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i niE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1910. 3 v Barney Oldfield on the Speed Mania I 'ofln" wonder If on pcrnon 'In thouMnd realicta what It means when ? they (t Iji a grarulatand and aom - Uol Uflve an automoDiia arouna ' in trark faster than the other fellow; ever did before? Moat persona place -a high value on ' their Uvea. But few would deliberately agree to sacrifice their Uvea for any conal deration. Vet. whenever a man drives a ractnir automobile around circular track these daya tn record time for one mile,, that man is taking about the greatest chance that one could take without becoming a suicide. A hundred good., daring fellows liave , been trying for. years to get-cars that will capture the mile circular 'track ' record and hare ' gone out ' and raced them over death trap courses. Fifteen of these men have been killed, 10 so - badly injured that they quit or were foroed out of the game by physical dl abilities, and the others, with tho ex. caption of about three or four, quit, be cause tney realised the game .was not worth the candle. , ; - Admired Oreat Cedrlno, There was one great track driver that I admired above all others. lie i was Emanuel Cedrlno, the man who built the Flat Cyclone and raced It for a year. The first time I met Cedrlno he had a ear not as fast as my Oreen Dragon and I beat hm easily. This happened at Providence, JR. I., about four years ago. and as he told me goodbye that night ha said in his broken English: ''You have a great car. I like the way you build him. Mebbe next time we race, you no win so easy.'.' The following rear Ce drlno appeared on the circuit with the now famous Cyclone, the work of his own hands, as far, as the assembling of the car was Concerned. The Ingenloim fellow had built the machine along th lines or the Green Dragon, but had added much more horsepower, and taken off many pounda of weight. The spoke in the wheel he had taken out and trimmed down until the slse was al most below the danger limit, and the little "gig" certainly had speed. But one day while the Italian was going for my record mile at the Plmllco track in Baltimore, a tire rolled off as he was going. Into the lower turn. The frail wheel crushed like an egg shell, the nose of the car plowed into the ground and the machine became a tw!ntl. broken mass of wreckage, t Underneath the wreck lay the torn and bleeding oony or the game fellow who had built his own instrument of execution. The mile record had lured another ' victim ana ambition became his murderer. Palma Xa Vast Tlctlm. - -' Then after three or four drivers had proved they were afraid of the car ftaipn ue j'aima fell heir to It, and onving exhibition races alone, he broke my mile record at St. Paul a vir In October last I met De Palma one night in New York and he told me he wae going against my mile record for nair mile tracks at Danbury, Conn., with the Cyclone. He had never been on a nair mile track with the cur. nH T warned him that It was not as easy, as ii migni iook or read, telling him that only my, long experience on all sorts of tracks made It possible for me to negotiate half mile courses successfully. He smiled with an air of confidence and assurance. Bnt a week later I read that the Cyclone had turned over on a turn and had crushed Ms hip so badly that he Is still on crutches. Wwlter Christie, the wealthy front drive Inventor, drove to the, starting line at Pittsburg one day ant. told the newsfaper boys that he was going to show Oldfield how to drive a mile in 60 seconds. He sot ouarter wav irximj It was Ford's Idea to build a car for Kullck that would enable him to get the record away from ma. I was the target they all were shooting at. Kullck wsa going the mile at Detroit In 4 seconds they say,( A urt tire and a collapsed front wheel sent the car high In the air FARMERS V . -. , , ,,... . HEW METHODS " Experts Tour Idaho ; . ' : and Utah. ' was under it. Kullck waa in a hospital for a year and I now a permanent crip pie. . Ford had the car burlod In (Ix feet of dirt whore It fell at the track side and no amount of money' could Induce him to build . another racing car for anyone... . These are Just V few. of the more prominent drivers , In the' game that "got thclra" trying to got the mile rec ord ; (flpeelal Dlapatcb to Tht JoarniLt ' Boise. Idaho, Jan. 22. A farming dem- onstratlon train li. Mn nriimtyi in In the month of September, 1907, Itrteh mH M.h. t. - ou. Sift. there w,r 11 -rc,n' Sr1ve" '4 : work h.v7w; g I Had shaken dice with death .0 Often. IniVct.-'S gambling on the skill of the tire- artnmlJlf'l' maker,, the steelmaker, the designer ot bZVobdt'Z' I '. i the car, and human workmanship, that 1 "'!', rrl ,TM I began to wonder now and. then If I " SIlJ, L -chard heaUng. of th. fifty record, on th. .late and I H,yburn IrrlvinV a rifviL taJ was going to be 'satisfied with winning ",tyht ! Hurley Monday racea and take a rest from the norve . 'L , shredding mil. record drives. , k- .... "'t 'V" w " .. i" . iriiin wjii im jtir lilt? Xeady to 0M With Death. , lecturer on orclrard hHh and the lee- But I guess only the' crlpDlea v(t urr on potato culture-to begin ad- get the mllo record ambition out of dresses simultaneously In two different their system and 1 was no exception CBr fitted up as lecture rooms.. Then to the rule. Aa far back as laat Auarust when adresses are finished, the lectur- I was determined to get the mile rec I ,r" wl11 exchange cars and repeat the ord back or become a cripple or per I aA reases. in this way two lectures nsps worse. I got my big Bent car win oe given in the time usally devoted ana oegan to get accastomed to It for I lo one. mile record work, trying the .different I . peolaUsts Will Bpeak. tracks throughout the country until 1 1 "The lecturing staff Includes R. II. rouna one thst was right. , , 1 Orubb, the well known authority on 1 am going fo continue to aamble with I errlculture and hnrtiniiitiirn- u t. va. dcath and I know there Is no hope to I erton, the famous seedsman of Carhon- piay ine game witli loaded dice or I dale: A. A. Htanffannivr the -rri nn marked cards. The grim reaper has an growing and marketing potatoes; Joseph even chance, for only one man haslEwing, of Mechanlcsburg, Ohio, editor "U11 mue recora since I maae or the Breeders' Gazette, and an huthor- t and many have been maimed and Itv awiea crying to flo it. of agriculture for the Twin Falls Land 1 can alwaya tell when I have A Waf smashed a record by tne way the crowd retary of the chamber of commerce of yells as I drive bsck to the paddock. I Grand Junction, who saved 12.000 oou and if In the future they yell for me, worth of fruit by orchard heating; let them Just cheer a little also for James U Hamilton, of Grand Junction, tho many poor, brave, lion hearted fel- originator of orchard heating; Profes- lows who tried but who can't ever hope sor U A. Merrll of the Utah Agrlcul- TACOMA MAY-BUILD ' STREETCAR SYSTEM Tseoma,Wash., Jan. 22. A-11,000,000 bond issue for the construction of a sys tem of municipal street rallwnya will be submitted to J he voters of Ta coma at the regular spring election, when candi- 1 dates for office under the new commls slon plan of government Will contest at. the polls, and a proposal to bond, the city for 12,000,000 for the-Oreen river grav Ity i water system - will also, bo piipsed upon,:.-, .... .. ,;, approved Councilman Olblett's ordinance putting the matter up to the voters. The ordinance probably will be jttesed at the next meeting.- The .ordinance, provides that the city of Tacoma shall heir In .Its 'street ear in. munnipi mrrri ranwsy project , system Dy lines running to Point De- conceded by . street car experts ti l was given the, approval of the city coun-I fiance on the north and to Houth Tacoma J prosiH'ctlvs good payers and stri it! u ell when the committee of the wholojand Bismarck on tho south, with 'a line I routes. - - , up Fifteenth street from nt t.i w. The propout'il lines , y, in imiuii. I i route of the frunohlsrs, stPI 'unnli'l which were granted to tho Pm-lfle Ti tlon coitipatiy, .lnc ahsoiticl ly t Ktone ft WebHler Interesit. They when to try again. WASHINGTON COUNTY TO HOLD ANNUAL FAIR Weiscr. Idaho. Jan. 22. The Wash ington county rair association has been Incorporated by the following: A. L. rreenarer, Council; O. E. Steward, In. uian yaney; . c. McKlnney, A. A Brown. A. A. Hecord, A. L. Treman, all ui weiser. It Is proposed to hold the fair each year before the holdlna of tha mountain fair at Boise, and to ahln tho w I. 1 1. a m ... i r cAiuuna irom nere direct to the Inter mountain fair. In this way every ex hibitor will have the double privilege of helping to make a good ' ahowing for tvasningion county both at the count v na i ine aiate rair. This county's i.iuKiiiiiceni products, both horticultural and agricultural, will thus be given the Opportunity they should have of draw ing the attention of the stste. Pair In Tented City. The Washington county fair will h unique and will attract widespread at tention from the fact that it in he held in Weiser in a tented city consist ing or six tents to be used ss follows: tural college; Professor Ball, director of the Utah experiment station, and J. Kd- ward Taylor, -state horticultural- com-- mlssloner of the same state. Eight years ago the English city of Birmingham bought out the local electri cal supply compsny. Since then the con sumption of electricity has Increased more than eight times. .Journal want sds bring results. THERE IS a great deal of dissension and discussion as to the UKST CAItS. but all are unanfmous In agreeing that the very best Auto Gloves and Gauntlets are One for the horticultural and farm Drod- hls machine ttianed turtle niiUCtS: one for the livestock: one for ril. poor cnristie win be a cripple for life. Pla''ng tne agricultural machinery; one ne lay in the hoanttal for bIv I ror aispiayinar Irrigation machinery? nn uelWeen tire ana death, he probably ror oomestic section; one for the assem realized that life Is pretty sweet and bIy h."- Eacn tent sel wlll.be at- m mue record must be botis-ht at tnn in sucli a way so that one ad- dear a price. That la rhe reason Chris- m,s",0n admits to the whole show. Great tie does not hold the mile retold for the ,nt,re"t In the county fair is being man nine tooay. His car Is the fastest thino-l "ceo su over tne county on wheels In America and Derhans In the world. But Walter can't drive it aDDMalOWM I C HI A hi "l llllll MM IM.YM II I W IUIUIU i- l - " "inn with his crippled arm, and perhaps his i-uuiago aiso was crippled at Pittsburg. Kissr's Mishap. Tiaer I I (1(1. v . r. !.,V0. I KT 1 n80 gTVPH UP the Wlnton Bullet, Earl Ifiser, an old comrado of the bicycle daya and one of ine stoutest nearted fellows in the world, took It. It was In Cleveland that summer that I drove out on the track for a record trial, with my head ban- odgeo anu a receipted hospital bill in my pocket. I had gone through a feme two weeks before in Detroit and I was wondering If my goat was gone for sowi. i nau not Heard it even bleat for two weeks. Ambition and pride i"ue i-Husea me to send the Dragon around at a fast clip, my record for the iracK, wnicn was then fast as lightning ( Then KIser went out with ttre Bullet. we were Dotn Ohio boys, and the pa CANCELS ORDER FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE (Special Dlipatcb to Tht Journal.) Albany, Or.. Jan. 22.T-J. F. Hufford of Brownsville, who phoned to the county clerk's of fice a few days ago for a mar rlage license, appeared In circuit court- here today, asking to be excused. After a brief question ing by the district attorney, he was excused. Miss Mamie Tal bert, also of Brownsville, was his Intended wife. The most common cause for rim rut. pers hud made us great rivals In I ting of tire shoes, exeent ahnse hv landrvwhere both our-ears were metiers. Is rustv or bent rims Tho h-.t by rival companies. way to prevent rusting is to paint the I stood at the track side with my with some oil paint, and that this watch In my hand and as "Kise" passed precaution Is important is evident when the half mile pole I said to Charlie Bur- u ,s considered that a rusty rim Is uc a Bunig 10 neat ma by w reponsioie tor tne rotting of the tuple of seconds." And he would fabric. emzons SEE OUR "NAPAUT0" Gauntlet . The only Grease-proof and Water-jvr oof Lightweight, Tough Gauntlet on the mar ket. Prices $1.75 and $2.25. For men and wo men. Hundreds of other styles including the famous Grin nell Ventilated, f 2 OO to f 4.00 pair. ; '''''''''' '''''' ' ' ' ' ' '" ' ( ' ' ': ' ' ; ' '''' '' ' L saSsasss r SaL aaaSBMaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaBaaMaaaaaaaseasasas, ; a. - vmm i) , s-u mWm " si Ii rennons mW0'( 7 SlOVtSAMD unbhulas man a cou have, too, only he did not get around the three-quarter turn. The Bullet hd swerved and plunged as protest to being sent In an unnatural manner, and when i uiey picitea Kiser up out of the burn Ing wreckage his left log was cut off nuuve me snee. ueath had been cheated but the mile record ambition was not to blame that the poor fellow was made a crippie instead or a corpse. About the most modest and lovable driver I ever met in the' game was vveoo jay, wno created ft sensation with the Whistling Billy steam car, when he brought it out in 190S. Jav got a fast mile over the ' nonregulatl'on oval at Morris Park in New York, but he never got within two seconds of my mue circular record, which was then 63 seconds, made at Agricultural park In Ios Angeles. Two weeks after Riser's accident. Jay and myself met at Buf- iaio. ine papers were trying to get lino a ouuo matcn race, each man to bet his own monev. I told ft reporter that I would agree 11 race u jay would get within one second or my mllo record that day tatcn my second mile," Jay called to the timers Just before he started in a five mile race. But the second mile was never caught. Plowing through the lence on tne upper turn, Whistling Billy rolled over a few times and landed in a pona oi water a hundred feet away and they pulled the bleeding and ; crushed teuow irom underneath the car just in time to save drowning. It took a flock of skillful surgeons and six months time to. get n cou m sit up in the hospital. The scythe handler had missed his cal culation by the fraction of an Inch, but he grinned and said "I'll get some of tnose amoiuon erased ones yet.',' Two Victims for "999." Frank Kullck of Detroit sat at the wheel of a six cylinder skeleton racing car which has been built for him by Henry Ford, the great builder of racing cars and the man who built the old "99" for me: - I drove the "999" a mile under the minute for the first time any man ever sent a racing ear around a circular track in such time. After I left It, Frank Day, a youngster of Co lumbus, Ohio, went through the fence with the ''99D" at Milwaukee while try lnjr for my mllo record. He. was killed Instantly. - :;. ...'. . ... Kullck. .was a uf Henry. Ford and 809 MORRISON ST. Headquarters for Auto Gloves. Beats the Gar Service u..m,,lvu vvmi scivilc uii vuur car line, u you are anxious to save time and monev. if vou are im .aoain'st tVi , problem of-quick and comfortable transportation from vour hAmA --v 4-U. l i.L. a i . - . .."luv.iu-tuc unite, uner motorcycle is tne most practical and economical solution Get a little red blood in your veins soak tip your proportion of the life -EHVinp- nvvfrii inctCG-! hanenng onto a strap in an illv ventilated Par, Cn anrl i-ftino una , crusnea , , r j - - ".- e demolished I wnenvou please, as fast as you please, and realize for once t vflSS I -lust vvilat you've, been missing: The 1910 M. M. Motorcycles are now ready for delivery. Iour II. P. Bosch magneto, me chanical valves, roller bearings, mechanical oiler, larger gaso line; tank, with emergency compartment. Automatic support ing stand, choice of flat or V belt drive. Adjustable speed pul-l?y'- -Free enne if vo desire, and a hundred other features. Positively the most handsome machine on the market. Fully guaranteed. Side cars which concert your machine Into an auto and you can then take your family. Other model motor cycles if you want them. Price only $225. Positively the leader f the motorcycle world. Call on .or. address m fnr a demonstration, have a ride on one of these beauties and Yrpri- - ehce the sensation of free lfvuig.' I ,want a' fcw?but-of-town agents. Will you be one? " ' ' - - RALPH R. RUFf MTXIt' Silent As the Foot of Time E teg to submit that so 4 s 1 o'' 1 V Ij a s 1 1 1 c a u t o n i o 1 i 1 e c chi ci t i o n o f T tlic 'people progressed that many still refer to any car under $3000 as a "cheap car." They do so thoughtlessly and unknow ingly. They have been in the habit of paying ex cess prices so long that it is inconceivable to them that a good car can be built for less. Yet a mo ment's thought will convince them of their error. Any automobile at $3,000 and over is high priced. Any pleasure vehicle for land use outside of a Pullman palace car is high priced at $3000, and the higher the prices go the more ex pensive the luxury. As a matter of fact, prices on automobiles have been held up by the public itself simply because the public has bought right and left on the basis of appearance and say-so and without any regard to analysis of actual worth. About $20,000,000 of Mitchells are at present in operation. There arc thousands of satisfied Mitchell owners. Yet the Mitchell Motor Car company has never asked over $2000 for its highest priced car, and the car at that particular price happens to be a magnificent, classy six cylin der, seven passenger automobile, and second to no car at any price. Yet the materials used in the manufacture of the Mitchell are the very finest the world produces the verv same qualities that are used in the best of the $4000, the $5000 and even higher priced ears. Still, because we have not fol lowed the lead of others and held our cars at more . moiey than they are worth, our competitors are pleased to referN to the Mitchell as "a good cheap car." Tf that is the basis of figuring then the whole calculation of value must be revolutionized. Why, the Mitchell could be readily sold at twice its regu lar list prices, but what satisfaction would there be in that to the Mitchell Motor Car Companv? We know in our hearts that before 1910 is well along in history people will be offering premiums to se cure a Mitchell, yet regardless of how great the premium may be, it will accomplish no more than the regular price, for we cannot possibly make more than 6000 cars all told, and they were all sold to agents three months ago. The Mitchell. Line will' be exhibited at the Portland Auto Show, January 24-29 No car no matter what its price can be called cheap if the best materials in the world are used in its making likewise the highest form of construction the most artistic designs ' the most finished finish. Because you ask and can get from $4000 to $5000 for a motor car, that is not proof that it is superior. Price proves noth ing, but constant use, constant efficiency and con stant satisfaction prove everything. It is the constant use and the constant satisfaction" that have proved the Mitchell, ' and because we have seen fit to improve upon pur own handicraft without adding a penny to the prie'es, some of our esteemed competitors see there in evidence that our last season's cars were not what they should have been. Fudge! The man' who doesn't improve stands still and goes back wards. We have gone steadily ahead and the year 1910 shows such development that we could sell by wire in 48 hours five thousand more cars than we can make. The 1910 Mitchell is a low Cost,' High-class car. Jhe lowering of the' bod v nearer the ground ,gives the smart rakish appearance which smart tastes demand the new lines of body design answer the public wish for style the new tone of finish answers the cry for polish and refinement the change in the radiator and hood design fills the desire for neatness and the silencing of thcr motor answers the cry for silence. There is no car in the world That is classier or smarter than the Mitchell. ",. It contains every element of greatness that money can buy. The richest man on earth .will be proud .'ta . own one and the low cost of this high-class car is proof simply that this concern is building THiv CAR YOU OUGHT TO HAVE AT THE PRICF YOU OUGHT TO PAY. . THREE GOOD FORM MODELS ' Mitchell Six .)() horsepower. 1,'W-inch wheel bae. seven passengers, touring or close-coupled body $2000 -Mitchell "T" -15 horsepower five, pa-sscngcrjs)' 112-inch wheel base,. close-coupled or touring body, ,..$1350 Mitchell "R" Roadster, y0-33 horsepower," three passen gers, 100-incb wheel base, body options, rumble seat, surrey seat, runabout deck ; ; . $1,100 LICENSED UNDER SELDEN PATENT . Paris Branches: 20 RuedeTilsitt and 4 Avenue ; McMahon Prices f. o. b. Racino Portland Distributers: Barnes Automobile Co., 88 N. Sixth St., Bet.' Everett and Flanders i