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Acto Sc7?!Ics, 303 Street
IS MOTOR TRIP OF
TWO STUDENTS
M and W
NOBBY TREAD
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At Clip of 120 Miles a Day,
' Autoists Skim From Boston,
. Mass., to Portland, Oregon
in Oldsmobile.
, Two young tourists," on a j-raduat.
In
mechanical enginaartar ana tne
other a senior of tha Boiiton School or
. Technology, nave successfully completed
an auto trip from coast to coast, coming
' trom Boston, Mass.,' to Portland, Or.,
f at an average clip of 120 milea a day.
They arrived bora Thursday, after hav
' Inf tneif reacHUia shipped . from The
-, Dallas. wOr tha first' shipment mada on
on tha trip.
. ' Tha two motorists ar A. Hagrua, of
, JJow Tori, who was eraduated from tha
Boston "Teoh" last year, and J. CL.Ful
;! ler of Boston, who will b graduated in
1911. They mada the transcontinental
.' tour in days in a Model "D" 1909 40
horstpower Oldsmobile, covering ,, 4672
miles in 89 days of running) time., . -With
their car rooting along under
ilOOO pounds of baggage, tents, cook
; lng utensils, tools, extra parts, trunks
of Clothing and all that, the two start
;' ed from Boston on tha morning of June
' 26. They falld along at' ' marry pace
$ through New England and made Albany,
; N. T, In tha night, raoordlng a 250-mile
run for tha first day. v?k i
Court ToUomA.
From Albany, Hagu and V Puller
. toured to Buffalo, N. Y., thane to Nlag
; ara Falls, and treked back again to
' Buffalo. They went to Erie, and down
. to Cleveland Ohio, and Toledo, In th.
: cam state, struck South Bend. Ind en-
route and glided into Chicago without a
mishap. From Chicago they sped down
to Clinton, Cedar Rapids and Sioux
- City, Iowa, leaving tha regular trans
continental rout at Carroll, Iowa. From
, Sioux City they cut " across' ' country
, through Aberdeen, a Dt, along th state
. line to Lemon, and than to Miles City,
' Mont, and Billings. Than they cut
, down to Cody, and stayed a weak on tha
ranch of Hague's brother, XL Bajrufe, at
Meeteetaa, Wyo. "; -. I
; Leaving th ranch tha two motorists
" skimmed over' th plains to Botem&n
- and Into Butt, turned down to Bolae.
went to Huntington, theno to Pendlo-
ton and ou to The Dalles.' Theffoun'd
tha roads go 'dusty out of Tha Dalles
' that they shipped their, Oldsmobile by
.; steamer W Portland. -'.- . t
' . acontan Xoads Bad.
t "We found tha worst part of tha jour-
ney to be in-tha eastern' part of Mon-',-'
tana,", said Mr. Hague, "along th road to
" Miles City. Tha highways wer almost
j ' impassable. The roads sast of th Mls-
, sourl river wer in fine shape generally
but through Montana and Idaho w
. found roads filled with rocka and chuofc
' . holes In Idaho th dust was so thick
' i that whenever wa passed .a wagon we
' were - compelled to stop until th dust
settled.';'1.. .. ';'.i:'.iv-"
"Or.ron roads, rhat w have seen- of
- them, do not eompar favorably with
'. those of th eastern states. We found
Jthe roads here sandy and hilly, and not
, j at all-comfortable for fast traveling."
t Interesting, statistics" er complied
J n th trip by; th two. They figured
5 that , they-covered 4872 miles in a total
s running time of 8 days, although jthe
trip: onaumed tt days altogether In
, eluding stops. -" They mad an average
( .; speed of 120 miles a day. Thay aver--
aged 'a distance of 12 miles on a gallon
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The NortHwest Buick Company Has been succeeded as the Buick .
agents for the states of Oregon and Washington by., the Pacific . ; ,
coast "representative of the Buick Motor Company, the Howard
Auomobile Company.
The Howard Automobile Company will establish" and maintain
a general agency at the. former headquarters of theNorthwesT
Buick Company at the northeast corner of Seventh and Couch'
streets, where they would be pleased to meet all Buick owners and
prospective owners.
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Oldsmobile that
of gaaollna, counting loss and waste.
Th average cost per gallon for gaso
line was SS.4 cents, th price running
as low aa 1L6 cents at Chicago, and
is high aa 45, cents In Wyoming.
sTlra trouble caused two-thirds of the
entir expense of the trip. On an aver
age: th front shoes ' lasted for 1700
miles, and the rear shoes 2400 miles.
They are supposed and . guaranteed to
do 8600 miles. Tire expense ran up to
$90 per 1000 tolles. The total expense
for extra parts was ' amailngly low
S92 for the trip. Eleven gallons of gaa
ollna- was carried up to the time th two
got to Billings; after that they car
ried an extra fire gallons in a can.
7 Uany ! Ar Exprlnci
"W had many peculiar experUnoea."
said "Mr. Juller. "At oho point we had
to stop th ear to get out and act as
doctors- X had chopped off her toe
with an ax, and wo were called to aid.
Ther was no surgeon within 80 miles,
so w did our best. I suppose .the girl
IS toeless yet That waa in South Da
kota. .. 5. i.l ;'';''" . ' .
"Wa had on run of hard luck, and
ware without food, water and gasoline
for 18 hours. W found w wer 18
miles from th nearest town, wer on
the wrong road and wer really lost
Then' w broke our front axl and
twisted our steering gear almost out
of shape.1 -We did ourselves proud, for
a Uttl - later we discovered a small
forge on a nearby ranch, put In a new
axle, fixed our steering gear, and came
th rest of the way without it bothering
ua. - In Iowa, out on the plains, our tent
was cut down and a knife ' thrust
tnrougn our rear tirea. in Indiana a
few extra itires,: Our robes, a, hat and
soma inner, tube wr stolen. . t
.W had, many amusing experiences.
W ,wer, at different times, mistaken
jor snanzis, mail earners, advertising
agenta,' auto raderaj stage line owners.
prospectors, homesteaders and burglars.
W have answered 10,000 questions and
wer asxea, oug,goo. Everywher w
stopped a crowd collected about our ma
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Ageecy
MEL. G. JOHNSON, MGR.
CORNER SEVENTH AND
: ' ;, , .;
-TELEPHONES-MAIN 4355 OR
mada 4000 mile ocean to ocean trip
chine and began plying us with ques
tions. '";,
Struck Prairl Fir. ,
"We ran into prairie fires on th
plains of Wyoming and Montana, and
into alectrlo storms on the plains of
Iowa, We went through all kinds of
weather, and through all kinds of coun
trygood, bad and Indifferent At time
we did not stick to th roads but trav
eled by compass across th plains. We
cut down steep hills and up over moun
tain skies. And. by th way, w did
all our own repairing on the trip, this in
spit of th fact that w broke both
axles.
Th two easterners will stay In Port
land a week. They will then have 81
days la which to make th return trip.
They will ship 'their auto to Omaha.
Neb, and tour through th middle west
and east from that point on.
for thousands of dollars," they said.
They will go to Tillamook, so they
can' say they toured . from ocean to
ocean. . '
HAWAII DESTINATION
OF OREGON AUTOIST
1 An Oregon autolst expects to go Into
the automobile business In Honolulu,
Hawaii. He is V. Sheffield of Bhanlko,
Or. He ' drove his Wlnton Six into
Portland last week, and is making prep
arations to ship It t Honolulu, where
he Intends to live. -Mr.
Sheffield has been operating
stage line out of Bhanlko, but not meet
ing with th sueoess expected, he has
determined to try bis fortune with an
automobile on the Islands. He has pot
yet decided when h will leave Portland.
Don J., Eaa fca bought a Cadillac
"Thirty" .front V the. Covey Motor. Car
company, . local agents for th Cadillac
company. He le on th list or new pur
chasers, or those who nave not before
owned cars.
itipaw
COUCH STREETS.
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from PoBton to Portland and students who ran It
Ktmp
C. E. Runyon and Wife; Former
Senator Fulton and W. U
Boise,on 1 000 Mile.Trip.
Xft. VnnAN Vas .- . m ' ll
covering a period of three weeks, to
Crater Lake, Klamath Falls and Pell
can Lodge, the late H H. Harnman's
woodland home. He was accompanied
by his wife. In another machine that
accompanied the steamer on the entire
trip were former United State Senator
Charles W. .Pulton .'. and Whitney 1 L.
Bole., The flown trip. was mad first
to Medford, thenoe across th Cascade
mountains to Crater Lake, and then to
aw .1 i iii i i r i
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t: In our 'estimation the Franklin air
.i ;f v; poling system is 'so good that we chal-"
; " rv ' ; lepge any gasoline automobile,! re gard
. . less of power or price, m a low-gear con
test, ' The contesting automobiles to be
' standard stock cars and to carry five
- people and to run without replenishing
the cooling system. ; The car running
i ' . the longest without stopping fwill win
the prize The contest will take place
.during the Livestock Fair. Entrance
'fee .200 or more.
Menzi es-DuBois Auto Co.
A-3881 Main 4880 Seventh and Davis Streets
DURING YOUR SPARE TIME.
LABOR DAY
Don't Neglect to Visit Our Salesroom and Examine the
SMlTh-CLBVELAND CO.
Distributors Southwest Comer Seventh and Couch Streets
aSiAJINTERSiCO
& Hard ware 67 s,xth street .1 izlng and
Klamath Falls and Pelican Lodge. Re
turning the two machines wer taken
across the Cascades by way of Crescent
bend and over Sand mountain on the
Santlam. :.::, :,f-, '
1 found the eastern Oregon roads
generally good," said Mr, Runyon, "but
the roads across the mountains are worn
out and dusty, aa they are In the Wil
lamette valley. We met hundreds of
other auto tourists. Many were from
Baa Francisco and Los Angeles, and wo
met others from Seattle, Tacoma and
Spokane. ' The route up through
Klamath Falls from California is much
traveled and' is said to be in excellent
shape.' .--..-' j -' , : " y
"The roads In Washington county are
abominable, Tet they are necessarily
much traveled by autoists. On every
side we heard drivers complain of the
Washington county roads.
n jaa-garprlsed at the wamtwr of
tourists we mat who had -camp outfits
with them, and were logging along the
roads, campng out at night and cook
ing ever open fires. Many of the Cali
fornia autoists were living that way,
and told m they wer having th times
of their lives."
1 Lane B. Smith, : drtvlnr a r Packard
Thirty, has returned from a week's tour
through, the McKensle river district. , He
1 was aoeompanled by his family. ,
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Auburn Motpr Car Co.
ROBT. SJMPSON, Mirr. -
5057 Burnslde; Street
A 7339 Main 3674 , .
U Ilf Pf . Northwest Buick Co.
'U LA F-.'w- VOGLER, Gen. "Manager
'-' 7tb an4
Belmore, MacDougall; Moores Co.
AUTO REPAIRING AMD REBUILDING GLASS FRONTS A SPEOALTY
OUU.OB. 00LUT8B Mf JUITrggTH JJTO
trow
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Sixteenth
Croxtoh-Keeton Marmon
HOLLENBECK MOTOR CAR CO., Distributers
; Ag-rats for Excelsior Motor Cycle.
. FIRST-CLASS REPAIR SHOP IN CONNECTION.
86 TENTH ST. MARSHALL 1915, A-1915.
APPERSON. 1 THOMAS FLYER.
EAST SIDE AUTO CO.
RepalrinbatetTcharglac, rasolino gad oila. gtonge. ,
East 566. HoIIaday and Union Avea. c-i26i.
Vulcanizing Retreading H E;
LIGHT YOUR
CAR WITHi ;
OIBSON 5torageBattety
Electricity
AUTOMOBILE MACHINISTS Cor. Union Avenue
AUTOS REBUILT, PAIWTED, j ncI Est Davis St.
FOR HIRE
MUTOMOBILES
' COMPARE WITH ANY CAR, REGARDLESS OP PRICE, v?
WATSON AUTO CO.
Ucauaa TTaaer Beldra ataaft , A-7612,
tilotor Cars
' 1 -- .
Palmer-Singer Parry Car
Clement-Bayard Aeroplanes .
BENRY FUHK-AUT0 CO. 335 Ankcny Street
O'GORMAN, YOUNIE CO.
DEMOUNTABLE RIMS , r REPUBLIC TIRES
AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES
71 Seventh St. - A-3520, Main 3520
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PORTLAND MOTOR CAR CO.
-XTEENTH-ANI)-AUTOMOBIt?CrW
Demonstration by Appointment V Phone Main 2583
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: . Auto SuppliesBicycles and Motor Cycled
o sixtn strett, foruand
Coacb Sts.
A 3320 -M 4553
and Alder :
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BL0DGETL 5!0 Alder St'Uaia 7035
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West Coast Supply Co.
' 326 Durnslde SL
Eooaoialcal, 8af. and Convanl.nt
Battery JUcharglng and Repairing.
Mafneto IWpalrlni Quick Service.
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'BRIEN.Inc
r- PHONE EAST 78
MAIN 8121 503 ALDER STREET
BARNESAUTO
MOBILE COl
83 North Sixth St
.'Phone Main 7022
Auto Co,
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Gasoline. Electric
19th en Alder Sts., Portlani
7KOJTB Uaiar 1803
30fl First Avenue So., Seattle
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