4 THE SUNDAY OR EG ONI AX, PORTL'AND, OCTOBER 5, 1910. TO counties of the state, according to the number of post roads In each county. The license to be paid under this law, which becomes effective January 1. lSIO. for all motorcyles will be $5; cars not exceeding 23 h. p.. Jtl.25; cars of more horsepower, 60 cents for each horsepower. All passenger-carrying vehicles seating ten or more passenger- will be assessed (75. Trucks of 1 ton will be assessed $15; Hi-ton. 121.50; 2-ton. 130; 3-ton, 45; 3H-ton. $52.50; 4-ton. $75; 5-ton, $160; S-ton, $375; 7-ton, $7750; more than 7-ton. $1125. Dealers will be required to pay a license of $50. It cannot be ascertained whether or not this will be interpreted to apply on each line carried, as at present, or not. CURS COSTLY HERE, BUT NOTE ENGLAND FOR T FLYING CORPORATION Sll, 000,000 Bond Issue Vol ed for New .Highways. Millionaire Racer Now Keen for Airship Game. . Price of Ford Touring Model Over There Is $1100. . FEDERAL AID TO BE MET BIG BUSINESS IS PLANNED EVEN THAT IS REDUCTION MONTANA BUILD IT FORM IW His aerial experience dates back more than nine years. To those who haven't forgotten the initial attempt of Wal ter Wellman to cross the Atlantic ocean in 1910, in a dirigible, it may be stated that Aubert was one of the crew which manned this ill-fated ship. He has been continuously identified with aviation in various capacities since that time, and more recently saw service in the American flying corps. Correspondence is being exchanged with Dr. Leo de Forest, Inventor of wireless telephones, to learn how soon wireless, telephone equipment can be obtained for all the airships to be operated by the Durant corpor ation. With the De Forest system In stalled it will be post. jit for business men to carry on direct conversation with their respective business offices while en route from one point to an other. GRAXD PRIX FREXCH TARGET Big Anto Makers Trying to Kill Racing Classic. Some of the leading French manu facturers 'are doing their best to kill the 1920 Grand Prix race. A meeting has Just beenheid of the Chambre Syndicate des Constructeurs, which 7 SXif MUDS RUCK Jlorc Diversified Farming Scrn as Probability With Xetwork or Improved Highways. Montana, rart of which Is sand wiched in between Yellowstone and Glacier national Darks, has decided that while buiidinir hard roads for tourists has its advantages, there are also dollar-and-cenls reasons for Im Drovins highways for the motor trucks of Montana folk. Kleven mil lion dolUrs will be spent in building better highways throughout the state In the coming year. The trend of thought aroonsr the farmers of the treasure state on the subject" of quick and economical trans portation on hard-surfaced highways is Indicated by returns on the special elections in September. Seventy-five per cent of the counties voted on the issue of matching the federal govern ment dollar for dollar in building roads. Few counties failed to avail themselves of the opportunity to im prove their highways at once by the federal aid method. "Montana is turning to the shlp-by-truck scheme as a means of rapid and economical transportation." the CSreat Falls branch of the bureau re ported to the Firestone ship-by-truck bureau at Akron. O.. when the results of the vote became known. Tracks the BnfSf. "The railroads have been unable to keep pace with the growth of the state. This growth has been by big strides, the rich agricultural land be ing rapidly taken up by an Influx of middle western farmers. Yet lack of transportation facilities has been a serious handicap for some time In de velopment of the full resource of the land. Long hauls have made It im practical for the farmer to raise any thinr but small grains, which have hn shlDDed east. The awakened Interest In hard roads promises to change this situ atlon. For a long time the state has wanted to encourage diversified farm Ing. It sees a rich field for those who care to enter the dairying iieia. oui knows that these things are neither nractical or profitable unless there are rood roads, and lots of them, link Ing up the fast-growing cities with the rapidly developing rural communi ties. The returns on tne recent eiec tions foreshadow the coming of such roads. -The 111.000.000 authorized will re nit. it is believed, in a wholesome stimulation of the truck Industry. With the completion of the "projects many truck lines no doubt will be es tablished. "Montana, however. Is not going to stop with the completion of these projects, for It realizes that even this huge sum will not iron out all the wrinkles in the mountain trails. So It is going to vote for a state bond Issue of $15,000,000 in 1920. which doubtless will be put over by a com fortable majority. Park t Park Road Famoas. 'Endowed with some of the most Inspiring works of nature, the state has already established some splen did highways which are particularly attractive to tourists. Among these are the T-G Bee line, a fine auto mobile road which winds from the northern entrance of Yellowstone park at Gardiner to the eastern en trant of Glacier park. "This road traverses the most at tractive portions of Montana from the scenic standpoint, taking tourists through some of the largest cities. Great Falls is among these citl Here we have a large portion of the big planta of the Anaconda Copper company, and through the Montana Power company at Great Falls, water power is transformed into electricity and sent to all parts of the state. "The Y-G Bee line Is an example of what a few good roads boosters can accomplish when Imbued with the enthusiasm which has made Montana famous. Finding no marked trail be tween these two great parks and re alizing the necessity of a good road and the possibilities of tourist travel. these men organized the Yellowstone Glacier Bee Line association four years ago. As a result there now exists between the parks one of the finest highways in the west. "Montana depends on the same en thusiasm which built the Y-G line to make possible a network of highways in the treasure state which will be econd to none, and doubtless the re sultant increase In truck traffic will provide a quick and economical means of transportation which will play an important part in creating a closer relationship between town and country- SEWELL WHEELS ARE HERE Portland Firm Takes Agency for Cushion Track Wheel. W: T. Sewell. treasurer of the Sewell . Cushion Wheels company, of lictrolt, while In Portland recently placed the agency here for Sewell cushion wheels with Carson, Fletcher & Gaines. Mr. Sewell predicts a big demand for Sewell wheels In Portland and vi cinity. He says: Sewell cushion wheels have won an important posi tion in the operation of motor trucks. Truck operators have found them an important factor in the economical. uninterrupted operation of their Airplanes to Be Sold and Regular Transport Lines for Freight ' and People Operated. OAKLAND. Cal., Oct. 4. Within two months the Pacific coast will have one of the largest airplane cor porations in the world devoted to sale and service of airships and transpor tation of passengers via aerial routes between cities. , The Durant Airplane corporation. corresponds to the Automobile Board of Trade, when a unanimous vote was taken against racing in 1920. It was not a difficult matter to engineer such a vote. Under the most favorable Ford.Company Arranging for Series of Depots in Every Important Center of England. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS CAR, WHICH IS THE NEW 1920 DODGE. -SKID IN FRONT, TOO 3IICHELIX RECOMMENDS SAME TREADS. THE This Practice Makes It Possible to Rotate Casings, With Re sultant Long Wear. Considerable discussion has grown up recently about the selection of tires with the proper tread for use on front and rear wheels. Many tire companies recommend the use of non-skid tires on rear wheels only, and urge the use of so-called "driv ing" tires on front wheels. These driving tires have either plain or ribbed treads and are lec ommended for front wheel use be cause thr steer easier than do non frkids with small or sharp projec tions The Michelln Tire company, on the other hand, recommends ono type of tire for all four wheels. By the use, say. of the universal type on all four wheels, the motorist enjoys the ad vantage cf being able to rotate his tires; that is to say, move up to the front wheels tires that are partly worn, fitting new tires on rear wheels where the service is most severe- LICEXSE FEES IX GEORGIA Proceeds to Go Into Fund for Building of State Highways. The revised motor vehicle law Just enacted by the Georgian legislature provides that more revenue from this source shall be spent In construction on and maintenance of a system of atate highways or be used as a sink ing fund to liquidate bond Issues that may later be Issued to build state highways. The money will be spent bj Uie recently authorized atate :CT,r - - Aid Do you see anything different about it? Look agsferent arrangement of the top, which is about 3 Inches the slanting windshield, the gipsy curtains, and the dif 1920 model, which otherwise looks about like previous lower in the rear. All these are features new in the ny, at the whe'eL. models. The body is also 4 .Inches wider in the rear seat, and curtains open and close with the doors. Hal G. Childs. sales manager for the Covey Motor Car compain. Note the 8-lnch longer overhang of the rear fenders, trucks. They are not an experiment, having been on the market for the past 11 years. There are today 30,000 Sewell cushion eration on all organized by R. C. (Cliff) Durant. Pacific coast road racing champion and one of the cleverest racing pilots wheels in actual op- ,n ln world, wno is also vice-presi- standard makes and oent ana sales manager or tne i,ney sizes of trucks, operating under every road and load condition. These wheels are built to last the life of the truck and to absorb all road Jars and shocks at their base or starting point, the wheel itself. The Sewell rubber cushion is of resilient rubber and is built Into the wheel so that it does not lose it resiliency after years of hard service. They have no springs or moving parts. ANOTHER AXTI-THIEF PLAX Cars With Serial Xombers Altered Would Be Seized. D. H. Lewis, secretary of the Auto mobile club of Buffalo, has submitted to the New York federation recom mendations which, he believes, if en NEW S.iLKS MANAGER HERB FOR l-EXIMiTON CARS. Isaac Brunn of the Brunn Motor Car company. Lexington distributor here, has announced the appointment of E. H. Holt as sales manager. Mr. Holt is well known in Portland. He was formerly head of the Holt Piano company. . acted Into laws, would greatly reduce car thefts. He recommends that po lice officers, constables and state troopers be authorized to hold for 30 days cars found with the serial numbers removed or altered. Another recommendation is that it be made a misdemeanor for any per son to have possession of a car upon which appear defaced numbers or from which numbers have been re moved. It would be required that very motor car sold in the state ave the serial number stamped on five , different parts, not put on at- ached plates. Other recommenda- 10ns provide for inspection of cars bought and sold and certificates of purchase with full records of the sale and particulars of the transaction. Dealers would be compelled to keep complete records of all motor car transactions. Curing Rattling Fenders. A rattling fender may often be ilenced by the use of a small piece f soft pine placed between the fender and its brace, the retaining bolt being snuoMy drawn up upon It. 4 j roiet Motor company of California, is speeding up plans to start active ope ration this month. Enough planes will have been secured on that date by Durant and his associates to en gage in inter-city passenger hauls. By November 11, a permanent rate schedule governing cost of travel will be made public and before January, Durant announces, some of the best known and largest aircraft will either be on the coast or enroute west to take care of the travel which will have developed. .. Field All Dolled l p. The transportation of passengers will be Just one branch of the busi ness to be handled by the new con cern, whose headquarters wiil be in Oakland. The sale and service of aeroplanes will reach greater volume than the other venture. Durant is now in communication with the largest aeroplane producers In the United States and Europe and an early announcement is expected from him giving further plans. Three additional hangars are being con structed on Durant aviation field in Oakland and these will be augmented by three more sheds within the next two weeks. Contracts have been let to turf the entire 72 acres of Durant field. When grass has been grown on it, the grounds will be unsurpassed by any flying field in the world. - It comes within the class A specifications of the Aero Club of America which state that this type of field must be at least 1800 feet square and so laid out to permit of landing upon it in any direction. Such runways as are neces sary to land any kind of ship now known to the aircraft industry will be built. The markings on the field will be of white slate construction on the ground surface, with signal lights of different colors to comply with flvinir regulations. A uniform and distinctive blue and white color scheme has been adopted by Mr. Durant on all ships in the company's service. The hangars will be painted blue, the roofs white and the official number assigned to the field will be painted on each roof. Temporary landing fields have al ready been obtained at Modesto, Mer ced. Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego. Others will be obtained at Sacramento and Stock ton. Oaly Army Aviators Engaged. Three aviators will make up the first flying staff. Qualifications for appointment are very exacting and require that applicants must have been first-class army aviators and also aviation instructors. Mr. Durant has picked as associates In his new Ventura a group of able executives. The vice-president is Frank Lowry, prominent in Pacific coast automobile racing circles, who qfficiated as starter in many im portant speed classics. Wickham Havens, secretary, is a large realty operator. F. w. Aubert Is general manager. circumstances there must be a greater number of makers who will not race than those who have decided to build speed creations. All that was neces sary, therefore, was to get together a meeting from which the racing en thusiasts were excluded in order to obtain an apparently unanimous vote of the French trade against racing. The leader of the racing opposition is Louis Renault, the Aiost Important motor manufacturer in France, who has not taken part in any speed con test since he won the Grand Prix of 1906. The idea of the big manufac turer, is that racing only tends to bring the small makers to the front, to the detriment of the old established firms. . . ... Don't Wash Your Car, but Have It Simonized Portland's only authorized Simonizing Station. MatBMSaJVt Oregon Distributors for Simons Products A. G. PEARD SI. A. WURZWEILER Owners Managers THE SIMONIZING STATION 175 21st Street Next to Covey Motor Co. Marshall 3982 A 7901 BIG CITY GARAGE PLAXXED Detroit Looks to Centralized Depot to Solve Problems. A centralized municipal garage for the housing and care of all city owned motor vehicles Is advocated by the department of motor trans portation as the only solution of Te troit's motor ills. Eighteen city de partments operate motor cars, nine of them without any city supervision. ixiy-six macnines are garaged by the operators in their homes. The police department, operating 173, has rented a garage which is Inadequate for its needs. The public lighting commission has a five-car garage to take care of 23 machines. Detroit is the first city to install a d eDartment I of motor transportation. Cleveland I and Boston have departments under process 01 organization. Driving on a Flat. When it is absolutely necessary to run on a flat tire keep the tire in soft dirt if possible. If the trouble occurs on city streets run on the trolley track rather than on cobblestones. LONDON, Oct. 4. Warren C. An derson, the Ford company's new or ganizer of the British business, has Just disclosed his policy. It embodies three -important points: An immediate reduction In price. Exclusive ' Ford agencies with a standard ot service and garage equip ment apparently based on the Ford company's American standard. An expenditure of $5,000,000- on the extension and remodeling of the pres ent shops at Trafford Park, Manches ter. It is planned to start produc tion there of 25,000 cars. The present British prices of Ford cars are: Touring car reduced from $1250 to $1100. ' Chassis Costs S850 There. Ford van reduced from $1300 to $1050. Ford chassis reduced from $1000 to $850. Ford town car or landaulet, which has not been made for some time, but which is now again available, $1500. Ford' ton truck chassis is listed at $1000. These prices are all quoted free on rail or for delivery at the works, Manchester. Further, the Ford company is ar ranging for a series of all Ford de pots in every important center in the kingdom. A dealer who elects to handle Ford cars in future has to un dertake not to handle any other make of car, but to be an exclusive dealer, or to have premises apart from his regular business specially fitted up with a qualified staff of mechanics, salesmen, demonstrators, etc., whose whole time must be given. Ford Curbs Profiteering. Under the new arrangement these Ford service depots will be restricted in their sales of Ford cars, inasmuch as they will only be allowed to sell the cars at the maker's fixed retail prices, thus preventing profiteering, to buyers within the district allotted to them, and even such district will not.be restricted, to them, as it is quite within the option of the Ford company to appoint one or more .au thorized Ford dealers in any one im portant center. Authorized Ford deaders are called upon to undertake not to alter or in terfere with or add to the design or working of any Ford chassis. The company is spending upward of $5,000,000 on alterations, exten sions and improvements to the Traf ford Park factory, where it contem templates the manufacture this year of 25,000 cars. TRUCK RUN OX STEEP GRADE Stops and. Starts Are Made on Slope Thonght Impossible. Advocates of the system of apply ing power to all four wheels of a motor truck are jubilant over the re cent perfarmance of a vehicle of that class on an artificial grade, near Bill ings, Mont. The incline is 12 feet high and 18 feet long, giving a 66 2-3 per cent slope, hitherto considered practically impregnable to motor car attack. The forbidding acclivity was not only, surmounted "by ' the 6400 pound truck, but the driver actually stopped at mldhoight, held the wheels easily with the 'powerful brakes and then resumed the ascent from that critical position, going over the top without any sign of distress from the motor. Brnadwav at Everett Bis Most 3caiitifi2 Car ihlmerici We do not make cheap cars for the simple reason that we have no faith in cheap materials or cheap workmanship. As we have said repeatedly, we believe that Pride and Self Respect have an actual market value, so we build these qualities into every Pai&e that leaves our plant. "With such a policy there can be only one result. Our cars o into service with an honest heritage and a limit less capacity for hard, fcruellink work. They endure because they are fit to endure. They prove, day by day, that they are worthy of an honorable name plate and the confidence that has been placed in them. PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT MICHIGAN Cook & Gill, Inc., DISTRIBUTORS Broadway 2610 FROM TENNIS TO TIRES OREGOX STATE CIIAMPIOX HAS MASOX LIXE HERE. land agency for six months and is an expert rubber and tire salesman. Mr. Clearwater knows much about the construction of tires, replacement etc., and is declared to be an excep tional man along these lines. In Towing. When it becomes necessary to em ploy a team of horses to pull a car out of the mud or sand, the ultimate humiliation in any event, be careful to use as long a tow rope as possible. Not only does this permit the team to get a better footing, but it allows the engine to be used to help the animals, without fear of suddenly lunging forward into the team. Portland Branch of the Mason Tire Sales Company Handled by Cat lin Wolfard and Associates. Contemplating no decrease in its business this fall and winter the Port land branch of the Mason Tire Sales comoanv has $10,000 worth of tires on the road to Portland. Catlin Wolf ard. J. M. Bruhm and D. C. Clear water, who recently took over this concern, whose salesroom is at 126 North Broadway, have the state rights for the distribution of the Mason tire. Mr. Wolfard announces that a Mason distributing office will be opened at San Francisco this month. This will greatly assist the local house in obtaining goods. Mr. Wolfard when not selling tires has a habit of win ning tennis titles and is the present Oregon state champion. He predicts a great winter eeason for his com pany. Mr. Bruhm has been with the Port- Goodrich Distributors T, Silvertown Cords Safety Tread Fabrics DeLuxe Solid Truck Tires 7 SETH LEAVENS iiHitiiiimiiiiMiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimHimmiiimmtiiimtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiMHiiiHiiiimiimiiinmim AUTO I TRUCK AL D E ST 1ST We are now located in our new building TENTH AT BURNSIDE AND OAK For the I Sales Service Installation of the Alemite Lubricating System What It Is! the United States The. Alemite Lubricating system is a system which has been adopted as standard equipment on over thirty of the best cars in Why? Because it enables a man to grease his car thoroughly in one-third the time required by greased cups. It forces the grease under 750 lbs. pressure into every bearing by a quick and simple operation. No grease cups to fill. No threads to strip. Does a better job in less time. Call and let us demonstrate and quote you prices. The Alemite Lubricator Company 10th at Burnside and Oak Sts. Broadway 3500 Re-Treading New Equipment Expert Workmanship Satisfactory Service WET WEATHER IS HERE Let us help you to get out of your tires all the miles the man ufacturer built into them. i GEO. F. HOWAKD 331 Couch " near Broadway Phone Broadway 3334 We delight in repair- . mg those "incurables And our repairs are made on an 8-months' guaranteed adjust ment basis. We undoubtedly can put new life into it and make it give you an other season's service. It will cost little to have us lool- it over; a slight ad justment may make it right. Don't stay away if it doesn't happen to be a USL wo carry a complete line of parts for every make of battery. 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