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v -j.: : ... : V,! .V ' , " . V. " . : the Oregon suJiday. journal,' - Portlands sunday morning, . s MORNING, . SEPTEMBER: . 3, 1911. (SlLEAFgrCS OF ' TOjmTLJTrO! I: WORLD . i"" . vsn irk "in . i I,. .ii '.,., , hun us mm NEW us 12 EQUIPPED WITH UNIQUE DESIGNS Dealers Busy Unloading. This ' Season's Cars and Prepar ing Them to Be Shown to Admiring Public. All along the line the automobile -deal-era have been very busy $he past f"W days unlloadlng their" new 1912 models and putting them in ship shape to be shown, to the admiring public. While there tiave not been any very radical changes In the 1912 cars over those of 1911, the general lines of the 1912 cars seem to be of higher perfection ' in construction. The fore-door style of " Is here to stay, according to the mdiftrlty of the dealers. Many of the ' fCtoJoor cars have unique devices for ventilating the,, front part of the ma chine, which makes the ears comforta ble at all seasons of the' year. H ' The new Cole ,30-40,". five passenger, 1912 touring, car, a picture of which is shown In this issue, was unloaded by theTwitchell Motor Car company Wednesday, and the Cole reputation for refined finish and upholstering needs no comment, for the car has everything that can be asked to insure comfort and'-ease. All metal parts of the car are nickel plated; the lamps are black enameled and nickel; all door handles are placed lnsidei of the car where they can't be seen and are nickel plat ed, as are the door hinges. The car has the regular, fore-door straight line effect with the front ventilated. The 1912 chassis adheres 'te the basic prin ciples of the 1911 car. It has a 122 imsh whee base instead of 118; 36 inch wheels instead ow 84 inch wheels. It also has the Timken axle equipment, full floating. These Improvements make the Cole car a bigger and more comfortable vehicle. Seven body styles will be constructed on the one chassis; five passenger touring car; four passen gy top tonneau; roadster; speedster; coupe; Hmoudin and London Limousine. The National automobile, driven by Len ftengel, against demonstrated its staying qualities In the recent races at Ellin, winning first and second In one race and first in the big 306 mile free-for-all. Leu Zengel came to Elgin fresh from his triumph's at Galveston, Texas, where he had won four out of five events on the card, not haying been ejlgible to the fifth. Zengel main tained an average speed of 66 42-100 miles per hour throughout the entire distance of 35 miles, thereby breaking the record for the Elgin National tro phy by more than five minutes. A BUICK 'ftEO BIRD WINS HANDSOME TROPHY. CUP '4 l IV. ' " ur - - s fr i if - f f jO ' ; v III this car. From amoltg thai names of the dealers, wishing to Investigate .this agency, none have been selected as dis tributors as yet. Those interested can secure information at The Journal of fice. The advertisement of the Path finder will appear exclusively in the columns of The Journal, it having been selected as the medium best suited to give. the Pathfinder the necessary pub licity to secure a reputable representative. A picture Is shown in this Issue of the trophy cup put up by the Chanselor & Lyon concern for the automobile that makes the fastest time between Port land and Seattle. In order tnat Wis cuo may be contested for by any one owning or driving a machine, it has been put under the auspices or the foruana Automobile ciun. Harry L. Keats, chairman of the con tt committee, has formulated the fol lowing rules under which the cup must h n warded: "Trip must be made in one day, starting either from.Vancou ver Wash., or Seattle, Wash., and fin lshlng In either town. Contestants must get scoring cards from Chanselor & Lyon. 627 Washington strett, Portland, nom rhanselor & Lyon, 916 East Pike street, Seattle, before starting, and miiRt mail slgnea caras bi lenirana, Wa.h . and Seattle or Vancouver, Wash., after scoring at these towns. Starting frnm Vancouver, Wash., cars must check out from the clerk of the St. Elmo hotel, Vancouver, checking at Cen tralla and Chanselor & Lyon motor sup- nlv store. 918 East Fike street, beanie. Thta nnnlles to cars starting from Se attle or from Portland, western union time must be used In all cases. Score cards must be signed at the office of th St. Elmo hotel. Vancouver, vt asn., hv the clerk, and at the Centralla gar age at Centralla. In case the garage at Centralla Is closed, contestants may hiv mrda s aned at tne notei. an signatures must be signed in ink. Stock mm must be used. Hinpping opuonai under the A. A. A. ruling. All mechani- nl nartfl and adjustments must be 00 ovclualvelv by the crew of the nm rvpi winner of the perpetual challenge trophy must give acceptable hnnri In the amount of J260 to guaran tee the safe delivery of the trophy to a subsequent winner. Tlie tropny snau be open to perpetual challenge. If any protest against the awarding of the said cup shall he sustained, holder of the cup shall immediately deliver the cup U the last previous holder, without ronteatlns: tne rigni ui uuuinuur . livon te revoke award. All contestants aalrf troohv must give written no tlce of their intention to compete for same, notice to be given unanseior k Lyon. It is optional with contestant as to how many passengers he wishes to carry on run." It has been announced by A. J. Ed wards, manager of the Ford Motor Car company, that It Is his Intention to make a try for the Chanselor & Lyon trophy between Vancouver and Seattle within the nexb week. . Mr. Edwards will drive his White Spider machine in the attempt to lower the record made by the Bulck Red Bird machine when it established the record of 11 hours and 30 mlrrutea between Vancouver and Se attl. A change In the personnel handling the Ford automobiles was effected last week. Heretofore the company has been a co-partnership between A. i. Edwards and C. Aerne Jr. Mr. Edwards pur , chased Mr. Aerne' Interest recently and has now formed a stock company of the concern, which will be known as tha Ford Motor Car Company, Inc. p. B. Parks will be president of the new com pany, A. J. Edwards will be secretary and manager, and M. Peterson will be vice president. Mr. Parks, the new pres- ldent, was formerly in the banking bus iness at Wlllamiha and Mr. Peterson has been In -the hardware business at Forest Grove until recently. The com pany has been capitalized at $20,000. Mr. Edwards Is very confident In his belief that the coming season will be a very successful one for the new firm. . 'Last week in the columns of this paper there appeared an advertisement regarding the Pathfinder automobile, which called attention to the fact that the northwest territory: was open for a high class dealer. Many Inquiries have been received regarding the agency fr C. H. ' Mead, manager of the West Coast Supply company, entertained W. W. Wuchter, president of the Swlnehart Tire & Rubber company, of Akron, Ohio, and W. D. Lord, western salesmanager of the Swlnehart company, at an Inform al banquet held In the banquet room of the Commercial club Tuesday evening Those invited, to meet Mr. Wuchter and Mr. Lord were he adtomoblle men of the city of Portland, interested In the truck industry. Most of. the, dealers interested in the commercial truck industry were pres ent, and heard quite an interesting talk on the rubber output of world from the time it-Is taken from the trees in South American, Central America, and Africa, until the automobile enthusiasts of Ore gon sweat over It In the form of tires. Mr. Wuchter Impressed on those selling trucks the necessity of having compet ent men handle the trucks after they were sold to merchants and contrac torSj claiming that more than half of the truck and tire trouble has been due to incompetent drivers. The Braly-Du Bois Automobile com pany, local agents for the Franklin cars, will move to their new quarters at 33 North Nineteenth street about Septem ber 10, where they will handle a com plete line of Franklin cars. The new building is one of the best constructed automobile houses in the city, and will give the company ample space for dis playing their full line of machines. F OM ROUGH TRIP Phil H. Lyon and Party See Plenty of Deer Tracks, and Kill One Bear. F. T. Bolton, formerly superintendent of the repair department of the Port land Autompbile company, has been promoted to the position of manager in place of Rofs B. Cooper, resigned. Mr. Bolton has been in the employ of the Winton agents for a number of years, having seen factory service with the Winton people as well as being con nected with Salt Lake and Seattle branches. The Portland Automobile company have recently taken the agency for the Abbott-Detroit automobile and expect the first shipment to arrive in Portland the later part of this week. The Abbott factory la sending one of their machines, which has been named the "Bull-Dog" over a 100,000 mile en durance trp. The machine has covered more than 32,000 miles of its Journey, and is now on its way from Medford to Portland, having left Sacramento, Cal., July 37, carrying a banner from the governor of California to the president of the Portland Automobile club. It Is expected that the machine will ar rive In Portland Thursday or Friday, of this week. "What promises to he one of the fea tures of automobile building for, the season 1912." says Mel Johnson, man ager of the Howard Auto company, local agents for the Bulck and National cars, 'la the new inside control orlglnnted by the Bulck Motor company. In all cars built by this company during the sea son of 1912 the control, comprising the gear shaft lever and the emergency brake lever, will be enclosed In a panel In the right fore-door of the car. The' enclosure of these levers will remove them from sight outside the fore-door Run made between' Portland and Seattlo, cup presented by Chanslor & Lyon. and at the same time enclose them In such a-manner as to leave ample room for the driver with no Interference to his person by the levers." H. L, Keats, president of the Keats Auto company, left Thursday night for a trip to Seattle artd British Columbia on business connected with his firm. Mr. Koats will return to Portland the first of this week. It has been announced that Portland la to have a sample tire concern within the near future. Mr. IV. R. Stuart, for merly representative of the PaJge-IJe- trou Automohiie company, will open a branch at 86 Tenth street the latter part of this month. The concern will handle unguaranteed tires and say they have al ready signed contracts for the 1912 sup ply. While this class of tires are sold largely in the east It will be a new departure for the automobile owners in the northwest. FULLY EQUIPPED CARS PENNILESS DINER SELLS OLD BOOK FOR $10,000 Br the Interuitlnnal Km Service. k Paris, Sept. 2. The story is told of an Armenian who arrived here a few weeks ago and celebrated the event to such an extent that one evening he found his pockts completely emntv. All his money had been spent but he was hungry, and the only way was to go to a restaurant where had had many a good meal before. He ate a fine dinner but when It came to pay he acknowl edged to the restaurateur his complete lack or money. He offered, however, to sell a book, the only thing that re mained In his possession, to secure the price of the meal. The restaurant keep er finowea tne volume to an expert. It was a handsomely Illuminated, rare old work. The expert declared that It was worth $10,000. He made an offer then and there to purchase It at that price, to the great Joy of the Armenian, and paid the cost of the dinner at once. POLICY OF COMPANY "This Is essentially the year of the completely equipped, motor car.'' says Arnold Neate, .local agent for the Hud son Motor Car company. "Season after season It has been customary In the Industry to charge the buyer extra for tops, wind shields, magnetos, demount able rims, tire irons, etc., and the owner almost invariably bought these parts later to be put on his car. This meant that, buying them separately, he usually paid a pretty good price for them. This company has endeavored, in its 1912 line, to Drovlde every con venience on the car that any owner could reasonably desire, and to Include them all in the list price of the car. Buying things In the quantity we do, we can thus list the car much lower than where the owner must buy the extras separately. , "The policy of our company in this I Phil H. Lyon of Chanslor & Lyon, re turned the first of this week from a hunting trip in the wilds of southern Oregon. Mr. Lyon left here a little over two weeks ago, meeting H. P. Mc Coy, manager ' of the 8an Francisco branch of the Chanslor & Lyon Co., H. O. Harrison of the H. O. Harrison Co. of San Francisco, and a party of friends, with a guide, at Roseburg. Here, a Bulck truck carried he party 17 miles to Johnson. Harrison, who was on the front seat of the truck, noticed very soon', as did the rest of the party, that the driver was not conversant with his car, and so assumed the wheel, driving over the rough road. It was no easy matter for any car, as the road is such that an automobile must h,ave unusual clearance to negotiate it. From Johnson to Lark Mast, the trip was made in a horse-drawn stage. Lark Mast Is 67 miles from Roseburg. From Lark 'Mast the party packed on horseback over to and into the mountains 17 miles to the Tioga country. There was an abund ance of trout to be had, but the cotintry was too wild for good deer hunting, al though tracks were seen. The day be fore the party arrived, a mountaineer had seen three large efk within 200 yards of the camping grounds, hut the hunters did not get a glimpse of these animals. One bear was-killed and the skin will shortly arrive in the city to verify this fact to skeptical ones. There were also lots of cougar tracks, but these fierce creatures did not come out of their hiding. Much fun was had, one evening, with four mountaineers. After a few drinks of rare old whiskey 'with which the party treated them. these rangers be came "millionaires," and many funny stories were told. The party had one large tent In which they slept on beds of fir houghs. The nights were very rold, and sleeping bags were used. Mc Coy said yesterday: "This is a most beautiful country, wild and rugged, with Immense trees and dense underbrush. The atmosphere is so clear that from the tops of the mountains, It seems pos sible to see at least 60 miles. We fol lowed the stream over the mountains and greatly enjoyed eating the wild raspberries, blackberries and huckleber ries right from the bushes. We were four days going in and foun coming out, and although it was our intention when returning to Roseburg, to go but on an other trip, when wc had shaved the feel ing of the wild man left us and we de cided to return to civilisation.' The peo ple were very hospitable to us, feeding u on the best of food, and charging us but 26 cents apiece for a meal. They were certainly either not on to their Job. or else were not grafters. We saw some strange characters among the mountaineers. We met a party of camp ers. The men were away and when the women saw us, they fled, all but one, who sat down, as they were all dressed in overalls. We could not help giving tnem tne laugn. in all, it was a glo rious trip. particular is simply an Indication of the-trend of demand of the buying pub lic. The average American now wants his car complete when he gets it, with out the necessity or the uncertainty of future expense In fitting It up to suit him. We have simply satisfied his de mand by dressing up our cars with all desirable external equipment. In addi tion, of course, the car Itself has under gone a thorough process of refinement, from the bolt In the forward end of the frame to the tail lamp at the rear." If the law compelled every car owner to own and use a set of I Genuine Weed Anti-Skid Chain Grips Automobile accidents and fatalities would be reduced , ' to a minimum. t Weed Chains are sure grip won't slip wear twice as long as infringements and are sold by All': Reliable Jobbers and Dealers. v WEED CHAIN COMPANY Hughson & Merton PACIFIC COAST AGENTS 329 ANKENY STREET PORTLAND, ORE. WAR R-E M For 1 9 1 2 Will Arrive This Week BEFORE BUYING SEE THE WARREN LINE COUNTRY AGENTS WRITE FOR . INFORMATION Portland-Detroit Auto Co. J. E. kAXON Manager FOURTEENTH AND COUCH STREETS Phone A-2103, Marshall 1565 T NEATE & MCCARTHY, Inc. Main 6374, A-7577 694 Washington St, Cor, King ARCHER & WIGGIIMS COMPANY f , AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES WRIGHT & DITSON ATHLETIC GOODS FISHING TACKLE, GUNS AND AMMUNITION OAK CORNER SIXTH Auburn Motor Car Co. ROBT. SIMPSON, Mgr. Rnrnclrlo Sf ernaf Main 2674 A 7339 BALLOU & WRIGHT Largest Stock Automobile Accessories M & WTIRES MONOQRAM OILS 86 Sixth St., Portland, Or. Belmore, MacDougall, Moores Co. Auto Bodies, Wheels and General Repairing. QAJLAOB. COLUrXB nVESTaSXH AJFD ALBUM. BRALY-DU BOIS AUTO CO. MOTO FRANKLIN cars IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Phones A 3881, Main 4880 Seventh and Daivs Streets TIRES Vulcanizing St Retreading R. E. BL0DGETT, 510 Alder Si Main 7005 "It's All in the Tire' West Coast Supply Co. 31 to 33 North Seventh Samonatsatloaa by Appointment. UNITED AUTO sxanuBUTOBa ro oxxaov 534-536 Alder Street Main 4337 A-7171 MAXWELL SAMPSON TRUCKS COLUMBIA Motorcycles INDIAN AND EXCELSIOR BALLOU & WRIGHT, 86 SIXTH STREET APPERSON REO NORTHWEST AUTO CO. DISTRIBUTORS F. W. VOGLER, President Fifteenth and Alder Sts. Phonea Main 7179, A-4959 For DISTRIBUTORS California . Oregon, Washington, and Nevada AUTOMOBILES J. W. LEAVITT & CO, - 529-531 Washington Street Schacht Motor Car Co. Commercial and Pleasure Cars CORNER FIFTH AND HOYT STREETS mis, JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. NORTHWEST DISTRIBUTORS E. Morrison and 2d Sts. PhonesEast 3887, B-6125 H5f ACCESSORIES 1 Everything for the Comfort and Need of the AutomobillsL , ' a Largest VULCANIZING PLANT on the Pacific Coast Western Hardvyare and Auto Supply Co. Phone M, 8828, A-2016 . S. E. Cor. 7th and Pins f j. eivea regarding the agency fr J,' ' . i - 1 ' p 1 v ;7:.y. :' 'i'-:J-:'i- y.i Z-'iS? --"l f '''''y''':'i::'y--.rU- -v;, -