Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1919)
12 TIIE. STJNDA.Y OREGONIA, ' rORTLAXD, ' DECEMBER 7, 1919. F to October 20 the department issued licenses for 503, 600 passenger cars and commercial vehicles operated by gasoline. The department had also issued li censes for 5000 electrics and to deal ers and manufacturers to the num ber of 3600. Thus it will be seen that the number of motor vehicles being operated in the Buckeye state is in excess of 510,000. The depart ment has ordered the manufacture of license plates for gasoline cars up to 505,000, which is allowing for 2000 additional cars to be registered in that class. The department licensed motorcycles to the number of 20,000. SAVE THE TREES, IS PURPOSE OF LEAGUE Natural Parks Association Is Formed in Washington. LEE ONE ABOUT THAT OF 1917 'Lee Line Way Makes Motor Trucks Pay" National Auto Chamber Head f Discusses Conditions. PRODUCTION 0 53 ir CLOSED CARS IN DEMAND Present Production Is at Kate of 2,000,000 Cars Annually, Including Trucks. Notwithstanding the great strides the industry has been making in the past lew months, motor car produc tion this year will not exceed 1.600,000 vehicles because of the small number produced during the months follow ing the signing of the armistice, ac cording to Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber ot Commerce, who has just returned from a trip among the fac tories in Michigan and Indiana. Present production, says Mr. Reeves, Is at the rate of approximately 2,000,000 vehicles a year, which is about the 1917 average. This in cludes both passenger cars and trucks, the latter figuring about 12 per cent of the total number. He reports a demand for closed cars far beyond supply, with a continuous de mand for papsenger cars and trucks. Because of the need for conserving time, the whole country is buying automobiles, lie declares, thus off setting the poor service by trolley lines and the railroads. Big road improvements were noted in Michi gan, Indiana and Ohio. Almost all the manufacturers will have some new things to show at the Hew Tork show, which opens in New Tork on January 3. They will be largely in the line of refinements, but with here and there some radical changes as a result of what was learned in the building of war ve hicles and airplane motors. There is an increasing demand for busses for use in cities where car service is poor, with a growing de mand as winter approaches for all types of trucks. At Indianapolis all records were broken recently when 6800 hogs were brought in by motor trucks, or 1350 more than the former high record. This was 2000 more hogs than were delivered .on the steam and inter urban roads. It required some BOO vehicles to haul the supply, some ot the trucks coming 80 miles. The to tal value of the hogs hauled was $200,000. Mr. Reeves says exports are In creasing, the products of the auto mobile industry now going to some 81 different countries. At present it is not more than 5 per cent of the total business, but with almost un limited possibilities in the future. NEW BUILDING GOING UP FRANCIS MOTOR CAR CO. GETS LARGER QUARTERS. I"ord Dealers to Remove on April 1 Into 3-Story Struelnrc at Grand and Hawthorne. Work began last week on construc tion of a new three-story fire-proof brick and concrete building at Grand nd Hawthorno avenues, for the Francis Motor Oar company. Ford dealers. The building will contain 20.000 square feet of floor space, and will be devoted exclusively to the company's Ford business. Announcement was made yesterday by C E. Francis, head of the Francis Motor Car company, that the build ing will be ready about April 1. Mr. Francis for some time has outgrown his present quarters at East Thir teenth street and Hawthorne avenue, and some weeks ago Sold the prop erty, after having first closed a deal for the purchase of the 100x100 quar ter block on the northeast corner of Grand and Hawthorne. The first floor ot the new building will be divided equally between sales room and service department. The second floor will be devoted exclu sively to a Ford repair shop. The third floor will be used as a ware house. The cost of ground and building will be about 8100,000. One unusual feature of the new plant will be shower baths and lunch room for workmen employed in the shop. The Francis Mator Car company was formed by Mr. Francis In 1912, for the sale of used cars only. He obtained the Ford agency in 1916. GOODRICH GIVES A BONUS RUBBER EMPIiOTES GET REAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Extra. Compensation Amounting; SS rcr Cent Is Distributed to All Salaried 'Workers. to C. B. Csdwell, local manager ot the B. F. Goodrtch Rubber company announced yesterday that nearly 5000 salaried employes of the company will get a fine Christmas present this year in the form of extra compensa tion to the extent of 25 per cent of their annual salary. The money was issued on December 1. in plenty of time for Christmas shopping. Goodrich made a similar present to salaried employes last year. The total amount of the extra compensation to he awarded this year will be in ex cess of $2,500,000. The announcement as issued by the executive committee of the company follows: "Believing that the conditions which Justified an additional pay ment to the salaried employes of the company during the year 1918, have existed during the past year to such ma extent as to once more warrant unusual recognition, the executive committee have determined that each salaried employe on December 1, 1919, shall receive additional compensation for services rendered and to be ren dered equal to 25 per cent of the total salary paid - to each such employe during the year 1919." OHIO LEADING AITO STATE Total of 503,500 Licenses Issued lp to October 2 0. With some days yet to go. the Ohio automobile department has broken all records of the state and, in fact, any state in the Union, in th. num. bar o& UceuHca Uued tor 1918. lip ARMY . TRUCKS WORK HARD Fleet of Six Hauls in 50 Tons of Bridge Steel. NEVADA CITT. Cal., Dec. 6. The work of hauling 50 tons of structural steel from the railroad terminal here to the Yuba river has been completed by a fleet of six army trucks char tered by the state highway commis sion. The step is for the erection of a bridge over the river on the line of the Nevada City-Downieville state highway lateral. While the steel was transported over rough foothill .roads and up the steep mountain grades without seri ous mishap, there were a number of narrow escapes from disaster. On one occasion a heavily loaded truck clung MACK MOTOR BUS 'IIPICAL OK MANY OK KW MOTOR BISStS IOM1XG INTO USK IN I.ARGK TOWNS OK THE COUNTRY. k This 3-ton Mack bus has a. seating capacity of 30 passengers. It is equipped with generating and storage battery set, which provides current for dome lights running longitudinally along the ceiling on either side. Forward-facing upholstered seats give a luxurious effect. Passengers enter the bus by way of a folding door operated by the driver. Keating is arranged from the exhaust of the motor through pipes along the floor, covered by a metal grill. Sewall wheels have been used for softer riding. The tires are Goodyear. , to the caving edge of the grade sur mounting the 500-foot Oregon creek gorge for a half hour, but was res cued by two companion trucks hitch ing on with cables and dragging it back to solid ground. The bridge is now under erection and will be opened about Decem ber 20. OLD CAR TAKES SPEED RTJ Diamond Cords Figure in a Road Raoe in the South. A racing car with a unique career was driven to victory by Hugh Mil ler recently in a road race from E) Paso to Phoenix. This Pope-Hartford auto started its existence as a business and family car in 1911, and not until 1914 was it groomed for a racer. Rated by the Society of Amer ican Engineers as a 32-horsepowel gas buggy, it won at 37.8 miles pel hour in a road race for Mr. Miller. Besides winning him a silver trophy cup, it also carried $3550 to his pock et. Two years later he figured in another road race, losing by a small margin. Recently it was put in trim for the race from El Paso to Phoenix, and came through as a winner at 41,3 miles per hour. Mr. Miller has only kind words for the performance of the Diamonl cord tires on the car, which carried him over the rough Malapai rock stretches without a single blowout. "In none of my other races." said Mr. Miller, "did I ride as free lrora bumps and jars as in this one." BISSELIi OUT FOR HIMSELF Covey Shop Superintendent Starts Garage and Repair Shop. Harry M. Bissell, formerly shop superintendent of the Covey Motor Car company, and Fred P. Lister, for merly Dodge repair foreman for the same company, has formed the firm of Bissell & , Lister and - opened a general garage and automobile repair shop at East Seventh and Belmont streets. Both are kell known in the automobile trade in Portland. IICGHSOX MAX MAKES CALL S. S. Xerncy Stops at Branch Here on Inspection Visit. A visitor in Portland last week was S. S. Nerney, manager of the home of fice of the William L. Hughson com pany in San Francisco. He dropped in to see Del Wright, manager of the Portland branch of the company, and remained a couple of days. Mr. Nerney is making a tour of inspection of northwest branches ot the William L. Hughson company. EW SIXRliTART OF GARAGE A5U IlLiPAlKMUN'S ASSOCIATION. Mr. NisDet is an example of what a hustling young man can do in- busi ness when he makes up his mind to succeed. Two yeass ago be took the Portland agency for Columbia storage batteries. He began on & modest scale, making "genuine service" his motto in fact as well as in theory, Today ne is so ousy that he can hardly keep enough batteries tn stock to supply the demands of his trade .t hi quarters, 103 North Broadway. He Is one of the most active members In the - Portland j t;r,se auit Kepairiaen'a association. - r A-t V : t - -, , Ay HIGHWAY BEAUTY.SPOILED New Organization to Conduct Cam paign to Save Roadside Trees and Other Attractions. TACOMA. "Wash., Dec 8. Organized, aggressive . activity, backed by a strong public opinion. Is necessary if the finest of Washington's scenic at tractions are to be preserved for fu ture generations, according to Major IS LUXURIOUS. v Everett G. Griggs of Tacoma, presi dent of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lum ber company. The Natural Parks as sociation of Washington, an organ ization Just incorporated in this state, with the backing of prominent men all over the state, is to be the agency to direct such activity, de clares the major, who has been se lected to act as president of it for the first six months of its existence. "Eastern visitors to Washington are appalled," he says, "by the evi dences of destruction which lie be fore them along the finest high ways of the state and in dozens of other places where trees and other natural attractions which should have remained untouched for all time have been destroyed. Last sum mer Stephen T. Mather, director of national parks, and Madison Grant of New York were in the northwest and were united in urging that im mediate steps be taken by Washing tonians to save the best of what re mains. The Natural Parks associa tion is the result of that plea." Associated with Major Griggs in the direction of the affairs of the new associatiou is a board of trustees composed of leading men from all parts of the state. These include Governor Louis F. Hart, Judge Ken neth Macintosh, I. M. Howell and Clark V. Savidge, Olympla; David Whitcomb, Edmond S. Meany, Ray mond R. Frazier, Herman Chapin. Dr Henry Suzzallo, Samuel Hill, Regi nald H. Parsons, Hugo Winkenwerd er, C. D. Stlm8on, Clark Nettleton and Joseph Blethen, Seattle; W. H. Paul- hamus, Puyallup; O. A. Fechter and W. W. Robertson, Yakima; W, W. Seymour, John E. Manley, Chester Thome, F. S. Baker and George Long. Tacoma;. J. J. Donovan, Bellinghara; D. M. Cox, Walla Walla; Frank W. Gullbert. Robert Insinger and W. H. Cowles, Spokane; Mark Reed, Shelton; Guy Browne, Wenatchee; N. B. Coff man, Chehalisf W. H. Patterson, Aber deen; Robert Moran, Rosario; William C. Butler, Everett, and E. N. Liver- more. Additional members are Colonel Effective Monday, Dec. 8, 1919, WILLARD SERVICE Will Close Every Day From 12 to l Noon This "departure has " been made in the interests of our employes and in the interests of our customers, as the increased efficiency will mean still better Wil lard Service to every car owner. Willard Service Ninth and Everett It is significant that the greatest interest shown in Lee Line trailers is among the larger concerns operating a nuihberof motor trucks... They study transportation problems closely and recognize the economy of using Lee Line equipment. The average truck owner who is ambitious to increase his revenue should be guided by the find ings and experience of those who have made a sue" cess of transportation. Write for advice and information concerning Lee Line equipment. William L. Hughson Co. lint 60 N. Broadway at Davis Henry S. Graves, chief forester. United States forest service, and Mr. Mather. The treasurer of the association is Herbert Witherspoon, vice-president of the National City bank of Seattle Herbert Evison, formerly in newspa per work in Seattle an dlater secre tary of the state fuel administration, is secretary of the organization To Retain Natural Beauty. A wide field of operation is indi cated by the announced purpose of the association. That is "to preserve the natural features of our state as a part of our Inheritance, and to re tain in their present beauty our mountains, lake, trails and points of scenic interest; to advocate new na tional parks and the creation of state, county and municipal parks and high ways to connect the same; to preserve our lakes, rivers and streams from pollution and conserve our natural supply of food and game fishes; to protect our wild animal life from ex termination; to encourage love of na ture, and to preserve in their original state some part of our great forests." For the accomplishment of these purposes the association relies largely on the co-operation of a .wide numbei of agencies logging companies, tim ber owners, state, county and mu nicipal governments, and the national government, particularly as repre sented by the forest service. It will seek to secure trades of land now in the possession of the state or national government, and not particularly de sirable from a scenic point of view, for other privately owned land, on which the timber should remain un touched. Special legislation on the part of the state will be necessary before such trades of state lands will be possible. Two Classes of Membership. It will endeavor to secure state, county, city and individual interest in the purchase of natural parks whose preservation cannot other wise be assured. It will constitute itself a clearing-house through which efforts along the lines it has laid out for itself can function most surely and quickly. It will endeavor to be come a reliable source of information regarding Washington's out-of-doors. A 60 N. Broadway at Davis Broadway 321 kt$ Oldest. Motor Car Organization on the jl j! gWj7ny Pacific Coast i j I SanFrancisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San 5 Diego, Seattle, Portland jj Broadway 321 Oldest . Motor Car Organization on the Pacific Coast SanFrancisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland It stands ready to co-operate with all existing agencies whose purposes are at any points identical with its own. For support, the association will depend on a membership among the great number of persons in sympathy with its purposes, that being the sole qualification for membership. There are two classes of membership, reg ular, costing $2 a year, and associate, or supporting, at 10. Cost alone i the only difference between the two classes. Regular membership is placed at a low enough figure so that anyone interested may identify himself with the purposes and work of the asso ciation. Associate membership offers an. opportunity to contribute more, to those who do not wish to limit their supprt to the minimum. Headquarters of the association are located in Seattle. An office has been opened in the Arcade building there under the charge of the secre tary. Never turn around or turn off on to another road without making ab solutely sure there are no other ve hicles behind you. lr Where a slip meana death. ""5SJSa'" ' sC vlSffsiS'- too much attention cannot SLcM lor . (P. V W TN 'the Glacier 1 S 1 National P SPESO PER HOUR Montana they have been up against the brake lining problem. Thirty 'White" busses weighing 3j tons are used to carry passengers up and down the moun tains over grades that average 1 5 for 55 mi es. The Glacier Park Transportation Com pany appreciated the need of good brake lining where a single slip might mean death. So they experimented with various kinds. Finally they standardized on Thermoid BrakejLining and wrote us that "it is the only lining to use for mountain motoring." The brake lining that makes good on moun tain roads and in every emcrgcncywill make good for you. Why Thermoid makes good Thermoid Brake Lining gives long, certain service for three reasons. ieriTlioT9 Brake Lie-Ling Hydraulic Compressed Makers of "Thermoid-Hardy Universal Joints, and "Thermoid Crolide Compound Tire LIGHT-SIX SEDAN ' I 'HE Studebaker Sedan, mounted on J. the famous LIGHT-SIX chassis, seats five passengers with complete comfort. Broad doors, four of them, permit freedom of entrance and exit. Heavy weather strips around edges make them water-tight and wind-proof. Beautiful upholstery, a cut glass dome light in tonneau ceiling, silk roller-curtains at windows, a silver-faced jeweled 8-day clock, massive head -lights of unique design and cord tire equipment are notable features of this Sedan. $2535 a. 6. Detroit Oregon Motor Car Co. Broadway at Burnside only brake lining ' mountain Will -your car do this .Sf.- 37rtr 53TE aljftr 113 K 'MS IC This chart has been worked oat by leading automobile engineers. It shows how quickly an automobile going at various speeds, should be able to stop providing the.brakes are efficient. I i ti t ! Hi ftr fl.il.. iif&J. IIS motoring X. There is over 40 i ? more material and' 60 more labor used in Ther moid than in any woven . 51 brake lining. 2. Thermoid is Grap nalized, an exclusive pro cess which resists mois ture, oil and gasoline. 3. Thermoid is hy draulic compressed under 2,000 lbs. f pres sure per square inch. This makes Thermoid uniformly hard all - the way through. The famous Thermoid guarantee: Every foot of Thermoid Hydraulic Com pressed Brake Lining is backed by our guar antee: Thermoid will make good or WE WILL. 1 herrsoid Rubber lompam Factory and Main Offices: Trenton, N.J. . New York. Chleaso. Sn Frmneico, Detroit. l-o Amda. Philadelphia Pittsburgh. Boston. Cleveland. Iondoo. Paris. Tuna Canadian Distributors s The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Limited. Monrxeei Branches in all principal Canadian cincs