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SIX PAGES 1 SECTION SIX AUTOMOBILES SPORTS r i i fv,rtf ,0 sr . . ... PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1920. ivwrtWNmKeaeeVMevvy fi a ;;c BUTROADIS JUST FIERCE Journal Scouts Find Picturesque Route to Oregon City but Going Hard on Backbone and Temper. B7 Frank A. Clarroe Enlarging upon the charma of last Sunday, when the much sworn at and anathematized weather man cored a . decided bullseye, is to -waste everybody's time needlessly. Motorists who failed to ret out into the country must have been armed with legitimate excuses, such as a broken-down car, a bed-ridden fam ily or- a stroke of paralysis. Those Without adequate excuses should lose their cars by default Clackamas county, whose roads share with the weather man the brunt of Port land displeasure, was a glorious picnic STOund. Indian summer had painted Jthe trees, the sun warmed tbi atmos phere with near-summer heat, and fish were singing lullabies as thejr sw4n y about Summer madness, mid or olner ' wise, had given way tp the peace of mid-fall, and even on the route chosen by The Journal scout machine, sec tions of which were as rough as the neck of a Bowery bum. "one could for this reason scarcely summon vitupera tive forces sufficient to malign the road Way and the surface thereof. Of course, it was the scout's own fault . The route was chosen with patent premeditation and with the idea of finding a new and original route to Oregon City. It Is sufficient to say at this point that the route was found. The details are about to be revealed. SOME JOLTING ENCOrjWTEBEIr Foster road Is a road of parts: Parts or it are paved and pacts are not The r scouts manned a'Chevrolet "498" for the trip, with LRoy Fields of the Fields Motor Car company, , Chevrolet distrib utors, doing the honors with the steering apparatus and gear lever. From The Journal building; up Broadway to Mad ison and 'across the Madison street bridge Is but a step. Thence the route lay along- Hawthorne avenue to Fifty second street, right at the turn, and down to where .Foster road comes in from the left Turn left with traffic and prepare yourself for one of the worst Joltings ever experienced in all your driving career. There has been considerable talk about paving Foster road through Mount' Scott as far as Lents, but Ahe talk has not taken the rough spots out of the so-called boule vard. People out beyond Arleta speak of the road with apologetic looks and deprecate the thoroughfare with every deprecatory bone in theirybedies. They are not proud of Foster road and no wonder. ' Paralleling the car tracks for some hundreds of yards and bearing as much traffic as any suburban road in the city, and much more than many the strip of the route as far as Lenta from the camping grove is- about as inspiring to a motor car or truck driver as a nailstudded plank. MAT BOOK JOIIT LEAGUE Going on farther and taking a care ful look about the scouts discovered some work along the side. Short streets are having sewage pipes placed, one or two blocks are receiving paving, to the delighted Interest of the onlookers, and here and there a pile of dirt thrown high In the air with attendant bars indicates intentions of improvement Drivers of cars are regarding this step as of good omen and freely predict that within a short time Foster road will join the League of Pavement and cease to figure In the nightmares of truck drivers and motoring salesmen. . Beyond Lenta there is some fine high way. , crossing the track kavm .v.- - r - - mr - v- j why WSV town, skirting the houses, and twisting way inw auo open country. The sur face is of cement and looks like good work, though not overly wide. The curves are carefully laid out. the .. logs are clear, and for cement affords excellent traveling, some cement roada seem to have been carelessly finished, 'with little bumps In some places, depres sions quits vexatious to drivers In oth- SPECIAL CLEAN-UP SALE Used Cars and Trucks ForceH to give possession of our warehouse space December 1, com--.-pels us to sell at very low prices the following standard trucks and cars: , , ' PASSENGER CARS MAXWELL, OVERLAND,- BUICIC, CHEVROLET, DODGE REBUILT TRUCKS FEDERAL, DENBY. CERSIX, WHITE, REPUBLIC, GMC We also Lave some special LEE UNITS, TRAILERS and BODIES on ! which we quote attractive prices. . ; i : . - . . . . ..- . Some of these machines have been used very little and for all uses will ? answer the purposes of a hew machine. In the face of all the so-called Jcar and truck sales, we can say frankly that these must be seen and j examined thoroughly in order to be appreciated.. , i All la FirstClass Shape and Reedy to Golliheral Terms : Villiam L. Hughson Company 60 N. BROADWAY. AT DAVIS ST. . PHONE BROADWAY 321 : r THE FORD CORNER i " . - ; ' ' p" ' , 1 """" "" "" L" in'if" mi' " "''tffi'l'Ce "Tf. ."J "7 11; a ufMta" mr - mu tu i, it Jd&&am iw a s-h ' fj mJmm m w y1"""1 1 wmwi'i!y'i ' wiwsMssw6isiisvwsWejii y gy 1 J A jyf - . JVIa 1 LTs'r " bill f imFWrm i lp .ISggag-. ir- -rswasmg . r Powell Yalky. , - 5 A Fall Lood itv if lH ' I SJ" mjiv 'sse -J3lP1f 1 CiTt7'- f 1 u a cuevroict -4-90: IlfcM SS" rrfT -v- W I' VUlDail UU 4 . . ZT.TT . ' . ' 1 .i ! ,m , 11, , ers, and a general rough-and-ready ap pearance not particularly soothing to a man with a new set of tires. Not so Foster road. It is a good job of road work and should be better known to the motoring public of Portland for two rea sons: First, because it taps a thriving section of the city. Mount Scott; and second, . because it Is a splendid route reaching Into the heart of Clackamas county by way of Damascus. Old houses lines the -road, fields. that seem to have been cultivated for years, splendid little 'vistas of sunlight and (Concluded ea Pate Two, Cohuna Thrae) Unwarranted Kicking Harms t K K It ft ft ft ft ft ft St Highway Engineers Human Indiscriminate criticism of high ways, where road work is in progress, accomplishes nothing. Motorists who travel the highways are frequently inconvenienced by road work. Tempers are frayed by running continually into pieces of construction where apparently no effort has been made to care for current traffic during the time of construction, causing much loose talk where motorists gather, and sometimes resulting In a small furore being created to the annoy ance of everybody. Such furores, get nowhere. The road engineers are not stimulated by con tinual adverse criticism. Uncalled for criticism of one construction gang com ing to the eyes or ears of other gangs and their bosses and engineers fails of its purpose In that a feeling of "What's the use" takes possession of their minds to the extent of driving out t thought of any effort' at an to alleviate dis comfort to traffic Just as one cannot eat cake and have it, too,-so w cannot have .'splendid highways at the same time we are 'building them. .At any rate,. not-at the same-points. - A Portland paper printed recently a picture of a, "bad road, near Oswego; purporting to show the condition at time of publication. The . photograph was taken while a gravel truck was stuck in a mud-hole as It was rocking the bad . stretch. The work at that point was completed . the Saturday following the Tuesday Jit started; and the picture - r vc vT ' - did not appear until the next week. The road had been completed, though' the picture showed , a - terrible condition of mud and chuck-holes. A wrong im pression was given and the criticism naturally angered the men in charge of the work. - ' Another case of unwarranted "calling down" occurred during four or five days that the Mew Bra bridge was closed for repalra The bridge was unsafe and practically unpassable. but a howl went up- because traffic was compelled to detour a mile or so over a rough road in order to make a net progress of 150 or 100 feet The Journal recently was the recipient of a bitter complaint at the condition near Barlow. It sent a scout party to the place and found that a detour of Several miles over a rather rough coun try road was compelled temporarily while road gangs were rocking. the new route. The detour was over, the old rouU that had been in use for half a century until the new grade was completed last year. Fast work was necessary this fall to get the new road in condition before the rains set in and made It impassable. This explanation satisfied everyone and hurt nobody. Bad highway conditions and. bad bridges ara-aharnlv mHtioiwut k. Journal; but not until competent exam ination and investigation have first been made, by its road Information depart ment, and the conditions found ex cusable. Truck transportation, where careful cost account are kept, is making a pay. tag business la many large cities over th country. s 1 Vk: i . r - j Highway Link Held Means to Prevent Influx to Europe It Is estimated that American tourists spend more than 1500,000,000 In Europe each year and the purpose of the com. Ing meeting of the National Park-to- Park Highway association at Denver, November 11-13, is to call to the gov ernment's attention the need for a high way linking together the great play grounds of the West, as outlined by the tour just ended, with a view to stimu lating the "See America First" move ment. Tourist returns to the West from the season just ended is put at 1250,000,000, and with a government expenditure of some ioo.ooo.wvO for this highway, of ficials of the association declare, this amount can be swelled to twice that figure, with a promise of eventually cut ting off the flow of gold from Yankee pockets into the pockets of foreigners. The convention of highway enthusiasts will probably memorialize the next con gress to this effect and will follow up the memorial by intensive campaigning i or ine project. Proposed Highway Cheers WaUciakum Centralis, Oct. SO. Dr. Clifford Ack ley, state veterinary inspector, who re turned yesterday from a two weeks' visit to Wahkiakum county, states that the chief topic, of conversation In that county Is the proposed Ocean Beach highway, wh eh is to run irum Krlo through Pacific and Wahkiakum coun ties, coming out through Nase! to South Bead . The road will be of rreat benefit to Wahkiakum county, which Is now shut off entirely from outside points except: by water., , , ; ( CDNCRFTE PAVING TO SOUTH TO BE FINEST IN STATE Oregon City-Multnomah County Highway, With Costly Surface, to Be Ready in Nine Months. Thirty-three hundred yards of excavation will be made at two points on the Pacific highway be tween the Multnomah county line and Oswego to straighten that i wiggly road and attain the grado I and curve gradient necessary under federal specifications, says Engineer Young of the state highway com mission, in charge of construction on the Clackamas county section of the state commission's operations. Fol lowing the grading the road will be' surfaced with seven inches rein forced concrete. Persons familiar with the road be tween the Multnomah county line, where the paving ends, and Oswego, recall the old stiff grades on the stretch and the I vast Improvement made In the last few years. This road is coming In for more work. Two bad curves and .cut banks will be taken out, a gentler slope graded down to railroad level from the top of Elk Rock, and a nine-foot pave ment laid before December 1 weather permitting. Old Sol is the most im portant engineer with whom the highway commission has to deal. The work at present is going forward I rapidly. Graders and plows are working I south from the Multnomah county line. a good crew of men Is scattered from the line nearly to Wllaonia, trimming the grade where work has been finished and cleaning out ditches for the wet weather. The two fills, comprising about half the width of the roadway, will be allowed to settle through the winter. WILL PATE HALP No concrete will be laid on these fills. but the hard half adjoining will be coated with cement beginning next week at the Multnomah county line. Allowing the fills to settle is one reason for paving only half the width of the lt-foot strip. The other nine feet will be added before August 1. 1921, the time limit set for the completion of the entire work from Multnomah county to Oregon City. The f concrete will be reinforced with Iron bars laid crosswise every 15 Inches and lengthwise every six feet Engineers will regard the Oregon Clty- I Multnomah county road, upon comple Ition. as the best surface in the state. ll PORTLAND Exceedingly Attractive Time Payment Plan C. L. 615-617 "ssmmmmsBems if not on -the Pacific coast, estimating that it would cost. ; Including grading, about 125,000,000 to lay a almllar road way from the ''Columbia river to 'Med ford.' -The expense of the stretch, will be borne jointly, by .the state of Oregon and the federal government, each match ing the other dollar for dollar. T The state . highway commission an' nounces that the road will be closed as soon as the gangs commence-laying con crete and -will be dosed to travel for about two months. This will throw the road open again before February L DET0TJB ABSAHGED During the time this road Is closed, travel between Portland and Oswego should be directed by way of the Booties Ferry; road, leaving the highway at Vir ginia street in Fulton. This route leads up the hill, straight ahead along the road to the seven-mile post, where a turn to the left must be made along the "Lake Grove cut-off to Oswego, two miles from the : turn. Some travel will, of course, go by way of the Capitol high way to Multnomah where by turning left across the traefs at the station a fair road will take the traveler by way of the cemetery and right on Boones Ferry road at the foot of the hill. One warning Engineer Toung Is giving out from the .highway commission Is that add advertising signs must be taken from the road by November 10. This Is In accordance with the rules of the high way commission, barring advertising from trunk highways. Stolen Cars CheTmVt, 1S20 Urarinf, Oregon 25130, n tor C 311ft. Bnlrk, HIT tooriix, Orcron S0B4T. motet 1364004. Does. If 20 tourinc Oteeoa 04868. Motor 811118. Dodso, 120 toarlos, Orasos TIf II, suitor Toi1c, 1 BIO touring, Oregon tSTOS, notot B28S. Dortr, 1120 touring, Oregon 82008. motor S0A4KS. Podm, 1020 tourinc, Oragoa 87455, aiotor BZ118V. Dads. 1020 touring, Washingtoa 111182, motor 404021 Dndgt. 1018 touring. Oregon S1078. motor avwuo. Ford, 1020 touring, Wuhfngten 41824. to ftSSgftOft. Ford. 1018 touring. California 288080. me ter MVD10182. Ford 181T touring. Oregon 48748. motor Ford. 1616 touring, Oregon 21811. motor 10A42S7. Ford, 1017 touring, Oregon 72060, motor 185208. Ford. 1020 eoupe, Oregon 02828. motor 404TSS8. Ford. 1820 too ring, Oregon 73186. motor 8728048. Ford, 1018 track, Oregoa 04004. motor 1444W. Ford. 1810 roadxtar. Oregon 10787. motor 8218614. Ford. 1818 tearing. Oregon 20146. motor 8042786. kUxwaO, 1918 touring, tag mixing, motor 227841. OrarUnd. 1818 dellTgry, Oregon 11 Of 8, mo tor 140041. 0rind, 1816 touring, Oregon 47768, mo tor 81670. Btandnrd, 1020 touring, Oregon 88177, mo tor 1681. Clere lend, 1618 motorcycle. Oregon K 88. motor 10118. IUriej'TTibon. 1616 motorercle, Oregoa H 05, motor I.19A22401. HarkrnriboTi, ISIS motorcycle, Oregoa R-0S. motor L18T1284. Comparisons made in point of price, power, wheel base, running-cost, per formance and every other determining factor of value, lead the inquiring buyer straight back to the good Max well at $1195. Point for point, it advertises itself in the plainest possible way as the great est buy in the market today. Touring Cr $1195 Roadster . ..$ 995 Sedan 1695 Coupe 1595 Price F. O. B. factory, war tax lo be added Boss Automobile Co. Washington St., Portland mm ml for ATTENTION WITH III Skidding.Resulting From Brains Disagreeing Blamed Entirety Upon Driver's Carelessness. Have you Inspected your: bra eg recently? With - wet weather coming on apace, repair men are warning mo torists to look . after their brsJcea, Many accidents have been reported recently as a result of skidding. Skidding when the brakes are applied is due to one brake locking while the other runs free. Repair men declare this dangerous one-sided condition to be caused by one reason, and solely one reason : lack of care on the part of the automobile owner. Brakes may be adjusted In a number of ways. Most people tighten the brake by shortening the rod from the foot pedal at the point provided for that pur. pose. This should not be done. Brakes should be adjusted from the point of ' final contact and not from the point '' where the braking energy originates. - -PROCEDURE IMPORTAirr Start at the drums, tightening both nuts so that the decelerating foroe will be distributed evenly on the entire fsce circumference of the band. Oil careful ly as the nuts are tightened. Kxamlne each bushing for loose parts and nuts and thoroughly oil each bushing. Work Ing tn from the drum, see that each Joint is working evenly, that none of the bearings are frosen for laek of oil. examine and oil the equaliser, and final " ly, If necessary, shorten the brake rod. v When the bearings on one side are frosen, the responsibility of deceleration Is thrown entirely on one drum, the equaliser causing this drum to tighten even more closely then It would do were both drums working evenly. With one wheel working Its brake, skidding Is a natural result, and accidents follow, OWHEB SHOULD INSPECT When tightening the nuts on the brake drum, tighten both the upper and the -base nut. Careless tightening wilt serva ; only to aggravate the trouble. The rod from 4he foot pedal should not be touched until after the drums have been care fully gone over and bushings Inspected and oiled. Many garages, while aware of the Importance of these operations, may not be as careful as would the owner of the car, upon whom the responsibility for careful driving rests. The ultimate brake Inspector Is the owner himself. - VET SEASONS DUE