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THE v OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING.' JUNE- 21. 1914. ROS E CITY SPEDVAY ED 10 INVITE I TO DECLAR COUPLE'S WAN DERI NGSHAVE TAKEN THEM TO MANY LANDS AH DRIVERS Several " Race Officials Flat Footedly Refuse to Handle Events Unless Dust Is Laid - , By DoughiM Shelor. Is it coneistent with the "safety xirst" movement to attempt to hold automobile races on the Rose City speedway until some oonittve orovlslon hB been tnad jtJ protect the driver from the terrible dust? The ropffnuui of opinion among: the ertclala who participated In the han dling of the rare lat Haturday and Sunday, la that to hold races on the trark lu its present condition is to Invite death to the drivers. . i i i n.wnn If i.Trili ' ill Ti ir.f wwmmmr MOTORISTS SHOULD : MASTER DETAILS OF THEIR OVN AUTOS By So Doing Much Time and ; Money Can Be Saved In Ordering Parts, Supplies. Let all automobtlists who think they have done "some tourings give their attention to & few of the adventures 01 Several of them came out flat foot-1 Mr. and Mrs. Will G. Creasy, which. d with the statement that they would are narrated below. They are vouched reiuse to participate in any future I for by everyone who knows tne vrea- event until proper precautions had I avn. both on the ataee and off. been taken to lay the dust while the The Cressys. it seems, are in the cere are racing. I habit of going on tours every summer. The men who have the management I Durina- these wanderings, they have of the track at the present time were I three times Crossed the American con- proimc in their assurance that the tlnent, the entire length of the Faciric hloride of lime solution with which coast, and through Mexico and Canada, the track was supposed to have been Incidentally and by the way they have saturated prior to the race last week 1 toured extensively In France, iiouana. would lay the dust. 1 Belgium. Germany, England, Scotland, This, however, was a complete fall- I Wales and Ireland. This energetic Mr. and; Mrs. Will G. Cressy In t&eir machine. during the Panama ure irom both a driver s and a spec tator's standpoint. Even the motor cycles' that appeared in the first race (Saturday raised so much dust that it was a dangerous undertaking, for the machines to attempt to pass one an. Cther. pair have' also spent two summers in the Hawaiian islands, fnuippinea, China and Japan. Now the envious reader is convinced that all touring efforts seem reeoie with the wonderful showing made by the Cressys. And only the bare facts Kred Merrill, wlo has the track have been given, without embellish- under lease, has stated that it wa I ment Here are a couple of proved his intention to put crude oil on the feats accomplished by Mr. Cressy. in track. If several applications of oil hit, various cars; they're something to are properly distributed over the I b croud of. During last summer he course-and allowed to settle it should I drove his car over 16.000 miles with a In a great measure prevent much of I total repair Till of thirty cents. How .the disagreeable dust that was pres- does that sound to some of the rest of pheum Theater, Exposition. The Cressys are members of the Touring club of America: the Automo bile Association, of England; the Mo tor Union, of England; the Touring club, of France; the Touring club, of Italy; th Hawaiian Automobile Asso ciation; and honorary members of 84 automobile clubs of America The best way to find out what the general motorist does not know about his automobile and what he should know to save himself time, expense and trouble Is to work for a time as a sales man in the auto supply house, such as Ballou & Wright's, for example. ' Apparently the average - motorist knows that his machine is .- equipped with tires, spark plugs, engines and what 'not, but exact knowledge as to their make and sire is something he lacks. - And a little knowledge m this con nection would save much trouble and real money as well. A prominent man of this city tele- ohoned to a garage from out in the country and said his spark plugs were! DroKen ana ne wanted some more i wni mnu i brought out immediately. He gave the I "How in thunder do I know, nam of his car which : used seven eighths plugs. The garage sent out a man In an automobile and after a trip of IK mile reached the stalled motor tat. .Then It was discovered that the auto was an old model and needed one half Inch plugs Instead. ; Another trip was necessary- to secure the proper plugs Just four of themand the mo torist waa compelled to pay for two trips and $7.50 extra for the man's time. Had he known what kind of plugs he needed In the first place he would have saved the bigger part of a 120 MIL Another ctttsen of Portland suffered a tire blowout while motoring with his family In the country. Over long dis tance he said he wanted quick detach able "tires, a name he had seen once when casually looking over his ma chine.- 'What he really needed was straight aide Dunlops, and he paid $10.50 extra because he had not learned that there are several kinds of tires. and they don t all fit the same rim. But not only do automobile owners cause themselves much trouble-and ex pense because they fail to note down things they should know but cost sup ply store and garage employes much extra time and worry. A good illustration of this occurred recently at a big supply store. A man walked into the place, waited a couple of minutes, grew red in the face from anger and as a clerk approached, he shouted: "Why can't T get waited onT "You can. What do you needT" "A lamp bottom." My machine la outside there, go look." : Tee,- replied the clerk. -That's why you don't ret waited on. All the clerks are outside trying; to find out what you people who don't know, really need." And that Is no fairy story. It hap pens every day. and a dosea times a day. It happens In the country. In the eitT anrwhere. And when mistakes are mads because the motorist falls to rive the supply man the proper meas arements and make of parts needed he blames the supply man and never sees where he Is responsible. Information fox the Motorist, But some motorists, taught by ex pensive experience are learning, xney carry a note book In which Is noted down things they should know and the precaution Is a money saver. Here are a few things the pages of the note book should have answers to. The else of tires on both front and back wheels: whether they are quick detachable, clinchers, or straight side Dunlops; name and sise of rims; sise of spark plugs and name; name of lighting system; voltage of bulbs, can dle; power and whether Ediswan, can dlebra. or miniature base, single or double contact; name and type of mag neto, whether dual or Independent; name of speedometer and model; width. thickness and length of brake lining; size and number of prestollte whether it is an A. B. or E. and the name and finish of lamps. In these things half knowledge Is almost as bad as no knowledge, while full Information means dollars saved time saved, and tempers conserved for real occasions. cnt at the last meet. But until this Is done, the use of the track for auto mobile races should be prohibited. W. J. Clemens, president of the Port land Automobile club, received a tele gram Thursday from E. Maross, who lu business manager for Bob Burman, asking that a race meet be arranged for In Portland Immediately after the races at Tacoma July 4 and B. us? That same fall he drove from Lake Tahoe. California, into Chicago without a puncture or a blowout. And yet people say the days of miracles are over. If any reader or tnis column is disposed to question these perform ances he may save himself the trouble because they are known facts to hund reds of reliable witnesses. The Cresays have had many mishaps Mr. Clemens, or those who will have I but never a serious accident to them- the meet In charge, should first as certain If the track is to be put into rendition before another series of races is attempted, and by this pre caution poHslbly nave such an acci dent as that In which Edwards and his 'mechanician were both nearly killed during the laHt meet. The races themselves were the best ever hold In Portland, and all that the race loving public of this commu rlty could aak. Especially were the motorcycle races very closely contested- and Interesting. Should the track be put In proper condition. Portland would turn out lnrge crowds to wit ness races such an were held In Port land last Saturday and Sunday, but certainly not while they have to put mm with the discomfort they did last week. WASHINGTON MAY BE LINCOLN HIGHWAY President 1 Wilson Impressed Arguments in Favor of National Capital, by President Wilson probably will In dorse the movement to have the route of the proposed Lincoln highway pass through Washington. Impressed by ar guments put up to him by a Joint dele gation of business men from that city and Ualtimore, he Instructed his visit ors, at the close of his talk with them. to prepare a letter to the Lincoln High way, association, which he might de ride to sign, unking that the route be changed so as to include Washington, As the proposed highway is a pri vate enterprise the government has no direct Influence over the selection of the route. The delegation urged that t' ? route be diverted so as to run from 1 tiiladelphla, through Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington, and thence by way of the Ridgevllle road to Fred erick, Md., and thence to Gettysburg. where the main route would be picked up. It was pointed out to the president that no actual -construction would be needed in making the change of route. Inasmuch as the road commissions of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland have practically completed a new and continuous highway passing through all points on the newly suggested route. All that would be required would be for the Lincoln Highway as sociatlon ' to designate these roads as portions of the memorial roadway. selves, to members of the parties, or to pedestrians. Here are some of the true stories of their adventures which their friends are fond of telling. In Nebraska, a bridge broke down under them, landing them, safe and sound. In the river below. Four cow boys, with lariats, assisted them in regaining the banks of the river. During a fog, following a cyclone, they crashed into a fallen tree, but escaped Injury, and damaged the car but slightly Owing to the railroad strikes, and inability to secure new tires, they rolled into Cork, Ireland, one night with three flat tires, but engines run ning perfectly. For three hours they drove across a portion of Death Valley with the ther mometer at 180 degrees; during this three hours they boiled away seven psilfuls of water in the radiator. They had to tear up strips of cloth and wrap the steering wheel as the metal was so hot they could not touch it. In Southern California and Arizona tl-ey drove for five days without see ing a white person. On this trip they carried 60 extra gallons or gasoline and ten gallons of water. In Japan they drove for days on roads four feet wide. In China they found the city streets In Canton only four feet wide, with six story build ings on each side, and had. to leave the auto outside the city. They report their hardest climb as being on the road from Lake Tahoe, California, leading up over the Sierra Nevada mountains; there Is one section of this climb, five miles long, at a 27 per cent grade, and a poor road at that. They give the palm for good roads in the United States to the 6trlp from Bridgeport, Conn., to Boston, Mass The best strip of road In the world they claim Is the road from Paris to Pome; one thousand miles long, sixty feet wide, with perfect roadbed and al most no grade. Mr. Cressy was. In his younger days, a:i expert machinist and marine engi neer. After their next week's engagement they will immediately start on a three months' tour, up through the Adiron dack mountains, eastern Canada, and on through to San Francisco, where they win appear ror eight weeks at the Or THIS IS BIGGEST SEASON It Is perhaps not generally known that during 1918, despite all sorts of thought to the contrary, there were more automobiles sold than In any year to date. This should be a very comforting thought to those inter ested in the Industry, and additional pleaant food for reflection Is the fact, just announced, that during the first five months of this year, 30 psr cent more cars were sold than in the cor responding months in 1918. Quality First MinnieF 66 800 D eeveir vNow Call or Phbne for Demonstration H. L. KEATS AUTO Portland. Oregon CO. Seattle, Wash. Only for , ' lip- mmBj P3 Owners Our garage Is open until midnighti except Sundays 1 Buick cars washed afternoons and-evenings Howard service to all Buick owners . from 8 a. m. to midnight. Come in. Howard Auto MEL. G. JOHNSON, Manager . ' - Fourteenth and Davis Streets , Phone Main 4555, A-2550 Use Associated Gasoline It Has Proven More Miles to the Gallon in Every Test Ask Your Garage f or Associated Refined bp Associated Oil Company A. D. PARKER, Agent If They Do Not Have It Telephone Main 2055; A 2055 6 a "- P 'There's the Best And Biggest . AntomobOe Loaer Ever Made s That lioht Snr inn at fflf SEVERAL LOZIER DISTRIBUTORS were ' visiting the Loiicr factory in Detroit and a .. group of them were discussing various mat ters of Loxier policy with President Gilbert. A TESTER IN A NEW SIX drove out of the yard and as hepsed the administration buildingaon his way to make the final test on a completed car, about to be shipped to some lucky buyer, the President, Indicating . the silent beauty, exclaimed enthusiastically the words that head this ad. "THAT'S A REMARKABLE STATEMENT." said one. "And the more you analyze it the more remarkable. Is the fact, responded the . President. "LOZIER HAS ALWAY8 MADE big, power ful, expensive cars. Formerly the business was what might be termed a 'Custom Made one. By that I mean that there was no standard model. Standard chassis, yes. But too many of them. And a special body was made for almost every buyer. -THE ENORMOUS COST of new tool equip ment for, and the tremendous overheard that goes with, the making of a multiplicity of models made it necessary to charge accord ingly. "FOR $5000 and $6000 and any price the buyer wanted to pay for the special 'job' he wanted, Lozier made wonderful cars. The cars that 'made the Lozier reputation made Lozlers the recognized standards of perfection, "BUT THE BUYER PAID MORE than the In trinsic value of the product albeit the manu facturer made no more than a fair profit, and hardly that. "THE NEW LOZIER POLICY, Inaugurated a year ago, was to confine the product to just two chassis models a six and a four and a few standard body designs with standard finish and trimming for all of them. "AND TO SET A PRICE on that product that the introduction, of sound commercial prin ciples would make' possible. "THERE GOES THE RESULT," concluded the President, as another of the latest series, seven-passenger sixes, glided out of the yard. Its final test trip. MULL THAT OVER that statement of the President of the Lozier Company, inspired by the sight of the car that he considers the crowning achievement of long years of striv ing towards an ideal. ANALYZE THE ASSERTION. "The Best and the Biggest Automobile Lozier ever 1 made." "YOU'LL OBJECT to the last part of the sen tence, although, of course, you will concede the first. The best, because in all the prog ress that has been made in the production of cars that would STAY good Lozier has led the way; and, being the higher priced of the two Lozier models, it can be said with truth and without in the least disparaging the other. BUT "THE BIGGEST?" you ssy. Lozier has made seventy horse power cars and this Light Six is not rsted so high. Answer: it is relatively higher power in proportion to weight. So he could also hsve said the most powerful but that would have called for an explanation, since not all persons differenti ate between efficiency and mere power. BY "BIGGEST" HE MEANT passenger capacity naturally. This, six, which we term the "Light" Six, is a big seven-passenger car. Those expensive, high-powered Loziers were four-passenger only. . "LIGHT" IS A RELATIVE TERM. This big six is 500 pounds lighter than other high- ' class sixes we do not, of course, recognize ' the kind of lightness that amounts to fiimsi ness. THINK IT OVER 4haf sterling remark of President Gilbert's. And then come in and let us show you a lot of other things he might have said about features in which the Lozier Six excels. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN YOUR CAR that identical one that, passing his window on its way to some fortunate buyer, inspired the remark. "THE BEST AND BIGGEST CAR LOZIER EVER MADE" may be yours if your order is in before our allocmen, which is all too ) small, has been exhausted. COME AND SEE and ride4n it that magnifi cent Lozier Six. 5 5 l 42 43 "The Choice of Men Who Know" light Four $2100 & light Six 53250 5 LOZIER MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT a Written br X. XKoy renetler. Cevrnffet 7 locale atotox Co. , NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY 2 F. W. Vogler, Pres Broadway at Couch . . m .1 i - :
