Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1925, Page 65

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., JUNE 1925 OTORS anfl Semi-M otor Campt—r; Is Latest [IIREU” DESGRIBED Recreation of M(flxgar Owners| H]R M[HUR TRIP 25-Mile Route Through Near- by Country Suggested for Afternoon’s Rum. Farm Houses Being Thrown Open to Travelers Who Still Are Afraid to Brave Open With Tent and Blankets. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. canned goods, bacon and other fa- | While the immediate " vicinity of Following cut the theory that halfia mi‘l‘mr campside foodstuffs. _ | Washington is doubtless well known | . Going to the same spot for each|i, most local motorists. there are loaf is better than none at all, a new |Sunday's outing, the motorist soon | haverthelese many delightful roads sport known as “semi-motor camping”’ | becomes so accustomed to the route | Gpicp probably unfamiliar to is being developed to take care of those | home that he commences Waiting | {hoce who have confined their week lovers of nature who are not as yet | until dark before breaking up * end motoring to more distant points. willing to sacrifice the modern con- | Formerly he started home A motor run of an afternoon or eve veniences when they hop aboard their | early because was not so familiar | pine “including some of the favorite Motor cars and head for the sreat |With the road® and wanted to get|iverues within the District proper outdoors. | home before dark. But, little by little, | 4nq some of the splendid highways 1t promises to revolutionize motoring | he becomes more familiar with his|ang charming by-ways of adjacent for millions of persons who realize that [ 8round, until he finds himself actual- | Maryland, is the suggestion offered they are denied many Summertime [Iy out in the open at night. this week by The Star’s motor tours pleasures just bocause they feel| This leads logically to thought of | scout, abliged to return home again by night- |lighting. He switches on the car's | (qvering a distance of approximate Lk headlights and finds that they are not |1y 5 miles, virtually every mile of Not everybody is equal to the occa- [Just what he needs. Next time he|\hich is of perfect, smooth road, this ston when it comes to driving into an | Sets forth he is equipped with a spot- | cjrcuit is one that adds rural charm open lot, pitching a tent and calling }Ight and finds that this adds cheer (o urban beauty. A continuous pano & et how it is discoverad | to the gathering and additional safety | rama of changing rural scenes com that not every ome who clings to the |00 the way home. Pretty soon the|pined with interesting suburban de- things of civilization must forego all | 2Mily strikes an evening when the | velopments make this trip one of the of the pleasures of motor campin «:oon is high, and then comes the first | yost attractive of its kind half-way point is being reached real desire to stay out the whole night | " ojlowing Sixteenth street past the | it is predicted that within a few years | °"8 | Walter Reed Hoespital grounds, the a large proportion of the people who | Banishes Fear of Dai motorist turns right into Alaska ave «re now taking advantage of the many | nue, thence into Georgia avenue and | opporunities to meet nature half way |across the District line in Mary- | Will be ardent and experienced motor | of the most effective means of banish- {land. Approaching Silver Spring. an | campers of the first rank ing the super-civilized person’s fear |underpass is being constructed and, | - of the open after dark, because it i’ll this point for a stretch of approxl- | | Semi-camping is destined to be one mhouses Used. leads him to true camping by easy | mately 100 feet, the motorist will en: ‘ Fvidences of the semi-camping trend | stages and gives him the best features | counter the only rough road in the en- re seen on every hand. Along most of |of it first. He learns many of the|tire circuit. When the underpass ,.1 he principal highways farmhouses | fundamentals of camp like. such as |completed and the grade crossing elim- | e being thrown open to the long- |cooking. water supply. sanitation, |inated. this trip will be all the more distance tourist. with es that make | tighting insects and so on. When he | desirable. | possible for him to tour greater dis- | comes to the veal thing in camp life 2 . | inces in & given time. Back to Co he will have been all through the Burnt Mills Attractive. v life is being recognized as the first | vlementary course, and even if he does | One half mile beyond Silver Spring, p to “back to nature.” not eventually become a regular the motorist turns right at the sign. Having slipped gradually from the | motor-camper, he has ut least learned | “Burnt Mills.” This is a picturesque | Juxury of the morning tubbing and the |10 obtain much more enjoyment out | Spot where motorists are wont to go breakfast-in-bed habit, motorists learn | of his car. lof a Summer evening with a picnic by the semi.camping idea some of tha | Every now and again people will ad- | dinner. There is ample parking space | rudiments of true motor camping so | vance the flimsiest of excuses for not |for machines and from this point one | that when they finally make the camping while en route. One of these may follow a winding wooded path | plunge it is far less of a jolt and far | concerns the welfare of the car itself. |leading to a beautiful rocky stream. | more enjoyable. The fad of motor | Some folk have been heard to declare | Here is a favorite rendezvous for camping has been soriously handi- | that they do not favor the idea of | motorist campers caped, it is believed. because of too | l€aving their cars out in the open all| From Burnt Mills to Colesville, a| <udden a return 1o mature on the part | Night. 1t appears to be a legitimate | distance of 3.7 miles, the road is per- | of many who were not prepaved for it. | €Xcuse, particularly with the elaborate | fect concrete. ~ The road _straight | semi-camping starts with the all. |closed cars of the day, but those who | ahead has just been concreted and av outing. 'The motorist finds the | Semi-camp find that their cars benefit | will not be ready for travel for about | ort of country where he likes to|materially from the experience. Many |15 da | lrowse about and, instead of running | @ car would get no attention at all in| At Colesville a sharp left turn | a risk of trespassing on other people's | the Summer were it not for the idle |should be made leading to the Sev. | roperty, looks up the owner of the | NOUTS its owner finds available for car | enth Street pike. From the point of Jand: and arsanges o .pant a emall | care onicampiaay intersection with the Seventh Street piece of it. That marks the beginning | _One of the first lessons to be learned | pike to Wheaton is 1.1 miles. There of the camping Treedom, Tor in ordes | {fom semi-camping is that to be with |a sharp right turn should be made to | 1o enjoy the outdoors any motorist | NAture is not necessarily to be alone. |Kensington, where, after crossing the must be able to feel that he is not en- | T he part-time camper, having got set- | yailroad tracks, a right turn should | croaching upon forbidden territory tled in one spot., decides to browse be made and then one square beyond, 3 around a bit, only to discover that he |a turn to the left Cooks Own Meals. | has company just over the hill. He | The all-day outing soon develops the | S0on learns that camping has become | leads- through several inter need for cooking. because the average | one of the Nation’s most popular | hurban developments, past Chevy c kit of prepared refreshments | SDOY nd it does not take him very | Chase Lake, the Columbia is usually devoured by 2 o'clock in the | 1ong to strike up an acquaintance with | Chase Country Clubs. F afternoon. If anything it to be eaten | persons who have had considerable | vington to Chevy C! Jor the evening meal it will have to | €xperience with outdoor life. le prepared on the spot. By degrees | These experienced motor campers|.q and improved with new concrete |also during the motorist finds himself shopping | tell of the routes they have taken and | for a camping stove, and Mrs. Motor. | "ecommend further delights in_the st commen on (Continued on Sixth Page.) sting su- { the left reaching Burnt Mills. the the Indian Spring Golf | ht lon Paige Brougham’2]95 Thills for your sporting blood— nerves—economy for the wise ease for tired You may not often want all the power that’s stored away in this beautiful Paige Brougham. But just get your foot on the ac- celerator for five minutes when you're in a sportive mood—and keep an eye behind for the law. You even seem to leave yourself behind — so quick and smooth is its surge of power. 2 The ablest performing Brougham the world affords —and how well it deserves to be called that! Big Power—Big Results Paige’s big 70 h. p. motor is built to carry its 4000 pounds of car weight without being taxed. That’s engineer- ing horse-sense. Same with horses. Ever see a driver lashing a small horse uphill with a heavy load? The horse ‘wears-out. So does a motor that’s too small for its job. Paige motor is big enough to do a man-gize job with ease. That’s the reason for Paige’s long life and econ- omy of upkeep. And there’s beauty in Paige Brougham to set any man’s blood atingle. Or any woman'’s either. Many a thrill of pride you'll get at the ad- miring glances that naturelly follow 80 smart a caf. |Club and the This entire trip may be made easily nd Chevy |in less than om Ken-|that should be a favorite with Wash- se Lake the|ington motorists vot only during the oad has been recently surface treat-|cool of the Summer's evening. but the Autumn a two The SHunday Htar's MOTOR TOURS MARYLAND i . < ‘i Aresie Goit ciuv. the | FQRCING GREASE AROUND. Returning to \Washington«the road | former on the right, and the latter on hours, and is one ernoons not W holesale and R etail Distributor 70 Wheaton Turn right here Q SilverSpring ST 0F Corumera | Method of Reaching Entire Spring Is Devised. Where spring covers are filled with grease and are provided On the outgoing trip. be-|when these Maryland roads are paint-rnections for refilling n0- | ed with foliage of variegated colors— | i to be remembered. little grease just pumping in a grease to the rve to forc @ Colesville is Prenic Grove. | far | ing it l/ndew.s;s be/ng for be ng point- S rg U/'/://'/y of to go. The way to get around this is to force the gr tion of the spring e from one sec o another by which is directly under the greasing|be connection. Of course vou can keep | by on pumping in so much grease that it | to is forced to the ends, but an excess| point where it has to run the entire | length of the car and make a semi circle around the rear axle, i unnecssary in spring WASHINGTON-VIRGINIA MOTORS, Inc. 16th and You Streets—Potomac 772 Page-.’ewetfiwners appreciate the value of our Wasson Motor Check, whick is part of our service equipment George C. Rice i ; 1601 14th St. N.W. 1 Alexandria Motor Company e 117 N. Fairfax Street, A.lexandnn, Ve, Open Every Evening Until 9 DEALERS Motor Sales and Service Co. 2015 14th St. N.W. Frazier Motor Corfipany 518 10th St. N.E.’ ‘Wash.-Westcott Co. 2114 14th St. N.W, | spect to the use of efficient exhaust |is helieved that if twice | eleaners will be as rigid as are the | hack pressure is « headlight laws in most A |and other commer is not likely to contaminate the |dirt, so is it possibl contents of the machine. This plan |the ex has general use, but has not received the |haust fumes. A pipe twice as long support of public health authorities, |, 2 much back-pressure that the engine would not operate. But the noise | was eliminated and the engines run better than they ever did Ep | hand over the exhaust in order to | feel the puffs of the exhausting en- | COmbustic gine. LI out-the aid of a_cutout | If the noise of the exhaust can be €Xcept tha eliminated, why car | the question now stimulating the pocketbook Dirt-laden air for engines inventive genius of America and |Causes excessive cylinder wear, =o air | spurring the mechanically inclined to | Cleaners were deve extremes where perhaps vou desire it |gction. The outstanding fear of the con "(*“ so the servatives filtering out the poison from haust fumes back pressure will be in. | pressing on the part of the cover|creased to a point where power will | the necessary stimu Motor Exhaust Euls Doomed As Makers Recogmze Menace Experts Seek Way to Eliminate Whole- sale Gassing of Public by Automobile Chimney Feature Now in Use. Abolition of ‘the automobile exhaust |automobiles of the early days shot the the next step in automotive im- | exhaust fumes almost directly provements. This is the belief of |air, those who see in the present contro- | ir versy over the virtues of gzasoline|the limit had been reached. But now adulterants a stimulus to the elimina- the | tion of this time-honored motor evi 4 Regardless of the added dang sulting from the use of doped ga line, auto exhaust has reached a point [exhaust necessary where it is not merely a nuisance, but | ther: an absolute menace. lor Exhaust cleaner their place on the ac along with air cleaners and oil recti- | inches will fiers. The time is believed to be no to the and when exhaust pipes term ted amidships it was thought tha exhausts on a large number are nearly twice as long as for re- | merly. The popularity of closed cars has it is further believed that the|helped to make: the long-drawn-out Ungquestionably s more back pressu in the zer pipe, but the engines are may soon take|much more efficient that a & cessory counter | with # displacement of 250 cubic d better performance had » D! frc 3 than engines that origi distant when the laws with re- displacement of 400 cubic in ted by ates. dition of an exhaust filter, o number of bakery automobiles |similar device, the use of doped 1 vehicles carry-|line will permit high-comy ated foodstuffs are | motors to deliver the necess asily-contami; already using the exhaust chimney, a | tional power, with perhaps more pipe being run from the conventional |spare exhaust to the top of the vehicle in| Just as such a way as to expel the gas where | of the wast neck in the drain pipe tand is designed to tray a trap in ht serve to re its of the e aust pipe mi been widely recommended for |tain the poison elen the sent type undoubted the reascon that it merely gasses would catch much of the tetraethy the occupants of homes, apartments, | jead being expelled by motors using hotels and office buildings in favor fyel containing this compound. there of street users. |t The demand is for a device that|streed where it w! honoxide from the exhaust fumes. | (riune Many believe it is impossible. but! 4 special type of muffler may be that is what was believed when the |¢po automobile exhaust used to sound like |y, Gatling gun: The noise couldn't m reaching the o be blown by o the systems of pedes Iyeventing it eliminate effectively the carbon |the wind int answer to the exhaust probler such a device poisons could be trapped out of the fumes very much as dirt is trapped out of the air thar now goes into the carburetor of th air-cleaner-equipped car. Every auto mobile on the street would then be fer instead of an air con vision of the popu nues and boulevards eliminated without causing so Big Motors Silent. tamin; |1ation of o Some of the most powerful motors | yoing mad from lead poisoning would of the day are silenced to a point |have to be altered | where it is sometimes difficult to tell whether they are running. To check- | “Doped” Gas Controversy. | up on the firing it is customary for| ; | repairmen to hold the palm of their If an automobile engine draws in simply to sist the fuel in the process, why can't it ex tening to the exhaust is out (haust pure air after the process ix the question in many cases with- |complete? It is no more complicated a problem than silencing the exhaust ti omething that doesn't seem directly to affect the Nation's t the smell at ped. Poison-laden <hausts have no apparent immediate no activity in the ust cleaner line The present controversy over the merits of ¥l gasoline ma furnish to progress i sacrificed. The argument is met st kaack scan veferring to the present tendency |Pound has served focus attentior draw out the exhaust pipe to a |upon the necessity for doing awa - with all exhaust fumes, regardless ¢ l\\hmhw they a And he (Continued is that in straini this direction F. O. B. Detroit, tax extra Only $30 more than open car price! For Paige Brougham is the finest looking Paige we ever designed—the most admired car on the road. Rough Roads Mean Nothing No need to stick to the crowded con- crete in Paige Brougham. Take the rough, untraveled road. Step along at touring speed. All you feel is a gentle, wavy motion as you take the bumps. That’s because of Paige’s big wheel- base, 131 inches—big rear springs, 61 inches—and full-size balloon tires, 33 x 6.75. Yes—you can buy these qualitiesin other cars—at $3000—$4000 and more. Paige Brougham gives you the style—comfort—performance and long-run economy of the costliest cars at only $2195. Hydraulic four-wheel brakes (Lockheed type)at slight extra cost. Drive this luxurious, big car. Give it your own performance test—and give your sporting blood a treat. «7na