The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1919, Page 10

MOTOR ost Successful Display ™ THE SEATTLE STAR---SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1919. ———— eee Has Broken All Records ‘TTENDANCE FOR _ FAIR TO TAX CAI ( All good things must come to an end, -ACITY BIDS SHOW “LOSING NIGHT OF BIG and Saturday ht will see the end of the most successful exhibition that has seen in many a long day wutomobiles today iy other necessity Prospective purchaser the different makes of cars lined OM dress parade, and to have . to compare the various ts, and discuss with deal Many new features tha added. it has been at the mory a last week, and that ttle mad is evident to vert And the show has had on doth buyer Drought about a better A both sides, and has done the old-fashioned le dealers were a group of Who were coining money at the expense. The lesson Plainly taught that the men who motor cars ar kind men as those whe any othe odity, and that their &s honest and legitimate of any other merchant the dealer's standpoint has been a winner in actual sales made th many distributors have My surprised at the way fh the public has bought cars but ever rs and » good It i h te that has same methods as the way floor been on instances are reported of sales | one to people who had not been d in any way by the dealer Or his sales staff. The answer must ave in} rs had their minds and simply show to kind be th made waited f ms th it should b Music has many atorac Russian orchestra has won applause daily; the Elks’ band made a smash ing hit Tuesday; the band won ¢ arts of the p on Thu Director Schae fer h for his good judgment Deale have made these up to buy @ car the automobile jecision as to what buye the n's show in Imperial featy ways. ow ve om the state mecca dur Portland. Oregon, | British Columbia, | nt their delegations. All| din the universal verdict t show ever.” urflay night will | armory jammed to the street with| put off coming tin minute, and whe not | knowledge that they did biggest of Se} ncouver witness an those who have the last willing to not go to th attle’s spring season | Next year’s sh may be better.| may be given birth in the| nonths, © But, to every | salesman, did nit in p the 1919 automobile due a meed of praise that should fill his cup to overflowing to every to every} tting over show OSED JOBS SELL for Chandler Models With Tops Calls for Addi- Allotment unusual situation has been at the factory of the Chand f Motor Car company, @ccording to reports received as the result of the growing for the convertible type of cars in Seattle and sur. territory. The demand ts larger than had been antici and with Eastern divtributors up their allotment, there will to be a rearrangement of in order that a sufficient may be provided for the Se Automobile Co., the distribut here. H. P. Grant, president of + sought more of the . models, and was some- surprised when the factory Gepartment wrote: “Always) r Seattle had a mild, all} climate. If you sell all the scat cat ean the rest of the country get it behooved Mr. Grant| rite a lengthy letter to the fac- explaining that inclosed mod. growing in popularity each and it would be ill-advised TRUCKS MC Trucks 34-ton, Model 16, have been operating two years in the City of Seattle with- out costing their owners one red cent for replacement of ‘ | ELDRIDGE Fie COMPANY Distributors SEATTLE 4 You Would F Not Sprinkle # Your Lawn With a Fire Hose Cleveland, | closed models out there) to reduce preduction In the summer | son has been the custom in past Inclosed cars are just in demand out here in sum }mer as in winter,” he wrote. “We know no seasons for that line of trade. We have no snow except in| the mount ws, but th nings are brisk — bree off the mountain or sound daily, and this is the best part of the whole United States for closed cars. The demand for conv Chandler models during =F represented a larger proportion the month's sales than any previous | | month, but the popular open models | continued their leadership. Mr.| The Grant attributes the stimulated de | can do during mand to recognition of this type of | best be obtained by car for every kind of use, and the, of what it has done during the association of this fact with the | period thru which w have just well-known Chandler value. Profes.| passed. From an aggregation of sional men are learning the advant.|®utomobile owners interested prince! ages of the convertible coupe and/ pally in the enactment of uniform jedan, and women are enthusiastic| and fair leginiation, the construction admirers. Chandler sales for Feb.| of good ruad and other matters ruary showed that women buyers | Which concerned their own individu | have a predominating preference for |@l wel! the war has drawn the | this type of car. | motor club members to a sense of — national responsibility so that th government organizations to thank for the whole-hearted and patriotic the |sity for gasolineless Sundays other ity important nda. our government services of truck feurs? The motor club was the jfirst to adopt the slogan: “Make your own deliveries.” Did Unele Sam send forth a plea for pair men for his camps? Again did the motor club step to the fore and say, ‘Take them; our members can make minor repairs and keep the cars fn run ning order without the use of ex pert help.” Who but the club mem ber was #0 ready to loan his car to the federal or state government for certain troop movements or n y maneuvers? Who but the member assisted so readily with the idea of spicuoualy displayed invi-| tations soldiers, sailors and ma. | rines to “ha a Lite’? And what motorists more than the club mem bers are willing to devote their time and gasoline to the use of our con valescent fighting men who are now filling our hospitals and rest camps Indeed, our government has found in the motor club a machine the or ganization of which answered ! every call of whatever nature, and thus presenta a new conception of the possibilities afforded by the priv ately owned automobile for ance during « t local or na emerge as hen much as Waterhouse Co., Automobile I ‘AUTO CLUBS HELP IN WAR Unanimous Suppert Is Given Every Demand Made Upon Them During Recent Crisis cool, blow proot of what the motor club the coming era can an examination has such POUNDING THE EAR! Orville Wright said at an airmen's| | dinner in Dayton “Here's to the armistice! Here's to peace! The world can say now }about the war as the lunatic said jwhen be was discovered, whacking himself over the head with a ham: mér: ‘It feels so nice when you neces and conserva acceptance ¢ require the drivers chauf aviation « has anaist tional ALSO FOR COOKING perknents in England with ordi ¥ producer gas as a fuel for in ternal combustion engines has shown that a# the size and power of the engine increase, the loss on pro: ducer gas diminishes. The fact that coal gas, altho of lower calorific val- ue than gs wives better results is accounted for by the of the in the bag which delivers this fuel to the engine with little or “back pull.” parts. soline, March 15 all guaranteed he called them, mmett MeMillan ed by detectives, MINNEAPOLIS, eta of loaded ¢ to answer were found when he was arre. MeMillan was w to 90 ¢ in the workhouse for having narcot ic drugs in his possession. Thir ty whe on SPOKANE te You Would Use a Sprinkler to Get Efficiency and Results MASTER CARBURETOR works on the sprinkler principle. The feed dis- tributor with its large number of small nozzles, each spraying its charge into the ’, forms a perfectly uniform mixture with no waste. W hy send the gas into your engine through a single jet when you know the Master to be right in principle? “MAKES GAS LIKE DYNAMITE” MASTER ELECTRIC CO. 703 E. Pike St. State Distributors. East 56: (1) Overland chassis, a feature of the Willys-Overland-Pacific display. sedan in the exhibit of the Franklin-Wicks Co. jexhibition of power that I ever have SPECT ACLE ENDS (4) The C Jepurtment, with a Marmon— town car in the foreground. OME OF THE SHOW CARS A ~TONIGH' THE ARMORY) t the (2) Oldsmobile sedan shown by J. Walter Hainsworth of the Hainsworth Motor Co. andler dispatch model, a bright spot at the show, in the display of the Seattle Automobile Co. (3) Franklin (5) Exhibit of Frank Going Over Pass 19,000 | Feet High Is Big Test LIBERTY SIX CONQUERS WILD MOUNTAIN TRAILS OF BOLIVIA THRU COUNTRY UN- KNOWN TO THE AUTOMOBILE Every motofist in the country is! “However, familiar with som other which test for PL Vv. &. C Angcles turned to it was not merely the |me. The way the car withstood the fearful punishment of the traila# and the constant application lot the utmost power was astonish ing. After four days on the road naider « hard automo However air, a well known Los automobile man, recently re- that city with an account oring via which the Andes 19,000 feet sea level, and be tha comparison, most » grades in this country would “l merely a patch of ground ‘No motor vehicle had aver nego tinted thin particular. trip before,” maid St. Clair in describing bis un usual motor journey. “I was in that section of Bolivia to determine the possibilities of replacing lamas an ore carriers from the tin mines with modern motor trucks, and this rticular journey over gh trafl to the rich tine mines | the Andes summit where hith. erto the only travel had been either by horsemen or the trains of lamas bringin’ » rich tin ore down from the mines. | 19,000-Foot Elevation "From Orura, the Andes to t taines are located. can call it «uch of 19,000 feet the mines at t of 16,000 feet “Il have made three between Los Ang and York, #o I ha pretty good ide of what rou ie and graden | n an in this country, but hy n ween anything in North | America that remotely approached the conditions of that trip. *Hour after hour the Liberty Six th drove plugged along in low over rocks and sand and heart breaking grades. As we approached | the higher summits, the water in} the radiator boiled constantly, but you could take off the radiator cap | Maple Valley-Biack Diamend—Ceneralty and put your finger in the boiling | genscs water without the slightest discom. fort, so low is the temperature at which water boils at those altitudes Car Shows Its Power of what the! I had an barometer they ¢ any “im 1 in car a meant it If anyor over the cont of th bile Meense here, Bolivia for a while. F Heonse fee for the car, the ‘driver's license there costs $20, and that ix only good for daylight driving. If you want to drive at night you must have still another license and pay a good price for that.” wrote my diary and “The 1 Liberty certainly took him ove is wonder declares tn is inclined to complain ir new automo th should Week Ending March 15, laxued by Humes, King County Engineer Seattle-Tacoma Paved Valley Read—O. Seattle-Tacoma High Line Hoad—Thru Moline dition to erce county tho muddy Samuel J Bolivia, where this was 168 miles over | neia, where the tin The road, if you crossed a summit 1 dropped in to ja at an elevation Gravel road fair Des Moines. weat of Kent round trips New | Ken A roi 1 ver Enumclaw District —— Roads generally also vin Green river. ieClelian Pass Highway — Impassadle above Heatter cree Enumclaw. Not a pleasure road be- yond White River mill RentenM Valley Fair Highway Renton-North via Tesaquah—Hair. One foot of snow end Kirkland-Rothell—New pavement. jolly wood -Redmend Woodinville-Davall trucks on ‘all end. or Snoqualmie at Duvall rall-Tolt— Pir Kirkinod-Falls Citp—Good over Yetlow- nto Redmond condit fo Ket an idea re ew ateat trucks would have engineer with lev with me. Consequently there is no guesswork about that statement that the Liberty negotiated one grade of 21 per cent at an altitude of 18,000 feet. In view of the alti tude, it was the remarkable D olt hill, Une caution on trucks operating on in good curves. part of moat tte. | seen in any car r valley further county roads, information rogarding | call Main 6900, to: King 138. STOP—LOOK—LISTEN! Too many drivers of cars are ob- sessed with the idea that they own »where is this so nt as in their procedure when | they approach a@ railroad crossing tern railroad made ob 0,000 drivers at crossings, are summed up as follows: dred ard twenty-five dri ed thru the crossing ga gates were down and bells w ing; 69% per cent of the ers looked neither to th left; 278.0 per cent looked one way | along the track while going at reck less spe 27-10 per cent took pains to look both ways. Only drivers | of the 20,000 stopped thelr ma chines before crossing the tracks to| |make certain that no trains were ap-| proaching, The unfortunate thing | about railroad idents is that the| jreckless driver usuatly escapes and |his helpless passengers are the vic- ‘tims, out seven miles from | Rend, | at Camp No. 6, six miles from North | | | » difficult climb or | Power of the Liberty that impremsed | Completion, rough | kin between Orura and Uncia and back, | 5#xon plant | Good except crosing 'BIG PLANT FOR SAXON, ag ore and a “Halt | Factory About for Business—Has Been | Used Used by Uncle Sam ‘The huge $1,500,000 concrete and | steel plant built for the Saxon Mo |tor Car company will soon be ready for occupancy, according to Mr. Hotchkin of the Summit Motor Car Co. mix “Just as the plant was nearing the United States was plunged into war,” said Mr. Hotch- The government, casting about for warehouses big enough |to hold the trappings of a na tion at war, topk over the new for the duration of hostilities. It became a supply depot for a vast treasure in military stores. Alreraft engines, war trucks J officers’ cars, filled the big building, | Une new steel | mond. | Via Lake Sammam- | local agents for the new Saxon | and scidiers, wre ion guard day and! | night “With cuts in automobile manu factyre dictated by the government, all plants found their facilities am ple for building the passenger car schedules permitted by the govern: ment. fered hardship in being unable to en- | Joy the increased manufacturing fa | cilities attorded by its new plant Fut curtailment dictated by Uncle Sam made possible the taking on of more war contracts. The Saxon company was awarded contracts for building the government standard jone-ton truck known as style AA The company Is still engaged in turning out these trucks along with its regular passenger car manufac- ture, “As the government is able to divert {ts war materials into civilian uses its great military warehouses will be empty. The new Saxon plant | will then be available as the ufltra- | modern home of the Saxon six. Under normal circumstances | the Saxon company would have suf- | SALES MADE AT EXHIBIT More Show Patrons Have Been Real Buyers This Year Than in Any Other Year “There has been one feature of |the automobile show that I believe is significant of the 1919 season,” says A. F. Hawkinson, manager of the United Motors company. | “That is the way in which buyers are making show time the occasion for buying a car. I have attended | good many exhibits and have seem the usual throng of curious spec tators gather about cutout chassis and other display noveities. I have | heard their questions and seen ' demonstrators and salesmen talk And you could alway prospects. tell that the show-goers weren't in- terested as buyers. AM they pe | was information. LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE 1919 AUTO SHOW AFTERNOON MATINEE OPEN TONIGHT TILL 11 O’°CLOCK Your Best Opportunity to See the Pick of Motordom All Under One Roof Splendid Music—M. Guterson, Conductor ARMORY Western Avenue at Virginia Admission 50c. Plus War Tax.