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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1916)
I SIX THE DAILY CAPITAL JO' RNAL, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1916. I Stalled on a Railroad Crossing with an express 300 feet away I Will your starter work or is it a case of jump and lose the car? In such an emergency you want to be sure of your storage bat tery. Stop here once a month and let us inspect your battery, what ever its make. Then it will always be ready for any emergency. This Free Battery Inspection (Any battery on any ear) will save you many a dollar and may save your life. Expert battery repairing and recharging. Starting motors, lighting generatori and ignition tptems repaired. Jhe Belmont Service Station Wt tan supply repair farts for any storage battery, or a Gould Gnarantetd Battery to fit the battery box on your car. Phone 1671-B, 5th and Belmont Streets m 1 2B on When in trouble we will be glad to help you. Experienced man to make your repairs and ad justments. Full line of accessories in stock at all times. Exide and G. L B. Batteries. Recharging Station. Supplies for Hudson, Auburn and Reo Cars, in stock. Great Western Garage C. C. SIMERAL, Prop. 147 High St., opposite Court House. Phone 44 MB GATTI CASAZZA. GOES TO HUNT A FEW VOICES Now York, May "tl. (luilio Ontti CiisiM7.il, general manager of tin' Metro politan Opera sailed toilny for (ieiwro aboard I ho Unci d'Aosta, to seek a now crop of operatic, stars for next pennon. Heme contracts expire this reason with nrtisls, that may not lie renewed and substitutes must lie fonml, 1 ittiCnsnzzn will comb war torn Ku Topo for a couple of million dollars worth of voices. He is just as apt to j'iiul a $100,0(10 tenor, serving soup in n restaurant, or a $00,000 liarytono lmwling the Italian eipiivali'nt of ''Un-angs, Holies ami Mottles" as he in to find them to the m inner horn. THEY THROW AWAY THE KEY EVEKY 25 YEARS MilwauUee, Wis., May 20 Twenty five years at'o todav, with solemn cere mony, the key to ono of Milwaukee's little (lorman cafes was thrown into the Milwaukee river. . In coniiuonio- I ration of the anniversary today, n pro- cession of rotund men n'jain moved I down Mason street to the river, whore a huge wooden key was tossed into 1 lie waters lv Otto Wanner. Then the celebration started. The place has not j been closed for twenty-five years and , is a ncuuipiuricrs ror poimcutus, urws ! piper men and other loading lights. Try Capital Journal Want Jim. jMaxwell Company Gives Boom to City ! of Newcastle Within the last five years New- j castle, lad., has graduated from a little town to a prosperous city anil the trans formation has been due chiefly to the influence of the Maxwell Motor Co. When the big automobile organization located one of its mammoth factories ', in this place less than ten years ago, ' the population was close to f,000. Now it is in the neighborhood of 15,000. The town has become congested. Transpor- tation and housing problems are engag ing the attention of the. city officials. The situation became so acute that j the officials of the Newcastle plant of the Maxwell Company offered to co operate with the citv planners in ef fecting a remedy and n plan has been evolved that will not only take care of all the residents, of Newcastle, but also provide for many others who are being attracted to the place by its in dustrial activity. More building is going on in New castle this spring than ever before in the history of the town. This also is due directly to the initiative of the officials of the Maxwell Company at Newcastle. Big Company Formed. . At the suggestion of the Maxwell of ficials a corporation known as the Greater Newcastle Company was formed and capitalized at $100,000. A tract of land, 73 acres, adjacent to the Maxwell plant, was purchased and divided into lots. The city was in duced to buy ten acres of this ground for park purposes. The remaining 65 acres were divided into 250 lots. None of these lots arc less than 50 feet wide and 1.12 feet deep. -Many of New castle's prominent business men took stock in the new company, the Max well retaining a controlling interest of 1 GO per cent. The building of attractive five-room ; houses "of the bungalow type is now j progressing rapidly. Streets, alleys I and sewers are being built. Water j mains, electric lights and telephones I are being installed. The property is highly restricted and a general plan I of tree-plantiug is being carried out, j so that beauty is not being neglected ! for the sake of expediency. Kaeh ' house is being finished with distinctive ! touches, so that the whole plan does not savor of the tenement atmosphere. Sold At Cost, 'Kaeh of these houses will be sold at the cost price and by an arrangement under which nnv worker may huy. The I prices will range from $1000 to $1000 j and the initial payment will be about ; 10 per cent. The balance is to be paid in weekly installments of from $5 to 1 $(i. Maxwell officials figure that this is about $1 more than the average ' Newcastle resident pn.ys in rent, so j that by saving only a ilo'iiir a. week, i the purchaser of the house is buying his own home. I For Maxwell employes in Newcastle, I this housing plan presents other econ 1 oiuic features. The houses are all 1 within easy wnlking distance of the factory. Car fare is eliminated and the men will all be able to go home for I luncheon. I None of the houses have boon sold, the directors of the company preforing 1 10 wait until all improvements have i been made. Maxwell employes are eager to buy and already there is a waiting list, that indicates that all of the 250 houses will bo taken speedily. When the. initial allottineut is sold the project will be extended gradually to provide easily acquired homes for all, if possible, of the growing army of Maxwell employes in Newcastle. Time Payment Basis Is Extended to Automobiles Among the rumors that are current in financial circles of New York City is one to the effect that big New York and Chicago capital is in back of the newly formed -Uuawnty Securities cor poration. This is the Nt York coin I i nir i lm f in emit 1 !.- liuvo formulated in new and original plan whereby nuto- inoime dealers, nnnitiiug various mums of cars, can dispose of their products on the "Time Payment" basis. j Arrangements hnve already been en tered into between several motor car ! manufacturers and their dealers which I enable the latter to offer cars to taeir i customers, on deferred payments, in ......!. li.t.i'.iviK tlm i,llini ilif'IVr land it is to offset this objectionable j feature that the uunranty reeurmes i corporation has entered the field w ith a selling plan that is declared to be uniform for all makes of cars and is WATT SH1PP, President W. E. ANDERSON, Vice President JOHN W. HARBISON, Secretary and Treasurer 126 SOUTH COMMERCIAL STREET Everything for the Automobile GUNS, AMMUNITION, FISHING TACKLE, BICYCLES, MOTORCYCLES, GOLF EQUIPMENT SPORTING GOODS, GYMNASIUM SUPPLIES Salem, Ore., May 20, 1916 Dear Friends: We are opening our new store at 126 South Commercial street on Monday, May 22nd. We have outgrown our old location we need a place for our new stocks and more room for you when you come to see us. You will be welcome, very welcome, in fact if you don't come we may have to move back to the old store. But we are counting on at least one visit from you you owe that much to yourselves, just to satisfy your curiosity. Now this is in the strictest confidence and we will tell you more about itJater. There will be something extra special next Saturday. Yours very truly, -gTTNS AND AMMtmnVia- SAXON . X 1 Of " j i , . 1 1 ii r-irw-TW,". rT--', X il .v THE time for your summer vacation will soon be here. Why not figure on getting a Saxon Roadster and making a long motor trip? Saxon "Four" costs only $115.00 to buy and but one-half cent per mile to operate. It is absolutely modern in every feature and detail, strong, rugged and powerful, and will carry you anywhere a heavy car will and some places where a big car can't. Saxon Roadster is the only two-passenger car under $500 with a sliding gear transmission. Let us talk with you about getting a Saxon "Four." LLOYD L. RYAN, Agent Service Station at Halverson & Burns. Garage, Corner High and Ferry Streets. rhone' 939 national in its scope. Whilo details of the plan have not been made public, its is understood that the group of capitalists who arc responsible for it and who are hack of it arc numbered among the most influ ential in the country. That this new company is destined to play an important part in the future of the motor car business is evidenced I by the fact that it is capitalized on the j basis of having $00,000,000 worth of automobile paper this year. Automobile Makers Oppose Deferred Payments Lansing, Mich., ilay 20. Unqualified endorsement of the denunciation hurled by It. II. Collins, general sales manager oi' the Buick Motor company, against a general extension of the deferred pay ment plan of selling automobiles, is voiced by Jay V. Hall, general sales manager of the Ohk Motor Works, of this city. "No man should buy an autoinobili! until he can ufford it," says Hall. "Any other course is sure to end in disaster, not only for the individual, but fur the industry us well. "To date the growth of the automo bile business has been absolutely sound, at the expense of no othter industry, and of positive benefit to all A wide application of the deferred payment pin n would change this completely, by causing many men to assume obliga tions I hey have no business to enrry. "In a majority of instances the deal er would be the man to suffer. A period of financial stringency among his trade, and he would have a quantity of half sold cars on his hands -if se.ond hand value, little cash, ami no credit at the bank to tide tiiui over. "In the seeentecii years of its exist ence the Olds Motor Works has dis posed of millions and millions of dol lars worth of automobiles without re sorting to deferred payments methods in marketing its product. It is a shamo that the good name of Oldsniobile should be linked with such a proposition at this time. The idea will certainly fail of endorsement by anyone connected with this orgnniy.ation. " "As a matter of fact, the plan has States. I recently been tried at San Fr.incisco! "The I'nited States now has practic jon a large scale, and with marked sue-Lily :) ,000,000 automobiles, with the cess. probability that this number will be in- ''(ienernl William U Sibert, com-1 creased to 3,0.00,000 before the close of mnndant of the Pacific coast artillery, j the present selling season, and Captain H. I). Kyns, president of) "In the hands of a bo.ird of strnt j the Oldsniobile company of California, egy, these automobiles would form the co-operated in the formation of a Sniijiuost effective weapon for offense and ll'rancisco automobile reserve corps audjdeense that can be imagined, capable j the staging of a series of maneuvers'! of transporting1 10,000,000 troops to j which give every hope for the future. 1 danger points with deadly rapidity, j "In one of the maneuvers, a large "Had (lermuny had but n portion of body of regular troops from the Pre-i our motor cars she would have pushed jsidio, accompanied by a complement i her drive through Belgium to Paris be jnf light artillery, was rushed to Half fore the allies could have even begun j moon Bay, a comparatively in.iccessi-! to offer rcsistence. Instead of slow ble spot on the west coast, suitable for ; plodding columns of men there would ! invasion, in the spnee of a couple of: hnve been an avalanche of motor cars, ; hours," over a route which, under oidi-jand all would have been over, nary conditions, would' have taken a; "The United States can guard ilny mid a half. against the fate of Belgium and Servia j "Concerning the outcome of the ex-j by a thorough organization of its avail jperinicnt, (icneral Sibert said: ' The able motor car material, now. ;results of this experiment, which is the! " Kver.v automobile dealers'' organi i first of its kind in the United States, ! zation in the United States should take j will prove of unusual importance to; toll of the cars in its territory and incut, particularly the a owners, are to co-operate wit my and navy, the better ofl! be. : itne oiiteors of the army in their pre jpnredness plans.' j "T should like to see a general ex- tension of the automobile reserve corps j principle in every city of the United make arrangements to weld them into some sort of unit. "If trouble should come, it will come swiftly. Then the better prepar ed the civilian elements of the govern- SEE OUR WINDC Special Prices on j Robes and Outing ing. - j Watch oar window Specials ( IkiuserBr Stale Street! Automobile Reserve Corps for Many Cities The establishment of automobile re-! I,, nv.i.1- ill,, nf tl,., I'lilt... 1 ...r iuiV ..... .... . States, ns factors in the present pre paredness campaign of the United States, is urged by .lay V. Hall, active executive of the Olds Motor Works, of Lansing, Mich. "Our country has some four thous and miles of shore line to protect," says Hall, "with toe possibility of troops being landed at any point. "The only possible way of success fully combating such an attempt would be our ability to throw large masses of soldiery against any given I point at short notice, j "Wiih huge fleets of motor cars, jstich as could be mustered in almost i any city of the United States, this could be accomplished with little trou I ble, provided the proper organization be had. ::t ' - - -vlZ? II ATTAINMENT ATTAINMENT TO BUILD a motor car of light weight, attractive appearance and low q ating cost; to equip it with every device for comfort and convenid throughout to install a value and character that we could be proud to end with our name and reputation; and to offer such a motor car at a price n possible only by scientific manufacturing and a great volume of business.?' ideal, conceived almost thirteen years ago, has been the guiding influeni the destiny of our institution. Its soundness is established' by our success the great good will earned by the Maxwell car. ' Two-Passenger Roadster $723.00 "I Five-Passenger Touring Car . . $745.00 Full equipment, including Electric Starter and Lights. , 1 HALVERSON & BURNS Corner Ferry and High Streets. Phone t