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,8'-t I J --I M 1 'J " ''"'"j , THE OREGON I in til inniMC LJlirNi mAn rnnp a rv i r- -r- a i-n . i 1 4 j I 1 t S t miff, "MFrt"$l A H I V ii 4 I ' V" - ' J v 1 'lb . ' - SSIS -if! 1 - SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. ' Mid trip from this route la Into ' the Tellowstone park. Tho Seattle Automobile club has started a campaigm for the northwest trail throuffh Minnesota, North Da kota and Montana, taking: ' In the Tellowstone and Glacier parks and thence across Idaho Into-Washington, reaching Seattle over the Snoqualmle pasd. - Journeylnjr southward from Seattle over the Pacific highway there will be opportunity to take in Rainier National park and then proceeding to Portland. Here there are-two al ternative routes, one through the Wil lamette, Umpqua and Rogue river valleys and the other over the Co lumbia highway -through 'central Oregon. Oregon 1 8 peculiarly situated to re ceive great benefit from transcontin ental travel as It is quite probable that tourists, who come, to the coast over one route, will return "by an other, thus passing through the state. Buys 220 Motorcycles. Two hundred and twenty motorcy cles ordered by one concern! ' That's Just what the New ; Tork Telephone company : has done ordered 220 ma chines for the use of its collectors, messengers and trouble men. One of the other largest single orders for mo torcycles was that of the Kord Auto mobile company several months ago. The Ford company ordered , 50 ma chines for use in Its service depart ment. '.. , . ' ' SUNDAY . MOKNING, MARCH' 21,' 1615 BUILDS AUTO FOR OWN USE i. Top A train of abaca (Manila hemp) Icarts traversing: an improved road Bottom A carabao has some advantage oyer a water. FIRST TWO HUNDRED -MILES MAY INJURE , AUTO PERMANENTLY Green Engine Should Not Be ''. Pot Through Paces Lest It 5 Be Overheated, A majority of Lisew drivers, and s surprisingly large ' percentage of sea soned motorists, will do more" to harm a new. automobile engine in the first 200 miles' of driving than In the folr lowing 2000 'miles, according to A. C. Stevens, manager in charge'of the Portland branch of the Winton Motor Car company. '"No matter how carefully an engine may be built, it requires a certain 'amount of running to get the parts thorougly ! worked in, and the treat ment given the motor during' its first ZOO miles of driving governs, to a large extent, its future service. 'There la a strong temptation that even seasoned motorists succumb to to attempt a good many 'stunts' dur ing the first two or three days' driv ing that will be Seldom repeated throughput .a season. The man ' who buys a new car is generally as eager to 'see what she will do' as is a young ster to take a watch apart to find out what makes it tick. "Aboutsthe first thing tested Is the horse on this kind of road; he Is fonder of mud and speed of the ij:ar," and on a nice, level ijiece of roadj the throttle is opened dp wide. A stjiff hill or a bit of heavy road is the neit thing in order, or, per haps;, it Is a long trip with a full load of passengers,! during which the new motor is subjected , to as many testa as the driver can think of. "Tjhe strains to which the work ing parts are puti while they are still 'arrepln' too freauntlv result in over heating, with the attendant train of troubles that materially shorten the service given by the motor and make the ! maintenance and operating cost much ,gr;eater than it need be. If mbtorlstfe would learn to restrict t;heinselyes to .a speed of 15 or 18 milejs ah hourl for the first 200 or 800 miles aWd see to it that plenty of the riight kiid of lubricant Is used, they would find thit the precaution would retufn dividends later on In better and. Cheaper service, i- Tri-State Convention Meeting- Will August a; and Was The third a Tri-State Good prisijng C lngton has Francisco du August 2. 1915 ly designated rectors of the tlonal Expos Good Roads A j Delegates roads and lied chambers been rint Good Roads Called Held Delegates hlngton Will nnual Roads alifornla, Oregon called g tne , which by the Panama- itfton asi bsociatlon fitom every highway of commerce In San Francisco rrom Oregon Attend. convention of the association com- and Wash- to meet at San week beginning has been special- officers and di- .-Pacific Interna- the "Trl-State Day." leading good association, the al- of the Pa- ciflc coast, supervisors and officials will participate 1 ing programme 6f the Among the subjects to are legislation federal sues and convict labor: many other the epeak congriess discussed bond is aid. Inquiries Rega Tours Are ding Numerous Zilvellest Season Since tntrjodnctlon of Automobile Zs Expected This Tear Oregon , to Share Profits, American Automobile association clubs throughout the country rfre making1 , extensive preparations for what promises to be the liveliest tour ing season since the Introduction of the automobile. In New Tork and Washington the volume of Inquiries has been astounding, according to P. X. Mudd. chairman of the touring board. Both the northwest and southwest intend to have their shire i of the interstate travel, which will 1 be ac celerated by the California ! exposi tions. Three great routes across ths continent are being considjered. The automobile club ' of southern California, with . headquarters at Los Angeles, is giving particular atten tion to ithe National Old Trails route, which has been sign posted all the way from Kansas City, Mo. trhis route follows the old San ta , Fe I rail with a side trip to the Grand Can yon of .the Colorado. , The tiincoln highway is another route, it crosses the central states through Denver and Salt Lake Ely. Nevada. Here it brinches. branch i crossing the desert to Angeles! the other going to Reno Lake Tahoe and thence to San Fran cisco oyer the Sierra mountains. to on a Los and PUBLIC At NEW PRICES Consistent with QUALITY and SERVICE Without QUALITY Gboi MILEAGE Is Impossible OLD 'MAN MILEAGE VALUES s ! v,,,,rt)tt. 1814 ; The Repnbllc Rubber Co. 30x3 30x3 34x3 32x4 33x4 34x4 35x4J 36x4 37x5 I FlalaJ Tread! Casings Staggard Tread Casings 11.3$ 14.75 17.10 22.30 23.0$ 23.86 33.2Q 34.20 42.55 T w ax Tread Casings Gray Tubes 16.35 21.70 23.60 29.10 30.15 31.15 40.70 41.85 49.85 Black-zana, &ed Inner Tubes 11.95 15.50 18.00 23.80 24.65 25.45 35.00: 36.00" 44.75 20 2.90 3.25 4.00 4.15 4;20 5.30 5.50 6.65 3.30 3.85 4.35 4.75 4.90 5.05 7.35 7.50 8.20 You Can Buy REPUBLIC TIRES at Your Dealer's. REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. OF CAL. Portland Branch 71 Broadway juni a. WALltlO LU., Broadway at Ankenv . : OREGON SALES CO., Twelfth and Alder Street.V RELIANCE GARAGE. 1062 H,S a-.,. rAUPit MiUHWAY GARAGE, Oregon City Manual ugefne Kugene, training the the $3 to his Mao M. Mr. iand Thirteenth autoniobille stseets of lae. Tonng bicycle Mae M. ! mechanical Or., Feb. 80 he recelyed In training high school kiatural m McLean, 15ryeftr Mrs., George avenue east, and has been the! machi With McLean used wheel's and a marine. McLean and the car he built. -Utilising the the shoo ' of department of in- addition ability. old son of McLean. 359 has built an seen on the he frequently four ordinary gasoline engine as a base upotk and did all the laboit construction of the auto. The machine belt drive and the w so high that It Is miles an hour. Ho tnake this speed at times,, but the city a speed of only 15 " Mac. was allowed his manual training the machine. .-' whiclito work. himself In the of ths little equipped with heels are geared possible to make 2- has beep able to several lanierem brdinance allows es j an ihour. half 1 a credit In class for building bbdy Is niii New Car Will Be J Put on the Market Announcement I Had is Behalf of the Hew Owners of the Xrtsler' tto tor Company. 1 Within the next two weeks the !new owners of the Losier Motor company will place on the market a new cai which will have all the features 'and characteristics of the former Loriei models. The price will be between 1800 and $2000. The big six and the four are also to be continued. At the present time about ITS men are em ployed and this force will be Increased Wj, G. Thomas, formerly with i the Pierce-Arrow, E. R. Thomas and Pack4 ard companies, has been appointed pro4 duction manager. - H. H.' Williams, who has been ldentl-j fled with the Lozier organisation for many years, is in charge of the service and sales : department. Many of ' the former Lozier dealers" will continue, t handle, the Lozier cars. There wiirb no resumption : of operation at ; th former Lozier plant in Plattsburg, N Y.i This property will be sold. Al production and service activities ari concentrated in the Detroit plant. It has not been announced who wil handle the line In .the' Pacific north4 west; as yet. The Northwest Auto com-l pany handled the car under the oid management.;: Little Roadster Is Cause of Big Stir Car to Surprise of Everybody rial sues Eighth in Orsnd Prix at San rran clsoo. Outdistancing many of the most fa mous racing cars In the world, a little Overland Model 81 roadster created a stir among motoring authorities by finishing eighth in the Grand Prix race over the San Francisco Exposition course. The car waa handled by Thomas Mc Kelvey. foreman of the shops of the Cobb-Evans company, Overlaid dealers In Fresno. California, who has driven it to. victory In numerous road and track events along the Pacific coast. It was McKelvey's maiden race irt an in ternational event, but" his nerve and the remarkable consistency of the car aroused the enthusiasm of the tnon sands who crowded the grandHtands and lined the course. Fifteen of tlie biRgest cars entered were; unable , to finish the grind through the mud, wa ter and sand that marred the tracK. It is pointed out by those who saw the race that the Overland held its own . with the largest and most- expensive cars, piloted by men who are consid ered the best racing drivers in the country. Sli " I I j I I II ' -i il rrn1 . inn" . n 1T II durfelVi l his Must ce a vv 11 Enjoy Suth l a Demand m I Such a i '7 '-i 1 onderful Gar To i; i Never mind the size of the type the fad h higland the information vital to otu Ypu wtll read it in five minutes. Then me tht phone there s no time to lose WHEN WE TELL YOV that! today orders for immediate shipment greatly irk excess of possible output are pouring in at Lansing and that, despite the fart that thcbig25-acre Reo plants were rurmipg double shift, and turning out 105 cars per day you'U agree the condition is remarkable. j FACTORY SCHEDULE of deliveries of Reo fhe Fifth made in August in the! usual course ana anticipating trie usual auu season of January and Feb: for 300 cars of this m 450 in February. ALAS FOR WELL LAID Planned to ran full force oa ths Reo the Fifth model during the fall and winter., ; months, and store the jsurplus they hoped i to accumulate agamwg ue oxe mVruim rasa. MADE THE CARS ALRIGHT hat there the plans were frustrated I by dealers demands for immediate shipments; These took the .fun capacity! of the plants for . those months and todiy there is not k Reo SO THIS IS TO WARN YOU against in ordering your Reo. Only by ordering at once can you hope to get it wnen youTI want it. ed in January and (PLANS! In January were shipped 1200 instead of 300; and in February, instead of 450, dealers took 1800 Reo the Fifths and begged for . more.- r j j j MIND YOU, THAT was middle o f winter sw mm m . a - ' war xeart just wnen everyDoay was trying to convince everyDoay ei enioyins hard times the running a double snirt up with the demand ments of automobiles. CAN YOU IMAGINE mony to the splendid du tnat unusual deman season? fod se tnat we Rep plants an were were1 effort to keeo immediate shrp- anv roneex te ofacartnan tnat urn YOU KNOW AS WELL AS 5 watched it at all thai thousands of would-be Reo owners have been disappointed. Not merely delay in delivery but the absolute impossibility of retting a car. Factory output all allotted to dealers-1 dealers' quota all contracted for by customers weeks in advance. IT IS A REMARKABLE 3T isua: i j i years past premiums have been Keos wtuie cars went a-begging. Y SHIP that their clans yovjask. Thej f !.- I. ! ERIENCS -HOW COULD THE FACTO many cars in those months called for the lesser number? answer is the whole point to KNOWING FROM PAST: E that the demand for Reos is always greater than the supply -for there never; has been a time since the first Rep was made that Reo could supply enough cars for all who wanted Reos knowing that) this demand would be hopelessly in excess of our facilities in the spring months, tey planned, as they fondly believed, to meet it. j II!' AT A COST OF OVER $100,000 ; they had built a warehouse capable of storing 2,000 with lesser reputation THIS YEAR. BECAUSE Of the condition above recited not a car in r erve, factory running double shift and daily demand keeping pace with and ajbsorbi lg whole out put only those who hve learned by past experience and who order immediately, can hope to get a Reo therflfthj OUR ALLOTMENT IS DEFINITE. tried but cannot get one; our original quota. When WE SUPPOSE WE OU something about this Season! a Jtvco delay whyodhare in rjrevsoua rears FACT that In paid for We've than optioned we other way. must close thd GHT thing to do in an ad. Bat bless you, every body in the world knows Reo more ce are all books: no to ten s the you usual THIS GREAT PRODUCT OF REO experience, Reo facilities and of Reo integ rity, occupies a place that is unique among motor cars. " !': ' REO THE FIFTH comes as nearly being'a staple as has ever been designed in an auto mobile. . j" .'".H: .. ' . SINCE THIS CHASSIS WAS DEVELOPED -and youll remember we said then it would prove to bd "the ultimate car" finality in all essentials of chassis design the only changes have been in improve ments, refinements of details and in equip- .: tnent. .---j. ; ""-. X-, IT HAS BEEN THE REO AMBITION to make and to keep ! this the leading four cylinder car for that great class of buyers who want a car of superior quality at a moderate price, ' - X : FROM YEAR TO YEAR as manufacturing conditions have improved and ! especially this year when Reo ready cash enabled them to buy when cash was at a premium and to obtain theretofore impossible values Reo layers have received the benefit in the lower prices. ' ' . LAST SEASON $1175 NOW $1050 same car, but v longer wheelbase and a score of " minor but most desirable improvements. MORE THAN FORTY THOUSAND of them today in hands of users and some of . those users are your intimate friends, Ask them. . - . i THEY WILL TELL YOU MORE and better than we can. AND YOU'LL HEAR FACTS about low up keep cost that will astound you and that will explain- to you as nothing else could the reason for the tremendous popularity, the tremendous inrseason and out-season demand for Reo the Fifth "The Incom parable Four. DON'T DELAY! j 1 I nnN'TDF.T.AYI " ; $1050 " 1 NORTHWEST F. W. VOGLER, President. DISTRIBUTORS REO AUTOMOBIIiES AND REO AUTO TRUCKS AUTO CO. Broadway at Couch St., Portland, Or. ft A ! it." l) " - . '