The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1920, Page 9

eee ll 1 Gb abl SATURDAY, JONT 19, 1970, Benzol Now Sold for Fuel at Ford’s Detroit Plant Five thousand gallons of bensol, ayit oan be used alone and under all)ing of costs in @ systematic way,” by-product of coke, used for motor | conditions, fuel, is now being da and refined at the Ford Motor Com pany'’s blast furnace hear Detroit, Michigan. which is more highly than gasoline, ts Plant and has proven factory this fuet public for motor motor car consumption ing station carries a si 000 gallons of & the time. To da lons have been ear and truck Particularly durt there was an excer Mand for this product Mik With Gasoline Benzol has not as yet reached the ous intersections, | highest stage of refinement, and with the result/Cost system i# an enormous stride Present results a t when it te that these were in the right direction, This system mixed in equal pro Cline, Heat and cold a) ferently Ford chemical laborato A. great deal of experi now being sold at & public station at the above named The price at present is About the same as that of gasoline, | i While the Ford Motor company te not the iret to discover or uve| AIS IS THE WAY cars, still the} station is the opened to sell benzo! exctustvety for | rtions with gas from gasoline. But soon hope to be able to re: |TRUCK COSTS IMPORTANT “A moat important factor in suc coaatul truck operation is the keop- Of courve, its chief ef mys C. M. Jenkins, transportation | fectiveness comes from its high com: | engineer of the Hidridge Buick com- bustive power which is between I2}pany, “And then comes the ques and 15 per cent greater than @aso | tion, are we all keeping our coate tn ne. such manner that they can be easily Ford officials te there t# nolcompared? This is a point we should possibility of benzo! ever displacing | not overlook, gasoline as a motor fuel, since it] “There 4s @ Meld for all modes of is a by-product of coke and, there | transportation, and without accurate fore, obtainable only in limited quan-|unit mile cost it ts impossible to de titles, termine the proper place for each of these. These questions can be tabulated as follows: 1, Whether to use @ horse, motor IT’S DONE IN SOUTH jtrucx, ratiroad oF boat; 2 Whether the capacity of the ve 1 | ia not atop the careless from driv.|hicle we are using is the most ef- ing into accidents, the Auto Club of | ficient; Southern Califor.| 3. Whether our repaire are Ror nia found, So its| mal or excessive; members hit up| 4. Whether we are getting tho ‘on the novel plan| minimum cost per mile from our of presenting the | tires, if the motor truck is our means drivers with the|of transportation; plain facts. Signs| 5. Whether, in the use of @ truck, like this were put|OUr gas consumption is normal or up at danger.|above normal “The National Standard Truck iy extracted coke ovens ‘This fuel, | combustible | highly satis first ever! | “Safety First" and “Danger” signs Detroit recent strike | large de} noted where the enables ua to compare costs quickly | having become commonplace |4nd easily with other concerns tn | the slogans, were passed by unobserved. | similar business, ry are doing Now the park director of Cleveland, “The human element is perhaps | = and|Ohio, wants similar signs put up| the greater percentage of the trans ne it so} within the city park limite. portation problem and as truck and wo affect dif. | oth me Truc COME in any size of Rebuilt ‘ELDRIDGE SALES CO. Used Car Dept. 802 East Pike St. | driver are out of sight of the owner about 90 per cent of the time, it is |very necessary to keep accurate| records of just what the truck is do- ing and what its operation costs. “A driver should be paid accord. ing to the service he ren@ers and the condition in which he keeps his truck. An accurate cost system i# the only means wherely an owner can accomplish this.” AUTO SIGNALS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE The Johnson Auto Signal is a | GRAVEL ROADS Keat-.Dee Metnes— Good Des Moinee-Tacomm Hightine—Good to Kies county lee Keaton: alley—_Yair — Valley-Black Diamend—Road fair ‘emporary croming over Cedar river at dicate the driver's intentions nations understand, and ie equally discerned by the pedestrian, the au Newport-lesnquah -iood toiste following or coming from Renten-Bellevee—Generally goo4. New read betwees Salleves’ asa ‘Newport | the opposite direction, and the traf- flo officer at point of action. lemqeah-Redmané—Vie lane Semman teh ~ Good. two miles cam, Detour toward Enamciaw five mili Muckieshoot bill into Greea River val- | summit, good | MeClellan Pass Highway — Brometaw- ks Avtomobiien stolen during 1919 tad | an ineurance value of $5,000,000. res | ALL FAVED Ro. | CONDITION FORD OWNERS Does your car start hard? And are your lights dim? Three-Tree Point efete road now open, 1M miles Renton — Via Rainier - Watch for cross-over near Taylors |} emint, | IN Vashon Istand—The ferry trem Dee Reattie- pen from O'Brien to Kent. ES UNDER CONWTRECTION Novetty Bridge, Over Snoquaimie—Cieeed. | No passing Use Duvall briden | Lee Hill Beldge—Over Green river, near Auburn. Use care in passing. ret No passing. New bridge buliding Yor further information regarding King county roads call Main 5996, local 48, | We guarantee to raise your magneto & volts, or no charge, Antotets In the United States are ft 15.00. expected to demand only $0,000,000 || °F # tires during 1920, saya the chamber EASTLAKE GARAGE of commerce. This includes aij sorts Eastlake ~ Jot motor vehicles ius Captscl 835 THE SEATTLE STAR UTOMOBILE., GAS-SAVER EXPLAINED While the large ot! companies and the government are urging the au: tomobile and truck owner to con: ferve gasoline, the Northwestern Fepresentatives of the Motorlife com- pany of Memphis, Tenn., have been quietly educating the people in « method whereby gasoline inuy be waved. Mr, Wilson, of the firm of Ward & Wilson, who are distributing Mo- torlife in thie territory, in speaking of their products gave a number of interesting facts in connection with the results of ite use, “The wellknown fact that the lite of any moving parts of any Machine is lengthened in proportion to the élimination of friction, and that the only known method of do- ing away with friction te thru lub cation, goes to show that the mo: succesful the lubrication, the } the cost of upkeep, and the longer the life of the machine,” said Mr. Wilson. “The originator of our product, called Motorlife, is an expert chem- ist and an authority on lubrication and has perfected « product which ie eanentially a high heat rovisting lubricant containing a carbon solv: ent compounded with different oils. “The manufacturets ponitively guarantee that this product does not contain ether, camphor, naphthaline, pleric or other organic acide or any mineral acids, or, in fact, anything that will injure tron, steel, copper, brass or aluminum, and {t leaves no residue, ash or any gummy sub- stance of crystalline matter upon burning. The desirability of this product is that it is not a chemical powder, tablet or ball, and that it NEW Troubles by have lost or pointments there’s none Get a divorce from Tire ling Tires. Quit worry- ing over the miles you makes. Jack up the old ear and slip on Sterlings, the tires that satisfy. We guarantee them to please you wholly. Re- member the hame, Distefruters fer Gresem, Wastimgten, Nerthern Léskho and Western Montene All the mileage you pay for —and more — when you carry Sterling Tires. A wealth of satisfaction fm store for you, and a host of thrifty miles. They cut the cost of fliv- ving, no matter how heavy your car. Join the army of satisfied users. Don't say tires— say Sterlings. using Ster- your disap- with other the same. Sterfing Vacuum Bar Tread is a patented de- vice—a guaranteed non-skid. Not a hit-and- miss idea based on some pretty pattern or the initials of the maker, but a real honest- to-goodness non-skid that really hold when the time comes. Maamfactared by Sterfing Tire Corporation, Retherferd, N. J. Ray & Smith Co. 14th and Burnside, PORTLAND, ORE. OUR BEST ASSET IS T THE SPRECKELS ‘ wu threatens to surpass the action of | TAYLOR, Texna—This city 18 9 trucks to congented with automobiles that BI anyone getting to his office bit | | Denver, Colo. by not onty barring | te finds it hard to park within five horses from its atreeta, bot keeping | or six blocks of Kia destination. GIRL WORKERS CARED FOR plant’s employes tented. Thia year the urual annual day | afield will be held in August, Of! happy momt recent action of the company in renting for the entire season @ large and beautiful cottage at a well- known summer resort for the com venience of its women employes. The cottage ts located on the jin the Argonne. with the varied amusements of this resort. A chaperon has been engaged tor | the young ladies and her expenses, an well an the upkeep of the cottage, will be paid by the company | A schedule of vacation dates has) Been arranged #0 that each woman in the employ of the company can spend her vacation at the cottage in| company with some of her co-work ers, The cottage accommodates 12) women at a time. ene | certain defined limite. MA=—<AMA BADGER BRAND FROST OWN HEADLIGHTS A stinple method to dim the head coating the inner side of the # with a soldtion of Epsom mute and Lat the solution dry on the) and the frosting will serve water Glass, months dota alone.” ON SHIFTING GEARS Im shifting gears always remem | lighte by frosting the glass, is by|Der to firet use @ positive stroke, | | “feeling” one when the car is moving at about) the speed leffictently as a dimmer for several Ucular gear you wish to shift to. |Then force the lever home with a PAAR nn | qutich «motion—and you won't be ite work tru lubrication | bothered with @ damaged goarset |for @ long tine, ACE” T4 AUTO TOPS AND SEAT COVERS gear into another, equal to that of the par-| Pickard & Traill 1722 BROADWAY Phone Kest 620 Better Teps tor Lew not se high; even as carrion is consumed by the materials, and great is our pride because of it. 5 SALUTE YOU, O MOTORISTS! as a character is symbolic of The waye and imbued with the spirit of the evganisation he represents, the fittle “chief” is on authority ent the construction of “Savage” tires and tubes. 4 Itt fit- ting that the sterling qualities and the sturdiness of hie race are characteristic, too, of the products with which he ie associated, } H E° SATISFIED CUSTOMERL SAN DIEG CALIF. SAVAGE AGENTS EVERYWinRg THE SPRECKELS “SAVAGE” TIRE COMPAN Factory Branch, 918 East Pike St., Seattle NEW AD MAN FOR BRISCOE CORPO! Waring Sherwood, adv Yor years the Pennsylvania Pub-| M ber company's welfare department |S8*F € the Briscoe has done much toward making the | ton, announces the appolt and con | Eric B. Filppen as assistant |tising manager, Mr. with the Street Railways ter t tance, however, is the|°COMpany Up until the time Race guar Came enrane cans |ing the A. HB. ¥. in 3917, as a private, Flippen was to a lieutenancy for valorous While scouting party he was wi bathing | Yerely and taken captive by | beach at Putin-Bay, in close touch|™4ne November 9, 191 before the signing of the My people are famed in all the land as being hard to please with UTTLE HEAP HAS SPOKEN,