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Y a oe \ J oo DIRECTOR Locomobile THOMAS OD ruE JD. e Y Boat “The uit Car to America” PIKE AND BELMONT. | LOZIER—MAAXWELL— PATHFINDER ! VAN BRUNT MOTOR CAR CO. | Telephone East 1125. RAMBLE 807-309 East Pike St. AMERICAN | MARION DORRIS TRUCKS 604 East Pike. Phone East 47. $50 METZ CAR DISTRIBUTOR: Imperial ‘CHALMERS © “Special” METZ ‘ Fully equipped, f. 0. b. Seattle. Most economical car on earth to operate. S, 706 East Pike St. STUTZ MOTOR CAR CO. The Hupmobile is in its Claes the Best Car in the World MILLER AUTO CO. G. J. EVANS, Manager. W. H. Barnes & Guaranteed Continuous Service. Covers Every Truck Sold. Garage and Salesroom 610 Seneca § Five different modals, priced from 91.298 to $2,600, £ | Hudson - Paig | FEDERAL TRUCKS Waterhouse Trading Co. Touring Cars and Motor 1516 Broadway Mercery Motor Car Os 801-808 Kast Pike # Phone Elliott 156% 1722 Broadway MOTOR CAR CO. Phone Elliott 3093 N. J. Morehouse, District Distributor. ooo B PIKE ST 1509 Broadway PHONE E. 469. M. A. MILLER, Manager. OLYMPIC Motor Car Co. DISTRIBUTERS 1401 Broadway. 7Z "2" $550 Motor Trucks Senttle’s Largest Dealers jt. Phone Main 6504. WASHINGTON CAR- TERCAR CO. 1515 BROADWAY PHONE EAST 467. Messrs. Waller & s'ratton Distributors S12 Bast Pike 4 Phone East 4204 db. Beattie Pacific Car Robert Atkinson, Mgr. 903 East Pike St. Phone East 1413 Auto Department Trucks Phone FE. 331. LAT. Motor Car Co | 907 E. Pike Phone Rast #20 Home of th: pt Apps Tnok Aflichigan oto AUTO Six Ford runabouts recently went into the service of the police de partment of the city of I ‘etroit Commissioner of, Police Gillespie hopes to save the ty $10,000 a year in automobile expenses: The ranaboits, which can be op- Cars BROKERAGE CO. 1409 Se Bought and Sold BROADWAY | } [erated for a litte more than a cent, om NORTHWEST BRANCH 1426 Tenth Ave., Near Pike. JOHN FP. CAMPDELL, Mar. | Phone East 462. a mile, will be used for all public work except the transfer of prison ers an@ hurry-up calls. This will reduce the 116,000 miles, which the auto patrols and heavy cars, which cost about 20 cents a mile te ope’ ate, traveled last year, to ap eat mated 30,000 miles, j | | | ] | | President Poek, of the Washing ton Cartercar Co, reports that bis company will soon have on exhibt tion two new models for 1914, one a four-passenger touring cnr, and the other & six-passenger touring | ear, The four models now carried the Carterear Co, will be con the 1914 season by tinued for Mr. H. L. Wilson, representing the Carterear Co. for Oregon and | Washington, returned this week Ifrom a two weeks’ visit to the fac |tory. He reports that the sales for {1913 have been twice those of 19 jover 15,000 cars having been sold |this year. Two Apperson Jack Rabbit cars lcompleted the Indlanapolis-Pactfic coast run, starting from Indianap. folis July Ist and arriving at 1 Angeles at 5 o'clock August 2d The distance traversed was 3 jguiles. The Apperson cars made the entire distance under thetr own |power, with no mechanteal trouble |whatever. The tires were the only parts changed . oe Jack Lawson, the popular sales manager of th R-L-T, drove up to |Skagit county lagt week—sold his own car and had to get ::other in which to return to Seattle. While on the same trip Mr, Lawson took an order for 20 K-R-I-T cara, to be delivered to Kunts Bros,, of Bur |Iington, Mr, Lawson also reports ja sale to Mr. Joice, who is demon strating an automobile Nght con troller, a contrivance designed to cause the Hghts to follow the front wheels, no matter on wha: angle |they may be turned. Jack Wetster, \of Spokane, ts the inventor. At the first demonstration tn the latter city 179 of the controllers were sold almost immediately eee , With his 17 at the wh jrecently drove a five-pa Cartercar from Seattle to | Beach via Centralia. The round trip was made with | the car in perfect order, it not be. ing found necessary to even rein flate the tires durjng the entire Yearold son Stuart distance eee The Rambler agency reports | many local sales, among them be ing the following An_ especially equipped car to Mr. Williams, a jmining man of this city; also a fine Rambler car to J. W. Butler, of this city, who at once started on |a trip to California, driving his new lear himself. A carload of Jeffreys |trucks ts expected to arrive today jor Monday, and included in this shipment ts a fine car for Mr. | Burke, of Ballard. Mr. Morehouse, sales manager of the Rambler Seat tle agency, Is on his way to Ken- osha, Wis, to attend the convention of Rambler sales agers and agents of the entire United States. NEWS OF THE (MUCH AUTO TRAVEL ALONG THE COAST | “Even with the roads in the pres ent condition between Los At San Francisco, prtiand, attle jand even Vancouver and Victoria, |B. C., it is actually note the number of to make the round trip betw folties every year,” says A. 8 idge, manager of the Buick Auto mobile Co Hardly a wee someon South, and at th humerous * but what us from the Northern points nt time there are bile owners and tive owners who are con ing trips the Panama » 1915. One can hard! | timate the number of tourists who will make this trip yearly w the Pacific highway {# compl Among the arrivals from Califor. nia by automobile thin week were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gordon and ¢ children, accompanied by a ad, Mr. J. O. Thornton to HENRY FORD HAS BIRTHOAY Henry Ford, president of the Ford | Motor Co., celebrated his 50th birth. day Wednesday, July 30. Mr, Ford spent the entire day at his home at Dearborn, where showers of con gratulations poured in upon him Mr. Ford was born at Dearborn, Mich., about ten miles from Detroit July 30, 1863. He came to Detroit to learn the machiniat’s trade when 18 years of age. The story of the building of the first Ford automobile, of the ob stacles overcome by the {nventor, of the establishment of the Ford Motor Co, ten years ago, and ite marvelous growth, ts familiar even to the average school child His 50th birthday sees Mr. Ford owner of approximately 4,000 acres at Dearborn, where he has one of the finest farms in the country. In course of erection on thin estate is a bungalow to cost in the neighbor- hood of $100,000, but a few miles from the old homestead where Mr Ford was born. Mr. Robert Atkinson, manager of the Pacific Car Co. hans just re turned from a short fishing trip to Olympia. He had a pleasant trip ——WIRE—— | BRIEFS | BALTIMORE, tee of the Fraternal agies, in convention ed grand tr Order of BE here. | BIG SPRINGS, Mich. ing his sweetheart, resa Miller, and chum, Arthur Cook, out of the water so that their lives were sav ed, Hal Salter, 19 years of age, sank from exhaustion and was drowned. see SANTA CLARA, Cal—Max Koh- |ner, capitalist, Mra, Kohner their daughter Rose and Mrs. Harry Perks were all injured yesterday when the Kohner automobile over- turned. Pe | SACRAMENTO.—Japanese have invested $1,082,075 in California land since the passage of the Webb alien land act, which becomes ef |fective next Monday | eee | BARBOURSVILLE, Ky—Two children of Dr. Charles Stark were burned to death yesterday, when the Stark residence was destroyed eee | SALEM, Or—four months a |bride, Mrs. James Lansing yeater |day committed suicide, leaving a note saying that she was a nervous | wreck and unhappy eee HILLSBORO, Or—L. W. Wood- ruff of Los Angeles was Instantly | killed in an automobile accident here yesterday, eee NEW YORK.—Edna Goodrich says she never said she was going to marry a duke, doesn’t know any dukes, and wouldn't know one if she [naw It. eee | WAPATO.—E. F. Carver, mayor ‘of Wapato, lost the index finger of his right band when his hand was carried into the pulley with the |] cable of a hay sling. eee NEW YORK.—Announcement le made that the republicans will sup- port Mitchell, the fusion candidate, for mayor of New York eee ‘ Walsh, self-confessed police graft er, who died last June, left just $10.32, as shown in will filed yes- terday. | BELLINGHAM.—At the annual old settlers’ picnic, at Ferndale, Abraham Green of Ferndale was presented with a loving cup as the oldest settler of the county, and Postmaster Hugh Eldridge drew a similar article as the oldest native born resident. , é BREMERTON.—Spanish war vet- erans employed in the navy yard NEW YORK.—Capt. Thomas W. ment tn Buffalo, N. Y., without los sent . ing pay while ab . . VANCOUVER, B. C—O. Bowman, owner of a Powell st. warehouse, risked his life when he entered a | burning building today and rescued | Md.—Lincoin Da-/a cat which had made a vain at-| vis of Seattle was yesterday elect-|tempt to escape through a second-| After hoid-| ed nine converts in the North fork | MOORE story window. eee | WOODLAND.—Evangelists of the [Christian church yesterday baptiz- of the Lewis river. Another bap- tismal party will be held cn Sun day. . | OLYMPIA.—The supreme court says that H. E. Orr of Seattle is not entitied to a commission of jin connection with the s: jstock In a holding Judge Pro Tem Tucker of King county. eee Wilmon | HOQUIAM.—J. H. Kelsling, fore- man, and John Antela, fireman, |were killed yesterday afternoon, | when the botler of a donkey engine exploded at the plant of the Wil lapa Logging Co., 11 miles out of | North river. cee OLYMPIA.—Despite post, which was Inaugurated Jan- wary 1, express companies oper ating in the state for the year end the parcel ing March 31, 1913, show an in. crease averaging more than 5 per cent over the previous year fn intra state shipments. eee OLYMPIA.—Boys under age of 12, who sell newspapers or maga zines on the street, are wards of the court, according to an opinion of State Labor Commissioner Olson. see VANCOUVER, B. C.—An I. W. W. organizer was thrown overboard yesterday from three different fish ing boats off the Sandheads, eee PORTLAND.—Laboring under the hallucination that he was being pursued by I. W. W. sympathizers, who were Intent upon killing him, Geo. H. Bellamy of Fillmore, Cal severed his windpipe with a pocket knife see PORT TOWNSEND.—Geo. Tren- holm, ploneer, fell from a second story window here last night and wan Instantly killed ee 8 cee VICTORIA.—The fisheries cruiser Newington picked up H, Harrison and J, Ellard, marooned on Chain island after being wrecked in a 12 foot cat boat eee LONDON.—The British govern- ment will make a contract with the Maconi Wireless company for a wireless telegraph cireuit encireling, the’ globe, eee OTTUMWA, la—U. 8. District Judge Francis M. Hunter holds that the Iowa state law preventing the delivery of shipments of intoxicat ing Hquor from other states into may attend the national encamp-lowa is unconstitutional and void, + | Bept timber company, up-| PLAN FOR ROAD "CONGRESS Most elaborate are the prepara-| tions being made tn Detroit to en tertain the thousands of delegates who will attend the Third Annual American Road Congress, to be held 29 to Oct. 4, next. The great est attendance of delegates and of surprising to|§ who roads workers from every of the Union and from Canada ever known Is certain at this con ens. Reports from all sections of the country tell of large parties coming, and conservative estimates int to an attendance which will sveral times as large as that of year's congress at Atlantic when over 2,000 delegates were registered, and severa: thou sand other people Interested in good fonds w present. Active work must be done by the various committees to provide accommoda tlons for the party, and all commit law City tee chairmen have now been ap- pointed to look after the various branches of the labor, The general chairman of all committees will be Roy D. Chapin, president of the Hudson Motor Car Co, and the gen eral treasurer will be Charles R. ‘Talbot, of the National Bank of | Commerce. The halls and meeting places will be arranged for by a committee, of |which Edwin 8. George is chairman and Horatio 8. Earle, good roads worker, will man of the exhibits commi Representatives of the American Highway Association, Michigan State Good Roads Association, the the great char. American Automobile Association and the National ation of dM. ) ufacturers have been in Detroit re cently In connection with work for the congress. All have spoken of the Intense Interest of all good | roads workers of the country In this congress. | Business So Rushing | Unprecedented growth of bust- ness has forced the Oldsmobile jbranch tn San Francisco to seck jsmaller quarters, and a five-year |lense has just been taken on new) |salesrooms in the Firestone butld |tng, corner of Van Ness uv. and | Austin alley. This sounds curious, but the ex | planation fs very simple. The mam- [moth quarters now being relin- quished, were taken on with the ex. |pectation of utilizing them aa stor- ake rooms for the General Motors ne, including the Oakland, Buick, Oldsmobile, etc, But no sooner did the several makes begin to arrive by carloads and trainioads, than they were gobbled up by buyers almost before they had time to reach the display rooms. The mam moth quarters have consequently remained only semi-occupied, obtained tera. | “The Passing Show of 1912,” coming to the Moore for a wek's engagement, starting Sunday night, TRIXIE FRIC has the Jargest assortment of pretty girls, brilllant costumes and catchy |songs of any musical comedy that jhas blown through Seattle this sea. san, | The same company in every par- the New York Winter Gardens ts with it now, featuriitg Charles Ross and Trixtfe Friganza in the leads, together with Howard and Howard, comedians. PANTAGES Headliting the new Dill at Pan tages next week will be the Five Scotch Lassies in a merry musical melange. The extra added feature will be furnished by the Four Vic tors, sensational acrobats, numbers on the program that prom jise well are Those Two Wops in Italian soMgs and sayings, the Ron |do Trio, comedy and novelty bike, Becker and Adams, who have a litgle song and a little talk to offer, and Tilford, the inimitable ven- | triloquist At the Elite Untii Sunday. “Tears of Blood,” gwo reels; His Friend Jimmy.” “The Burning Lariat, | Smaller Quarters Needed, | ticular that was with the show tn Other | AUTO WORLD BUICK TRUCK / MAKES FINE SHOWING n Mel G. In a letter Automobile Co., son, mana mobile ( the Butek truck, which re tablished a record between Francisco and Portland, by ing a load of 1,700 pounds over the roads, {8 making Itself useful and acquiring further glory on its home ward trip from Portland to Francisco row fi of the Howard ‘ortland, he states that Auto. on San carry ent) am from Claud M isco, and Roy Wilson, of Portland, they state that they Ashland, Ore., in @ rain storm, Southern Pacific train No, 15 had left that city, The truck drivers hurried up the mountain, across the summit and down on the California aide of the Siskiyou mountains, and arrived at Hornbrook, Cal, ahead of train No. 15. They passed four touring cars on the Oregon side of the Siskiyous, two of which had experienced trouble. They were un able to lend ald to one of the cars, but to the other lent valuable as sistance through being able to over. come engine trouble which the car experienced Wilson accompanied McGee as far as Sisson, Cal., and then started on the return journey by train through northern Califor nia and southern Oregon, while Mc Gee continued on to his home in San Francisco with the truck M’NAB RETURNS | TO CHICAGO to | Vice-President of Marion Co. Direct Affairs of the J. 1. Hand- ley Co. in Middie West. As an indication of the whole 4 manner in which oifictals two automobile, manufactur- erns affected are tying up with the destiny of the J. I, Handley Co., of Indtanapolis, recently organ- ized to distribute Marion and Ame ican automobiles, comes the a: nouncement that M. D. McNab, vice. president of the Marion Motor Car Co., will hereafter make his head- quarters in Chicago, directing the| affairs of the J. 1. Handley Co. in the central states. The change will in no way affect Mr. MeNab's con- nection with the Marion Motor Car Co, He will retain the vice pr dency of that concern and wi con-| | tinue to be a power in its affairs, jas he has since he went to India: apolis. His moving to Chicago is and simply indicative of the progressive | now the Oldsmobile company has|policies which will mark the bust-| these smaller headquar-|ness existence of the J. I. Handley | Co. “FIGHT FOR LIFE SACRAMENTO, Aug. 9.—A des perate legal battle is being fought here to save the life and Itberty of Cleo Sterling, 21, who, with Jack Drumgoole and Sam Raber, is be- ing given a preliminary hearing on a charge of murdering Cherry De} Maurice, a woman of the ten. | St. derloin The girl's defense is that she aided {n no way in the robbery which resulted in the murder of | the St. Maurice woman, and claims fessions, in which they implicate |her, are false. | The woman has refused to fur- jnish information jconcerning the events leading to the robbery, although she was given a strenuous third degree in the rooms of the murdered woman. PROGRESSIVE PEANUT PARTY The Homesteaders will give their second annual progressive peanut party, including cards and dancing, Wednesday evening, August 13, at Eckert hall, 1616 Third av. to the officers Get your name on the pay roll again. Use a Star want ad to tell the people you want work. San } that Raber’s and Drumgoolo’s con-| SSORIES AND SUPPLIES -ACCE Automobile Supplies. G. & J. Tires and Tubes—s Sete ora MILLER “QUALITY” TIRES LAST LONGEST 705 Kast Pike St. | AUTO PAINTERS | H. POYNTER & SON Phone Kast 1408 | Monograme and Lettering | 782 Broodway i’ bk me f GVEAYTHING POR THE AUTO MAW AND Mis’ CA® 3 | THE WASHINGTON AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY | = f ee aT er ae 3 | - _ MOTORCYCLES | l - — 2) as BALLOU & WRIGHT — : AND BICYCLES : a ‘ = is amas a 4 Motorcycle and Bicycle REPAIRING| - 1 Side Cars Made to Drder. 2 Everything in the Motor Line. 4 RAINIER CYCLE CO., 1112 PIKE ST. | PRES ASL oes : Enene Mala a. cal = | & Motorcycles, Bicycles, Repatring, Gunsmith, Locks and Keys.| * Sporting Goods. Everything in Accessories. Ps | Phone Elliott 1311. 1021 First Avenue. : | } { ONES AND ARTIBOOSTS SEATTLE That Seattle is the ideai placq for the 1915 convention of the Nas tional Association of Real Estat — Men was the declaration of W. & |between Prospect st. and Highland | Kissell of Springfield, 0. a dele = | drive. | gate to the recent national co ; The building 1s to be located on/tion in Winnipeg, who spoke at a lot 100x100, and will cost in the!noonday iuncheon at the Aretl neighborhood of $30,000, With the ciyh Friday. Kissell was one necessary exchange equipment the several speakers who add plant will cost $90,000, |the meeting. | It ds the intention of the telephone! The Iuncheon at the Arctic jcompany to make the exterior of/was included in the program the exchange highly attractive. Altended by the local real estate am large veranda is planned for the| sociation to a party of 30 delegates |front of the building, with the office | Who are visiting the West on theif entrance on the side. Gardens of | 'oturn from Winnipeg. F. palma, trees and shrubbery, in add!-| phe party taken for a tion to lawns, will surround the| of the city in automobiles in building, and attractive flower boxes| curse of the morning, and in the bea nrg the veranda and the win-| afrernoon was entertained by a wit agen ee is to the Golf club and through BERKELEY, Aug. 9.—Roderiguez | university ground: Diaz, son of Gen. Felix Diaz, is to be a student at the University of California after he graduates, this PORTERVILLE, Cal. Aug. 9.—= ~ year, from the high school in Mex-|Fire early today completely feo City, according to announce-|stroyed the plant of the Porters ~ ment here today, following the bie Be Daily Messenger, the Pacific | A telephone change building which will not look unlike a costly residence is planned by the ific Telephone & Telegraph Co. to be built on the west side of Federal av., sr ae + FIRE AT PORTERVILLE jeent visit of Gen. Diaz to thz/ Telephone and Telegraph building and five business houses Berkeley campu Excursion to Bend, Oregon rorhiuiet Aug. 16, 19 and Portland Via the Great Northern Ry., Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry., and Oregon Trunk R. R. Affording unusual opportunity to see the great Central Ore gon country. A very attractive program has been arranged for entertainment of party at Bend. Train composed of |]| finest equipment, standard sleepers, diners and observa- |] tion car, run on a special schedule: Special Train | | | | Leave King Street Station, Seattle ...11: sore nae le 11:00 p. m., August 1¢th Leave Portland . Arrive Bend Leave Bend Arrive Seattle +++ 3:00 p.m. August 19th | The trip from Portland to Bend along the Columbia Dee i} chutes rivers 1s made in the daylight, through fine pp The cost of the entire round trip, including railroad fare, berth, and entertainment at Bend, $25.00, further Uckets, apply : sig | Bend Park Co. | Great Northern Ticket Office 454 Empire Bidg. Columbia and Second Ave, SEATTLE SEATTLE WHY RESINOL SOAP KEEPS COMPLEXIONS CLEAR AND HEALTHY When you wash your face do |you realize that it is not enough to remove the dirt—that your skin needs a soothing, healing {nfluence to keep your complexion fresh and |free from blemish? Ordinary tollet soaps do not as sert this influence. Many ot them contain free alkali which tends to dry the skin and destroy its deli- cate texture, Even the hest of such s@aips can only clean, they cannot heal and protect the skin Resinol Soap, besides being an ab- solutely pure toilet soap, contains |the same soothing, healing, anti septic balsams as Resinol Oint iment, the value of which in the treatment of skim affections is known throughout the medical pro- exsion, That {s why Resinol Soap does for the skin what cosmetics Are supposed to do—it insures not only a clean skin, but a healthy askin, and a fair, clear complexton. |Resinol Soap and Resinol Oint ment are sold by all druggists, Trial free; Dept. 4-R, Resinol, Bal timore, Md. |CIRCUS — SEATTLE — Two Wednesday Ang. 12, and Thursday. Aug. 14. DAYE: INGLING BROTHERS WORLD | AND NEWLY ADDE GREATEST SHOW: HEX $500,000. JOAN FARG MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE st HE WORD 1200 i SICGEST, GRAND \SS R STAGED in me WORLD [PAM B78 Pyr orf tirncus 64 ff Soc lie Pei bth ae AGE ‘gigs: ZOO Bap WA BIG Feige ILES’ OF PARADE ONDERS ER, T 18 OK A. ding Piggt Pertormence ARTISTS: 4 6Sq mae HORSES ANOTRAIH LOADo: SCENER' EET PARA 2a0ea wy aye at She: a" at. show grou Chlleren Voter ra Price 2 Performances and reserv Ave. and went tickets wold md Admins & Cols, Third Same price

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