Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1915, Page 12

1 | l i H—-A MITCHELL MOTOR J. T. Btewart Tells How Power, Flexibility and Eoconomy of Engine is Developed. MUCH CREDIT DUE ENGINEER | To answer the numerous Inquiries as to how power, flexibility and economy In the Mitchell six motor with an enginc of 34x5 in developed, J. T. Stewait gives wome reasons. “The quality of materials, ‘workmanship, and the Ingenious design of J. W. Bate, the engineer, may be analyzed ae follows: It being necessary in any five or seven-passenger car to have power, Mr. Bate set to work to give that to his engine without multiplying complicated parts, and by Increasing the efficlency of the “L" head engine, doing away wtih overhead valves, rocker arms, over head cams, extra gears, etc., he gives a clear cut design with everything enclosed, even to the water manifolds and intake manifold being cast inside of the cylinder block. The L head motor makes the large valves with full 1%-inch elearance possible, a size impossible in Walve-in head of the same size bore The removable eylinder head makes it possible to machine flot surfaces at the top of the eylinders, thus avolding any gas pockets and outgoing exhaust. The timing of the , eylinder buliding of Mitchell models by Mr. Bate. The heat genersted by the exploding gases giving power to any motor, is teken advantage of by Mr. Bate, and there is no more cooling sur- face than i absolutely necessary. A sheot of water In the water jacket of the % ? : 3 z over the tops of the cylinders and valves. A shest of water almost completely sur- pounds each oylinder and the valves, but fheso jackets are short, being designed to Bbeorb only the heat necessary. **The desired flexibility of the recipro- eating parts ie produced by having the platons and connecting rods just as light i ! holes are drilled and the insides are o _to rmmvo any superfluous , wfi‘ welght down to 1% ieh is could be considerable loss of king of ] ] ; ; = »2 z E 2 g L ineh, porfect balanes of. the crank- shaft with fly-wheel attached is required. Overland Stock Car Grabs Third Place in Phoenix Classio thetr in with an even dosen cars, spectall racing, and driven by nationally race drivers, the Over- Pand third. Barl Cooper took Sirst & whirlwind finish, crossiug the % fow seconds ahead of the two care. equipment. With the exception of an aluminum body, it was identically the Same car that is shipped by hundreds every day from the big Tolede factory. Its performance in the race was the STEWART EXPLAINS aceurate | M YDRO Auro The plcture shows the hydro-auto, the | latest type of land and water convey ance, during a tryout. In its trials it | ahowed conmsiderable speed as an auto- moblle on land and attained between | Heard | At the Omaha ‘ Automobile Club | Becretary Clarke 0. Powell wit ve shortly after Christmas on an ecastern trip and will visit the large automoble exactly the right welght. | of “honor roll" grow fatter, In the large more yemarkable as practically every other entry was a specially bullt and deaigned racing machine, Nearly all of them' were speed models that had won thelr spurs In' the biggest motor car races held in this country and they were plioted by experts who had gained world fame a8 winners of many an automobile clasalc. Bd Waterman, driver of the Overland, i : : E i friends. t-nrv:m:wu:: m one looked to .flttw of ‘the speed marvels Show Increase of a Thons'gli ‘Per Cent & Yesir: ago. It hés also beem anncunced ‘that the month of December opened with orders. on haud for 2,50 cars, specifyinz earliest possibie delivery. The busines: accord- ing to ‘sformation received, I» upproxi- ¢Aually divided between the six- eylinder s04 fourcylinder mod: 'y, The 1ccnta just closed set o vow record for output &t Lhis season of (he year, and it ts certain (rat Dvuwbse will surpass the November shipmanis. Production for month will be triple the number of originally seheduled. It is expected this month will show an output of than 2,000 Saxon cars. it rate the Baxon Motor will show a production 000 cars for the year of | siEiE 3 i i i 2915, representing & value of approxi- mately 9360000 For the ' fiscal year from August 1, 1915, to July 8, 1916, the schedule ceils for 27,60 machines, with a value of §17,500,000. clubs of the east’to plek up da Cerning membership campaigns. ‘‘The Omaha Automobils club has done re- markably well this year and it is going to keep up the good work during 196, Pemarked Powell, Powell and achieve- ment have always been synonomous, su that 1,600 membership for next year s as #00d as gold. Fat Fina The sinking fund this year has grown from $311 last December to nearly $1,800 ot present, or an Increase of close. to $1,600. And the general fund, after a year real accomplishments, which took money to wsee them through, is right sround 3500 Gould Diets, treasurer, says he is going to hire a colored boy to lug the money to the bank if the members keep coming | in the way they have the last year. ‘We want more hustlers. Listen, you enthusiastio members. There are dozens of members who have brought tn from one to half a dosen new members the last year and we are anxious 1o see this clubs of the east hustling comrittees keep thelr eyes peeled for a ‘‘frieng In need” of club benefits. | Here are a few of the “willlag workers" on our henor roll: Dr. Kani, Samuel Friedman, Sam Burns, jr., Gould Dietz, B, W. Hart, C. L. Gould, B, F. Peterson, J. B. George, Barton Millard, A. L. Shaffer, E. A. Clark, Randall X, Brown, Frank W Pfleging, W. B. Cheek, Clarko G. Powell. Many Signs Placed. Over %00 square feet of board (or a total of 1,221 signs) was used during 1915 In making direction and danger sixis.ta place on the roads. These signs vary from 6x20 inches to hs large as Oxé feot, The present system of making a tniform sign has been worked out by C. L. Gould, chairman of the road s»ign rom- mittee. Bach name is painted in black on a white background, with a red atripe running through the name so that a wmall arrow can be nalled on the eni most convenient for directing trafeic. The algn work has cost the ciub this year about $498, This includes all cost--making, erection, drivers’ time and upkeep of the sign car. I'he sign car has covered Doug- las, Sarpy, Washington, Cass and Dedgs countles and there lsn't a motorist in Omaba who has not some time been thankful for these direction boards. Roads and Bond Issues. Bandwiched in among paragraph after paragraph in the road maker, telling of the bond lssues in different states and counties for the paving of county high- ways, we find this unenviable record of what Nebraska is doing for permanent roads: “This state (Nebraska) is not feeling particularly proud of the report of the Department of Agriculture, which shows that it stands mext to the bottom in permanent road Improvement with .3 of 1 per cent of surfaced roads.” Vote for the bond issue next spring! Cost of Bad Roads. ‘The road committes of the counly board of Brown county, Wisconain, declares that over $400,000 has been wasted In th last ten years by constructing cheap (dirt) roads. A bond issue for 1670000 for paving elghty-five miles of highway is certain to pass up there. State en- #ineer of Weat Virginia produced figures ,which proved that bad roads cost that atate $50,000,000 a yeer. What Others Arve Doing. King county, Washington, In whieh Seattle ia located, has over $3,000,000 avail- able for road construction. Dougas county has more population and it is time for the bond issue. One hundred and sixty miles of perma- | nent highway at a cost of $400,00 have | been built in Montana and Idaho in the | last two years. Massachusets will have nearly halt of | Its counties using prison labor on roads | next year, Green county, Iows, on the Lincoln | Highway, will bulld six additional miles of: gravel road next year on this overe land route. { Indlana has, during the last eizhtesn | months, bullt sixty-elght miles of paved | road on the Lincoln Highway. Noble | county, same state, will vote on a bind | issue to bulld a permanent road twenty- | one miles long and fourteen-foot wide across the county, | Hubbard county,; Minnesota, has just | completed ninety-one miles of fine high- | way, bullt under direction of the State | Highway commission. State Highway Commission Needed, Nebraska is one of only four states in the country which has no State Highway | commission, Talk It up for the next legislature. Electrios Are | Growing Popular According to H. H. Hawke, tn charge of the Detroit eclectric end of W, I. Huffman's business, Omaha looks with HE OMAHA Trying Out, New Land-Water Craft @ INTL. Frrs sERVICE thirty and forty miles an hour in the water. It Is fitted with both wheels and propeliers and meeds no change of mechanism in coming from the water to | the land Hupmobile Mai{es Record Run Across the H;yvke,ve State Starting from Ciinton, Ta.; at 6 ®. m and arriving In Omaha at 442 p. m., including all stops, over the Lincoln Highway, in a 1918 Hupmoblle, was the remarkablo “run made by C. J. Rose, | Hupmobile district manager, and W, H. | Crossman, Hupmoblle dealer, of Clinton, Ia. The distance is 3 miles. W. H Huffman, Omaha distributer of Hupmo- biles, met the party at Missour! Valley and escorted them to Omaha. | Mr. Crossman, driver of the car, said: ‘ “We feel that we have clearly demon- | | | strated the wonderful power and fle: ibllity of the Hupmobile motor by mal Ing this run with only our high gear in the ear.” | Mr. Rose said: “After making this,run | it is easy for me to understand why we are getting repeat orders from the war- ring nations. Hupmobiles in war service | have responded to the most severe tests, | @as did ours In making this record run \ today." SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 12, ' (Gossip l Along the Automobile Row Woleott has joined the males Huffman Auto com- pany. He seems to be as enthusiastic as M. O force of the W. L. the rest of the Huffman new Chalmers 6-30. crowq over the L. R. Kesterson, manager of the W. L. Huffman's Sioux City branch, was in the eity for a few days last week. Mr, | Kesterson says that the new Chalmers ia the “talk of the town" up in that territury. R. L. Alley, branch manager of the Lincoln branch of the W. L. Huffman company, came to Omaha last week to be on hand to welcome the new Chal- mers T. M. Bromwell of the Oldsmobils Sales company is very much elated over t good news just recelved from the Olds Motor works advising that the elght- eylinder production s being increased | every day and that Omaha is going to receive a mumber of eight-cylinder cars for delivery this month. “Let them | eome,” says Bromwell, “as we have a | walting list as long as your arm that will grab them as fast as they arrive.” ““The good weather that we have been having has brought about such an in- erease in demand for Oldsmobiles that it we 4id not look at the calendar we | would think that spring was opening. Our dealers during the last t weeks g m fall and every indication Keeping a battery up to i Just & matter of Enowing how. " Bester come in and let us give you some free pointera. e cars than at any | 1915. points to one of the best winter sellin | seasons that we have ever had.” said o of the officers of the Oldsmobile Bales company | How Much Does Your Name Weigh? How much does your name welgh? Not with the cashier at the bank, but what is the actual, physical weight of the pen- efl marking of your signature Think It ean't be welghed, eh? Well, it can, and It it consisted of, say, seven letters and two Initials with period the weight would be about four ten-thousandths of |a gram. And there are 453 grams in a | pound. And the delicate apparatus that | weighs it could welgh it If it was a | | thousana times as light | Of course, the “analytical balance” | (don’t call it a scale unless you want to | earn the contempt of the chemist) is not ordinarily used for weighing names. It | has a definite place in laboratory work | and at the plant of Dodge brothers, De- | triot, it s used In the fine tests on the | composition of the materials which enter | into the making of motor cars But the weighing of a signature is | used to carry to the lay mind the deli- | cacy of the instrument. A plece of paper |1s placed on the balance and accurately welghed, and then a name written on | the paper ana it is weighed again. The | difference In the weights gives the weight | of the name and, as in the case cited above, the weight of a signature of nine letters with two periods was four ten- thousandths of & gram. A Room for thé Reomer, or a Roomer | for the Room. Bee Want Ads Do tae | Work. 884,000 1916 AUTOMOBILES WILL USE QUIET ROLLER BEARINGS will y find Its value i t at first sight. Its ol ot o g that sells another. It is a real car, with powerful, flexible by us or any- creates an enthusiasm The Car That Stops Them All an admiring crowd. The sturdy beauty of line—long wheelbase—impresses itself even on casual acqusintance. Words cannot describe “THE SIX of "16.” You must see it—handle it—get the touch. The Mitchell dealer in your town has a car ready to demonstrate for you. % t I i il sl LAl e 1 motor, long wheelbase, and all this implies in satis- ion, comfort, roominess and beautiful line. It is the most successful car built. ltslij}\t ight—2925 pounds—insures fuel economy an eas::? handling. The new Bate Cantilever Spring—which Lo . A ) has earned the admiration of the motor world— fqfi:t},,,. A R T insures a riding quality that smooths out the roughest road—gives to riding an added pleasure. ! Tl\roelsstn8¢" R°'" $1250 Five-Passenger Touring Car ! Top—making all year round Car—$165 extra. | ALL PRICES F. O. B. RACINE - e THE ROADSTER T i MITCHELL MOTOR CO. OMAHA, NEB. Aiidohell Lvord Motor Bo: Racine, Wis,U.S.A. ’.. S ——