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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1920)
Capital 3 f Automobile Section j lOC Automobile Section fggjRDYEAR'-NO. "41. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920 EIGHT PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. 1 ? .. FRANKLIN SCORES VICTORY OVER BAD VINTER ROADS ; unieliing. long-distance road run ; a. of winter! Where ehal, it 7d' The reader naturally p!c- m lus mind s eye the fine mac loads and sunny skies of South dam Z , I." but this road run, uni- i motoring annals, was made un .ue m mo'0"""" , ,lmBtie condl- the.rS i-T : of rocky, rutty. rinnS. l"v - ,nhlnff from roaas t-f Maine, and re- to rori tvt.... --- f the route, the "'.Uhin Practically 24 hours. Fort i mv. is one of the most t ocated in the northeastern part "d. !i . almost at the border line. lions- no COV 1019. New 01 "!7;ree. 26-30, " ., n,sP. E. Frost, Peruana, . m r sawyer and Haven C"v r of Bangor, Maine. Car-Wk Franklin Touring. Weather conditions Typical England weather. Road Condito'.r.s-Abomtnable. Let it be noted at the outset that ev . in the summer months the orads from Portland through to Fort Kent are by no means the acme of perfec tion and that by September 15 all gen eral' tourist travel Is by common con ,et abandoned. And Maine roads In December there's a real test for both car and driver. At three minutes past nine on the evening of Friday, December 26, P. E. Frost seated himself in his Frannun touring car in the city of Boston and accompanied by the Sawyer brothers, started out with the grim determina tion to get that car through to Fort Kent In record time. And he dldl Each man agreed to take his turn at the whel for a third of the distance, and the process of clipping off the miieshad begun. Portland was reached at 11:45; Augusta, at 1:15; Bangor at :1J; Houlton, at 6:23; Presque Isle at 7:44; and when Fort Kent, hove in sight at 9:40 a. m. the car and dri vers were still going strong. 486 miles of ic)' and snow covered roads, Includ ing very known variety of road and near-road (several times it wub neces sary to cut across fields where the roads were impassible) covered in 1!! Quack, Modest But Admits He Has Some Shop C. G. Quackenbush, known through out the Willamette Valley as "Quack" pas loath to talk about himself whtr- the Capital Journal man proposed this story. "Now, if you wanted to buy u tire or a spotlight,' 'he said nopefullv. But we wanted the story, which is: Viuack's is Salem's only tire and ac cessory shop. Here the largest and most complete stock of tires In Salem ta carried. This shop, which Is located at 219 South Commercial street, Is also able to supply the autoist with all of the wanted auto accessories. "One of the best equipped tire shops In the state,' "is Quack's claim. 0 Quack's boasts ability to "get wear out of that old tire." Here is a revit alizing piant oy wnicn tires are re treaded and vulcanizing done. "Some of the best bus iness men in the city are our customers," says Mr. Quacken bush. "Tire maintenance is a good bun iness proposition, and we are here to furnish It In the most satisfactory and economical manner. SECOND ANNUAL AUTO SHOW OPENS WEDNESDAY WITH BIG VARIETY OF MAKES AND MODELS TO BE DISPLAYED r All is In readiness for . the second: lin. Studehaker and OldsmnhJln: Salam annual auto s.how of the Marion Velie company, Velie, Dort and Cole; County Automobile Dealers associa- American Automobile company, Oak tion which opens with an address by . . , r l. Mayor Otto Wilson and a response by ,and: Olson 8 Aut0 E Chandler F. G. Delano, president of the asso-'and Cleveland; H. F. Bonesteele, ciation, in the armory at 2 o'clock' Paige and Dodge; Lee L. Gilbert, Elgin Wednesday afternoon. Isix and Harroun; Otto J. Wilson, From the standpoint of artistic dis- Buick; Salem Auto Exchange, Monitor play and the exhibition of passenger and Anderson; Gingrich Motor com and freight carrying motor driven pany, Jordon. Hupmobile. Maxwell and vehicles, the" show promises to be Mitchell; Kirkwood Auto company, one of the greatest ever staged in the Hudson Essex and Overland; J. R. state outside of Pdrtland. Thirty- j Ringrose, Liberty; Salem Auto corn seven individual makes of cars, to panyi Suripps-Booth and 1 Chevrolet; say nothing of the various models ofj valley Motor company, Ford; Case each make, are to be on exhibition! Aut0 company, Case, - Stevens ano in the passenger car section of the Grant; B & c M)tor company, 'Ler show, which Willi be on the armory! i,,, iv,. . j im0,.. ,.;,. The trucks forced out by the anrt R',hapfnrll. RH8I,. GET FIRST POST-WAR FORDSON SHIPMENTS According to a recent report from! the American Trade Agent at Buchar est, Roumania, received by the Ford Motor company'c foreign department, New York City, a consignment of 200 Ford motor cors and 180 Fordson tractors was amongst "the first since the end of the war, and may be con sidered as one of the most Import ant," because of the part, they will play In tse reconstruction of battle scarred, hungry Roumania. Speaking of the arrival of the trac tors, the report said: "The Forson Au totractor, though completely unknown in Roumania, obtained a very large success at Its first demonstration which were followed with the greatest inter est by a large number of farmers, on account of its remarkable Dualities and hours and 37 minutes elapsed tlme-f the services it can do In this country where the work-animals have been des troyed by the enemy Invasion during the war. "More than three quarters of the nmuK arrived nas aireaay Deen bb. and is employed all over the country to the delight of the Roumanian farm ers who are seeing here a great future for the autotractor. Reporting on the sale of- the motor cars, the trade agent says: "The Ford automobiles were sold immediately on floor. demand for passenger car space on the floor, will be exhibited along Lib-j erty street, near the armory weather permitting. The decorative features, which ar to be extensive are to be one of the chief features of the show and will provide a wonderful setting for the care. The floor proper will be free of all decorations, with the exception of short posts here and there - with vases of cut flowers and potted plants, because of the limits on floor space. The room only allows of 46 display spaces, each 8x16 feet, and these have all been taken and more could be used. Beneath the balcony, on three sides of the room, the walls will be covered with painted scenery depicting views along the Columbia Highway, at Crater Lake, ML Hood and other scenic points in Oregon which are being made more and more accessible by the auto Fes tooned from a common center in the ceiling will be strings of colored lights and, also draped from above, will be dozens of Japanese lanterns carrying out the colored light effect. Hanging baskets of ferns and flowers will com plete the decorative scheme. The passenger cars, showing road ster, and touring models in both open and Inclosed styles, and the dealers who will exhibit them at the show are: Marion Automobile company, Frank- PORTLAND AUTO SHOW TO BE A BIG EVENT an average of 38.52 miles an hour. Such a trip made without mishap or an adjustment of any kind would, seemingly, have satisfied the ambition n( most motorists, however, enthusias tic. But not so Frost and his com panions! Only five minutes for a rest and the faithful old Franklin had her nose pointed for Boston. The return journey was not destmea to be as happy as the first leg of the trip, for Just outside of Bangor a team of horses swung across the road in front of the car, which was travelling high speed. The driver, to avoid a Collision, took the dltoll nnrl hlf a granite culvert nr k. ianrt iphiMi fn th nt hrt distributor, directed his atten- to tne Deauuiying . The trucks to be displayed are: Marion Automobile company, Mas ter, White and Oldsmobile; B. & C. Motor company, Sandow; Salem Auto company, Chevrolet; Valley Motor company. Ford; Fageol Truck & Trac tor company, Fageol; W. E. Burns, G. M. C; C. H. Farnham, Wlnther; Fred Loose, Denby; Salem Auto Ex change, Gramm, Bernstein; Salem Velio company, Velie and Bethlehem; Chas. Livesley, Diamond T: H. F. Bonesteele, Paige; Gingrich Motor company, Maxwell; L. L. Pierce, Sterl ing. The Bhow will be open every after noon and evening during the three days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Elgin Display Window Draws Big Attention Completion of the new show window on the south side of the establish ment, the re-papering ond re-painting of walls and floors, and the reno vation of the offices make headquar ters at 156 South Commercial street, their arrival and the Noel company lsf the Elgin Slx aut0 0,16 f the mSt waiting very anxiously a second con- attractive in the city. While the ar signment of 120 machines which have! rival of ears from the factory was hopn nritnm niihi, iwj , n f .. I rfolu vprl durinur January, Lee L. Gil- , .... . . s L ....... . j, .-j ut Portland, Or., Feb. 17. Some idea of the slie of the big automobile show to be held in Portland the entire week of February 23rd to 28th may be gain. ed from the fact that the Ice Palace, where the motor car part of the show will be held, is the largest show room on a single floor in the United States. Its 360x130 feet without a single post to obstruct the view, give more space than is available for cars even on the main floor of the huge Coliseum bldg., In Chicago, which is 300x120 feet in size. But large as It is, the Ice Palace can accomodate only the passenger car sec tion of the Portland show. A year ago,.! both passenger cars and trucks were shown on the same floor. This year there are so many passenger car ex hibits, and so many special models, that the Ice Palace will be devoted ex clusively to passenger cars, while the tiuck will be exhibited in a separate truck show in the Portland Armory, a few blocks away. The passenger car show in the Ice Palace will be by long odds the mm complete ever held In Pacific North west, and the truck show will be the first exclusively truck event on the Pacific coast. Both will be undor man agement of the general show commit tee, and one ticket will admit visitors Due supply nouses, returned the cover to both shows without additional cost, in a ruied condition, saying he had In the passenger Car show there will receive,, only 800 miles service from i be- a total of 69 different makes of it. He had been using the cover on 'cars, to say nothing of the fact thai one of the tires of his car with the I at least 176 different models will be Idea that it was a means of obtaining; shown. The Portland show will contain W. E. and Dan One and Same; Handling CM. C. A new sign has appeared In auto mobile row. It reads "W. .I! Burns- Dan Burns. Not brothers, the same man.". - , . . This unusual sign is due to the fact that Mr. W. E. Burns has been known since college days as Dan Burns. Besides his theoretical training, Mr. Burns has had several years ot prac tical experience in mechanics and transportation problems so that he Is well equipped to understand and solve haulage problems. He has gone Into the truck business because he feels ai- sured that the truck will eventuallv surplant the railroad for short dii tance hauling. He is handling the G. M. C. trucks exclusively. H will carry a complete stock of parts for this truck and will follow the well known liberal service policy to all O. M. C. owners. SANDOW SELECTED BY LOCAL COM ONLY AFTER STUDY some mighty good not bear the Sandow TNSATISFACTORY TIRE COVKR. A farmer having purchased a tire cover from one of Chicago's antomo- larger- mileage. The longest mile is the Norwegian, which is 12,182 yards. almost as many different make of cars as were exhibited at the recent New York Show, the big event of the year in motordom. SHOWS BIG INCREASE The enormous output of truoka fur nishes the best possible proof that the automobile industry is once more on a satisfactory basis following the war. There were 87,373 truck manufao tured in the United States during the second quarter of 1919. Of this number the one-ton type prevailed, with a to tal of 7,850. The other figure follow On and a half ton capacity, 4.56S; two ton capacity 4.739; two and a half ton capacity 1,099; three and K half ton capacity 2,267; four ton capacity, 144; five ton capacity 3,166; ovar tire tot capacity 587; one. halt ton capacitv 3,619; three fourths ton capad y 6.447; capacity not given 1,121; fire ap paratus 122; busses, ambulances and hearses, 39; government trucks 601, Loos chainse on solid tlrse have been found least Injurious as they work themselves around the wheel and pro vide an equal distribution of the wear and strains. , "There are trucks that do nameplate," says P. H. Buchholx, of The B. & C. Motor company, Oregon distributors for this truck. There fore, when we decide to take on a truck In this territory our problem was more difficult to solve. Our idea was to get a truck that was not only equal In every respect to the recognized leaders, but it possible superior. "Investigation of the whole truck field took me to Chicago last Decem ber. There we found that the San dow was immensely popular. The greatest industrial firms, such as the Standard Oil company and Arm our & company, using whole fleets of Sandows, both In the east and west "We found the Sandow, point for point, the equal of any truck in America, but having In addition five vital, exclusive features that no other truck has, nor can have, a big ad vantage for the Sandow, we thought, these features having one definite object economy of upkeep and maintenance. "That's what we sought. That's why we chose the Sandow That'a why we recommend It. That's why the Sandow is meeting with favor by truckmen." The B. & C. Motor company has al ready .placed several trucks in Mar ion county, besides which a number of county agencies have been estab lished in the Wllalmette Valley. They predict an unprecedented Bale of trucks in the Pacific Coast country during the present year, and express the opinion that the various factorlea will be taxed to their utmost capacity to supply the demand. There are no trucks In storage at the factories to AtV n .1 ,1 with lha MAnuftn Ilia tnnn tng unless those In the market for trucks this year close their contracts early they may find themselves on the waiting list. fere injured, but the eneine Was nush- ed back and the car put out of com mission. This happened about 4:33 on Saturday afternoon, December 27th. The car was returned to Bangor, re paired, and started on the last lap of 't Journey on Tuesday afternoon, Dec ember 30, at 4.23 p. m. It reached JSta at 6:19 p. n, Portland at P- m. and the Hotel Lenox In Bton at 11:28 p. m. On the return mp to Boston in many places not the "Shtest siffn Wlla t0 be gfen Qf the wok made by the car as it headed northward. ElOHY BIG FACTOR already reserved by their customers." Many motor car users have experi enced difficulty in getting heavy oil to flow from the storage tank in which it is kept. A way around this is to sol der whnr Is known an a. mollassea tuAl- cet on a five galoln can. This faucet land patrons. Palms, ana a oioom im works on the principle of a gate Vaivei ported from England, are among the and the heavy oil will be found to flow' decoration In the new display wind easily, ow. tion lishment. ' The stand In the window, wliere the latest model Elgin Six auto is on dis play, with Us plush rope and flower decorations, and wicker chairs and stands at the side of the car, has In cited much comment among dealers IN PURCHASING AUTO "To be practical automobiles must " economical," gav, p n rwi i. whaler in Chevrolet passenger and I "mmercial cars. Jthould cost an owner but very Whj! transportation utilities. CheTe;i0r.COnvenience' comfrt. '"v ance .Ha" ges of an '"dividual "wor of automobiles. - majority 0f motorist, h m. Car8 that are alo Inexpensive .T.Bd...t0,,'r.1" fount-.., - Dt Of. v riif accessibl motors BTLHnllno ll::T" t0 a Wmlmum- In ,h, " fVt dela'1' and ex action th.7 . ' can" for con aistrih ve heavy materia'- os,yVH,"Ce9,' ,'train l rltyjrantth.treiia.r W even 2 ,,mre of tmnaparti- 'me ' B'lon of gasoline con- "Th . 1 lrati ",ml""- tney want this " denenrt bS a faetc"' that . p"reh!"'-" are no longe, """oped .,, ''"".mobiles that must he trie . '""V are boueht E! , to Zl f0r '""tance are nec- 2, 22510 PASSENGER CAR OUTPUT IS PREDICTED M AMBtKA If) 1920 Following are some production tlgures relative to the growth of the au tomobile industry during the last ten years, prepared oy ui" -mobile Chamber of Commerce. The automobile industry today is the third largest In the United States. There is every indication that with the passage m 1 HnM tf nrlll ranlr In thA fiAO.nnd tllilCG. UL Uiiuiiitrr jcai 11. ttiii . .. Automobile manufacturers believe tnai wm u....B - at least 2,225,000 passenger cars and at least 4u,uuv movor uu. MOTOR TRUCK PRODUCTION. ., ' av tin,- i ., . '"dudel in Part motor T M esw,,i, ""in-JLa.ft0r'1 "onomlral trans- fw this n ' built and e.uip. ,1,"tar.1 .?os-flre "a! utili " 10 the greatest .demand- efficiency. or and fuel. Thev the purchis? f the car. S, 7'u'!"eni now re- PASSKNCiER CAR Year Nnmber 1899 3,700 1904 21,281 1909 127,731 1914 543,731 1917 1,740,792 1918 926.388 1919 1,586.787 PRODUCTION Wholesale Value $ 4,750,000 23,634,364 159,918,506 413.859,379 1,053,505,781 801,937,925 1,399,282,995 YEAR Number 1904 411 1911 10.655 1917 128.157 1918 227,250 1919 305,142 Wholesale Price t 946.947 22,292,321 220,932,668 434.188,992 408,311,585 Average wholesale price 1919', $882. Average wholesale price 1919, $1,338 ke-e- WE SELL GOODYEAR TIRES TUBES AND ACCESSORIES Valley Motor Co. Why More Small Cars Come Equipped With Goodyear Tires f$S 30 x tiORfA- equi KOK?m any year, more small cars, using 30 x 3-, 3V2' or 31 x 4'inch tires, were factory pped with Goodyear Hres than ' with other kind. This is plainly a result of the high . relative value produced in these small-car tires by Goodyears enormous resource and scrupu lous care. represent the same intense endeavor to supply utmost satisfaction in tires that has laid the basis for the marked preference which exists every wV - - h "; Tires in the larger sizes. This real Goodyear value in tires is available for your Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell, or other small car, at our nearest Service Station. Go there for these tires and Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes. V: 30 x 3 V4 Goodyear Double-Cure $'1 AGO Fabric, AU -Weather Tread v LJ 303V4 Goodvoar Single-Curs $1 765 fabric, Anti-Skid Tread X f Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes am thick, Mrong tubes that reinforce cuing properly. Why risk a good casing with cheap tube f tootlycar Heavy I mi rut lubes com little mors than tuhe of lets merit. 30 3' sua in uattr- prool "o $322