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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1919)
11 place in the heart of the writer, who carelessly left the upper section of his pajamas in his room and subse quently received the missing part by mail at Pullman, Wash. New pajamas can, of course, be purchased, if one has the money, but that landlord's action showed a kindly appreciation of the horror a traveler feels at losing his nightwear. From Harrington to Spokane the road was fine. Most of it was paved. At Spokane they took the Palouse high way, an excellent paved road, to Ro salia. Wash., where they switched to the Inland Empire highway to Colfax and thence drove 20 miles to Pullman. FIRESTONE CAPACITY 38,000 TIRES DAILY PRETTY GOOD SHAPE Condition Better Than That of Seattle-Portland Road- New Plant Gives Greatly In creased Output THE STTXD.AY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, STvPTEMTBER 21, 1919. UNSET HIGHWAY IfJ QUITE A LONG CLIMB UP Just Beyond Ellensburg Cornea Sage brush Country, With Roads Sad and Full of Chuctholea. BT PAUL RTAN. PUIXMAN, Wash. Sept. 20. (Special.) Autoists traveling- from Seattle to the eastern part of Washington will find roads much better than the Portland-Seattle highway, in the opinion NEW ORLEANS AFTER THIEVES Special Detectives Assigned to Get Men Stealing: Autos. With car thefts In New Orleans av eraging two & day, the superintendent of police has established a bureau to facilitate the tracing of stolen cars and the capture and conviction of auto thieves. Men from the detective branch are being placed in charge with motor cycles and foot patrolmen under them, so the new bureau is virtually a small police department in itself, whose work is devoted entirely to the protection of cars, owners and dealers. He also is urging on the insurance companies the establishment of a mutual exchange for POTENTIAL" OUTPUT HUGE Efficiency Methods Result In Big Saving1 of Expense In Each Factory Operation. Firestone now has the largest tire capacity in America, according to an announcement made recently in Akron from the company's general offices. Its two big plants are planned to turn out 36,000 tires and 40,000 tubes daily. ONLY 139 OTHER CARS LIKE THIS STUD EB ABLER BIG SEX SPEEDSTER IN THE WHOLE UNITED STATES II - 13 -T h ' i T i f - . r?,f ?. we ! i :. r $M . i ' ' f I 5 - iff - J i ' - . : 111 3L ' . 111 i FX: : T tw. 3 l ? IT'S A SPECIALLY M A D K CAR. IN EVERT SENSE OK THE WORD, WITH AL.TTMINTJM H 1VD-HAMMERED BODY AND MANY OTHER REFINEMENTS. W. C GARBE, OK THE OREGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, SHOWN BY CAR. Only 200 cars, all told, of this new speedster model have been made by the Etudebaker Corporation of America. One has been sent to each distributor and larre dealer, which 1 s how Mr. Garbe happens to b driving this one. but he is pulling every wire he can manipulate to get one or two mora of them. Besides its aluminum body it has a special top. patent wind shield with ventilators, auxiliary Duiiseye lam ps. specially selected and assembled motor, hish-trrade leath er upholstery. Note the straight lines on the front of the hood in place of the curved ones of other Etudebaker model. f Patrick Ryan of tills city, who has arrived here after driving in a Buick from Portland .with a family party. He made the trip In six days, spending; two days at Seattle, and never attempt ing' to make fast time. Th party left Seattle on the Rainier valley road. The first detour for road repairs was necessary before the city limits were reached. Like most detours, the road was poor and members of the party felt that it was a poor omen. Reaching Ren ton. however, they found av gravel and sand road, which com pares favorably with any in Oregon. It was raining a little and strips of fog bung like clusters of features on the forested hills, but the car swept up the gentle grade at a rate of 30 miles an hour with never a threat of skidding. Dinner was eaten at Issaquah, Wash. The meal was a surprise, the ordinary country restaurant 'feed" having been expected. Thence the autoists swept on over the Sunset highway. Preston, seen at 30 miles an hour, was a lumber mill wreathed In smoke and fog. Between fields of yellow wheat and yellower corn the auto climbed eteadily into the timber belt and at last to the Snoqual mie Pass, above the timber belt, ap parently, although its altitude Is only a little more than 3000 feet. Cleric Grin Roomers Mixed. Descent from the pass was over a road fully equal to that west of the mountains. An inner tube, punctured on a piece of glass, and another that burst as soon as pumped up, so delayed the party that despite the good road they thought it best to stop for the night at Cle Elum. Cle Elum has a good hotel, but de cidedly the hotel needs a new clerk. The party left a call for 6:30 A. M., but the clerk confused their rooms with those occupied by some persons who wanted to catch a 3:30 A. M. train. He pounded so persistently and eo re peatedly on the doors of the rooms in which Mr. Ryan's party were trying to sleep that he probably aroused even the persons who wanted to get up. The Studebaker left Cle Elum and the eccentric hotel clerk it 7 A. M., arriv ing in Ellensburg .in an hour's leisurely driving. Here they breakfasted on what evidently were intended for cold stor age eggs, but the ice must have melted during storage. Washed down with coffee that the cook might have sub stituted with dishwater, the eggs left an unpleasant memory of that city. which otherwise appeared a pretty place. In the midst of a rich irrigated district. Ellensburg is on the fringe of the sagebrush, however, and within a few miles the motorists found their first bad roads. They were not so bad. but occasional patches of sand had worn into chuck holes. Into which a car driven at reasonable speed would drop . with a "chuck" which would have dis concerted an osteopath. Perhaps the Sunset highway, which had been left at Ellensburg because of reports that some of the pa-sees be ' tween Ellensburg and Yakima had been . closed for repairs, has not those dis concerting chuck holes. But perhaps it hasn't the view of the Columbia river with its sand dunes and quaint little ferry, either. At anv rate the Ryan party had no regrets for the route they had chosen. Dont Use the Word "DmerL" They crossed the Columbia river at Vantage ferry, and wound around and up an excellent grade into a level plain covered with sage brush and sand. The road across this plain one must not call it a desert was fine, with stretches for miles without a turn. By the way, don't call the plain a desert, because the residents won't permit it. Mr. Ryan involved nimself In a well nigh endless argument with a truculent citizen who insisted that 20 bushels of wheat per acre could be raised on any sand bank for miles around. lne party took tne wrong road near Soap lake and became involved in series of chuck holes again. Even the residents of Wilson Creek, Wash., where they stopped to ask directions, ad ' mitted that their highways were In poor condition. ' Translated into pre cise English, that admission meant that the auto must follow a cow path until it got back on the main highway. Thl it did alter several miles slow travel and the party arrived in Harrington Wash., tired enough to accept a hotel f ; landlord's invitation to stay for the night. the registration of all insured ears, giving the engine number and descrip tion of the car as well as the license number, this exchange to receive re ports of all thefts simultaneously with the police department. Such an exchange would get from the state government descriptions and numbers of all licensed cars, and all insurance companies to which appli cation is mads by a car owner for in surance thus could trace ths car to be insured from its original sale by the dealer down to the present owner. Marking of cars with ths owner's ini tial or by a secret mark filed, with ths police bureau is also urged. MANY IN AUTD FACTORIES MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY NOW EM. PLOTS 1,030,000. Here Are Some Interesting Figure Show ing Scope of the Auto- i motive Industry. According to a report made public recently the total number of persons employed in the manufacture and sale of motor cars aggregates 1,930,000.. Of this total number 680,000 ars in auto mobile factories, 1.020,000 make parts and accessories and 230,000 are em ployed by agencies and garages. This number equals 10 per cent of all those engaged in mechanical and manufactur ing industries of the United States. The motor car business, therefore. supports more than 3,000,000 persons. xnis population could fill a city half the size of New York, as large as Chi cago, twice as large as Philadelphia, four times the size of Boston, or ten times as large as Minneapolis, Los Angeles or Washington. It more than equals the population of California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Min nesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee. Virginia or Wisconsin. 'tne business is as large as the state of Michigan and greater than Arizona, ueiaware, District or Columbia. Idaho. Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire and New Jersey combined. Ths salary and wages of those employed aggregate nearly 1800,000,000. of which the auto mobile factories pay $300,000,000; parts and accessory people, $400,000,000, and tne dealers and garages $100,000,000. These totals exceed twice the entire annual revenue of the United states postoirice and seven times that naid lur luo iransporrauon oz wifii, Storage Battery Mounting. If the storage battery is not secured tightly in its place the vibration and jolts of ordinary travel may very pos BiDiy Dreatc some oi tne Jars. When production has mounted to this figure, a time near at hand, the demand for Firestone tires, the announcement continues, will still exceed the supply. In fact, Firestone orders ars Increasing so rapidly with each month that the advertising slogan of "Most Miles per Dollar" has been given. This Is the Fire stone year as a companion. . The new building for plant Ko. 2. which was completed just at the time the government needed dirigibles and which was given over to the noanufac ture of the same, has now taken up tire production. It Sa devoted exclusively t Jlj inch tires. Its capacity is 16,000 tires a day. Plant No. 1, which turns out 20,000 tires a day, is concentrating on the larger fabric tires, on cords and on truck tires. Plant No. 2 has been declared by en gineering and manufacturing experts to be the finest example of the modern tire factory in the world. The best brains of the country have been con centrated upon its design as a factory building, its mechanical equipment and ths manufacturing process used there in. In this wonderful plant every ap propriate labor and time-saving device or machine has been Installed nothing has been overlooked which would aid in eliminating lost motion, promote maximum efficiency and contribute to produce the finest tires ever built. Mechanical Conveyors Used. Production is based on the recently worked out "straight line" method. That is to say, from the time the raw materials come into the factory they move forward, never back, from the hands of one worker to another, on a straight course as nearly as possible, until the finished tire comes through. Mechanical conveyors everywhere bring the workers their material. Some of these conveyors are huge cranes. such as carry large rolls of cotton fabric to the calenders: others are merely lightweight hooks, such as those which bring to the worker's chair the sidewall or tread of the tire he is fin ishing. The carcass of the tire is built on four-men machines each of which has a capacity of a tire a minute. Tht quality may be guarded on this quantity production, inspectors stand at regular Intervals along the tire's course. By eye, hand or mechanical device, they check every operation of machine or worker's hand. When defect is noted, the tire is thrown out. In the making of the larger tires, in Plant No. 1, machinery does not play as important a role as the skill of the workman. Yet here too a large fores of engineers strives .constantly to in ject more efficiency Into production. Ths success they have is evidenced by the fact that although cost of materials increases, the retail price of Firestone tires is not climbing. In fact, ths last change announced was a 16 per cent reduction last spring. In addition to 36,000 tires, Firestone can turn out 40,000 Inner tubes dallv Rims are also manufactured in large quantities by the Firestone Steel Products company, a subsidiary corpo- It's in town, Gentlemen! We have secured the agency for the 11 $1395 Chassis f. o. b. St. Louis Some Traffic Features Red Seal Ceattseatal 3&x5 motor: Cevert transmission: multiple disc clutch; Beech high-tension magneto; 4-plece cast ebell, cellular type radia tor; drop forged front axis with Ttmkea roller bearlaai Ruael rear axle. Internal gear, roller bearings; semi-elllptio front and rear springs; e-tstrfc TJ-eaJUBiiel Iramf Staadard Kislc Tires. 34x3 front, S4x6 rear; 133-inch wheelbase; 122 inch length of frame behind driver's seat; oil cup lubricat ing system: chassis painted, striped and varnished; driver's lasy-back seat and cushion regular equipment. Pneumatic cord tire equipment at extra cost. Traffic Motor Track Corporation St. Louis, Mo. xeTtMl-v bonders of 4O0O- le. capacity trucks in tne worid. The Lowest Priced 4000-lb. Capacity Truck in the World We heard about it read about it and then went to St. Louis to learn about it. After visiting the factory and seeing; the Traffic built from the first to the last step in its construction and witnessing its performance the truck itself convinced -us not the makers that it is, without doubt or question, the greatest truck value obtainable. It is a truck we are proud to sell because of its quality, and one that you will be most desirous of owning because of its economy. It is built by the largest exclusive builders of 4000-lb. capacity trucks in the world which accounts for its extremely low price. Every part used in its construction is a standardized truck unit the company does not build pleasure cars nothing but Traffic Trucks of one design and capacity it's all truck. The Traffic saves you hundreds of dollars in first cost hundreds of dollars in main tenance cost, and will cut your cost of hauling with teams in half. They are in use the world over. Don't buy until you see the Traffic which is mak ing friends faster than anything that runs on wheels. See it today. REX MOTOR CAR CO. Distributors 89-91 NORTH NINTH STREET ration. The present rim plant is soon to be housed in a new $1,000,000 build ing, ground for which was broken this month. 42,000 Firestone Dealers. Officials declare Firestone is able to give extra value in tires, tubes and rims because of the facilities already enumerated, because of careful plan ning and buying of raw materials, be cause the distribution of the finished product is economically handled through (3 branches and 42,000 dealers, and last but not least, because the advantages and prerogatives peculiar to membership in the Firestone organ ization attract and hold the best workers. Firestone headViuarters at Singapore is no small organization In Itself. It occupies a large and attractive build ing in ths Chinese port city. Its staff saves car owners 31.000,000 a year, the company's officials say, by getting first choice of rubber at low cost and ship ping direct. Cotton fabric, the ma terials of second importance in the making of a tire, comes from a cotton fabric mill in which Firestone has In vested to get uniform quality and sup ply and to insure the best without add ing a premium to the price of tires. From the time he entered the manu facturing field. H. S. Firestone, ths company's president, has believed that a fair deal to workers is essential to the success of a factory. The best men come to Firestone and stay. Ninety per cent are stockholders in the com pany, and each is interested financially in giving every customer the best work. They live in a clean and in every way attractive home community. Mr. Fire stone lends his aid in buying houses and in making money saving easy and alluring. He provides his workers with one of the best banks in Ohio. The Firestone clubhouse has swimming pool, cafeterias, dining room, library, auditorium and other splendid facili ties. A grocery operated by the com pany sells staple foodstuffs without proxix. mi zactory nas Ifc.uow em ployes. THESE PORTLAND YOUNG MEN HAVE THE MITCHELL AND CHEVEOLET AGENCIES AT CO RV ALUS. U Jl Setr. .,. -.- : -! III TAKING A LOOK AT THE ENGINE OF" THE LATEST MITCHELL. The new firm of Nordensen & Albee, lust opened at Corvallis with the agency for sales and service of Mitchell and Chevrolet cars, is composed of hangar Albee (right) and Ernest Nordensen. Mr. Albee is a brother of Bay Albee of the Mitchell. Lewis & Staver company. The two partners ars looking AUTOMATIC DOWNS SKUNK! PLEASANT LITTLE BEAST TRAV ELS BESIDE AUTO. TTses) of Petoock. When it is net possible to get at Che lr valve of the carbureter to pour water Into it to remove carbon, it is a good idea to have a petcock fitted into the inlet manifold. This also serves when it is necessary to prime the en gine in cold weather. Radiators and Fenders Blade and Repaired Burness & Martin AUTO SHEET METAL WORKS Fifteenth and Alder Streets Radiators Cleaned by our new Chemical Process Hood River Folk Have Unusual Ad venture on Tour Through Central Oregon. HOOD RIVER, Or, September 20. (Special.) A running fight with a skunk was an interesting Incident of a motor trip to California through cen tral Oregon by Mr. and Mrs. George W. Thomson, who were accompanied by their son. Leonard; their daughter, Mra Ed car Franz, and her husband. The polecat was mt between Silver Lake and Paisley. Mra Frans drove the big Marmon car while Mr. Thom son and Mr. Frans finished the skunk. Mr. Frans downed it with his auto matic Mr. Thomson writes further interesting details of the trip south: "We arrived at Bend from The Dalles over a good road, and same con dition thence to Redmond. This town is well named, as there is plenty of red dirt soil to cause one to think 'red.' From Redmond we went to La Pine, but this was a mistake. We were mis directed. From this place until we reached Tamarack forest, the roads were good and scenery fine. Then, oh my. but it was fierce! "Dust choking .nuffler. and chuck holes all the way. But we ploughed on nd finally reached Fort Rock. Good roads here gave us new life. We took chances on the hotel, but failed to connect with rooms, and after supper Wt for Paisley, arriving at 11 P. M. Everybody had gone to bed, but the ho. tel was open with a display of vacant room lists. We took our choice of a couple, leaving our car in the street. Had a good sleep, and after breakfast headed for Lakevlew. The mads were good. Thence we went to Pine creek and on to Alturas. "There all the hotel rooms were taken. Court was in session and the ton n was full of people. We had our choice of sleeping In the street or go ing to Likely. 20 miles distant. When we got there tt looked very unlikely. The hotel had just burned, and the poor landlady was In bed In temporary quarters, with only one double bed. one single and a couple of imitations con structed on a porch. Phe appeared in her nights-own and told us to help ourselves to beds. 1 drew the tops of some trunks to sleep on. The landlady, however, made up for the improvised beds with a dandy breakfast of fried rabbit and hot bis cuit. Some of the roads between Likely and Susanville were good and some were bad. but we made good time. All hands had a good bath and donned clean clothes. We are Just ready for a supper of venison steak." BEST REMOVETt FOR CABBOS It's to Have It Scraped Out, Xot to Cse Kerosene. Q. I have been told that kerosene Is a good carbon remover. Is this so or do you suggest some other method of getting rid of the carbon? A. Kerosene is not particularly rood for thla purpose. There are a few. a very few, proprietary compounds eold which are helpful in removing carbon, but the only certain way is to have the cylinders 6craped If the cylinder head Is detachable. If it Is integral, have ths work done by the oxygen method. Don't "hog" the road. EVIDENCE UTE STRENGTH Thatjrime. necessity in-a jmotoi; JtrnclsV is iuLLt xisitt into the L. G. S EATON, "ALSO BUYS A White Salmon, Wash.) MASTER' fis.;3 TRUCK 1V2, 2, 3 and 5 Tons rr.T,Trt tt f INTERNAL GEAR Two Drives timken worm Oregon Motor Car Co. Distributors PARK AND DAVIS STREETS EVIDENCE That landlord will sver hold a vatm over uis M"rn'" muwr viu iaxi ""i anop xoremaa, - fPH 103.2