The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1920, Page 9

| @eonom | Shia nature at the New York COMFORT IS SALES POINT “Economy has been ignored by hal year’s crop of automobile buy ” says C. W. Avery, Maibohm dis. ibutor in this territory “Forgotten entirely was all talk “| ow, | the visitors were manifestly | ed in the comfort and luxury of the cars, and not in the Undoubtedly, the present | Sountry-wide prosperity accounts for this. “The steps which the manufactur: om have been taking the past few! toward standardization w h apparent in the chasses, and | was nothing of a freakish na-| OF an innovation shown ings me- way, and the bizarre ‘paint o— of a few years ago wes! . too. “visitors, too, have evidently their interest in delving into “| of the mechanism of the! car, They were quite willing B take the chasses for granted, and component parts, and were interested in a vanity case than Were in an engine. “Comfort was much in the minds the visitors. The springs, the the upholstery, the log in fact, everything making for comfort, came in for very examination. JONDON MAY HAVE AUTO SUBWAYS TONDON, Fed. 14.—An under ind system of roads for automo- to relieve the growing traffic ton on London streets, was by Lord Ashfield, of South in a speech at the American n club. “These roads, he suggested, could eonnected with the outer districts today eity in the world, said Lord Ash- Roads capable of dealing with motor cars must be provided he said. He also predicted an in the number and size of ound railways for London, the underground motor roads. All records were broken when visitors entered the Western In its eighth year of growth and Prosperity, the Seattle Engineering School, under the direction of its founder and president, William T. A. Faulkner, will soon occupy its new and modern building, which occupies the entire frontage on Queen Anne ave, from Roy to Mercer at. In the new home the courses In Automobile tractor and truck repair, maintenance and adjustment, chine shop work, electrical cacinest| ing, plumbing, gas fitting and steam fitting, automobile electrical syrtems, carburetors and storage batteries, and bricklaying will be conducted with all the advantages of modern equipment and the most cuding | instructors, The new building in) three stories and basement, 60 feet in width by 267 feet in length. The From These Money-Saving VALUES %-ton GMC. i GMC with ton Federal with © body eo Speed Wagon. 919 Dodge Delivery. 18 Buick Delivery. COMING SOON W— With California fifth place to third within a year In motor vehicle registrations, the fourth annual Pacific Auto Show, to The Pacific show is to be one of the most elaborate ever attempted in the West, and will present the most AFFORD To Let This Chance Go By Call East 842 ELDRIDGE soil development will be shown. More than $50,000 is being spent on the decorative scheme, which will typify the great “out-of-doors” an: California's scenic wonderlands. San Francisco will be in gala dreas for the week. MR, OAKLAND OWNER We give free service on carbur- etor tuning, adjusting brakes, ad justing valve tappets, checking timing. Filling and testing bat- teries of any make. We Are Always at Your Service If in Trouble call 5 0.~$-- 518 Weatinke North COMPANY Harvard and Pike THERE 1S A DIFFERENCE LET US DEMONSTRATE Phone East 100 Shields-Livengood Motor Co. SEATTLE YAKIMA SPOKANE dricklaying, and already several men have been given the ground work in this trade, and much interest ts being aroused over the possibilities of this new feature, Much of the credit for the snecess of the new and greater Seattle En gineering School goes to Lioyd Spen jeer, who has put the indomitable oral iy of energy that has character ized his various Seattle activities in, to making the school @ Seattle in- stitution that will bring hundreds of men to this city, and forward the Big Engineering School Will Soon Occupy New Three Story Building School’: t looms Seattle Engineering fs ake tela na Ss today. Below: Class in bricklaying reeetving RUBBER BY TRAINLOADS AKRON, Feb. 14.—The largest single shipment of crude rubber in the world has arrived here from New York and is being unioaded at & local tire factory. It would be sufficient to supply the world for three days. The total value of the shipment is approximately $4,412, | movement of education in practical | 200. trades among the young men of the Northwest. P Well, , Why Not? 1] Il } “boat,” as many do, why not be conaistent and run it like @ boat? John H. Lapp of Lorain, Ohio, who captains a lake steamer and pilots a land boat, makes this sug- geation. “Why don't autemobile drivers adopt some system ef signals to let each other know what the fel- low ahead intends to do? You would save a lot of accidents if you knew by & set signal whether the man ahead of you wanted to tack from starboard to port or stop, or back up. “When a boat wants to go ahead it gtves two biasts of the whistle. When it wants to back up or stop, | 1% given three blasts.” We might wear a sailor suit and carry an anchor and hawser, to let the other fellows know we're in- itiated land salta. That GMC trucks are constantly forging ahead in the states of Washington, Northern Idaho, and | Northern Oregon is best illustrated |by the remarkable males record be- |etnning in 1915, when the line was first taken over by the Eldridge | Buick company, distributors for the GMC truck and Puick autome | bile in the Northwest At the efid of 1915, the pioneer year of GMC sales in this district, the GMC sales thermometer reg [istered 31 trucks. The mecond year, thru the help of the dealer organi- | mation, and thru the reputation of | the trucks sold the year before and with an aggressive retail cam- paign in Seattle and Spokane, the Kidridge Buick company made o delivery of 167 trucks. Nineteen hundred and seventeen's rales ther. |mometer registered 263 trucks; 1918 registered 367 trucks and the year just completed, 1919, saw 695 GMC trucks delivered by the Eldridge Buick company in the Northwest. “Of this number,” says Ben Crow. der, manager of the retail GMC de partment of the Eldridge Buick company of Seattle, “128 GMC's were sold to Seattle business houses and these trucks are licensed to operate in Seattle, ‘These 128 trucks are absolutely retail GMC gales, and it in safe to say that 75 per cent of them were repeat or- ders and 26 per cent new busi- ness.” KEEP ’EM OPEN, OR WEAR MASK No matter how cold or unpleasant ft may be, keep your garage open while you're your machine! Last month the state of Ohio re- ported two deaths which resulted trom working in an air-tight garage. They were caused by the carbon monoxide gas that emanates from the automobile, and with no pure air to circulate thru the small shop, it takes a short time for the place to fill with the deadly fumes, And you can't tell when you might be get ting it, for there's hardly any odor to the gas. But—if you have any objections to an open garage while working In your shirt sleeves—wear & gas mask. inside tinkering with) The long train of 63 care—stretch- ing nearly half @ mile—brought _g| 7.916.000 pounds of the commodity that has made Akron the rubber enter of the world. The shipment consieted of 99.590 200-pound cases, jfach car containing 200 cases, To unload the train will take 48 men about #tx days and more than }half a million cubic feet of storage space will be required to accommo date this buge amount of raw imme terial, With the arrival of the train in Akron ended a trip of nearly 10,000 miles, lasting four months, in which human, marine and railroad trans portation was utilized - Some idea of the vastness of the shipment may be gained when it stated that the 1,916,000 pounds of rubber is equal to a year's produc | tion from 1,600,000 trees or from the yield of 16,000 acres of plantation. Altho the rubber will be used for various purposes, it would be suf fictent for the manufacture of ap Proximately 700,000 tires, “The year of 1930 promises to be one of record-breaking activity in motor manufacturing,” says W. M. Hartford, general sales manager of the Shiekistivengvod Motor company, distributors for the Lex- ington Minute Man Six, the Liberty Six, National Sextet, and the Traf- fie Truck. “On the demand side the motor industry for both pas- wenger cars and trucks has three great heads: First, the new demand from thone who are not now own- ers; second, the replacement de- mand from those who are discard. ing: third, export trade. | “Financial circles,” he continued, “place the 1920 demand as follows Passenger car minimum 1,996,000, maximum 3,070,000; trucks, mint- mum 325,000, maximum 375,000. In considering these figures it must be remembered that the automobile industry has frequently surprised students of the situation by the great extent of its demand. But such a surprise is far more likey to develop im the truck field now than in the passenger field, for it is in a much earlier stage of growth and therefore, more likely to a» sume a sudden and startling ex- pansion. “In fact, it is predicted that if general business conditions should be favorable enough to approach the maximum estimate of the pas senger car demand, the truck do mand would probably be nearer 600,000 than the maximum figures already quoted, It t# well worth membering that in times like the present, production schedules are easier decreased than increased, if expected demand should fail to ma- terialize.” APPLES Retail and Wholesale Cooking, Hating and Baking White Winter main Apples Spitzenbderg Apples Delicious Apples Rome Beauty Apples Chelan Apples Winesap Apples Pear- at Wholesale and Retail These apples will be sold and ranteed lena you can obtain same GRADE ap- D want a bargain in Vegetables, fruits ani ai ples | WHAT’S A FELLER TO DO ABOUT IT? If you don’t stop to pick up a bevy of pretty girls on their way to work in the morning, stop for « load of humanity, thoughtless prig who oughtn't t own @ machine, If you do stoy for a load of humanity, the line of autolsts behind you will honk at you for stopping short, or something like the case in Now York might hap- pen to you, ‘The New York motorist who stopped for a couple of girls in now facing sult for $75,000, The girls enjoyed being picked up until they found themselves in the romdway, when the car bumped into a curbstone. Now one of the guests wants $25,000 for « broken arm and other in Juries, while the other asks for twiee this sum. ° exaicageneg can ® poor feller FIVE WINNERS | IN 1920 RACE} INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 14. ‘The five consecutive winners of | great Indlanapolin races since 1913 | will run races within @ race in the @ighth annual 600-mile international | sweepstakes on the Indianapo! | motor speedway on May ist, for a cash purse of $50,000, which will make the big five century grind one of the most interesting battles an average of 76.92 mi Rene Thomas followed him in 1914 with @ Delage car, winning the event at an average of 82.47, Ralph De Paima, one of the most Popular of all race pilote, estab- Mahed a record for the 600<mile race in 19 that has not been equaled up to this Ume, driving a Mercedes car for 600 miles ut the rate of $9.56 miles per hour. ‘The year before the suspension of racing on account of the war the distance waa reduced to 300 miles and this race was captured by Dario Hesta, driving & Peugeot, which made the second victory for hy? make of car, the average being $3.26. In 1919 the distance was again 600 miles and Howard Wilcox estab shed the third winning for the Peugeot factory, his average time being £7.96 miles per hour, Incidentally, the only 600mile race winners not expected to be en tered in the coming event are Ray Harroun, who won the first race in 1911 at the wheel of a Marmon, and Joe Dawson, who drove a Na- tional to first place in the 1912 race. Both have retired from the racing LOOK FOR BOOM If freight rates advance March 1, ae threatened, the “Ship by Truck” Movement looks for a boom in ite own line. For there will be many short-haul consignors who will resort to truck shipment, instead of rail. Altho shipping by truck would stil! cost more than consignment by rail, the time gained in delivery would pay for the difference in shipping ex- pense. Some men will look you straight in the eye while you dig down in your pocket to pay for the gas you are using to give them the joy ride to which they have invited them- selves. After we've paid a few repair and replacement bills a lot of us begin to wonder if we really knew as much about a car as we thought we did. VOTE SARTORI FOR 3-YEAR TERM AS COUNCILMAN The man who has made his own business a success. Let him be a factor. in making a success of Seat- tle’s business, ef The man who can give all his time, and the benefit of his thirty years’ inti- mate knowled; of the needs of our city. > (Paid for by R. HB. Russell) * | offices of the Western Gear Works, | COLE AERO-EIGHT A forecast of future fashions 15,000 Immediate Delivery UNIT 407 East Pine St. miles on tires Models on Display ED MOTORS CO. A. F. HAWKINSON, Mgr. East 9 Extract Bullet From Boy’s Leg Williamson, 14-year-old boy bandit, Friday. The youth was shot by the police last Monday night, when he was caught attempting to rob the 417 Ninth ave. &, to obtain money for bis sick mother. England is manufacturing light cars which range from 1,000 to 1,400 pounds, carry five persons and show gasoline, of) and tire mileage three times that of the American made motor cars. Sale by the Navy OF SUBMARINE CHASERS | NOS. 135, 136, 210, 211, 107, 216, 181, 37, 44, 45, 47, 95, 178, 182, 207, 272, 356, 436, 11 and 291. ‘ows SUB-CHASERS Nos. 135, 136, 210 and 211, now at the Navy Yard, Washing- ton, D. C. SUB-CHASERS Nos. 107 and 216, now in the First Naval District, Navy Yard, Bos- ton, Maas. SUB-CHASERS Nos. 37, 44, 45, 47, 95, 178, 181, 182, 207, 272, 356 and 436, now in the Third Naval District, Fleet Supply Base, 29th St. and 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. SUB-CHASER No. 116, now in the Fifth Naval eee oe ek SUB CHASER No, 291, now in the Thirteenth Naval District, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. Exact location may be ascertained from the Commandant of the the district oo voy oe should be obtained aE trip for inapection. fale f ‘wilt iY pea cash to tl ighest e bias a to reject all bids re- . obtainable lies and Ac- inte of the TELA, Secretary of the Navy. 1-16-20 (Paid Advertisement) Candidate for CITY COUNCILMAN TWO-YEAR TERM To the Voters of Seattle: As my time at present ts fully Occupied as contractor in building the Empire Way sewer in Rainier Valley I am unable to attend poilit- {cal meetings, make speeches or mingle mpch with the voters. So I wish to present a few of my views through the daily press, The soaring high tax rate should have its wings clipped through a speeding up of all officials and employes, and the conducting of an economical, constructive and effi- cient business administration. The money expended by the city should have the #ame purchasing power as that expended by indi- viduals, Needed public tmprovéments should be undertaken and pushed to com- pletion with diligence and economy, eliminating extravagance and waste fulness. Politics should have no place in the conduct of the affairs of this growing municipality, The “Open Shop” principle should prevail, and there should be no dis- crimination against a laborer be cause he does or does not belong to some organization. Labor should be well paid, but in return honest service should be de- manded, And further, f would require 100% Americanism in all elective and ap- pointive city employes, They should upbullding of a great city, rather than being content simply to be on the pay roll. I ask the support of my fellow citizens for the nomination of Coun- ciiman for the two-year term, prom- ising a diligent, fearless and faithful performance of the duties of the GEORGE B, WORLEY. @aid for by George B, Worley) } | masterplece. Casket Makers Go Out on Stri BAN FRANCISCO, Feb coffin builders of the Casket union announced today that would strike a week from the casket companies do not f nize their union before that q : Kicks Pocket; Gets Workman’s Med A pickpocket took advantage of 3 M. Williams, 909 Ninth ave, picked his pockets of a watch stickpin Friday while Williams without his shotgun. Williams ¢ the police he was a prize shot, @ the thief got away with his AMUSEME CONCERT HEAR BY THOUSANDS Seattle Taking. Advantage of Symphony Season Seattle people by thousands are taking advantage of the opportunity to hear the best in music interpreted at Seattle Symphony Orchestra con- certs, Six months ago the audiences at Meany hall were about half as large us typical audiences these days People crowded into balcony and gal- lertes, and also comfortably filled the main floor seats of the big university auditorium Friday night. Harold Henry was the soloist, and in MacDowell’s D minor concerto he revealed @ technical finish and a pe id Frebite; Bessie ~ fog Cooper; the Chopin polonaise, which was sendy nace given as first encore, and which was received with no leas enthusiasm and appreciation than the MacDowell | t PALACE Hip Six Snappy Acts of HIPPODROME VAUD Feature Phot Be There were only two orchestral numbers on Friday night's program —Henry Hadley'’s D minor sym-| phony and Liszt's symphonic poem, | “Tanso,” neither of which had been | heard previously in Seattle, RESCUE WOMAN FROM DROWNING Slips From Piling at Lake Washington Dock Table d’Hote ner, served as the BUTLER serve, at $1.50 cover. Make your table reservations early, coddles” while soliciting I. W. Ww. defense funds in Port Blakeley. Five-Year-Old Boy Not Exactly Lost Losing her five-year-old son, Bob- by, in Second ave., Mrs, W. N. Voeg: ply of 1824 Eighth ave. W., searched down town frantically Friday after- noon, notified the police, and finally giving up, went home to wait and weep. When she got there Bobby was sitting on the veranda. “I just follered the cars,” he said. Suspect Held for Robbery of Train HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. 14.—One/| suspect was under arrest Saturday following investigation of the rob- bery of @ pay train near Waimea. The bandit ejected the train crew and escaped in the engine with $11,- 000, SEATTLE BURNS UP LOS ANGELES SMOKES A million and a half smokes for! the Northwest were distributed by Woolley & Co., sole importers of Los Angeles cigars for the United States, | during the month of January just past, To properly handle this great amount of business, the firm has tak- en new and larger quarters at 1109) % Third ave. two blocks up the street from {ts former location, at 900 Third ave, H. 8S. Woolley and E. R. Murray started in business in 1911, and to- day are rated one of the largest im- porters of Manila cigars on the Coast. The Los Angeles is practical- ly the only “nickel smoke" left on the Coast, but its popularity is due = only to price, but to quality and 20, Seattle smokers puff over 400,000 Loe Angeles cigars every month of the year. COUNTY ALMSHOUSE operation cost $34,088.11 during 1919, according So report in ade ote y commis- sionera from Josiah Collins, charity commissioner, Saturday, SAFE DEPOSIT "BOXES s Title Trust Co TRY STAR WAI