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8 ' HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Automobiles and Good Roads A Department Designed to Help Farmers With Progressive Road Ideas. GOOD ROADS, state highways and the formation of a state auto mobile association, such as forty four other states in the Union possess, will be a prominent feature of the mid summer Putlntch to be held in Seattle beginning July 13 and dosing July IS. Motorists from every part of Eastern Washington as well as the west side will be guests of the Automobile Club of Seattle during that week and the state association will be organized. The primary object of the association will be to initiate legislation affecting the interests of farmers as well as city folk owning machines and to promote intrastate thoroughfares so that ac cess to the big markets will be easy. Celebration Is Feature. One of the principal events in con nection with the gathering of the auto mobilists will be the celebration of the completion of the Snoqualmic Pass highway, creating a low-grade passage through the Cascades. Heretofore those who have tried to take their cars through the state have been compelled to ship them by rail. That this pass will bring thousands Of continental motorists through Washington instead "King of Apples"Once Poor German Boy in City Herbert Corey Tells Romantic Story of "Joe" Steinhardt, Who Buys Out Whole Hood River Crop. $$S.$.$$-S.jS$$$$$$. s $ The king of apples is not a $ farmer. Yet farmers in the $ S Northwest deal with him more $ S or less every year. Herbert 3 8 Corey has written a wonder- $ $ fully interesting account of this German boy's ride to fame on $ $ a red-cheeked apple. By HERBERT COREY. CI IOE" STEINHARDT 'S opportun ity looked like, hard luck when it came to him. For days he had been getting his meals by washing dishes in Bowery restaurants. At night he had been sleeping on park benches. One afternoon he was hired by a pro duce dealer to roll some doze barrels of apples down cellar. "I won't give you any money," said the dealer when the work was done. "You'll have to take your pay in rapples. ' ' Steinhardt was a raw German boy at that time, 16 years old, barely able to speak English intelligibly, without a useful friend in the city, and in rags and tatters. The very last thing he wanted was apples. He had been eating bananas he had picked up on the fruit docks, with an occasional over-ripe1 melon thrown out of the produce mar kets. He had planned to spend that anticipated quarter on a steak. But the dealer was in earnest. "All right," said Steinhardt. "Will you loan me a basket! " Sold to Housewives, That was a most unpretending way for a future "king of apples" to start toward the coronation ceremonies. But there was no help for it. He hooked that filled basket of apples over his elbow and started toward Harlem where the housewives are. From time to time he cried his wares. He was too hungry and weak to eat them or his career might have vanished before it began. That night he slept again in the park. He had sold all his apples and be "saw possibilities ahead. Next morning Ire was at the apple dealer's door as seen as the owner to buy more apples. '' "I believe," said Steinhardt on one later occasion, "that I know as much of the buying and selling end of the apple business as any man alive. For three successive years I bought the en-1 tire erop of the Hood Eiver country in Oregon. I have given .apples to kings for publicity purposes. I watch for a new apple district as anxiously as a placer miner does for news of a new camp." 1 Humility Doesn't Fay, Not every apple dealer will admit that Steinhardt ii the most important of by the routo now used through Wyoming into California, is believed. As soon as the Northwest highway re ceives the proper advertisement in the East, inestimable returns to small com munities in Eastern Washington to be derived from tourists plentifully sup plied with money, are expected. For the entertainment of the dele gates and visitors during the week, the Potlntch authorities have arranged sev eral special features for the carnival. Many Other Features. On one night an illuminated auto mobile pageant with decorated cars will be shown through the principal streets. Fast auto races throughout the carnival days are also scheduled. The carnival officials have prepared many other features. The Tilikums of Klttaes, a booster organization meaning "Friends of SeatUe, " has the pro gram directly in charge, with such organizations as the Seattle Yacht Club, Dads' Day committee and others assisting. Aviation flights day and night, Lipton cup yacht races, pageauts, international speedboat races, Mardi Gras carnival and. general hilarious good' times are all to come as parts of the entertainment. man in the trade. But it is freely ad mitted by no one more freely than Steinhardt that he is one of the most important men in it. He believes' in letting people know about himself. - "Humility," he says, "sells no ap pies. ' ' It was not long before Steinhardt had progressed to the dignity of a push cart after that successful essay in basket salesmanship. Each morn ing he would push that cart six miles uptown to the housekeeping centers. By and by he became frightfully an noyed by an Irish apple peddler named Kelly. Kelly owned as red a cart as Steinhardt. He bought as good apples. He could make as much noise. When Steinhardt started in at one end of the street, and Kelly advanced toward him from the other, each bawling his war cry, peaceful ' folk used to pull down the windows. Foes Finally Combine. "You gotta git outa here," said Kelly 'to Steinhardt one day. "Keep off this street. ' ' "Whot" asked Steinhardt. "Met If you speak to me again if you even look at me" The-' pair began to haunt each other. Neither was happy until he knew where the other was. They paid more attention to put-yammering the rival than to selling apples, Steinhardt saw that could not go on. One day he went to Kelly in an amicable mood. Wo 1 can't scare each other," said he. "Let's combine," Begins to Gamble. A few months later the new firm became venturesome. In open competi tion they sold four barrels of apples to an outfitting steamship. On the strength of their first "big deal" they bohght a horse and wagon. The horse was merely a collection of defects held together by a tenacious will. They painted the wagon themselves, at night, as red as red could be found on the color board. Steinhardt drove the new outfit to ' the dock himself with the four barrels of apples. ' "Every now and then I'd get off the seat ' and pretend to be fixing some thing about the harness," said b. "B.ut the harness was all right, I just wanted to see my own name painted on the side of my own wagon." The rest of the story is simply one of growth. .. Steinhardt has always specialized in apples. He found diffi culty in. selling American apples on the other side of the water. Possible buyers 'did not. know what apples are. So that he began to educate Europe on American apples. He has sent pack ages of "red-skinned beauties from Ore- gon' to prince, about- to be erwU; Pr(,e ,!,,,,. kings. lie has corresponded earnestly J with titled people and - given apples away at Monto Carlo. .Eventually he was buying apples by the trainload in stead of by the basket. . He was the first to buy on a large scale from the Hood Kivcr country the most wonder ful valley of apple trees in the world. "There isn't any secret of success," Steinhardt says. "You only have to know your apples and then let others know of them, Don't be diffident. It doesn't pay." Autoist Beats Base ball Fan HO is the slangiest mortal alive "The baseball fan," quickly ans wered Nick Cullop, Kansas City Federal pitcher, "The auto fan," contradicted R. H. Williams. Immediately Culloy and Williams wero into a hot argument. "Why, no real baseball fan can ex press himself except in slang," Nick said. "I know " Just the same he had better look to his laurels," Williams interjected. "Just take the real automobile fan, a few ot whoso expressions aro: "Mag" or magneto. "Shoot the juice," for speed up the car. ' ' ' Gosoline sneezer ' ' motorcycle. "Junk" expression for a car one docs not like. t "Gas" for gasoline. "Jigglo the enrburctor," to get "a freer flow of gas. ' ' Turn it over," is parlance for "crank the motor." "Killing it" means stall a motor, but the car "dies" when the engine stops. Nice boat" is a term for an up-to- date car," and "That s enough," Cullop gasped, "I never knew that there were motor bugs. ' ' Roads Aro Improved At a meeting of tho Auto Club, of Centralia, Wash., it was voted to tako full advantage of May 22, Good Roads day, for improving tho highways in this vicinity. A committee was appointed for each highway leading into the city, whose duty it was to solicit volunteers for road work on that day. Picks, shovels and drags were used. The fife and drum corps of Company M adver tised the event tho previous- night, Prizes were offered for the best half mile of road maintained this season by farmers within a radius of 15 mites of Centralia. The first prizo wilt he $50, second $25, third 15 and fourth $10. The King of SILENT POWERFUL VIBRATIONLESS The Henderson WW.' mm THE AUTOMOBILE , That Needs Neither Garage Nor Chauffeur. The first motorcycle was constructed with a single cylinder. This was a big Im provement over the bicyclo and very satisfactory for the city messenger service. But it was not until 2-cylindcr machines came out that cross country riding became popular. Only those who have fairly burned up their machines .trying to climb a hill or pull through sand know the value of surplus power when touring. As the single was an Improvement over tho bicycle and the twin an advnnco over the single, so is tho 4 CYMNDER 8 H. P. HENDERSON a big advantage over tho twin. 431 Stark Street. GEO.G. Woman Buns Garage Miss Ruth Sarkin, the first woman to secure a license to operate a ear in Fitehburg, Mass., is now manager, of the largest garage in that city, and is also half-owner of the business. King Peter Is Auto Agent ' King Peter, of Servia, is now an au tomobile agent, hiving taken the agency for a French car. The King has also taken an interest in a nair- dressing establishment. Wool Growers Collect $200,000. Of the 1,250,000 pounds of wool in this spring's clip, in the district from North Yakima to the Columbia river tuere are less than 100,000 pounds in the hands of the growers. The total sales of tho wool will aecrecate $200,000 and tho produc ers of wool in most instances have their money. Professor A. W. Taylor, head of the department of economic science, deliv ered the Commencement address at the Pullman high school May 12, and also at the Colfax high school, May 25. Zoological item in Fossil, Oregon, Journal: 'Put Collins brought in an immense porcu pine hide yesterday, big enough for a lap robe, and turned it over to Road Supervisor John Van Horn, who gave Pat a contract year ago to get him a pelt of this kind. John is sending the hide by parcel post back to hii nephew in Missouri. Before Ton Buy Investigate DAYTON MOTORCYCLES Single and Two Speed Models, With Many Exclusive Features. Write tor Cataioane and Details. Bargains in Used Machines. DAVTON CYCLE CO. 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