The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 4

Gee WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-—-With ¥ ex in the state, Iowa led the jcountry in 1916 tn the number of County Engineer Samuel Humes! motor cars per capita, according to Das estadlished information service | official figures in the government on the condition of all King county | office of public roads. Toads. Call Main 5900—Local 83. | California was second, with one According to this week's report, | car for every 12 inhabitants, ) the McClellan Pass highway is in} “Nebraska and South Dakota had ) Sxcellent condition. To get on the one for every 13, Arkansas stood | So to Enumclaw by Auburn. jast in the list of states, with only Seattle-Des Moines brick road) one car for every 116 persons ds completed. Portions of the) ‘The national average was one for Houghton-Medina-Rellevue —road,| gyery 29. By sections, the South | «og Bead — shore of the lake,’ pad relatively the fewest cars in losed r construction proportion to population. bat hs Raeamtteveity reed, on the| Pree Pentiatin. @ast side of the river, thru Duvall) " . “tor ion, while| Baker Establishes is closed for construction, while the Duvall-Redmond road, via Nov Four W orld Records By United Prees Leased Wire elty hill, is rough. On the east side of the riyer,| ONCE On hen ee the Duvall-Monrve road is closed . h . or rt olty.{ Win G. ("Cannonball") Baker bas again established four motorcycle | for construction, and the Holly Redmond road is very rough | world’s tecords on hie Powerplus | Indian at the Cincinnati speedway, “Persuasive |thus duplicating his performance of June 28, on the same track. iC akland Sensible Six ~ $1,045 Delivered in Seattle More power than you really need. Greater mileage on gasoline than you expect. More than 8,000 miles on tires is not unusual. Prd When tho last shipment of Oak-| lands arrived from the Bust, last | week, Harry D. Austin, manager for | jthe Washington-Oakland company, | | decided to grab one out for his own! use, so thick and fast that he had to ride to work on the street car, not! ASSEMBLE DATA FOR SEC. BAKER Newton D. Baker, secretary ot | war, in a lotter written to the Elgin | Motor Car corporation, has express ed his interest in the results of | the road investigations being con-| ducted by Roy 8. Marsh and Ed-| ward M. Lawrence, who are tn charge of the Elgin Six National fang Trails scout car, now engaged lin a 12,000-mile trip over the Lin coln highway, the National O14 | | Trails road, and the Dixie bigh way. | In his letter, Secretary Baker} states that “a general discussion of the character of the roads in/ various sections of the country, upon the completion of the Journey, | would be very useful and would be read ~~ Oakland Manager Decides to Use One of His Own Cars having @ buggy of bis own, He immediately installed every- thing on his roadster, from electric cigar lighter to a new top, “The Oakland Sixes are fast Harry had been selling them | Proving @ popular car, and it keeps |the East shortly to visit the fac us humping all enough cars to the time supply to get the de A statement recently prepared by Lieutenant “Colonel Chauncey Baker, of the quartermaster corps, U. 8. A., and distributed to the rail roads of the country by the Special Committee on National Defense of the American Railway association says that to move one field army f 80,000 men requires a total off 29 cars— passenger, ba box, stock, and flat cars—made up in 366 trains, with as many loco-| motives, When it becomes a mat-| ter of moving an army of | appreciated by the department.” |OF 1,000,000 men, imagine the Every precaution {s being taken | ¢auipment that will be required! to guard the car and the valuable| The above figures are for the notes on road information, which |®r™y 4 the », animals, ve are being collected along the way, 1 guns. When you begin and which later will be sent to food ¢ = = munition and T yaiariene ai |how much the requirement for rath | Photographs are also being taken along the way, and it is plaoned to file these also with the war do partment. One of the objects of Charles 8. Rieman, vice president and general manager of the Elgin Motor Car corporation, of Chicago, in extending the scout car's trip from 60 to 75 days In duration, in- (stead of attempting to make it a speed event, was to give plenty of time for gathering Information of value to the war department au thorities. Immediate Deliveries for a Few Days. Also Used Fords, Maxwells and Studebakers. WASHINGTON OAKLAND Co. Pike St. at Twelfth Ave. Just Printers tots THIRD MAIN 1043 HAS ARRIVED ‘A car of popular price in which a new, four-cylinder, valve-in-the-head motor attains a degree of power and efficiency hitherto unknown in com- bination. Its appointments are complete. Its weight is below that of any other car of similar capacity. Its interior is un- usually roomy. Its finish and uphol- stery are comparable only to cars of much greater price. Designed by Ray Harroun and built, under his supervision, by the latest automatic machinery, in the new plants of the Harroun Motors Corporation at Wayne, Mich. ATION OF THE YEAR THE SENS. *785: F. O. B. DETROIT. Pittmon- Pattison Co. 517 East Pike St. Open Sundays /ARROUN | | Elmer Scott of the road equipment mounts up Business is rushing so fast nown days for 8. C. Renner, tn the broken radiator and fender business that he} had to doubie the capacity of his! shop in order to take care of the tn creased business, The long-watched-for Harmmun has arrived, and L. R. Pittmon, of the Pittmon-Pattison Co., local distribu ters for the Harroun and Elgin cars, is all excited. He put on bis bright shirt and flashy tle in order to the first Harroun from the freight » the salesroom on E Force and the Mru., ¥..¢ of the Paige Motor Sales Co. have just returned from a little Jaunt to North Yakima and back in The | Most Beautiful Car in Antierica week the select draft got many others on the row Grant-Coffin & Laat among Campbell Co. Our old friend, Jim Scarse, 19 back to sell Liberty cars on the | Pacific coast section. Searse ts the man who put the Metz car on the map in this section, and un fer his guidance the Liberty car will undoubtedly become as well known as Henry’s output Fords Speaking of reminds mo! that W. A. Wallace, of the Central Agen is still on the watchful waiting list, but expecta to hear from the factory any day now in re ‘d to changes in prices for the | coming year. More than five carloads of Grant | Sixes were sold to farmers enst of 1 the mountaina last season, and Ed (26 their products, will show by Campbell predicts’ a wonderful |/ectures, moving pictures and other record for the demonstrations, the immense na coming year. EARL COOPER WILL BE IN TACOMA RACE One of the bigg drawing cards that the Tacoma edway has for ‘ts Labor day auto races in Ta coma, will be Karl Cooper. mous speed demon, who has been smashing records galore since he was last seen in the Northweat The race in which Cooper will take part will be in the 100-mile limited invitation race. This event is arranged to fill, out the program and nearly all the stars who will be in the meet will participate in it. 1U. S. Army Orders foae Motorcycles That motorcycles are to play a |very important part as equipment of our fighting forces in France, is indicatted in the awarding of contracts amounting to nearly $1,000,000, covering 4,000 machines, to be delivered to the war depart ment within the next four months, | Motorcycles have become indispens- able in war service and dispatch bearing. No | modern army now attempts to fight effectively without them, As the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ia supplying tires for about three- fourths of all the new motoreycles built in this country, it is expected that the majority of the new gov ernment machines will bear Good. | year tire equipment, — Quanr EVERY DAY Famous , ee natural, Save cont of delivery, profit, bookkeeping and bad ace Fring bottle, STALL 70, Lower Floor Pike Place Market STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22, 1917, PAGE 4 eeeccccccecoccccore To Close Remaining Wash of ginghams, finenes, cotton voiles. .Plain blue, Imand,” he says. “However, the 4 : ple age 2 “align |coming season will see more cars pink and many plaids and stripes. | pouring into our salesrooms, as we —All sizes, 16 to 44. have increased our allowance from [the factory.” Austin will undoubtedly leave for at, each | tory be ty FIRM TO SELL FRISCO TRUCK The Western Motor Sales com- pany has obtained the distribution of the Klelber motor truck line for this territory, The truck {# built by the Kletber house, of San Fran. cisco, which, before the auto {le industry came into its own, was one of the oldest and best! known buggy aod carriage manu- facturera in the South. The truck features standardized parts and has placed in the past two years over 286 orders in San Francirco alone. The Western Motor Sales Co. has This” will to the factory Austio’s first have had tions in r fects. price. built up an excellent business tn this territory, and with its new service station at Tenth ave. and = = fast Union st, will be able to handle the truck business in a big way. The first models of the new truck have already arrived. AUTO FITMENTS Old machines accepted a raser-Paterson Co. 115 Dresses in Two Clearance Lots at $4.95 Formerly $8.50 to $12.50 Im the $4.95 Lote: —There are 65 Dresses. —Regardless of former price and The Lot at $9.95 —Contains fifty of. the most beautiful Dresses we All of fine quality and former prices that ‘average considerably more than double the sale All ZO 26, CRGB. o5e.cs cise sc crsis vis os SOO we i =a 13 8 RA, | —Do your Fall ineemaitne with one of the new “Eldredge Two-Spool Sewing Machines” — the most modern of all sewing machines. —Sold here on easy terms—$1.00 down, $1.00 a week. Out on Thursday Our Entire Stock of This Season’s Summer Frocks for Women at $9.95 Formerly $18.75 to $27.50 Correct Summer styles, value, all go $4.95 this season. Voiles, linens and combina- ose, blue, tan and stripes and floral ef- Ceccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccceceeccceecccccccccececesoecce Cocccccscoccccce \ S part payment. HELP WIN WAR pir Among the hundreds of automo bile fitments that will be displayed at the first annual National Expo sition for Ford Accessories, which }opens at the Chicago Coliseum on the afternoon of September 22 & seven-day run, with a Sunday intermission, the devices designed [AUTO DEALERS PLAN TWO NEW BUILDINGS Two new bulldings will add to the greatness of Seattl Auto row shortly. One will house the new Sunset Motor company, local dis- tributors for the Hupmobtle and Cadillac cars, while the other will fe th ing fi c tires, Kerdecne- burning Corteretua [be bullt for Ballon. & Wright, ac} truck-making attachments, motor|C®S#0ry of ge iO ve tik tractors and agricultural ‘trailers |>wildings will be ave. HAYATT ROLLER IS A SEATTLE VISITO: probably will be the feature attrac: |tions, since they represent a means of fighting the kaiser within the boundaries of the U. 8. A. For the American motorist has come to the realization that the world’s war must be fought at ISHII MISSION as the Japanese were escorted from | the station, were vistble evidence that America is a real war power. Canada Won't Diaft Imported: Harvesters Men who go to Alberta, Canada, harvest fields will not be drafted |into the army or charged a head For the first time since the open-|‘®™, according to Dr. J. H. Kelly, ing of the world conflict, official | representing the Canadian govern- Japanese representatives other| ment, who is in Seattle to obtain than regularly accredited ambassa-| harvest hands. He says the Alber- dors, were in a war capital for|ta farmers will pay $3.50 a day and conferences with one of the pow-| furnish board to harvest hands. ers, making common cause against | Germany. ISIN CAPITAL BY CARL D. GROAT United Prose Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Japan received her first close-up glimpse today of America at war. ‘,of the the fa-| both in transportation | bome as well as in the trenches of battleswept France and Belgium and that he must become the ally housewife in the fight |against waste. They are both soldiers in a mighty conservation army, he watching the gasoline |tank and tires of his automobile, while she saves the bread crusts and the meat ends. Consequently, the car owner was never as eager jas now to invest in accessories of Proven merit that make for econ- jomy in the operation and main- tenance of his garage pet Thousands of automobile owners, living in the agricultural sections of the country and touring to Chi- cAgo to visit the Ford accessory ex hibition, also will be in sympathy with the attack to be made on the | wasteful horse by the mannfac- turers of motor tractors, truck-mak ling attachments and automo! trailers who, in addition to exh: tional saving that will result from the substitution of motor for equine | Power on the farm, | Pikes Peak Contest to Be Held Sept. 5 By United Vrese Lensed Wire COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. The second annual Pike's Peak hill climbing contest will be held jover the world's highest highway |to the summit of Pike's Peak, Sep- tember & The contest will held with the sanction of the A, A. A., and is open only to stock cars manufac: | tured by companies which produced | 100 or more cars last year. To the car making the best time, |regardiess of class or ev which it is entered, goes th rose trophy, for one year, and $1,000 in cash. Cash prizes for the| |contest total $2,600 'HARROUN CAR HAS | FINALLY ARRIVED The long-expected Harroun car has arrived at the sales room of Pittmon-Pattison Co. on Pike st ‘The car was sent by express, to be | used as a demonstrator until the first shipment of the cars arrive | from the Rast, some time in the near future. Ray Harroun, designer of many famous racing cars, is the designer of this handsome Httle car as well jas the owner of the factory where they are made, The car has cre. ated a good deal of interest 22 be ENLISTS IN MARINES | Ralph Dort, son of President J Dallas Dort, and formerly advertis company, has enlisted as a private in the VU. 8. marine corps and is jnow in training at Paris Island, is. C. The famous Hayatt Roller, al The visit of the Ishi! commission 1909 model 16 Buick, owned by F.|) was believed to hold the greatest Identify Fugitive George Clark, arrested Monday ing manager of the Dort Motor Car|— FE. Salson, of Plainville, Kan. ar rived in Seattle last week after having traveled more than ten times around the world, and is/ now on @ tour around the United States. University Ambulance Men Are Instructors By United Press Wire ALLENTOW: N Pa., Aug. 22.— Sections 70 and 71, United States army ambulance corps, composed of University of Washington men, have been retained here for anoth- er month, to act as instructors, One contingent of the corps has already left an Atlantic port for France. A second is now awaiting transportation. 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