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Automobiles, Road Trips and
Northwest Highway News
'VOL. . XXXVIII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1919.
NO. 40.
HEY, FELLERS! COME ON OVER HERE AND SEE ALL THESE BUGS!
If .You 'Ever Have Wondered Why They Call 'Em Bugs, Take a Good Look at These Bugs Clustered Here on the Leaves, and You'll Never Again Wonder How They Get the Name.
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These, gentle reader, are just a sample fev of the many varieties
and types of bugs to be seen about this town. Future historians, like
as not, will refer to this as the bug age. Why not? The age of
mastodons has passed; now for the age of bugs.-
The admirer of the bug method of locomotion can have his bug
in about any style he likes, and a good many styles are liked, it
would seem from the most casual observation on any warm evening or Sunday afternoon. However,
all bug styles have one motif in common, the true bug being always made for two, neither of whom
is the chaperone.
The bug hunter who can't find a bug ready made to suit his fancy can have one made to order.
There is an amazingly large bug business in Portland, one firm Burness & Martin building them
in hordes, flocks or swarms, whichever is the correct word to use in reference to bugs. Some of the
bugs pictured are Burness & Martin bugs, others are Palace Garage bugs, the big, while Cadillac
bug climbing the leaf stem for a look around the neighborhood is a W. H. Wallingford bug, whde
the other bugs are privately owned bugs. 'Rah for the bug and the age of bugs!
NEW PLANT CHIEF HIED
A. F. OSTERLOII TO HEAD LOS
ANGELES GOODYEAR BRANCH.
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LAST DETOVR ELIMINATED ON
SCENIC DRIVE.
Many Tourists Now Motoring; Over
Road on Washington Side
"' of Columbia River.
WHITE SALMON. Wash.. Oct. 4.
(Special.) The North Bank high
way from Stevenson to White Salmon
is now in fine condition. The Carson-Home
Valley detour, made neces
sary by eliding in of part of the new
road on Sand mountain, was elimi
nated three weeks ago and cars now
SO over the. main road around the
mountain.
There is a short stretch, only a few
hundred yards long, however, at the
head of 'the Little White Salmon
canyon, where crushed rock has been
laid. This is being followed up close
with gravel teams, however, and will
soon be in excellent touring condition.
Aside from this one section the en
tire highway is in fine condition, and
all crushed rock has been oveTspread
with gravel. Steam rollers are fol
lowing up the gravel.
Tourists are coming to learn of the
grand scenery of this North Bank
highway, and more and moYe are
automobile parties using it. ' Many
are making the detour about a quar- I communities and to foreshadow the
ter of a mile west of the Little White large demand for them so
Salmon bridge, to Willard's, to drink
from Moss Creek, the waters of which
are the same temperature winter and
summer and so cold that no person
has yet succeeded in holding his hand
in it for five minutes. This is about
four miles back from the highway,
over good road. Cars can continue
for about eight miles up this road
through the Columbia national forest,
the road winding through the big
trees. There is good fishing in any
of a number of smaller streams
crossed by this road.
The salmon are now running up the
White Salmon river at Underwood.
There is a hatchery close by, and the
hatchery men are taking out salmon
for their spawn. There is also a camp
of Indians here, taking their winter
supply of food out of the river.
Another view of . much interest on
this highway Is along the Underwood
highlands.' which is on the bluff above
Underwood. These highlands are fa
mous for their orchards. The fruit is
now in fine condition,' and ready for
the pickers.
MORE TRUCKS IN SHERIDAN
From Two a Year Ago, Hustling
Town Now Has 2 0.
SHERIDAN, Or., Oct. 4. (Special.)
The number of motor trucks in
Sheridan has increased from one or
two trucks only a year ago to nearly
20 of the machines In the town itself.
not counting the large number owned
by the farmers about the city. .
This increase indicates the faith
that is held in them by the farming
STEELE OUT FOR HIMSELF
C. H. S. SALES MANAGER NOW
IS DEALER AT ASTORIA.
With B. W. Snyder He Will Han
dle Moon and Dixie Flyer
in That Territory.
M. G. Steele, for the past year sales
msnager of the C. H. S. company,
Oregon distributor for the Moon and
Dixie Flyer, has resigned to become
a motor car dealer for himself in As
toria. With B. W. Snyder of that city,
Mr. Steele has formed the S. & S.
Sales company. They will handle the
Moon and Dixie Flyer in the Astoria
tcrritorv, which incidentally, is a rattling-good
motor car territory. They
have already made their arrange
ments for opening quarters at once in
the service garage there.
For several years Mr. Steele has
boen a motor car salesman, and a
gcod one. Mr. Snyder also is a sales
man of long standing. He was for
merly with the Hammond Lumber
company.
Mr. Steele was in charge of the
ixhibit for the C. H. S. company at
the recent Oregon state fair automo
bile ehow at Sclem. While there he
had the honor of selling the first
car from the floor of the automobile
show. It was a Dixie Flyer, and was
bought by W. E. Noyes, a rancher of
Tillamook.
This Dixie Flyer was taken by Mr.
Noyes .without even so much as a
demonstration ride in it. He bought
it when he .learned it is made by the
same company that manufactures the
famous "Old Hickory" farm wagons.
That was evidence enough for him
that it was a good car, Mr. Noyes de
clared.
DEAN VICTIM OF LA GRIPPE
Buick Manager Confined to Bed by
Severe Cold.
George W. Dean, manager here for
the Howard Automobile company, Ore
gon distributors for the Buick, has
been laid up for a couple of weeks
by a severe attack of la grippe. He
recovered sufficiently last Sunday to
get outside for a little ride in the
open air, but the result was a re
lapse that sent him back to bed. How
ever, at last accounts he was so much
improved that he is expected to be
back on the job at his desk this com
ing -week.
California Roads Widened.
The California highway commis
sion has determined to widen to 15
feet and reinforce the- section of
stale highway between Tule Wash
and Kans Springs in Imperial county,
a distance of about 11 miles. The
edges of the pavement will be in
creased to 6 inches in thickness with
long-it udjqal,ro4s. alpng each. side, for
reinforcement.
Secretary of Parent Concern al
Akron Man of Wide Experience
in the Rubber Industry.
The rubber industry generally and
the automobile tire world particularly
will be interested in the announcement
that A. F. Osterloh, secretary of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, of
Akron, has gone to ioa Angeles to
become vice-president and general
manager of the Goodyear Tire & Rub
ber company of California.
The Goodyear project in California
contemplates an adjunct to the im-
- mense plants of Akron, that will pro
vide increased production to meet de
mands for Goodyear products.
The California company has a cap
italization of $20,000,000, will employ:
something like 7000 workers at the
start, and will have a capacity of 7500
tires per day. There will be cotton
mills operated by a subsidiary com
pany, the Pacific Cotton Mills com
pany, with 33,000 spindles and a ca
pacity of 75.000 pounds of cord fabric
and 75.000 pounds of woven laoric
each week.
The ultimate plans of Goodyear con
template for the California plants an
expansion of both industries to four
times the original capacity.
CAM THIS BE "UNKNOWN"?
MYSTERIOUS DRIVER IS DE
CLARED TO BE "DOC" STOLTE.
Anyway, Man Who Saw Chevrolet
Arrive In Astoria on Record
Trip Says It's He.
ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 30. (To . the
Automobile Editor.) Sir: I note by
the automobile section of The Ore-
gonian that the Chevrolet bug which
made the record run to Astoria of
3 hours 12 minutes, and 3 hours 53
minutes to Seaside, was driven by a
"n ysterlous unknown."
I can give you the name of this
mysterious unknown," as I was in
Aitoria when he arrived there and
recognized him at the wheel of the
bug.
This "mysterious unknown" is Doc
Slolte to give him his full due, Dr.
Charles Lozier Stolte, Jr., dentist, of
Portland. The Doc is one going hound
at the wheel, take it from me, for
I have, seen him go. . . .Yoiu-s .
W. A. G.
Salurduy Afternoons Off uud New
AVttge Scale Put' Up to" Repair.
Shops and Auto Dealers.
Portland automobile mechanics have
formed a union and have presented
demands to the Dealers' Motor Car
association of Oregon. Tfieir demands
are embodied in a proposed agree
ment, which includes recognition of
the union, closed shop, -li-hour week
and a new wage scale.
Under the proposed agreement deal
ers, garage men and operators of
automobile repair shops ure required
to engage men only through the
union, except where the union cannot
furnish them. In Such cases men en
gaged are to become members of the
union within 48 hours.
Kight hours a day Is to constitute
a day's work, with half holiday Satur
day afternoon, thus constituting a
44-hour week. For overtime up to
two hours time and a half would be
paid, above that double time, with
double time for all work on Sundays
or holidays.
Should the proposed agreement Je
adopted the Saturday afternoon clos
ing would hit motor car owner
pretty hard. More repair work is
done on Saturdays, declare repair
men, than on any other day of the
week.
The wage scale demanded by the
union classes men of four yearB' ex
perience as Journeymen mechanics
and machinists, and fixes their pay
at $1 per hour. Men with less than
four years' experience come under the
head of apprentices, but under the
union demands only one apprentice
would be allowed to every three Jour
neymen or machinists. Incidentally
this classification doesn't hitch at ail
with the examination provision of the
law passed by the last legislature.
creating a state board of auto me
chanics examiners.
Under the law mechanics are
classed according to ability as deter
mined by examination, not according
to length of service. T7ie mechanics
don't like the law, for fairly obvious
reasons, and it is held up Just at
present under injunction proceedings
brought by one of them.
The hourly wage scale demanded by
the union is as follows:
Apprentices First four months, 50 cento;
six months, 55 cents; one year, hT cents;
18 fnonths, 70 cents; two years, 7j cents;
30 months, 80 cents; three years, 87
cents; journeymen and machinists, four
years and more, 1 per hour.
While no time limit has been defi
nitely fixed, what amounts to an ulti
matum has been presented by the
union to the dealers. The dealers
haven't replied as, yet, but concen
sus of opinion among them seems
strongly opposed to the closed shop
and 44-hour week provisions.
AUTO SHOWS ON SAME DATE
New York and Chicago Exhibitions
In Same Week.
The 1920 national passenger car and
truck shows, held simultaneously,
but in widely separated buildings,
will constitute the annual winter's
exhibitions for both New York and
Chicago. This radical departure from
the plans of last year was an
nounced by officers of the Nutional
Automobile chamber of commerce.
the organization that will supervise
again the showings, after a lapse of
twojj-eara. ,
Tne exhibitions win pe neia unaer
the following schedules:
New York, January 3 to 10. Passen
ger cars and accessories at the Grand
Central palace: commercial cars and
accessories at the Eighth Coast Ar
tillery armory.
Chicago, January 24 to 31. Passen
ger cars and accessories at the Coli
seum and First Regiment armory;
commercial cars and accessories at
the International amphitheater.