The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1917, Page 6

Standard Oi! Will Be Open Evenings The Standard ©}! company BMMounced iaet week that, be @ May |, its 1! service ma in Seattle will remain Open evenings until 10 o'clock, Instead of closing, as has been the custom, at 8:30, Go On That Sunday Trip Until You Have | Your Battery Tested Prepared for Emergency Drive Up to 1524 11th Ave. | and Let Our | Experts Test | Your Batteries FREE OF CHARGE Electric ‘Equipment Cs. 1524 Eleventh Ave. |Jim Parsons NOT ALL PLEASURE Five Stutz Cars Also Sells Jim Parsons, local speed de mon, and wife just returned yesterday from a week's jaunt to Walla Walla. Parsons Is the Washington distributor for the famous Stutz care and presi dent of the Parsons Motor Co. On the trip, he combined bual ness with pleasure, and, ae a result, returned with five eal to his credit. The entire trip of a thou sand miles was made in a Stutz with a running average of 35 miles per hour. “The road was fairly good all the way except between Cascade Locks and Hood Riv er. For a atretch of 20 miles Beats the L. J. Kerns, who Is connect. ed with the loca! offices of the Willys-Overiand Motor Car Co, started to Portland the other day on a fishing trip in one of the new fivepassenger care fresh from the shop, and, when he arrived in Portland, found that he had broken the record, Also his running time beat that of the famous Shasta Limited. is an expert driver, but wasn't after a record unti! he got started and then when he found everything going nicely, “stepped on her” and copped the record. The total New Route Picked Out for Trip From Seattle to Tacoma The Automodile club recom mended last week a new detour for motorists between Seattle and Tacoma. They are advised to leaye Seattle via Rainier val ley, to Bryn Mawr, thence mak- ing a right-hand turn and taking a graveled road up grade to the Eartington links, then from Ren ton to Renton Junction and straight abead on the Pacific highway. mileage from Se ! asa between these two points, we had to plow our way thru aw of mud up to the axle, id Parsons, The Stutz wae the first car to go over this streton of road in 10 days. One of the big boys that Parsons landed for a Stutz Boar Cat was George Drum hiller, the largest wheat grow: er in Washington and who this year sold his crop for $250,000. Drumhiller bought the Stutz for his own use and four other care to the Parsons had to ship the car over the mountains, as there is still 10 feet of anow in the pase ~attle to Portiand ie 195.1 miles and was made in 5 hours and 5 minutes, beating the form: record held by Ray McNamara by 38 minutes, Thruout the trip, Kerns, who had been maintaining splendid time, drove like a demon. Ev ery possible advantage in road condition was seized, and espe- cially at a bad stretch south of Castie Rock, the car and the Goodrich tir were put thru the most severe racking and testing that any car hae ever been compelied to undergo Kerns carried. two other per- sone with him on the trip, ay J. C. Garner, of Motor company, local distr for the Chalmers car, young colt, for, ports from the East, the firm shipment of the Chalmers will ar rive some time this week. Jarner’s |Tying one ton or me rutors |§ cents per mile, frisky |*pread already to 461 lines of bust - - all re big are being sought daily. _ |eineer had an idea buzzing tn his | KERNS SETS RECORD Shasta Limited Into Portland _| Washington, and now \ | pany STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917. PAGE BRIGHAM WILL | HANDLE TRUCK | ONCE SPURNED Inventor Turned Down by Seattle Capitalists Successful $20,000,000 CORPORATION missed tts chance | years ago to Krab one of the newest | mobile industries in the United Seattle two ates Two years ago a local marine en head about forming a truck that could be slipped on any lght car and taken off without marring or tn Juring the car in any way. Bankers solffed at the idea, and men with Imoney refused to let loose. Tiring fof his efforts here, the man went East withgut any money and only! his idea, that later materialized into @ $20,000,000 corporation in 19 |months, The man was A. 1. Smith, | a former marine engine®r of Seattle, | and the idea was the Smith FormA |Nras ant thts war the cose with ARMY NEEDS MEN Smit FOR RESERVE LIST Ed Campbell, of Grant.Coffin @ bevy of chorus girls on last week | K. G. Boward, Pacific coast tac-| tory representative, is now in Seat-| htle, and last week completed ar rangements with M. 8. Hrigham, |president and manager of the Brig pain ham Motor Car Company, to handle! fen are needed for the signal en the Smith products in Western }isted reserve corps of the United one of the) States army, according to a call for st vigorous sales campaigns that applicants made by Maj. Lenoir attle had ever neon In the auto-|U S.A. in Seattle Wednesday |mobile business is being launched| ‘The reserve corps was by the Brigham Motor Car Com |jast year to secure additional ¢ ed men to be used in the Soward {s here personally to/nal corps. Applicants direct the selling campaixn, and im-|ages of 18 and 45 years are t mediately upon launching thie one| “This arm of service offers of he will launch others simulta-/tunities for specialized study and neously thruout the entire West. service in telegraph, telephone, | The scope of the truck. thru its|radio and other technical branches | attachment to a Ford or other ight Horse shoers and cooks are also jear, forming a truck capable of c@™ needed. Applicants sh ould apply at ta of/the U. 8. stanal corps office in the jd to have! Arcade building my sie n the ness, and new aventes of usefulnens! y dally, The tactory Miller Carburetors itself is now doubling its production f or U.S. Sub Chaser to keep up with the demand, and t CHORUS GIRLS he fair _mali je clustered around “ new Grant Six, TAKEN mpbell Co, FOR local distributors for the Grant Pantages bill out for a scenic trip over the city. The above shows RIDE Have You You Been Looking for a Buick, Studebaker, Dodge o- Overland? We have sold of each from our sales floor already this month one Do you realize that the owr ers of these differ bought Studebaker That is the message thin ad vertisement is meant to con Experienced select Stud Studebaker cars a sold in Seattle today th any other make of car, save one, and that is the cheap. est car made. We would like have you come in and examine ant compare the Studebaker cars described below with any other car have thought of buying. Your eyes will be oppned to the value of Studebaker cars. WE OFFER THIS WEEK FOUR 1916 CARS AT REDUCED PRICES They have all been overhaul ed and refinished, and you can have a choice of colors. owners to motor car, took a ‘WORM DRIVE TRUCK an entire ¢ done in a we of at service department the ned pick method, according ‘omminsioner Donnelly Here Is a Car Bargain A car in fine condition, just overhauded; fine tires; elec tric Nghts and starter. WATERHOUSE-SANDS | DOES GANG’S WORK CO. HAS SPEEDY IDEA, OF SIGNAL CORPS | 4 10:00 v.S ¥orm arive dump OPINION OF ALASKAN |truck, tn works Ky, public Covington, performs more work with the aid of three men in one day than of men would have with the old-fash Maroon, gray, black or wine color. These rs sell new for $1,095. Special Price This Week, $765 Pvery one has oversized tires and carries a guarantee They are roomy, 5-passenger cars, 40 horse-power, 4 cyl- inder, 2%x5 motor. These cars are very economical in operation. WE GIVE TERMS OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK WATERHOUSE. SANDS 1514 BROADWAY Waterhouse-Sands has them all bested when {t comes to quick ac- tion on second-hand cars. In fact, | the wonderful system that Bill Williams, in charge of ths depart- ment, has introduced, is causing the Studebaker Motor Car company, of » East, to sit up and take notice, and they have even gone so far as to induce Wiliams to write a ser les of articles on how it 4s done The other day a gentleman from Alaska, Charles Meldner, breezed in to the second-hand department of the Waterhouse Sands Co. and wanted to buy a second-hand Ford. Williams showed him a Ford chas- sis and told him how they would fix a roadster out of it. The Alaskan took Williams at his word and the next afternoon the Alaskan} was seeing Seattle .n his own car. For speed you can beat Williams * READ STAR WANT ADS ¢—_—_—_—__----—-— system. BUYERS’ GUIDE AUTOS—TRUCKS—ATTACHMENTS PAIGE ie? Parson’s Motor Car Co. = ji, Biesdmay, METZ CARS 1016 East Pike |See Us for INSIDE PRICES on FISK TIRES GRAMM BERNSTEIN FOWLER'S |AUTO TRAILER | — latest announcement ts the tractor, Edmund 8. G. Soward, Pa (which is formed Mkewise with a cific Coast factory representa | Ford or other Ii«ht car tive for the Smith Form.A- According to advance inf nation Truck, took me to lunch yee |which has reached Seattle, the terday at the Washington, and | tractor attachment can be placed on the first darn thing | did was |@ Ford tn 15 minutes without boring to ask the waiter the price of [a hole or changing the mechanical bean soup, and whether he (construction of the car in any way charged extra for potatoes, [Simplicity is sald to be a predom! Just the same, the meal wae a = [nant feature. lallapoosa and Soward is a It in claimed that the tractor can prince of a fellow, and | am pull two Ifinch plow bottoms in|, igarn that we now anxiously awaiting the ar. |Kangs at a rate of 2% miles per! Cog from Atlantic rival of the next factory repre hour, with the plow set seven inches | | .4¢ being made t with Mult contative, deep in virgin sot! | carburetors on sub-chasers is prov-| | ling most satafactory. The carbur BAIDSEN C0. LANDS | etors, from all accounts are a great j | 'e success.” There are few harder workers on | the John 8. Baisden Co. Inc Johnnie bas been selling tires for Our Easy Payment Plan Walker and Corbett, local repre sentatives of the Miller Carburetor Co., received a letter from the fac tory yesterday in Los Angeles, tel! |ing them about the successful tes |that the Miller carburetors were | put thru tn order to be accepted by | ithe government on Uncle Sam's new subchasers. In one part the factory states as follows You will no doubt SELLING CARBURETORS RENDERING SERVICE . THAT'S OUR BUSINESS The Miller Carburetor Co. 1111 East Union St. Other Car From— patho with ioe The Most Beautiful Car in America Paige Motor Sales Company 903 East Pike St. e Kast 210 World’s Champion Motor Car See Them Before You Buy be pleased have received City that the UnitedMotorsCo. Pine and Believue—East 612 The latest reports from W “| walla show that Jim Parsons is just as fast when it comes to se ing Stutzes as he is driving them, for Jim is knocking the farmers | over with the new Bear Cats. THE TYRE SHOP H. B. WILBUR, MGR, “Buddy” Price, who, in his PHONE EAST 914 spare moments, is president of the Paige Motor Sales Co. trimmed his mustache and put on his best shirt Tu take the noted dancer, Denis, for a spin In the new Paige roadster. But curs Along came Ted Shawn, Ruth hubby, and the most beautiful man in America, and spoiled all of “Buddy's” dream. He forgot all about his shirt, mus tache and everything. “TRUCKS: 1, 1M, 2, 3%, 3%, 5, 6 Tome, ‘The World's Best ta Motor Ww. H, wit Mais 5430 the last three years, but he never knew how much his ability waa worth until he organized his own company, a little over a year ago | H's company fs the only exclusive truck tire company in the North went and have, ever since their or. | ganization, be handling only Goodyear prod: In the last year Baisden and his associates have landed a number of handsome contracts, retiring all the | | ‘ | Mike Colt'ns tells one on V. C.| city of Seattle's, Seattle Electric Foree, manager of the Paige Motor | and Chas. H. Lilly's trucks, besides | f |} Sales Co., which sells “The Most | scores of others, | Beautiful Car in America.” Foree | | | claims that he is convinced that tf} | we ail ate teas, tho nation's tood | GOK DAWSON ‘JOINS be conserved greatly CHALMERS CONCERN Goodyear Motz Cushion Tires rapidly are re- foodstuffs that yout the most willing. is quinces.” er Joo Dawson, winner of the most | dramatic of all Indianapolis apeed way reces, the 600-mile contest of } 1912, has joined the forces of the | Chalmers Motor company, as as | sistant experimental engineer, with |spectal duties tn connection with the contest and trial section of the advertising department vising all conceptions as to what a non-pneu- Dawson is known as one of the . - most daring drivers that the world | matic tire can do. has ever known For instance, the Vancouver Taxi and Auto Livery Company, of Vancouver, Washington, states in a letter, “We never have had a delay due to tire trouble since putting on Motz Tires and our cost per mile has been reduced one- half.” Other statements in the same letter are equally enlightening: Altio the war eituation has put | i the da er on a number of 1 “To date our records show on this car (Motz- Sis yaar tn ihe Blast iaeing 4 22 of 2 ” will hold {ts usual Fourth of July | equipped) a mileage of 23,754. ‘ ’ festivities and all the old favorites ‘Our upkeep on the four cars equipped with from the South will be seen on the Motz Tires has been 50 per cent less than on track again Among the new ar. our Fi { t ic b rivals from the Kast will come R. | ord axicabDs, pneumatics.” which are equipped with C, Durant and Edd'e Hearne. You wil! find that Motz Tires will save a great Durant has a wonderful record as a speed demon This will be his deal of the cost of your fast delivery or light truck service. first showing in the Northwest, as | ihe has never before ventured fur-| DISTRIBUTORS ther Weat than Chicago. Altho he| has been off the track for the Inst | Goodyear Truck Tires—Motz Cushion Tires EAST 776—1406 TENTH AVE. Capacity. 1.500 pounds. Attacked to any Fei leasure- 1S GANAGE @ MACHINE WORKS 1414 Broadway MOTORCYCLES VERNON & SON, AGENTS 1110 Pike St. They appeal to the kind of people who would not consider owning an ordinary MOTOR- CYCLE at all. The Henderson Four TIRES—ACCESSORIES—REPAIRS Pacific Auto Supply Co, 225° M ILL E CARBURETER CO. + CORBETT—GLENN WAL! KER, 548 WILLARD SERVICE Recharging, Repairing, New Batteries AUTO ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT CO. 1524 11th Av., Bet. Pike & P t 553 “Among could do wi |ly,” he sald, THE GRANT SIX America’s Famous Priced Light Six W. A. Wallace, manager of the Ford Central Agency, and the champion fisherman on the row, took his car the other day and went to a lake where one of the oldtimers on the row used to fish. Wallace found the lake had been drained and a farm hand, with patriotic suspenders, wae planting potatoes where the lake had been. Wallace said that Sherman was right—spe- cially when it comes to drain- ing the lakes in order to plant potatoe ‘OLD FAVORITES WILL 'BE AT TACOMA RACES Hot-Spark Ignition Co. Automobile Electricians Seattle Headquarters Goodyear Cord Tires MASTER Carburetor Delco Starting, Lighting and Ignition Swartz & Bridgeman experts 810-12 Kant Pike St. Main 1704, Delco Parts—Batteries Recharged yy Vulcanizing Shop Kast ave, Work calted SERVICE STATION FOR EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Phone East 563 703 E. Pike St. —No other 20 miles per gallon of gasoline (some Do you wonder that we say the Grant Six is so car is so economical. Grant Sixes PHONE EAST 558 for a demonstration of any of the trucks list- ed ; they are overhauled and in the best of condition; the attachments are new and = guaranteed. for ONE YEAR 1917 Ford and West- ern truck attachment; complete with body $675 and West attachment ; with average THE TYRE SHOP H. B. WILBUR, MGR. say 25) and 900 miles to a gallon of oil. PHONE EAGT 914 below economical? Retreading and Vulcan Tires, Tuten, Accessorie Open as Call and Get a Half-hour Ride in This Famous Light Six 1914 Ford ern truck complete Manufacturer and Repatrer of Automobiles Bug Bodies, Radiators, Fenders, Etc. 1405-7 Broadway, Phone Bast 218 body $525 Studebaker, with one ton attachment $700 | Studebaker, with two ton attachment $800 Maxwell one-ton truck + $575 WESTERN ive voivea Hl MOTOR SALES CO. Cine nnatt, have been opened in| 904 EAST PIKE New York, at 1457 Broadway. East 558 W. Moody is in charge of the com. pany's foreign business, three years, nevertheless he un-| |doubtedly will make the other | drivers hustle to keep from eating his dust U. S. MOTOR TRUCK HAS N. Y. OFFICES Export offices of States Motor Truck = Your Spork Plug Tro: Will absolutely fire any plug that has tw gn it. Dirt, wrease, broken porcelain make no dif- ference to the work of the “JUBILEE” you start easter and do GRANT- COFFIN & CAMPBELL the United Gives you more power, NOT use more “juice. Come in and read our guarantee and testimonials, CRAIG, LAMBIE & CO. SEATTLE ¢ Main 6310 505 East Pine East 656