THE OREGON " SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTL AND. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH ' 21 1620.
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auto caravan to
CALIFORNIAWILL
BE GREAT AFFAIR
Local Autoists Are Enthused Over
Plans for Overland Trip to
Stockton, Cal., on May 18.
CAR PROVES CONUNDRUM TO ONLOOKERS
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The overland caravan, composed
of automobiles from all over the
Northwest, and fostered and man
aged by the Associated Ad clubs of
the Pacific coast, which will leave
for Stockton, Cal., May, "IS, is at
tracting wide attention throujhout
this part of the country, and already
replies are coming in to queries
scattered boadcast, intimating that
the caravan will be some shakes as
to size and enthusiasm.
The plan Is rather extensive, and ac
cording' to men of the local ad club looks
better than any hop -dream they have
.had tor some time. And from all ac
counts It Is rapidly leaving- the dream
stage and taking fairly definite and real
shape.
MiNI TOYrWS LISTED
Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane. BelllnKham.
Everett, Aberdeen, Pendleton, La Grande.
Walla walla, Astoria, Bend and Hood
River are some of the cities who have
sent In their assurances that they will
be on the spot with bells ringing and
flags waving. They will have their
cars furnished forthwith with advertis
ing matter, bunting- and other gala dec
orations, and as many as possible of
mere cltliens will be at the starting
post to take part in the jaunt.
Preparations are already being- made
along the line of inarch through the
south to take care of the host, for many
who are planning- on outing trips about
that time of the year are beginning to
feel that the caravan is where they will
have the best time they could find. It
is quite possible that over 100 cars will
leave Portland and that like the pro
verbial snowball, the caravan will gather
strength as it rolls down the valley and
on toward the south. George M. Cham
bers, secretary of the Oregon State Mo
tor association, is holding down the job
of general chairman of the caravan and
Is directing most of the arrangements.
ELABORATE PROGRAM
California la responding In full force
to the call of the Invading army, and
the chances are that a big delegation of
southern clubs will meet the caravan
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EASTERN
OREGON
AOTOISTS FAVOR
HIGHWAY
BRANCH
Pendleton to Have Members of
Tri-State Club to Boost Pro
posed Roadway to Salt Lake.
Here depicted ts a scene at Pendleton daring tbe recent automobile show beld March 11-12-13, when a
Chalmers car became a conundrum to the good citizens of the city. The local dealer, the firm of Mc
Lean & Suavely, offered two prizes, $10 and $5 for the nearest guess as to how long the Chalmers
would run on a quart of gas. There were hundreds of guesses an d the first prize was won by a haz
ard within three seconds of the right time. The time made was 1 hour, 10 minutes and S seconds.
Jfumerout side bets were laid by the onlookers. Ted Herlihy, wholesale manager of the C. L. Boss
Automobile company, Portland, conducted the demonstration.
AUTO INDUSTRY NEWS
In the northern part of the state. A
daily schedule has been planned to gov
ern the march per diem, and stands at
present as follows :
FIRST DAT
Portland to Eugene 130 miles, six
hours' drive. ,
In case there are more than can be ac
commodated at Eugene, the overflow can
go on to Cottage Grove, a distance of
20 miles, for the night.
SECOND DAT
Eugene to Medford 182' miles, nine
hours' drive.
If there are not sufficient accommo
dations at Medford, some may have to
go on to Ashland, 13 miles.
THIRD DAT
Medford to Corning 207 miles, nine
hours, drive. -
FOURTH BAT
Corning to Sacramento 117 miles, five
hours' drive.
FIFTH DAT
Sacramento to Stockton, 48 miles, two
hours' drive.
Lane County Road
Boosters Get Busy
As part of the campaign for good
roads and incidentally the camnntjrn in
favor of the proposed $2,000,000 bond
issue in Lane county, to be decided by
voters May 21, the Lane County Good
Roads association Is sending to each o
the 188 school districts In the county,
buttons, membership cards and a map
showing the proposed roads. A good
booster in each of the 188 districts has
been named as local representative of
the Lano County Good Roads association,
and it Will be his duty to not only cir
culate the petition calling for an elec
tion of good roads, but to. also secure
members for the association. For Lane
county, it is either voting J2.000.000 for
good roads, 400 of which are to be built
within five years, or bo road building to
amount to anything for several years.
0-aneres are lining up on both sides of
the question.
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Make the Maxwell Thri
SEVERAL miffioftdollars haTc been expended to provide more ele-
O grace, more refinement, more comfort to the current Maxwells.
It is in ever so many ways a superior appearing car; superior, too,
ki action.
But' not a single pound of weight has been added to burden the
worjt if its great engine!
. Therefore, despite the many processes of improvement, it doesn't
cost a penny more to run a Maxwell than it did a year ago.
The undcriying principle of every Maxwell is to give economic
transportation.
This. means light weight.
But it means strong steels, as wcIL
It is no easy trick to provide both lightness and strength in metaL
Such a rare combination means high cost steels.
And you would find, if you compared a Maxwell with any car,
that it equaled that car pound for pound in fine metals.
How such steels affect your pocketbook is obvious.
1. They are light in weight and hence give more mileage on a
gallon of gasoline.
2. As they are fine steels they give long and ttmnterrupted, wear.
Which are but two of many reasons for that definite tendency of
world-wide friendship towards MaxwelL
In six years nearly 400,000 have found their answer to the motor
car question in a Maxwell. ,
This year 100,000 Maxwells are being produced,
This will supply but 60$ of the dxmaiid.
Delivery at Once
Portland Price $1225
C. L. Boss Automobile Co.
615-17 Washington St. Portland
FAST DRIVERS ARE
FOR
BROK
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N PAVEMEN
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Following his visit to the Pen
dleton auto show, Secretary W. S.
Parks of the tri-Stats Automobile
club of .Walla Walla announced that
an office of the club will be estab
lished soon io the roundup cltyJ Sec
retary Parks states that already over
40 members have been signed up in
Pendleton and that inasmuch as the
Pendleton office will serve all Uma- i
tilla county auto owners as well as
those west as far aa Wasco, there
is an outlook for between 200 and
300 more members ini that section.
The big idea, states Parks, which the
motorists of Southeastern Washing-ton
and Northeastern Oregron are boosting
for is to get. a connecting link from the
great transcontinental Lincoln highway
between Salt Lake city and Pendleton
and there to strike the Columbia high
way, in connection wim uus me in
state Auto club is planning a big booster
convention of all good roads and auto
enthusiasts to be held at Pendleton either
late this spring or early in the summer
at which delegates from all Bections
of Idaho. Oregon and Southeastern
Washington along this route will be
invited.
This route, as proposed by the autoists
and good roads men of this section,
would strike the towns of Pocatello and
Boise in Idaho and thus perform the
double purpose of bringing tourist traffic
to Southern Idaho direct from the East
as well as to the extreme points of the
Northwest.
Speed, Rather Than Weight, Held
Real Factor; Regulations Are
Recommended to Stop Waste.
The Revere Motor Car corporation .of
IOgansport, Ind., has placed on the mar
ket 11.500,000 of its capital stock, with
the proceeds of the sale of which it is
proposed to erect large plant additions.
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Reports from local companies show
chat there has become effective, during
the past month an appreciable increase
In rim costs owing to the shortness of
steel caused by the recent steel strike.
Providing that the users of farm
equipment in Latin America can be
shown that the American tractor Is the
best, advices from the South indicate
that -there Is an excellent market
throughout the lower continent for all :
sorts of American equipment.
The New Orleans Truck Manufactur
ing company has been organized by a
group of capitalists in that city for the
purpose of manufacturing a truck bear
ing the name of the city. Work has
already been started, on the new project
Officials of rubber companies In Akron
predict a total export business of $20,
000,000 during 1920, a 'great portion of
the rubber products being destined to be
sold in Germany. Agents .are now
abroad making market arrangements.
The two story buildings at 1716-1717
Broadway, near Fifty-fourth street, New
York city, have been purchased by the
Haynes Automobile company from the
estate of the late Cardinal Farley, The
Haynes eompany has occupied these
buildings for some time, the present lease
expiring in October. The purchase price
is said to have been in the neighborhood
of $200,000.
Building permits in January for the
erection of new structures in Detroit ag
gregated a total of $5,658,830, as against
1,065,7J5 in January. 1919. New build
ings erected totalled 536 and permits for
alterations and additions to 150 were
granted last month, against 224 new
buildings and 119 alterations and addi
tions for the same- month last year.
STREET RAILWAYS :
LOSE PATRONAGE
Is
California State Commission
Convinced Automobiles Are
Taking Their Profits.
Jitneys, motor trucks, nickel fares and
soaring . prices. All these threaten to
bring about the financial collapse of
electric railways In California.
In its annual report, submitted to Gov
ernor Stephens, the state railroad com
mission tells. the story:
The electric railways have met in
the recent past a most formidable and
determined competitor the automobile.
Both the private automobile and the
jitney have made enormous inroads on.
the passanger traffic that was formerly
dependent upon electric railways.
"The automobile truck is an even
more serious competitor in the freight
traffic field, tor the electric lnterurban
railways almost without exception are
depending for their freight revenue on
short haul business, i
"And yot it is olearilhat both the pas
senger automobile and the freight auto
truck are even now only in the first
statces of their development.
"Electric railway utilities-find it mor?
and more difficult to obtain necessary
new capital and for many companies the
only escape from financial collapse is
through drastic reorganisation.
. "The high 'cost of j living has borne
hep.vier on the electrf; railway business
than on any other industry for the rea
son that for street railways the stand
ard fare has been a nickel. Not only
have franchise provisions fixed on this
r.nlt. but the 5 cent fare has become an
institution for American cities."
Method of Taping : ;
Hose Connections
If there ii water leakage around tht '
Joint between the rubber hose and ' the
outlet header from the cylinder Jacket
and also where the hose Joins 'the rdla
tor pipe, the easiest way to atop it Is
to tape the joints with regular insula
tlon or adhesive tape. First remove the !
clamps, tape the Joints and then , put j
shellac over the tape. After $hls is dry -replace
the hose clamps, being sure they
are -not sprung out of shape. If they ;
will draw up into a true circle they are ;
in good condition, but a clamp ..whlco
is out of shape will not draw up properly, -
and will tend to bunch the rubber nose,;;
with the result that evfn the taping
repair will have difficulty in being .
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Next Race in Sight , ' sS-
The next Important race of the 1920
season is the big &00 mile event at-'
Indianapolis on May SI, but It Is ex
pected that the A. A. A., which Is the -official
body whose regulations govern
automobile racing, will sanction a race ' .
to be held on tho Los Angelas track la v' v
.April.
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tti Stark SU, Portland, Or.
One of the common beliefs that
has been held by shippers, and by
the average citizen who has given
the matter any thought, is that the
weight of the load placed on a truck
Is detrimental to the good condition
of the roads. When discussing the
relation of shipments by truck to the
cost of road maintenance, some have
declared that the load should be reg
ulated, if there was to be any regu
lation at all, and have lost sight of
the fact that speed is the thing to be
considered.
That It is the speed of heavy loads,
rather than the weight of the load it
self, that ruins pavements is the conclu
sion reached by government author
ities who are investigating various 1
phases of the automobile transportation
problem.
FORCE SLOW DRIVING
Experiments begun by government ex
perts to determine the destructive ef
fect of impact on pavements and to find
a remedy show some striking results.
Conclusions now announced reveal that
a weight of 7750 pounds on the wheel of
a truck, moving at a speed of 15 miles
per hour, becomes 43,000 pounds In its
destructive effect if the wheel has a
drop of one incb. Such a drop la readily
caused by any small obstruction or
crack in the pavement.
A cushion pavement of asphalt con
struction is expected by engineers to
Bolve the impact problem. The cushion
will absorb the shock so as to reduce the
shattering effect of impact on the foun
dation. Expenditure for "construction
and maintenance of highways outside of
cities is now averaging sonje $500,000,000
a year.
ROADS ARE' RTJIITEB
J. N. 'Mackall, chief engineer of the
Maryland state roads commission, is
now facing the problem of restoring
pavements shattered by the- impact of
heavy truck traffic on concrete roads
leading out of Baltimore and con
structed as recently as 1913 and 1914.
Mackall says of these roads:
"Both of these cement-concrete 1 roads
have reached the end of their lives.
They show many cracks and are disin
tegrating. We have tried patching them
without success and are now covering
them with one and one half inch binder
course and one and one half inch top
ping course of asphalt."
As the shlp-by-truck idea gains mo
mentum, and the mileage of hard sur
face roads increase, engineers say that
it is weil to bear in mind that in order
to save the expenditure of 'millions of
aonars annually in road repair, con
cerns making use of trucks will find It
necessary to pay some attention to the
rate of speed at which their drivers
push their trucks, as well as having cer-
taln rules of load for their shipping departments.
COMPLETE HIGHWAY
WORK IN UNION CO.
Contracts to Finish Roads Wilt
Be Let Soon So That Job Will
Be Finished This Summer.
Cadillac Motor Car company was
granted a permit two weeks ago for the
erection of a temporary one story frame
foundry building, to cast about $22,000.
Under the Union county bonding
plan, money was raised to carry on
the highway work which is ordered
by the state, when Union county
must-build the grade and put in the
drainage for her share of the Co
lumbia highway, after which the
state will finish the road with
crushed rock arid hard surface.
The county court has now made all
of their arrangements, and if the proper
contracts can be made, the work will be
started this summer. The road from
Hilgard to La Grande will be opened
to bids soon and work is expected to
begin on that section in early spring.
LET C05TEACT8
The paving is already completed be
tween Liope Pine and La Grande, and
the contract has been let for the rock
work between Lone Pine and Hot Lake.
Grading contracts will be let between
Hot Lake and Union. From Union to
Telocaset it is hoped some hard surface
pavement will be laid, and it is believed
that the highway commission will favor
that this year. From Telocaset to North
Powder, surveying and grading will be
done during the summer. This will
complete what Is known as the Colum
bia highway through the county.
While this will be the main artery of
travel, attention will also be paid to
work in the northern end of the valley.
Contracts for work on the Willow creek
district near Elgin are being formulated
ready to consider bids, also on road work
from La Grande to the Sandridge.
WORK TO BE FINISHED
From Elgin to the Wallowa hill sum
mit, much work must be done, and this
is expected to be completed the coming
summer. The old Wallowa hill, which
has been an eyesore to everyone, at
the same .time being a most dangerous
piece of road since the first freight team
went into Wallowa county, is to be done
away with and in its place there is to
be built a road down the canyon on a
5 per cent graded
People of Wallowa county are Joining
with Union county in a request to the
state highway commission, to have this
work done as soon as the weather con
ditions permit. Wallowa will start her
road work at the mouth of the canyon.
Will Make Vigorous Campaign
For appropriating IC.000.00 by the
county to build 400 miles of highway
during the coming four years, an active
campaign will soon be made in every
one of the 188 school districts in Lane
county. The Lane County Good Roads
association has appointed a representa
tive In each school district to distribute
membership buttons and cards and information.
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