THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, "JULY 21, 1918.
SPEEDY RUN FiOE
Dr. Paul C. Yates Believed to
Have Set New Mark.
MARMON GOES LIKE WIND
Portland Dentist DrlTe9 His Spe
cial Marmon From San Francisco
to Portland In Only 45 Hours'
Actual Running Time.
Dr. Paul C. Yates, Portland dentist,
drove from San Francisco to Portland
In his Marmon car last week, nearly
1000 miles, as the roads go, in S hours
actual running time.
This is believed to be a record for the
run between the two-cities in any stock
touring car. It may be a record for
the run by any car. stock or otherwise.
Accompanying Dr. Yates on his
speedy trip was Dr. J. J. Flttlnger, of
Los Angeles. They drove hour by hour,
turn about, for the whole distance,
one taking the wheel for one hour, the
other spelling him the next hour.
Unlike most fast runs, this one start
led without any particular idea of hang-
in six days and two hours. The Jour
ney would have been accomplished in
six days flat but -for a delay of two
hours on the return trip, waiting, for
a train of 160 Army trucks to cross the
Delaware River bridge at Trenton,' a
few trucks at a time.
Several tests made recently by rail
road express between these two points.
proved that express shipments were re
quiring six days In transit. So the
Goodyear trucks are making the round
trio in the same time that the express
companies consume In delivering a I
shipment one way.
This, however, ia ut one example of
the usefulness of these trucks In trans
porting soles to the East. Practically
all the Eastern shoe manufacturers are I
usin Neolln, .but the terrible conges
tion of tne railroads at times abso
lutely prevented shipments -that were
needed immediately. In every In
stance the big truckB have come to the
rescue and delivered enough material
to keep shoe production up to standard.
The timeliness of this service, how
ever, has not 'been confined to the shoe
Industry, for many other firms have
secured auick delivery of badly needed
products, , and many tire dealers have I
secured shipments - oi taaiy neeaea
tires, over this truck transportation I
line.
PACKARD SLOGAN IS ADOPTEpI
Army to Paint Battle pry on Thou
sands of Anto Trucks. .
"Save a Freight Car for Uncle Sam."
the slogan originated by the Packard
Motor Car Company as the battle cry
of Its $5000 truck-efficiency test, soon
will annear on thousands of trucks now
In Armr" service. Fifty sets of stencils
hm been . ordered bv the Army for I
immediate shipment to Camp' Holablrd,
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HEBK IS DR. PAUL YATES, PORTLAND DENTIST, AND MAR
MON SPECIAL IN WHICH HE MADE RECORD DRIVE
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO PORTLAND.
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5ng up a new mark. Dr. Yates left
Oakland with Dr. Plttinger at 8:30
o'clock the evening of July 3. They
reached Stockton at 10:30 the same
night and remained there all night.
By 8 o'clock, next morning they were
on their way. tiad reached Sacramento
at 10, spent four- hours there. Incident
ally taking part in an automobile par
ade, and l&ffc'at 2 o'clock toy-each Red
Bluff at 8 'the -same night. f
Gotnjf Some" Was the Case.
There Dr. Yates happened to remark
o a garageman that they' had come
from Oakland in 10 hours, whereat the
garageman opened his eyes and opined
that they had been "going some."
They figured up and found that they
9-eally had been "going "some." And
then and- there .they decided to keep
right on. going and see just what the
Harmon could do. .
They were aided- to this decision by
the behavior of the car. It actually
seemed to want to be turned loose Just
to show- what it could do. Hour after
hour as they drove, the speedometer
Bhowed them: to be going. 45 miles an
hour, 35 miles, 40 . miles, back to '45
again, for seven to eight hours at a
clip, without resting the car for a mo-
'" Jnent. This kind of traveling is hard
on any car, but the Marmon kept right
on all the time without the least sign
of trouble. The water In the radiator
did not even become heated to the boil
ing point at any time.
. This was partly due to the fact that
they did much of their driving at night
to avoid the terrific mid-day heat of
parts of Central and Northern Califor
nia. They performed the unusual feat
of driving over the Siskiyous at night,
. though they were warned not to try it.
At some turns they had to back the
car to make the curves, but their
lights were in good order and they
didn't mind It.
Fast Time In Oregon.
, From Red Bluff, where they stopped
.tor the night, they pressed on at 8
o'clock next morning, July 5, and made
. Shasta Springs at 6 that night. They
remained there all night and until 6
o'clock next day because of the heat.
But starting at 6 o'clock the evening
of July 6, they were In Medford by
midnight, which Is pretty fast driving
through the mountains.
The final leg of their journey, from
Medford to Portland, they made In one
day, traveling from 6 o'clbck the morn
ing of July 7, when they left Medford,
to 1 o'clock the next morning, 19 hours
later; when they rolled Into Portland.
As anyone who has driven between
Medford and Portland knows, this is
mighty fast time. At that, they did
not deduct from their runningtime for
this day an hour for three stops.
When they reached Portland the
Marmon was In perfect trim to turn
around and make the trip back, If they
liad desired to do it. There wasn't an
adjustment to be made to it.
More than -that, their gasoline con
sumption averaged 14 miles to the gal
lon for the trip north, and of two gal
lons of oil put in the crank case at
San Francisco, three-f ourtha remained
when they reached Portland. The only
mishap of the whole trip was one punc
tured tire.
Car Specially Made.
Dr. Yates Is enthusiastic over the
performance of his Marmon car, which
he bought from the Northwest Auto
Company in Portland Beveral months
ago. Motor and chassis of this Marmon
are the same as on any stock car, but
It has special wheels, which put the
body of the car four Inches higher than
on any other Marmon In Portland, has
a special top, and is dust yellow In
color, a specially painted job.
Dr. Yates had his Marmon shipped
to Los Angeles from Portland three
months agd. He left Portland at that
time on a trip East, during which he
visited every large city except Boston
He then traveled to Los Angeles, where
ills Marmon was waiting for him.
KEOLET SHIPMENT IS HURRIED
near Baltimore, Ml There hundreds
of trucks of many makes are assem
bled for shipment to France. The slo
gan will be stenciled on the radiator
fronts of the trucks.
That this slogan has appealed to the
Packard owners and drivers in the Na
tional truck efficiency ' test is being
proved by postal card contact with
those owners and drivers. They are
displaying increasing enthusiasm as
they find they -are deriving substantial I
benefits from the test.
"Save a-Freight Car for. Uncle Sam"
Is being spread everywhere. It was I
prominently displayed on a shipping-1
room poster issued at the beginning of I
the test. It appeared again on the red,
white and blue signs seen so frequent
ly on Packard trucks everywhere.
SMART COLORS VOGUE
BRIGHT TINTS WANTED BY .NEW
CAR PURCHASERS,
Buyers of National Twelves and Sixes
Especially, Have Wide Variety of
Hues to Select From.
Motor Truck Carries Load 1500
Miles and Baek In Six Days.
The Importance of motor truck trans
portation as a means of keeping up
deliveries where quick railroad trans
portation was impossible, is emphasized
in tne latest accomplishment of one
of the 'big Packard trucks of the Good
year Tire & Rubber Company's Akron
Boston line, in delivering to a large
shoe manufacturing company at Bos
ton a shipment of four tons of Neolin
eoies in nz nours. estaDiisning a new
motor truck record between the two
cities, which are more than 1500 mile
apart
The .truck delivered lta load at Bos
ton, picked up a load of cotton fabri
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Automobile production this Spring
has borne out the forecast of the 1918
automobile shows that America's qual
Ity care would be finished In a greater
variety of colors than In seasons past.
There Is a greater vogue now for
bright colors than ever . before, the
Duyers of distinctive cars- selecting
striking combinations that command
attention and emphasize the body lines
ana motor power of their thorough-
ureas or steel.
That not a few buyers desire & fin
ishing touch of Individuality to thejr
is eviaencea Dy tne unusually
large number of automobiles that have
been given special treatment In the
paint shop of the National Motor Car
& Vehicle Corporation, of Indianopolls.
in tne past two months.
A surprisingly large number of see-
cial color Jobs have been turned out
this season by the National company.
said A. B. Manley, local distributor of
national sixes and Twelves, "despite
the fact that the two standard colors
highway blue and highway gray-
are distinctive and Individual.
The greatest demand for color and
special painting comes from the pur
chasers of the new 12-cylinder, two-
passenger roadster, a car of such un
usual design and ability that the owner
wishes to Increase its attractiveness
and make It entirely different from
any other automobile on the boulevard.
-The most popular colors of 191$
smack of the fighting 'over there.'
j.ney nave - such militsry names
battle redi khaki brown, rookie tan.
periscope gray, Pershing gray, torpedo
boat gray, hospital red, infantry blue.
artillery red and mist O'Marne blue.
Then there are such odd hues as
millorl green, permanent purple, lav
ender, chrome yellow and cherry red.
While not so brilliant. Ivory white and
straw are very striking, especially
when the wire wheels are finished in
batle red or millorl green. Another
very rich combination Is maroon with
old gold striping, while race blue.
color made famous by National cars
In their triumphant days of road and
speedway competition. Is again in high,
Lu vor.
"Navy gray Is a new color that Is
both attractive and practical, being
one of those soft shades that pleases
the eye,- wear well and do not show
the dust and dirt of travel. The Na
tional company Is finishing all the
touring cars it is building for the
Aviation and Signal Corps of the Navy
in this color, using navy blue for body
stripe and the official Insignia on the
panels between the doors.
"While' wire wheels were never as
popular as at present, many owners
now regard wheels of natural wood
as ultra-smart and specify such equip
ment on special Jobs."
YEMJOWSTOXE PARE TOTJRIXG
Lifting of Ban on Autos by Govern
ment Is Bl; Help.
Permission to operate automobiles In
the Tellowstone National Park was
somewhat belated, but since the Gov
ernment's ban on automobiles has been
lifted, the advantages of seeing the
beauties and wonders of this famous I
National park by automobile have been
so ably demonstrated that the Tellow
stone Park Transportation Company Is
operating a fleet of large passenger
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st tne company's mill in Connecticut, attracted to the park. The rcculir
tnd finished the round trip to Akron tour, starting and ending. at Gardiner.
Mont., the northern entrance, lasts five
days, the season running from June 16
to September 20. These big passenger
cars are all running on. Goodyear cord
tires. - .
PHILIPPINE AUTO SHOW HELD
Total of 2 7 0,993 Persons Attend In
Ten-Day Period.'
At the 1918 Philippines Motor Carni
val, held annually at Manila, which is
the . New York show of the Philippine
Islands, the attendance for its 10-day
period -was larger than that of any pre
vision exhibition. A total of 270,993
persons paid admission, during the
show. : There was no retrenchment
from other years, as might have been
expected, - in - the number of cars ex
hibited. All the well-known makes of
American cars were shown.
American tire companies were also
represented, the exhibit of the Good
year Tire & Rubber Company, through
its agents, Erlanger and Galinger, be
ing the most pretentious, with, a com
plete line of that company's products.
Among the tires shown in this exhibit
were five Goodyear cords, each tagged
with name of owner, date of purchase
and statement of mileage, that collec
tively had run 100,000 miles on Philip
pine roads and streets an average of
20.000 miles to eaaH tire. Each tire
was in actual service at the time of
removal for exhibition purposes.
Imbricate , Valve Stems.
The exhaust valve stems are,extreme-
ly likely to stick because of the forma-
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Francis Motor Gar Go.
East Thirteenth. St. and Hawthorne Ave.
tlon of a gummy deposit that comes in
this part. Gasoline or kerosene are the
only things that will help much in these
circumstances. By Inserting a Dit or
copper tubing in at the next spark
plug hole a little gasoline may be
squirted on to the valve, stem. The
gasoline runs down the stem and quick
ly loosens the gum. so that the valve
stem Is free to move again.
Be careful In leaving your car on a
steeply Inclining street. ' There have
been three cases In as many weeks of
automobiles plunging down those
streets.
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more seriously people
j consider the purchase of
'motor cars, the more re
spect they have for Model. 90
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