Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1923, Page 13

VOLUME 33. News Of Casper Dealers SECOND NEWS SECTION. Che Casper Automobile News Sunday And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1923 Theater News rthinte SECOND NEWS SECTION. NUMBER 13 Advance Notes On Industry Classified Ads ANNUAL CASPER AUTO SHOW TO OFFER REAL SENSATION MOVEMENT FOR RODD AOADS ON BOOM IN NATION Proposed Bond Iseues Show Big Increase During Year. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—That in- terest in the good roads movement throughout the country is increas- ing rather than diminishing is shown by results of a census on bond issues contemplated and au- thorized for highway construction just completed by The Asphalt asso. ciation, this city. The figures show that @ total of $78,228,384 in bon] issues, exclusive of Federal aid. were reported under contemplation in the states, counties, townships and road districts of the country from August 1, 1922, to August 1 1923, and that the sum of $617,- 029,537 was actually authorized to be expended. ‘The amount reported as contem- plated exceeded the $748,563,000 con- templated during the year previous by $32,675,384 and the sum author- ized exceeded that of the year be fore by $75,304,757. The bond issues authorized from August 1, 1921, to August 1, 1922, amounted to $541,- 724,780. MILLIONS ARE SERVED BY BUS Large Crowd Is Big Success. Motor busses carried over one mil- lion persons daily during the recent fifty-day strike whfch tied up the lines of the Public Service Railway in northern New Jersey, according to figures compiled by the editors of “Bus Transportation!’ and pub- lished in the October issue of that magazine. This was the first great test of the motor bus in handling mass trans- portation unaided. The strike af- fected the ‘cities of Newark, Pater: son, Passaic, Jersey City, Bayonne, Elizabeth and Hoboken. Very little tonfusion was evident even during rush hours when thousands of corm- muters from New York were trans- ported to their Jersey homes. City officials expressed their satisfaction at the way in which the busses handled the c: and one mayor —We’'d say: car, easy on you and First Test in Handling declared that a resumption of trolley Ford Repairing Our Specialty Mosher Tire and Service Company 333 NORTH WOLCOTT AUTOMOTIVE CHRISTMAS SUGGESTED WHISKEY AND BAD TURN IN TRAIL BRING GRIEF TO PONY EXPRESS RIDER OF THE PICNEER DAYS “Let's make this an automotive Christmas,” says Mr. Wilkerson, of the Wyoming Automotive com- pany. ‘Let's try something new. How about something for the car this year?” At any rate the upshot of Mr. Wilkerson's suggestion is, that automobile accessories, either for the car or for the occupants, make ideal gifts at Christmas time, and are sure to be appreciated. He believes in urging you to do your Christmas shopping early, and is therefore conducting a mammoth sale through his dealers of articles of this kind. . Lap robes, motor-meters, spot lights and other useful auto gifts are Usted. The Wyoming Auto- motive association is of cogrse strictly wholesale, but through the retail dealers, the sale will be conducted. aa aah OS a She Mr. Sorenson of Lusk, owns a new Studebaker Big Six coupe. AIR LINER’S ENDURANCE GREAT BOOST FOR MAKERS OF MOTORS Unequaled records for endurance duty power plants, but while they which have been made by motors !n are of minimum weight per horse the U. 8. navy’s great airship, the Shenandoah, formerly the ZR-1, and the performance of an aviation type marine mot6®"fn driving a little 26-foot motor boat at a speed» of 44.33 miles an hour for 24 hours, breaking all. world records for a single day's run for any kind of a boat, have been heralded as remark-! able tributes to American builders and designers of gasoline motors. Engines in the navy airship are comparatively slow speed heavy stood speed marine engine, like an airplane power Despite its light weight, drove the little boat at at the end of the run it was and duplicated the feat the service was unnecessary. The 2,000 busses operated over seventy-five routes totaling 335 miles. One thousand motor busses are now operated by more than 100} electric railways over routes total- ing 1,500 miles in the United States and Canada, according to a survey recently completed by the editors of “Bus Transportation.” The figures indicate an incregse of nearly 100 per cent in the use of busses by trolley companies since October 1, 1922. Then there were only fifty-six ments were the replacing of of one exhaust manifold gasket. Both the motors in the ZR-1 products of the Packard Motor company and, it is asserted, exercised in the manufacture of crease in the total number of miles scheduled by all the railway-owned busses is indicated, the daily mileage | now scheduled being well over 150,000 miles. cast your eye easily over the in this Sanday's automobile tion. pis SS EES | newcomer in the field, and should; our fair city. Get that fair ‘make good with the motor public. stuff. If You Asked Us— How Many Miles Would a Thousand Dollar Tire Run? “Just as far as a Dayton Tire—and not one mil This sounds like a pretty broad statement, but it is the absolute un- varnished truth—and we are here to back it up. We know that no amount of money could buy better materials and better workmanship than you will find in every Dayton Tire. thousand dollars simply couldn’t buy more satisfaction nor more miles. Dayton Tires BUILT FOR LOWER AIR PRESSURE When we put a Dayton Tire on your car we’re sayin the best-looking, best wearing tire you've ever had. 1 and give less trouble than any tire you can buy. It will be easy on your Your gto you: “Here’s It will run farther easy on your bank account. We know Dayton Tires and Dayton Quality from head to thread. Come in and let us tell you about them. You May Also Buy Dayton Tires and Tubes at Kennedy Motors 230 West Yellowstone Tire and Tube Repairing CASPER, WYO. PHONE 1709 power they have successfully with: | tests of 300 hours running. The motor in Harry B. Grenning's i speed boat, Rainbow III, which set up a new record of 1,064 miles for +24 hours, is a six cylinder high built much plant. however, and the fact that it ran continuous ly at 2,100 revolutions a minute it top speed 24 hours and was in such condition de- clared it could have turned around next The only mechanical adjust- one broken spark plug and the changing and in the Rainbow III are standard Car are | made with no more mechanical per: fection or painstaking care than 's the Packard Single-Six and Single-Eight. ——_————_ Don’t fail to read the gratifying epistle received at the Studebaker companies operating 350 busses over | ales and service company from Mr. 900 miles of highway. An equal in-| Leary, passenger agent for: the Burlington. let-| ter, by setting it in display form sec Lew Gay is driving a new Stude- The Wolcott Auto Top Shop is 2/ baker Big Six, about the streets of | city | Ble LEE? | AT HS in ma ia \ CENTERVILLE — Gren — ‘BIG REGEPTION GIVEN | NEW JEWETT; DEALERS EVERYWHERE PLERSEO Reports recelved at the Paige De-| }troit Motor Car company from ev-| ery section of the country indicate that dealers have been delighted at| the big reception given the new) Jewett Six in their showrooms. The new Jewett announced In De- troit, did not receive the same an- nouncement throughout the United States until recently, due to many dealers not having the new cars in their hands. However, on the plac- ing of the Jewett Six with 12 ma- He has enabled you to/ jor improvements and 51 minor re- finements in thelr show-rooms they were flooded in many cities with crowds of visitors. | In this city, the Lee Doud Motor company increased thelr sts of prospects many times over through the interest of the public in the new wett All prospects were shown the im provements in the new Jewett, such Jas the new and larger brake drums 14 inches in diameter; heavier and stronger wheels with larger spokes. | new type spark and throttle control; assembled instruments on dash; and more comfortable un y; and front seats to give ea 1g posture.’ thicker deeper East Side Garage CARLOAD JUST UNLOADED Call and Look Them Over and Get Our New Reduced Prices JOHN M. WHISENHUNT Bill Streeper Tells of Amusing Incident of Old Trail. By HOWARD R. DRIGGS I had often heard that William Steeper of Centerville, Utah, was rich in Pony Express stories, but the opportunity to get into this story vein did not come until this summer. My fear was that the in trepid old pioneer might have joined the great majority of the daring rid- Just recently, however, I found very much alive sitting in an ers. him OLDS TAKES | EXELLENT PROGRESS REPORTED Mimissounr|(A PLANS FOR RECORD DISPLAY IX MISSOURI) | Complete Showing of New Models of All Makes Plowing through mud axle deep Assured by Local Dealers, Now Busy over roads impassible to many cars, | “Cannonball” Baker who started out | from New York on October 8 to drive an Oldsmobile “six” across the e ae ¥ continent without changing gears W reached Kansas City after hanging ith Mobilization Program. up one of the best records of its kind; — ever made by any auto, | Eight hours were consumed to| 5 BY SPARK PLUG s make the last 80 miles into Kansas|___ Proceeding steadily, smoothly and without a sign of a City, frequent delays being caused hitch, plans for the Second Annt Automobile Show are td anes cars that could ie set rapidly nearing completion, and in view of the fact that to Ta baker te. etn site ut these | every, dealer in Casper is behind the movement heart and adverse conditions, the Oldsmobile|S0ul, indications point to a complete success financially and Six" with only high gear in the| otherwise. The show is to be held under the auspices of the transmission, plowed and dug thru! Casper Automotive association, and | For al information, Mr. Mans: 336 miles of ax'e-deep mud, every} according to Joe E. Mansfield. p i- | field, the association automobile in front of the Hotel Utah. “You're the very man I wanted to see for a long time. greeted him. “Well, take a long look at me,” he came back quick as a flash, but with his face sober as a judge. “Oh, but I want to have a good visit with you.” “All right; come out to my place whenever you like; but be sure to bring plenty’ of grub with you,” he returned. If there is anything Uncle “Bill" Streeper likes better than anything else, it Is to trip a fellow up with a joke. That seems to be his wa of testing the mettle of those he meets. One has to be ready for a good natured give and take to get any ofthis fine old veteran's con- tidenee. ‘ou may expect. me tomorrow about noon, ready for a square meal,” I said, as he left me. I found him at home—a most pic- turesque place of the substantial plo- neer type. The house of granite stands by the side of the main road under the granite mountains that border the vallcy of the Great Salt Lake, which lies a few miles to the west mirroring the mountains and flashing back the sunsets. Mr. Streeper was waiting for me —out on the shady back parch with his little grand daughter. He had a magazine in his hand, and was read- ing without glasses. His eyes were as bright almost as the child's, and his memory just as keen. ‘The only sign of his eighty-six years outside of his gray head and beard was in his hearing, which was a bit dulled. It was not long until I had him telling me his rich experiences, and | I kept Mstening for nearly three | hours, slipping in a question here and there to stimulate his memory or to guide him along the vein was most eager just then to follow the story of America’s first fa mail, e I 1 it | may be consulted. dent of the association, will be big: | ger and better by far than last} the year’s presentation. i rman of the advertising com- The Arkeon has been rented for| mittce, und should be congulted the evenings of the* fifth, sixth, | upon the subject of advertising. “Six had to climb over the south-| seventh and elghth of November. | = ~ ete ern end of the Ozark Mountains,| and the large floor should provide } wet and slippery with continuous! ample room for every automobile | LATE LASS INDUSTRY ih | Mr. Dumars, of Exide Battery Service Station inch of the way without ald, main- taining its wonderful record on the first transcontinental high-gear run. Besides having to fight its way through deep mud tne Oldsmobile} rains, A heavy rain all day Sunday| dealer, tire man and accessory house and today made it unwise to at-| in Casper. tempt to take the road again, even Toward the end of the present though the car had made its way| month, probably two or threo days through mud up to the axle on Sat-' before the opening night, the Can utday'’s run. Baker, accordingly,, per Automotive association will hold decided to stay over in Kansas City|a final meeting, where drawing for| “An interesting instance wher until the hardest part of the storm! positidn will occupy the center of | one industry serves another is seen ceased. All during Sunday andj the floor. The place upon the dis-| in the connection between the plate Monday Baker's mud-bespattered| play floor obtained by a dealer is} glass industry and the automobile Oldsmobile “Six'* was the center of| purely a, gamble. busin says R Van Sant attraction for thousands who were,; At every Casper show room, | jocal dealer in Durant and Star cars literally, “from Missouri,” but were) Preparations are rapidly going for The automobile industry is leas convinced when they inspected the| ward. “Many of the dealers haye! dependent on the plate glass indus sealed gear box and read’the signed! gone to Denver ini order to complete | try than is the glass factory upon statements of official observers of) arrangements to have cars either) the automobile. The best automo the car's remarkable performance. | shipped or driven to Casper in time | biles, large and small, make use of — for opening night. Charts are be-| plate glass for windshields and win- ing drawn up at every agenc: dows. ‘The plate glass industry playing figuratively the arr *| might not prosper continuously ment of the cars upon the floor, and | without the automobile manufactur- the machines to be displayed upon | ing | the four different nights. | "The plate glass mills of today TED) Entertainment and music will] find that the automotive demand for abound at the Arkeon on show/|their product is the mainstey of nights, and special arrangements | their business, with the building with a company of Denver enter-| trade a convenient cessory to Tremendous sales of the Overland | tainers has been made. ‘The regu-| prosperity. Some automobile manu Champion serves as one indication! jar Arkeon orchestra will furnish | facturers on a large scale have of the immense popularity this | the mellow harmony, and add to the | found it advantageous to own plate popular-priced closed car has at-} genera! atmosphere of enjoyment | glass plants tained. and good will which is sure to pre-|_ “A recent acquisition of Durant interests was the American | Pl uss company, of Kane, Pa,, whose plant is the sole industry of James City, a nearby village, grown up about the glass fact vail. For space on the floor, it will be well to see Mr. Yielding of the Nash Casper Motor compan: who is chairman of the floor committee Known quality of the Overland cars, coupled with the many new features in this car, has made it equally attractive among men and women purchasers. | Moto ‘No, I wasn't a regular Pony Ex- press Radler,” he told me. “I did| carry the reguldr mall along the Pony Express line, though, « I often substituted for the Pony Rid Several times I had to help them get the mail through when the Indians began to play the devi! with the Un “What do you mean by the ‘reg ular mail.’ Mr, Streeper?” I asked. | “Why the Pony Express was a} nd special mail. It took only the let-| ters for which the senders could| afford to pay five dollars in post (Continued on Page Three) Hupmobile | PRICES REDUCED Phone 79 EVER FORWARD! BIGGER AND BETTER Second Annual Automobile Show | AT THE ARKEON | NOVEMBER 5, 6, 7, 8 4 Big Days ‘Auspices of The Casper Automotive Association