The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, October 21, 1917, Image 44

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Newspaper Page Text, THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLA NP, SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 21t 1917. , - ' " ' 12 IS HIGHWAY TO SEATTLE 'SOMETHING DIFFERENT' ; FOR LOCAL MOTORIST Del Wright Finds Tour of Ad . jacent Region a Journey Out of the Ordinary, GREAT TREES FASCINATE IS VERY NEARLY HALF PAVED, SAYS WRIGHT ExactProportion of Route Hard Surfaced 87,7 Miles, Portland Mankinds-. 4 A 9 ROAD BETTER THAN EVER H SAUVIES SLAND ABROAD AT HOME ON SAUVIES ISLAND, I . .s . . : L XJttle X.aka That Mirror the Beauty of Their Sarrouaaings Are Beautiful to Behold. in 111 ifnfrriii 1 "1 11 1 - 1 n 'S On wrek ago, Df Wright, Ilka a lot of other motorist who have een much of Oregon and have been over almost every trail that a motor wheel can get a footing- on, set out to find a new route. i .That, within a fe milea of Port land, there is a road or aeries of roads In a amall piece of country that is as different; from most of the roads around thei city, as Eastern Oregon is from Western Oregon, would have been entirely beyond , the belief of the manager of the local XlsselKar ,branch. J?ut be did find anch a place, and ori Bauvies Island. H aaya It la one of the moat enjoy able short trips thM he Mas ever taken. To Sauries Island He left the city on a Sunday after noon about 4 o'clock.! via the Llnnton road. At Burlington, he drove the Briscoe on to the ferry across the Willamette slough to Sauvles Island. Once on the island. Mr. Wright turned to the left and at once waa able to Imagine that he waa In a different land On the rolling mead ows great oaks cast long shadowa. In the open sleek fat cattle graced on the green, which here offered a a harp contrast to the mainland where the heat of summer long ago dried the grass. Comfortable farm houaes and bulging barns, grouped, were re flected In the pretty land-locked lakes. Farther -on, the growth became dense and the car brushed its way through groves of oak and cotton wood. onset to Be Bamembered The sunset was one long to be re membered. Every detail of the sky was reflected In the waters below. Then as night settled down, the ha down and mists fascinated. As ha drove along under th big oaks, It was Impossible not to think pf the old Indian chief and his warriors under those same trees years and years ago. It woul-1 have been pleasant to spend Several more hours In pleasant wandering dn the island. There en tered two factors that spoiled it all. Hunger Is a powerful driver, and the last ferry across the slough leaves at 7:30 w m. So those two' "framed up a deal" which took the motorist 1 off the Island long before he was ready to go. mm ' .ji&aaawii - ja' ' r va vWliVTww ZH4 U " mi.V.MS Coaslderabls Construction Work Is Qo- l&ff On Konta rollowed Xs . About aoo KUea. -iiairi- ifiMTrr'T1' Jr-rT Wg1WWTaWCWfcJiaaii i a" "atv" ' i Tl 1 rrilal aw I lllillll . w.a-.7.'j:wfv. inn nam ,,.:.": ' , v - i -rr.-.MS.m-JI Abov The Buriington-Sauvies Island ferry across Willamette slough. Below Picturesque scene on Sauries Island, THE INTAKE WUklaa to aemoTi Offices, M. O. Wllklns. president of . the Dealers' Motor Car association and publisher of the Automobile Record, will re move) his offices to the Commonwealth building. Sixth and Ankeny streets, for tha purpose oft getting closer to the automobile trade center. Xapp Joins BBtehaU Toroes. The 'Mitchell Motors company, Inc., of Ra cine, Wis., announces the appointment of Frank A. Kapp an advertising man ager. Before taking up his new duties on September 15', Mr. Kapp was asso ciated with Willys-Overland. Inc. He had been In the advertising depart ment of that concern for three years, during which time he held various positions. Baaiels to runtH. S. Daniels, whoae services have been for some time given Jointly to the Dort Motor Car company and the Dooley Brennan company, will hereafter de vote his entire time and attention to the advertising management of the Dort organisation, under the title of advertising manager. This new ar rangement has necessitated the re moval of Mr. Daniels from Detroit to Flint, where the Dort factory is lo cated. Waller to Tour California. E. R. Weller, head of the used Car Exchange at 57 Washington street and a famil iar figure on the "row," is about to leave for an extensive motoring trip to California. Accompanied by Mrs. Wel ler he expects to visit all points of in terest In th Golden state in his Cole 8. Boat Goes Bast, C. L. Boss, head of the C. I a. Boss Automobile company, will leave this week for an extended trip east. In Detroit he will visit tha Maxwell uid Hudson factories for which he is the local representative. Accompanied by his wife, about five weeks will be spent on the entire trip which will include Omaha, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Albright Beams on Mow, W. D. Al bright, the genial northwest manager for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber com pany, visited Portland for several days the latter part of the week. Mr. Al brights headquarters are In Seattle and he gives a favorable report of the tire business of the northwest. C. O. Cook Passes Through. C. C. Cook, sales manager of the Western Truck Attachment company of Seattle, pasoed through Portland Thursday on his way home from Los Angeles. Mr. Cook reports an Increased demand for light trucks in the California territory and has established an assembling plant for his concern in Los Angeles In order that deliveries might be made more: quickly in that section. .WTiile here he conferred with A. J. Lormor, local representative for Oregon. Xnignt Ke joins Chandler forces. Ralph Knight, who has been affiliated with the Apperson Motor Car company for the past several months, has re joined the Chandler organization, now the Twin States Automobile company, under A. H Knaus. Knight was for merly connected with the Gerlinger Motor Car company when they han dled the Chandler line in this city.. Clomonco Goes to Billings, J. Stan ley Clemence, who has been city sales manager for Ballou & Wright for the past five years, hag accepted the po sition as general sales manager for the Northwest Motor Supply company of Billings, Mont., and left Saturday night to acquaint ,fclmself with his new work. Mr. Clemence has accepted an interest in the firm and is very enthusiastic over the new fierd. Prior to hlg connection with Ballou & Wright he was branch manager for Chanslor & Lyon, . opening up their first store in this city over two years ago. Why Light Varies One reason that lights grow brighter with icreased speed is that the gen erator is not perfectly self-regulating. so that its electro-motive force in creases with its speed, which, of course, is proportional to the engine speed. Vehicle Owners to Pay in New Roads The Oregon plan, of making motor vehicle owners pay for state road im provement has been adopted in Illi nois. It is proposed to build 4000 miles of hard surfaced road at an esti mated cost of $80,000,000. The principal, and interest on the bonds are to be met out of the reve nues arising from motor vehicle license fees. As was done in Oregon, the pres ent fees are to be practically doubled. The first bond issue will be in 1920 when $10,000,000 will be floated. In each of the succeeding five years there will be an issue of the same amount, making the total $60,000,000. The motor rates in 1920 will total $4,800,000 and will then Increase until 1924, when the estimated income, will bej6,000,000. uhlef State Highway Engineer Marr has 'worked out a plan showing how the motor owners will not only pay the $60,000,000 cost of the roads, also the interest of $2,050,000 on the bonds, but also $65,250,000 for the maintenance of tho roads and for the purpose of giving state aid to the construction of still other roads. The total receipts from licenses up to 1944, the end of the bonding term will be $147,300,000. Chicago will pay 40 per cent of the license fees. f - When writing to or calling on adrertlser pieaae mention Toe journal. There is" exactly 87.7 miles of pave ment between Portland and- Seattle,, according to Charles F. Wright, man ager of Ballou A Wright, who has Just returned from an automobile trip to the Sound city. l&r. Wright finds it necessary to make frequent trips to Seattle, where Ballou & Wright have a branch, and nftn makes the iaunt in hla Packard. The roads were found In better condi tion on his last' trip than ever before and thev will probably be that way until- the rains set in, according to Mr. Wright. Sigh Water Area Avoided The route taken in which the 87 miles of pavement are traveled is via Tenlno anj Roy. avoiding Olym pia. 'Driving in a leisurely manner it took 10 hours to make the trip. The worst roads were found between Woodland and Kalama. One improve ment found on this stretch was a fill being made over the lowlands along; the Columbia where the high watsr ob structed traffic last year. This will help to make the route an all year road and avoid the using of the Goble ferry Jurins high water. A 'good deal of road construction has been done near Toledo, and while paving operations have been sus pended, the road commissioners have graveled the part not finished in or der to make a gooJ road for winter travel. Motorists should avoid the Winlock road and cross the bridge at Toledo for they will find this route far better than the other. Paving ha not yet been completed from Olympla to American Lake, al though from Tacoma to American Lake is is finished. Detours are necessary around the unpaved portions and therefore the Roy road which joins the Rainier Park highway is the better, as from' there to Seattle a distance of 52 miles is paved. raved Distances Tabulated Mr. Wright made a tabulation of the paved stretches between Portland and Seattle and the distances figured from the Electric building in Port land to the Smith building in Seattle are as follows: Portland to Vancou ver, 14.7 miles; Woodland, .9; Kelso .4; Toledo, 3.4; Chetialis to Centralia. IS. 2; a break of .4 mile intervenes. then. 1.3; Tenino, 1.4; Rainier Park highway to Seattle, 52. The speedometer on Mr. Wright's car showed a total of 200 miles over this route. HIUGE TU.IRF g St-V M eUl J B gnl 7000 Tires at Prices Far Below Their Present Value STANDARD MAKES, INCLUDING GOODYEAR, FEDERAL, REPUBLIC, GOODRICH, FIRESTONE, QUAKER, FISK, CAPITOL, MOHAWK, DEFIANCE, PORTAGE, ETC. Our Store and Wareroorri Are FUIed With Tires and Tube That We Purchased and Contracted for Before the Last Two (and Three) Advances in Price. WE OFFER YOU THE ADVANTAGE OF OUR FORESIGHT BUY NOW BEFORE WE ARE COMPELLED TO ADVANCE The Price of Tires Will Go Higher and Higher Already Prices Have ADVANCED 50 PER CENT SINCE JANUARY 1, 1917. Boss Agency Proud Of Selling Record Total of 338 Haxwells and 99 Sudsons, All Kew Cars, Disposed of Since D comber 1, 1916. Statistics compiled In the Automobile Record from December l, 1916, to Octo ber 1, 1917, showing; the Oregon regis tration of motor cars in which classi fications are made, first by counties then by makes, reveal to C. L. Boss of the C. L. Boss Automobile company. that, outside of Fords, his organiza tion holds the palm for selling effi ciency In Portland in the retail line. In the 10 months for which the state record was computed Mr. Boss and his force have sold 238 Maxwells and 99 Hudsons, outdistancing his nearest competitor by 68 machines. In November, 1911, Mr. Boss organ ired the C. L. Boss company and han dled the retail . agency for the Reo for two seasons. In June, 1913, Mr. Boss obtained the agency for the Hudson for the state of Oregon and one third of the state of Washington and has han died this line ever since. The Maxwell car is now a prominent part of the sales equipment. On June 1 this year R. J. McRell came into partnership with Mr. Boss the firm being a partnership instead of a corporation. Mr. McReli was for meriy . conneciea wun Mr. Boss as agent at Eugene and later as territory representative. In addition to the state record for retail sales in Multnomah county are to be added the retail sales in Oregon City, Vancouver and Washington coun ty, this territory being retained by the Boss firm ' for-retail business. The 337 sales of new cars added to the sale of ufced cars, makes a grand total of 649 sales at retail for the pe riod since December 1, and combining the wholesale and retail sales the vol ume of business transacted during the last fiscal year makes a totol of over $800,000, Mr. Boss reported last week. REG. GUARANTEED STOCK 30x3 $10.85 and up 30X31! 13.80 and up 32x32 15.85 and lip 34X3V2 17.95 and up 31x4 21.90 and up 32x4 22.40 and up 33x4 22.05 and up 34x4 22.10 and up 35x4 24.50 and up 34x44 31.50 and up 35x4lx 31.20 and up V 36x44 . . . J 31.70 and up 37x4Vz 33.15 and up 35x5 36x5 : 37x5 Our Amazing Prices FACTORY SECONDS Read these prices carefully and you will see where money can be saved. Thete Prices Subject to Your Immediate Acceptance 34.15 and up 2530 and up 33.85 and up Our stocks of Accessories are full and complete. We make our own prices, ir respective of what others charge. Plain' Nen-SloJ 30x3 $ 8.55 $ 9.50 30x3.'....... 11.20 12.25 32x312...V 12.70 13.45 34x3V2 13.45 14.90 31x4 16.50 18.05 32x4 17.15 18.35 33x4 ........ 17.45 19.65 34x4 18.90 20.25 35x4 19.40 21.05 36x4 ........ 19.90 21.65 34x4 23.25 25.15 35i4 24.10 27.30 36x44 ........ 24.65 27.65 37x4....."..;. 25.40 28.50 35x5 28.4530.75 36x5 V 28.90 . 31.00 37x5 . . 29.45 31.50 AUTOJPART artfanel. Spakaa SUPF3LY CO. 82 SIXTH STREET, BETWEEN STARK AND OAK Seattle) .fftffntMMfvtftiiftf itfftftvfni It OMMUMUaMMUMI Finch Returns From Visit to Factories After spending the greater part of three weeks visiting various automo bile factories of Indianapolis and De troit, R. E. Finch, .sales manager of the firm of Mitchel & Wallingford, distributors of the Premier and Lib erty cars, arrived home last week. While In Indianapolis Mr. Finch at tended a sales conference as the guest of the Premier factory. In Detroit the Liberty factory was the center of attraction, although several other fac tories were visited. Mr. Finch re ports that both the Liberty and Pre mier factories have received contracts from the government, the former in the manufacture of the Liberty motor and the latter In the manufacture of the Mays truck. While In Chicago, Finch's sporting blood was aroused when he attended two games of the world's series. Chanjberlain-Dent Measure Indorsed The board of directors of the Ns tional Automobile . Chamber of Com merce has endorsed the Chamberlain Dent bill, which provides for prepara tion . by the war department of plana for. and the construction and main tenance of, a . continuous military highway along or near the Atlantic and Pacific seacoasta and along the outaarn border of the ainUed States. The Hew' 1918 Maxwell Gives you all the room all the comfort all the conveniences and beauty obtainable in any car selling at $1200. And yet the operating economy -the mechanical reliability the ease of handling and the wonderful power that have produced such marvelous road and economy, re cords in every section of the world are not only maintained but augmented can SEE the VALUE in the MAXWELL at $745. m Touring Car $745 Roaditmr $745 1 Compm $1095t BHinm $109Sg Sdan $1095. AUprict f. o. 6. Detroit C. L. Boss Automobile Co, 615-617 Washington Street m i 1 1 ; , . ii 'I THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ford Cars. Ford Service Ford Satisfaction The Ford is acknowledged to be "the universal car" because of its demonstrated usefulness. There are solid reasons for this, as back of the remarkable per formance of Ford cars and of the car' strength and dependability is the quality of material built into every vital part at the factory. And yet, if your Ford car is to continue to give the service intended and desired, all adjustments and replacements rendered necessary through the wear and tear of usage, or accidents, should be made by competent Ford workmen, using genuine Ford - made material of the same quality and strength as the identical parts they replace. This is the character of service wegive to the owners of Ford cars who favor us with their patronage. Everything in our workshop is genuinely. Ford materials, workmen, and even charges. Bring your Ford cars to us for service, and thus have'the assurance of getting the most possible use from your car. Prompt care given orders for Ford cars. Runabout $345; Touring Car $360; Coupelet $560; Town Car $645; Sedan $695; One-Ton Truck Chassis $600. These prices f. o. b. Detroit. - Palace Garage Co. 22d and Kearney Sta. Francis Motor Car Exchange East 13 th and Hawthorne Pacific KisselKar Branch ( Broadway at Davis W. H. Wallingford Sixth and Madison Sts. Rushlight, Ransom & Penny Union Avenue at Wasco Talbot & Casey Grand Avenue at East Ankeny it will pay you to know the Ford dealer in your neighborhood.