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THE SUNDAY OR EG ONI AX, PORTL'AND, OCTOBER 5, 1910.
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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
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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.
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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
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TENTH AT BURNSIDE AND OAK
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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.
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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.
HALL ENGINEERING CO.
1648 East Thirteenth Street, Portland, Oregon
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