Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1915, Page 10

| | % | e B | All Happiness at ’ 10—A READS CATALOGUE | AS CANNON ROAR Former Star Maxwell Salesman| Takes Literature Into Front . Line Trench in Big War, | | BUT HE HOPES TO COME BACK | DETROIT, Nov. 2.—From star auto- mobile salesman and contract expert to private soldier, doing his humble part| in the trenches is the rapid transition | through which C. M. Bastlake, formerly | of the Maxwell company, has passed in | the last few months. Eastiake is a Canadian by birth. When was was declared he patriotically re-| signed his fine position and enlisted. For some time he has been at the front Occasionally he manages to get a letter through to some of his former associates in the motor Industry With a personal answer to one of thess | letters, C. E. Stebbins, Fastlake's former commanding officer, sent, at the sol- dier's request, a 1916 Maxwell catalogue. | According (o Eastlake's reply, the) eatalogne reached him in the firat line trenches, “And, believe me, 1t sure Jooked good,” he comments What n Difference n Year Makes. “It seems fynny to sit here,” he adds, | "with your letter and the catalogue in| front of me, and the rifle fire, and the roar of the big guns, and realize the difference from & yesr ago, and then try io picture where I will be a year| trom ~aw, 91 n fer knew there could be so many of one thing as we have here, and that is sandbags. As far as I can see, we Are absojutely short of nothing. We have millions of men and monay, muni- tions in plenty, and the artillery is cer- tainly wonderful. “The Belgian people treat us fine. We have lots of money and are not atraid | 1o &pend it. The army grub is fino and they feed you all you can eat. The one thing I envy you chaps is a bathroom. | We can bulld a fire and heat water for @& shave any time, but Oh ye Gods for & regular bath in 4 tiled bathroom and not In a hole in the ground! “Of course, we don't know a thing about what the blg men are doing and We are only a very small part of the line, but & chap can draw his own conclusions And I can assure you we have it on them G6ld. You'll hear all about it one of these days when wo start across Bel-| gium “It's good news to hear how busy the factory ie, and how finely the new car | is delivering the goods. It looks like a | wondeiful car‘to sell. I only hope I get | out of this mess with enough of me in one plece to get & place back on your | force."" Eastlake's lotter bears the date of October § stnce which there have boesn | two major actions along the front oc.| cuplod by the Canadians. No news has | ben recelved from him by his Matwell friends since that date. 1 | | | | e “A storage battery cannot run on one- | +f half a charge,” or with Insufficient sup- Dly of distilled water 1o keep the electro- Iyte up to the proper level, without 8 injury. This acts just like the| abuse “of a tire by running on sixty| pounds of afr pressure when it should | bave olghty pounds. The owner does| not realise that anything is wrong until | wfter the damage s done and his tire is rim-cut and ruined. Batteries, like tires, bogin to wear out 4 2000 as they are made, whether used | or not, because the battery is a chemical | Spparatus and chemical action Is going | on to some cxtent at all times in the | same way that rubber becomes brittle and loses ita life. | In both cawes proper attention greatly Prolongs the service to the car owner and means money in his pocket. (Contributed by Llmer Rosengren, Ne-| Braska Sterage Battery company.) Saxon Takes Place On Main Floor of U.8 éuto Show? . A st of ramarkable growth is be. hind (b announcement thet the Fawon | or company will exhibit prominently Ou the main floer n Grand Centra! tpalace at tha New York Automobile show in Jannary. ] 1 was Joss thah twe years ago that the Eoxen company first exhidited at Lan autamobi'e show. its booth beng lo (@ated in on obecure corner on the fourth floor of Giand Central palace. At the | {#how' last Jamuary the Baxon company, on the Af shioments for the first five months of its existence, was awarded | & location ci the second floor. thus meov- | Ing down tno floors. This year it makes | Its entrance mto the “big league” among | Automobile manufacturers by exhibiting | on the main floor. { Shipments of Saxon cars in the first ,elghtcen months brought the Saxon com- peny to the position of seventh among | Detroit automoblle manufacturers, and | § i |+ ftenth among the motor car companies of | {the world in velume of annual sales. | ! One of the most recent of the pro- | ‘gressive moves In the Saxon company Was the purchase by Harry W. Ford | Of the Saxon stock held by Hugh Chal- mers. the deal mvelving & cash trans- Action of $00,00. Mr. Ford thereby be- came the largest individual holder of Saxon stock. { st i _ Goodrich Branch, | | Every ope connected with the Good- ‘rich Tire company branch of Omaha is | n the of upirits this week and the | &, generous frame of | are forced into the | fricads vegardiess of | i = Heard At the Omaha Automobile Club Omaha got a “look In," at least, at North and South highway, by the rout- ing touching Kansas City. After all, a mere names is not going to make highway ““the main road.” The Omaha- Kansas City route, in average weather conditions, is as good, If not a great deal better, than the Missouri-lowa section of the Interstate trail (part of the Jefferson) | from Kansas City to Des Moines. From | Kansas City to Winnipeg, Canada, via | Omaha, Sioux City, Sloux Falls, Orton- ville and Fargo, is 20 miles shorter than the proposed “meridian” route of the Jefferson highway. Omaha's chance at | this overland north and south traffic de- | pends on the co-operation along the line in placing the Omaha-Kansas City trall in the best pjossible condition Another big factor which is going to pull this traffic via Omaha is the splen- ¢id Yellowstone trail to Yellowstone park, | which the tourist strikes at Millbank and Ortonville, Minn. Travel to Yellowstone park, government officials declare, is go- Ing to be tremendous next year, and the “meridian” route via Omaha from Kan- #as City s the shortest and best in get- | ting onto this trail. The Yellowstone is| well marked and is being put in (oodf condition | Washington County Roads. Dou, ounty roads will have to bow | to t Washington county highways as being superior. On most of the roads up | there the motorist experiences the pleas- | ure«of ridiag in the center of the road. | On most of our roads the center s either | too high or it is plled up with soft dirt | left by the drag or scraper. “You don't know how to make roads out here," re- marked an castern tourist. ! Lincoln's Convict-Made Road. | The new concrete convict-made road down near Lincoln should be the begin- of more permanent road buflding by | e prisoners. Costs 810 to Hola Road. | N. W. Ingraham of West Lib- | 5t $10 to “hog’ the road from fellow motorists. R. N. Carson and| party drove up behind Ingraham and| signalled that they wished to pass, but Ingraham continued to hold the highway. | He was arrested for violating the state| atute regulating the giving of one-half of the public highway to a passing ve- hicle. | Loading the Sign Car. Motorists of Omaha who follow the club direction signs within a radius of thirty miles Nttle realize the great pains the slgn car driver goes to in order to mark the road properly. The club car carries A ocarpentor outfit, a post-hole digger cans 6t paint, an axe, & spade and a sup- | ply of 200 signs. Last week Mr. Schafer, | the driver, In order to place a bunch of| slgns on the proper corner built up a farmer's corner fence, placed a new post | In the ground and made the spot look 100 per cent better, Model Traffle Ordinance. ‘The National Safety First federation has drafted n model street tratfic ordinance Which has recefyed much favorable com- ment. The near-side stop is one of the important séctions in the oramance, T, F. Stroud, one of the directors of the club, expoets to leave soon for Californiu, where he will spend a few months, mos!ly in the southern part. & Fall Cough. | The first dose of Dr. King's New Dis- | covery helps your cough, soothes throat. Get a bottle today, Be. All druggists. ~Advertisement. | THI. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 21, 1915 motors as we do, the owner of one nf’!hn( all buyers who want their ecars| Tells Why Allen Builds Own Motor - “The motor is by far the most import- ant point to consider by the prospective purchaser of an automobile,” sald W. O. Allen, in a letter to Carl Changstrom. Allen dealer of the Standard Motor Car company, Omaha Mr. Allen went on to say, “As of vital life to the human body, so the motor 18 the mechanieal force that vitalizes the whole automobile. The motor is the ‘foundation unit' in the con struction of Allen motor cars “Great care has been exercised in maintaining a power plant in our cars that would respond to every desire of the purchaser. Manufacturing our own the | Y heart s credited with being the center our ears is assured plenty of power and promptly will have to order early. smooth, quiet running motor that is Those who have seen the Sedan remark only found in the highest grade auto- on its beauty of line and finish. Many mobiles say it is the first real custom-made en- “losed coach to sell at such a moderate price. No one would ever suspect that the top is removable—yet it is, and everyone who buys the cay will have the comfort and luxury of a closed car this winter without having to buy a touring car when summer comes, JAPANESE BARON TO CHANGE TRAINS HERE FOR CAPITAL COLD WEATHER BRINGS BIG DEMAND FOR NEW SEDAN Word comes from the Thomas B. Jef- tery company, Kenosha, Wis., that cold weather has completely snowed under their body bullding department. Orders for the new Jeffery Sedan have stormed the factory without a letup since the | tirst real chill of fall crept into the air Baron Shibusaws of Japan, accom- In fact, the demand continues 80 heavy panied by nine servants will arrfve in that it is now certain there will not be enough fedans to go around. Those deal ers who put in large orders early in the season are patting themselves on the back, and the company i recommending Omaha over the Union Pacific at 8:15 o'clock Sunday evening, enroute to Wash- |ington. The bardh is traveling In a private car and from here he will go east over the Burlington. ‘Mark the advent of the new— —“Black-Tread” Goodrich Tire 3 . . DEPENDABLE Fabric Tire, with the fine BLACK-Tread style of the aristo- cratic ‘“Silvertown” Cord Tire. We can’t supply ‘‘Silvertowns” fast encrgh to meet the demand for them (until three times as rauch of the special Machinery required for sufficient volume can be completed). So, we do the next-best thing,—viz: supply the “Silvertown Cord” appearance, in its native and long-established color and design, on the standard Goodrich Fabric Tire, at the usual low “Faiz-fijsg’ p]rlllmd;age d Dependability that i the an nlity that is “Goodrich,” in a handsome new dress. Observe_that in this, as in practically all other rea! advances in Tire-building and Rubber- manufacturing, the pioneer work is done by— The B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, O. Buick Break s Another Record Lee Burroughs Breaks Automobile Record Between Lincoln and, Omaha With a Buick Light “Six” All automobile records from Lincoin to | Sidles clocked the car as it departed from , unpunished. and for that reason fined Omaha were shattered Tuesday morn'ng when Charles C. Dawley piloted a six- | cylinder, forty-five-homse power Bulck | from the capital city to the metropolis | in one hour, thirty-five minutes and | thirty-seven seconds. The previous rec- ord was one hour and forty-nine min-| utes, made by a Cadiliac elght. | The race agalnst time was the resuit of & wager between Lee Burroughs, owner of the machine Dawley drove, | and Jack Matthews. Matthews offered to gamble 300 that the distance could not be mede in less than two hours. Burroughs took him up and proceeded to | cop the bet. | arrived at the Henshaw hotel here at| . m The Buizk carried four passengers, in- | the driver; Burroughs, | Bturm as timekeeper more ocertain of the time Lincoln, and Gale Beckwith and Lee Huff caught the time of its arrival in | Buick Reeord Causes Trouble at Waverly. It developed that the officers at Wav- erly wantéd Lee Burroughs and the oc- cupants of his car, which was driven from Lincoln to Omaha in 1:35:%7, break- ing all existing records. When the men reported to the officers at Waverly, H. E. Sidles and C. H. Shore of the Nebraska Buick Auto company of | Lincoln accompanied them to intercede in their behalf and to admit that the| ; :fl: :viu atmosphere | The car started from Thirtesnth and | Poys had certainly violated the speed or- | wo inquiries, which ¢..io streets in Lincoln at 9:15 a. m. and | dinan They thought, however. in view of the sport connected with the run and the interest which the general public had taken in it, that they were justified to | cortain extent. The chalrman of the town board, John Munn, did not agree. He said there was too muck dissatisfaction among the efti- Sens for him to et the violation go by stock buyers and meat market; F. B them 33 and costs, amounting to $0. Beechell, livery; L. R. Curtiss, barber; This fine was pald by Mr. H. E. Sidles| 1, A. Price, capitalist; Willlam F. Gable | of the Nebraska Buick Auto company and when he returned to Lincoln a com- mittee sent by the citizens of Waverly, composed of E. H. Miller, J. R. Buckner. | fered, but not needed A. F. Wiebke followed him and tendered| resentative merchants and citizens of the him the 340, together with the following | village of Waverly and it is the desirp letter. This letter clearly indicates that|of the citizens of Waverly to do every- the chairman of the town board was the | thing they can to promote the traffic of only ecitizen who entered complaint the general public and tourists over the “We, the citizens of Waverly, resent| Omaha-Lincoln-Denver highway. They the fine of $ put on the Nebraska Buick | regret very much that anything of this Auto company by the village of Weverly | nature has happened to put their town in and we hercby subscribe to a fund to!the light which it has before the general make up the $0, which will reimburse | publie.” hardware; Dr. A. L. Emery. the sald fine follows: “The following subscribed to the fund “I appreciate the sentiment expressed E. H. Miller, grain business; J. R. Buck-| in your lefter more than 1 do the money ner, banker; A. F. Wiebke, confection- that you tendered e and I return the ery; J. F. Reiner, garage; Williaia| money, but shall preserve always thi | Wiebke, carpenter; J. A. Bertwell, tele- | letter from thé business men of Waverly | phone manager; W. A. Dungan, hotel; as & memento which 1 end my wsso- |9, B, Helosh, H. Stieg, Bennett & Morse, | clates esteem very highly.” “It took just fifteen minutes to get this| amount and there was more money of-| These are all rep- | the Nebraska Bulck Aute company for| Mr. Sidles replied to this committee as| , The Maxwell Roadster A “snappy” very fast two-passenger roadster. With top up, a beautiful, comfortable run-about; with top down, a fast roadster that equals the performances and the appearance of cars that sell at three times its price. This roadster has the same powerful quiet “velvet running” motor that has earned for the Maxwell it’s title of the “Wonder Car.” We are.graiting t take you for a test ride in the car that has broken all low “First-Cost” ricords, and is breaking ali iow “After.Cost” records. C. W. FRANCIS AUTO CO. 2024 Farnam St,, Omaha, Neb. et ———— O T A Few More Bonuses To Give Away AST week we told the public that the manufac- turer whose cars we represent had offered us a bonus for placing a certain number of cars in this territory during the month of November. We have only a few more cars of our allotment to sell upon which this bonus will apply. Now is your opportunity to purchase one of these new 1916 Touring Cars or Roadsters and get this bonus. This amounts to $......... No, we won’t give the figures here. Suffice it to say that the amount is much more than you will expect. These cars sell for less than $1,000 and are exact duplicates of those that will be shown by the manu- facturer at the New York and Chicago National Shows, It has a 39 H. P. motor, 115-inch wheelbase, easy riding, genuine cantilever springs, 4-inch tires, elec- tric starting and lighting, genunine leather upholster- ing, in faect it is finished and equipped right up to the minute in every way. And our regular service and the manufacturer’s written guarantee for one year goes with each car. Come see the cars, or phone us and we will bring one to you. McShane Motor Co. C. A. BISHOP, Mgr. 2216-18 Farnam St. Dong. 6486 i/{' A Monthly Event If you aren't one of the many who come to us every month for free battery inspection, you don’t recognize a good thing when you see it. Get busy. Nebraska Storage Battery Co,, 2203 Farnam St. Tel. Doug. 51 | Free inspection of any battery at any time Let The Bee get you a good job. “Situations Wanted” ads are free M