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' 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.
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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
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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.
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