THE OREGON fcUNDAY JOURNAL, (PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, - NOVEMBER
1913.
EtPERTS ARE.NEEOEO
TO PROPOSE SYSTEM
OF ROADS FOR NATION
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,WeII Informed People Cpn
Vviriced It. Would Be Unwise
"' to "Proceed Without Advice,
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. Becent events foreshadow, in the near
.. COLUMBIA HIGHWAY WILL DESCEND TO RIVER LEVEL AT LATOURELLE ' :
LEAD TO ACCIDENTS
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Dealer Expresses Surprise
That More Mishaps- Do Not
" Occur From. This Cause.
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jfutbre, the creation of a national comls
isivn or experts 10 siuay ine wnuie buu
Ject of good roads in tills country, and
: to recommend the most effective basis
"on which the national government Can
ittks part in road building.
; Among the resolutions adopted by the
American road congress at Detroit was
4 one requestTns; congrress to authorise' the
Jpresldent of the United States "to ap
'point a commission from civil life.
fwrth a ' sufficient appropriation .to
make a thorougrh and exhaustive report
on and to recommend a system of fed
ral aid."
Highway t commissioners, engineers,
'legislators, and good roads men general-
; ly are becoming convinced that It would
Us unwlss for the government to com
mlt Itself to any road building plan on
a large scale without first availing it
self of the results of careful study by
such a commission. Any plan to be ef
fective must Involve a large expend!'
s tur of money, and many of the- as-
- pects of the subject are , so technical
' that H cannot properly be considered at
jTirst by a congressional committee.
. Expert Commission. -
The great national irrigation projects,
'the Bault Balnte Marie canal, the vast
river and harbor Improvements of the
'nation, and finally the Panama canal,
"alt called for special , expert commis
sions. How much greater the need If
' ths nation Is to build roads. On the
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wisdom of its plan ' will depend the
usefulness of Its roads. c
. Advocates of a national highway
system, Timr-'OTB maintained" "entirely
"by ths government, will regret that the
( Detroit resolution limited the a divi
nities of the proposed commission to se
curing "federal aid," but all will ap
prove of another resolution that was
adopted at ths same time. This stated
"that the American road congress
; favors ths establishment of a national
road system, and favors the construe
, tlon by the states, counties, and towns
' of - the lateral and connecting market
highways." i:
I Coaasettag KSads WHi ToUow. The route of the Propoed Columbia
. .... . ..... f tl tilrhwau fMm thn Miff oW, PhonH.
xnat is exactly tns plan wnicn tnsi ' -
KatlonI Highways association is work
lng for, and on which in all probability
ths proposed commission .will ultimate
ly decide. Given national trunk lines,
ithe states cannot afford to delay and
;wlll not delay Improving the Intercoun
ty roads that connect with them; the
counties cannot afford to Improve the
ilntertown roads that connect with the
- fetate-. systems, and the towns cannot
.afford not to improve the local' farm and
' market roads' that connect with the
county and stats systems.
I The cry of "Federal Aid for Farm
! Roads" sounds well, but federal aid on
, 1 a scale large enough to take care" of
a million or more miles of farm roads
. I obviously out of the question, and
If the farmers wait for results from it
vmost of them will "die in the mud." A
.system of 60,000 or100,000 miles of na--44JoneJ
highways, similar to that ad-
' vocated by the National Highways asso
ciation, will orlng good roads to the
jfarraers far more quickly.
DRIVERS GIVE LITTLE
f ATTENTION TO TIRES
Neglect Cause of Much Un
r' necessary Expense, Says
: Expert, '
4 ' "Wise automobile owners are already
lowly learning the great lesson that
only experience teaches and that is
. that to g lve as much attention to the
.care of their tires as they do to their
motors end other parts of the car, will
reward them by -ivlng their tires great
r milage and longer life," said C. H.
Mayer, manager of ths Portland serv-
jvIos branch of the United States Rub-
kber company of California," In speaking
f tires and tire troubles.
. "No part of the automobile-Is more
bused than the tires. Where one man
drivers carefully thinking of them and
'conserving their mileage a dozen
drivers heedlessly without considering
ths damage to both the tubes and Shoes
whlcn- is sure to follow.
' "When we consider the great care the
engine receives from the car owner and
the trouble he takes to" Insure proper
lubrication, cooling, adjustmenUand all
that contributes to its economical and
fficient operation; It Is remarkable how
Seldom one is found who will give the
tires on his car a real chance to make
the maximum miles.
r "The care of tires and their oonserva
;tlon Should be a vitally interesting sub
ject to every car owner, yet many seem
to think any effort by tire manufac
turers to tell them how to get more
, milage is unnecessary as well as un
called for.
' "The care of tires does not take much
time nor call for arduous work. Under
Inflation, neglect of outs, grease left on
casings, running in car tracks, speeding
around corners, breaking with needless
severity, driving with chains, especlHl
ly ' with broken or badly worn chains
and permitting , the rar to remain un
packed when in dead storage, al-
lowing wheels to remain out of align
ment, are the ordinary causes of tire
troubles.
"If the majqrlty of our customers
would spare their tires these hard
ships they would increase materially
their milage service."
ST. LOUIS HAS FIRST
BIG MOTOR FIIIUFRAI
Bt. Louis had Its first big motor funeral,-
when ths reinfiins "of Adolphus
Bunch, owner of soma of the best show
horses in the world. mnlfl.milllnn.U
; brewer and philanthropist, were carried
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flower-bedecked Dorrls truck. More
than 00 motor cars were in the cor
tege. 10 trucks being required to haul
ths many floral offerings to bs placed
n the gravs of Bt. Ixiuls first cltUen,
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cleer Rock to a grade along the river
Is to be changed, and will now descend
on the, Latourelle grada side Instead of
on the saucer shaped grade above
Rooster Rock.
When the engineers in charge of the
proposed route from Portland to Bonne
ville first looked the route over it was
thought; that a better grade could be
secured ''by descending to tli. Columbia
river from the cliff above Rooster Rock
than by going over the road noy being
used to get to Latourelle.
After several surveys of the different
routes,' Samuel C. Lancaster decided the
easy route down would be along the
present highway to a point a quarter
of a mile west of the little white school
house on top of the hill above Latourelle,
then along a graceful sweep west, tak
ing In the jnost northerly" point of
Thors Heights, then down the east side
of ths ridge to the river level, instead of
the west side as originally planned Tiy
those promoting the Columbia highway.
The new survey Is nearly- completed,
and the actual digging of gVade along
the hills will commence by the first of
December. The road from the top of the
ridge to the bottom at Latourelle Falls
will v be three -and one quarter miles
long and will be made on an easy 6 per
cent grade. By taking in Thor's Heights,
the most northerly point along the en
tire highway between Portland and
Multnomah Falls, the best view of the
Columbia can be had Just at the point
the road swings around In view of
Rooster Rock.
HIGHWAYS TO
BE CLEARLY MARKED
Experts Reach Portland From
South and Will Continue
Work,
At last the highways of Oregon are
to be Intelligently and consistently
marked by sign posters who have put
distance and direction 'boards at most
of the Important road Intersections of
the Pactflo coast states.
Yesterday afternoon, bespattered with
mud and brown as berries, Chester C
Lamb and F. A. Robinson arrived In
Portland with a White -truck, in which
they are driving through Oregon for
the purpose of placing Goodrich road
signs at every Important crossroads
throughout the state.
The road markers arrived from the
south and have finished marking the
Pacific highway from the California
line north through Ashland, Grants
Pass, Medford, Roseburg, Kugene, Al
bany, Salem, Oregon City and into Port
land. They will work from Portland as a
radius, and mark the highways between
here and Mount Hood, and between Port
land and the Coast
They will mark all the roads leading
out of Portland of any Importance. This
will Insure strangers visiting this sec
tion Intelligent information regarding
the dlroction in which they want to
travel. The Goodrich signs now cover
the eastern states like a network, and
are highly spoken of by all tourists who
have motored where the Goodrich signs
arc located.
PORTLAND
BRANCH
IS
PERMANENTLY LOCATED
Temporary Location Occupied
by Important Agency to Be
Replaced Soon,
There have been several rumors along
automobile row during the past few
weeks to the effect that the Piercs
Arrow people were to discontinue their
Portland branch. Mr. Banta, the local
manager, when seen on this subject yes
terday, gave out the following state
ment, denying emphatically all rumors:
"Regarding the report In circulation
to the effect that it is the Intention of
the Plerce-Arrow company to dlscon-
"It's a wonder to me, said II.
Curtis of the Apperson branch in this
pity, who has Just moved into a. new
location at Twenty-third and Washing
ton street, formerly occupied by ths
Oregon Motor Car company, "that mors
accidents do not result from-high pow
ered . motor, cars In the hands, of ' the
novics.;' y -'iX '.';?'
' "We are doing all we can to keep
down the usual Sunday morning fatality
list, but as we do not sell all the au
tomobiles In this territory, ws can
only do our little best with ' our 'own
customers. . Our plan, while It Is to
the best Interests of our clients,. Is
after all really a selfish onj. ,
rres reasons Offered. j'
"Ths first thing we do when we sell
a man a "Jack :.abbit," whether he Is
an vnivlfknnri mntftrtKt ' nf vri la Ia
convey to him as diplomatically as pos
sible,. the fact that everybody has some
thing, to loam about . a new car1 and
we urge every ouyer to iaao aavaniags
of our offer to give three two hour
lessons, on successive days with every
car sold.' ' '-''':..
'This doesn't mean putting the own
er back of the wheel and sending the
office boy or stenographer out with
him to tell him the gear shifts and,
when to throw out the clutch. Not by a
long shot. . It means sending an ex
perienced mechanic, one who knows the
car and la able to tell others what he
knows, for a two hour session.
Mechanism Is Zzplalaed.'
"Instructions as to how to handle the
car are first given, and after the owner
has become sufficiently familiar with
ordinary driving, (usually In the first
lesson) the mechanical man opens the
hood, takes up the floor board and tells
the owner In plain English something .
about the vital insides of the car and
how they should be treated. Believe
me, it helps.
"The owner knows what he is do
ing and why, right from the start. He;
Is vastly less apt to get Into difficul
ties of his own making andheiiistTnct
ly takes bettor care of his car. ' The
result is that our. owners have 'scarcely
any trouble whatever. We always tell
a customer that when we sell him a
car our responsibility only begins; that
we look after him and take oare of
him as long as he owns his car. We
do, too, and gladly. Apperson construc
tion and our own first hand instructions
make any service other than keeping
our customers' cars looking spick and
span , and filled up with gasoline, wa- '
ter and oil almost unknown."
Top View of Rooster Rock and resurvey of road along creBt of bluff
which caiv be seen Just to right of center of Illustration.
Bottom Mafrehowlng route of Columbia highway through Multnomah
county. .
tlnue their Portland selling connection,
known as the Plerce-Arrow Bales com
pany, I beg to submit the following:
"On Monday and Tuesday of this week
Charles CUffon, treasurer and general
manager of the Plerce-Arrow Motor Car
company of Buffalo, N. Y., accompanied
by W. F, Culberson, president of the
Plerce-Arrow Pacific Sales company,
Inc., San Francisco, Cal., visited Port
land. Mr. Clifton, as Is his custom, was
making a semi-annual tour, 'visiting all
of the selling .connections on the Paciflo
coast those particularly Jn which they
hold the controlling interest. Doubtless
the source responsible for the circula
tion of this erroneous statement gath
ered from this fact that they were here
for the purpose of closing this branch.
Quite to the contrary, however. Is the
fact, as Mr. Clifton's viMt determined
definitely the question of a subsequent
move from our present temporary quar
ters to a permanent home one afford-
:,A -man with nothing to-. Ipse an af
ford to take chancss. . -,.s ,
lng greater convenience and enlarged fa
cilities for the handling of our Portlapd
business, and the local management was
Instructed to anticipate this move at the
earliest date possible. -
"In discussing the local situation.
both Mr. Clifton and Mr. Culberson were
of -one mind, as to the Importance of ;
this market, and as a result it is not j
only their declared purpose to remain-,
permanently in this field, but to move t
at the earliest opportunity to a per ma- ,
nent and more suitable location, bellev-'
lng that both the present and future 1
of Portland Justifies such a move on j
their part. .. i
"The Plerce-Arrow Portland organl-1
zation is directly under factory super-
vision, and their well known high grade
policies of doing business - will be re-i
fleeted in our . dealings with the Port
land public."
"THREE WICKS"
FOR A NiCKELTTVVd $OXAR SIDE LAMPS
(black and nickel), $8. ONE SOLAR TAIL LAMP, $3.75
Archer and Wiggins
OAK STREET, CORNER SIXTH
. AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES SPORTING GOODS
Did you ever meet a self-made man
who was ashamed of his Job7 i
PENNSYLVANIA BOOSTS -ABOUT
80,000 AUTOS
Pennsylvania's registration of motor
cars for 1913 has passed the- 79.000
mark and It Is possible that the total
for the year may reach 80,00 0. The
registration In this state has been grow
ing by leaps and bounds and the regis
tration of 25.2,00 In 1908 Is In striking
contrast to the figure for 1913. Last
year's registration was 69.365. The In
come registrations exceeds $800,000 for
the year. . '
FLASHLIGHTS!
Wireless Supplies
aiectnc Toys
Electric Heating and
Cooking Appliances:''-' -STUBBS
ELECTKiC C&
' 6TH AT PINE .
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The Imp Cyclecar, the machine thousands of people on
the Pacific coast have waited to see before purchasing
an automobile or motorcycle.
See This New Speed Marvek
Now on display at our salesroom. A complete automo
bile that will travel 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline over
all conditions of. roads.
Price in Portland $4SO
. Complete. '. i' V"
... " . . " . j , "s . , - . ,
, Berger Cyclecar & Supply jCo.
09 Washingion St. :...aiiPortlandrv6r.t.
Phone Main 6922.
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AUTOMOBILES
EBB
TRUCKS
C I R JP- "Tk! Distributors for Oregon and South. Wash
lso. Portland Agency, 615-617 Wash. St.
MOTOR LUBRICATION SPECIALISTS
We-Distribute ' ' :
MONOGRAM AND MONARCH DIAMOND OILS
AND GREASES FOR ALL PURPOSE
BALL0U & WRIGHT, WaT.
'.. i Phones Marshall 5860, A-6638
NORTHWEST. AUTQ CO.
Factory Distributors of
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BROADWAY AT COUCH STREET -
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r , ,y.;rtt ,;;r.VAUTOMOBtE''ANp SHOP SUPPLIES ; . ' 1
Spark Plugs ; A TOOLS Brake-Lining .
Tool and Supply Co.
74 Slxtb snd 911 Osk Its. '
.i ; Phonss Msln 1689, less'
Vulcanizing 4 Betreadinl B.E.BLO0CETT.awx "i
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