The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1919, Page 19

It's been a long time coming? But ere it is at last, and it looks to be ‘Worth while waiting for. ‘The big news broke last Thursday When the Saturday Evening Post Proudly flashed a double page an OUNCement that the Cleveland was light six that would do several and juicy things to the estab- d standards of light sixes. that didn’t help out the situa as to who would be the ta- d local party or parties to handle Mne. But here's where a little ul work heiped out. ee ear iseaeraS AT LAST CLEVELAND PUZZLE IS UNRAVELLED MIGHTY MYSTERY MAKESMUCH MISINFORMATION | *é * * ® MH ® In one of the popular places on the Tow it was noticed that there was a Post on every table.and chair, and | that each copy was open at the Cleve- land announcement. That looked sus picious, and when the reporter made @ flat accusation, the game was up. Severally, and in concert, Messrs HL. P. Grant, F, D. Smith and It. M Miller acknowledged that they were the guilty parties, and that they had organized a new company to handle the Cleveland under the name of the! North Coast Automobile Company, with temporaty quarters at their | Present location, 1101 Bast Pike st, ‘These gentlemen are also the lead. ing lights In the Seattle Automobile Sales Company, handling the Chand ler and the Maxwell, and are known As the oldest automobtle firm on the row. Their success with the other two lines predicates the big way In which the Cleveland will be put over. and that its coming to Seattle will be hailed with joy is putting it mildly The specifications of the new car have not as yet reached Seattie, but | these and the price at which the car will be sold will be announeed short ly, It is hoped to have a carload In town by the middie pf July, when a formal showing of the only now car to be announced this year will be given Oldfield Tires Picks Seattle ‘Will Distribute Product Here’ Choosing Seattle because of its many advantages, the} |Oldfield Tire company, of Cleveland, Ohio, will locate their | |distributing point here, and from their central warehouse |will supply the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana jand Idaho. | ‘This good news was given out last |from the fact that P. C. Mannie, | week by Rex G, Lodge, factory rep-| known as one of the bigrest tire | resentative of the Oldfield Tire com- | *@lesmen in the entire country, and | pany, while paying a visit to the | Who is general manager of the Pa-| | Deaton Tire company, distributors | cific coast and western states terri | for King and Kitsap county on the | tory, sold $850,000 of Oldfield tires Oldfield line. on one trip out of the home office. Mr. Lodge also gave out the in In four months more of thene tires formation that no less than forty-| have been sold than any other tire | six applications for the distribution }in a like amount of time. The fact |rights in this territory were re that Harney Oldfield, who will visit ceived at the factory, and that it | Seattle this coming winter, has put | was a hard task to pick and choose his name on this tire is sufficient | from among them. R. C. B. Deaten | was the lucky man, and it is due to | Yalue of the product, and the hard | guarantee to the motorists of the |t! ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1919. The long needed financial to the successful solving of the ship-by-truck movement has ally given by the F been offic pany of Akron, Ohio. For more than two years the use of trucks for short hauls has been widely advoca {roads during the war brought the value of establishing tru schedule, in furnishing the world with a will prove almost as great a as the building of railros country to the city and the city to the country and neces- sarily will stimulate railroad transportation. | ‘Truck routes have been entab- lished all over the United States during the past year or more, Some | have been successful in way, | While most of them have operated for a time at a loss, with no ap-} parent ehance to bulld up a profit able Husiness and finaly «given up. | The whole reason for failure has{ been in existence for some time. | The return-load problem was the Sticker, Getting « full load one! way has not been « very difficult | proposition, but keeping a capacity load both directions has been next | to imposnible in mont cases, not-| withstanding the support given by | the ‘'return loads bureau’ of the government, as well as a bureau of & similar nature maintained by | chambers of commerce in practical- ly every city Hf. 8. Firestone of the Firestone Tire & Rubber company, was one of the first to figure out a solution of the return load, First of all publicity of a truck route in neces sary. The average man operating & truck route does not have the capital required to keep the ship. ping public informed all the time of the existence of his facilities for handling shipments, The prew ent way of handling freight has| been Individual delivery of the var ” consignments, meaning loss of much time tn getting and delivering & load. All of which has meant| very little development im eatablinh- | ing new routes or the improvement | of those already established | Assistance at Hand After a mont searching study of | the truck route plan and the «pend- ing of thousands of dollars in oper-| ating thelr own trucks, getting data time required to make in fact, © careful survey of the entire situation—the Firestone Ship by Truck” Idea Will Means Economic Distribution! Necessity, therefore, h | transport committes, is just now in: | | for the purpose of bringing about the ‘ Will Win * * and moral backing necessary ‘irestone Tire & Rubber com- ted. The congestion of rail the public to a realization of ck routes to be operated on s again been instrumentat n idea that, when worked out, factor in the business world Truck routes will bring the and be off without the loss of time | or money he Firestone company haa tak en on & tremendous task and when | they undertake @ proposition of any kind they will see it thru, regard lenm of cont,’’ in the way Mr. Wood exprensed it, and he fairly radiates with enthusiasm over the opportun- } ity of his company in placing itself in Rosition to be of such a benefit | to the public at large. The Greatest Truck value in America $1,635 Chassis Delivered to you. rv WILL PLAN _ NEW LAWS The United States Council of Na- tional Defense, thru its ‘highway | ugurating a nationwide campaign | SEATTLE, U. S. A. adoption #0 far as possible of! rug gested uniform traffic regulations and directions, that the alarming | number of accidents occurring daily on the highways be decreased, It ia the belief of the highwayn| transport committee that thru this! movement life and limb may be con- werved and economic results of an im.) prenwive character attained. The courts have estimated the value of a life at $10,000, In the city of Wash- ington, as an instance, the death toll as last officially announced was at) the rate of 82 per year. These fig-| ures speak for themaelves | The need, therefore, for uniformity | thruout the country in such regula tions and directions to the end that | the number of accidents resulting | primarily from the increasing num: | TrafficT: LIBERAL LOADING ROOM 90m on your motor truck. There is over 10 feet back of the driver's seat on the TRAFFIC chassis—giving oe room for all load require- ments. The TRAFFIC han lame in the realm of hauling—it is the perfect all-purpose truc! Built of standardized units, it is a “Thoroughbred” thronghout— the low- est priced 4,000-pound capacity truck in the world. See the Shields-Livengood Motor Co. ‘THE ALL-AMERICAN HOUSE Besides the essentials for speed, strength, durability, - power and economy of operation, you want liberal loading les four out of every five CK IC today. YAKIMA, WASH. ber of power driven vehicles on the} highways may be decreased would | seem to be apparent. | These suggested regulations and Girections represent, the Counell of National Defense believe, the best and THE LowrsT PRic his energy and foresight that he now | tests that have been given it hay | has the agency. | all shown that it is a tire that wi! Some idea of the way the Oldfield | make friends wherever shown an tire is being received may be gained | sold 'TRAFFICS | SELL FAST Hartford Selle Sixty.Twe at Whele mie Out of Quota of One Hundred and Fifty Trucks With a record of 62 already sold Green's Car Wheel |to dealers in Washington, ant with | foute, th jactual delivery of 45 of this num (trot steel }ber, the Traffic truck line has set | troit, Mich; the steering gear } new mark locally, and this te 408 by the Ditweller Manufacturin: {in ~ to p semonll M4. | company, Galion, Oblo; the the Shields Livengood Motor com an 3s a the Traffic, and as great |for the finished product Among the parts that the Traffic Manafacturin: | i 1 | Broadway, & Products company. thought aod expertness is shown by the sep | arate parts buliders as ts shown by |the corporation that stands sponsor enter Into truck which are not mentioned elsewhere in the section, are the radiator shell, made by the springs, made by the De De made hood, | made by the Western Tinware com Grant So will you be. This is the Economy Light Six with the ideal body job for Seattle. MITCHELL MOTOR & | | SERVICE CO., Inc. J. M. OSMOND, Pres and Mgr. Summit and Pine We have one of those with the Springfield body on our showroom floor. We were fortunate to get it. | pany, 16th st, Lous; |pany, who has accomplished thisitne propeller shaft afd the spider yt Bagge nad peta gp ad | which serves it, made by the Nor ni walk Auto Parts company, Nor- |thore knowledge of what the Traf|waik Ohio; the transmission, made | fle truck really is Iby the Covert Gear company, Lock-| | The original coftract for 100) hor w. ¥.: the fan belt, made by! | trocks has already been raised tolthe Hide Leather and Belting com-| 150, all of which are for delivery | pany, Indianapolis, Ind.; the malie| before December 1, and even this ianie motor supports and pedal hang enlarge allotment may not satisfy ery made by St. Louis Malleable [the dernand. |Casting company, 7701 N. Conduit | A vast number of separate pieces ave st Louis; the fabric for the are required to build a’ truck lK®/ universal joint, made by the Vacu- sium Muffier corporation, New York) | City; the lamps, made by the John W. Brown Manufacturing company, Columbus, Ohio; the magneto coup ling, made by the George D. Bafiey company, Chicago, the wheels for solid tires, made by the Royer | Wheel company, Aurora, Ind; the j}tank and the motortoframe pans, made by Arthur G. O. Kittich, 12th! | | and Hickory ste, St. Louis, and the} brass castings, made by the Bureka| Brass company, Red Bud and Bul. wer aves. The vast labor required to mob ilize these parts from many dis tricts and to plan for their use, is in itself a noteworthy work. | TAKE WOUNDED MEN CAMP LEWIS, Jane 28.—Special | orders were issued here Friday, call ing for the removal of eight patients jot the Camp Lewis base hospital to ‘al hospital at Fort Bayard, N. M., and 14 patients to general how: pital No. 20, at Whipple barracks, Arizona. These are believed to be| the ge the first steps taken in the firial abandonment of the Camp Lewis base hospital STATE TO TEST CARS the Nebraska legislature just closed} important bearing on the | sale of cars, trucks and tractors in | this state. It is believed the general | | have an effect will be a tendency to central- ize the business in the larger cities of the state. | House roll No, 85 provides that no tractor shall be sold in Nebraska un | tila sample machine has been tested by three competent engineers of the state university at Lincoln, who shall East 8413 sion. ‘THE OLDEST SERVICE TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS IN AMERICA Prest-o-Lite Battery Service 921 EAST PIKE STREET |the country."’ FROM CAMP LEWIS): Two bills passed by the session of |° report to the state railway commis | rf "Chiet" \company have worked out a solu nition that should, with the financial 4 |backing that the Firestone company will give, see the entire nation cov-| ered with a network of paying truck [routes | According to E. R. Wood, man ager of Firestone branch in Seattle levery agency of the Firestone com. pany tx to be utilined in guthering information on shipping by truck The company to collect wupply prompective truck nen erntora data as to costa, method | lof doing business, prospective ter *lritory, compensatory rates, ete, It t proposes to make up Tists of truck joperators, their routes and sche-| dulea, which It will pub as ad-| |vertisements in the dally newspa- pers for the Information of ship. | bers. It Intends also to operate a |vurean of information, telling would- be abippers how to get in touch with truck operators and giving op erators information as to prospect ive shippers. ‘Thin service is not confined to the) Seattle branch. Fifty other branch. em, seattered all over the country, | are to do the same work In their respective territori “Our bureau will be the clearing house for all information of any| kind that will be of interest to! either shippers or operators of truck routes and the muccess of our ship- by-truck burean will depend largely on the amount of information and data that we are able to collect “AM shippers and operators of truck routes are asked to send all} information regarding established and proposed ship-by-truck bureaus at once. | “For months advertising matter in national publications has been printed about #hip-by-truck over the signature of H. §. Firestone, and | this idea has been exploited in this! way an never before. This pioneer- ing has roused great interest in truck lines and efficiency all over Loading Station Needed The great need of the ship-by- truck organizatoin in its present] state of a lack of organization, is| a loading station in Seattle. As it] stands now an oj ‘or is at a loas to solve the return load problem. | He does not know where to get} one, It may be that a merchant | in a country town wants a barrel of sugar and another wants a few kegs of nails, but the truck oper tor cannot afford to run all over the city picking up su small shipments “If we had a loading station the ods could be delivered there, just they are sent to a freight depot,’ id Mr. Wood, ‘Then the truck | erator could pick up a full load! mont disinterested thought on the mubject of highway accidents, and their cause and remedies, pomsible to be had. Prepared originally by William P Eno, a world authority on police traffic, these regulations and direc tions have since been submitted for constructive criticiams to secretaries of state, state highway commission. ers and engineers, judges and law. yers, publicists who have given close study to this question; traffic author. ities In some of the larger cities, the | American Automobile ammociation, the National Automobile chamber of Commercs, the Highway Industries amoctation, the National Highway ‘Traffic ansociation and to scores of individuals competent to pass upon thia question. ‘(Dp 4000 Ln. Capacity Truck IN THEW profit. The investor in a bond ts as much Interested if the sound- [ness and stability of the issuer as lhe is in the terms of the bond it- self. So the purchaser of a motor truck should be as much Interest- ed in the stability of the firm mak- ing the truck as he is in the truck itself. Must Be Relied Upon | “Any mechaniam designed to last and give good service is of doubt- fil value if the maker cannot relied upon to remain in business and back up his product “The purchaser invests also in the maker's experience, in his repu- tation and in his service facilities. Of what use is a motor truck if |parte are no longer avatiable? jing firms are less than BACKING IS VITAL POINT The Organization Behind the Truck | the Biggest Thing to Be Consid-| | What resale valué does a machine |have if ite maker ts out of busi- |ness? Who will furnish service to the owner? A purchaser can judge these things by the number years in business, financial longest ered, ‘Olden | ments, performance records, size o: Dabler HERA dle! bile | output, reputation of product, and Jextent of service facilities estab lished In the district where the pur- One of the greatest problems yet|chase is made. to be nolved by the motor truck! “The purchaser of an Oldsmobile buying public is that of the organt-|truck backs his investment in it zation behind the machine, Facts|with the strength of the company, and figures show that thousands of/with its successful performance, trucks are now “orphans”; that is,/and most of all, with the service the companies which built them/rendered to all owners. All these are no longer in business. These|things are necessary in order to machines soon wear out because it/ build, sell and give service on any is difficult to get replacement parts | line of trucks. The purchase of an and the upkeep of the machine ia| Oldsmobile truck forbids the in- neglected and parts are used be-| vestment going on the debit side of yond the time they should be re-/|the ledger, instead of the profit placed, because there is no way of | side.” getting them, except to have them ae tees aan oe made in @ machine shop. | SUPPORT POINDEXTER; THEN GENERAL WOOD There were 555 motor truck com- panies organized since 1909 in the United States, and of these 331 no| ‘with the understanding that if longer exist. Half of the remain-/cenator Miles Poindexter fails to two years) win the republican nomination for old, and 228 of these firms lasted | president, local party members will less than a year. back Gen. Leonard Wood, the “These facts prove that a rellable|«teonard Wood for President truck manufacturer must make his|ciyp" was organized at a meeting product right to enable him tolat the Army and Navy club Fri- continue jn business,” says J. Wal-| day ter Hainsworth of the Hainsworth} judge George Donworth was Motor company elected president, J. D. Lowman, he manufacture of motor] vice president, Louis H. Seagrave, trucks Is a large scale operation| second vice president, and H. T. and only resourceful and keen| Hanover, secretary. An executive: usiness men succeed. Purchases |committee was named and the of material must be made on a/pians of the club tentatively out- huge scale, and buying must be | lined. done wisely and with great fore- > 7 sight | FRANK MILLER FUNERAL “Motor trucks are an investment,| Funeral services for Frank Miller, and rightly used they should earn| who died at his home, 1256 W. 57th dividends large enough and long|st. Thursday, were held Saturday enough to write themselves off the| morning from the St. Alphonse Cath- books and then make a clear|olic church TELL Here's a still picture of “Chief” Hawkinson and his Romer, ‘The man who is kneeling with an inter ested look on his face is an unlucky individual who has just finished an exciting session with a blowout couldn't help stopping to NG TALES OF TIRES TO A TOURIST “Just look at my tires," the “Chiet” is saying. “I never think anything about them except to keep them properly inflated. You could be the same way if you wanted to.” And let us hope that the informa- Uon fell on fertile ground sympathize with him, and then just couldn't help telling him that if he had been wise enough to buy Ther- moid tires his worries would have been over, and he could have given his entire attention to the beauties along the rowd, ee hepa sarah * - h 7 of | |SOME FOLKS | ‘ENJOY IT ‘To a great many motorists one i | the pleasures of owning an automo-| | bile is the care and upkeep of the car. Instead of wanting some one to keep | the car in shape-to ran all the time, the motorist likes to tinker himself, | and takes a lot of pride in his ability |to make all minor adjustments and | | even to completely overhaul his car. | “For this type of motorist a par- | ticular quality of car is best,” says A. ¥. Hawkinson, of the United Mo- tors Company. “In the first place, such owners generally want a car that is of medium size and that op- erates at a moderate cost. The larg- er, more expensive cars, generally have too many fine technical points to bother the strictly amateur serv- ioe man, Moreover, they mostly are owned by men whose time is too val- uable to use in doing their own serv- jee. Secondly, the car for such a mo- | torist must be so designed and built that the ordinary man can do his re- pairs and adjustments, It must be accessible to a point where most of | the work can be done in a private garage with only a limited number of tools and working facilities, “While the motorist who cares for | his own car is prone to gather a good lot of tools and materials about him, he is limited to hand*machinery in most Cases. “The car must be so built that it is | simple thruout. It is perfectly pos- sible for the average motorist to mas- ter the theories of motor car design and to handle adjustments in a sensi- | ble manner, but it is confusing to | have a lot of complicated parts when | the worker is not an expert me chanic. “Dort owners find it possible to do most of their own work because of the simplicity of Dort cars. More- over, they find it most satisfying and also most economical, The present cost of garage work makes overhauls And adjustments a very expensive thing for many motorists. In fact, many of them cannot afford to pay the prices that all service stations have to charge. Start in Business | for Yourself eating ete ANNOUNCING THE NEW MAXWELL Among the Many New Refinements 4 —Are— New Radiator Design Improved Upholstery New Electrical System fold, and Distributors 1101 East Pike St. New Hotspot Rams Horn Mani- Other Features that make the NEW MAXWELL — The most attractive proposition on the market. Place your order at once in order to obtain the earliest possible delivery, as orders will be filled in rotation. SEATTLE AUTOMOBILE SALES COMPANY H, P. GRANT, Manager