The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1917, Page 4

WOMEN MAKE BEST DRIVERS That Is When They Really Learn sonnci Echo June Zahl Is Told) PES a WP \6° RY H. B. Fowler, in a Lexington Minute Man Six. Echo te now a finished along with the rest of them Beho Zahi and her teacher and ready to dodge the jitneye and hit the pos! By Echo June Zahl “Women are better drivers than men when they can drive —but when they can’'t-—oh, “3 FAULTS OF WOMEN DRIVERS Women will be better auto drivers, says H. B. Fowler, the expert auto instructor, and won't cause so many accidents, when they learn to correct common faulte, They should try to study the technique of driving a car, because: They take their hands off the wheel when they are In close quarters, and get excited. They wave at friends ae they drive along, regardless of other drivers. They wait too long at crossings before holding out their hands. They do not give the signal that they are going to turn until they are turning They should keep off street car tracks, which way the cars run New women drivers forget to release the clutch when they stop the car and chug the motor. Scores of new women drivers neglect to change gear soon enough when climbing a hill, and the car starts backing down the hill. Then they get excited and do not know what to do. The thing to do is to put on the emergency brake and start all over agian. the depths of the Fewler at 1414 Broadway, H. auto ses she is more careful and because they forget mot lose her head so quick time of trouble,” said Fow! has been teaching me how to & Lexington Six. “She takos to learn her lesson, but she learns it she doesn’t for- And she won't take the fatal & man will.” ‘There is a minute percentage of who know anything about inner mechanism of a car, but are becoming more educated | this line all the time. One jUSED CARS —————— PAY AS YOU RIDE - girl pupil of Mr. Fowler’s comes down every morning to the garage in dark apron and tight cap and works over the machine she is learning to drive. She is becoming as proficie ‘A Laxingto easy for # woman to d pcase she doean't have to ch rs most at crossings or in downtown busy-| unlikely that difficulty will be ex- traffic districts,” said Fowler, The perienced in securing cars,” aids | car can be throttled down to a| Harry D. Austin of the Washington |walk. Any child that can see over| Oakland Co. distributor of the) |the windshield can drive it bay og pn Ge IEEE teaching wom “This condition already nm eel drive, oe "aa deere felt to a certain extent by practical |the foot brake and the emergency ly all dealers, but when the great are. I show them the gear shift) movement of men and materials land put the wheel tn thetr hands, for the war starts, ordinary freight On a Lexington, all that a woman will have to take a back seat. needs to know ts to push the right ee ie aa eee me far is AUTO BUSSES NOW USED IN YUCATAN ready to start. “Then she steps on her clutch, The first motor bus for use in the city of Merida, Yucatan, or} puts the gear lever nto low, gives | the car a little gas, and lets the clutch out slowly. When the car/rived recently from the United | starts forward, she gives the car a States and has been put into opera Uttle more gas, then steps on the | tion between the center oe the city clutch again and shoves the gear and one of the principal residen-| into intermediate—and from this|tial suburbs. The fare for the com \into high, and the car will run al-| plete or part of the trip is 10 cents most any place.” | ported that the operat oe = The only way a woman can is a financial success learn to drive—is to drive, accord-| that several m American a ing to Mr. Fowler. She may ride a orde in a car for years and be told ut the car for an equal ber of years, but she will never learn until she feels the wheel in her hands, and the responsibility | jof keeping her head and thinking | ickly. BUYERS’ GUIDE AUTOS—TRUCKS—ATTACHMENTS The Most Beautiful Car in America Paige Motor Sales Company 903 Kast Pike St. Phone Kast 210 World’s Champion Motor Car 1917 Mt Now on Ca, im Our Salesroom Parson’s Motor Car Co. METZ CARS FOWLER'S ) TRAILER [RAILWAYS TO HAVE | BIG JOB ON HANDS the government begins ro material th “When moving t and ailronds efficient fied it is no’ pe and ally cas runs like any good car ‘should run. OAKLAND SIX ‘This ought to be a good car. We just overhauled it. It is | being repainted and will look new. little 5- passenger which are said to run so have be ad. HATICNAL GUARD TO | USE AUTO TRUCKS ° 128 auxiliary wagons and 162] comprising the supply train New York National Guard| will be replaced by motor trucks. | Recruiting for the made-over outfit has begun, about 324 chauffeurs, mechanics and cooks being re-| quired. The new division ammunt-| tion train will be made up of 328 motor trucks and 41 motorcycles | About 684 1 of the same attain ments as thore of the supply train will be recruited for this outfit ‘UNCLE SAM USING MANY AUTO TRUCKS “That Uncle Sam appreciates the | |advantage of the motor truck in | hurrying to completion the canton menta for his new army,” says W.| L. Hughson of the Kissel-Kar, “is evidenced by our Kissel dealer of Little Rock, Ark., receiving a rush/ order for eight express carloads of asel trucks for the army canton ATERHOUSE SANDS CO. Pine St. at Bellevue Phone East 704 Attach: For th, bool FOWLEIS GANAGE @ MACHINE WORKS 1414 Brondway MOTORCYCLES ~ VERNON &SON, AGENTS ="! Deine erected then 1110 Pike St. peop yho would no consider | TO HAVE HEARING owning an ordinary MOTOR Tne Henderson Four CYCLE at all. The 15 policemen who were die charged because they refused to TIRES —ACCESSORIES— Ri PAIRS | ride street cars and express M MI L LE R TER Co. Diamon Miller and uperior court on charges ance in office. The board nted the hearing peday night. | Attorney Dan Landon will represent them fon after their [T—GLENN WALKER, Slackers Here} Morris D. auditor, in license counter, few era have married to dodge the lect draft The number of mar SERVICE STATION FOR Heenses ixsued in July is the| EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL | Phone East 563 703 E. Pike 6t.| 0°" Of the Year | ding Kennedy charge of| to ounty ‘techargin New Ratteries AUTO RUIPMENT CO, 1824 11th Av., Bet. Pike & Pine. nition Co. lectricians marriage _ Hot-Spark Ig Automobile Buy Your Goodyear Cords of the Tyre Shop MASTER 2355.3. Carburetor te: rn iine 50 Delco Starting, Lighting and Ignition ‘Swartz & Bridgeman Pale Main 1704, Delco Parts—Batteries Recharged Phone East 914 607 East Pike St. H. B. Wilbur, Mgr. Fifteen automobile collisions were orted the police ‘Tuesday re were Injured, of them seriously i} Mra. M. Gilbert, 900 Kighth ave was at home, suffering from severe bruises and two fractured ribs, re ceived when she was struck by an} wutomobile driven by J, B. McPher-| son, Sixth ave. and Union st., Tues day afternoon, The aceldent oc curred at Third ave. and Marton st. W. G, Campbell, secretary of the Pacific Kissel Kars, had only praise for the’ future of the automobile industry in the Northwest during his visit here last week, to person one “makes gan Hike Increases mile~ The world’s new standard, dynamite.” Vields better gas. ame 25 to 40 per cont. INC, Kant 120 Manufacturer and Kepairer of Automo' Bug Bodies, Radiators, Fenders, Etc. 1405-7 Broadway, Phone Kast 215 ‘ STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, PAGE 4 1917. HIGHWAY BILL CAINS FRIENDS Ny United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug 1 for the Chamberlaln highways bill in ac Sentiment Dent militar cumulating rapidly and ite expres 3, Huntoon bers of Congress not will probably have a chance to occupy that nice little Cent he picked out at Ameri can Lake, yet. He was caught in the draft with the rest of us, rion to me only comes from seacoast and bor der states, but also from the Mis pt Valley and Rocky Moun | tain sections Secretary of War Baker fn a com way Fords are! floors of the to be re ved what's nnd Seneca st Judging by the stacked all pr the Central Age walt aple uh wy Good Re munication to Chairme Dieh! of the A. ALA Board said his great pr ® value both In time of war and peace, and | its considera should not be un duly postponed. But I fear that present conditions may tend, at | least for the time being, to delay action on this as well as some other urgently 1 d me not directly connected with imme diate war preparations.” Brig. Gen. Joseph EB. Kuhn, chief the War College Division, in the bill, says tly covers the ground but, like other matters same kind, will have to be threshed o and subjected to many modifications before it be comes a law Naturally, at this| time of emergency, when all de-| Mich., for a large addition. The| partments of the government are new building will be a twostory! seriously strained, new | tion structure 80 by 400 feet and will) does not stand so good a chance as sect Li Can this the particulars on M Grant-Coffin & 0 sells Grants tn} returning fr East with models Cox bell Co rritory factory wh in the latent in all Bill Bradshaw, who Is well known along the row, Is now In the shoes of J, A. Scarce, former factory representative for the Metz cara in this section of the map Bill Knows Metz cars from the radi ator cap to rear axle INCREASE PLANT OF OLDS MOTOR WORKS Ground was broken July 16 at the Olds Motor Works of Lansing Al Stewart, of the John 8, Bats n Co, ts waiting for the word 1 » Sam t will call him of Sammie's to send first Ger from into as one subchaser Al prom n the per van © of on | baxe par back the fish, hin but hing minus plus the tan ack from hin h Mish, but attached to came around where fa t w John 8. Balsder Leased Wire My New 1 the at ts plicated for mar running S belot low no; 1 GOLD Haariem Ot Cap 1 kly ated oughiy kidneys charge Ho left ‘ seven ago and has journeyed thru North and Middle Western part of the United States tn that time and is now making his swing South. “All the Grants I find are tn ex- cellent condition, and I can truth fully eay that my trip so far ha merely been one of pleasure, a) not work, for I have hardly had a tool out of the bag,” eald Stern- berg. wooks the of the k Kidneys rH D © Mit od shape by dally wu: ;, Usariem Otl Cap. 4 it acation, loaded there is some doubt the fish, for Johnny by the way of Anacortes, contain 64,000 feet floor space. lin normal times.” fish are manufactured, — —————— FACTORY MAN CHICAGO IS SLACK PLANT IS CLOSED United Wed Press Leased Wire HICAG: pERIELEY Aug The sh of slacke Hant of the HallSeott Motor Co, i ense counters which has been making airplane J, A. Sternberg, service and 1 . He engines for tn government, was traveling machinist for the ~ in Geor co ruanty losed today the result of a Grant Motor Car company, of only 126 w day~ strike Cleveland, is in Seattle this or The strikers offered to return week and is making his head |to work today, but the company re- t the Grant-Coffin & DEAD ON jfuned and announced that when the Cc. office, local distrib- | plant opens, in a month, it will utors for the popular Grant Bix HIS REET be under practical government con- car. trol and with increased output Twice a year the owners of the} ‘ MEDAL Company officers charge the strike Grant have the privilege of having to German agents. their car inspected by an expert)! from the f lutely free of % rh ’ MOONEY’S RETRIAL Dy United Prees Leneed Wire BAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1 Whether Divtrict Attorney Fickert nd | will consent to @ new trial for net a | Thomas Mooney, preparedness pa- rade bomb case defendant, will de- declared pend on the outcome of the trial jote thie’ country. nook. MEBat of Frank C. Oxman, charged with js the pure, original Maariem tea | perted direct from the ancient tab.| reming” evidence against Moocn- tories in Holland, where It ts the | 6. ® tiene} hovesheld areqeety, of th “If Oxman is convicted, Mooney urdy a te aol lor h | - | WOMEN DRIVE BEST, |GOLT MEDAL on every box “arespr should have a new tri Fickert Datitute, Your druggist w said today. if not SAYS 6&L TROTTER icesteist. er eis es euaran teed by The Ow! Drug Co © average woman fs natural ou ty better qualified to drive a motor PUGET SOUND car than is the average man,” de Ss Ss clares George L. Trotter, Dort dis Quant TEAMER tributor | SvVERY DAY “Women are more careful than ciaune ved C _RVBRY nay | All LOCAL ROUTES ze men. They not only possess a ost of delivery, profit. || CTRAMERS vrem Coumas keener sense of distance, but are DOCK, FOOT OF MARION STREET more alert to the contingency of) trouble.” re Dr. Edwin J. Brown Dd. 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