r, t THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY , MORNING, JUNE 18. 1811. ' PAYROLLS ARE CUT 111 1 USE OF Paigc-Dctroit Model C; 4 Torpedo Gar Is Beauty EVERYTHING CLEARS p"n"lT7' 1 Ii f HE WAY FOR WORLD'S CHAMPION ; MOTORCYCLE . . mm, i j-i ,ji i .. -ii i j- j m - - " ' si. ' .1 . Si i. . AU.UJ. i - ' M y ' r """" " -, .. ... . . ..', , -t . . Ill i ..... , . ' , II fT.n? .mTTnsTT A M UlLJl ILL M ILllJr l 10 VEHICLES .,'! ). a" ", . f -'J 1 BEST BY Saving of $75,000 Yearly Re ; suits From Employment ; of, Motor Squad'. Wagons, Mrti Detroit iFire '.Department... v If all ths borM drawn apparatuses In Itroir were replaced by gaeollne motor vehicles, ths saving on the per ' roll alone would, amount to llte.oo 1" ur," ! -nr Ctmmlfilsatr wy v. v Moor. In a recent interview. "And tha ' - horse canoot b compared to the .motor In efficiency. I flo riot believe another ' Diece of aorta drawn- apparatus will var ba edited to tha equipment of tha ' letreit depart man t.. Wa have a lot of , expensive , apparatus that wo cannot very wall -4lcar4 but eome of It can ba chsnstd so thst motors caa ba in stalled for driving It This Is tree -with particular reference to tha Udder trucks. "Tha Psoksrd 1 motor aquad watona fill an entirely naw field, supplement ing tha fighting fore of tha angina companies and often getting to a flra ao quickly that .a hard extinguisher averts serious loss. - When tha ' legislature allowed tha Detroit department aa Inereaaa of 1110, 000 for Its annual expenses, tt was er- ' tcted wa would add approximately 10 moo. After giving-the situation care ful . atudy. tha commissioners decided to uaa motor squad wagons, which with their Increased , speed, can place antra , men In any part of tha city In a faw minutes. Four or at most five of these waitons, with tbalr crews, would add as much efficiency aa would 110 man with old atyla apparatua. Wo f Irurad tha avlng at from $80,000 to 171,000 a year. The first Packard wagon was plaoed In operation la September, 1901, and It has mora than fulfilled our expecta tions. Tha second wagon was added laat fall." - :, One motor squad wagon overs, on . tha first alarm, a territory two and one-half ml lea east and northeast from Its statlan and tha same distance to tha west. . Horse-drawn apparatus," on a flra alarm, covers a radius of approx imately three-quarters of a-mile. Tha two motor wagons are of the same type.' both bodies having been built In the Packard shops and mount ed on standard "SO" chassis, with exrta heavy springs. Each carries i I men, K ' '.sv..V(V 1 j:!i'f. V Tha Stoddard-Dayton Auto company, If Tenth street, hss accepted tha Port land agency for tha well known Palge Detrolt automobile, and aspects to un load a oar of naw machines ths lattor pert of this Week. Above Is shown model C-4 Torpedo, fore-door louring car. Mr. Oerllnger. of tha Stoddard Dayton company, says ha gave ths False-Detroit every test known to as perlenoed automobile men before decld- xv ,.r. '. Ing to accept agency la tha territory, and has found It ths acms of auocasa for medium ptioa ear. Tha ear can ba delivered In Portland for tllOO. Great suooess Is aredlctad for tha ratge-De-trolt In Oregon. I BRSCOEPLAC E DIN GENERAL eras E Will Manage Detroit Properties of United States Motor Company. Prank Briscoe, one of tha rlea presi dents of tha United States Motor com- 'pany. has been placed In general charge of . tha Detroit properties of tha com pany. Mr. Brlsco will have offices In tha new United States Motor company building. This appointment is In Una with tha policy of the company to cen tralise and perfect Its organisation and to realise all tha economies posslblo In motor car manufacture. -Mr. Briscoe in his present capacity i will have general charge of the Detroit companies of ths United States Motor company. They employ from SS0O to (400 men and represent an annual pro duction of over f 7,000,000. Next year these . figures will ba considerably higher. Mr. Briscoe Is one of tha motor In- - duatrys most orominent fla-urea. Ha mnfrA hnalnoo tn 10A1 with via' brother, Benjamin, now president of tha United States Motor company. In the Detroit Galvanising dc Sheet Metal Works. From thla company grew tha Briscoe Manufacturing - company-- pio , neers in making automobile parts. In 1104 Benjamin Briscoe left to found the Maxwell-Brtscoe Motor comanmy in j : Tarrjrtwn, N. T.. and Frank Briscoe active management of thla company to John Boyls and organised the Brush Runabout company. Mr. Briscoe now relinquishes active management of the Brush Runabout company to C 8. Brlggs. Mr. Briscoe wss born In De troit 3t years ago. Rs Is a graduate of the University of Michigan. " ) MAXWELL CARS WIN N RELIABILITY CONTES I Two trophies offered to the winners Of the recent reliability contest of the Savannah Automobile club from Sevan ah, Gfu, to Charlotte, N. a, were won ty Maxwell cars competing In a field , of 60 oars, and one of the Maxwell ars, a model 1, entered by W. P. Durst, ' 4f Greenwood, S. C, mads the only perfect score, In the contest Heavy penalties were Imposed on . many of the competing cars and several failed to finish in the run. Mr. Durst was awarded the Charlotte Observer :. trophy for making a clean road score ' and passing without penalty thsough a rigorous examination by the technical ' committee of the Savannah Automobile club. Ths second trophy was won by J. H. Ham's SO-horsepower Maxwell roadster. Thla waa the state trophy of fered by the city of Columbia, 8. C, - The contest was open only to mem bers of the Savannah Automobile club. Th club's own rules and classifications were applied and the method of penaliz ation easily evolved a winner, although In one - of the classes two contestants were tied for first place. Every car suffered penalties, except Durst's Max- "BILLY" SUNDAY WILL NOW It HUDSON Billy .Sunday,, the noted evangelist and reformed baseball player, will hence forth travel in a Hudson touring sr wnicft win be delivered to him on Ms return from Erie, Pa., where he Is st present preachings : Heretofore Mr. Sunday has uaed only Wgh-piiced ma--hins. . In buying the Hudson bs said be was willing to de so largely because it looked like a :oo car.' He, added that In every place on his travels he hsd heard good word for the Hudson and for tfee men behind It - - .- Mr. Sunday, as Is well known, was a star baseball player before he became an evangelist His work takes hint from city to city, In each of which he stays from four to six- weeks. Invar iably be Insists on th erection of m special building ae planned that he caa make himself heard by the enormous crowd that attend. Nearly all tha other churches close their doors when Mr. Sundsy eomee to town In order to give their members a chance to hear him. The ear waa sold to htm by A. 8. Wlda- man, agent for ths Hudson Motor Car company, at Warsaw, mo. CRATER LAKE GARAGE " FINEST IN SOUTHLAND One of the handsomest garages In Oregon is the recently completed home of the Crater Lake garage at Medford, Or. This handsome new building la built of, brick, one story In height with a highly ornamental front with tiled roof, and la altuated facing the main line of the Southern Pacific company, and but block from the main street Light Delivery Trucks . 'v " - ' ,. S . M The only commercial vehicle that ever made the ascent of Mount Diablo and Mount Wilson, California. Carrying 1 540 pounds of freight and two men in the Portland Truck Contesf, this Buick Truck covered 56 miles, under adverse road conditions, at an actual cost of $ L 14-,. - - :- - Fifty-five Buick Light Delivery Trucks now in suc cessful operation in Portland. v4 Express Body Style. . .$1150 Flat Deck Body Style. .$1200 Panel Body Style $1350 F. O. B. Portland' Pneumatic or Solid Rubber Tires Optional HOWARD AUTOMOBILE CO. " MEL G. JOHNSON, Manager SEVENTH AND COUCH STREETS Phones Main 4555, A-2550 I THE NEW MOTOR CARS Rambler Automobile Agency Slow Room 688 Wuliijton, Kesr Iwenlrfet. Floie MinlaJ 1313 ; . ' ... j. . ... r OUT OP TOW 91AXEM WSZTB TOM AOEJrCT PsorotmoJT of the city. J, K. Neff Is the manager of the new garage and Is handling Buick and the Losomoblle. lines. ALL TESTS A f "Weo Minutea 19 Sec. v un a son, uai am irat., " ' ' t,UU If r,hr a rldrt In 2, 4, S and 7 HORSE, v ; ; . , .v -t I competition,' is ' ? ' POWER MODELS'.-;'.'. ; . . I ' ' ; ' V'rtlfJfi CflMF 'yri- ;- ance of Vera Maskei: on ? : t; a 7.R Pe Stock Indian at : Chain and Belt Drivers 7 . tV; M9im$lW4-MaMs Jl. WHY NOT RIDE THE BEST? $215to$365 1 vxi ' xrayrnvv! iMJwrw, n I III - -y u m at BALLOU'S: . . -' ... rJU 1L '; 86 SfXTVt STREET, WRTLAND ' vv 1 A He Two Cadillac car, starting simultaneously, successfully lowered two of the most difficult road records in California. ( One Cadillac, starting from San Francisco at midnight, June 3, and another Cadillac car starting from Los Angeles at the same time, annexed" the following records: ; 1 V ;i; : turn enng One Cadillac beat all previous existing records from San Francisco to Del Monte and re- . Distance 260 miles; time, 6 hours, 30 minutes, averaging 40 165 per hour," and low z the former records by 1 hour and 5 minutes. ; r This is the most-sought-after and best-known record in Northern' California, and the low ering of the record by i hour and 5 minutes Is the sensation of tK5 season. "The Car That Did It" Another Cadillac, startiht'from. Los Angeles on the pathfinding trip for the Los Angeles to-Phcehix road race, incidentally broke all previous records frora , Los Angeles to San Diego. Distance 158 miles; time, 4 hours, 10 minutes.. By lowering, these two records ., tKeV CADILLAC now holds more Road Records in California, than all other makes of cars combined. : ' The following is a list of California Records now held by Cadillac f30f Los Angeles to San Francisco (coast route) 14:49 Los Angeles to San Francisco (inland) '. . . 17:45 Los Angeles to Fresno . ... . . . . . . . . ,B3 ' Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. . . . . . . ;3K)3 Los Angeles to Santa-Maria . ; . . . . . . 625 San Francisco fo Del Monte and return 60 ' ' lJ'''AnfeIdi'WSem:.D ; Morgan-Wright Tires Used. V i : "'"-'-':'-.-', ..'-. ',. ; .1 ' ' ;Cf-'.' ' '?'.--.. ' .-i.... -s'. f,,'.'.-.'5,i'.'-;:.',.,s',';t,, un April o-y, at met 1-05 vuigciea muiururumc, 1110 viQiuac tuvefeu tto tiuica in up . ' ' i . - H . .... i.. J . I i. J i . '' . . - v. ' ".', .secuxive nours uie greatest mueagCu ever Los AnsTcles to San Francisco and return .32:3$ Up the valley and down the coast ....... 39 :08 1 Angeles to Bakersfield 1 (Siii' made by ;an American :car in a; 24-hour racey ' .' ; "' ''" ..; V';.-''' ''''. !.A-"' i "V : -"i.'''f. '-','Vr'iix,o:.,J-",4s-.''i!"' ' V' "": ' . ,' "-' v.-.'-Vaptf'. u:'.y-v''V;-.J'-'-v'C;4;55' V '. - :-'V ' T -.' : n r- -;-..; .-A ;;;- -"(- --. ?; '-:;v v;..J :, '..-v.; ; . f '.. ;v " --. '" V'vl: .--Vv'v' '' '- I,