE IX CALIFORNIA.
Run From Vlsalla to Presidio Made
at Average Speed of 27' Miles an
Hoar. Winning Much Praise.
When it comes to matters military,
little Visalia, Cal.. Is not only patriotic
but strictly modern. A short time ago
the recruiting officers in that town
were informed that a machine gun com
pany was needed in a hurry by the
Second California Infantry.
A rapid-fire recruiting campaign pro
duced the men in 24 hours and then a
dozen business men of Visalia, who Own
Dodge Brothers motor cars, offered to
set the new recruits at the Presidio at
San Francisco In record time.
This was the first attempt at moving
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troops long distances by motor in the
San Joaquin Valley and it was watched
with much interest by military" men.
The 230-mile run was made, in eight
and one-half hours, with an average
speed of 27 miles an hour. The first
half of the trip was completed with a
35-mile average, but rain and slippery
roads cut the average to 27 before the
ferry at Oakland was reached.
While the number of men moved in
this particular Instance was small, the
run demonstrated that the number of
troops it would be possible to rush to
a given point would depend wholly on
the number of motor cars available.
The only delay reported on the entire
trip was occasioned by tire punctures.
The performance of the Dodge Brothers
cars aroused high praise from the offi
cers who accompanied the recruits on
the trip.
Millions of Pounds of Grease Csed.
The Toledo factories of the Willys
Overland Company use 5,000,000 pounds
of transmission grease and 3.000,000
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the
Practical
Bearing
for Motor
Trucks
Hyatt Roller Bearings are
best for motor trucks
because, no matter bow
strenuous the service,
they never need ad
justment or other time
wasting attention.
ALL-YEAR.
Gar-
The Hundred Point Six in
Winter garb a luxurious
closed coach for any social
event or business use. The
ALL-YEAR Top is built
in not on and is entire
removable. PRICES F. O. B. FACTORY
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Vtctori.Toni Car
HmdroJ Point Sim
Standard Tttria .
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Gibraltar Borfr . .
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pounds of cup grease each year in the
assembly of its motor cars.
Overland Has 12.3 Miles of Track.
The Toledo factories of the Willys-
Overland Company have 12.3 miles of
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ations of Oregon's men of action
you will find the Hundred Point Six
hitting on all six cylinders in speed,
power, comfort and flexibility.
It's the car Portland owners take
pleasure in driving of making it
step lively when the occasion war
rants or throttling dowrn to a stately
pace wThile in town.
It's Kissel-built from the ground up
which accounts for the low upkeep
the high gasoline and tire
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mileage.
It's the car of a Hundred Quality
Features compare them tomor
row. The Pacific KisselKar Branch
W. L. Hughson. President.
BROADWAY AT HA VIS
PORTLAND
San Francisco Los Angeles Oakland
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Fresno
railroad tracks serving: them. This
makes the big: automobile plant one of
the largest private freight terminals
in the country. Within the Willys
Overland property lines are approxi
mately five and a half miles of track
lHERE are two
you snouia place your oraer tor a
Paige Linwood "Six-3 9"" immediately.
First, the present volume of orders, from all
sections of the country, indicates that we
shall not be able to supply more than one'
third of the demand for this car.
Second, the scarcity and steadily advancing
cost, of manufacturing materials can result
, in only one thing a price higher than
$1175-
Stratford -Stx-5 1 arvavpassenser. SI 4"J f. x b, Detroit
Fairfield Six-4 acven-pasMnser. I J75 f. o. b. Detroit
Linwood "Stx-W nvc-pasaenser. SI 175 f. o. b Detroit
Brociklands "Six-5 1 four-passenger. &f fab. Detroic
Dartmoor -S)k-3" 2 or J-passerer. S 1 1 75 f . o. b. Detroit
Lnwxsne 5uc-51 aevovpassenser. J2750 f. o. b. Detroit
Sedan "Six-Jl" aevenaasenser. S2100 f. o. K Detroit
Sedan "Six-W fiva-pauerer. S 1 775 f . o. b. Detroit
Toa-nCar -S-5I" aeven-pasienger. SZ750 f. o. b. Detroit
Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.
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COOK & GILL CO., Inc.
Phone Broadway 2610. Broadway at Everett SL
San Diego Seattle
age serving receiving and shlopiaff
docks.
The governments of Brazil and Pern
have combined to maintain a chain of
wireless telegraph stations all the way
across the continent of South America.
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