The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1919, Page 18

i la Ps GOI SY wig ns THE SEATTLE ac ERE gs a SAS ie! Res ma Pa apes ane Lhe es ; Carry Meri Machine: Hits Bs _—_ . “ jd. The.men and Mrs. WO leases en comman law bend. sou Cy, “| WOMAN SERIOUSLY HUAT ‘WHEN RUN OVER BY TRUCK ire, Corg De Runt, 48 years old, 6146 a Cel avenue, was knocked down by mH) Jemodi truck at 3-e’clock yeq- a |terday efterneon a¢ che was, crosein; Market at Sixth street. She. auetal: | fractared tw ous. brul; ' The driver of the automobdt stop, but the Ticeneé number w: gab Wine and Liquor Cq Tormprty' Park. GIRL, 5 YEARS OLD, RUN ____ QOWN BY AUTO DELIVERY Poaravenva, reesrved a brchey coer: 1, weveral e¢elp wounds and-!o' 108" % ‘ a when ohe wag s' ry " A ty, "ine Wer paliviers Ch ~ TWO BOYS INJURED,IN AUTO ACCIDENTS, ONE SERIOUSLY ‘To. hors, both $ years ol¢, were in- ted ta ahtomobiie, traffic accidents After Your Accident—What? Could you shift the responsibility onto your insurance agent or would your troubles just commence? When you drive your car you are liable to injure or kill a woman, man or child. Above—Fageol Fiveton Job Showing Her Nose at the top of a Seattle Hill. Below—Grant Light Truck That Has Been in Duty Over a Year in the City. Quick Action Is Vital When ¥ Minor Road Accidents Occur BY WARREN B. BUL£OCK ly Captain, Motor Transport Corps, U. 8. Army.) Any highway transport operator sooner or later find himself fac- athe problem of getting a truck of a ditch. Sooner or later an wnt will happen, which will fa big loaded van off the road ith heavy damage, if not actual ca- : . At the least, there will be problem of getting the truck out ‘on the road again, with the least ble loss of time. The cost of ing out a service truck, men to on ropes and cables all adds to je cost of such an accident, but the wt managed transport system will or later have this experience, must be met quickly and at once. be prepared in the first place, truck, it might go without say- ¥ equipment of cable, sins, and the simple expedient of a Newspapers report many arrests of automobile drivers for running down careless persons—and arrest signifies an evidence of guilt. The jury is influenced by this fact—the lawyer makes this his principal point—the result, a judgment. How much can you afford to lose? Can you take chances simply to save the small cost of a premium? Do not delay—insure today. In case of your accident let your insurance com- pany pay all costs of investigation and adjustment, defend you in court and pay the liability up to the limit of your policy. AYERST LIKES SEATTLE BEST Old time Seattleites may have thought it was hot this last week, but if we may take the word of Alfred G. Ayerst, Ford dealer, our warm days were cool and refreshing beside the torrid heat of the East and Middle West. Ayerst spent over six weeks on # trip that took in most of the larger cities of the country, and voices the universal senti- ment that business conditions are excellent all over, with the ‘ex: ception of minor labor troubles in certain localities. At Detroit Mr. Ayerst spent his time in getting a personal iden of the manner in which Ford cars are built and assem bled, and gained many new ideas for application to his business in this city. An army of 47,000 men are now turning out 3,200 Fords dally, and production of the Liberty starter is rapi proching . the The most careful driver cannot avoid the careless pedestrian, Sam's soldier chauffeurs in an Amer. ican motor truck school, A convoy | of trucks was out on the road on a night drive, preparing for service in| France. One of the leading trucks was mired, when the driver tried to| climb out of a rut, and the front) wheels merely piled up the mud in} front, like a snow-scraper. Momen- tum was lost and the truck stuck. One of the drive wheels was on hard ground, the other in the mire. The} truck was empty, and all efforts to/ move the truck on its own power re-| sulted merely in a spinning of the wheel in the mire. The drive wheel on firm ground idied. After half an hour of experimenting, work with shovels and the like, the driver put a dozen husky soldiers in the truck, so that their weight was on the spin. | ning wheel. Then, giving the truck | the gun, the mired wheel had trac tion, being forced down to hard soil under the slime, and the power was applied both to the wheel on the hard In case your car is burned or stolen, your total loss is the value of the machine. But, if you kill a woman, man or child, an occurrence always possible, you may lose all of your possessions, the court costs alone —may mean thousands of dollars. Every day thousands of dollars in judgments are handed down against automobile drivers. As traffic increases your need for insurance increases. Don’t delay--your accident may be near. ACT NOW! TELEPHONE! To any one of these agents and find how small is the cost of security and peace of mind. J. M. E. ATKID IN & SON STUART G. THOMPSON CO. GOTTSTEIN’S, INC. Burke Building Main 7056 207 American Bank Building 109 Columbia Street—Elliott 3240 FREDERICK-METZGER CO. Phono Ballots 6468 FRANK WATERHOUSE & CO. - ‘miring of a truck in soft roads ‘a mean problem, and one ‘would, to the novice, appear to solved. Yet a “6g na @reasy clay, where e soil to cling like the Old Man of to the wheels, means a world truck. In a rut, in bad roads, driver should take care to keep is why, of burlap bags, old and worn, by many operators. The bags for packing loads to prevent to shipments, and when are of untold value in giving ily ry road. to climb to a whirling drive wheel. many drivers have not learned @ first lesson of combating such a which is to hold the front steady in the rut in a rutted, The moment the driver out of the rut with his the momentum is lost, d the front wheels act as a plow, u ‘Blocking the movement above all things: power on a truck is sufficient I it out of any such mud, how- , if the power can be applied. it times, a truck trav- light will get stuck, where a d truck will keep moving. The it on the driving wheels is such they cannot spin, and the truck to move. in interesting example of this was ; ment made by one of Uncle ground, and to that in the mud, and the truck rolled out like a factory test run on concrete. The truck in the ditch is as much @ problem of load as of truck. An-) other army experiment is a lesson on this point. A driver found his truck slipping over a high embank- ment. A dozen men were in danger of being pinned by a capsizing truck. Instead of trying to hold the truck out of the ditch, when he found it in danger, he threw the vehicle, head on, into two feet of water, but avert- ed the overturning of the machine. ‘The power of any average truck was shown by the work done in getting this vehicle on the road once more. It was covered with an army type tarpaulin cover, was over a bank so high that the top of the truck cover was level with the road, and yet an- other truck, also of the 1%-ton type, pulled the truck to the road once more, and sent it on its way In 20 minutes. Here was the method: The heavy truck attached its towing cable to the rear end of the ditched truck. A light supply truck, a %-ton ambu- lance type machine, known to the French as a “camionette,” threw a long rope around the side of the truck, to prevent it from capsizing on the side of the road. When the word was given, the ditched truck went into reverse, the towing truck picked SAVE 15% ON YOUR Automobile Insurance By having a PYRENE on your car or truck, GET ONE TODAY—$10 We are the Official Refill Station for Pyrene in Seattle. Sunset Electric Co. 1547-93-11 Breadway SEATTLE ne PORTLAND ’ KILLS FIRE SAVES LIFE device will be installed on all Fords. Seattle Ford agencies are on a par with any in the United States, and in point of service are on a much higher plane, in the opinion o. Ayerst. up the cable, the light truck put on power to steady the ditched truck, and the machine walked out on the third attempt, to the solid roar. The power of two trucks waa therefore used to climb the embankment, while the third truck was merely a “steadier.” In a ditched track, it will often be found unnecessary to unload any of the cargo which is securely lashed. A cable or heavy rope thrown around the body of the truck, attached to a solid post on the opposite side of the road, will serve to bring the truck right side up, without unloading. The use of a block and tackle on the cable thrown around the truck body will make it possible to pull the truck to its feet again, and then the problem is only that of traction. The fault of too many drivers is in their failure to realize the tremen- dous power that can be applied to the driving wheels, if the wheels are given something on which to get a grip. te || KILLCARBON | mee» | Here's a hunch on keeping down the carbon in your engine. Carbon is the cause of the biggest part of the engine knocks. Poor oil, oll unsuited to the car or bad carbu- retor adjustment cause excess car- bon deposit. Particles of carbon sticking to the sides of the com- pression chamber. They get red hot. That causes preignition and there is your knock. Mix six parts kerosene to one this'll Chase the Carbon part alcohol, Put about four ounces in each cylinder, thru the priming cock. Close the cock and turn the engine over a few times with the crank, Let it stand overnight. The kerosene will soften the carbon, In the morning open the cutout and race the engine and it will blow out a cloud of black smoke, There goes your carbon. If there 1s much carbon in the cylinders you may have to have ft burned or scraped out. But after this is done if the treatment de- scribed ts applied about twice a month carbon will bother you no more. Drain out the old ofl after this operation. Turn over the engine with the starter or by hand a few times with the throttle closed. This will work all kerosene out of the channels of the engine. Drain oil pan thoroly and then put in fresh ofl. The pen may be mightier than the | sword, but it, isn’t in it with the pretty typist, When you think of advertis- ing, think of The Star, Mutual Life Is there no release? yellow ribbon, and adventure, giving winds of the world. One relaxes then, perhaps for the first time in many months, and that tired, haunted look that men wear becomes softened, and the sharp lines cut by worry fade gradually away. A stop perhaps is made at some old rustic inn, and there is an- the appetite, has suddenly returned. The simple country things are so good when one Is really hungry, and a table out under the trees brings a sense of rest and peace. And then, when one is quite ready—no need to hurry—on thru the lanes and high- ways up to the mountains and into the great silent forests. Here the road is a bit rutty, perhaps, but that does not matter. The cool green of the cahopy of trees enfolds and en closes us; and now a little lake comes into sight, silver and pure, and cold, with a reflection of the trees along its edge almost meeting as they thrust out into the water, So calm, so cool, #0 restful, it 1s so very f00d to be here. Real Companionship What more, or where 80 much, has life to offer as here? For love one of those friends who really count, and there is no intrusion of stran- gers. Sorrow cannot be shared, but pleasure, if it be truly pleasure, must be. For art there is the rustle of the breeze sounding thru the hushed mur- mur of the leaves; there is infinite poetry in the long, quiet aisles of the woodland and in the sunny meadows, while drama shows itself in the flash of a scarlet tanager against the close- knit green. Of bodily comforts there are aplenty. And all the time health, that splen- did health that is our rightful heri- tage, is coming to us, healing our hurts, and smoothing away our scars as it was always meant to do, tho abusingly we drive it away, Once more our perspective is cleared for Phone Main 1372 AMERICAN INSURANCE AGENCY 1003-4 American Bank Building Phone Main 2028 other surprise—that vanished friend, | may have the close companionship | Building Consider the Motor Car—Builder of Health and Conserver of Happiness BY EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT 'VERYONE knows that the automobile has for long been proclaimed as a builder of wealth, and a conserver of time and energy. Let us think of it for once as a builder of health, and a conserver of happiness. The summer is now upon us, and we, the cliff dwellers of the cities, will feel all its agony without one atom of its charm. The heat beats up from the pavements, and ra- diates from the thousand walls that hem us in. makes the summer a thing of beauty and of joy will cer- tainly be lost to us, unless— Yes, there is a simple one and} an infinitely pleasant one at hand. We can motor! The long road will unwind before us like a white or All that romance, health of mind and body lie before us; past wet, green fields, studded with | white clover; thru little towns and villages with close- trimmed hedges, while all the time the cool, clean air is bringing the warm red to our cheeks, and a brightness to our eyes not found in any tonic purchasable in a drug store. | All the strain and fatigue of a long winter are swept away | and far from us, as our lungs eagerly drink in the life- us by the kindly hand of Nature, and that normality for which we have so vainly sought has put its hand in ours and is guiding us as once it used to do. Our minds and bodies are simply the most delicately adjusted and the most sensitive engines known to man But we do not take the care of them that we would take of an ordinary dish-washing machine. When that goes we can buy another, but when we begin to rust and break mentally or physically we can only repair and “carry on,” Use the Sunshine Scientists today tell us that pre vention is better than cure; and, in- deed, it sounds as tho it might be It is easier, pleasanter, and much less costly, as well as being 10 times | as efficient. There is no better pre vention in the world than plenty of fresh air and a re-awakened interest in life, Sunlight is the finest cleans- er and purifier you can get. It was intended not only to give us a light to see by, but also its chemical rays have qualities that are vitally neces- sary to our well-being. If one could only have bottled sunshine! Just as the plants and flowers ab- sorb their nourishment from the air about them, so do we, to 4 far great. er extent than most of us suppose, absorb certain properties from what- ever atmosphere we may happen to be in. When the atmosphere is nat- ural and pure and good, these same properties haye a directly healing and revitalizing effect. We need them, just as we need the sunshine, It was intended when man was put on earth that he should have these things, and he was constructed so that he would react to them properly. But this is a day and generation of substitutes. There are substitutes for milk and for butter. We have a 208 Columbia Street CARTER, MACDONALD & MILLER, Inc. Agents Auto Department; Standard Accident Insurance Co., National Union Fire Insurance Society | substitute for the drama in the | movies, for music in the phonograph, | for literature in the newspaper, and | for painting in the bill-posters. Pioneers Were Right | There is no substitute for sunshine and for fresh air. Nothing can take the place of these, just as nothing can take the place of our eyes and ears, tho we can have quite a beau. tiful new nose built on in place of the old one if we chance to lose it. You cannot replace essentials—tho noses are rather essential, be it con- fessed. You cannot create a substi- tute for the fundamental things of life, nor was it ever intended that you should be able to do these things. Back in the days of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, in the period of the pioneers, when the West was opening, and the gold rush had be- gun, men and women, for the most part, lived sanely. It meant work, and hard work, but more than all else it forced those who lived that life to go hand in hand with the great outdoors, Their livelihood was in the fields and forests. Their mir- rors were the still mountain pools, and they found their pleasure in the the early morning. We have changed all this for stuffy houses and more stuffy apartments. Are we one whit the better—the happier—the healthi- er for it? Nota bit, and yet we can- not check, nor do we wish to, the logical development of the race. The things that civilization has brought to us are ours to use, if we use them wisely. But one thing we can do, and the time has come when we must do it to be saved from our- selves, Nature, with all her big outdoors, has been very patient with us; she can afford to wait for us, but we can no longer afford to wait for her. Our minds have invented and our hands have made the means of our escape from this insufferable state of things. We can pursue health in our automobiles, and we can capture it once and for all time. On Camping Out What a happy, healthful life was that of the old-time gypsy! He had his van pulled by his raw-boned nags and within the van all his worldy goods, his friends and family. At night his fires were lighted, and after the evening meal in the dusky cool and quiet, fortunes were told, prophe- cles made, and old tales recreated. | We have so much more than this, and yet we do not use it. Our van is a thing of comfort and of beauty, our nags are mighty engines that carry us endlessly where we will without fatigue. If we wish we may carry our tents like the Arabs, and set them up on the edge of the woods, and near a running stream. Our cooking uten- sils are easy to use, being devised es. pecially for this purpose, and our Thermos bottles will keep our coffee hot and ready for breakfast. It is so quiet and restful here. Only the ripple of the brook over the stones and the soft swish of the treetops. And health, blessed health, closes our eyelids and bids us sleep, to awaken us again in the morning, refreshed and happy with the new day. Does Elliott 5870 red of the sunset and in the gold of | Insurance Department—Elliott 71 WM. H. RITTER & CO. (Incorporated) BROADWAY AT PIKE—Phone East 777 Copyright 1919, Edw. S. Jones Sons Co., Providence, R. I. Seattle-Tacoma Paved Valley Road—Fine. Seattle-Tacoma High Line Road—Thru Des Molnes—Grave! section south of Des Moines rough; paved section O. K. Renton-Kent—Gravel road on east side of valley, good, Kent-Auburn—Gravel road good (closed between Kent and Thomas for paving). Thru traffic should use paved road on west side, Kent-Dea Moines—Good. Auburn-Enumelaw — Paving work in Progress between points 5 to 7 miles out of Auburn, Detour at end of pave- ment, 6 miles from Auburn. Good gravel roads to picnic grounds. New concrete pavement is open at_ from about 9 miles from Auburn into Bnum- claw Enum rood District — Roads generally to lack Diamond—Good over Soos creek road; also via Green river, Renton-Maple Valley — Fair, somewhat narrow road. Use care on sharp curves. it sound too difficult—impracticable? It is not. But our lives will become increasingly difficult and impractic- able if we do not do these things. That much ts certain. The automobile will do all this for us easily, quickly and pleasantly, Thru its use we may be restored and rejuvenated mentally and physically. The poisons will be cleared from us, our worn tissues rebuilt and our sag- ging nerves revitalized. So we shall let go for a moment, and turn to the joys of the fresh air, the blue sky and the green of the woodlands; we shall turn to our com- rade, our true friend—the motor car. Maple Valley-Black Dtamond—Good. Plans for widening and regrading this road now in progress. Sunset Highway—Renton to summit, vis. Issaquah, Fail City and North Bend— Excellent. Route now open acromm des. McClellan Pass—In good Gondition to Green Water-King county line. Pteres county road 8 miles east of Green Water, good Holly wood-Redmond—Good. * Woodinville-Duvall—Good. | Duvall-Tolt— Fall Tol City—Good. Kirkland-Fal City—Good over Yello it—Over Toit hill, in condition, Newport-Insaquah—Via Lake Sammame tsh—Good. Newport-Renton—Good. Bellevue-Newport—Fair from Rellevue to Wilburton; good remainder of way. Seattle-Renton—Via Rainier valley—Road |. closed south of Bryn Mawr, Paving: work In progress. Seattle-Renton traf= fic go via E. Marginal way to Rentom Junction. Mercer Island—Boulevard around {sland open and passable except at slide om southeast section, Ferry Fortuna, 16, autos, leaves Leschi, making six trips daily except Sunday. For further information King county roads calle local 38, regardiny Main 5906, 3 When you think of advertis- ing, think of The Star, -————; One-Ton Garford Good Order, $800 GO ELDRIDGE Save Money! Alco Trucks and Parts, Cheap TO COMPANY SPOKANE FOR REBUILT Three Ford Trucks. Make an offer. TRUCKS Three-quarter Ton Buick Truck, $650