Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 52

Autos Slowly Reaching Point Where Garage Will Be Useless‘ Makers Studying Designs to Wilhsland All Sorts of Weather and Keep Beauty. Storage Proving U BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Why is a garage, and will it be tecessary to put the car of the uture away for the night? This query is on the lips of several uillton motorists who admit that he moet annoying problem in car wnership today is findiug adequate zarage accommodations. Many who »wn thelr own homes are fortunate n having a private garage at hand, hut the great bulk of car owners are | :tlll pursulng the time-honored port of trying to find a niche to sqaeeze the car into for the night. | Accommodations for tourls ar «re notoriously poor, many motorists | already preferring to leave their cars n the open rather than have them jammed into crowded and inadequate | quarters at the rate of $365 per vear ‘or storage. Thousands of cars are said to he wantonly depreclated through the | nablit of leaving them out all nig »ut there are a few automobile who have at last come to the front with the contention that even m ars _are permanently rhrough storing them in quarters. Garageless Car Signs. Tt has been shown in o number of instances that & car owner might | hetter take a chance on leaving his car out all night, and this coupled with the fact that cars are designed to be more is evidence enough of the 2 garageless car. A numbr of trends are pointed out as {ndicative of this interesting prephecy, Tt is shown for example, that the =arage does more to keep a car out > service than any other single fac- or and that since it is hecoming in- ‘reasingly important for motorists coming of *o use their cars in order to make | notoring pay, the car itself must be <o designed as to require no storing, Pt when repairs are heing made T'm not using the car tonight, be- | esuse it's so much trouble to get it out of the garage.” is a familiar line n motordom. Or “T'll have to put the car away nwelcome Expense. jcars In the stolen from public g SaRrensh\ian ficesntinmat e 10ne but claim thut this method of stealing | curs is being saved e vear the stolen car game. | The average motorist does not lock | s car in the public gurage on ac- count of the fire danger, and with - competent or inadequate help to guard tie cars it doesn't require much conniving on the part of un efclent crook to get what he's afte The matter of the tucrease in fire hazard due to garaging is among the facts pointed Lo hy those who predict the gurageless car. It is shown that the stored car has two fire huzards, d that” of exposire to ad- oh miy ulso cateh fire. el i is offset by the increase in rnado, cioudburst and blizzard haz- to which automobiles would be ed if customarily left out in nds of weather and in all climates d more weatherproof and it, however. is an {mpo: Already certain manufa s and hody bullders are discou aging the highly finished car body and are advocating more serviceable finish Weatherproof Bodies Seen. A num ing built lalong th together with popularity af the closed car, is us an indication of the de- Yetopmont GF 4Cihsihas vl b e in any way the worse for always being at the owner's front door. It is furthermore shown that many objections to leaving cars out are ng eliminated by ehanges in car not many vears ago, for in- stance, when a rainstorm would send @ motorist rushing to the garage with his car for fear the water beat- Ing In through the core of the radiator | would wet the eoil or the distributor. That fear has largely passed through improvements in design and. now that a number of makes offer permanent |adjustable coverings for the radiator |core, the enzine and fts various units ure unusually well protected The trend toward more serviceable | finishing on cars means that neither | sun nor water will have any ciable effect upon appea Mow the automobile fa: becoming | THE TIME YOU OVERH| ‘HHHI1Hl\]ll!||m|\m\.m l that the storage end of the business represents a lose. He could use the space to better advantage for repair ing or any number of other purposes The aufomobile takes up a lot of space, and space that is becoming too MECHANICS DISCUSSING wun CAR— IN THAT CANDID OUTSPOKEN WAY ___ ™ _ & S0 CHARACTERISTIC OF 'nm T WITHIN THER OWN %flg SRR o5y /, :" %) o, |CARE NEEDED IN CLEANINGi Water Spots Where Rain Curtains !Mo-l. ONE TRAFFIC TRICK. | When it's a problem tn know where | o stop to discharge or take on pas songers, remember that there will CRANKING BY HAND. ¢ saving is mors sensible u' accomplished by Improved Machines Themselves Eliminating Traffic Congestion Simpler Steering Apparatus, Steadier Power and Better Brakes Doing Much How can the density of motor traf- fic be increased without a corre- sponding {ncrease in congestion? The Washington Automotive Trade Association answers this question by showing that the mechanical im- sible for mors machines to be oper- less trouble than the motorist expe- rienced only a few years ago. | Every one who drives a car is won- are twice as many machines lookin for parking spaces and make time through streets, but, according to the W. A. T. A., the situation will be no worse than today, possibly better Easfer to Handle. “The modern car is so much easier to handle than any of its predecessors that practically every operation in the way of car control can bs made in less than half the time originally | required.” points out a bulletin just |tssued by the dealers. “This devel- opment is going on at such a rapid rate that it is doubtful whether people who are driv the city this very ticular difterence from year ago, even . thoug! | thousands of additional cars in opera- ion “With a smooth clatch, an | ing flow of power under the hood, ex cellent visibility and easy steering, |driver today can park his car in ! ‘lhhn half the time required for > operation few y speeds the Whether entering ply_proceeding Rrough the pojnt to another. turally this speeding up of the ments and operations necessary provements in cars are making it pos- | ated within & limited area with even | | dering what he will do when there | to Relieve Crowded Streets. | acoommodation of a larger pe: centags of vehicles in any given seotion 1 some oities thers ars ordi nances regulating the parking of cars so that no vehicle shall ba sloger than thres feet to another is rapidly becoming an ant| t e a_ preperly apparatus now to worm out of a though he f» space. These some day be nal parking necessary tn t one o' or leave feature of the “tratior way of sol K. OF C. AUTO COURSE. Classes for Second Term of Schoc Organizéd. The Knights of Columbus Servic Schocl has organized auto classes o ond term of its 19 men . presenting el ing the late war Interested in phate of to the proper control of motor cars| | allows for additlonal ecars, without P | further congestio direct propor- | tion 10 the increase in facllity of such operations. Changes In Brakes. hand cranking the | wppe automotive engineers wiven in twelve weeks KING OLD MOTOR FAN. fore . now ruler of Eng e s Emrake s led Un - Ihe Beanty baing Witsined valuable in many quarters. A lot of s n either instance i ent t¥ < rath 3 o, avle 3 e | e ownts it e bF : waste space is necessary to make it . . When dusting the car in the win-| citles it is against the law to stop|Th : u 2 t el cats abot 2 e raw gas thus sucked into.the some further service which 4 ¢ the faghesd possible to move cars about in Ba- | .. or when polishing it, be careful | to discharge passengers in the c Sould render In Sueh s way s to rave | and this either adds to the cost . P s it | er i |evlinders {s immediately hurned, hav- b the Tha theft of automobiies. It is said, | A8 an indication of this trend it is ,m-\(wuu;' torage . " ) which are usually hidden by the|construed us parking. Hone I few foet g A ¥ t urant continues irrespactive of whether ma- | 86€n that one of the leading makers | ler. storago gnea the wiy of |, orhang of the raln curtains. Un- chines are in the garage or out. It is|Nas just offe a 1924 set of models n ank or not, motorists w S . . A question of whethar a thief wants a | 1€Void of a! kel trimmings. The fit by the tre ea2s the curtains are frequently de- car and how many obstacles are |liNes are attractive, and the interfor tached from the car body, and the | ] E T K E THI1S placed in his way. The protection of | WOk on the closed models is luxuri- | ting out the obstac portions covered by the overhanging the extra Iock on the door of a pri- | OUS, but the purpose Is plainly to of- | Use . rubbed. the motorist is likely to find vate garage can be duplicated by an | ar that will remain attractive (O ) that his curtains have left marks cxtra lock on some part of the car| < rd ,s}s—r:tm;na?:nd nfl!\» abuse = ::r:“!hr“ h;d)hl:\t'l‘l‘l:;“:\: ,'l‘ol:\he: .I;:nre- itself. c st necessarily accompany nove them xltos ) Protected Cars Stol EI.IMINATES GUESSING These marks will line the door just AR S ATN e, financial standpoint it is| One of those little radium com-|&n inch or two below the tops, and conceded the mere | nound buttons attached to the off| Will oxtend to the body and cowl In this connection it is shown that though ten automobiles were parked wherever the curtains touch. Lines rt of wrinkles nightly for several months in the rear | where near being satisfactory to car | indicator saves a lot of guessing|jjke these are the s of an apartment house, nons of them | owners is not profitable. One garage | when wondering how the oil supply | no amount of good Intentions will was even tampered with, while three = owner doing a largs husiness claims is holding out on & cold winter night. ' remov Overbang. alwiys bo & vacant space at the|€AF & moment or two before turning curb near a fire hydrant. In many |on the igniticn and using the starter. doing more to simplify traf 4 1 the lawmakers in motord b - Vehicles ane radical improvements In brakes, for {nstanve, have made it possibls for THE CHANDLER “Mystery”> CAR Now on display in our NEW BUILDING The most sensational Exhibit ever shown in the City of Washington in our opinion. Beauty and Amazing Performance ment. Certain “light”™ sixes have 13.5 Al Ibs.—13.7—128 —14.3—not one, you Roomy Comfort ERE is the attractive New Jewett De Luxe Seden—complete in every detail—and such g performer! It's the 50-horsepower Puaige-built motor that gives Jewett closed cars “opencar’’ performance. This De Luxe besanty rolls along smoothly in high at twomfle-nhnur then jumps forward mmd—whupfiunsm 5nflesanhwrin7-eunknh¢h. (Try that with axy other carf) Jewett takes most any hill in high; does 60 miles an hour, or more, joy- ously. That's power! And Jewett’s Goylinder motor stays good! It is high- highest quality cars. Intwo years 65,000 sweet-tempered dependability. Not a “Light” Six Jewett is a sturdy six—not a “Tight” six. Touring car weighs 2805 pounds— 400 pounds more than some “light” sixes—and the De Luxe Sedan in pro- portion. Paige-Timken axies, front and &mh-deephme dl-steelum- good for 15,000 miles. Yet wi its S weight and strength, Jewett's amazing veuicnce and economy. power gives it the sdvantage over other ‘Women love the luxury of this New -nhpower-fir—wufln. Power-for- JewettSix De LuxeSedan. Menadmire weight determines performance. its performance. We invite you and Jeweit hes but !.lxpomdlde-' ywwifialodflv!ut.'l‘dcphonemy weight per cubio inch piston displsce- time for a demonstration. WASHINGTON-VIRGINIA MOTORS Inc. 16th and You Streets DEALERS see, but will be sluggish compared with Jewett. Jewett steers with finger-touch guidance; parks sweetly in a 162 foot space at the curb; turns around in a 42- foot street; requires but a 14-foot alley or driveway to your garage. Exquisitely Complete and out, enhance the beauty of this De Luxe Sedan. Equipment is com- plet:‘ :d exactly right. It includes ick spring bumpers, frontand rear; wmodds are as inside a5 nickeled radiator, motometer, head and E‘th:mm s Si ia them. Ride side lights; extra cord tire, tube, rim Deiue them. and cover mounted at side; trunk rack and trunk; body guard rails; mmomatie s:oplxght‘ utonnucwmdshxeld wiper; rear view mirror; sun visor. In all the world no car like this! Jewett combines advantages, and me- chanical superiorities no other car of- fers. Jewett is matched mechanically only by cars costing $700 to thousands more—and then at the sacrifice of con- WITHOUT A DRIVER OR ANY HUMAN BEING IN THE CAR; THIS CAR MOVES AROUND ON ITS OWN POWER. The driverless car will be on' display daily from 10 am. to 12 m,, 3 pm. to 5 pm. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. For the next ten days we are offering five (5) prizes valued at $100 each to the five persons making th inches inches n_um‘o Too_18% 4 Tm 4‘ “ HS Roadscer 41 4 4 B enear- est estimate to the total number of miles the mystery car will travel during the ten-day exhibition. DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS WONDER CAR . Chandler Pikes Peak—Traffic Transmission JUSTICE MOTOR CO. FRANK N. JUSTICE, President 1515 14th St. N.W. Washington, D. C. Frazier Motor Co. 518 10th St. NE, SIX Fairfax Service Station Alexanaria, Va. Rickett's Garage Roekville, Md. Frye Motor Co. 2018 146 5t XW. JEWETT