Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1915, Page 8

MILADY FAYORED § New Closed Cars Are Comstructed i with View to Protect Rich Gar- DOORS AND SEATS ARE WIDER Plorce-Arrow construction as exempli- fied in the closed cars displayed by the Stewart-Toozer Motor company demon- strates with what art tne designers have safe-guarded handsome costumes worn by the women who are users of these wvehicles In winter. This is an important consideration. 1t is not to be forgotten that the limousine on fts way to the dance, the dinner, the reception, the theater, the opera or the ‘wedding Is Mkely constantly to be carry- ing & cargo of richly made, fragile and expensive feminine clothing, Buch specimens of the art of the gown maker, modiste and milliner can read'ly be rulned. In the early days of the motor car, when makers were too much concerned In the difficulties of making the machine go to give much thought to its lines or appointments, the closed car was a crowded, uncomfortable bandbox, § difficult of entrance and exit. In such & vehlele it was readily possible to crush a dress all out of shape In the ride of halt an hour. £ No Danger in Plerce. The danger dsappears In the Plerce- Arrow closed car models. These cars are fdeally suited to the easy transit of the richly dressed. The dropped frame of the chassis has resulted in lowering all 4 and 6 bodies three inches, while the 38 bodles are two and one-half inches nearer the ground. e W The lowering not only improves thd ! appearance of the car, but makes it much i easlor to enter. The electric lights are provided to light the tonneau steps. In this matter the woman alighting can see just where she is stepping no matter how dark the night may be. The doors have been made wider, g have the seats. There is ample width, there is ample head room. The rich up- holstery of the interlors does away with any peril of damage to the daintiest of } fabrics, : Drummond Motor Company Figures On an Einlargement Plans now being made by the Drum- mond Motor company of Omaha should ] result In & big automoblle factory in Omaha at last, and this is something that has long been looked forward to here Omaha {s the center of a reglon which this year especially is the most pros- perous in the whole country. In Kansas, Towa, South Dakota and Nebraska thou- sands upon thousands of automobiles are ®old yearly. Yet most of these are hipped from Illomnn. Indiana or from east of those sta nnnnmona Motor company, which been selling one of the leading makes cars, ‘bégan September 1 to put out a own, the Drummond, Such has its success with the fiwst of these that now a reorganization of the company is under way, The Drummond Carriage company was established in 1884 In Omaha, and In 1502 it was Incorporated with a capital of #5000, When the company entered the automobile business a few years later the name was changed to the Drummond Motor company. The company had a $50,000 capital stock, with a fair surplus. The reorganization plans now consist of Increasing the capital to $500,000, $100,000 being o on stock and $400,000 7 per cent cumulative preferred and par- Ueclpating in further profita when an cqual emount of dividends has been paid to the commion stock of the company. About three years ago the Drummond Motor company moved into its present bullding at Twenty-sixth and Farnam streets. Thisis a large three-story brick butlding, with 42,000 square feet of space. For wome years it has devoted much of its attention to building bodies and re- palr work. This experience has assisted " it _in ts present undertaking, 5 The Drummond car is an assembled one, standard parts being secured (rom some of the best known parts manufac- turers In the country. The four-cylinder car has a Continental ‘motor, Stromberg carburetor, Westing- house starting and lghting system, mul- tiple steel diac clutch, Muncie transmis- slon, Hotchkiss drive, Sallsbury rear axle, Stewart vacuum feed system, Fed- | der's hexagon honeycomb radiator, and the equipment includes one-man top with curtains, rain vision ventilating wind- shield, Stewart-Warner speedometer, wloctric horn, foot rall, robe rall, foot wccelerator, one extra rim, tire holder, | tools, pump and tire repair outfil 3. W. Griffith, formerly Union Pacific | . purchasing agent, is president of the | : | i company; ¥. W. Bacon, vice president and general manager, and W. T. Gritfith, secretary and treasurer. E. T. Bwobe 13 ‘acting fiscal agent. : Automobil; Row 8. Livingston, manager of the Master Sales company, is spendigg the week in the east on business. ““Phe factory production on the Olds- mobile elght bas been increased o per | «cent in the last thirty days. Deliveries are coming to the Omaha territory i | wvery nice shape, but from the number of orders that we are recelving indicu- tions point to the fact that we will not be able to catch up on deliveries for some | time,” says Mr. T. M. Bromwell. ! * Mp. T. M. Bromwell of the Oldsmob’le Sales company is making a trly through the Nebraska territory. Mr. Bromwell re- ports that the Oldsmebile dealers who | performance of It. The numbers of orders 14 ¢ o8 that season. PRESIDENT OF THE i ; IN PIERCE CARS| ments Easily Ruined. | operates the evening pleasures of | ico court annals of Los Angeles con- taln many a story Illustrating the care- | tree way in which the motor car thief None, approaches the barefaced, inpudence of the man who a however, few nights ago stepped into Barney Old- field's famous pet and drove it away into oblivion. | deem it nd get away with it, staggers the imag- | lenc | Ination of the master pilot and his ;Il en That the attempt could be made | eran, successfully 18 Indeed a blow, Barney's car is probably the best known motor vehicle in Los Ange | dean of the circult chasers has lavished several varieties of special finish and personal equipment. With characteristic wpeed demon modesty he has decorated | It freely with signs and legends. “Barney | Oldfield—Official Car” appears on each |#lde in chaste gold letters. | ®uch was the car the bold thiet calmly [ picked for booty and “Ufted.” \ in the spring. . FROM SNOWY TOUR| Omaha Dealer Makes Run Through Nebraska Storms in New Chal- lon of ofl was Som?bod_& Swihés Oldfield’s [ Pet Car and Barney Is thd Oldfield himselt the apparent loss sonal chariot. lie ever, that the car points In between. my race cars at every blg race the country, and IU's carrled me around | clubs have sent back maps showing the every day It wasn't enroute by Barney fa having Maxwell de over the west notified of the loss of the car and will offer a reward for informa- |get a line on all the important connect- tion leading to its return if it does not | turn up In a few v days more is of his cherished per insists hopefully, how eannot be long hidden, | . and that, despite the great army of Max wells In southern California, would be able to pick out his property, Maxwell touring car |no matter how thorough an effort had | been made to disguise it. Dire That any of the motor brigands should | ment is also in store for the possible to purloin Barney's car | may even take the form of personal vio “Why, just think!" It's been as far east as|as far as Hot Springs, 8 New York, as far into the northwest as | marks On it the | Tacoma, and it's stopped off in most rectors feel very appreciative over the It's been tender for | success of this campalgn, which 'HUFEMAN IS BA(}K iFranklm Car Makes Thousand Miles on Of1o. Gallon of OLl|5e> ecriars Poweit scve he 1o now One thousand forty-six miles on a gal- de by a Franklin car in THE OMAHA SUNDAY comments the vet-| , “I bought that car at El Paso early | BEE: Heard At the Omaha ' |Automobile Club heartbroken over o club has recently written over 30 letters to automobile and commercial cluba all over the state, asking thelr co |operation in marking the roads to their neighbor towns. So far, the replies have been coming back by the he himselt punish %, 1t dozen, and robber offered its enthusiastic co-operation In (this important work. Alllance tells us hey have the best marked roads in the western part of the state, and have gone The Omaha Automobile club di- is en- track In [tirely orginal with them. Many of the (route of thelr main highways in all di- rections. With this Information, the {Omaha Automobile club will be able to ers all Ing highways and the data will be one |of the most valuable benefits we can —— |offer the members | Officers’ Work Appreciated, President George, Sccretary Powell and {Treasurer Dietz have plugged so faith- | fully for the upbuilding of the club that before they had time to say whether they it was gone and a bit inclined to raise that 1916 member- #hip mark from 1,600 to, “Oh, we don't care how far the motorists of Omaha »d work.’ DECEMBER there has not been a club which has not | D., with their | 19, 1915 And I don't mind saying,” smiled Ed wards, “that the Omaha Automobile club | | tooks as good to me as the rest of the e 1 K. C. Throws Mud at Tteelf. Go forty miles In any direction from § Kansas Clty and the motorist runs into A sea of mud during wet weather,” says | the Kansas City newspapers, who are keen for a bond issue for paving their main county highways. ‘Them's our sentiments,” Kansas City, oconcerning Omaha and vicinity What If it is Winter Time? | Join the club, anyway. What's the dif- ference when you become a booster for good roads and road benefits, summer or | winter? It won't ccet you any more, so why not joineth? Sayeth the word and | we will calleth, \Battery Must Be Cared for During | Months of Winter “Many an experienced motorist who would never leave his garage on a winter night with a badly worn tire,” said | Elmer Rosengren, manager of the local | Willard £torage Battery branch, “thinks nothing of starting out with a half- | charged battery that may mean a stalled | car “Of course this la due in a great meas- ure to the fact that the condition of | his battery is not constantly staring him | in the face, like a tire or an oll gauge. But car owners are beginning to realize the necessity of keeping their battery in A-1 condition, if they are to have bright I'd Like to Use my Car This Winter, But--- Every one will admit that pre- cautions to be taken with most cars in winter use are, at the least, annoying, Anti-freeze solutions, heated garages, water heaters, blanketed radiators — all are things that most motorists would like to forget about. Why go through another winter’s motoring with fear for the condition of your car? The Franklin car is direct air cooled—no water, radiator, pipes, plumbing, no leaking, no freezing. You can let it stand along the curb as long mers Six-Thirty. | an officlal road test from New York to Chicago, on which a report has just been made publlic by the technical committee carry the g Go “Slow" In Indianapolls they are arguing with or “Slowly."” lights and a snappy, starter. en it you are going to store your car, as you wish without any concern, no matter how cold. NOW CALLS CAR “SNOWBIRD" W. L. Muttmen snd party, who left | here Thursday morning for a run through northern Nebraska towns, returned Fri- day night on scheduled time, and with the new Six-3 Chalmers running like a watch, Mr. Huffman is now calling the car, “The Snow Bird. Immediately after leaving Omaha they ran into a driving snowstorm and at West Point encountered snow six inches and provisions. dallville and Chicago. divided Into six sections, over which the car was plloted by different drivers, the rellefs being planned so that no stops would be mecessary except for gasoline After leaving Buffalo the car poor roads at every turn. heavy mud was met with in the nortn- of the Automobile Club of America | the automobile club and telling them that The route took the car up the Hudson | “Go Slow” on their “Danger—Publie |to Albany, thence to Utica, Syracuse, [School” signs is ungrammatical. We all Buffalo, Erle, Cleveland, Toledo, Ken- |know it's a grammatical error, but it hits The distance was [the motorist harder than if “slow” makes them go should they worry? Blue Book Man Enthuses. Mr. Bdwards, the western route man for the Automobile Blue Book, says the struck |last year has been exceptional in activity A good deal of | among automobile clubs of the country. “slowly,” and “slowly,” why added Mr. Rosengren, “the battery should be removed and filled at regular intervals with distilled water and tested | regularly for specific gravity of between |1.275 and 1.200. Many motorists, how- ever, leave their batteries at our service station, where they are kept oharged throughout the winter at a nominal cost. “Car owners, however, are beginning to realize the importance of keeping their batterfes up to the mark, to prevent freezing and give satisfactory all-around winter service.” Ask for a ride in the Franklin and learn the reasons for the satisfaction is gives. Franklin Motor Car Co. - 2205 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 1712, portunity to have received their elght-cylinder demon- | strators are very much enthused over the | that Mr. Bromwell In recelving from the | the Oldemobile | going 13" be a very popular seller | deep. In spite of this, however, the party arrived at West Point nearly an hour ahead of schedule, The first night's stop was at Norfolk, where the car upon its arrival at the Norfolk Dally News office anxious to get a close view of the much talked of Fix-30, which, as they had been advised by wire from the stations down the line, would arrive there at 4 o'clock. up all the heat in Norfolk they left there driving into a severely cold wind, which discomforted the party, but had abso- lutely no effect on the car. Big Crowa at Fremont, The car was received at each control during the day with great interest, and upon arriving at Fremont it was sug- gested by someone in the party t they drive the car in the garage, where they might all warm up preparatory to the run to Omaha. It wag soon discov- ered, however, that this would not do ‘because .the crowds surrounding the car made It Impossible for motorists to en- ter and leave the garage, so It was taken to the office of the Fremont Tribune, where thosq interested were given an ap- to look it over, “It is plainly evident that the Chalmers Motor company havs correctly guessed the requirements of the majority of au- tomobile buyers, In this new car,” said Mr, Huffman. most conclusively on thia trip, which we [ " oornens have just completed.” “This Mr, Huffman states that after soaking |ty-seven minutes. proven to me corner of Pennsylvania; beyond Cleveland, heavy rains were encountered; at Bryan, Ind., the rain turned into snow, and later a high wind developed. The trip Into Chicago was finished in was surrounded by a crowd curlously (one of the worst storms experfenced in that section for several years, The total net running time was sixty hours and elghteen minutes, and the elapsed time sixty-seven hours and thir- The running average was 18.9 miles per hour. The mileage was checked on the odometer and on accepted road maps. The run was officlally supervised by the Autothobile Club of America through Ferdinand Jehle and Herbert M. Smith, who alternated as observers on twelve- hour turns. Their certificate state that the car used in the test was a strictly stock enclosed sedan model, with all ad- justments In accordance with standard conditions of operation. Expect Guy L. Smith has again decorated his show room in a manner which would suggest that the new” Hudson model is expected soon. A large Hudson electric triangle lights the front of the bullding in the evening, drawing attention to a life-sized picture of the new model, which has bheen mounted, billboard style, on the Inside. This seems to have impressed the passers- by as a unique idea and it has caused D COMPANY QUITS —_— months C. 8. Jameson, tage of our battery service now doesn’t nnwmnmmuuww lobnlhwm 2203 Farnam St. Tel. Doug. 5102 Free inspection of any battery at any time Co., : For the Whole 'Eam,ily 27 “Medein U. 8 4. Christmas $1145 o | f.o.b. Toledo | Your Money Buys More More power and greater smoothness—improved 45 horsepower motor which is the last word in six-cylinder smoothness and flexibility. More comfort—for a full quota of seven adult passengers. w . ; [ More convenient electric contro/—all switches located on steering column. More certain starting—a two unit starting and lighting system. g More tire mileage—41% x 35 tires. . o More stable or:gam'zation to give you service—there are more Overlands in use and going into use every day than any other car of more than 100 inch wheelbase. it Because of our greater production we can and do give you in this improved Six a car which is dominant value among Sixes. Let us show you the Overland Six—also the five passenger four-cylinder touring cars at $750 and $615 and the roadsters at $725 and $595— all prices f. o. b. Toledo. OVERLAND OMAHA CO.;Distributors J.R. JAMISON, Pres. Douglas 2643 Omaha The Willys-Overland Company, Taledo, Ohio More room—125 inch wheelbase which means— | O 2047-49 Farnam Street