Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1916, Page 10

10—A " CHALMERS ANNUAL |WATER SUPPLY IS * OUTING TOMORROW| BORDER PROBLEM ‘Some Employe to Get Car as Prize in Oontest of Best Ideas. THOUSANDS WILL ATTEND Detroit, Mich,, July 22.—Over 5,000 Chalmers employes and their families will be guests of the Chalmers Motor tompany, at the annual Chalmers out- ing to be held at Bois Blanc island in the lower Detroit river tomorrow. The big Chalmers plant will be closed for the day. Two of the largest ger steamers running out of it have been chartered to carry the bi, throng. Chief among the events of the day will be the award by Hugh Chalmers of a $1,000 Chalmers Six-30 touring car, to the employe who has turned in the most valuable suggestion to the company during the past six months. An additional $500 in gold will be divided among other employes according to the merit of their sug- gestions. Interest in the suggestion contest since last anuary has reach- ed a white heat, and the men and|; women who have turned in ideas for improving Chalmers cars and manu- facturing methods, are eagerly await- ing the decision of the judges. Big Day Promised Cash prizes have also been hung up for the winners of the various ath- letic events scheduled for the day. the many events on the pro- mm: Prize dancing contest; comedy race; pie-cating con- test; egg race for gir'l; tug-of-war be- NO& departments; epartmental relay race; shoe and potato races; Goodrich Truck Man Tells of Conditions Along the ican Boundary. Columbus, N. M., July' 22.—Diffi- culty in establishing adequate sources of water supply along the arid border and the line of communications into the Mexican interior, is a handicap that is certain to result in much suf- clares Charles R. Serfass, stationed here by the B. F. Goodrich company. Mr. Serfass, whose job is to give Goodrich truck tire service to Uncle Sam's truck transports and keep them “on the move,” has heen on the ground since the week of the memor- able 'Villa raid in March, to familiarize himself with the ‘many conditions and incidents that have re- lted in the present wholesale mobi- lization of national guardsmen along the border. “Men of the state troops, the ma- ity of them fresh from pursuits in civil life, are not, by any manner of means, going to enjoy a summer pic- nic in this land of hot suns,” says Mr. Serfass, Water Supply Short. “The greatest drawback here is the lack of water and adequate facilities for moving food and troops, both by truck and train, Moreover, if it were not for the successful work of the limited number of motor trucks now in service—succeeding the army mule of older days—the problem would be intensified. Much credit is due the northern truck makers for their speed in filling orders and in furniuhing the government with experienced drivers and mechanics to keep the equipment in ‘battleship order. “The government is now slowly drilling wells about every two miles d races; fat men’'s race; dashes for men and boys le races. A baseball game crack players of the mai departments -and offices to be hotly contested. i for an: fln 'n:’ed of medi& a staff of doctors an 4 mufflm'\l’ the Chalmers compln{ T a special tent where ail illness will be treated. - be equipped with a gas engine and a reservoir tank. Since the National Guard troops commenced to arrive and establish camps, more wells than at first were deemed necessary have had to, be drilled. “No more unfavorable time of the year could have been chosen for a concentration of northern men unac- climated to this heat, which gets more intense as the summer advances. Then, too, the altitude makes a big difference, A great many of the northern boys are going to suffer much from the scarcity of water in the camps for drinking and bathing.” Farmers Interested In Auto. Trucks, Says Barker W. S. Barker, state agent for the Dixie Flyer, spent several days last week in traveling about the rural dis- tricts, along the road to Crete, Lin- coln and Ashland. Barker reports excellent crop con- ditions and a growing enthusiasm over motor-driven pleasure and work vehicles. . Aoross Country . &t top speed for stretches out mang-five miles each, Saxon ix motor cars will re (3 'Nev; :ork u: SJ: Fr;n; ci way of demonstrating wha fl: don:,willl a motor car as the _of messages over long dis- Starting Saturday morning from New York City, a Saxon car will Lincoln highway and will first lap of n:he journey. ! the start a niessage from Mitchel of New York to ‘Rolf of San Francisco will be “the driver and this will E the line and finally de- at the city on the Golden s relay race, the first of its kind , is to be another demon- DRILLING MANY WELLS) fering among northern militiamen, de- | He has had an unusual opportunity | along the border. Each well has to|or THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: GUARDS AGAINST FIRE Expert Tells How Electric Charges Accumulate jn Filling Auto Tanks. HOW TO PREVENT EXPLOSIONS “In the last few months many ar- ticles have appeared in thé automobile papers giving accounts of fires said to have been caused by sparks result- ing form charges of electricity gener- ated by the straining of gasoline through chamois or in other similar manners,” writes Herbert Chase, chief engineer of the Automobile Club of Ameriea, in the June number of Mo- tor Travel, the club’s official publica- tion, “A considerable amount of ma- terial has been collected by the writer on this subject with the hope that some authoritative data might be pre- sented for the benefit of club mem- bers. The bureau of standards at Washington has been conducting an investigation along this line, but as yet has made only a preliminary re- port. From this and other sources the fact has beeh established that fric- tional electricity is generated by the passage of gasoline through a chamois or through other nonconducting ma- terial. This so-called static charge {may under certain circumstances= be sufficient to cause a spark whith, ac- companied by certain conditions, may in turn result in igniting gasoline va- por, thereby causing fire, “It is a fact long recognized by physicians that the rubbing together of two nonconducting materials will cause the production of a static charge. The electric charge thus gen- erated will distribute itself over the surface of the nonconductors or other object in contact therewith, If then either body containing the charge is brought close to another body which is not charged or which has a charge of lower potential than the first body a spark will jump from one to the other. “Gagsoline itself is a nonconductor, as is chamois and such material as rubber, canvas and the like, from which hose such as is used, for ex- ample, to deliver gasoline from the inary type of measuring pump into the tank of a car is made. The pass- age of gasoline through such a hose or through chamois in a funnel is apt, especially in a cold, dry atmosphere, to produce a static charge on the sur- face of the funnel in which the chamois lies or at the nozzle at the end of the hose. Poor Mixture Prevents Explosions. f‘Survose now in filling a tank the funnel containing the chamois be held in the end or is otherwise out of con- tract with or insulated from the tank to be filled. As the gasoline passes through the chamois the funnel takes on the electric charge. If then the fun- nel be brought close to the tank of the car or with any other conducting me- dium a spark will jump from the fun- nel to the tank or other conductor. The same phenomenon would occur if the nozzle of a non-conductor hose used for filling gurpou were held out of contract with the tank during the filling and afterward allowed 4o touch it. If this spark occurs at a point where the gasoline vapor is mixed with air in certain proportions an ex- plosion follows and a fire is almost 1 of Saxon ability and en- G et —— Two weeks ago, 206 Sax- tered a 300-mile non-stop run ‘pry the economy of a Saxon ‘the matter of fuel consumption, fifty-two of these cars will dem- can gu at an ex- 1 and show no signs over both smooth and rough : Th'e Company Stands - By Its Statement ent J. N. Gunn of the United Tire company, when asked if ruling of the War depart- would in’!uence the attitude of p toward its militia em- is asserted, made the fol- v J:n to understand t‘l::t fie c ‘this company was taken ad- Wl!m we decided to ‘pay to all employes called on tive we did so without a i { on. The United States ] afiu: and its parent organi-| ’ _the United States Rubber|; pany, both feel that as American tions they owe a dut;{ to the to support and aid mili- . The officers of g anies feel that, even if there “real trouble clm&‘:he Mexican - our suard will ob- perience, and we glad ‘to contribute to a -thorough ' military | believe it to be our them from financial i for Leg rocm in iring car registering more than W. Gilbreath, field etary 0 Dixde Highway asso- | -motored into Detroit last ek, after an extended trip through the mfl;wfim he has been preach- 3 jospel of good roads, . . . r Mr. Gilbreath sought ! of the south where the est to make lhis mes- ective. He drove his I over roads that seemed im- b the car responded to the ‘test in great style. The Dixie ry, passing through d at the general offices 1l company to pay a per- to the prowess of the T seen a car get a hard- ling,” he said, “and the way it ander the strain p it arvel in construction. It not '&glmr ‘and tear of the in fine style, but it made starting, Stewart vacuum clutch, easily adiusted, riding. 'W|lhlimMIlMWlIll|lIIMWHWWMMllIMIhWfi:flllWfllIIlltIIIIHIMWHMWIWMIWWWWIIIIMMM‘ THE MARK OF SUPERIOR QUALITY $1095.. S| X --$1095 Fourteen Years of Succzss It is impossible to buy another car that usce the units in its con- struction that you get in the Davis - $1095 g~ * instartls adinsted to suit the driver snd is excenti~—-lly con- venient f-= a Yode: 4a dyive, A car of digtin~Huve faatures, vet incisnencahble to those who de- mand the ereatest comfort. SPECIFICATIONS Continental motor, 45 h. p.; Deleo lirhting and steering gear, Weston Mott. floating axle, Brake drums, 120-in. wheel-base, 18-gal. gas tank on rear, extra rim, 34x4 tires, exclusive Davis'platform springs, absolutely insuring the greatest easiness of front of driver's T TR G S0 AP (T S T M NG Y T R SN Y T ) feed, leather faced come Warner trandmission and 14-in. ‘W.T.Wilson Automobile Co. , IOWA—DISTRIBUTORS—NEBRASKA 1910 Farnam Street, Omah-:, Nebraska. JULY 23, certain to result providing the heat of the spark be sufficient to ignite this mixture. “The fact that accidents have not occurred more frequently is presum- ably due first to the fact that the heat of the spark is not always sufficient to ignite an_explosive mixture even| though this mixture exists in the re- gion where the spark occurs, and sec- ond, more often because the propor- tion of air to gasoline vapor is not such that ignition can occur, i e., the mixture is either too rich or too lean. “Atmospheric conditions have much to do with the production of so-called ‘static’ charges or at least with their distribution. Thus if the air be warm and damp the air itself is a sufficient- ly good conductor to preclude the possibility of a charge of high po- tential collecting on any body ex- posed to the air, On the other hand, if the air be cold and dry, a condition which frequently exists during the winter months, especially at points 1916. | body and dissipated in the form of a spark jumping to another object or | to the earth. This same phenomenon {may frequently be observed when a comb of hard rubber passed through the hair in the presense of a cold dry atmosphere. Keep Metal Parts in Contact. “To prevent the ssibility of fire when filling a gasoline tank it is sim- ply necessary to ‘ground,’ that is, con- nect with the earth, the funncl or noz- zle on the surface of which the charge is apt to accumulate. As a rule the most, if not all, danger can be averted |/by simply keeping the funnel or filling nozzle in metal contact with the tank being filled. “When the funnel or nozzle is grounded, as, for example, by connect- ing either to some metal object such as a pipe running into the earth, this allows the charge to pass through the conductor and with the earth without the production of any spark. 4 “Thus, for example, if a wire-wound away from the sea coast, a charge of |hose be used and this wire be con- high potential may be collected on the | nected at one end to the discharge nozzle and at the other end to the yond doubt. One instance which has metal fitting attaching the hose to the come to the writer’s attention it that pump or its delivery pipe, no charge | of a large automobile factory in which will result, for the pump itself is|it was at one time a practice to draw. grounded. If a funnel and chamois | gasoline into a portable tank which arewsed while filling a tank, the gaso- | was allowed to rest during the filling line being delivered through the hose | process on a wooden box. The funnel nozzle, the tank of the car and the|used between the nozzle and the port- funnel should be kept in metalic con-|able tank was not in contact with the tact, and so should the hoze nOZZIC‘discharge nozzle of the pump during and the funnel. I the filling operation, but was close No Danger if Care s Exercised. | enough to it for a spark to jump after “Many fires have occurped as re-|the charge accumulated on the funnel sults of sparks caused as above, This |and portable tank had become of suf- seems to have been established be- | ficiently high potential.” Roadster, 3-Pessenger The Car of the Golden Chassis FOUR-CYLINDER MODELS Touring Car, 7-Passenger Landeu-Readster, 3-pase. See and . 8878 880 1180 Touring Car, T-passenger = 81088 Readster, -paseonger = - - 1080 Landau-Readster, . 3-pass. 1380 South Bend, Coups, 4-possenger « « « 1780 / Sedan s « ¢« o o o o 1700 =" the e Blistering Sun DERAL BASE "RUGGED" & “TRAFFIK"TREAD TIRES A long dlow cure (vmlcanization) renders the [ carcass . and tread of these tires unusually tough, (& cohesive and proof against fabric separation and heat blow-outs. All sizes for standard rims. * Dlsteibuted By ZWIEBEL BROS., 2518 Farnam St. Western Automobile Supply Co., 1920-22 Farnam St. THE FEDERAL RUBBER €0. OF ILLINOIS Factories: Cudahy, Wisconsin Mtrs. of Federal Automobile Tt ‘Tubes and Sundri and Carriage Tires, Rubber H::l‘u'. Horse 8hoe P-dl..‘b-.ibn Mechanical Rubber Goods le, Blcycle atting and Studebaker Superiority. Don’t merely content yourself with the knowl- edge of Studebaker superiority that you gain in reading about it, but make it a point to see the value in this Series 17 Studebaker Six with your own eyes. this pre-eminent car in the field of sixes that you can gain a definite idea of the quality of workmanship and materials that are built into it. No car gives so much value for the money. Power, size, comfort, roominess—all those ex- clusive features which are bringing hundreds of dollars more in other makes are found right here in this Series 17 Studebaker Six, at a price that only Studebaker can make because of quality production on a quantity scale. Before deciding on the car you will buy, we urge you to inspect this Six—the car that shows you how to save from $250 to $400 and still get per- manent value as good as money can buy. E. R. Wilson Automobile Co. 2550 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska. this Series 17 SIX be convinced of It is only by personally inspecting 4 STUDEBAKER ’ Walkerville, Ont. / X