THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN. PORT!. AND, AUGUST 22, 1920
AUTO INDUSTRY IS
LINING UP FOR THE FERRY AT STEVENSON, WASHy,
Motor Cars Now Regarded as
Necessity Everywhere.
OUTLOOK THOUGHT BRIGHT
San Francisco
to New York
3347 Miles
Days
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M. Iieeston-Smith, Garlee Man
ager, Back From Factory,
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The automobile industry is com
ing Into its own from the standpoint
of financial aid. and recognition of
the fact that it is the second largest
industry in the country, when all its
ramifications are taken into consid
eration, and that it has passed out of
trie luxury into the necessity class.
Such are some of the observations of
F. M. Leeston-Smith. manager of "W.
C. Garbe, Inc., Studebaker dealers and
distributors for Master trucks, who
returned last week from an extend
ed visit in the middle west.
Mr. Leeston-Smith went first to
South Bend, Ind.. where he spent
several days groins over the mam
moth new model factory of the Stude
baker corporation. This plant, which
is just being completed, will be en
gaged entirely in the, manufacture of
the new Studebaker light six. which
has created a big stir in the auto- ;
mobile industry and the first of which
was received here last week.
From here Mr. Leeston-Smlth went
to Chicago, where he spent two weeks
conferring with automobile dealers
and manufacturers, a majority of his
time being spent with Eugene Gold
man, vice-president and. general man
ager of Master Trucks. Incorporated.
He also visited Mr. Winther, a per
sonal friend, who is head of the Win
ther truck organization at Kenosha,
Wis.
Educational Campaign Plnnned.
Mr. Leeston-Smith said:
"An educational- campaign which
has been arranged through an as
sociation of automobile manufacturers
in the east, and directed mainly to
ward bankers and financiers, has
been bringing results, and the dis
crimination against automobile paper
is passing away. The automobile is
no longer looked upon as a pleasure
vehicle, but as a necessary means of
transportation, and in fact is surpass
ing the railroad as a transportation
agent.
"The outlook for the industry is
very bright at the present, much more
so than 30 days ago. Money hps eased
up, largely as a result of the fav
orable crop outlook, and in this par
ticular industry largely because of
the publicity campaign that I have
referred to.
"There is a tendency among the
manufacturers in the east to cut down
output, and there is certainly no
indication of a price decrease. Labor
is the big item in automobile manu
facture, and there is no tendency
whatever towards cutting wages. Ma
terials also are remaining up, and
with no changes in either, none of the
producers can see any likelihood of
a decrease
Track Shortage Expected.
"Produotion of trucks is radically
down, .and there is every indication
that' there will be a shortage of
trucks during the coming year. Man
ufacturers are playing the safe game,
holding the cards close, as it were,
and will not resume heavy production
until after the financial situation and
the general unrest has cleared."
Mr. Leeston-Smith declared that the
new Studebaker light six is attracting
great attention throughout the east.
The new factory at South Bend, Ind.,
he declared, is the last word in fac
tory construction.
Among the features are locker
rooms, showers, rest rooms and a
big restaurant for workers, operated
on a cost basis, in addition to the
workrooms . themselves, which are
abundantly lighted. The new plant
will be occupied entirely in the man
ufacture of the new Studebaker light
six. The Garbe company received its
first machine of this new model last
week and put it on display here.
While in the east Mr. Leeston-Smlth
grave a- blanket order for all the light
sixes which could be allotted to this
territory, to take care of a large
number of orders which have been
placed here for the new car.
TOURING CAR CHOSEN TO KCX
DOWN AUTO THIEVES.
Los Angeles County, California,
Make9 Choice After Series
of Rigid Tests.
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This picture In a powerful arsrnment In the eampalgD of mid-Colombia
people for a brldsre across the Columbia river. Two ferries operating
between Cascade Locks, Or., nnd Stevenson, wuh, laat Sunday were ao
swamped with automobile travel that aa mnny as 20 cars were lined np
at times- waiting: for pnsaagre. The capacity of one ferry waa three
large cars or four mall onea, and of the other one five cars. Conse
quently a good many tourlats had lone waita. Tourist travel baa been
comparatively light this season at that, owing; to gasoline shortage.
When it gets heavy, travel across the river will be enromous. The lower
picture shows the Cascade Locks ferry landing, with a Willys-Knight
going aboard.
PARTY TO HIT OLD TRAIL
LOCHEOX WILL BE SERVED
OS HISTORIC SPOT. !
Trip Contrasts Mode of Travel of
Lewis and Clark and Pres
ent Century.
brought to his attention, he said,
where cars were sold to individuals
or to dealers, . the buyers afterward
finding out the cars were stolen an,d
were then unable to get redress.
Los Angeles county, California, one
of the original homes of good roads in
this country and where automobiles
are as thick as mosquitoes, will chase
automobile thieves with a Standard
Eight touring car, according to a
telegram received by C. W. Phillips.
general manager of the Lewis E.
Obye Motor Car company, local
agents for the Standards, from head
quarters of the company at Boston.
Mass. The choice of the Standard
was made by the Los Angeles "speed
cop" department, after a series of
tests in which speed, endurance and
climbing performances were closely
watched.
Tha message is as follows:
"Los Angeles county, California,
lias just purchased three Standard
Eight touring cars for the use of the
sheriffs In running down the motor
car thieves. Not only was the bid
ding highly competitive, but speed
and endurance tests were exception
ally rigid. The winning Standard
was a used car previously driven 3900
miles and had disk, not wire, wheels.
rests were maae unaer the super
vision or wunam uavtdson. chief me
chanical engineer for the county, and
the car was driven by JSddy Hearne,
the racer, with three passencers
After traveling 65 miles an hour on
the San Fernando valley road, the
machine at the Los Angeles speedway
was obliged to maintain a minimum
speed or 60 miles an hour for 30 miles,
doing this handsomely by stop watch.
It is conceded that the tremendous
reserve power of the Standard alone
made possible this performance, and
me ordering of the three cars for
the Los Angeles sheriffs is expected
to have a salutary effect upon car
thieves and Jail-breaking criminals.
Gear case Lubricants.
An engineer recently conducted I
series of experiements with lubri
cants for the gear case. He found
that with grease in the gear box two
horsepower out of the nominal 15
were lost. It would require that
amount of power to drive the gears
through the stiff grease. The prop
er lubricant for the gear case Is oil.
heavier tb&a engine oil, but atill oil.
DENVER, Colo., . Aug. 21. Sharp
contrast between the mode of travel
of the Lewis and Clark expedition
early in the 19th century and the
present-day method of the automobile
tourist is to be brought to the atten
tion of the official party of the na
tional park service and the National
Park-to-Park Highway association
when it reaches Great Falls Septem
ber 9, while dedicating the 4500-mile
motor highway connecting the na
tional parks of the west.
The party, including Stephen T.
Mather, director of national parks,
and Gus Holms of Cody, president of
the National Park-to-Park Highway
association, will visit the spot where
the early American explorers of the
historic Lewis and Clark expedition
camped while on the long journey
from St. Louis to Puget sound in 1805.
They will partake of a camp dinner
at the falls which, since the visit of
the explorers a century ago, have
been harnessed for electrical power
uses.
. It took the Lewis and Clark trail
blazers more than a year to travel
from St. Louis to western Montana,
the journey being made mostly on toot
and in boats, although occasionally
the party" traveled on horseback. Com
pared with -modern-day travel, a few
weeks at most would seem along time
for an automobile journey covering
an equal distance.
In fact, the official tour for the
opening of a motor highway has a
60-day schedule over mountains and
through desert stretches. If the lead
ers of the Lewis and Clark expedition
could see the speeding gas horses
covering a part of the territory they
did under so many handicaps and vi
cissitudes, they would hardly believe
their own eyes.
POLICEMAN LAUDS CHEVROLET
Car Slakes 25 Miles to Gallon of
Gaaoline.
One of Portland's bluecoats was so
pleased with the performance of
his new Chevrolet that he wrote a
letter to the Fields Motor Car com
pany, local distributors. LeRoy Fields,
head of the Chevrolet distributors
here, was so pleased with the letter
that he forwarded it on to the head
of the cdmpany.
H. C. Bales, policeman, is the owner
of the well-treated Chevrolet, and his
letter was written Just after he had
completed a vacation trip to Seattle
and British Columbia. In view of the
fact that the letter gives interesting
sidelights on the automobile, trip
north, portions of it will bear repeat
ing nere.
I drove to Seattle and from there
to' Vancouver, B. C. The roads were
very, bad for the greater part of the
trip, but I did not have to go into low
gear once, and only into intermediate
on a few occasions. I did have to back
up a bad hill for a short distance,
mile past tne Doraer into Jirltlsn
Columbia on account of gas being low
in the tank.
I drove to Seattle from Portland
in 12 hours and about the same on the
return. I also drove around quite a bit
in Seattle and Vancouver, and in all
drove 1292 miles, and used exactly
52 gallons of gasoline, which is close
to 25 miles to a gallon. There were
four grown people in the car."
MORTON SPEEDS ROAD WORK
National Park Highway to Elbe Re
ported in Good Condition.
MORTON, Wash., Aug. 21. (Spe
cial.) The National Park highway
between Elbe and Morton is now in
better condition than it has been in
for many months. State road 18, to
the east of Morton, is now being
fixed up also.
The county has a tractor on ea'cTi
of these roads and both are kept
busy. The temporary planks on 18
are being taken up and the road
scraped preparatory to putting on a
top dressing. ,
Very good progress le being made
in laying the plank on the Highland
valley road, and within a few days
this will be completed all the way
from Morton to Riffe. The Morton
streets are rapidv beina repaired, so
that within the next few days travel
in and around Morton and in other
parts of eastern Lewis county will be
at its best.
The road down the Tilton river to
the west is in good shape, with a few
exceptions. State road No. 5, north
of Randle, is reported not in very
good condition.
DODGE BROTHERS SCORE
MACHINE NO. 500,000 PUT OUT
AT DETROIT PLANT.
TO REGISTER AUTO SALES
Spokane Attorney Prepares Meas
ure for Automobile Chamber.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 21. An act
providing for the compulsory regis
tration at county auditors' offices of
all bills of sale where automobiles
are concerned, with the names of at
least two witnesses attesting to
proper description of the car, its en
gine number and the interest in the
car which the owner may claim, has
been drawn up by Joseph R. Lindsley
prosecuting attorney for Spokane
county, and submitted to the Spokan
automobile chamber of commerce for
discussion toward passing such a law.
The act provides for a term of be
tween one and five years in the pen!
tentiary and a fine of $1000 for the
person -who makes false statements
concerning a car, and Is expected by
Mr. Lindsley to be a factor in pre
venting the sale of stolen automobiles
to unsuspecting buyers.
Mr. Llndeley said he had felt th
need of such legislative action for
some . time. Many cases have been
Appearance of Car Event at Fac
tory; 15,000 Autos Are Now
Turned Out In Month.
An even half-million Dodge Broth
ers cars had been produced when
recently the car bearing "500,000'
passed through the inspection depart
ment of the Dodge Brothers' fac
tory at Detroit. This accomplish
ment within 67 months after produc-
ion was first started at the plant
marks, according to the vice-presi
dent and general manager, F. J
Haynes, not so much a record of auto
mobile production, though it Is no
small feat in Itself, as it does the
results of a system of industrial and
commercial co-operation which i
larger in its scope than any mere
production. The arrival on the ship
ping platform of car number "500,000"
was the occasion of a quiet celebra
tion in the plant courtyard. And
here it was that Haynes told 'his
audience, men from the big Dodge
Brothers plant, something of the
history which had led up to this
accomplishment and its promise for.
the future.
It was just six years previous that
the Dodge Brothers - finished their
contract with a large producer of
automobiles and turned their atten
tion to the car which they intended
henceforth to build and market, a car
bearing their own name. By Decern
ber. 1914, all experimental and road
work had been completed and in that
month 245 cars were built. In the
month just passed it is made known
that in spite of hindrances that have
been felt everywhere in the industry.
tranio delays inward, and shipping
obstructions Outward, more than
15,000 cars were made and shipped.
You builded better than you knew."
Haynes told the workmen from the
factory.
PUTTING ON TRUCK CORDS
Here 19 Approved Way of Changing
Huge Tires.
IiV the application of cord truck
tires the tire should be allowed to
drop down evenly until the valve
stem is reached, when the valve stem
Is pressed down sideways- and toward
the end of the flap. The stem is held
in that position, taking care that
when the tire slips down the rest or
the way the valve stem does not
catch in the locking groove. During
thia operation a valve cap should be
put on the stem to protect the
threads. The later types of rims are
made with valve stem slots to facili
tate application of the tire.
Lowers Transcontinental Record by 12 Hours 48 Min. Another
Essex Going froni New York to San Francisco Broke the Rec
ord for That Direction by 22 Hours 13 Min., Completing the
Trip in 4' Days 19 Hours 17 Minutes
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So Essex Holds the Transcontinental Records Both Ways
Two Essex touring cars, carrying U. S. Mail, each
one making the entire trip' between San Francisco
and New York', have set the time records for their
respective directions across the American continent.
And thus comes to Essex another distinction for
reliability' and endurance.
Except for one airplane record, these two Essex
cars have crossed the continent in less time than was
ever recorded by, any traveling machine. The fast
est time possible . between San Francisco and New
York by train is slightly less than the itme taken by
the light-weight economical Essex. But. in the case
of the railway train, many different locomotives are
used, each pulling the train only a few hundred miles.
From Cheyenne to Omaha the route taken by the
Essex was 43 miles longer than the 550-mile route
of the famous Overland Limited, yet the Essex time
was but one hour longer than the express train time.
The World's Most
Coveted Records
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From the days of the Prairie Schooner, the Pony
Express and the completion of the railroads men
have sought to establish new transcontinental time
records between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. .
It has called for the highest development of skill
and courage. And it has, as in the case of the motor
car, blazed the way to mechanical reliability.
The purpose of this Essex test was to prove its
reliability. In the period of 14 hours was crowded
more strains, more calls for endurance and mechan-(
ical strength than the average owner demanda in a
life time. -
Every requirement of motor car performance was
met by these two cars. And the fact that they so
consistently met their tasks proves Essex uniformity.
The speeds at which they traveled were not so
unusual, for another Essex stock car had on a speed
way track gone 3037 miles in 50 hours. But in the
transcontinental runs, some 350 cities and towns had
to be crossed.. .Crowded traffic imposed its obstacles
to consistent) going. Mountain ranges in the east
and West with grades such as the average driver
never encounters, called for the utmost of hill-climbing
ability.
Few will ever motor all the way across America
and therefore cannot know the extreme varieties of
conditions encountered. But let each reader apply
to his consideration of what Essex has done, every
experience he has eve"r met in his own driving. It
will give some appreciation of Essex reliability.
Light Weight Now
Establishes Reliability
How gradual have men come to a realisation that
a light-weight car can also offer reliance and per
formance. -
' Essex has led the way for that was its purpose
from the very first. Economy is of growing impor
tance. Men want to save in fuel and in first costs.
But they want no sacrifice in performance and they
demand unquestioned reliability.
Essex offered itself to the public without claim.
Now more than 40,000 owners know and praise its
worth.
Owner cars that had been driven upwards of 25,
000 miles were used in the recent nation-wide Essex
week to establish reliability, economy, speed and hill
climbing records.
To Essex owners the winning of the transconti
nental records is not a surprise. But those who do
not know Essex performance and reliability must
regard that these two trips across the continent are
as important in marking mechanical advancement as
any similiar event in the history of the motor car.
. L. BOSS AUTOMOBILE CO.
" 615-617 Washington Street, Portland
BEETLE PUTS UP FIGHT
COLEOPTERA 4 INCHES IONG
AND INCH ACROSS BACK'.
Overloading to Be Curbed.
Believing that overloading of mo
tor trucks is largely responsible for
the disintegration of improved high
ways through the state of New. Jer
sey, the state highway commission
has decided to erect scales, capable
of weighing up-to 60,000 pounds at
various points, as an aid in the cru
sade to prevent the overlodiiig of
motor trucKav
Shipment of Rubber From India
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Contains Myriad of Queer
Objects In Bales.
DENVER, Colo.. Aug. 21. Traveling
more than 12,000 miles from Singa
pore. India, to Denver. Colo., surviv
ing nearly six months of voyage and
freight transportation without food
and imbedded fast in the center of a
bale of rubber, a savage beetle ended
its life by passing between the whirl
injr cylinders of one of the huge cal
enders in the plant of the Gates Rub
ber company.
The live beetle was only one of the
many strange, objects which were
found in the centers of the rubber
bales comprising a shipment of nearly
1,000,000 pounds of India rubber re
ceived by the Gates Rubber company
recently. The specimen .of the genus
coleoptera was nearly four inches
long and more than one inch across
it back.
A workman found it when he cut
open one of the bales to be prepared
for tire stock. The beetle snapped its
long pincers at him, and with
scurrying rush scampered from the
bale of rubber to the floor. One
workman stepped on it, but its Bhell
was so hard and tough that it was
not injured.
Finally another workman picked
the beetle up between two sticks and
tossed it into an empty calender and
the two great cylinders crushed it
flat. I
As near as could be ascertained, the
rubber had been baled nearly six
months before in the Gates Rubber
company's warehouse in Singapore.
Apparently the beetle had thriven on
its diet of rubber. Judging by the
fight it displayed when it was re
leased. It was one of the species which
infest the rubber trees of India non
poisonous, but savage.
A myriad of queer oojeets were
found in the thousands of bales which
made uo this big rubber shipment.
Some of them showed that the sup
posedly "simple" native .is not so sim
ple after all when it comes down to
sharp business practices. Stones as
big as a man s hand were touna in tne
center -of some of the bales, and in
addition, the workmen took out four
knife blades and three knife handles,
old shoes, a fancy carved moccasin
made of pure rubber, . a ' centipede
measuring nearly seven-inches long
but safely dead, hundreds of small
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SPECIALIST
14 years' experience In
manufacturing and auto
service. Bring your car
where mechanics are
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888 Flanders
Between Ninth and Park '
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greeif rubber bugs, said to be deadly
poisonous when alive, and many other
objects, all of which added weight to
the rubber bales.
Adjusting the Carburetor.
' When it s necessary to adjust a
carburetor a few general rules apply
to almost all of them. Begin with
the air inlet and gasoline needle valve
both closed. Open the air inlet about
half of its full capacity. Then open
the gasoline needle valve one full
turn of the knurled top. If the en
gine can be started with this the
more nearly accurate adjustments
can be made by first changing the
needle valve very sll g-htly In elt her
direction as may be Indicated t)y re
sults until maximum efficiency is ob
tained. If this does not give a satis
factory mixture then begin with the
air adjustment and vary that as in
dicated by the effects. Then go back
to the needle valve and suit the feed
to the air supply. When apparently
good results have been attained with
the engine running Idle,- mark the
adjusting nuts with a file to show a
beginning and perfect the adjustment
with the car running at an average
speed on the road.
Concrete roads, with curves on a
800-foot radius, eliminating right an
gle corners, are under construction in
Illinois.
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factories of the world's
most famous makers i
bought at inside prices
now sold at $5 to $25 un
der previous prices.
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Portland, Oregtm.
Phone Broadway 1619.