Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 16

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OVEMBER ARTPLANS FOR CARDEN SHOW | Over $30,000 to Be Expended in Dec- orations for Auto Exhibit. WHITE AND GOLD TO PREVAIL No Cars of Forelgn Make W 1 Be Shown at Tenth Annual Show in New York cen Some Interesting light extenisive how ,nnd expensive are the methods involved in on lecorating Madison Square Gardgn for tenth national automobile show, which will be held there during the week of January $ to 15, was shed at a recent conclave be- jtween W. W. Knowles, the decorator gen- al, and the committee in charge of the show, the committee consisting of Colonel George Pope, chairman; Charles Clifton, &, P. Chalfant and Secretary Merle L. Downs. The discussion turned upon the detafls of the preparatory work which Is now in progress. From the way the various items were dealt with it scemed almost as If the committee was planning to create a permanent hall of art instead of a seven- day atfair fn an exhibition building. It is aimost unbelievable that so much elabora tion ever would be entered upon for an exhibition of motor cars. Already car- penters, slgn makers, woodworkers and painters are working zealously on the skeleton work for the decorative créations. In seeking to produce a proper setting Vfor the motor cars, motor cycles and ac- cessorles, the show managers will not spare expense; this Is made very clear by | the fact that more than $30,000 are to be ' expended for the decorations. The annual | automobile show In the garden is becoming every year more important as a social event, at which the latest fashions, in both cars and costumes, are displayed, and for several years now It has been the affair for which the Garden is most handsomely decorated. White and gold are the colors that have been selected to predominate in al- the decorative scheme next January, though crimson and green also will strongly in evidence. On the whol tenth national show, under the auspices the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, at which are shown only American cars, the output of representa- tive makers, will be brighter in its general tone than any of its predecessors. No Staff Work Used. At the show of last Jafuary the em- ployment of plaster statues and other statf work was done away with to a great extent. The forthcoming show will be practically void of this rather class of ornamentation and an effect of solidity and massiveness will be produced, together with a feellug of distance, breadth and general roominess. At some former shows, the visitor entering the garden was confronted by a mammoth plece of statuary which Interrupted the view of Jthe ensemble on the floor beyond. This time a Roman seat, or fountain, which is not of a height to assert itself offensively and permits a comprehensive view of the Garden, will be constructed opposite the entrance way to ald in the artful plan of “opening up" the interior. The foun- taln' will have a modest elegance and be in the form of a low abutment of gray stone curving gracefully about the spaces of those exhibitors that face the entrance on the Madison avenue side. It will have a trough-like basin, and at each end, and in the center, water from the mouths of gritfing and gargoyles will spray upon the pool beneath made iridescent by cun- ningly hidden lights. The falling water also will be electrically radiant, of course. There will be big and little goldfish and natural pond llies in the pool, and ming- ling with the natural lilies' will be artificlal water plants from which radiate other varicolored lights. Carved into the front wall of the fountain will be a long settee for the visitors. Two bay trees will be seemingly growing through this seat As winter appears to be the season in which the thoughts of men turn to the cholce of cars for the coming spring and summer, the fitness of things Is met In the date set for the show. At this show is af- forded always the best opportunity to in- spect the product of American makers, who comprise the As- soclation of Licensed Automobile Manu- facturers, and under whose auspices the show Is held. There is promise of many interesting things in the 1910 models, and the exhibition will bring out some new wrinkles_in construction and design which will astonish those who are aware of the progress being made toward standardiza- tion. That the modern, every-day motor car, generally known as a stock car, has left the misty zone of experiment and Is now in the height of its practicability and use- fulness, is strongly emphasized by the many performances in hill-climbing, tour- ing, speed ‘and racing contests for this class of car that have “peppered” the auto- mobile sporting calendar of the year 1909 There will be a comprehensive display at the Garden show of duplicate models of the stock cars that competed successtully in the various sporting events of the year and some of the original cars will shown. Thanks to the adoption of certain standards by the members of the Associa- tion of Licensed Automobile Manutacturers, ihe new model of a licensed maker does not have to be put through years of prep- aration before it is entered in competition with other cars. Recently there have been victorles won by certain makes of pcars that had scarcely competed in previous events, and this condition of affairs Is thoroughly inspiring to the public. Something new, either great or small, will be found in nearly every one of the models to be exhibited, and as somé ex- hibltors cling to {he old habit of keeping something up the sleeve untll show time, there is no telling what surprises may be in store. It Is gertain that some of the new points of interest will be found in axles, transmissions and In lubricating systems. In bodies, a type that seems to be #aining favor is the four-passenger surrey, which is but & tonneau without deors, bullt low in the back and sides, yet pro- viding plenty of seating space. The cars at the Garden show will range from the costllest on the market down to the little runabout that is cheap enough for the baker's boy—almost The large number of accessory exhibitors entered makes it certaln that the display of the component parts and fittings that §0 to make the motor car & vehicle of Jux- ury will be very extensive and Interesting There will be eyery conceivable sort of ac- cessory on view, with the newest In wear- ing apparel, the latest in ignition devices, self-starters, etc., and an endless variety in tops, tires, horns, lamps, etc Deaver Mint te Reopen. DENVER, Colo. Nov. 26.—The Denver wint, which was shut lown last July be- cause of a surplus of all denominatios of gold coins, will o) the first of the Vo with between $15.000,000 and 320.- 0,000 "In ‘gold builion on hand which ‘wiil tely colued into money of small t the | tawdry | the representative | be | |COLORADO MOTORISTS WANT GOOD ROADS | | Indications Are tor Lorge \elega- | tion to Convention at St. Louis. hat the country tion was clearly is still attracting, wide atten- indicated last week in a letter recelved by Secretary Frederick H | Enfott of the American Automobile as- | sociation: from President Ralph W. Smith of the Den Motor club. Mr. Smith speaks very warmly of the Interest among motorists in his state in the coming Third National Good Roads convention, which will_be held at St. Louls next fall. That |the far west is determined to show its growing Interest In the good roads move | ment at that time Is indicated by the a | tion already taken by the Denver Motor | | elub, Mr. Smith stating that at least fifty | delegates from Colorado have already con- | sented to attend. He has interviewed the Board of Public Works In Denver and rep- resentatives will be t from that body. All of these men, adds Mr. Smith, | are interested .in the good roads move- | | ment and it is likely, he stated, that the | entire Boara of Public Works will attend. | together with three of its engineers. | | ELECTRICS ARE MADE CHAINLESS New Departure Seems Meet Approval of Users. | *The most radical departure that has oc- curred in electric motor car construction [for many years Is the adoption of a bevel gear shaft drive by some ‘fum\lrer Nearly all the gasoline car man- ufacturers have abandoned chains in favor of the bevel shaft drive on account of its cleanliness, simplicity of constraction, pro- |tection against dirt and absence of lost | motion. The shaft drive requires no ad- \Junmpm and its constant lubrication gives | practically unlimited life and relability The mechanical efficiency of the shnf(i drive heretofore in use, howevér, was not | equal in efficlency to the well-designad | chain drive, and since etficlency utmost importance in electric cars, of the limited amount of power iou one charge, it has not heretofore | seemed practical to use the shaft drive on | 1 prese with electric man is of the | becaus: secured electrics, The Baker company has ‘selr with perfect success on type of cars, but has only succeeded after | ‘m-n,\- years of experimenting in perfeet- |ing an improved bevel gear shaft drive, | which Is suitable for small cars and which at the same time excels in efficiency all other forms of | transmission. The com- pany has found from long experfence that |the chain drive loses its efficlency on ac- | count ot its imperfect lubrication, accumu- lation of dust and streiching of the chain, and claims that their new bevel gear shaft drive will maintain and even increass the efficiency of the car the longer it is operated. The bevel drive rear axle fs of the semi- floating type of the very latest design, approved by the best engineers. To re- cure lightness and greater strength the entire rear axle housing is drawn from 'sheet steel. All the bearings in this axie are of the ball-bearing type of the high- est quality. The axle shafts and drive shafts are made from speclal vanadium alloy steel, carefully heat treated The differential s of & special type and used the bevel their larger | all gears In the rear axle housing, includ- Ing the differentiating gears are made from the highest grade steel obtainable for this purpose. and are hardened by a special process. The | difterentiating gears are mounted on a three-arm member and careful provision is made for a self-aligning movement of these gears. | The entire front axle hub is drawn from | sheet steel and the hub pressings are ac- | curately machined and fitted with ball bearings of the best quality. The front | axle spring seats are machined from the | highest grade steel and the tube is of spe- clal semi-spring temper steel with drop- forged yokes attached to the tubing by electric welding process, CHILDREN WARNED OFF HIGHWAY Increased Traffic and Automobiles Inecrease the Danger, In a letter sent out last week to the president of the Board of Educatibn and | the Children's Aid society, an appeal is made by the National Highways Protective soclety to warn children of the danger of playing in the streets, and particularly of tooling around motor vehicles, The letter is as follows: Dear Sir:—S8o immense has the automo- | bile traffic become, the danger to the chil- | dren of this city, due to the reckless driv- ing of irresponsible chauffeurs, Is great, as shown by the number of killed and maimed | | during the month of October. Will you not mend out to the several schools a “warning?"* Many children attach themselves to | moving vehicles, jump off, and are run | down by automobliles. They also dart out from behind piles of brick, etc., on the streets and highways, and in some cases try to see how close they can get to an automobile without being run over, the good roads Interest throughout /' |for the price of automobiles to | the They have planed teeth | | horse power runabout, AUTO PRICES BECIN T0 Rle’ Advance in Pnce of Raw Mltennl Given as the Cause. |G00D ADVICE 18 “BUY NOW™” Reasons Given by Old Omaha mryrle Man for the Gemeral Advance in Prices During Latter Part of Year. “Those people waiting | drop be- low par have another guess coming,’ sald W. J. Morgan. “Their stock argument | in favor of their expectation is rather old who have been BOWSER THE OMAHA BEE’S DIRECTORY OF AUTOMOBILES 4 eyi, Car, 4 Car, § cyl 3 passenger ¢yl § passenger . 7 passenger TANKS ni PUMPS J. M. PINKERTON, 8682¢ Brandels Iull‘lng. of a well-groomed man. for aneaverage morning: his something to say Here is the record price of one car. in automobile about the raise in The lack of profit | making might account for | Electric Current rent used in my electric clock, but as a single kilowatt hour will keep that running for ten years, it seems safe o disregard the clock. After this who will question the economy | of electric power? The kilowatt hour is the unit of measur- Ing electric current lighting _company. than formerly, and what is more to the point, this advance in rubber seems likely to hold for some time to come. The consumer as well as the manufacturer has felt this tire advance, but it is more keenly felt by the latter because the tire | manufacturer has In the past given au- tomoblle manufacturers a price somewhat lower than the user. This was natural, | It means the use of a since the manufacturer bought in large | thousand watts of electricity, or the equiv- |Quantities. Now, all speclal prices to | alent of one and one-third-horsepower, for manufacturers have been withdrawn 8o |one hour. that an autorobile company has to pay s 1 A practically what the user does. -Thus it NEW POLICE PATROL AT CAPITAL Fully is that on. the present basis tires are cost- | ing the manufacturer a much higher price than the advance itself would indicate. All Materl: “But tires are not that has advanced. Equipped Machine, to Ci Twelve People, Delivered. s Advance. | A police patrol automobile for the police the only material [department of Washington, D. C., has re- Steels, hair, leather | cently been delivered by the H. H. Frank- have all gone up. Simply because the |lin Manufacturing company. It Is equipped producers of the raw material have mnot | with an air-cooled, elghteen-horse-power been able to meet the demand. The po'lcy |engine, has a blue body, with red running of the manufacturers has been to bulld |gear and seats ten people inside and two automobiles in enormous quantities and | outside. sell on a low margin of profit. Never| It has facilities for use as & vempora has thelr percentage of profit amounted ambulance, the cushions from the reats by to more than 15 per cent. Consequently, Palong the sides being removable and the when the cost of raw material has ad- | hinged seats lifting to give space for vanced as It has, the prices on the cars | stretchers and other paraphernalla. ‘Wnero is a medicine chest under the driver's seat and a compartment for supplies back of the seat, accessible from the inside. There are two brass lanterns, which are Instiacly detachable when needed. The body is of strong and light construction and the up- per part is entirely encased with a me:al grillwork. The driver is protected froan the weather by a glass front, a mackin: sh apron and side curtains. The motor car is fitted with large pneu- natic tires, the use of which is in forhity with the idea of commercial car tire equipment. In thelr favor it is en- nounced that they are more dur: then solid rubber tires, cost less for upkeepsand insure easy riding, which also means longer life to the entire automobile. Persistent Advertising is the road to Big Returns. must necessarily go up. “On some of their ::?elu they. have been able to reduce the coft of manufacturing to & point which compensated for the ad- vance in material., As, for example, the thirty-horse power, four-cylinder car, which remains at $1,500. On the smaler machines, as, for example, the twelve- the price has ad- vanced from 350 to $00, end on thelr | four-cylinder, twenty-two-horse power run- about from $550 to $900. “There may be still a large profit in some automoblles, but among the large producers it can be safely sald that the profit per machine s probably lower than that obtalned in making any other class of machinery. “For example, In the stationary engine business a ten-horse power engine selling on con- F. E. SEARLES. FORMER CHAUFFEUR KEROSENE AS FUEL. Py ——. s { L4 charged for by the I They point to the tumble in the price o | AIR COOLED AUTO bicyeles. Bleycles in 1880 ta 15 cost w | e ety g &g “lh:mf":'_l:‘v‘ry problem. Call the way from $120 to $1%. For the last COMMERCIAL AUTOMOBILE CO. five years you could buy that rame \.\m. 201 South Tenth Street. Douglas 3794 cle, or one as good as It, for ab one- | = R A — - e third of the price.” P ¥ ey L 9 o piea hdpatulu. foiliet Bowever. | 9 pays the manufacturer $100 profit, | PNEUMATIC TIRES IN VOGUE that blcycles were made In the days when | hobe It I8 affirmed by the Maxwell there were no rubber or steel trusts and | P71%C0¢ Motor company that thelr %00 | Expert Declares Europe fs Golng Back I before the era of meroplane prices. These i bOUt vields a profit of but §7a." to Afr Cushions. days an article that has not soarsd In | 1t Would seem that the advice to “order | Emil Gruenfeldt, chief engineer and de- price s looked upon with more or less |'C¥ YOUr automobila would be timely |signer of the Baker Motor Vericle com- veneration, It Is quite possible If thers |*Nd Seasonable after reading the above. |pany, has just rerned from Europe, ware s Tt "k domrl toAkyY Tob Bicys | Where he visitea the automobile center dlen ue thepe Witk wd, L0 Vears u;” the |DIARY OF AN UP TO-DATE MAN |and through his wide acquaintance with Pride WOulE be & Mtile: stitfer tRan it is the leading European automobile manu- tolad Tor The Samel t BVhNIRs [cost to Man Whe Uaes Biestrteity tn tacturers obtaintd inside Information in re- Recently rumblings of advance In auto? T T Cae |gard to the 1910 designs. [ obile’ prices: Nave bestr aad:, &1 one| . Bome. beople’ think At Gowte” & lobi o he most remarkable tendency,” said manufacturer with great bravery has told | MONey to be thoroughly well groomed and | Mr. Gruenfeldt, “is toward the shaft bevel the public that they must pay more, and |UP-to-date, but Charles Pinkham Jones— |drive, and the ploneer manufacturers who it now looks as if the other manufacturers | ©Verybody knows “Pinky” Jones, the “pink |have been making chain-driven cars for must clther cconomize in quality or cut | ©f Perfection” his women friends call him— | many years are adopting this type of drive |down the size of thelr automobiles if they |KeePs & diary that includes an expense (because of its many advantages. Panhard, expect (o scll them at a profit. There may |2CCOUnt, with a glimpse of which your Benz De Dietrich, Mors, Fiat, Berliet and | not be a general epidemic of prics ralsing, | COTTespondent was favored the other day, |Others who formerly manufactured chain- {but few manufacturers will care to con- |aNd from it he is able to give exact fig- |driven cars exclusively, are all gradually tinue to make automobiles unless there is u |Ures as to what it costs a bachelor who |ChAN8INg to the shaft drive. For heavy Peih Y gy g e iy | uses modern labor-saving applianc:s in. | trucks of either power, the chain drive is A writer who Is noted for his economy |5t€ad of & valei, to present himself every |*Ull standard on account of its inexpensive I using the space of the dally newspaper |MOFDINg at the bank the perfect pattern |Menufacture and simple adaptability to heavy work “The European electric,” sald Mr. Gruen- |feldt, “is only manufactured in the heavy /. Hours. |brougham and cab models, and there is a the batiery of press agents that ouldo the | Rose 7 and took an nler:(rlc“lm'l'lhm .;mu‘ demand abroad for the light, easily sentlemanly burglar in prying their way |/ for which the current used was...... .33 | Sortr lieq olectrie runabent into the free news columns of the daily (Fghted bedroom for half hour with e 3 " A electric stove.... aeesens 500 ‘The greatest objection to European elec- press. The one young writer referred to|Heated water for &having on electiic rics 18 the use of very thin plates in the s b et b I e s s Sy ool 8% Jatteries, which, while they give a greater [y No Large Profit. | Pressed trousers with eleotri iron.... 0o | mileage at the beginning, are so shortlived “Contrary to the general opinion held | Ironed silk hat with electric irone 130 | that they are not practical. The series as to the profit on automobies, it is Kneaded dough for a loaf of bread _ | wouna motor is becoming standard and all | | tact that the larger companies who yyn»-ex“:u‘:g ;m‘l'l“‘; s ! siectric stove ‘g | Of the later models are of the single motor been making automobiles on a business [ Cooked a chop by electrieity w66, | Lype with double speed rduction and shaft | basis for the last several years, do not|Aired my room with electric fan 0238 | drive. The “Hub' motor, bullt directly in make @ larger profit than in any other [Turned on electric piano while I ate |the wheel, which has been so much dis- standard line of manufacture. | Clomnen e kenives “and’ toris with % | cussed, 1s rapidly disappearing, due to its “On November 1 the Maxwell-Briscoe| electric cleaner ...... ... L0010 | inefficiency In starting and- hill climbing Motor company announced a rise in the| Polished the plates with elh-r‘"l(‘ po- and the frequent necessity of repairs on prices on rome of their models. To thowe | (MANEL (oo e 0050 | account of the severe direct vibration of who are intimately connected with the | =gy o, Mo o Wit _" + ric 025 | the wheel on the road. automobile business, this price advance | Lighted a cigar with electric lighter.. .0003 | “Solld tires and cushion tires have both was expected and predicted. The reason | Rode in electric elevator to the base- been used abroad, especially for taxicabs, far this ribe 14 not hard'to find, MEDt ..oiiiiiiisiiii e (083 [ but on account of the heavy vibration of “Raw materlal has been constantly ad- ".';:;; my " elctric "4 miles (o 'he oo |the car and the loosenirg and breaking of vancing In price. Crude rubber, for ex- | vital mecchanical parts, they have been ample, has advanced tremendously dur-| ‘Total kilowatt hours.. .2.1789 | practically discarded, and the late cars are ing the last few vears, and as a result| I Pay 10 cents per hour, or 22 cents in |equipped with pneumatic tires. Even the tires today cost from $30 to $60 a set more |all. This does not take account of the cur- | electric trucks and busses are being equip- ped with pneumatic tires of the twin and triple type—that Is, two or three individual tires side by side on the same wheel.” NEW GOTHAM-ATLANTA RECORD Rapid Run is Made Down Atlantic Coast Route. Fifty-nine and one-half hours lished as the average running automobile from Broadway to Atlanta, shown by the recent automobile run con< ducted by the New York Herald and At lanta Journal. The event was not a speed contest, but an endurance run. The perfect score, Franklin, a forty-two-horse-power, seven-passenger motor entered by W. C. Cleveland of Greenville, N. C.. made the run in fifty-five hours and twenty-two minutes. Is estab- time by as A. A. A, Annual Meeting This Week. A large delegation of prominent automo- bilists from many parts of the country will be present in New York City this week to attend the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Auto- moblile soclation, which will be held on Tuesday at the Hotel Belmont. In addition to the election of directors for the com- ing year, reports from the chairman of the g0od roads, legislative, touring and con- test boards will be presented and other matters of interest in the field of national motoring discussed. On the following day, Wednesday, December 1, the new board of directors for 1910 will meet at the same place to elect officers for the coming year and make such appointments and arrange ments in the organization of the various boards as may be considered desirable. 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