The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 21

® Trucks Successfully Used TF a to Feed Trolley Systems Motors Prove Valuable in Tying Interurban Electric Lines | With Outlying Districts. Operated Either as Part of} System or as Independent Company Working Under} Contract to Railway Company | 4 | Bur appearing next | Saturday, May 31, The subject will be Adjust the Metor BULLOCK Transport Corps (Of paramount interest will be Capt Ry WARREN 8 Formerly Captain, Motor _ The value of the motor truck as a feature of transpor tation engineering is shown in no way better than the n ner in which some of the electric interurban lines of America are using the motor truck in combination with their electric xpress service. This is coming to be a great feature of the electric interurban service, and the ability to make deliveries to points beyond the terminal of the rail lines is proving of wonderful value in the development of long distance electric haul. Two methods are being used in this work, one being the utilization of the truck as part of the electric railway system The other is the forming of a combination between an inde pendent highway transport system and the electric line, by which the truck company collects the freight charge for its rt of the haul, and also acts as agent of the electric line tween any point on the consolidated —longer life the collection and distribution of freight to points beyond rection of a recognized clectrical © rail lines. 7 engineer in the employ of the Sun The ing riptio et company, and the result ix al accompanying is a description | making a traffic survey of the tey oterie of natixfied customers whowe | of the hod of operating a typl ritory to. be reached. to determin lwarke ts done 10: ieee, tum and-< @al transport system, by th the amount freight which might |cording to the latest method Fallway itself, with the diftic be evelop. The basi topen to the mredeasien — and the methods of op . this leh a was the amount of | Gordon Preatice himself. ¢ jon rejght handied by the line nate in being blessed with The xystem is one of importance | in similar territory wh eon CAPT Ecos’ end Go eibeaaan ti ase Grane dn its field, an electric line with a electrically developed KATHERINE if will serve his patrons better large American city as its center of) With this determined, the cost of RICHARDS [and ewtablien bis firm more strong eens. and several pei om equipment to handle the fre as ly as & house of scientific service tions. The motor truck « n de-| other elemer ‘ ; Said is one he exte we O81 a dtmtie ect . : > , ATCH LEAKS RT edly sgrespertied PG dts Captain Katherine Richards, commandant of the Wom-|j¢ gasoline. ieaka from the oarbu Tong distance lines, but pro he ” ~ an's Motor Corps of the National League for Woman's Ser-|retor when the car is standing and| typical problems of the ire sys on Vice, writes exclusively for the automobile section of The|the engine i not running, the) fem. Roughly oe highway (rans ’ eat), Star practical advice to the woman motorist jneedie va jonnected — be} wert Pete igen cor oso ae nnd bg . « ff And Captain Richards is an authority. : Braye Be cleus demain | MP four electric lines The pecig = The corps now has 68 branches in as many cities, and ty.” float is too bigh. If the! The road covered is typloal COUM | it sy Operation wink nro ten includes more than 4500 women in its membership. |dripping persists, the valve leaks! ry Righway, some clay, some wands | ae first and “ 5m Its members have cooperated in all kinds of war work. /and should be ground tn, prefer some cogpevenyy tek Ror, (WO | business developed Now it is engag n ambulance work, in transporting | %'¥ “tine Pumice stone miles of ha elusive 0 = fort of highway condition, f In handling freight, the highway Wounded soldiers from transports to hospitals, and in taking iiard | nearly impassable up to the co: transport section of the line was convalescent soldiers for rides USE ain| sidered ax gral por c . , . , In many of the ¢ car modéls Righway . pee pores < al portion ¢ Captain Richards has been commander of the New York) "a"? por ces tks valle eee sompeny Sagan operations BY} vial as & sotric te | corps since January, 1918. She has given all her time to the) ciearance is provided. By slipping] truck work since. She is responsible for the training and opera- one or more tber or metal disca) u- tions of the 135 enlisted members of her command, each of of sufficient tht wa to take up) the pe act st two days a week a is al dvs ersive play between the bot +] * whom gives at least od a Kk and: all of their ef Saw waive’ glee ane toe push| comn “ time to the motor corps work poor geet ws ‘eae be 4 | offerings of individual farmers along The first article by Captain Richards will appear next), metal retainer cut from sheet} i the route. The ord y express bill Saturday. It will be of interest to all women motorists metal will keep the divce in place. | of lading was used. with a tariff | between all points either wholly rail | wholly truck, or rail truck com SAXON HA bined. Business was handled be | “’* 4 syste and any othe higher capacity roblem ot operation was " ©°% Million and a Half Dollar —less resistance * used by the | Ix About Ready for bo banding | of Big Motor Company * in rance. The raithead and That hos lines in different : branch out from this rail. | P'ant | sh head to distribute the shipments in| Car corporation will soon t With | for oceupa their * ¢ territo the agent of the ra e t Patcher at this railhead, it dis: | ceived by WI is pos | Summit M THE REASON! WOMAN’S CORPS CAPTAIN TO WRITE FOR STAR AUTO SECTION, NEW PLANT Building Occupancy sible to throw trucks from one of . and Thirty years of battery- vo 7. building gives you this her way. 1t decided for areb put two men on every a driv. }enough to house the trappings of better storage battery; Bier ond an assuwtant ari The | nat wal, took ever the ae driver was r for the opera. | Saxo for the duration of the only one on the mar- Bi tion ang his aueintant wae | hestilities. It became a supply ket today backed by a under his Jurisdiction. To make the| depot for a vast treasure in mill- 7 ‘4 ¢ successful working of the truck an | tary stor Aircraft engines, war 20-month-service guar- ambition for the driver, a standard | trucks, officers’ cars, filled the big rate of pay was devised, and an| building soldiers were on antee average cost of operation figured.| guard day 1 night The driver is penalized for delays,| With sts In automobile but paid a bonus for savings,| manufacture dictated by the go AND and a commission also on new busi-|ernment, all plants found their fa ‘ Ness developed. A sliding scale of |cilities ample for buliding the pas bonuses makes the driver a personal|senger car schedules permitted by Payee factor In the business. the government. Under normal cir- sold under the National $0 much for the operation of the|cumstances, the Saxon company . =. system. The problem of the truck| would have suffered hardship in Storage Battery Ex is @ little difficult to describe, as| being unable to enjoy the increax change system. into this phase of the story came|ed m@nufacturing facilities afford the use of differing types of vehi-| ed by ite new plant But the cur cles.. It may be sald that at the |tallment dictated by Uncle Sam start an error Was made, and a) made powsibl the taking on of truck of standard 3%-ton type was|more war contracts. The Saxon used, with extra wide gauge of its|company was awarded contracts driving wheels. This made much|for building the government stand difficulty, owing to the constant con-|@@d one-ton truck known as style i ici ‘ fitet with the ruts in the highways |AA. The company is still engaged implicit confidence traversed. Perfectly satisfactory for|in turning out these trucks along in our products. a cénerete road, with a country high. | with regular passenger car | way, dirtiiities were unending. The | man Problem was met, however, by the As government is able to di- - substitution of a standard width vert its ar materia into civilian ms truck, of a twoton type, and for uses, ite «© military waréhouses We repair and re- |certain types of haul, the adoption will be emptied. The new Saxon charge all makes of | ff) °f « 1%-ton vehicle was found ad-| plant will th available an the . 1 vantageous, especially for milk | ultra-modern home { Saxon Six. batteries. FREE | A long study was made of the pro| It is located within five miles testing and filling. | [Jj peal to use the medium sized truck |of the center of Detrol a 40 with oversized, expensive pneumatic | acre tract valued at $5,000 nore. tires, This type has not as yet been |The property fronts mn a termi installed in this particular system, nal r i, t rding excel but probably will be used, based on|lent st ng facill the experience of other similar traf fie systems elsewhere. The pneu — . ; \ bration, and to save milk particular In an emergency a temporary tap may be filed from ly from churning on the long haul, | ° P! ordi a e It alxo added to the speed possibil. |M4ry nail or a stiff plece of wire to fules of the truck, by relieving the |Teplace a taper pin that has broken . engine from vibration when running |" the magnetic drive or in some ! over 15 miles an hour other important m, This re . Pike S pair will serve until a permanent 703 East Pike St. (Copyright, 1919, by Warren #. replacement can be made. t it is : State Distributors If you are dri¢i lon't try to| Let's go eat at Boldt's—uptown, : |talk {o persons in the tonneau. | 1414 Srd Av.; downtown, 913 2nd Ay REO “F” TRUCK MOST ECONOMICAL LIGHT TRUCK SOLD Reo “Speed Wagon” $1,585 f. o. b Seattle “THE LINE COMPLETE” UNITED MOTORS Co. A. F, HAWKINSON, Mgr. fast 9 THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. ADVANCE WATCHWORD | Prentice Believes in Keeping Up to the Minute in Electrical Methods | for Benefit of His Customers i} | | ynote t Progression is the ke ) and vdern Prentice Wleetric « Hroadway, learned In the onatant in en business ot at manager Sunse has this son electrical world there Developments brought out night, and the elec- who would keep up be In constant factories, whe dincover= thods for are changes ind improvements are almost over trtoal expert to the VICTORY minute muat with the engineers ari ing new and better perfecting thelr output Representing 11 big electrica ma the Sunset Electr company, to keep up with th trend of the times, must establish & clone contact with these firms. Thin is done thru a series of week-| the very] and constantly facturers, which disclose da of ponstruction, ly letters latest mett suggest faster and more accurate! ways of repairing all clectrical equipment These suggestions are immedi- ately put Into effect under the di Buzz Says: —‘shawful thing the way these kid speed fiends are breaking the laws of our country with their daredevil stunts a la Otto Auto. eee —it really brings the bloody «weat to the old hippo to see a year youngster, with his childish face all Mt up underneath his crop of atavistic whiskers, scorching madly up Eastlake ee m years, who was Hing off 4% miles —and then the cases of the stripting of 42 te pinched in West Seattle while in the act of per (haps). it absolutely behooves the community to step into the breeches feet foremost, and show these inexperienced infantile indigents just what they will be allowed to do in the way of running a gas chariot around the purikeus of the Queen City —when a bunch of children from %1 to 51 think they can drive as they please around our first city under 600,000 to have @ million, they have several other variegated thoughts coming to them. —down with the Kid Speedaters! —the rumor that the first aheotutely new and revised Ford is to be autographed for our esteamed mayor's personal use ie false. Because—there ain't goin’ to be no new Ford. VICTORY —just because we don't know who Is going to sell Clevelands in this man’s town, is no reason for everybody telling us how good they're going to be. eee —that if Eddie Rickenbacker doesn't bring more people to Tacoma than Uncle Sam ushered into » Lewis, we miss our bet on the attendance at the Speedway races in our fair sister city on duly the four. —some folks who are walting for prices to drop on autos will be having their shoes halfsoled some ‘time next fall. —b speaking of halfsoles, there sure do seem to be ‘apopping in the tire game. things ‘THIS BOY SELLS ’EM IN BUNCHES, coe pay JUST LIKE THE OLD BANANA MAN BODY STYLE estes te Nis SETS PACE (eee : ‘ sib \ . At the 1917 automobile show New York it was noticed that o of the new cars on exhibition dis played a different type of body de sign than anything that had there tofore been shown at On the first day or’ so people showed the usual interest that an. thing new always excites, but as |time passed it was noticed that there was a constant group about | this exhibit was evidently and that the innovation making @ “hit The car was the Liverty Six. It Las introducing the Liberty straight |line effect in automobile body de |sign. And the way it caught the popular fancy during the few days of that show established the success of this new type. It was interesting to observe that during the following year a score or more manufacturers made radi anges in their lines and show L. RB. Pittmon, Used Car Specialist strong tendency towards the When they break the glass In the| Tt was simply a case of two many | the Liberty had first present office door to clowe a deal for a used | people trying to get into a space too It was pretty, difficult, however car, it's & pretty good indication that! «mall to accc them. Vy | to copy the new style and yet ac the demand i mething scandalous ginal the congest was |complish something different Recently a far greater percentage are following the straight-line style. leisurely gentleman from Everett who wanted a car, had the car picked and that the place where the glass ts | a broken is a popular place for getting the right car at a right price out, Iked the car, but. wanted to| including many of the highest priced Wednesday ye poor scribe was! find out why insurance was “neces: | Models, and they are wonderfully im. wandering around auto row trying | sary; why in hia payments | Proved in appearance as compared was necessary thousand {| with their predecessors one other little things that the aver:| However, the Liberty is sald to be age motor car buyer knew when the Meintatning an unusual beauty of iP It design in the style which it pioneered to find a place where they were giv ny ing something away, At the corner of Pine and Boyston his normal equillbrium waa somewhat disturbed Oldsmobile only one lung b th yound of crashing glass,|took him an even hour to get all @Nd although recent changes have Visions of mangled bodies and run-| these points down pat, and then the | Met been radical, it ts so distinctive away street cars filled his mind, but | old check changed hands, and Ever. 414 80 modern in appearance that the atreet was ip a normal condition | ett was richer by one motor car. i continues to draw the interest of aa far as could be een The unfortunate man who waa prrcrmrcete everywhere But hia eye caught the little of-|crammed against the office door, fice at the entrance to the Auto| causing all the crash of glass and] LEATHER BOO’ Rargain Market, and the flash came |consequent reportorial confusion, | that here waa the secret of the| was punished by being put at the| It is very important that regular charivari, The fair stenographer |end of the wafting list, and whether |inspections should be r » of the haw made his deal for a ear yet| leather coverings or “boots,” which | and alwe don’t know. And we don’t much | protect the universals and other| look of alarm on her face, Inwide|care. For no man should be so/ parts, Flying stones or sticks are the office all was in disorder Fok | anxious to buy an automobile as to! apt to destroy these boots, permitting lows business of seribe beating it for | distract our attention from a seareh | the lubricant to leak out and give of Auto Bargain Market for something for nothing, And that|entrance to dust and dirt. Look “nawer was clear,! goeg as it lays. them over once a month anyway was out on the sidewalk, her blonde | he locks somewhat disarranged, inside Chas. H. King, President Pending the Introducing the MOTOR CAR CO,, Inc. AYNE Distributors In Western Washington We Have Chosen America’s First Car 1893—1919 | As the line we will represent, and feel that we are to be congratulated on securing the HAYNES | a car of character—exempli- fying beauty, power, strength and comfort. MOTOR CAR CO. Inc. C. H. 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