The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 23

- International Automobile Jamin Briscoe is now bringing forth an international auto mobile. In the designing of Mr. Briscoe spent much time model for American manu well-authenticated Eure the well-known Briscoe car, in France, bringing forth a acture, and embodying in its »pean practices, while now he STARS “automobile manufacturers and designers of America, Ben-| is bringing forth a car embodying American design thru-| out, and to be assembled large y of American parts. Wher ever advisable, the parts may be manufactured in the im-| mense plant of Bellanger Freres, of Paris, for whom Mr. | iscoe and his right-hand man, Rodolphe Stahl, are doing the work from their offices in the Book Building, Detroit. The car being brought forth ts} to be manufactured in large num bers, as Bellanger Freres. thru heavy war work, bullt a plant of commanding size covering what Would be in America three square! Blocks. The company manufa tired 14,000 shells per day, manu factured airplanes, and was en faged in shipbuilding also, Thru | its war work Bellanger Freres grew t© Gn important position among the —— mt DELFEL HEADS NEW ELDRIDGE BUICK BRANCH A used truck department, a de partment where the buying and Selling of used and rebuilt trucks ‘Will be the order of the day, was established this week by the Bl Buick company. Never in the past has the house had an ueed truck department Tt promises at the start to be a place full of opportun Prospective customers, At the same time it promises to ceedtingly satisfactory en- terprise for this company. W. EF. Deilfel, the well known ‘and well liked Seattle Buick and, fortunately, he is running over with the brand of Seattle || “pen” that produces tangible re- || sults. It ls wale to predict that a good: ly share of Seattle's 1919 business In second-hand motor trucks will come his way ‘The foundation on which this new department will do business is the reputation of the Eldridge Buick company for a “square deal” Good values in second hand trucks will be handled in this department and every sec. f/ ond-hand GMC that Mr. pute on the market will be in goed mechanical condition after having been rebuilt in the com pany's shop. - “I Know that it iy possible for | will serve until ‘ IF IT’S FOR IT’S HERE WILL YOUR CAR BE NEXT? Every day sees one or more cars stolen, All locking devices are not absolutely «afe, but if you have an Auto Theft Signal on the right front wheel your ear is going to be avoided by auto thieves. The reward does it. DOUBLE SEAL Capacity of WITH manufacturers fact, of Eure which it is of France, and, and with the making in tn start automobile manufacturing, will take a p on » to the Ford company tn should its every plan ma terlalize, as is Mkely to be the case under the able leadership in affairs of Mr. Briscoe t experience in the past ¢ material value to hig tn organizing the American end of the business, This American business must of essity, under the plan uring, he the most fm portion of the immense for the materials, the ma the from American sources. For work of designing the car will be on the roads within a few America, fean of manufa portant business ehinery and tools must come thin days now, and of tooling up, Bris- coe and Stahl will have a plant tn Detroit and wit have a warehouse at the seaboard at which will be wath the material, There thir material will be sorted for ship ment to keep an even balance on supplies going forward, Careful checking will enable the balancing of supplies to a nicety, while the adoption of American parts and of American machines and American methods of manufacture will make simple he uring of the neces- sary material, and in any quanti ties desired after American mak ers of parts, accessories and so on have started real quantity prod tion. Particulars regarding the car and other matter of interest in this and practicable method of ational manufacturing have been withheld for the time TRACTOR MAKES “That Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor certainly made a good showing up at Whidby island on the Comstock farm last week,” said John Power of the Eldridge Buick company to day upon his return from Oak Har bor. “The ground, a regular peat marsh Below sea level, was #0 soft that when the plows were lifted they were still pulling a furrow six inches Geep. “A full day's work was done in spite of the condition of the ground, nd the farmers voted the day a wuccess.” NAIL SERVES AS TAPER In an emergency a temporary taper pin may be filed from an ordi nary nail or sYff pleqe of wire to re place @ taper pin that has broken on the magnetic drive or in some other Important location. This repair & permanent re- placement can be made, but ft is not in itself permanent Avold sudden stops, quick starts and skidding. THE AUTO, PISTON RINGS The experience of many of the leading track stars proves be- yond a doubt the reliability of this ring. It soals the wall and seals the groove, giv- ing more power and greater mileage. Fach ring absolutely guaranteed. Your Truck A TRAILER Here they are—Trailers for Automobiles and Trucks— All Sizes—All Types HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTIONS: Model K-11—1,250-pound capacity commercial trailer. Model K-14—1,250-pound capacity cattle tuailer. Model -50m—1i14-ton 4-wheel trailer. Model D-10—1%-ton 2-wheel pipe, timber or pole trailer with swivel bolster for truck. Model -51m—21-ton 4-wheel trailer. Model D-80—514-ton 2-w heel logging trailer with swivel bolster for truck. ELDRIDGE 808 EAST COMPANY SPOKANE PIKE $ ite | | which | -Lieut. Andre Boillot. ROTHROCK SAVES GAS | As Dixtributor of Cyclone Vaporizer, He Makes Possible More Eco nomical Operation of Ford Cars “When you show a man that you can save him money tm the opera- jtton of his Ford, you have made A fast friend that y And when you prove fuel per u consumption from 35 to. 50 lcent, at a cost of but $15, he will |awear by you for life. And |gust what I am doing for the ¥ owners i¢ oat tie, ways & L. j Rothr k manager of the | Cyel wit offices “Our t is mat Disteibe at 714 Cyclone « ing company -plece vaporiz experiment under the sus Automobile Club Wentern Washington was official jand proved that deliver — the We actually drove a five © Ford 10.1 miles more to the gallon, using one of our mani folds, and burning distifiate, than the same car co make without the manifold and burning gasoline. “We have insta our device on many trucks, operated by the big gest fir and they are |now ordering ent on their entire fleets beauty of the Cyclone is that there are no ad- justments. After it t* once in jstaiied there f& nothing more to be jdone to it. It burns either gas or distillate equally well, and as far as the carbon question goes, there simply isn’t any carbon to worry Iabout. We are glad to install under a 20-day-money-back guar- antee, and have yet to record a | disaatisfied customer,” we Insta One Summit Company Solves Problem The Summit Motor Car company believes, that in selling their used car department outright to Mesurs. | | Scearce and Reichardt, who have jleased the basement of the Spmmit | building for storage purposes, they thave solved a problem that is often | jthe cause of many sleepless nights jon the part of automobile \° The chang “ affected | ganization ¢ in the fact that A |C. Petridge, formerly sales jand in charge of the partment, has left the lenter the used own account | Conditions in the used { | | | \ 6. te manager used car de company to ear business on his make this an excellent opportunity for Scearce Reichardt to enter |the field, and the cooperation which | will be given by the Summit Motor jcompany will be of great value. The |continual ery on the row ts for more used and the en of the is not yet and rs to sell In sight Dodge Owners Johnson Shock Absorbers will add JOY TO YOUR LIFE and YEARS to your CAR $16.00 Put On Takes about twenty minutes at Ninth and Union St. JOHN 5S. BAISDE THE Goodyear Service Station Phone Elliott 2441 | railways, market | SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. HT FOR LIBERTY TURN BACK TO OLD SPORT | Produced for Second Time} MANY SPEED DEMONS RETURN IN TIME 'TO ENTER THE BIG RACE For the second time in his history as one of the leading! * * * die Rickenbacker, referee; 2—Lieut. Jules Goux; 3—Lieut. Art Klein; - *» BY FRED TURBYVILLE They are calling this year Sweepstakes” and well they 1 are a galaxy of stars who fou soaked fields of France and th ation of the auto race fans. for premier honors in the wor will be the soldiers of the al side by side thru the awful English, Italian and American ’’s 500-mile race the “Victory y, for entered in the race ight for liberty on the blood- rey justly deserve the admir- Competing with each other Id’s greatest automobile event lilies who figuratively fought conflict just ended, French, drivers—men who have been near death in other vehicles than racing cars—are favorites, | sentimentally at least, in this year’s long grind. If a ser- vice man wins the 500-mile race no one will complain. With om May 31 the running of this classic, nutomobile racing will be resumed in With America machines speeded up and made perfect r 1 inp fnster ever was before made is joked for 1 With hearts Hahter and reaponst bilities nded thousends and urands of fans who yearly cram med Indianapolia before the war on | the day of the race are coming back | again The entry list is by far the claast: | ever known.” It ts one of thé it of war vements COMMISSION WILL SUPERVISE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM. WASHING N, D, ¢ "That May 24-1) & commission, as contemplat: | ed by the Townsend-Bankhead bill will be the method of administra tion adopted by congress for build: ing a national highway system is in dicated not only by public sentiment but by the weight of government precedent.” says Dr. H. M. Rowe,| past president of the American Au tomobile aanociation and «a member of the apecial committee of the A. | A. A. g00d roads board which will devote much time to federal highway | } legisiation. hould be considered in of pu activity as waterways, merchant ma the national banking system in faet, any of the great dis ly national undertakin con Unues Dr, Rowe. “It seems @ self-| evident proposition that the building jof a national system of highways| | will form an enterprise of auch mag and such complexity an to put it entirely beyond the sphere of a «ingle bureau or other subdi-| vision of an executive department, | and If, therefore in| the “Highways the ame cla. rine nitude it be consid onal should name class enterpri these greater ni s T have named, we naturally expect to the kind of administra mach Jestablighed for highways of precedent, therefore, | point out that the ratiroads | government control are a director-general who | | in t to the control of an |cabinet officer and that in the ab of government operation |ratiroads the interstate commerce |commission functions independently |of executive departments. Whe turn to the great shipbuilding erchant marine indv these are managed b: board and emergency tion, both functioning executive departme to the national banking find the federal resery stead of a bureau of the department. Other examples be cited. Bureaus of executive are | “By w we may while managed by under Lot sUbsec we and find shipping apart from | » turn we} board in-| treasury | might de partments, principally engag’ in and educational work and in the routine performance | 4 government activity more and part of the executive mach There is existing ex department which could legitimately take ¥r the entire task of build 1 highwa stem. It m be contended that the department of 11d do the job beeause iltural interests affect but immediately the might be made department should suse of the mili efense needs of postoffice depart: y logically claim that liver parcel post | should entitle it to control. | department of the interior, being almost entirely 2 publie works | department, might that a constructive engineering task should fall in ite domatr As of these variou contentions must ve the realiza tion that highways are of such an | all-ernby nd of such general} impor to make it imprac less inherently ugriculture sl of the ed by highways, counter-contention that the build the syate tary the nation ment might v war n be and nationa ind in outco! as | denly largest on record For tw ure there has been no Speedway race. Car] Fisher, Speed way king, wouldn't consider holding the event with his eountry at war with the enemy of efvilization. War is over, and the manhood of the allies ta returning to peacetime Pursuits, There may be those who wo in't consider automobile racing a eetul pirault, but it le the chow on work of those stare who fourht for liberty over there, It work and their play, They did their part well in the war, and they're glad it is over. Once a race driver, it is hard to break away in thebe teable to entrust the task as a mi undertaking to any single gov ernment department A commission would consider the “From the standpoint of direct ness, Of remponsibility, Umeliness of action and comprehensiveness of knowledge, a commiasion voting its whole time to the one single task could not fail to accomplish far greater result# than would be pos. sible through the medium of a cabi- net officer who would be devoting the greater part of his time and at tention to matters wholly foreign to highways, It would seem that the commission plan in unaxaailable.” READ FIRST In taking battery readings with the hydrometer the operation should be performed before the distilled wa ter is added to the solution, which |? States, and thetr policy is to sell wrong reading given. wrong readng given Also, Also, after after the water has been put in it takes | ™ some time to mix with the acid. The water being lighter, stays on top and if the hydrometer is used, say hour after the water has been added, it will take up only a weak solution, which is not the real one. WATCH THE BUM One of the most frequ of broken asprin in the truck is Hate, When the vehicle lista badly on the road the whole weight of the load is thtrown su on one le, with the resul that the master leaf is broken in driving will obviate this danger Li ry CLUTCH member of the cluteh is rusty, it will e the effect of a grabbing memb The rusted por. tion will prevent the clutch’s engag If the ding | j , conslder the needa cf alt “(BIG FIELD | | | { Care | Speedway Service Flag Be-Starred There are many stars in the Speedway service flag. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher, who will referee the 500mile race, bs the ace of American aces, He brought down 26 planes, Lieut, Jules Goux, French pilot, was in the artillery, wears a wound stripe, being injured at Belfort in 1915, Jules won the 1913 race, Lieut. Art Kiein was engineer ing officer of the aviation serv ice at Issoudan. Rene Thomas was injured in the French aviation service and later was placed in charge of a truck repair shop in Paris. Andre Boiflot, lieutenant in Freneh aviation, He ts a French ace, Me brought down a baby Peugot and a French spud. Louls Coatalen, Sunbeam butider, was a member of the British admiralty during the war He designed the Sunbeam avia thon moter which divided hovers with the Rolle Royce in British service, dean Chassagne was with the Freneb artillery a year and then was made inspector of planes, Ralph Mulford joined — the Wright Martin airplane company when the U. 8. entered the war. He developed the Hiepano Suiza engine for army planes Charley Merz, famous driver, * not enter in the race. He did his bit over there. Albert Prevot, who was here with G in 1913, won't ride. Driving a car on the Oheniin- dex Dames front he was injured by « high explosive shell, Ralph De Palma was in the experimental division of the U.8. air service. W. Monshan was an doughboy Amer. Louis French aviation The Rickard Wheel allstee! wheel punctures An No more wtronger wood und blowouts to than breakable. annoy the in fact, w hinder and motoriat The same rewilic is & pneumatic tire, and laste three times an long strain on transmission and motor, CLOSED OPEN scheme; J There pre than 6,000,000 automobiles and trucks in oper- ation in the United States at present, and approximately 3,485,000 more produced thie year ‘KARD WHEEL 4 plain busin CO, is not a wildeat, get-rich-quick proposition aren If ONE PER CENT of this total were & ARD WHEELS it would yield $10 per invested now ulpped with RICK- year on every doliar We have and produ: them on t the wheel of wheels, but, like all other originators me of great inventions, we need « little money to put market, and we are willing to sell you an interest in our business to do so. Once we start the ball rolling, nothing can stop us. BIG PROFITS ARE SURE TO RESULT—Just how big we don't know, but we are staking all our time and money on this enterprise, WE ARE SELLING A LIMITED AMOUNT OF STOCK AT PAR-—$25 per SHARE You can get in or future you wl favorable the ground floor now. have oc to congratulate Many times in the yourself on your decision WE are open for inspection, and court the fullest investigation, Reference: Seaboard National Bank, Seattle, Wash., and Third National Bank, Walla Walla, Wash 4 The Rickard Wheel Co. 1619 Westlake Ave. Seattle, Wash. C. A. SON L. NNI Presi Sec.-Treas. J. RICKARD ident IN SEATTLE! Guarantee Tire Company Ts Latest | Addition to Automobile Row, At- tracted by Big Possibilities Here | rs } That | business the mecea of the country over ix this city is men once more proven by the entry Into commercial circles here of the Guar. antee Tire company, of which D, Goldfarb is president and L. Y, ark local manager. This company has retall tire stores in over a hundred cities in the Unit tires, guaranteed as to mileage, at very low prices, They call them: elves “apecialists in saving money for motorists,” and that the term ts | an apt one is iMustrated by their success in all their stores. Locations harder Seattle than in any have entered,” says Goldfarb, “ we were lucky to get our store at $19 Bast Pike st. As it is, we had to pay a big bonus to get the lease, and have m all sorts of conace sions to the former occupants, We will bulld at the same location next fall and until then will do business | in the remodeled store room. | ‘Our business is purely and sim ply one selling tires and tubes at the very lowest prices, and when. ! ever we get the to purchase a tire stock at bankrupt prices, the public gets the benefit. We conduct | our a clean-cut basis, and servite and satisfaction go hand in| to get in city which we | chance stores on ing. gradualiy iolding for a fraction| hand with our sales policy. of a second, and thus forcing engagement. The operator often be lieves that the trouble is due to f facing or worn engaging member. YOUR’E IN quick | | or | ure a “Our mail order business is very | great, 1d we shall supply the cent territory guaran tires at the lowest possible pric THE MARKET FOR A USED TRUCK Come in and inspect our line before you invest. ELDRIDGE SEATTLE 802 EAST COMPANY SPOKANE IKE STREET nd |- BUY or SELL BUG or SEDAN E CAN SERVE YOU I USED CARS 150 Autos for Sale At Quick Action Prices Drop into our big sales yard tomorrow and look over this inviting lot of money- savers. Largest used car department on Coast. We can sell you what you want at the price you want to pay. : "1914 Ford—$250 1915 Ford—$275 er aA aero 1919 TERMS | Chevrolet | ‘ | Pay a little down, | balance as you ride. I $750 Hudson Super Six $1,100 1918 | Maxwell $700 Chevrolet $500 1917 Oakland $850 Overland|1916 Dodge—$675 Clubster {1917 e—$8' $875 re iad The Quick-Action Corner Where Buyer and Seller Meet Direct Auto Bargain Market 701 East Pike St. Kast 340 aM. PR, Corner Boylston