Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 30, 1916, Page 10

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 30, B e R T S R 1916. | TRAGHES SISTEN | FOR TRACING CARS | ' New York Police Sergeant Called B Professor of Automobile b Identification, 1 { |AS IF A BERTILLON SYSTEM Applying a sort of Bertillon sys- tem to motor cars by -which clever [ lpoli:e, officers can pounce upon a ‘stolen machine whirling by among | | thousands of others, is the very lat- | est in the line of identification of | |automobiles. | Prescott Lecky, writing in Motor | Print, quotes Sergeant John Brennan, who has been dubbed professor of {gutomobile identification at police headquarters in New York City. Sergeant Brennan, as interviewed and guoted by Mr, Lecky, tells his _story as follows: { As Distinctive as Men, | “You wouldn't believe how many {owners there are who never looked | their own machines in the face, yet | every make is ‘ilnl s distinct as one iman from another. I teach the traffic ‘men the features of the various ma- {chines, and they learn to recog ‘each car by its human characteristics. {In this way an untrained mun"en a 1 basis to work on right awa; e ap- plies his knowledge of men to the study of automobiles. Even if a man is naturally observant he needs to be t'r‘::ned to look for what he wants to “To illustrate the truth of this, one | of the patrolmen told me that he did not realize how different people were I before. He actually knew more about his friends on the chart than he did i about his friends on the street!” . According to Mr. Lecky, moreover, ; cars have not only faces, but indivi | ual profiles also, and distinctive rears, | of which r on the sergeant’s rts and are made familiar to the s. In the execution of their du- n and detective find his knowledge of high im; ce. e identification course, in ffct, is ieved to -be the greatest single ever made toward control of a ous and complex criminal el ¢ actual working of the plan described: Guard - City's. Outlets. ‘Posted at the various outletpoints the “city—such as ferries, bridges main roads—are about 250 pa- en. Aside from the routine work preventing accidents and keepin ,ltulloomlrdmtokeeg on traffic for stolen automobiles escaping criminals. But hereto- their training has been along ation police lines only, Lultln1 ability to distinguish the essential ence between :the hundreds of that '&u ‘and pick out the ne de: 'bed h-‘:he clafi:..un very few arrests excep! tl;}el motor number g - : Bt thus o & serve the type o sedan s mottoes setting ues of the model police- Cadllla man. There are no text books, and the only assignments are for home work. New Class Each Week. “The eighteen men in the class, one cach from as many outlet posts, work twelve hours a day—and like it. The Jabberwock germ is present in a highly contagious form, with the re- sult that everyone thinks, talks and dreams nothing but motor cars. Ey- ery week a new class is brought in and the old class returns to duty. Back on post the men continue to; talk, some of them conducting a sort of free-for-all lecture course of their own for the benefit of the uninitiated dubs who—would you believe it?— don’t know whether the mud-guard of a Ford is oval or flat! “The methods of the new course are based upon the time-honored for- mula for all detective work expressed by Conan Doyle as ‘observation, knowledge and deduction.” It is the method scientific. Instruction is di- vided into three parts to provide for the three angles from which a car may be viewed—namely, front, side and rear. From each angle every car presents certain physical character- istics known as identifying factors. These factors are sometimes single and sometimes combined. he Pierce-Arrow, for instance, has a sin- gle factor in its headlights, which are eculiar to the Pierce-Arrow alone. q‘he headlight of the Packard, on the other hand, must be combined with a certain type of hood to complete the factor. “Some of the factors, in addition to deciding the make, also give the year of the machine. “The following extract from one of the lectures will give a limited ideal of the deductive method of reasoning employed and the part the factors play in the system: Method of Deduction. ' ,'We will suppose,’ said the ser- geant, ‘that you are stationed at the entrance to Van Cortlandt park. You get the following alarm: ‘Five-pas- senger black 1915 Studebaker brougham with two dents in right center of back panel, stolen by two unknown men.' Now, traffic is heavy. You can’t afford the time to study each car, and reading hub-caps is out of the question, As the cars come up you will have about five seconds to devote to each one. The work must be done quickly, so you will need a stem. The secret is elimination. hrow aways what you can’t use. Put your attention where it will pay. “‘Now, as you cast your eyec over the traffic, one glance will tell you which cars are of the light medium and heavy clas Since the Stude- baker is a light you can eliminate the others. This 1s the first Now turn your a 1 mainder. If any have open bodies, leave them at oncf‘. *'Now notice the mud nd the position of the head ligl Get the shape of the radiator and hood, and, if possible, the number of ven- tilators. See whether the drive is right or left. If the alarm is new ou can eliminate according to color. c':? the car when you find the first detail th&t r‘.oeqn’,; fit, and concen- trate on the few that rem y this time you will know that, two of the machines in front of d{:: are Studebakers with cl bo Ob- body then, whether * cabriolet, limousine, rougham. Only one is landaulet, or b a brougham. Clinching the Evidence. “‘Here you have a car correspond- ing to the general features of the alarm. Therg may be several hun-| SEE ME AT Phone p. 1669 Through special arrangement with the Cadillac factory in De- troit, we have secured an addi- tional allotment of Type “53” Cadillac Cars and are in a posi- tion to make immediate deliv- eries. We have sold more Cadillacs in the city of Omaha this season than all other high grade cars combined, and we suggest that you order now, so as to get de- livery from this special ship- ment. The cars will be here Monday. Get Your Cadillac now. 2060-62 Farnam Street. l’n-._ ) dred cars in New York just like it. Glance at your alarm now for the in- dividual features. Two dents in right center of back panel. If the marks are present you have a complete bit of evidence that you can swear to and prove in any court. You are free to take police action according to the nature of the offense.’ “At the conclusion of the lecture a mirrorscope was used to throw pic- tures of several cars upon a screen, and the men were required to call the make and enumerate the fac- fOrg. S Te “At present the class is being train- ed to recognize the factors of more than fifty of the most popular makes, and are expected to pick up the oth- ers b{ observing the traffic. Study of this kind is absolutely essential and often works back to further define the information given out in class. For instance, a regulation-hood with three perpendicular ventilators on the side near the front was for a time considered an individual mark of the 1916 Singer. Several days later a member of the class came in to say that he had seen a new 1916 Mercer with the same feature. Which brings us back to the foregoing statement that the present administration is en- couraging the scientific attitude among these middle-aged students, who carry pistols to lcfiool and call their teacher ‘Sergeant.”” Saxon Makes New Record in Coast To Coast Journey Precisely at 4:10 last Saturday morning, July 22, in San Francisco, a world’s record for automobiles run- ning from New York to Frisco over the Lincoln Highway was estab- lished. Thirty-eight Saxon “Six” standard model, regularly equipped automo- biles, with dealers at the wheels, rac- ing in relays, shortened the best pre- vious time of any make of automobile by nearly a day. The first Saxon “Six” switng out of the New York Saxon salesroom at recisely 10:30 Saturday morning, i:ly 15, bearing a message from ayor Mitchel of New York to May- or Rolfe of 'Frisco. Accompanying the dealer were a representative of the Saxon Motor Car Corporation and an official observer. The official observer traveled every foot of the distance, changing from car to car as the race progressed. The Thirty- eighth Saxon “Six” pulled up in front of Mayor Rolfe’s office in 'Frisco just six days, eighteen hours and ten min- , | utes later. The official mileage of the Lincoln Highway is 3,331 miles, but the dis- tance Saxon .traversed on the relay ‘race was considerably in excess of this, inasmuch as the Highway is torn up in a number of places, and so long detours were necessary. In every case these detours were over very bad roads. In the absence of accu- rate figures it is safe to assume that at least 300 additional miles were traveled in the tours. - Forty-Four Babies - Die of Paralysis New York, July 29.—The epidemic of infantile paralysis set a new high mortality record today, forty-four children dying of the disease during the twenty-four-hour period ending at | WILL SELL YOU A NCE 'NEW AUTOMOBILE ON EASY PAYMENTS “BURNETT” THTE AND SUNDAT—FHONE T daon. " ¢ Company of Omaha Phone D. 4225 10 o'clock this morning. ONLY 6 326 Rose Bldg. At drdydy dvdvdydndy didy » @y 07:0;30, (G & B | v R | 2 -0, 4y S2UNCR FOR SIGNAL SANITY Motorists Urged to Adopt Rule to “Let the Driver Do the Signaling.” IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY Incorrect signalling and unconsci- ous interference with the drivers of automobiles by persons riding either in front or in the tonneau has caused s0 many mishaps and serious acci- dents recently that the saner motor- ists are pleading for the adoption of this general instruction: Let the driver do the signalling. This simple rule, if followed and enforced by all automobile owners and drivers, will simplify the driving conditions on all the highways. Nu- merous collisions have been caused by the mere thrusting of a hand into the air by a person who does not know the usual methods employed by the men at the wheer. The result has been in many cases that the automo- bile following has received a signal to go in one direction when the oper- ator of the car ahead was preparing to turn in the opposite highway. The saner motorists declare that this is the psychological moment to bring to the attention of the drivers in general the nuisance that arises through the frantic waving of arms or hands by persons who do not know the intentions of the driver, thus mak- ing the situation more difficult for the operator of their own automobile and of the cars following. Practically every man who drives knows the simple rules of signalling or learns them speedily if he is a care- ful and painstaking operator. But many fersonu riding either in front or back at times forget that they are not driving and relegate to themselves the duty of giving signals. This is dangerous to themselves and a crying nuisance to the man who is driving the car behind. There are three basic signals that all drivers must employ— for stopping, turning right and turn- ing left. The drivers soon learn them, but there are scarcely half a dozen persons out of a thousand who ride in automobiles who know how and when to give these simple signals. And right there is where all the trou- ble arises. These signals are the same whether the automobile be the regu- lar approved right side drive or the left side drive, and persons in the automobiles would do well to refrain from trying, to give these signals themselves. They should be asked or told to let the driver do the sig- nalling, Ignorance Makes for Confusion. So_many Yernons are. ignorant of the simple rules that they infrequently poke out their hands and indicate a right turn when the chauffeur is going to make a left turn, or they give erratic directions when the driver is intending to halt. It is no uncom- mon sight to see three or four arms in the air all giving different signs, Any day in the crowded traffic of Fifth avenue or on the highways one may see numerous hands or arms stuck suddenly out of the cars. Some will indicate one direction and some will designate another, with the result that it is worse than if no signal had been given. It is impossible for the operator of the automobile behind to know which is the hand, that is to be obeyed. The worse nuisance to the operators of the automobiles trailing into the air or to the side, indicating a stop when the driver is merely eas- ing up and no signal is needed. Signalling by numefous persons, and persons ignorant of proper sig- nals, is as useless as it is confusing. | No matter whether the automobile be | a right drive or a left drive, the chauf- | feur of the car following can always | see the hand of the chauffeur ahead, if he is a car length in the rear. The if the first car should happen to be a left drive limousine and the following car a right drive. The chauffeurs, drivers or owners are far more capable of giving correct signals than the per- sons in the tonneau. Observance of the plea could not be put into effect at a better time than the present, just on the eve of the summer touring and the summer crowding to the seashore in the hot nights. By allowing the driver, who knows always which way he wants to go, to give the signals may be the means of saving a few lives or very many dollars in smashing fenders, gasoline tanks, lamps or other parts of the rear of the automobile.—New York Herald. Page is Told That Kelley and Smith Will Be Deported { Washington, July 29.—American Ambassador Page at London today cabled the State department that Great Britain insists upon excluding from England and Ireland Thomas Hughes Kelly of New York, treasurer of the Irish relief fund; his assist- ant, Joseph Smith, and. Mrs, Kelly. They will leave England Monday on the American liner Philadelphia. Ambassador Page has been in- formed by the foreign office that the decision to exclude the three Ameri- cans was irrevocable. No reason for exclusion of the Irish relief workers was given to Ambassador Page. Despite the apparently final de- cision, State department officials to- day still hoped the exclusion order might be modified. Two Killed When Auto Goes Off Cliff in Colorado Colo., July 29.— Colorado Sprifigs. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bachman of Wichita Falls, Tex., were instantly killed, a daughter, Miss Stella Bach- man, 18 years old, was seriously in- jured, and a son, H. J. Bachman, jr., was badly bruised when the automo- bile in which they were riding plunged over a 200-foot cliff on the Canon City road, ten miles south of Colorado Springs today. The car left the road at a sharp curve. is the hysterical thrusting of hands | line of vision is perfectly clear even | List of Charities is Endorsed by the Club A list of the various charities en- dorsed by the Commercial club of Omaha for the current year is now being made up, and a booklet con- taining a list of these and some in- formation about them is. soon to be issued. The club will mail these booklets out to all its members. It is stated that Superintendent Schreib- er of the Welfare Board will be the man to consult with regard to other organizations who may solicit the business men, if their names do not appear on the list of those endorsed Where There’s a Wili— The fellow who really wants to get results from his storage battery doesn’t need to look any farther than this. Nebraska Storage Battery Co. 2203 Farnam St., Omaha. Phone Douglas 5102. Saxon “Six”: 2066-68 Farnam Strength Economy’ Service OUT of Cangda comes this testimonial to “My Saxon ‘Six’ is certainly a locomotive for power. On a run from Wind- sor to London, Ontario, through a heavy downpour of rain and over bad roads, we made the entire distance on high. This is wonderful considering that we were axle deep in mud for the entire distance. Yet we main- tained an average of 26 miles to the gallon of gasoline. This proves that Saxon ‘Six’ has power and economy, too.” Noyes-Killy Motor Co., Distributors. Street, Omaha. Service That Gives the Word ~ An Entirely New Meaning 64 Coupons, each for One Half-Hour’s Labor Four Hours of Scrupualous Care per Month for a Period of Eight Months No Cost to You for Expert Supervision That Keeps your Car Continously in Racing Trim mobile owner knows . it, and service as it is generally understood, are two radically different SERVICE. as the Hup- No other car is cared for as the Hupmobile is cared for. No other service plan is like the Hupmobile service plan. Hupmobile service is an in- timate, intensified system of It keeps the owner and his car in close and continuous contact with supervision. the service station. The service station sees to that every Hupmobile is tuned up to concert pitch all the time. | All at no cost to the owner. He pays with coupons which ter of course is an inspection of the steering gear and a test of the brake adjust- ment. A. C. Koch of Chicago writes that our plan makes the initial pleasure of owning a car a con- stant pleasure. The alignment of the front wheels is checked up, and the front wheel bearings are examined for play. George P. Edmonds of Chicago finds this the most satisfactory service arrangement he has en- countered in his experience with it three different cars. Distilled water is added to the storage battery, and the specific gravity of the bat- tery is tested to determine that it is fully charged. we supply without cost when he purchases his The coupons cover fo;’xr y trained Hupmobile experts, for eight hours of service labor each month months. Service That Covers Bvery Part of the Car L. A. Aldrich of Mellette, S. D., says this service is a great help to Hupmobile owmers. When you drive up to the service station, one of the things that is given as a mat- OES to a spesd of 28 miles an hour, frem & stand, in 10 seconds. ;l.':nfl-hl-‘::;-"b without buckiag of jerbing, Standard ‘Hupmobflo Performance $-Pass. Touring Cor $1128 mm Spark plugs, wiring termi- nals, ignition distributer, generator and starting motor are gone over. cups are turned down. Motor, transmission and differential are supplied with new lubri- cant when necessary—the owner of course paying for oils and greases. 99 Per Cent Efficient Say 11,000 Owners W. P. W. Martin of Los An- geles, Cal., says our service sys- tem should put us on a firm fool- ing of friendship with Hupmo- bile owners. And o it does. We receive thousands of unsolicited let- ters from them. L] . That is how we know that 11,000 owners rate the Hup- mobile 99 per cent efficient. That is how we know that 50.8/10 per cent of Hupmo- bile owners buy our cars year after year. That is how we know that 24 2/10 per cent of those now owning have been won away from higher priced cars by Hup- mobile performance, effici- ency, service, and thorough- going goodness. Hupmobiles Why Buy Any Car Lacking Such Service ? Is it worth anything to you to have a car whose care never gives you a moment's distress? A car which keeps you serenely and continu- Climbe the average low- goar hill, on high goar. Pulle sand and mud, en high gear. Develope greoat pulling power en high gear. Registers & minimum of vi- bnu-n:tnnymd.n any gear. 7-Pase. Touring 81340 ously satisfied? That is what the Hupmobile owner has. tremendous advan pert care. most contented of owners. Can you afford even to think of buying any car that does not offer the equal of Hup- mobile service? Hupmobile Co. He enjoys the e of ex- He is, in short, the of Nebraska FACTORY BRANCH 2054 Farnam St., Omaha. G. H. HOULISTON, Manager. .