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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY ' MORNING; AUGUST : 1, 1909.
CSLEAMgPJCSS . OIF TTTHIE :. AHJTPQ "WORLD
JUJO TRUST: MAY
BE CBMPIEIIIIG
General Motors Company
Buys More Factories and
Will Eeglate : Output.
AO organisation . Which slowly but
surely gTOwa t look more Ilk an auto
mobile trust thla week drew .Into Ita
control the factory, of tiie Cadillac
Motor Car' compared and now-, controls
the Cadillac Bulck, Olds, Overland, Oak
land,. Ralneri Jackson and? Welch cars.
It Is known aa the General Motors com
pany and ia supposed to be backed by
the millions of J. Plwpont Morgan.
. - The deelre M wo., company, to qraw
faotprlea under Jts control Is shown by
ih manner in which the Cadillac fac-
"tory waa secured. It had been decided
shortly before . Morgan left for Europe
-this spring mat no mure nuium
should be purchased, but the necessity
of taking ;over the Cadillac grew more
- and more apparent 10 mem nu n w
finally decided to buy it. t wnen tne aeai
; wu Acsin broached, (o the Cadillac peo
ple they asked 11,601X000" more than thev
S had . wnen ,im purcn - wa w
broached, - The llnal purchase price, la
estimated at $4,000,000. 1 .
v. An alarming feature comes with-this
more evident algn 01 tne greeamess vx
the big trust It is 4 feared that the
manufacturers' of the United States will
ever produce their makes and that the
automobile market will stagnate aa has
the market in Europe, it is argued oy
many people that this cannot happen
for five years or more and this la prob
ably the case, huh wiin a Dig concern
such as the General Motora company
almost controlling the ontput of low
priced cars, such a condition ahould be
avoided.
That It will mean tha perfection of
the low priced.. cars seems evident- ror
with engineers of the highest ability In
the wort working -together absolute
- perfection for. little cost should be tha
outcome.' The Cadillac-was on of the
most popular of low .priced care thla
year and has given evident aatlafaction
everywhere. It will be In line for a few
improvements tma year wmcn wuimtu
it more of a winner. ' , :
-.NEW HUDSON LOW PBICED AUTOMOBILE
AUTOS
DESERT SIIIIDS
Chug Wagons Beat Horses
in California Mail Service
No Trains Are Missed.
: Hitting a 10 mile an hour clip
through the aands iof . the California
desert, three Apperson cars and a White
steamer are carrying the United States
malls ' front: Glamls to Blythe. a dis
tance of 65 miles, over the worst roads
In th world, on schedule time; - ' With
v an hour and 30 mlnutea leeway the
cars have chugged through day after
day Tor-the last few months without
; missing- train. wv:.-. ..;-. v.-. wurf.
As the stage failed time and again
to make connections, the government
contract fell to the automobile owners
and the- letters and packages " which
Uncle Sam undertakes to send out Into
the world front the sand locked cities
of the desert are now making schedule
time, thanks to the motor car.
R. N. Hinckley and E. S. Mc Arthur
are the twe young, men who are con
quering the wilderness and who at the
same time have Introduced the automo
bile to country whre the motor-car
was never known before.- In the haunta
of the Jttckrabblt the cars -have made
?ood and Hinckley aaya they are there
o stay. . ,
Over roads which are hard traveling
for a horse drawn - vehicle the motor
cars go daily. -i The trip from Blythe
to Glamls is across a desert waste,
scarred with washes down which the
water at' times rushes in' torrenta. To
cross these quicksands it Is necessary
to drive with skill and, at times, dar
ing Once an Apperson car -was buried
to the hubs in the treacherous sands,
but waa pulled out in time to make the
train." i- -
The cars travel- over a portion of
the route over which tha t-oa Angelea
Thoenlx racers traveled. Hinckley waa
guide on Fenner'a "Black Bess- last
year and saved tha steamer man an
hour and SO mlnutea The' White was
the only car which failed to lose tha
Val , .'
The run to Olamls occupies six hours.
Vhe horse drawn stage occupied two
days to make the trip. Instead of hav
ing to remain over night on the desert,
as formerly, passengers now leave 1
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, The "aboTe car. la the new Hudson "20," the new $900 roadater made by the Hudson Motpr Car com
pany of Detroit- It.ia to be handled locally by the H. L. Keat Autd Ce. ,A : ' . ' . . V ;
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O. S. Bracket!, secretary of the
new white Automobile company.
Blytha by auto In tha morning and are
at Olamla for lunch.
Winter travel is heavy, according to
Hinckley.' The road ia to ba Improved
In places, aa it la the only outlet to
ward Loa Angeles for places beyond
the Colorado. Quartalte people take thlb
road to Los Angeles.
A man who was bleeding to death
waa 'taken from tha Union depot to tha
Good Samaritan. hospital In seven mln
utea by the big White ateamer ambu
lance recently put Into service by the
Holman - Undertaking company. Tha
man' life waa aa-ved by the speed with
which ha waa put upon tha operating
table and his wound kept from bleed
ing. , v ' .- - , - -
Tj B.? Roger of tha Rogers Drug
company of McMlnnvllle waa In Port
land on bla way to, Tillamook In a big
White steamer last week. He intends
spending his vacation touring up and
down tha coast. , . .
Chief at Wheel of Studebaker Car ;
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Thla picture shows Chief of Police
Ce at the wheel of the big Ftudeoaker
"48" automobile which tha city, rwjently
rurcbiued, for the u of the police 1e
parnenu - The rhWf la mighty , proud
of tbe car and i anxiously WMitlng for
tis time t comai when the men shall
have aome work which atil call fot; some
real. speed and In which the blgrma
chine can demonstrate its worth. Bince
Its purchase, however, the criminal claas
seems to realize that it ia next to lm
possible to get away from the local po
nce, ana nave been keeping unaer cover.
Portland waa thla week made the dla-
trlbutlng point for tba northwest out-
put of the White steam and gasoline
automobllea and within tha next week
contracts will be signed, calling for
tha erection of a alx story concrete gar-
bo w o me iinesi in me nortnwest.
Tha branch ia to be Irv charge of C, JL
Eastman and O. S. Brackett.
One million five hundred thousand
dollars will be the value 6f tha stripped
cara alone which will be aent out or,
sold in Portland from thla big gar
age this year and with the equipment
and automobile repair business, which
will coma along with It, a total of cloao
to S2.000.00t will be nut Into n( re
lation through Portland during tha
coining year.
While tha work haa been dona verv
quietly, tha establishment of tha White
agency In Portland comes aa the re
sult of alx months feeling and (eating
of the value of the northwest territory.
and of Portland In particular, by tha
wniie company, it was at tne auto
mobile ahow given last March in tha
Armory that the interest of the White
company In Portland was first noticed
when they made a record by selling
Iiemo 10 odd cars of their make to Port
and and Willamette valley people. With
that as a stimulus, It waa noticed that
moat freauent triDa were made to this
northwaat by C. A. Eastman, then tha
Pacific coast aalea manager of the com
pan, and" during which he covered moat
of the northwest
When, yesterday morning It was an
nounced that the White Automobile
company wag to establish Its northwest
branch and distributing agency here,
the object of this activity on tha part
of Eastman waa realised.
. Eastman la to be the president and
general manager of the newly organ
led company, while O. 8. Brackett. who
haa been head aaleaman of the present
White company. Is to be tne secretary.
Tha capital stock of tha company la
$60,000. all paid in.
Under these two men will be a force
or six or eight of the best salesmen
on the Pacific coast Eastman has al
ready come to terms with Eugene Alex
ander of San Francisco, who haa been
sales manacer of the Plerce-Arrow
company la tha bay city, to handle tha
wnite gasoline car while a numrer 01
other expert aaleamen are to be put on.
These men are to handle an output
which will reach, for cars alona with
out equipment close to 11,500,000. Five
hundred cars have been contracted for
for the northwest and aa they average
close to $3,000 each, the total la easily
obtained. Thla output will be Insuf
ficient at that and Manager Eastman
is already planning on Increasing hia
order of 1910 cars. Deliveries of these
cars- will start within a few weeks.
A alte for the new garage la now
under option. A local capitalist. Is to
erect the garage which, will be a. alx
story reen forced affair, - costing over
$100,000. It will be patterned after
the big San Francisco plant of tha com
pany, which is one " of the largest
garages In the country. The latest and
most up to date equipment and repair
appliances will be installed la. the
building. ;
LARGER WHEELS
ARE APPEARING
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New Wheels , Cost Much Less
Than the Old, Wide
Tire Styles. 7 v Y
Automobile manufacturers aeetn to
hava aolved the tire .problem, at least
In part, themseivea. and the 1910 .-cara
will with but few. exceptions, have targ-j
er wheels and wheel base and lighter
Urea. Most of the cars being made
this year are to have wheels from two
Inches to four Inches larger, while one
car . already arrived in Portland, has a
wheel 42 inches in diameter, i ms car,
the Olds, has atone the highest of any
of the 1910 cars, but where 32 and 34
Inch wheels predominated n iur a,
36 and 40 inch wheels are to be tha
rule for the coming year. - . -.
It is claimed for these longer tires
that thev will wear fone-er. while they
are catalogued at from $4 to. SC less
than tires or lour incnes less lengm,
yet which In order to bear tha wear
put upon them mutt be made from two
to four Inches larger in diameter.
It la very easy to see where tha dif
ference In price comes from when once
It la analysed, although it seems to one
not deep In automobile affairs that the
bigger the tire tha more it should cost.
A tire Is made of seven thicknesses of
fabric. While a tire 42 inches by 4
Inches has a strip t Inchea long added
to it, a tire 88 by haa a strip 2
Inchea wide the whole circumference
round. It la estimated that fully two
square yards of fabrlq more are used
in a 36x6 than by a 42x4. This ac
counts for the big difference In price.
However, with this five dollar differ
ence alone there would hardly ba a so
lution of the tire problem. It Is claimed
that a larger, tire will outlast a small
er one by months.- Tfie larger the wheel
the fewer bumps and -ruta. the tire is
forced to take, for the large - wheel
rides across 6 out of 10 holes that the
smaller wheel Is going to bump over.
Two ears, the American and the Olds-
mobile, equipped with the big wheels
have reached Portland. The American
car was sold during the automobile
show week to a Portland' real estata
man, Robert m 1th, and has given sat
isfaction. ,flin uidsmoDiie car waa oniy
sold last "4 weetc. Belcher A Stlne. lum
ber and -renl estate men, .buying tha
ear from .the Crowe Automobile com
pany. It has the larger wheels of the
two. 42 Inches, and has attracted a great
deal of attention on the streets within
thejast few days. A number of them
are to ba shipped to Portland soon.
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Mr. "V 'V. -'-t "? -i-
, C. A. Eastman,. president and
general manager of the new White
Automobile company. - - - , - -
IIITON SIX HAS
LITRE EXPENSE
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Big Car Goes Long Distance
;.With . No Upkeep
s . ' Cost. .
' Driving a.Wlnton alx limousine car
17.008 miles - without a slnxle cent of
upkeep expense has won $1000 for O.
W. Butler, chauffeur for J. E. Cleniiy of
Chicago This money represents first
prize In tha second annual 22S00 unkeeD
contest for Wlnton Six chauffeurs. The
contest ended June 30, and tha judges
met in cieveiana juiy 13, to decide the
winrera. Chauffeurs were reaulred to
file monthly reporta, attested by their
employers, and at the end of the con
test both chauffeurs and emriloves were
asked for sworn statements.
Butler's record rs ail tha ' mora re
markable because hie - car carried a
ltmouaina body, and also because it waa
a prise winner In the first annual con
test when Butler droVe it 1165 miles In
three and one half months without up
keep expense. - -. ; "
Second prize waa awarded to John J.
Boyc. of At'.antio caty, who drove Isaac
an upkeep expenaa of 30 centa.
Verona, V. J.f chauffeur for O. W. Frost,
Third prize. went to W. I Loses of
Losee'a record, of 10,696 miles without
expenaa,'' brought the total mileage for
the first three rtrize winners to (8.698
miles on a total upkeep- expenaa of 80
centa. " - .. .. -, . - .
Tiie 10 prise winning cara war driven
total of 11R.B03 mllea. more than four
timea Whs distance around the globe.
Their ' average distance a month . was
1600 miles, or SO miles a day. The total
upkeep expenaa of $127.30 made tha av
erage upkeep expenaa a car xor eacn
1000 miles 81.07.
The Judges were fi E. Schwarzkopf,
ubllsher of - the Automobile Topics;
ohn W. Raoer of the Cleveland Press:
St Clair Couzena of tha Cleveland News
and Av C Faeh of the Cleveland Town
Topics. - Following is a summary of tha
awarder - J
Firat prize. 11 000. won bv a. w. But
ter, ctiauiieur lor J- ii. uienny. umcaco.
Distance, 17.003. TJpkeep axpenae, none.
Second prize. 1500. won by John J.
Boyoe, chauffeur for Isaac Bacbarach,
Atlantic City. N. J. Distance. 11,000
miles. Upkeep expense, SO cents.
Third crises. SZ50. won by w. u. Jjosee.
chauffeur for O. W. Frost Verona, N. J.
Distance 10,695 tnllea Upkeep expense.
none.
Fourth' Price. 1159. won by J. waiter
Tracy, chauffeur for T.'N. Branadale,
Pittsburg. Distance, 15,649 ml lee. Up
keep expense, $31. IS.
Fifth nrize. 8100. won by Arthur Don
ovan, chaufffur for Jacob Axelrod, New
York. Distance, 8703 mllea. Upkeep
expense. $60.
lx tn prise, aioo, won cy i Aven-
marg, chauffetir for toprtua cuaay.
Cleveland. Distance 811a mllea. Upkeep
expense, 80 cent.
Seventh prize. 8100. won by William
Richards, chauffeur for William Burn,
ham. New York, Distance, 8703 mllea
pkeep expense, none.
Eighth prise, 1100, won by William
ichards, chauffeur for W. B. Martin. !
levelftnd. . Distance. 10,726 mllea. Up
keep expense, $7.60.
Ninth nrize. 8100. won ny Miles Fel
lers, chauffeur for H. W. Mallen, Chi
cago Distance, 7673 miles. Upkeep
expenaa, $1.60.
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Oregon Autoists Will Hun
to Seattle ExpositlonT"
August 17.
President Chllberg of tha Alaaka-Tu-kOn-Paciflc
exposition haa aet aside
August 17 as Portland Automobile Club
day at tha Seattle fair and tha local
club together with the Seattle Auto
mobile club Is now planning upon a big
day at tha fair. Good roads are to be
talked, boosted and. It la hoped, helped
by tha combined efforta of tha two
cluba.
A run la planned by the Portland club
in which it la hoped to have aa many aa
600 machines. Invitations are Issued
by the Portland club not only to mem
bers of the club, but to every owner
and driver of an automobile In tha
city of Portland or tha state to Join
in me run io seame.
, As tha run ia noT planned tha ma
chines will start at 6 a. m. Sunday,
August 16. Th pathfinder ear with
confetti on board will Ir-ave at that
time and at 7:30 the repair car will de
part Machines can start any time be
tween t o'clock and noon. Ferry ac
commodations are limited across the
Columbia river, so arrangements have
been ' made ' to transport a number of
the machines to-Kelso by "boat . Thla
trip haa been arranged for-at a coat of
$4.60 for the round trip, the usual fare
being $9. Tba first day's trip will ba
to Chehalis,-
' 'It is planned -to reach Seattle about
t o'clock Monday ' afternoon. The Se
attle club has made arranaements for
a narade with bands and slams advitr.
tlnlng the needa of good roads in the
west. The secona day la to be given
up to seeing Seattle and the fair. Re
turn trip will be made Wednesday' and
Thursday, arriving . here Thursday
morning. ,. , .-.
Henry Wemme.' president of the au
tomobile club, will make ; hotel reser
vations for all those wishing to take
the trip provided they let him know by
letter not later-than August 18. He
wishes every automobile owner In the
city and state to make the trip, as he
says It la to bo a big thing for the
roa'ds of the northwest to have them
advertised as they will undoubtedly be.
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