Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1916, Page 12

' THREE MILLION AUTOS NOW IN USE Remarkable Increase in Regis- trations in All Parts of Country. NEBRASKA THIRD IN LINE There are 508,667 more cars in use today than there were on January 1, 1916. There are more.than 3,000,000 automobiles in use in the United States today, including both passen- ger cars and trucks. Between Jan- vary 1 and June 30, 1916, the ine crease which took place was not far short of the total increase for the whole year of 1915, according to an article by Donald McLeod Lay in the current issue of the Automobile. There are now three states having more than 200,000 cars apiece—New York, Ohio and Illinois—whereas on Janyary 1 of this year, only New York had as many as this. Eleven states have more than 100,000 ma- chines each—Minnesota;” Massachu- setts, Indiana and Texas have passed in%n this class since January 1. f n thinking of these big figures it must not be forgotten that the in- dustry has beén producing a good many more cars than those absorbed i THE OMAHA SUNDAY "BEE: SEPTEMBER 17, 1916. tions of the country, and the sale of | registration; Oklahoma, which has an cars naturally follows thewspread of |apparent increase of 20,385 cars, or prosperity. A glance at the tabula- {80 per cent, a large part of which is tion of states showing the increase in |due to the boom in the oil industry, registration suffices to bring out that|although it must be noted that it is those which have made the largest only recently that registration has |/ gains are the ones most affected by |been enforced, so that the statistics the unusual industrial condition pre-|recorded January 1 were incomplete. vailing in this country since the ont-| On a basis of ratio of cars and break of the European war. | trucks to population, lowa's lead, with New York, the leading state, repre- | thirteen persons for each motor sents in large degree the enormous | vehicle, compares with sixteen per- financial operations connected with | sons per car at the beginning of the the. war order busitiess throughout!year. California is still in second the c})ulnlry as well as the huge prof-|place in this respect, having increased its derjved from the reorganization |its ratio from eigh of capital and securities in foreign |to one car for every fifteen of its pop- countries. Its normal growth has|ulation. Nebraska continues third, been accelerated by the increase in|but it has now made a signal gain, the foreign commerce of the United [showing only sixteen persons for States, the bulk of which is lrans-‘cvery motor vehicle as compared acted through New York City. {with twenty-one persons on January . Pennsylvania, which stands second |1. Indiana is now fourth, having in growth of registration, with a gain | come up from ninth place by increas- of 38,353 cars and trucks, has share in |ing its car-to-population ratio from almost every form of industrial boom | twentv-one to sevenfeen, Indiana that has taken place, utilizing the has thus displaced South Dakota, high prices of the, commodities which | which was tormerly tourth, but 15 it produces in such large volume. | now fifth, showing a decrease of five In the Farming States. persofis to every car—New York Minnesota, next in line, with an in- Herald. £ i : Looked Funny. crease of 30,171 lteglslra!mns, i ONe| .uGuays” remarked u dear but frre- of our largest agricultural and lumber | sponsiblo young tulng of this town, “I am § . | very much afrald my bank Is in a bad states, so that its 33 per cent gain is|way " i i e o “Nonsense,” sald the other. “Why, that :arghcly due to the wide market and,h ob P rpath) oI tuatt i bl nk {8 one of the strongest financial insti- m{ e'ht p'nccsh for these products. ihtlond fn the country. Whersver diar you owa, another big _fannmg state, | get that ldea?” has been steadily forging toward the | “Its very strange,” suld Gladys, still on- front rank in motor vehitle registra-|°ocnvinced. “They:ve just returned a chock tions for the past five years, and dur- | Philudelphia Ledger. ing the first six months of 1916 shows e an increase of 29,750, or more than en people per car | of mine for $30 marked, ‘No funds'"— Packard Agent Sees H. E: Orr, distributor for Packard automobiles in this section, has re- cation trip through the east. He motored the entire distance and vis- | way back. ¥ | Overland cars. School Girl Aviatrix 3 . 5 nson, school ited the Packard factory in Detroit, | aviatrix, which was taken during a re- both on the way cast and on the |cent exhibition at Edmonton, Canada, | p, sept. s.—Many of the fine old trees ! for this decision was Q street, Rail- ' where she became acquainted with the of Belgium are being cut down for use in|road avenue to Twenty-fourth street. G‘rea,t Sea,son Ahea,d '\ . ]Prefers Overlan(i] Car n]\o!o{s It \\‘as qm\tlc' a cspr_nplimcin.l Art Smith, famous aviator, who re- | theretore, to have Miss Stinson de- N i taal 1 BB cently purchased an Overland Model | clare that she now understands why | City Commissioner Jardine, head of 84-B, is not the only fiyer who fa-|so many men {vere buying Overlands vors that line of automobiles. In proof of this J. R. Jamison, local | “The car is so easy t0 operate,” she | trict court, sustaining the authority of cently returned from an extended va- | Overland and Willys-Knight branch | said after one of her spins. “The elec- | the city council in matters of ordering manager, tells of a photo recently re- | tric_control box and the other con-|paving of ‘“main thoroughfares,” Overland factory at |veniences make it an ideal woman’s | girl | motor car.” facts regarding the enormity of the | also an expert on motors~as a bird | woods are yielding their proportion. man, or 8 Bied Idy, n this instance.| Jardine Says Ames Avenue i Will Be Paved Next Spring | the public improvement department, for their wives and daughters. | when advised of the action of the dis- stated that Ames avenue, Thirty-sixth to Forty-eighth streets, will be paved | next spring. Another district held up the German trenches. The famous Bols de Mr. Orr gathered many interesting | =5 8% F9C0 0 Miss Stinson is |1 Cambre near Brussels is sald to bave lost| Persistence Is the Cardinal Virtue 0,000 o trees, and lesser 1 e | 10,000 of its trees, and lesser parks nnd’m Advertising. | automobile business in all sections | _ | which he visited and is confident that | | the coming season will far surpass | last season in the number of ma»!i | | chines sold. The opinion formed is based upon | actual expectations of various auto- | mobile dealers throughout the east. | | Mr. Orr having lived in the east for | | many years is thoroughly acquainted | there and has a personal acquaint- | ance with many eastern autonmhile) | men. ‘ | | "The Packard factory is making | great preparations for the coming| | season and is greatly increasing its | | manufacturing facilities. Much en- ‘thusinsm is being displayed by Pack- ard ‘dealers throughout the country | Erfgarding the new model and the | opinion is current that the cars will | { be sold out long before the season Iis over. 7 Passenger Touring 3 Passenger Roadster $1350 Luxurious Sedan $1900 This Motor Car embodies improvements and refinements in eight cylinder construction which could be offered only by a company that has had its “Eights” in operation 'all over America and in thirty foreign lands for over a in the United States, Since January the entire number of registrations at 1 the exports have totalled 43,265.|the end of 1911, when the state boast- Automobiles manufactured since July | ed of 27,936 automobiles. 1; when the following registrations | Ohio, with its_big oil fields, its were noted, bring the total to more |large manufacturing industries and than 3,000,000 | extensive farming industries, has in- Registration by states, duplicates | creased its registration 29,415, or 16 deducted: | per cent, and with question a large Cars and C:_H l}:" part of this gain is directly attribut- ki) Tricks. ' - Bisth, vucks: | able to.the prosperity marking the New York.. Oregon ... 28,110 H | akie ... Plorida 5,000 | state during the last six months. Tilinols Kentucky . 138 Some of the other states which Penna. N.. Carolin 59 may be mentioned in this connection Californi 24,027 | 4 f / eutde 19,977 are Nebraska, a leading agricultural Michigan 132,000 ;::n;nn-‘ ::.:;2,centcr, which is credited with an in- Minneso ode 427 | ver. i 5 e g7 18060 | crease of 37 per cent over its 1915 Mass, . Missineippi, . 16,600 | Texas K W, Virginia. 15,771 N. 1 ‘Wisconsin New Jersey. T Oklshoma . Connecticut Washington,, Tennessee .. Taking up a few exact figures, the |- total registsations July 1, 1916, were 2932455 cars and trucks. The largest state registration, that of New York, was 259,105, Ohio, taking second place for the first time, had 208,705, and Illinois 203,7 New York now holds the the head of the list by a margin of 50400 registra- tions, The bottom of the list is oc- cupied by Nevada, with 3,900 cars, but Nevada ranks fourteenth in the tabulation showing the number of ple per car, New York taking the enty-eighth place in this ligt. Towa has a motor vehicle now for each thirteen persons; California one for each fiften persons, and Nebraska one to each sixteen, while New York ‘has as many as thirty-nine inhabi- tants to ‘ev:r¥ car. A striking feature brought out a compatison of the registration sta L tistics of July 1, and those recorded i &;he_fim of the year, is the con- ~ stant increase, which indicates the stability aand normal progress of the } utomobile industry. The average 5 \ rease in registration in the United | States for the entire year of 1915 | was 39.6 per cent; for six months of \1916 the average is.21 per cent, or yproximately 40 per cent on a yearly . basis, since the registration tapers off to some extent during the ldst six months of the year, Increase In Registration. Tncreass Pet. in Cars. Inc. PR S "R- 4 Three Million. A study of the tables herewith, oth the complete registration figures cach state and the statistics of n in cach, brings out the under- jing cconomic factors which have ~ made a registration of 3,000,000 auto- nobiles and trucks possible in the ited, States today. Prosperity has e rule throughout most sec- You Cannot Heat Your to a t where Pan. 8 Rard Oil will not lubricate i, *Run”—is the word. It’s like a run on a bank. Only it’s a run on a car—a Chalmers car. It seems endless. The people want more. And 80 more must be built for the‘m—20,000 more. You remember a while ago that six hundred men took one look at this new car and bought $22,000,000 worth in forty very brief minutes. They were the Clialmers Dealers. Now they insist that more of the same kind be built —more of thes3400 r. p. m. Chalmers. So the Chalmers executives have put through a fac- tory work order for 20,000 more of them. They built and delivered, in six months, 18,000. That was all they intended to build for an entire y;ar That completed their part of the $22,000,000 affair. We got them to build another 10,000. We thought that would be enough to last through the fall. But no, the 10,000 were quickly taken up during the summer months. So they are going to -build 20,000 more. That means, all told, 48,000 cars—or $56,000,000 worth 'of these remarkable 3400 r. p. m. Chalmers. So you see why I use the word “run.” The people who know good cars—like Emerson’s wise saying about the man who makes a better mouse trap, ‘ete., will find a beaten path to his door, even though he live in the woods—they create this ever-increasing desire to own a Chalmers. They ‘have sought quality—not price. We seldom have people ask us the price of this car. When we tell ~ R. W. Craig, Inc. . 2512-14 Farnam Street Phone Douglas 7888 year. 2066-68 Farnam St. A $56,000,000 “RUN” them $1090 Detroit, they are very much taken back. We get little of the “price” trade. Most of those who come to us have passed that era in car buying. They want quality. And they know pretty well where to look for it. They look for it in the sound of the engine, in the action of the clutch, in the action of the steering apparatus, in the sound of the differential. They examine the radiator, try the brakes, observe the kind of glass in the windshield, note the kind of material in the top, and then poke around into the corners of the hody. - That much done, they get into the car and try her out. For'they are smart enough to know that the biggest result of quality is performance. That’s what usually brings us the sale. For perform- ance is the car’s middle name. She’s got amazing acceleration—so lively and full of spunk.. And then she climbs hills so quickly and hugs ‘the road so well at a rapid clip. .And, best of all, she handles so easily. She’s as obedient as any creature man ever made. 3 Once you try her you, too, will understand the “run” on her. It’s a thing difficult to explain, but three editions of a car in a year’s time is something to ponder over. We have it direct by telegraph that Chalmers will continue to make these 3400 r. p. m.’s next season. There’s no time limit set. Assoon as these last'20,000 are built and out of the way there will probably be more. i So you’re dead safe in getting a model of a car that has in no way reached its peak of popularity. \ Omaha Noyes-Killy Motor Co., Distributors e L