Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1910, Page 16

RM\O‘(S I'OR THF lPllH Automobile Row Explains the Matter with Farmers What's THE OMAF MILLIONS PUT IN MOTOR CARS | | Bene the Castomer that s @ the crfulls ractical ershadow Luxury of Pace—Ch: et Blows Into the Garage. wi ‘ountry Life commission is tr 08 to find out “What's the matter with the farmer?” boosters on Automobile Row a on to the trouble and applying the remedy Fhe patients like the treatment well and enfoy its uplift possiblities that they ty the to and show sm where to get labeled “Au Out of the last year quite neigtn The news ors in exhillarant tomobilitis mblions ralsed from the v Stiff aggregate was in vested by farmers In automoblles. Esti mates p the number of automobiles owned by Nebraska farmers at 4000. Jowe and Kansas farmers are put down at 5,000 each. The average cost of the machines Is placed at'$1,500. All of the farmers of the country are estimated to own 76,00 ma- chines. There are mall order houses which make a specialty of bullding and selling automobiles to farmers, some of the ma chin being as cheap as $ A large corportion manufactures motor buggies foi the farmer, along with harvester machines and reapers. The buggy type of automobile 1o longer satisties. He demands pneumatic tires, so that he can ride in comfort, and a lot of horsepower, so that he won't to take the dust of city folks he on the road. When the automoblle is not being used by the farmer as a luxury, he hitches it on to a fodder cutter, a buzz saw or a milk in the back yard. By jacking wheels and slipping beli of them, the touring car is transivrmed into an efficlent and powerful engine. More than half the | population of the country lives on the farm or thereabouts, and in the past it bhas not known how the other half lives. The automoblle gives the other half a chance to visit and patronize the city half. Motors especlally made for all sorts of farm work, from plowing to threshing, bid falr to displace both animal and human labor, Speaking of “what this gasoline-fed slave will do for the farmer,” an adves- tsing Macaulay remarks ‘‘When the motor doesn’t work It need not be fed. There ls no danger of its getting sick, as Is the case with the horse; nor will it go on strike or get drunk, is the case with the man helper.”” Aye, the motor Is a total ab+ stainer and an heroic exponent of the open shop principle; it Is the ideal producer of surplus value. It will plow, it will reap, it will cut grass, it will drive a threshing ma- chine and do any other work of a stationacy engine It drinks nothing but gasoline; It does nol get sick, tired or drunk Kansas farmers spent $3,200,00 for auto- moblles during 199 and $2,750000 in 1908. In one Nebraska town of 80 population forty autpmobiles were sold last year to farmers near the town and retired farmers in the town. Careful estimate of the num- ber of automobiles owned by farmers in the entire United States is 76,000, The farmer has more good reasons for having an automobile than any other man, It is commonly sald now that many city men are buying automoblles who cannot afford them. Garage and chauffeur costs are largely responsible for this condition. He Knows Machinery. But the farmer takes to ah automobile quite like the proverbla) duck to water, In the first place he knows machinery. He bandles it all day long and has to be his own repair man. As a result he is his own best chauffeur and so is his son. The automoblle fits in the farm work as if made for it ~not & bit of it. The horse goes into the fleld in the morning and the automobile runs the milk to town or goes to the mill for flour in & hurry or makes a quick dash to the machine shop In town for a part to repair the binder or the threshing machine, 1t saves the time in many Instances (as many farmers testity) of a big gang of men in the field In an emergency It pays for tiself in rea) service by the end of a year or two. / Sixteen automoblle makers are advertising automobiles (o the farmer in the 40 farm papers of the country, and most of them are arguing that the automobile will keep the boy on the tarm and make life more livable for the wife. Automobile men are constantly being astonished at the price farmers are wil.ing to pay for the best cars, and the way they are paying with as little fuss as If they & new draught horse. FACTOR IN THE WORLD'S WORK Its Development a meets ar a ne Is in cash, were buying i Many Classe This world is rapldly attaining tion; approaching the millennium ‘high efficlency action, ease tion and complete enjoyment tlon. The automobile has longer, fuster ride this any other invention of our time. To question, “What is the economic the automoblle fu the world's work?' the beat answer is another, “What occupation can be benefited by the introduetion higher speed in locomotion? The occupations which are directlys hen tited by the invention and nse of the auto- moblle wre, first, those vocations whern greater facility and speed in traveling’ will increase the amount of work accomplished Representatives of this class are cians, civil engineers and salesmen travel about in doing their work. ond class who are benefited Whose vocations do not require traveling but whe use the automobile for recreation sight sccing and pleasurc. The third class recelve hencfits not so much fram the automoblle per so as from the stimulus in manufacturing and trade which the struction of automobiles has created. The most apparent benefit 1o class is the greater speed of the bile as compared with the vehicle previously used. In the emse of the physicians the difference in the time con sumed in getting to the patient may mean the difference between life and death. Addition to the greater cndurance of vehicle, rendering it capable of many times the mileage of the horse. Saver for parfec throu in oceupa of wiven direction us th a in the physi- who The sec. are those con- the first automo- the and the fact that it is more sanitary and more | 1OWeEVer. economical, all tend to increase tho erfi- ziency in the vocation to whieh its use is wpplied. Perhaps 1o no class is the automobile of more value than to civil engineers and construction firme, who are enabled widely extend their scope of operations. A superintendent is enabled to oversee the work of two or three fobs all in progrees of construction at the same time, can travel speedily between them. More than any other benefit conferred o the owner of the automobile in professional or trebles the usefulness of the user; the physiclan, for instance, can call upen his patients in one-half the time, thus saving him many hours in uw day. As the “possi- bility of accomplishment” is one of the greatest things in lite, so this saving in have | It doesn't replace the horse | acquisk- | value of | of | horse-drawn | In | coverine | as he business life is the fact that it doubles 1A SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 10, 1910. ’(.LlDI)h\ I’ATHH\DLRHARIS EIGHT mnom TICKETS LOST| 1 Who Will Mark the Route. LEAVES « Not hene ey « wil Reached on Traverse « Tours the ne —Journeys Through thwest. (Special)~The Chal tor the Glid DETROLT, mers 30" den tour of 1910, cinnati, the official tou The April April 8 official pathfinder to Cin- ot was shipped today starting' point Monday of pathfinding trip will start 11. This was the decision man & M. Butler of the board of the America Automobile when he stopped in Chicago the first of the w for a conference Glidden tour before he left for the coast He further announced that the night con | trols will be Louisville, Nashville, Flor ence, Ala, Memphis, Little Rock Ark Chair contest assoclution | Dallas, x., Oklahoma City, Wichita, months and years, is the equivalent in | work done to adding vears to a man's life. The second class fs mostly composed of people to whom the automobile is not a necessity—that is, they did not require the automoblle for the sake of conomy utility, but rather acquired the automobile for pleasure, recreation and sight seeing. This class became the first purchaser automobiles, and commenced uvsing them long before the machine was perfected. the early days, when a fifty-mile run with- [out stopping was a tén-day wonder, and while the running of the car was inter. mittent, troublesome and unrelfable, they bought for the enjoyment of riding, for the pleasure in it while it would go They laughed and regarded it only as an adventure when a spark plug went wrong, when a driving chain broke or slopped. » They have come into their own {whatever they desire, either comfort, speed | reliability, they can be satisfied. Cars | are built which ride more comfortably than any carriage. Some cars will travel faster than a mile a minute; one ecar has run 10,000 miles without stopping the Elther of a score of cars will meet requirements of durability, flexibllity reltabflity Of the third class, those who have been directly benefited are the artisans, me- chanies, merchants and others engaged in the manufacture and sale of automobiles and accessories. More than 250,000 men ac- quire thelr living in the manufacture and sale of automoblles and accessories. The tremendous demand for the cars, coupled with the progressiveness of the manufac- ture, have caused them to engage the most skilled help and the fastest pro- ducing, capable and officient workmen, and in many cases to pay the current rates as.a bonus to induce in- creased production. The same demand that | has been applied to men has been avp“t‘d to machines and tools of every kind and | description which have come to be used in the automoblle industry.—Benjamin Briscoe in New York Herald. cars motor now; | all and Much Depends on Two Things—the Handling and the Use of O The question is often asked, “What is the life of an automobile?” This is casily an- swered. It depends upon two things, first, the way the car is handled, and second, the amount of oll it recelves. With proper attention In both of these respects an auto- moblle should last from five to ten years, depending upon the grade of the car. +To properly appreclate the importance of |ofling it may be well to see just what its functions are and how it performs them If you look at ol through a powerful mic- roscope, you will see ‘that it ‘is composed of thousands of globules, each one shaped like ‘a ball. A properly olled bearing has distributed all over its rubbing surface these small globules. which act exactly as if they steel balls, preventing the two surfa themselves from touching each other. The moment there is no ofl there and the two surfaces come in contact, they start to cut and it takes but a very short time for an expensive bearing to be de- stroyed The oll were itselt will wear out; that is to say, the globules will break and the ofl will thus lose its lubricating - properties. Therefore, new oll must be added con- stantly. As proper tactor olling is ‘such a tremendous in the successful performance of a | car, it is well to see that your automoblle {18 equipped with as rearly an automatic |kvstem of ofling as is possible and practi- |eal. The pump oller, the operator, is likely {to be forgotten. This naturally would have | disastrous results. There are several ver: good positive oiling systems; some of these lare mechanical pumps, which |the engine starts and pump just the proper amount of very part where ofl is |required, stopping when the motor stope. | Another and more simple arrangement {which is well adapted ble opposed " |motors 1s to use the alternate oampres: {sion and vacuum of the crank the | pressure and vacuum starting arts and falling when In this method a pipe simple ball check runs £ |to the oil |a compression occurs as the | there | reservoir | feeds, Iin easy sight of the operator and is theice | distributed to the various bearings. As the oll leaves the sight foeds it is sucked to the ton and the engine bearings by the | cuum caused by the piston receding |each other ofl to to d when the motor having | motor | stops [ reservoir ery time ther: in the erank case, whi plstons approach each other is a pressure put on the oil in This forces the oll to va c trom Great care |ing the ve | to use an |low tha | should be exercised in procur- ¥ best ol Tt inferior grade you is poor it does are payin price for 0!l you are geiting the bes I8 probably tra the oil business than fn any | accessory automobiling | for eylinder use is one Itire test and a yery which ather This same oll ean Ibe used for most bearings. Gears should { e run in a very heavy oll or a good quality The manufacturers of machines. always give instructions as te fdust what ol to in each particular | place where Iubrication is necessary. | Remember that a gallon too mueh oll san do no damage other than to seot up the |#parks plugs, which arc cleansd In a very | tew minutes. A drop too little of oil, on the other hand, may destroy the whole power plant of the machine. YORK FARMERS BUY AUTOS |Use of New Style of Locomotion Awakens Interest in Good Roads. YORK, April 8.—(Special.)~8o many far- mers are buying automobiles that already | ® number are becoming interested in better |roads, and if the farmers of York county take an Interest.in good roads there is no question but what good roads will be built fand maintained in York county. Automo- economy not fol- hecause a There racticed In other pursult The best having a very high low cold test and more |of grease. » ws each day, when multiplied by the | bile Gealers report sales to many hnmu | of In| motor. | wages in excess of | CONCERNING LIFE OF CAR| start when | the | om the crank casa | the | sight | which should be situated on the dash | nig | ol | who have all there lives been money savers and a few who never made a purchase but what they had to get the best price, but when purchasing an automobile they are most liberal and rarely ask if it can be | bought cheaper, but take the auto at the price asked AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS BOOMS IN OLD MEXICO | More Care ‘Ave Betug' Pure the Roads Are Being Improved. ed and Mexido is beginning to take a keen inter- est In motor touring. Various good road movements have been started and motorists in Mexico City are making many trips of exploration to points of Interest in the nelghboring republic. A recent dispatch from Mexico City says that perhaps the most important of these pioneer tours was that of Messrs. Alcerreca and Garces, who made a run from Mexico City to Orizaba. They found the roads almost impassable, but as a result of their trip a movement | has already been started to Improve this | route which would otherwise be very en- Jjoyable. The trlp was made in & Chalmers 30" and despite the unfavorable condi- tions, the car negotiated the trip with en- tire satistaction. This was the first time |an automobile had attempted this hazard- ous journey. Among the other important runs which may do much to promote automoblle tour- ing and the improvement of road conditions in Mexico are those of Kenneth Walker from Mexico City to Guadalajara, return- |ing in thirty-two hours and thirty-eight minutes; that of Jack Davis, who recently made a long climb to El Deslerto in an | hour flat. While this is not a record it is creditable performance, and has been an inducement to many other motor- ists of Mexico City to attempt the climb. | The Mexican Herald is quite enthusiastic | } over these ploneer runs, because they have awakened Mexican automobilists to the great need of.good roads. The poor roads of Mexico heretofore have proved the great- est set back to automobiling in that coun- try. of a Barnyard Bank. While the financlal stringescy is long since past, money is still being hoarded. Fred Chandler, the Ford agent at North Yakima, tells & story where the where- withal was planted and where a highly delectable fruit grew upon it One day his telephone bell rang. “Say: do you sell the Ford car?’ asked the volce, and he answered in the affirma- tive. “It's the same that from New Again the affirmative “Well, 1 want to see one. of buying one.” Chandler, the next day, to the address and race York to Seattie?" I'm thinking took a spin out found the volce be- longed to a farmer whose crops had been all to the good. The farmer looked the car over, listened to Chandler's talk and then said: / “Would you mind glving us & litie spin?"” meaning himself and his interested wife. Chandler surely was willing. He took them down a stretch and when they ar- rived at the farm house the car was sold. “You talk to the woman a while,” and the farmer was off. A short while later Chandler looked around and he saw the old farmer near the barn digging with a shovel. Presently he returned and handed $1,026 to Chandler, the price of the car. “That farmer thinks the seed he planted | bore the best fruit ever,” says Manager R. P. Rice of the local brapch, who thinks the ' story a great f s —Philadelphia Ledger. i Piais vt A | Persistent advertising Is the road to Big| Returns. | help them. DUG UP GOLD TO BUY CAE‘ Farmer’s Shovel Touches Combination | r that finished first in | | Kan.,, Kansas City, Mo., St. Joseph, Mo Des Molnes, fa., Davenport and Sundays will be spent in Memphis and St Joseph his year's Glidd est single day’s run In the event; from Texarkana to tance of 230 miles. The longes 1909 tour was from Salina, City, a distance of 212 miles This year's tour will also be longer than that of 10, which established a record for Glidden tours. Last year the Glidden- ites covered approximately 2300 miles be tween Chicago and Kansas City by way Minneapolfs and Denver will_be something Chairman Butler Glidden event will set a record for entries. Michigan Men Praise Omaha| history Dallas, day a dis Members of Faculty Are Impressed with Wonderful Growth of the City. We were treated royally while iIn Omaha,” sald Dean Reed of the Univer- sity of Michigan, just before the train left “I know of no better word to express my opinfon of your great city than ‘colossal’ “It 18 & rousing old town,” said Dean Cooley of the engineering department with his famous laugh. “The development since I saw it several years ago has certainly been wonderful, and it seems to fast be growing into the leading city of the mid- dle west General Secretary Shaw expressed him- self as delighted by the loyalty, enthus: jasm and fine organization of ths local sons of Michigan and sald it was no won- der so many fine Omaha boys attend the University of Michigan, because the head- quarters of the Alumni association of the Missouri valley, conslsting of over 500 mem- bers, is at Omaha, and every Michigan man never fails to sing praises of Ann Arbor at every opportunity. The dis tingulshed visitors were kept very busy from their arrival until they left Deadly Fright sufferers from lung trouble till Dr. King's New Discovery will B0c and $1.00. For sale by Bea- ton Drug Co. over 2,600 miles. the tour biles In all parts of the country “I am confident that 1910 will see that largest of all Glidden tours,” sald Mr. But- ler. Offictal scout, Dal H. Lewis, will reach Cincinnati Sunday; Joseph W. Graham, who will drive the official pathtinding car, early start Monday morning. New Mayor of South Omaha May Re- main in Office Until Successor is Appointed. County Commissioner Trainor will put in his formal resignation to the Douglas possesses Cak o) it for several days or possibly thereafter. Mr. Trainor will remain an active member of the board during these few days by desire of other members. He will put his®resignation in for the board to act on at once if it desires, so that any oriticism is thus forestalled. i When you want whal you want when you want it, say so through The Bee Want Ad columns. | Chalmers is Official Car for ‘l'hosel TOMORROW MORNING morning when Nick Minndakis Before the K matters Chicago. | will contain the long- | of the | in the n., to Kansas | ot This year's routu | belleves that this year's | Inquiries to date indicate great interest in among manufacturers of automo- will be there a coupe of days earlier so that everything may be in readiness for ai | TRAINOR READY TO QUIT BOARD‘ county board Monday or Tuesday, but it is | | not expected that the board will act on | two weeks We Are Bacik at Our OLD LOCATION And Are Showing a Full Line of Hudson; Chalmers, Pierce-Arrow, We were rortunate in having a large stock of cars m our warehouse, and are in as good position as ever to make PROMPT DELIVERIES H E. Fredrickson Automobile Co,, 2044-6-8 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. The At $1,750 Is the best car on the market at its price—bar none. us you the smoothest, quletest, easy running, powerful car on the mar- ket it ride you surely want the Inter-State WE NAVE THE n| Let show you in it will inter- Touring Cars, Toy Tonneaus and Roadsters, 40yl., 40h. p., 118 In. Wheel Base, State Toy Tonneau CARS IN OMAHA READY TO DELIVER The Hupmobile § 4 OYL, 20H, P, With BOSCH MAGNETO, at— $750 Most remarkable car in the world. This is what every owner says. Nobody ever made a mistake in buying a Hupmobile. Its a wonder. W.L. HUFFMAN AUTOMOBILE CO., 2026 FARNAM ST. M s‘st:f :l;“u Distributers for Nebraska and Western lowa, H.E. FredricksonAutomobile Ce able t | what had become of the raiiroad ticket According elght ¢ the purpose had of the complaining witnesses, | Leader of Greek Club Chars. Taking Tickets with | nto & elub to had b ecks rmed for Away from ellow Members. journeying Chieago on A t the R ypeared with wred, and fr I he had sold the When it developed Akent Wakeley of was ready to tes T Crawford ntinued to Monday ireek, haled before Judge Crawford under the Explanations were in va m as transportati that e the Burii ey 3 charge of having absconded with the rail road tickets of elght comrades. Neither | the several and sundry Greeks who deelared | | they had been deprived of the wherewithal to travel from Omaha to Chicago, ton M DIR EOTO RY 0f Automobiles and Accessorie BABCOCK R. R. KIMBALL, 2026 Farnam St. “Winton Six" 4 Evmfi 30" 1812 Harney St Detroit Electrioc | n PIONEER IMPLEMENT COMPANY, Jackson i R oit Automobile Co Kemper Autumnblle Co. 2208 Farnam @ Street | THE PAXTON-MITCHELL CO. | Doug. 7281— | | | | AUTOMOBILES Storage and Repairs 2318 Harney Street -Z(III = MIDLAND MASON Maso FREELAND BROS. & ASHLEY, 1102 Farnan §t, FRANKLIN c.- . PEERLESS SMITH, 2207 FARNAM ST. REO, FORD PREMIER. ATLANTIC AUTOMOBILE co,, R. R, KIMBAL Stcvens lluryel cmnac. Snnley Steamer. BABCOCK ELECTRIC arnam Streot. passenger 6 In 1ts class mthout a peer. C. F. LOUK, State Agent, == 9 Models, $950 to $2,000. BRADLEY, MERRIAM & SMITH, Council Bluffs, Iowa VELIE AUTOMOBILE C0., 1902 Farnam St =g 1818 Farnam St, Omaha, Neb. Mattheson Detro‘t Electrlc Pioneer Implement Co. Council Bluffs, Ipwa. E . e 9,000 Coit Automobile Co., 2209 Farnam St. Elcctric Garage BAKER ELECTklc DENISE BARKALOW, Proprietor 2218 Firnam Street, | “ALLADAY 1808 Farnam St. DE AL ,and lMPERiA-L WA»(Gyhnder Automobiles; s2000 50 .. KISSEL AUTO GO $3,000 60 H.P. 2129 Farnam Stl VELIE =5a8% 8 John Deere Plow Co.,. Bls!rlyulorl. Temporary Location Ford Motor Co Locomobile i« 1818 farnqm s",a JACKSON Rondster, 4 cyl, 8 .$1,100 Touring Car, 4 cyl, $1,360 Wallace Automobile Co. MOTOR CAR 24th — Near anum S'ml. W. L. Huffman & Co. 2026 Farnam Street. BRUSH RUNABOUT Apperson Inte -Sh'e. 4-Gylmdar carl Headguarters $1,750; DeTampls 850| Hupmobile, $760., A MARVEL OF “WORKMANSHIP T. 6. NORTHWALL Cl 914 Jann St APPERSON SALES AGENCY 102-4 Farnam St. Thoma; Hudsan Pierce, Rapid, *® Chalmers-Detroit 2044-46-43 FARNAM STREET eright Automobile Co. Stoddard-Dayton, Waverly, Lexington, (814-16 Farnam, — 1 Overland, Popa Hartford Hanry H Van Bru"l Cnuncn Blum lowa, “MURPHY DID IT” = 14TH AND JACKSON nl The easiest ndmg car in the world. C. F. LOUK, 1808 Farnam Street, State Agent. SWEET-EDWARDS AUTO 0O, e sie MOON. . .....$1500 2052 FARNAM STREET PAHRY ...,SIZI!S Nehmska Buick Auto Company i soe moblile Car: coln Branch, 13th and P Sts. K. E. SIDLES, Gen' W W Comaiia Branch, 19181406 nmn st LEE KUFF, Mgr. INTER-STATE™™ uop-lrlng o Painting $1750 Fully E‘Il”ll’ 4 Cyl., 40 H. P. W. L. HUFFMAN & CO., 2025 Farnam St. Distributors