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THE OREGON, SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNINO, , OCTOBER , S3, MM. . EBSmoll: II 1 1 I i ii 'Tn!i"i tmir'Vr.i't.1 it -.; i ... 1,1,1.1 i I... i i 1 1 '' i !. m.i i .i i ii I. n i r r0 u ii 1 1 ' ' ii.i . . I ii iii I. hi i ii i., i in Mil, . ;i ., ' j i. . . . '..,.,. " . '.Vtu-.- t I " ' '.V, v 1 i , , y .. - ' . CALIFORi!A IN LAST 3 YEARS JOTAL 76,183 Interesting Figures Compiled Show increase of 29 1-2 ' PerXent.in Year's' Business . RuDS ROAD TO LAKE TAHOE IN GOOD SHAPE Necessity, for Barging Is Done Away With; Some of Scen ery Is Superb, , ' , ": Several : weeks ago . The . Journal printed a story of Crater Lake and vi cinity a seen by Claud McOee ot Ban Franctsro, who visited the lake on his return trip from Portland to San Fran cisco after breaking the road trip be tween the two pacific coast cHles by making the run In .41 . hour ana so minutes, i , s , 1 . ' " Immediately upon the arrival of Mr. McOee la San Francisco, be atarted on a trip to Lake Tahoe In the mountain of California which la also considered one of the beauties of the Pacific, coast In writing friend In Portland about the trip, McOee stated that while he was a Callfornian tie had to acknowledge that Crater Lake, after all, was the most wonderful sight he had seen on the Pa cific coast Following Is Mr, McQeea story of his latest trip to the mountains of California; J ..-'"',' Dreamt Come True. . ; '' "The dreams of the motorist who Is familiar with the highways in the vi cinity of Lake Tahoe, California, have come true, and it is now possible to make the trip to Tahoe via Sacramento, Auburn, Colfax. Emigrant Gap, Truckee and Tahoe Tavern and return via Tallac, M eyers, Rlverton, Placervllle, i Folaom and Sacramento without the necessity of barging from Tahoe Tavern to Tallac, according to a pathfinding party consist ing of representatives of the Ean Fran cisco and Oakland press, ' and . Fred Cross and Claud MoQee 4f the Howard Automobile company, who made ' the round trip last week In one of the small Buick toumlng cars, la two days and a half.., ' ,..;S-:V' "In discussing the trip the automobile men, who are very familiar with road conditions of the state, having driven their cars to a winning finish In' every contest held between Ban Francisco and Tahoe, as well as winning for the last two years the Tahoe Tavern silver trophy offered as a prise to the first car to reach Tahoe Tavern via Truckee Pass, have the following to say: ..v - r , Trip on gtate Boad, -, . . .. The route we followed runs through Oakland, Hay wards, Llvermore, Stock ton, Sacramento, Auburn, Colfax, Emi grant Gap and Truckee to Tahoe Tavern and return via the new road which tha state la building on tha west side of tha lake to Tallac; from which place Piacer vlile road la followed through Meyers Station, ' Rlverton, Placervllle,- Folsom and back to the main road at Bacra- mentor . . - - . - v., "Both the Emigrant Gap and Placer villa roads .era well known and well marked, and the work which has been done on them la the last few years baa made them very much better than the average mountain road. ,. Tha connecting link between Tahoe Tavern and Tallac, however, is practically unknown. In fact ourcar waa one of tha first machines to travel over it J "With the exception of several short stretches, which are not yet completed. tne road is up to tha average and with the large craw of men tha state has working on these places at present they should be In good shape by the time the roads over tha summit open for travel next spring. ., r,: moaA AU Interesting. 7V:';: "Every foot of the tHi miles separat ing the Tavern from Tallao is Interest ing. The finest scenery, however, la to be found where tha new road rounds Emerald bay.. This part of the road, which is from 600 to 1000 feet above the water. Is for tha most part blasted along the fac of a aolld granite cliff, and In many places one gets an absolute ly, unobstructed view of both Emerald bay and the lake.' ..-. .t.-'.y "At the south side of Emerald bay tha road climbs to the top of a bog back, and one has a view of Cascade lake 600 feet below on tha left: of Em erald bay on tha right and of lake Tahoe, spreading out directly In front with tha rugged mountains on tha Nevada aid of the lake a a back ground. . . . "We made tha round trip of approxi mately too miles in two and one half days. The average owner, who expects to enjoy the trip, ahould figure on mak ing it in five days." rvt::.;.i.-, - ,.... SEATTLE FIRM IS TO J HANDLE POPULAR CAR Captain W. H. Gray, who looks after U that Fred Vogler overlooks for the Northwest Auto company, recently re ceived a telegram from Seattle to the effect that th Harmon Motor Car com pany bad signed a contract , with Mr. vogler to handle Losier cars for Seat tle and the vicinity. The Harmon Motor Car company is well known In the Puget pound city for its progresslveness,' and they expect to do a large business In Loziers, especially since the announce ment of the cheaper four cylinder car. SPLITDORF SPECIALISTS MAGNETOS COILS PARTS Expert Magneto Man Direct From Factory Magnet ' : Recharged f UIIITED AUTO CO. " Main 4337, A-7171 .'' Ctbt Equipped for Service 522-28 ALDER ST. ' ' 1 HG OF, MAY BE TACKLED BY IE Removal of Signs of Wear Are Not So Difficult as Might Be Supposed. ?' Beauty may ba only akin deep, but there may ba Quite a lot of beauty In a skin of paint It goes without saying that there ara few things that depreciate the' value of a car to a greater extent than ' does the condition of tha paint work.' In the marketing of used cars In particular, appearance is, almost lit orally, tha whole thing, as nearly every one who has attempted to dispose of oars taken in trade knows, a To nmsn a oar from. tha rough, Just as H comes irom tne snop, is not an easy jod, ana though It should not be attempted probably never will have to be attempted by tha average garage or repair man or dealer, ref inlsmng a car that has been In use for a year or ao and shows signs of some of the knocks It haa re ceived la not as difficult as' might be supposed. It is a Job, in fact, that may be tackled by almost any one who' has the necessary room for tha work. ' Ac cording to an expert who has made plain the method in tha Carriage Monthly, the work amounts to little more than a coat or two ot color and a coat, of varnish. . The first step, of course, is to touch up any bare or fractured spots,-and for thia nuroose a little red lead "saddened down" with a good, strong lampblack and limbered up with soma raw linseed oil Is tha proper thing.' After the frac tured spots have been scraped and sand papered out and the debris brushed away, the lead and lampblack should be applied with a small, well-pointed soft bristle brush. The whole of the car should be gone over In this way, getting all the bare spots under a coat of "touch-up" color. . t ' Xemove Dirt rirst, ' s " The chassis should be served In the same way.' areaBe and road dirt accum ulations .first ' bavin . been removed, using a softening material composed of one part crude oil and three parts tur pentine for the purpose. Apply this ma terial with a swab of soft cloth and let It stand long enough several hours, or all day, if necessary for the accumula tions to soften, when they may be re moved with old burlap or some other coarse fabric. - The same oil-turpentine EFINfSH CAR AM REPAIR MAN mixture should ba applied to tha body wherever oil or grease spots appear, v There are .two way a open to the painter for preparing the body surface for color.. One way, and the very best way, la to rub down with water and pulverised pumice , stone. This takes everything off the surface that doesn't belong there, and, Incidentally, fits It to receive the color, v Tha second and cheaper method consists In aaudpaportng the surface down with No. 0 or No, paper, the coarseness of the paper de termining the choice. Before follow ing either of these Ways out, however ell - surface defects, are to . b puttied with hard drying putty, and allowed 24 hours . In ' Which to dry, v Face thette putty ' spots down with rubbing ' brick dipped In pure turpentine In the event ot sandpapering the body, and with rubbing stoiie dipped in water In cas the sur face la rubbed with water and pumice stone flour. ,- , Possibly the old paint on certain parts ! ,, tH', B. -.v. , .. ...... ; . ,,i ; j... I ,, : :,,Vi'l t' - J ' 'I Top, at left-Claud McGee and party Bottom, at left On Auburn, Emigrant of the car body, noUbly thosa parts sub ject to acute vibration or violent strains, show ; a series of force 'checks 'which, while not' deep, are sufficiently ao to get In the way, like a sore thumb, under the one coat of varnish practice. To put these well out of sight,' temporarily, at least, break up some hard putty In tur pentine to a consistency to work freely from a i inch half elastio scraping knife, and face up the parta referred to. In surfacing down this putty glass dip a block of rubbing stone, cut to a conven ient slse. In turpentine. Avoid using water for such work on account of the moisture jikely to find Its way Into the crevices. This moistura - during : the process Of evaporating servea to break the fissures into wider and deeper cheeks, making their last state ' worse than tha Hrattf K ; Tv..'. Having thus finished stopping up the fractures and fissures, and making the surface like new, with : the necessary smoothness provided for,; the next step is the application ot the color.. In this matter1 avoid,' If possible, the use of black or exeremely dark colors, Cue h as the very dark blues or gresns. These colors naturally exaggerate surface in equalities, and for finest display i re quire specially thorough surfacing work. Medium deep greens and blues, and light blues, with any of the beautiful browns, along with deep, rich reds, including a number of the lead lakes, are colors particularly adapted for color, and one coatvarnlsh' work..v ,v Coat of Via Colo 'KrsC-l V. Scarcely any of these colore, however, will furnish the requisite color density and intensity on one coat. Therefore, apply one coat of flat color and .follow with. one coat ot varnish color, or one coat of glasing color, as It is termed, when using such semitransparent' pig ments aa ultramarine blue, carmine, and any one of the lakes. -:?; - In making up a varnish color, or glase color, for one coat work,' use aa a rule, two ouncea of color to one pound of var nish, first thinning the color with tur pentine to a cream-like consistency, and then gradually stirring In the varnish. Apply the varnish color, or the glase color, freely-, to the surface, using for this work a flat, chisel pointed, badger hair brush, one email brush for wiping up and running edges and one t or 2 Inch width brush. As this is to be a one-coat Job extra care must be taken to have a solid, uniform coat In place. The day following the application of the varnish color or glase coat, go over the surface with a H4 inch thick block of felt saturated with water, and dipped lightly in No 00 pulverised pumice stone. 'Finish off with a light water Lrub, and ..confine the rubbing ' procets to aimply "kuunr the luster, and clean ing off minor surface blemishes. Run on the "striping lines, if any,' and then in due time apply a heavy coat of the best finishing Varnish obtainable for use directly upon, the flat color or the Var nish COlOr COat ' v' iV';,,1- :.y - In. the meantime, bring the chaseia along rn practically the same way, put ting on In varnishing all the material the surface will carry, this being the saving factor in the matter of appear ance, In all one coat Varnish work. Lick over the fenders, and guards, and radi ator," with something to match them up with the car in general. Brighten up the braaswork, if any, and when the ear is assembled give it a close inspection, and the proper touching up to insure a well-balanced finish throughout . While a Job of this kind is a comparatively cheap one, and offers no extravagant profits, it is worth while doing well up to the limit of the price received. , - White Slaver In Prison. ' Loa Angeles, Cat., "Oct. 16. Charles It Duvell was sentenced to serve four years at San Quentin for white slavery, It being proved that he forced Gladys Allen, at the. muscle of a revolver, to enter a life of shame. on neyr road overlooking Emerald Gap, road near Cisco. ' At rightEmerald Bay, from new road. PORTLAND DECLARED iTOWCr'AUTOPlE" r t ' , , Notwithstanding Rainy Season f but Few Closed'Cars'Seen 'if In This City, One would have thought that all the various phases of an , automobile had been discussed over and ' over again at full length, by now. We have heard cost and maintenance talked to ' death, streamline effects, eloctrlo lighting and starting, weight beauty, and so' on and so forth, but it has remained for Cap tain Gray, the man with the engaging smile, to strike a phase as interesting as it is ref reahlngly new. -. . . Captain blurted out the other day, in the midst of a general shatter on cars, something' that was at first 'entirely Inaudible, A "Say that again, "k Captain, there might be something InteresUng in what you say if you'll let us hear it" wak ' the comment from one of '., his bosom friends, land 'Captain came out very elowly and, for him, very solemnly with the remark; "I have never seen a city where there is so little automobile pride among the motorists as in Port land." 5 j ;-;'-; ii. '':'.-.'' . Just at first people did not gather quite what he was driving at but finally NOBBY rr TREAD ' Jvu tuc safe as it might be expense as low as Anrm balLou & . uvmai . aw 11 -a NORTHWEST AUTO CO. , Factory, Distributors of , -CROADWAY AT Main CC37 - ' . , Bay. ? At right On new- road at west it dawned on them that after all; he had Struck something which really did af fect the city's automobile altuattaa,.. i- There is novelty of this slse Jn 'Amer ica today he Baldjitvith "o many open ears and. ao. few closed care. . People coming here in the winter are surprised beyond speech almost: they Invariably turn round and ask:,. 'But where are all your covered cars, your . limousines, coupes and such like?' "Alas, we have no answer for them tn the shape of an answer that could b called in the least satisfactory, a. av..t -v : '' - "We have the rain we have mora rain in the winter-mon the than nine cities out of 10, so that we should really oc cupy a leading place among cities pos sessing closed : ears, ' Instead 'of being placed away down at the very bottom of the llSte'i'-:-, WUji.s " . "With an open car. no matter what one may do in the way of wind shields, wind curtains and auch like, it is im. possible to keep, everything, and every body dry and comfortable: WJiat Is more, there Is a general air of slop'pl ness, Untidiness and discomfort ; about an open motor car in the wet weather whloh ill accords,- for instance, with a Visit to the theatre; to a dance, to an evening "at home", or some such; func tion. ';; . 'ri -,:- -4 't S: ;V 'ivi; h s ; "The appearance of such -a cai when compared with a limousine, will explain what I mean when I say : that Portland motorists have no sense of pride. With tha limousine, everything is enclosed against wind, rain, storm . and cold. There is a general atmosphere of clean liness and at-homenesa about an vh closed car that is absolutely lacking In the touring type of an automobile. -i "If any one doesn't believe me, let . CHAITJ uauig uicsc iwy ; , jr arj nor is your t it ought to wright wauvvajr COUCH STREET ' are end of .Emerald Bay--,!;. t , him watch at . the theatre some night and -notice tha difference between the arrival of the - limousine an of - the open car and the different appearance of those who come in the two cara Then you'll-understand whaf I mean by talk ing about automobile pride." , . , . .i , , ' i "; 1-,y - For' many years North Carolina hss been the f greatest ; producer . of rnla among the states. ' , "FORlNSTANGE:w ' A COOD.RAINCOArOR pVERCOAT -TO KEEP YOU DRY DURING THE WINTER Archer and Wioblnp "OAK STREET, CORNER SIXTH ' ' ; Automobile Supplies- X 1IDS0BI' AUTOMOBILES; RIJCKS C I v';D"liT X- Distributors for Oregon and South. - Wash. e aW DQS3 QZ VOealso. Portland Agency, 615-617 Wash. St IJOTOR LUBRlCATIttN SPECIALISTS MONOGRAM AND MONARCH DIAMOND OILS AND GREASES , FOR ALL PURPOSES BALL0U & WRIGHT, atScvst- , Phones Marshall BS60, A-0638 'if- -1 The Oar With The Vpwerfnl Motor 4-48 X. ' tl950 4-65 H. ' $3380 - STnUy Equipped With O.H . starting and Lighting Bystam , Am(OV MOTOaAB CO., : 31 Uorth. 19th Mear -Washlngtoa. Fhoaesl Main 4880, A-3881. i AUTOMOBILE AND SHOP SUPPLIES . . , , 5park PIu-s TOOLS . ; Drake-Lininj MOTORCYCLES AND ACCESSORIES ' . . ' . " Prcer "Tool" and 'Supply Co. i 74 flith and 911 Oak Sts. t-lmA pr.j,.-'-4 p r ft f W. C. Garbe and E. iWinchell, ' of the " Orgon Motor Car company; local dis tributors of the Studebaker, are much elated over a recent report from Call-, fjornla shewing that the number of 8tu- t debaker cars In use far outstrips all au tomobiles In Its price class, and far out strips all makes of cars except one. 1 C. N. Weaver, general manager of the Studebakftr Corporations' San Francisco branch, ha just completed a list of all the automobiles registered In California ' during the last three years ending Sep-: teinber 1, 1918. which date Is now con sidered the end of each automobile , sea- son. i ' " ' 7 These figures which show tha Im mense Increase of ! per cent In the . automobile business this year over last , in the state of California, are abso lutely correct, according to Mr. Garbe, ss they were teken from" the secretary ; of state's office at Sacramento. One out of every seven automobiles irt tha state, a Studabaker, is the wonderful' showing f this popular car , in Callfor- v nia. The car has also made a wonder ful showing In Oregan. havln cr -out of every nine registered In thl V; state,- according to figures furnished by Mr Brown manacer 'of ' the Northwest' distributing branch of; the Studebaker Corporation located an' thin city. A list ol all xna auiomooues rc- istered In California covering a period of three years will be of Intense Interest to the Oregon automobile world, and is given herewith showing tha Studebaker people with ssoi, ana toiai ot o,ioo: Abbott-Detroit J6 A lOO a a i 1.84-1 American ;;,..; Apperson .. , 338 Maxwell 1.9S . Mercery...... 16s - Mets ........ 88 Michigan k.,.J 20 , MttcheU ..i..- 1.639 Moline ...... U i Moon ....... 1J0, National 23 , Oakland ,'V. -.1,181; V' Oldainoblle n. 469 ' Overland i ... ,305 :. . Packard '.v.. r06I Paige-Detroit - 810 -Pathfinder i,. . M ; . Peerless v....i 35a , Plerce-Arrow v 810 V: Pope-Hartford 784 v Premier .. 165 , Pullman ;...-'.' ID Auburn ..... . ." 871 Autocar i.... h. 8ri Brush, .;.. v Buick .4...." 4.9V Cadillac ... 1,91.1 Chalmera , S.366, Chase :..,..r,s J; Cole ........ -'533 Cuttlnv 56 Detrolter .... 13 Duro .......181 Dornis 14 Elmora : 807 Everett ........ 85K VttAmrmX ' ' 168 Rambler .... 29 Flat .v..V.. :'V-S8 R. C H. 28a, Vireatona. .i. 127 Regal 1,117,:,. Ford ...,,..,,3J tteo ......... Franklin .... . 711 Simplex Oarford mm :' 14 Speedwell- Haynes ,,wm ? 661 Stanley ..... Hudson ... k.1 1,350 Stearns ..... 'iii:1 107 151 804 408 74 " is; 48 ,807 ' HupmoDiie -. o.-u ........ Henderson a-DSyton... . . Imperial .... , l'H International '300: Interstata .';A"5. 4 Stuta 8. O. V. ... .f Studebaker , . Thomas. ..v.. Jackson, 839 24T Mussel , . 8461 Tourist 289 Kif -1 ..J 128W.-D. . . ...... .', 24 jvitne $1 Velle 145 na'vir w 1 n i Krlt ISS WestcOtt ... ,,10 Locomobile .. 1 746 White . . . t -' B24' Losler , J 262 Winton - . .,,, Little .i...i, . 79 Mis, Gas..... 8,629 Marathon It.-?- 66'Electrlo ..... 1,411 Marion ...i..'.-J4 , V:' Harmon .... 1261 Total .4... "6,113 J -Sporting Goode V 1 I r rheums Mala leca, a. leea ""CTT-9 forth 34th, r Coach' 't V 1