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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1917)
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOrtlXAL. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY. FEB. 24, 1917. m THIS Garage is amply equipped to turn out any kind of automobile work. Our facilities are the best to be had and our workmen are skilled and experienced mechanics. No job is too large or too small to get the best attention from us. Cur motto IS 'The Best Work at the Most Reasonable Price." Phone to 44 when you have trouble with your car. We can send out and get you at any time. This is one of the features of our business most appreciated by our customers and one which has made our garage known as SALEM'S Best Garage. We carry a large line of Auto Accessories, (Mis, Greases, as well as gasoline. Drive in at anv time and see what prompt and courteous treatment you get here. Don't forget the "Free Air" when your tires are down. We aim to give you the BEST Treatment in town and want you to take advantage of it. We know we can please you if you will just give us the chance. A trial of our work will convince you that of all places in the city, this is Salem's very best. GARAGE m The Home of the Famous BATTERY ,HL-h l4l i MT(IW.IIH bbbbbH- tMMt-t THE BEST BATTERY BUILT FOR LIGHTING AND STARTING OF AUTOMOBILES. WE GIVE FREE SERVICE Great Western Garage "xf6C f ree at Garage C. C. SIMERAL, Proprietor. 147 North High Street, opp. Court House. Telephone 44 TEST CARS MAKE 4,688,412 MILES DURING 1916 "During lUlii our fleet of lire test! inn "sr traveled 4,if.N,412 union, which is iiiiiv"itnt to (ISO lrin from New1 Vork lo 8a n Francisco and n'lurii. and they used upwards ofOiXUMKi gallons' of gasoline," said Dr. V. ('. tieor,' chief of the development detriment ' of The B. F. Goodrich t'ompaiiy, as he, was leaving for Washington yesterday. I This statement was given ont a sixi of the test ears left for the South ' j where they will avoid the snow cov ered roads of Ohio for the next several! ', months in making their strenuous tests i of the Goodrich products. The ears haV lieen unable to make the required i ,11X1 miles everv 24 hours in northern i i Ohio and since this mileage is consid ered imperative by the Operating Com-! mittee. it was decided to transfer the work to a field where it can be ear-i ried on without any interruption. At Chattanooga the present fleet will lie increased by,five new ears and at Atlanta three more will be added, ; bringing the entire number up to. 14: cars with a crew of 117 men, all expert j drivers who enjoy a record for 1916 that was free from accidents. ' When I began driving one of these test cars," said one of the drivers, "1 thought it was all fun, but I soon hadi this taken out of mc for have to make at least 150 miles during the day j and then turn mv ear over to a night ! driver who also makes 150 miles. We j keep a complete record of every tire and the hits as well as the ears are j inspected by the factory experts every ! morning before wo start out. It is ! p'easant enough to be a trsirist, but to bo turned loose on the road with a car and nothing to do but wear out tires is a pleasure that soon develops into a serious business." "The Goodrich Company insists that the test car drivers not only observe the laws of the communities through which they travel, but they also m-vst exorcise every precaution that tends to promote the 'Safety First' idea." FORD MAKES 66,000 MILES AND STILL GOING As a Ford car in North Carolina re marked to a Ford in South Carolina, "It's a long way between the factory and where we've traveled if anyone should set out to follow the trail.'' .)304li is the number of the "Univer sal Car" that carries the summer tour ists up and over and down the moun tainous country about Hendorsonvillo, IS. V., with owner C. H. MoMnnawny at the wheel. Two full twelve month calendars have waned, sheet by sheet, since this car was placed in service and 65,000 mils of mountain grades have dissolved beneath its tires. Dur ing that time the motor has never been touched nor have the valves been re-ground. When the hey diuey Of the summer vacation season is over the owner drives the ear about Hendei- sonville in public passenger service. In South Carolina, Ford No. 511574 i makes a g muxes a gi'drnffA Une ton iruci $1,500 worth for half price this is what you get in this fast sell ing motor truck. WW No truck ever built ever gave such phenomirml results as the Smith Form-a-Truck. No truck ever sold as fast. Millions of. dollars' worth have been sold to date. We don't have to prove what they will do we don't have to prove that they are cheaper than any other truck built we don't have to prove that they are speedier we don't have to prove that they give greater satisfaction all this has been investigated by hundreds of concerns, and THKY HAVE PROVED THESE THINGS. This is why the sale of these Smith Form-a-Trucks has run way up into the millions in so short a time. There isn't a concern in this country, from New York to California, operating one or a whole fleet of these trucks, but that is mote than satisfied with the results and economy it is getting. Ask us to send you our booklet "It Solves Your Delivery Problems." Get the facts and know to your own satisfaction just what th Smith Form-a-Truck will do tur you in YOUR business. BOTH MAGERS & LOOSE, Agents Salem, Oregon SJ Deliver v Piotilpmsi nrwj put lfore me the f nets and tisrims proving t'uu ihr Smith Kotm-n-Truck give Mj the .-hempemt delivery rest in the u'orW. Name V Si. Aiircem .. iH Stat. winds its wav about the town of I And these are just tw o of more than Woodruff. Soid to the present owners, one million, seven hundred and iiliy on July 9, 1014, this car has been em- thousand in active Jaily use. liloved over since in public trunspor-j . . iation. It has shown one trait that is: Boston is to name a square in honor an inherent quality of Ford cars in j of Fred Duuglas, which will still fur business service, namely, the financial j tncr 8qlmre it for that inob thut once instinct that returns a persistent -profit ,, t,..1 MnrtmA th tnineo of to its employer. In twenty seven months ' . T, . I service this car has plo d P S8,308.25k abolitionists through Boston 'on the profit side of the ledger. j streets with a rope about his neck. SJSJSJSSJBJfaBJ MAXWELL CAES SMASH ALL ECONOMY RECORDS Three bright, new Maxwell touring cars, led out into the streets of Atlanta Georgia, early in January, and put be fore the nublic a test that is without parallel in all the historv of automobile making, touched off the New Year in I a manner almost shocking for automo- j biledom in Atlanta and throughout the! entire southeastern portion of the larid of cotton. It was made known on Friday, Janu ary 5, that three strictly new Maxwell : touring cars would, the day following, go out into the streets ot that metrop olis of the sou h for tue purpose of showing everyone and anyone concern ed what mileage not one, but three Maxwell cars could obtain on a gallon of gasoline. This announcement followed an in vitation from James neadley, of the Maxwell Motor Sales Corporation, with headquarters in Atlanta, to the three automobile editors oi that city to walk into the big Maxwell service branch in Atlanta or the Maxwell retail branch on Pcachtree street and choose for the run any three cars they might see fit to designate for tHe work. This the automobile editors did. They selected the ears from the stock car ried on the display floors at the Peach tree establishment each ear a bright and new display model, with tags all over it. Despite the fact that they were stiff with newness, their tires never having run over anythine other than the long assembly tracks in the huge Maxwell factories, the three cars, running sep arately, smashed to smithereens all pre vious gasoline economy records recog nized in Atlanta. Not one, but all three of the newspaper automobile editors are authority for the statement that the record has never been equaled in the state of Georgia. Note the similarity of the. mileage. Those figures speak volumes for the Maxwell practice, which is builded upon the ideal of a standardized and econom ical automobile. Three brand new curs anthe record fhows them to be al most uniform in performance. No one knew what mileage they would obtain that is, no one outside the family of Maxwell men, who knew through experience that one Maxwell is a full blooded brother to all the hundreds of thousands of other3, and who, therefore, would have been indeed surprised had the records varied much. Put any Maxwell, new or old, up against anything, anywhere, any time, for any reason, under any condition, and with scrupulous observation, and this is what it will make clear to all the world: "I am the world 's greatest motor car value." Each day emphasizes the truth of this assertion to a constantly growing multitude of Maxwell owners. HAVE SCHOOL FOR OWNERS Dodge Brothers Brooklyn Dealers Teach Care of Motor Car THE PAIGE CAR MAKES VERY DIFFICULT TRIP Bishop, McCormick & Bishop, deal ers in Dodge Brothers cars in Brook lyn, have evolved a novel plan for making sure that those who buy cars from tbcm know all about the cars. They have established a school for owners. A tuition fee large enough to make the sinool self supporting is cha-ged. The fact that large classes have already enrolled and are attend ing regular periods of instruction in dicates that the owners are in hearty accord with the Brooklyn dealers' be lief that they would derive much more benefit and pleasure from their cars if they knew more about them. The school is in charge of Prof. Frank A. Burr, a former teacher of engineering in Cornell university and Penn State. The instruction embraces the opera tion of the car and tho care of parts and is very thorough. TRY JOURiNaT wM ADS Dodge Brothers MOTOR CAR It is difficult toi conceive how one of these cars can out live its usefulness if given even ordinary care. They are destined for long life. The same scrupulous manufacturing methods that make for efficiency and economy are an assurance of years of service. In a number of striking instances business houses have recognized the car's longevity and low cost of main tenance. Records carefully kept by municipalities which employ a number of cars show figures that are gratifyingly low. It will pay you to visit us and examine this car. The gasoline consumption is unusually low. The tire mileage is ususually high. Touring Car or Roadster, $785; Winter Touring Car or Roadster, $950; Sedan, $1185. (All prices f. o. b. Detroit) In more than one hard trip has the Paige car shown thai it is not only a machine of beauty but also that it MS the stamnia and the "insides" that goj with pulling power. An account of such a test is told about E. J. Post of heinenburg, Pa,, who drove into Pittsburg last week with his Paige "645" covered with mud and carrying excess haggage. lie was on his return trip from East Palestine, Ohio, where he encountered mud roads j axle deep. Mr. Post stated that he made j the trip from Beaver Falls to East Palestine, 40 miles, on low gear, and al though the clay r'.ads were very heavy, his radiator never boiled, and he made i the entire trip from ( hambersburg to East Palestine on an aveiage consump tion of 17 miles to the gallon of gaso- : line and used a quart and a half of oil i in the entire trip. i Mr. Post says that the running i boards often gathered up the mud as though a plow were going through it, i and two pairs of chains were com- I plctely worn out in making the trip, i but the Paige ear carried him through , on its own pSwer without a single i mishap. On a lsrge part of the trip I Mrs. Post was at the wh'-e and prov- ! ed that a Paige car can be handled un- ider all conditions by a woman. D WIGHT MISNER Opposite Marion Hotel. Phone 91