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MODERN, IMPROVED HIGHWAY " NOW IN USE FROM EAST TO WEST Route 30, Available From Ocean to Ocean, Traverses 3.347 Miles of Territory. Notable in History. (Continued from Sixth Page) tinues through Ligonier and Greens- burg to Pittsburgh. About three miies northwest of Greensburg was the vii- lage of Hannastown, settled about 1770 and destroyed by the Indians in July, 1782. In Hannastown was held the first court west of the Alleghenies. Pittsburgh, about 180 miles from Get- tysburg, at the junction of the Alle- gheny and Monongahela Rivers, is the center of one of the largest manufac- turing districts for steel and iron in the world. It is built on the site of Fort Duquesne, a French trading post, erected in 1754, and named for the Governor of New France. The French fired the fort at the approach of Forbes' army in 1758. Gen. Forbes took what remained and erected Fort Pitt, in honor of Britain’s prime minister, Wil- liam Pitt. ‘he campaign against Fort Duquesne < T-rbes was so ill that he was cari.. . o litter from Bedford. In reporting his success he dated his letter “Pitts-bourgh,” hence the present name of the city. On the courthouse at Pittsburgh is a bronze tablet marking the engagement of Maj. Grant, in 1758, with the French gar- rison at the fort, in which he was defeated. When Fort Pitt was besieged by the Indians in 1763, Col. Boquet came to its relief and defeated the ene- my. In 1764 he erected the small brick blockhouse within the fort's outer walls, which still stands, perhaps the only structure of colonial times in Pitts- burgh. It is cared for by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. In 1772 Fort Pitt was evacuated by the British. During the Revolutionary War 18 was garrisoned by continental troops. Passes Into West Virginia, Route 30 crosses Point Bridge, a free bridge over the Monongahela River; stretches to the West Virginia State line, crosses the narrow four-mile strip of the State over a concrete road and the Ohio River on a toll bridge near Chester, W. Va. It continues as a paved road for the 251 miles across ©Ohio. In this State it passes through ‘East Liverpool, an important porce- lain manufacturing center; continues through Lisbon, the birthplace of Mark A. Hanna, United States Senator; through Canton, the home and burial place of President McKinley, and through Massillon, where Coxey, just 34 years ago, started with his ragged army of unemployed on the march to Washington to seek remedial legislation. The highway continues through Mans- field, the home of John Sherman; through Marion, about 200 miles from Pittsburgh, located in’a rich farming district, the home and burial place of e late President Harding, and through enton, named in honor of Simon Kenton, a famous scout and Indian fighter. In Kenton is the highest point of the dividing ridge. or the water parting, about 1,000 feet above sea level, from which the waters on the north flow into Lake Erie and on the south into the Gulf of Mexico. The road wendsl‘w&:tw:r: mmwthmml lnog b rich agricultural region Van Wert to the Indiana State line. For the 173 miles across Indiana North Platte, passing through Kearney, known for its alfalfa growth. Thirteen miles out of Kearney is a huge road sign, *“1735 Ranch—1,733 miles to Frisco, 1,733 miles to Boston.” Kear- ney, 204 miles from Omaha, was settled in 1871 and was named for old Fort Kearney, across the river, which was maintained by the Government during and after the gold rush to protect the overland traffic from Indian attacks. North Platte is a railroad center and a shipping point for alfalfa, sugar beets and cattle. Here Route 30 crosses the Platte River over a free bridge, con- tinues through Big Spring (about 187 miles from Kearney), through Ogalalla to Chappell and over rolling country | through Sidney and Kimball to Pine | Bluff, near the Wyoming State line. In Wyoming Route 30 begins its stretch of 487 miles across the State, passing through Cheyenne and Laramje to Medicine Bow. Cheyenne, about 158 miles from Big Spring, with an altitude of 6,050 feet, was settled in 1867, when the Union Pacific reached that site. It was named for the Cheyenne Indians. Its annual celebration of frontier days in the latter part of July attracts thou- sands of visitors. Fort D. A. Russell, a well equipped miljtary post, is three miles away, Crosses Continental Divide. Between Cheyenne and Laramie Route 30 crosses the Continental Divide at Sherman Hill at an elevation of some 8,800 feet. Laramie, hemmed in on three sides by the picturesque Laramie Mountains, was settled in 1868 and was named in honor of Jacques de la Ramie, a French trapper and trader, who was drowned in the Laramie River in 1821. From Medicine Bow the highway passes through a thinly settled cattle and sheep country, through Parco to Rawlins. From Rawlins Yellowstone National Park may be reached north on U. S. 87, through Lander and the Shoshone Indian Reservation. The highway continues through sparsely settled country from Rawlins through Rock Springs, Green River to Granger, where an alternate route, 30-S, branches southwesterly into Utah and then nerth into Idaho. Rock Springs, about 284 miles from Cheyenne, with an altitude of 6,260 feet, is the starting point for the Hoback Canyon Route to the south entrance of Yellowstone. Green River was s0 named by the Indians because of the color of the water flowing over its green shale bed. From Granger Route 30-S passes through Fort Bridger, named for the famous trapper, scout and guide, Jim Bridger. It was an important frontier post, >f which little remains except the Tuins of the old stockade, the general store owned by Judge Carter, and the old guardhouse. Between Fort Bridger and Evanston there are three or four with _elevations from 7,200 to ,600 feet. The road continues to Echo City, in Utah, 150 miles from Rock Springs, to Ogden, founded by Brigham Young, with an altitude of 4,300 feet, and in the picturesque region of Wa- satch Mountains, Great Salt Lake and Ogden Canyon, which at the city limits. From Echo City U. S. 40 to San Francisco is reached over U. S. 530; from Ogden. Route 40 is reached south over U. S. 91. Route 30-S continues Route 30 cont;lmx;asnu ‘; paved m Ill’;!'l passes_througl ayne, al miles from Marfon, Ohio, and about 320 village of the Miami Indians and near the old French Fort Miami. The was an im- portant fur-trading depot until 1830. In 1794 Gen. Anthony Wayne built a fort on the d of the present Old Fort Park. road passes through Columbia City, through Warsaw, 19- cated in a lake region; through the rich farming district of Valparaiso to the Illinois State line, Before reaching the State line, between Dyer and ille, the one and Ee-lulr-mno stretch is termed the al section of highway. Highway 100 Feet in Width, It is built on a right of way 100 feet 'wide and is designed to take care of 15,000 passenger cars per 24-hour day, traveling at 35 miles per hour, and 6,000 motor trucks at an average speed of 10 miles. The width of pavement is 40 feet, accommodating four lanes ©f travel. Drainage consists of sub- merged drain tile and catch basins. ‘The pavement is of concrete, 10 inches thick, reinforced with steel. The high- way is lighted and advertising signs are prohibited, A pedestrian footpath is provided. From the Tilinols State line Route 30 15 a paved road for the 174 miles across the State. It passes Chicago by run- ning through a suburb, Chicago Heights, about 158 miles from Fort Wayne and about 30 miles south of Chicago. At Joliet, named for the French-Canadian explorer of the Mississippi River, is the new Illinois State Penitentiary. The highway continues through Aurora, Geneva, to Rochelle, with its canning factories; through Dixon, laid out by John Dixon, the first white settler of Lee County. and through Morrison to Fulton, on the Mississippi River. At Fulton the United States highway crosses the Mississippi over a toli bridge into Lyons, Iowa. It passes through Clinton, about 153 miles from Chicago Heights, and through a rich agricultural section to’ Cedar Rapids, on the Cedar River, about 82 miles from Clinton. Cedar Rapids is mnoted for its wide streets. Its waterpower is furnished by the rapids in the river. After passing through Belle Plaine, a rich dairying district, and through Marshalltown, named for Chief Justice Marshall, and a grain shipping point, it continues on to Council Bluffs, a great agricultural and railway center, on the Missouri River, about 288 miles from Cedar Rapids, Councll Bluffs Figures in History. Council Bluffs s situated at the foot of h!fh bluffs. On or near the site of the city, in 1804, Lewis and Clark held a council with the Indlans, hence its name. In 1838 the Federal Government made this city the headquarters of the Pottawattamie Indians removed from Missourl. They remained until 1846, when the Mormons established a settle- ment which they called “Kanesville,” which they five years later abandoned for Salt Lake City. Council Bluffs was an important outfitting point for Cali- #ornia gold seekers, the goods being ‘brought by boat from St. Louis. Route 30 crosses the Missouri over the Douglas Street Bridge, a toll bridge, into Omaha, a great grain and corn market and also an important meat- cking center, Omaha was first set- fled in 1854, following the opening of ‘Nebraska Territory under the Kansas- Nebraska bill of 1854, and was called “Omaha” from th Omaha Indians, a tribe of the Dakotas. It was the niost northerly outfitting place for overland wagon trains to the far West. The first ties of the Union Pacific Rallroad were laid in Omaha. At Omaha the United States high- ‘way begins its onward march across the Jess densely populated States of long distances—Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. Of a necessity, the mile- age of lower types of construction pre- dominates and is adequate for average local travel. Follows Old Oregon Trail. ‘Leaving Omaha, the highway stretches across the State for 507 miles, follow- ing generaly the Old Oregon Trail, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Oregon north over U. 8. 91 to Brigham, in the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, OCTOBER Y4, 1928—PART 4. COAST-TO-COAST ROUTE ON U. S. HIGHWAY, N sounding pool and then makes a second leap of 67 feet to the river shore. The Pillars of Hercules, three miles below the Cascades, and Rooster Rock, near Crown Point, are fine examples of nature’s chiseling. At Crown Point Route 30 drops about 700 feet over letter S loops and continues through the broad valley of the Columbia to Portland, about 241 miles from Pendle- ton, one of the greatest cities in the ‘West. Fleets sall from its fresh-water harbor to practically all the world, carrying lumber, wheat, wool and fish. From Portland Heights are fine views of the snow-clad summits of Mount Hood, at 11,225 feet, the loftiest height in the State; of Mount Jefferson, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier or Tacoma. The city is famous for its roses and in June an annual rose festlval is held. Portland was founded in 1845 by two real estate men from New England and was named after Portland, Me., at the toss of a coin—“Tails for Portland, heads for Boston.” ‘The last lap of 108 miles of Route 30 from Portland to Astoria passes the Whidby Loops, of horseshoe design, scaling Bugby Mountain at a height of about 700 feet. Astoria, about 10 or 15 miles from the mouth of the Co- lumbia, is on a harbor six miles wide and a water front five miles long. It is an important salmon-packing center and has extensive lumber and manu- facturing interests, City Founded in 1811. The city was founded in 1811 as a depot for the fur trade by John Jacob Astor, in whose honor it was named, and is the oldest American settlement in the Columbia River Valley. In Astoria is located Fort. Clatsop, estab- lished in 1804 by the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Astoria Column, erected jointly by the Great Northern Railroad Co. and Vincent Astor. The column is 125 feet high and its spiral frieze, depicting trading and trapping scenes of the early days, is 535 feet long and 7 feet wide. It was at Astoria that Capt, Robert Gray, a New England skipper, Who discovered the Columbia River in 1792, raised the American flag and took possession of the region in the name of the United States. Thus Route 30 ends at Astoria, in Oregon, the State that was ridiculed and unwanted by the United States Congress of 1825. In that year a New Jersey Senator declared that never should the Territory of Oregon become a State. Senator Benton of Missouri, in the same year, declared: “The ridge of the Rocky Mountains may be named peach orchard area, crosses the south State line into Idaho and joins route 30-N a short distance east of Burley. Through Idaho and Oregon, Route 30-N follows the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Granger through Idaho and Oregon to the Columbia River. At the Idaho State line it begins the 451 miles across the State and passes through Springs, one of Idaho's earliest settlements and founded by Brigham Young; then on to Pocatello, at an altitude of 4,400 feet, about 240 miles from Rock Springs. Pocatello is the commercial center of a large irri- gated agricultural tract, The fertile soil produces in abundance everything from semi-tropical fruits to the famous Idaho potatoes. It is the starting point for the trip to the Craters of the Moon, of famous volcanic features, and is a natural gateway to all Western national parks. Nearby is the site of Fort Hall, where the trails to Oregon and Califor- nia separated. Massacre Rocks mark the spot where the Indians attacked an emigrant train in 1862. Crossing Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Route 30 reaches American Falls, on the Snake River, with its 42-foot cascade and the dam that impounds 1,700,000 acre-feet of water, and follows the river to a point east of Burley where it meets route 30-8. The single road continues through Burley, Twin Falls and Boise to Fruitland near the Oregon State line, ‘Twin Falls, about 134 miles from Poca- tello, a commercial and distributing cen- ter, is a modern up-to-date city. Five miles north are the Shoshone Falls, ri- valing Niagara in scenic beauty. Boise, about 282 miles from Poca- tello, with an altitude of 2,700 feet, was settled in 1963. by Maj. Lugabill, U. 8. A, who established a military.| post, known as Fort Boise, on the site of the oldest settlement in the vicinity, made by the Hudson Bay Fur Co. before 1860. It is a trade center for surrounding fruit-growing, agricul- tural and mining country and is an important wool market. Twenty-six miles above the city is the celebrated Arrow Rock Dam, 354 feet high, with a driveway running across its crest. Hot water from artesian wells near Boise is utilized in one of the largest inclosed natatoriums in the West and for heating many residences and public buildings of the city. Begins Run of 528 Miles. Leaving Boise, Route 30 crosses the Snake River at the State line into Oregon, near Ontario, over a free bridge, and begins its run of 528 miles across the State. From Fruitland an alternate road runs north on the east side of Snake River to Weiser, crosses Main Street Bridge, and joins 30 on the west side of Snake River. The highway passes through Baker, in the center of eastern Oregon mining re- glon; through La Grande, through the Umatilla _ Indian Reservation, and through Pendleton to Umatilla on the Columbia River. From La Grande, about 221 miles from Boise, on the | west side of the Grande Ronde Valley of the Blue Mountains, the Wallowa Moun- tains are reached. The highway from La Grande to Pendleton is through the | picturesque Blue Mountain region. Pen- dleton, about 280 miles from Boise, is the “distributing center for the sur-| rounding rich wheat-raising country. ‘The annual Pendleton round-up in Sep- tember attracts thousands of visitors. From Umatilla Route 30 follows the scenic Columbia River to Astoria, prac- tically at its mouth, and is a testimony of the successful solving of some of the more difficult of road engineering prob- lems. One hundred and forty miles {rom Pendleton is The Dalles, where the Columbia, carrying an immense volume of water for some 1,200 miles, is sud- denly compelled to make its way through a narrow chasm only a hun- dred yards wide and about a dozen miles long. Beyond The Dalles Route | 30 turns and twists into the graceful Rowena Loops and passes through the Hood River Valley, the home of the big red Oregon apple. Just below Hood River it passes through Mitchells Point Tunnel, hewn out of solid rock. It fol- lows the 50-mile gorge of the Columbia through the Cascade Mountains, where the river descends 50 feet within a half mile, the climax of the river's scenic beauty. Short Line into Oregon. It follows the /Platte River to Grand Island, about 154 miles from Omaha, passing through 4Columbis and Central City, where the .- “forty-niners” to - California stopped . when it was the Lone Tree State Sta- tiop en the Platte, J¢ continues to Mountains Tower Toward Sky. On either side montains tower into the le in stony terraces and_shat- tered cliffs. Perhaps the most glorious of the cataracts that come tumbling down is Multonomah, which plunges over a4 clUft 607 feet high into & re= to install as a convenlent, natural and everlast- ing boundary. Along this ridge the western limits of the Republic should be drawn.” Oregon Held of Small Value. Up to 1845 the United States Govern- ment never attempted to aid or con- trol Oregon. “What do we want with Oregon?” Senator Winthrop of Massa- chusetts asked in one of his speeches. “We will not need elbow room for a thousand years.” A South Carolina Senator declared, “The whole of Oregon is not worth a pinch of snuff.,” Daniel Webster was of the same opinion, “Oregon is a vast worthless region of savages, wild beasts, deserts of shifting sands and prairie dogs,” he said. “What use have we for such a country?” Oregon, in 1825, embraced Washing- ton, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Mon- tana and Wyoming. According to latest available figures, in 1925 Wash- ington and Oregon led the United States in lumber production and in the manufacture of laths and shingles, The canned salmon output of the two States for 1926 was valued at more than $10,000,000, In 1926 Washington ranked seventh in wheat production, Idaho ranked eleventh and Oregon fifteenth. Idaho, noted for its big po- tatoes, ranked third in the country in potato yield per acre. It also ranked third in lead and silver production, MOTOR-TYPE DRIVER IS HELD SAFEST Baltimore Officer Answers Doctor's Analysis of City's Traf- fic Hazards, By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 13.—An un- derstanding between 'motorists and pedestrians would do more to reduce traffic deaths and Injuries than keeping the “sensory” type driver from oper- ating his car, according o a traffic policeman at one of the downtown cor- ners. He was answering Dr. V. V. Andrews’ statement that the person who has to think things over before he acts should be kept from the wheel of a motor ve- hicle, Dr, Andrews divided motorists Into two groups—the “motor type,” who can do the right thing automatic- ally, and the “sensory type,” who have to think things over and weigh possi- bilities before acting. The officer heartily agreed with the doctor that these are the two types of drivers, and that the “sensory” is the more dangerous. There the agreement stopped. For, sald the patrolman, “it's just as right for one man to drive as another. Every new driver is a ‘sen- sory’ driver. He'll creep up to a corner and look at the semaphore two or three times to make sure it says go, then start across the street. Then if something gets in his way, suddenly he remembers that the sign said go, but now he has to stop, so he gets confused. He's liable to bust into it. But if that same driver gets enough experience his automobile will become as much a part of him as his arm or his leg, and he'll stop when something gets in the way regardless of anything else.” ALCOHOL OR.PGLISH CLEARS SPARK PLUGS ‘To clean spark plugs simply fill the lower part of the plug with aicohol, or any liquid metal polish, and allow to and for a few seconds; take a piece of re covered with one thickness of cloth and rub the carbon from the insulator then wipe clean and dry thoroughly be- fore replacing in the engine. Cleaning a plug in this way is far better than taking it apart to clean. When a plug is once taken apart there is great dan- ger that it will not be put together se- surely again, which would cause leak- age due to it not being gas tight, This in turn causes loss of power, In cleaning the sparking points use emery cloth or a knife. In cases where the electrode is badly worn away and when the insulator is comted heavily cleaning is of no avail, It is then better t new plugs, o GreCa g SPAINes CANSTENN Aven (g % o -~ 300 741 wes | 1 o s ASHALLTOW! wopne M2%, i 01600 Ben ‘::v K- AT VAL L EIRIL BLUF IMAHA ® % oovERSHENT PRiTING orTIcK: 7 What to See on U. S. Route 30 From Atlantic City to Astoria, Oreg. Gettysburg—Battlefield dotted with monuments, Cemetery Hill in National Cemetery, where President Lincoln de- livered his famous address. Pittsburgh—Bronze tablet on court- house marking the defeat of Maj. Grant in 1758 against the French at Fort Dugquesne; brick blockhouse, built in the outer walls of Fort Pitt in 1764; steel plants. Canton—McKinley Memorial. Marion—Harding Memorial. Fort Wayne—In Old Fort Park stood the fort that Gen. Anthony Wayne built in 1794, Joliet—New Illinois State prison. Cedar Rapids—City is noted for its wide streets. Omaha—Grain elevators and stock- yards. Kearney—A huge road sign pointing out the fact that Kearney is half way between San Francisco and Boston, 1,733 miles to each point. Cheyenne—Annual July celebration of frontier days; between Cheyenne and Laramie is the Continental Divide of an elevation of 8800 feet. Pocatello—Starting point for Craters of Moon; nearby is Fort Hall, where the trails to Oregon and 'Califorhia Autoists A;lvised to Have Machines Inspected Regularly to Find Flaws Are you always “hearing things” in your car? Some people are always looking for trouble, but a great many more don’t know the best and most economical ways of keeping the car out of real trouble, declares Dorothy C. Reid, an authority on woman's ways with machines. How to save money on repairs, from the viewpoint of those who pay and those who are paid for them, is revealed by Miss Reid in the November issue of McCall's: “While 1t does not pay to ignore any unusual sound from the engine of your automobile, neither is it wise to be an overtrained ‘listener.’ Such people are nuisances to any car repair depart. ment. They are perpetually expect- ing and looking for trouble, their imagi- nations run rampant, and many of their motor difficulties are of their own in- vention. Automobiles today have New and Used Car Display Rooms 1711 14th St. N. TEMPLE GARA( Alexanaris, Voo CENTRAL GARAG! w.uulu-“ Ve 7 separated; Massacre Rocks mark the spot where the Indians attacked an emigrant train in 1862. Twin Falls—A commercial and dis- tributing center; five miles north are Shoshone Falls, rivaling Niagara in scenic beauty. Boise—On the site of the oldest settlement in vicinity made by Hudson Bay Fur Co. Twenty-six miles north is Arrow Rock Dam, 354 feet high. Hot water from artesian wells heats public buildings and is used in natatorium. Pendleton—Distributing center for rich wheat raising country. Annual Pendleton roundup in September. Along _the Columbia River—The Dalles; Rowena Loops; Hood River Valley, the home of the Big Red Oregon Apple; Mitchell’s Point; Cascade Gorge, Pillars of Hercules; Rooster Rock; S loops at Crown Point, and Whidby loops down Bugby Mountain. Portland—Wonderful inland harbor; from Portland Heights views of Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Mount St. Helen'’s, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier. Rose festival in June. Astoria—Salmon fishing and canning activity, also lumber interests: Fort Clatsop, established in 1804 by the Lewis and Clark expedition. reached such a degree of mechanical efficiency that little more than intelli- gent, conscientious care is required to keep them in condition. “If there is an authorized service station anywhere near you, it is much better to have repairs and adjustments made there than in a general garage Automobile manufacturers do not con- sider their responsibility at an end when a car leaves the factory, They make an honest effort to put out a me- chanically perfect product and they have a genuine interest in its perform- ance. Their economic future depends on the satisfaction their cars give. A garage proprietor’s viewpoint is some- what different. The bulk of his profit and his economic future depends on re- pair work. He cannot afford equipment for every make of car, nor can he hopa to employ a corps of mechanics quali- llalilyliue ' make you worder at. t FSRAPIDS L "’é‘ senevh 11770 Saienn S CEDAR cLINTON qum“méu Oon o O ;‘ JLLinols b fied to work on any car manufactured. All mechanics think they are experts, but if one out of five can diagnose en- gine trouble on all cars, it is a high percentage. “Taking your automobile to its au- thorized service station at regular inter- vals is the best form of insurance you can give it. A periodic check-up often saves dollars in repairs. I recently asked managers in several of these serv- ice stations what were some of the con- tributing causes to current engine trou- ble, and, in the main, they agreed on two things—insufficient attention to mo- tor inspection and lack of knowledge on the part of drivers. “Most. engine trouble can be directly attributed to abuse on the part of the driver. Probably imperfect lubrication heads this list. With care a motor’s life is estimated to be seven or eight years, yet few of them last that lonz because they are so frequently abused through poor or insufficient lubricants. There is one important point to be temembered about crank case oil—add- ing fresh, clean oil does not purify what is already there. When 2 quarts of clean oil are added to 2 quarts of dirty oil, the result is 4 quarts of dirty oil. Gritty lubrication in cylin- der chambers, bearings and pistons will mean expensive repairs. At required intervals, drain the crank case, flush it with cleansing oil and replenish with a good quality of lubricant. It is cheaper to buy a gallon of fresh oil than to pay for the damage done by an abrasive mixture too long in the case. “Drivers frequently do not understand the importance of carburetor adjust- ment. The average motor car is oper= ated on too rich a mixture. Auto- mobile manufacturers advise adjusting carburetors twice a year; a leaner mix- ture in Summer than in Winter. Car- buretors of today operate more eco- nomically than did earlier types, but they are not yet perfect, and until they are, it is not possible to get complete combustion in cylinder chambers. = Car- buretor adjustments, besides reducing the amount of gasoline used, reduce the amount of carbon to be removed from your engine.” Have Brakes Tested. Loss of lives—destruction of property —wasted time—needless expense of mo- tor car upkeep, due to rapid wear of brake linings—are all direct results of improperly ~adjusted brakes. With modern equipment, scientific and accu- rate test with visible register of brake prless:’xre at each wheel, is quickly ob- tained. TRADE FORESEES PARIS AUTO SALON SHOWS U. 5. TREND Reflects Influence of Ameri- can Cars in Finish and Decoration. PARIS, October 13—The annual Paris automobile salon, now open here, undoubtedly reflects the influence of American cars in finish and decora- tion. French authorities, however, have not outdistanced American cars in this respect, for one of the most attractive exhibits at the salon is a fine car of American manufacture. It is a cabrio- let done in beige gray with a dark gray belt carrying narrow black stripes, It has a tan top. The richness of its coloring has attracted more than usual attention. De Lage has turned out a car, a cabriolet limousine, which runs a very close second. It is finished in an at tractive gray with a maroon belt, the mudguard and the rest of the chassis being also maroon, while there is & cream stripipg on the belt and the mud= guards. Two Popular Makes, The two stands attracting most ate tention, due to the fact that the cone HUGE AUTO OUTPUT Passenger Car Production Last Quarter of 1928 Like- ly to Break Records. Passenger car production for the third quarter of 1928 will undoubtedly exceed all previous records for the same period of the year, according to B. H. Cram, president of Cram's Auto- motive Reports, Inc. The estimated total number of pas- senger cars produced during the first nine months of 1928 is 3,097,014 units, compared with 2,540,312 units in 1927 and 3,153,922 units in 1926. Produc- tion during the 1928 period represents an increase of 22.3 per cent over 1927 ?gzds a decrease of 1.8 per cent from Monthly production records reached a new peak in August of 1928. Com- plete returns show that 458,429 units were produced during that month. Of this total, 400,689 units were passenger cars and 57,740 were trucks. Prelimi- nary reports indicate that September will approach if not equal August with an estimated passenger-car production of 392,500 cars and 57,673 trucks. These figures combined show a total produc- tion figure of 450,173 units. The esti- mated production figures shown are conservative. Considering the months individually, we find that, ‘without exception, each month in 1928 is above the correspond- ing month of last year. This fact has become even more evident during the later months of the year when the mar- gdin of variation increased to a marked legree. It is customary in the automobile in- dustry to consider the record rather than the average as a basis for com- parison. Thus far 1926 has stood as the record year in automobile produc- tion. With one manufacturer steadily stepping up his production and other leaders maintaining their production schedules, it is entirely within reason that when the curtain falls at the end of the present year, 1928 will have broken all production records. cerns which are exhibiting sell lowe priced cars, are Citroen and Aenault, Citroen has new six-cylinder cars, ate tractively ~decorated. One is dark green with a black belt prolonged on the hood and carrying narrow red striping, while the windows are framed with red stripes. Another is finished in dark greenish gray with an amae ranth-colored belt carrying _narrow cream striping. One of the Renaults has the body, the hood and the frame around the windows in light beige, while the upper part of the body, the belt, the mudguards and the balance of the chassis are of the same color in a darker shade. The belt is prolonged on the hood, carrying two white narrow stripes. An attractive although sedate De Launay Belleville is in gray very slight- ly tinged with green, with a gray belt and disk wheels with circles of both colors. Voisin is showing cars mostly of a yellowish beige. A well known body maker is displaying a car in black with a red belt and carrying two nar- row beige stripes. Another example of a black car was a small town car by Vandenplas. It was all black with moldings of aluminum color and a beige freize underneath each window. Other Beige Combinations. Binder shows a Minerva, the lower part of the body, the window frames and the hood being finished in beige tinged with yellow green with a gray belt. The disk wheels of the car keep a metal appearance. . Still another body maker, Millongulet, shows a ¥eenuh gray American car, the belt of which is composed of two dark blue mold- ings, the lower part being prolonged on the hood. Wheels, metal disks and mudguards are dark blue. The fashion for colors is not con- fined to Paris, but has also invaded the rest of France, since a famous Lyons body maker shows an attractive Hispano cabriolet limousine in blue with a black belt of the same width its whole length. even on the hood, and carrying two narrow gold stripes. The top, wheels and mudguards of this car are black, while the interior is uphol- stered in a fabric with a -like effect. Oty A Detroit garage—11 stories of a skyscraper—has space for the storage of 800 cars. LOW PRICES! 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