The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1919, Page 10

(fen ee og Spee en 88 UN gm St Satie SMA eR ener > t. 2 As the eye follows along we have, at the left, G. _ Car Department; ne Harris, manager of the Used! . F. S. Paden, in charge of the wholesale department; beside Paden, With a severe expression not compatible with his sunny disposition, is Edward Shenberg, gales manager, more affectionately known as Eddie to a multitude of Seattle folk; on ce in the center, below, J. M. Osmond (Jack for short), ‘the right, Carl Lipsky, banner truck salesman and manager of the truck department; who holds the reins as president} w d general manager and puts in a big majority of the 24 hours in finding out how many |‘" J allenment | traveling « | Prank THE SEATTL Misalignment of Tires Cause Matter, “A Mé-inch tire casing out one-half ineh, in ne mile haw a total side of 73 fe In 10 miles vunts to 780 feet ait counts to almost a if, If the tire of alignment the to " would Little re wine travel ur and in 100 and a hb 000 1 Hen out 1 widewlne me smount to wonder then down so A. Riv ompany b tributors of The center a misaligned kly " pronident the hie name, 4 tire about that qu re ing He lation in the whoe particularly millon. wear decta Is out in the and of HARTFORD ON PNEUMATICS Truck Manager Argues That This Form of Tire Is the Coming Equip. ment for Many Kinds of Truck Use. tire for trucks ts xperiment. It he demand of truck matic treads has set all doubt as to their success n certain kinds truck rk wding to M. Hartford, k rales manager for the Shield» good Motor Co, distributors of The pneumatt longer come to stay rs for pne tled definitely no an has his force has sold, and how he can get enough more to satisfy the demand. While we have not mentioned the |company he made an enviable rec Pico of business of these live wires, | ord. He talks Hostonese fluently Fou must have guessed by this time | With the Overia ny in Be That the Mitchell Motor & Service attle for ove is deck D) Sompany has that distinction, This| that M Ve Organization, with the Mitchell, | boys to team with, and entered the Grant and Briscoe passen, ranks as salesman, His rapid ad Hines; and the Peerless, Fageol, | vancement and appointment and Grant lines of trucks, | used car department was but a re hich in motor circles of the! ward of merit west, and the total of the year.) F. Paden, from his position gales runs into staggering figures. sales manager, took the job of whole ‘As the latest member of the com-| sale manager and just travels to assume managerial honors, |around Western Washington R. Harris deserves first mention. | sells automobiles in the carload lotw. came out of the effete East| Eddie Shenberg, Sales Manager years ago, where as district | That's the new title, and it fits like for the Thomas A. Edison ‘a glove. ¢ of the used car bunch and MOTORISTS Better Plates — Better Separators HAVE RESULTED IN A Better Battery DON’T FAIL"TO INVESTIGATE THE “Diamond Grid Batteries” 1512 Eleventh Avenue Phone East 6 were the} to the! jtrucks that are sold yearly | organization \ valve uncovered. department, which job he left In Mr | Harris’ able hands, Eddie eet a pace jof a car a day, and his a |ments signed, “I'll may are as well known as Coast. From the start he any on in the new position a similar record | eo! may be expectes ng trucks to people who want them, and more often to those who] «njrte are not sure whether they do or not Carl Lipsky, truck sales manager keeps the busy loaing ite reputation conducting a rebuilt truck sale that promixes great results “Everlastingly at it Jack Osmond, president and general cnanager and they sure do revolve some) Never afraid to work a little harder than the boys under his di rection, Oxmond pute every bit of ginger in the jar into the game « selling automobiles, and the record he made with the Hriseoe last year is but one of the many big selling stunts he has pulled off Service In the watchword at the corner of Pine st. and Summit ave where the Mitchell Motor & Service Co, is housed, and a reputation for | fair dealing has been cstablinhed that goes far in accounting for the tre-| mendous number of automobiles and by the TURPENTINE IN ENAMEL Ordinary turpentine i* a satafac tory medium for thinning enamel! or varnish, as most motorists know. Some varnish manufacturers supply & specal thinning liquid, which should be used in thie instance. When it in desired to produce a quick-drying enamel try using alco- hol for thinning. THE TIRE VALVE The drver of a truck or converter fastened over the stem with a string or & rubber band. If dirt or grit is allowed to enter the valve, trouble will result ASB Et Mice See ae REO “F” TRUCK MOST ECONOMICAL LIGHT TRICK SOLD “THE LINE COMPLETE” UNITED MOTORS CoO. A. F. HAWKINSON, Mgr. PERMALIFE BATTERIES STARTING—LIGHTING—IGNITION Master Electric Co. BATTERY TROUBLES— You can be as free from worry as the rest of the wise We Repair and Recharge Any Make of Battery ones if you install a with the longest guarantee MASTER ELECTRIC CO. State Distributors, 703 EAST PIKE PERMALIFE BATTERY Your choice of two plans—Exchange, or straight sale period of any battery sold. Free Testing and Filling for Any Make of Battery has made | tr little bee in terror of | the Just now he is! be standard equipment | it in| the the man who makes the wheels g0/truck must stand. | ‘round | | pacity PE ah ak EIS 1} Give Her Air standard trucks. For all farm matic tired t anently rth in a the te distinctly successful,” he sat id tires will be u Umited field « unes pneu ery k te peration for the bull similar of xtremely material hauling of live and all other from the farm. henceforth wi ntock farm prodw ditien to an pneumatic tr is being demonstrated every ay that a truck equipped with pneumatic tires is not subjected ¢ road shocks that a solid-tired Pneumatic tires ve the springs and all the mova- ble parts of the truck from undue stress and strain. Mor the do not wear out the truc A equipped with mati tiren rides like a touring car. The jolt and jar that a truck driver in mubjected to when he is driving a solid-tired truck terrific, and while it is little realized, it has ev- erything do with the health of the driver and his efficiency “The pneumatic-tired truck make greater speed with the same ad than a solid-tired machine, thereby increasing the hauling in many cares 100 per cent So far an wear and tear on the tires are concerned, the pneumimtt tire will wear just as long as the solid tire, and probably longer with proper care. For there is just as much rubber in the tread of a pneu- matic tire—the tread is just as thick—as a solid tire, The engine governor on a motor truck regulat- ed to keep the speed of the truck down to 12 miles an hour where wolid tires are used can be adjunt- ed to 20 miles an hour maximum speed with perfect safety; the re- ailiency relieves #0 much of the strain on the mechanism. My ob- servation of the gasoline consump- tion leads me to the conclusion that m rer, can ca- using pneumatic tires must be care-jat a most conservative estimate ful never to leave the end of @ tire | per cent lexs gasoline in used with | If the cap is lost| pneumatic tread trucks than with & bit of leather or rag should be | solid-tired trucks. x BY OTTO KRANK x ” One of the first things a fellow wught to know about hin car is how to take care of the tires, And one of the hardest things to pound into the heads of a lot { people in the fact that they'll get a blowout quicker If they drive with little air in their tires than they will If they keep the pressure 1p. Three-fourthe of all tire trouble ‘omen trom noft tires. And here's vhy. When you don’t keep enough ir tn have the tire stand up ound ant! firm, it has a flat sur- ace on the ground and sharp ngles instead of a curve where ne tread that's flattened out on ground joins the side walls this constant changing of as the tire turns and hits ground and leaves it works nt fabric inside of the tire and ta it until it loosens ft from the ubber—some day you've a blowout and wonder why Most tires are thy Now built to carry DON’T FEAR TO P' about 18 pounds to across. A three-ineh have air pressure four-inch tire, on, An car will not n rule is made MP the neh tire would pounds, a and a Might 1 80 much, for the for the maximum load, If the car runs light all the time, it is safe to ease off a little on the pressure, 4 DON’T SPARE GREA: The importance of lubrication in motor truck operation cannot be overestimated and in the big gar a where the fi of vehicles are large, a special mechanic spends hin time going around and seeing that all parta of the mechanism of each vehicle are receiving proper lu brication, Fach vehicle has a sched uled day on which it comes under the handy of this lubricating me. chanic, In the «mall garage it will not be possible to have a special man for thin service, but the work should be done and the chief mechanic Lined Up--It Means Money Rivers Advises Careful Attention to This Important of | rear the drivers. | STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919. ‘of Tire Trouble. Frank A. wheels, corresponds in a way altho it # to not #0 wkidding wement skidding, and pronounced in continual sidewise 4 tells on the best of tr the driver 4 nt bec to the eye to noon adn. Oftentimes aware of minalignt hardly noticeab when his tires fa expected he not | aune It is and deliver the blames every milenge thing but th quent p of 1 bearing it Week Ending May Seattle Tacoma Paved ¥ |. bey, peed Kent. Aabure Keat-Dex Moines | Auburn Kaumetaw MeCiclion Pees. river, at county Holly wand. Ratnand Weodiavitle-Duval ville to foot Duvall; pod Uae new stew | Davatt-Tet Kirkiand-Vaile City we tral Nedmand Toit Over Goo Water ine Yair from Weedin 1 mile weet of ey into Duval Green oot ever Yellow New port-Iesequah —\ “ Newport Keaton 000 loowe burton grave good + a Rainier Valley ALBRIGHT | ON HIGHWAY Urges Eartier Opening of the Sun- set Route for Benefit of All Motorists in the Stale “The Suneet highway over the Cascade mountains should be open for travel so that the Eastern Washington automobile owners can travel over and visit us, make their spring purchases and return home again.” declared W. D. Al- bright, Northwest manager of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company, who pent yenterday visiting Se attic Goodrich dealers, in company with C. BE. Blake, manager of the Pike st. store Mr. Albright has been one of the leading advocates of an carly opening of the Sunset highway, ax the in blocking travel over the road at the present time. The warm days that we have been hay- ing for the past three weeks, and added to that the warm chinook winds have alded materially in melting the snow and making it considerably easier for the crew of workmen, who are striving to te- move the snow from the highway at the present time and get it open for travel, under the personal di rection of Coidnty Engineer Humes, The Kittitas men at ing the snow of the Sunset county commissioners of county placed a crew of work this week on remov- from their section highway, The King county crew is within about two and one-half miles of the summit and expect to be up an far as the King county line within a few days Our friends of ington, the majority of who own one or more automobil are anxi ously awaiting the announcement of the opening of the high- fo that they can tra visit us, and spend their with us, Every effort should by both King and Kittitas counties in getting this highway open for travel and in good trave img condition, in the opinion of Al bright, as thie trip is one of the mogt scenic and highly enjoyable ridés out of Seattle. | SIBERIAN PRAISES | U. S. BUSINESS MEN | American interests in Siberia are | quicker than European to seize the wonderful business opportunities of. fered there, according to M, H, Mar tens of Vava-Vik in Siberia, who left n the Fushimi Maru for the Orient Friday Martens and a party of Siberian| businesxmen have been on a tour of the United States, completing ar-| rangements with American manufac: | turers whereby raw materials from | Siberia will be went to this country in exehs for manufactured goods Eastern Wash- BUILDERS TALK OVER CARPENTERS’ STRIKE, ‘The joint committee selected from | the masters builders and the building trades council went into session Sat urday morning to endeavor to settle the present strike of carpenters, H Charles W, Doyle, Frank CotteriIl and Joseph A. Roberts of the build ing trades council nd C. C, Daw sey, B. 8, Booker and Roy Kinnear representing business interests, prise the committee, A ne member, who is required to be an architect, will be named at the meet ing Saturday morning. Fish may be good brain food, but the wise tromt doesn't “cateh on. f) USED CARS THAT ARE GOOD CARS Because sell we direct from the owner to you. BECAUSE. pay we cash fe cars that spot any we De buy outright. The Auto’ Bargain Market Largest on the Pacific Coast. 701 East Pine, at Bellevue. Here’s Visual Evidence 1914 Ford .. 1915 Ford .. 1917 Ford .. 1916 Dodge 1917 Dodge 1917 Oakland ... 1918 Oldsmobile 6 Hudson Super Six 1917 Chevrolet 1918 Chevrolet 1919 Chevrolet 1918 Maxwell . were 1917 Overland Clubster...$ 875 THESE SPECIALS AND OVER A HUNDRED MORE ARE AT THE AUTO BARGAIN MARKET 701 East Pine Street, at Bellevue. East 340. RUESCHAW TO OSMOND Vice President of Mitchell Motors Co. Writes Interestingly te Local Dis- tributing Head The success with which the new Victory model, made by the Mitch- ell Motors Company, Inc. in PR cine, Win, has met all over country has augmented © the mand for this car to a point which would have taxed the vast Mitchel! plant had it been under normal production from the time when the new model was announced at the Chicago show Large contracts f government trucks were under w in the plant at the time and bh just been completed, thus releas ing the entire resources of the Mitchell Motors Company for pas- wenger car work “No one not the operation bile factory ve tually engag of a large writes Vice R. C. Rueschaw to President Osmond of the Mitchell Motor Service company, “can begin have a conception of the culties of swinging the plant over from passenger car to war truck production and, now that our con- tracts are completed, back to auto- mobiles again. “When the first shift was made we were under the tremendous pressure of the war to hurry stom: ident Janek and the | | Trucks were needed at once. De- human lives. Everything | lay cont secondary to speed in jwaa made production. |" “very individual here at the Mitchell factory ‘sensed the terribly | vital need of these trucks and re- laponded eagerly to the call of the | country. “The shift was made in record time considering the extremely high quality of the trucks pro- duced The reconversion of the plant to passenger car production might have been made in a more letsure- manner but for the fact that owing to the wonderful reception with which the New Victory model met, dealers’ demands for immedi- ate delivery reached staggering totals and exerted a pressure upon for speed almost as great as characterizing the war As soon as this model began to receive letters, wires and telephone calls from every part of the United States pleading for cars immedi ately “There was a strong temptattor Mr. Rueschaw’s letter, advantage of this wonder- in business rushing the production of the New Victory model and cashing in on the tm- mediate demand. Such a course would necessarily have meant the |sacrifice of the quality standards upon which we had determined tc | buiia the New Victory model, and that production was shown we truck | under way, we refused to time by sacrificing quality. “That this was the wise cou is proven by the fact that spite of our inability to deliver the cars you dealers wanted, Gemand has been maintained even increased, so that now the plant entirely back en ger car production, we find a ket ready and eager to every car we can build. This, course, is due to the fact that we maintain and are even improving the quality of the New Victory — model, a fact which our dealers Jand the public were quick to |nize and which has made for the de! in supplying all cars wanted. De Palma Superstitious | Ralph DePalma believes in superstition of the race track. entering the 500-mile Lil sweepstakes on the Ind! speedway, May 31, he has the only mechanician that brought him a victory on the | Hoosier oval. This is Louis Fon= taine, a diminutive Frenchman from Milwaukee, who rode with [him in 1915 when he copped first ” place in the $50,000 race with the Mercedes. DePalma did not file his entry until he had signed Fon- ~ taine and put the Frenchman te |work rebuilding the 12cylinder Packard, that boasts @ string of speed records as long as the tail so while we lost no time getting of a kite, Good Buys Used Trucks for a demonstration of any of the Trucks listed below. repairs have been made to put them in good condition. ready to go to work. Kelly 3}-ton chassis Phone East 558 The necessary They are now Kelly 14-ton, worm drive; fine tires...... 2-ton Wilson, worm drive............... 1-ton Denby, completely overhauled, with new body and cab .. l-ton worm drive Maxwell, new tires 1-ton Republic, A-1 condition......... 2-ton Republic chassis Ldeton. Federals. oko. 06e isso ciel Lé-ton Federale ih.if 5 ou ae eee 1-ton Ford Sm th Form-A; good furn. body. 1-ton Ford attachment Truck, with body ... AND SEVERAL OTHERS SEE THEM AT Western Motor Sales Co., Inc. 904 East Pike East 558 | ;should be made responsible for it. = EE ROS n think of advertising, | ik of The Star. fintnn at re ar | 4