The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 11

KALISPELL, Mont. RUCKS, ACCESSORIES, VPI ational Park to Par g Highway Association } Assured Co-operation , Sept. 18.—Turning estward to the Pacific Coast states, after com- the first 1,200 miles of their swing around the new National Park-to-Park highway, tatives of the National Park Service, American Automobile association and Na- Pa k-to-Park Highway association take with them assurances of the vigorous co- @peration of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho in persuading congress to build a face road connecting the national parks in the West. All thru Colorado, Wyoming and Montana the first official tour of the rf which was dedicated at last month, haa been greeted the assistance of that state. enthusiasm is expected on the Pacific coast. Spokane was reached Friday afternoon and Saturday ts be- ‘i: spent there. Davenport and El Will be visited September 19, Waterville and Wenatchee, Septem: 20; Cle Elum, September 21; ‘4 ational park service, has sent a per- @onal representative on the tour to support of his bureau in iting to congress the necessity hard-surfacing the road linking to make the parks of the Pa- © coast as well known to the Mid- ‘West and East as Yellowstone, was visited this year by ap- timately 80.000 persons and more 13,000 private automobiles, He that a large proportion of tourists in their own cars will several parks, instead of only one, if adequate highways are pro In view of indications that goqd roads legislation will receive More attention at the next session of congress than for several years, it is hoped that a number of new projects |) wit be provided for, ‘Virtually every town visited by the tour has promised to send delegates convention in Denver, Novem which plans will Made for the Western states to Move as a unit in presenting the na tienal park-to-park highway project | ‘te congress. The highway traverses states and touches pine nauonal ‘yO, president National Park. Park Highway association; L. L- Cody, Wyo., president Wy: State Good Roads association; Leavitt, Great Falls, Mont, Yellowstone-Giacier Bee Harry N. Burhans, Denver, Colo. president Fey Tourist Development association Wyck, jr., national park serviag, | eereenting Director Mather; D. J San Francisco, representing Caittornia State Automobile associa- |, tion; F. V, Owen, Los Angeles Cham- ‘Ber of Commerce; Herbert Corey, New York, war correspondent and magazine writer; A. G. Lucier, Inter- ational Film Service; Milton W. ‘Lusk, Cleveland, Ohio State Automo- | Bile aescciation; Mrs. Stella Levis ton, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. L. Shawver, Shoshone, Wyo.; Rodney Tmvis, Denver, and Mrs. C. 8. Sands, ‘Kirksville, Mo.; Maj. E. H. Pershing, _ U.S. A. and Mrs. Pershing. ft! Motnee—Gooa ‘Moines-Tacoma HighMine—Rough to Bing county line Kenton J janetles—Goot Maple Valley—Closed at Cofar| | Mountain, regrading. To reach Mapie Valley, go by way of Issaquah and or by way of Swan Lake, via road. Line Valley -tlack ~—Patr. Maple Valiey—Partiy closed near Rent: new construction. Duvall—| Fair. Fall City —Good. Pail City Good. Hollywood—Closed for paving New pavement open May Valley, one mile beyond Coal- |. 6% miles from Renton. Fall City-North Bend—Goot. Redmond—Via Lake Baninam- ot. Bellevue—Good. New road be- tween Bellevue and Newport now Franklin — Two claw being paved. Fair detour. Diamond—New concrete Foad now open beyond Auburn to point aravel beyond. Nk. miles at) —Opam tre fair condition igh wi Green Water River beyond Enumclaw genera roads around Enumclaw excel ALL PAVED ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION Senttle-Renton — Via Kainior Valley— ferry dex to Bkykomiah Pure trom Des Renton-Kent— «1 Gavement open for foncrete road from We BRIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION — Over Snoqualmie — travel. Continuous Duvall bridge. | en River near | Por torther information regarding King qounty roads cali Main ad 3 Many of the larger cities of Amer. fea and EBurope do not permit car tracks on their finest streets, but to Auburn. | ‘De Palma’s Jinx | Finally Routed | in Elgin Race The jing which for more than a year has ridden with Ralpti De Pal ma in all the big automobile races of the coumtry haa finally been routed. | After repeatedly having victory! within his grasp, only to have it| | snatched from him by some evil) genius, the famous racing ~ driver | “came back” gloriously in the 251%) | mile road race just held at Elgin, Ml. in one of the most furiously contest ed races of the year. And just to emphasize that he te the same master driver as in 1915, | when he won the 500-mile Indianapo- lis event, De Palma made a clean sweef at Elgin, breaking all records | for the course, He led the field from | tart to finish, winning first prize of | $6,000, and a special prize of $3,000 $100 each. He was given a great ovation as he pulled into the pits after winning the event ‘His time for the race was 3 hours, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, and his aver age speed 79% miles per hour, a new | merk. Sharing his spectacular victory were the Goodyear cord Ures with which his Ballot car was equipped. Maintaining the standard they have | jset in many other races, Goodyears | permitted him to complete the entire | terrific grind without a single atop. Having entablishtd the best time | for the course in practice, De Palma | Was given the honor position at the | start and was the first driver to pull | away from the tape, hie competitors | following at intervals of 15 seconds. On the 19th lap he set a new mark of 6 minutes, 11 seconds for the eight-mile course, clipping seven sec- onds from the former record, which | had held for five years, He ran off the road on the north end of the course during the 21st lap, but got | back on the track without losing his | poattion. Tony Milton and Jimmy Murphy, each piloting Duesenbergs; Ralph | Mulford in a Monroe, Eddie O’Don- nell at the wheel of a Deusenberg, and Percy Ford in a Frontenac, fin ished second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, all of them within the money. Murphy and O’Donnell | also rode on Goodyear cords, | The next important race of the sea- son will be held October 2, at Frew no, Cal, when the new onemile | board track just completed in the raisin city will be dedicated, Many | of the big drivers qlready have en-| | tered for the 200-mile grind, and au-| tomobile men are expecting new r ords to be established at the inaugur. ation of the track. The Lincoin highway from Pitts burg to Philadelphia is to be kept open all winter thru the ald of | powerful snow plows. for leading each of the 20 laps, at|* Traffic Ordinance “SECTION 36—It shall be un- lawful to operate such motor ve- hicles as are fully equipped with pneumatic tires without having attached to such vehicles itn a PLACE a SPEED- INDICATE speed at which such vehicles are being operated.” Stewart Speedometers Are Accurate ondce MAE Offa ath ase the popular motor bus lines. Cleveland, Ohio, had 11 gasoline —— in January, 1900 America’s Oldest Gasmobile WASHINGTON.—-This is a view of Elwood Haynes’ pioneer car out: side the Smithsontan Institute. This was the first mechanically suaressful automobile made in America, and is 27 years old. of g™ ts now America's third greatest industry. AUTOISTS TAXED $75 PER MILE]; For every mile of highway tn the United States, that le equal to the demands of agtomobile traffic, each motor velticle own: er pays $75 In taxes! That ls the estimate of R E. Fulton, a truck manufacturer, who figures this ways In 1918 motorists paid to the various states a total of $150, 000,000 tn all kinds of taxes and fees, besides increasing the fed eral treasury by $33,000,000. Since there are 4500000 miles of highway, improwed and unim- proved, in the country—figure the rest out for yourself, ‘The motorist wixiting New York might soon find ft a pleasure to drive up the heretofore rutty and bumpy Broadway For a movement is om to take up the etreet car tracks and start a motorbuse sys tem. The Broadway Association of York ts tehind the movement. In Ohio, © motor hearse fs a “pleasure” car, So is @ privately owned motor ambulance. That's the ruling of the state secretary. Seventysaren per cent of af the motor cars in use in the United States cost less than $1,000 each. nee It marks the beginning U. S. Tire Co. |1000 Miles in 24 Hours Made By Stock Overland Excells in New Window Display Ask any New Yorker where the most beautiful window display in the eity may be found and he will ab most certainly direct your attention to the five windows of the United States Tires company on Broadway near Columbus Circle, It is worthy of attention that the pinnacle of window dressing has been reached not in the display of such things as gems and works of art, which possess in themaelves so many of the elements of beauty, but in the display of automobile tires which the of graceful contour, have #0 little of the color or adaptability requisite to the presentation of the beautiful. Up anti five years ago the United | States Tire company's windows were utilized chiefly for lighting the intecior of the store, and also to dis. play a few articles such as tres, belting and fire howe. Tho the ef forte at display at that time were quite in adyance of other compantes handling a similar line, no provisions were made for backgrounds or illus truted settings such ~ are used to amy. In September, 1915, a new system ©f decoration was adopted, and the Fesults obtained quickly established | the company as the pioneer among tire companies in the art of show window display and a genuine com- petitor for first honors for window dressing in any line. These window displays are a par ticular hobby of the company’s president, J. N. Gunn, He takes a keen interest in the preparation of each new display and is a veritable David Belasco for detail. Suggestion to Safeguard Your Automobile Of all devices invented to thwart | auto thieves, not one can claim abso- lute protection, Keys, locks, rim spikes and the countless other con trivances ha | auto burglar has found a way to ply hix trade in mpite of them all. Weill, here's the lateg, and one | that i# guaranteed by its Inventor to | prevent theft. It does not lock your | ignition, nor the gear shift lever, nor | the steering wheel, nor Bny other | part of the car. In fact, every part can be left open and ready for im mediate use, But as soon as the car is moved, unofficially, an alarm goes before he's caught. The police can be let in on the secret, and any cop hearing thag alarm know the ma- ebine in being stol: ‘The device consists of a gong hid- den away tn some inaccessible place, beneath the engine or the toeboard, to a separate battery and switch. The main idea is to hide the gong and «witch no the thief can't get at them The switch can be hidden underneath & rear seat, or in a side pocket, and the wires leading to the battery and gong hidden’ in the same way. Once the car ts parked, all the owner haa to do is turn on the switch and quit worrying about pos- sible theft. But do not forget to turn off the switch before starting or you'll find yourself explaining it . to the judge. KNOCKOUT TIRE SALE Less Than Half All High Grade—Standard Makes— Strictly first-class. You all know us. What we offer MUST be GOOD. List Price. Casings. Tubes. $3.15 30x3 380x314 30x31, 32x31, 31x4 32x4 83x4 34x4 33x41, 34x41, 385x414 386x414 85x5 387x5 $23.35 27.00 29.35 29.70 43.70 44.60 45.80 46.70 59.65 61.80 65.50 71.10 76.30 81.75 War Tax Included 3.75 4.25 5.05 5.25 5.45 5.70 6.85 7.00 7.05 7.40 8.55 8.90 Sale Price. Casings. Tubes. $11.00 $2.00 12.00 14.50 17.50 18.50 20.00 22.00 23.50 30.00 32.00 32.50 35.00 37.50 40.00 fm the Above Prices ‘Plain read) 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.25 3.50 3.55 4.00 4.25 4.60 4.75 4.90 5.00 You will look @ long time before. you find another bargain like this. Pike Street Tire Shop W. O. STANDRING, ‘Prop. Phone Elliott 446. 1026 Pike St., Cor. Boren been tried, and the! off and the burglar hasn't far to go) for instance, wires leading trom that) A new citation badge has been pinned on the famous Overland stock ear that ran 5,462 miles over Indiana country roads early this year. The new citation is for a remarkable per formation jn a race against the hour hand of a clock on the hard riding Indianapolis speedway. The Overland car, after being used im road work for 2,000 miles, made ita record of 6,452 miles in 168 hours continuous driving over frozen goun try roads, early in March, It then went back Into service as @ passen- ger car for road saleamen and then covered some 6,500 more miles. On top of this it was sent out at noon, August 24, on the Indianapolis apeedway, in an effort to travel 1,000 miles before the hour hand of the clock cou'a complete its cycle. The car not only ran 1,000 miles, but it did {t in less than the 24 hours al loted. ‘The Indianapolis speedway ts con- aidered one of tho hardest race courses in the world Is is con- structed of brick and few repairs have been made to the roadbed since it wae laid, 10 years ago. In that Ume the elements have roughened it, and today the car that travels over it undergoes more racking vi- bration than would be received upon the ordinary country road, The however, came thru with flying colors, It was driven by for Small NEW YORK, Sept. 18—An un- preosdented demand for Amercan automobiles of the smaller type in Europe was noticed by 8. A. Miles, automobile show manager of the Na tional Automobile Chamber of Cabn- merce, during his three-months’ trip through England, France and neigh. boring countries, from which he has | Just returned. “The English and French are keen for American cars, are buying them probably will continue to do #0,” Miles said. “As a result of the war, all Eu- rope, and in fact all the world has been completely sold on motor trans | portation, both for persons as well aa merchandise, The truck business |continues to grow, eapecially an the rajiroads over there are overtaxed. SMALL TYPE OF {CAR FAVORED “The small type of car seems to be favored. Of these great numbers are seen on the road, but of the big cara not nearly eo large a portion as we see at home. People there are not to buy expensive care and. moreover, the cost of operation has its effect. “Gasoline, which by the way, ts & very much better grade than we Phone Sees Big Demand Abroad |now at abnormally high prices and | four amateur drivers, who took turn about, driving two hours each and then resting six hours, To cover the 1,000 miles, it was neceanary for the, car to maintain a much higher average rate of speed than is ever exacted for any period of time from any car by the average car owner. But with muffler open, the car responded nobly to the test. Thru out the daylight hours it sped around the great twoandwhalf mile oval, | and when the evening hours came} the speed was increased. No more dramatic sight was ever witnessed on the scene of the world’s mont classic automobile contents than was the wight of the ight car, guided by two «spotlights, roaring past the great empty stands which meemed to throw an even more in | tense blackness of shadow upon the night#hrouded course. The car, in this remarkable run, proved that the stamina and stability which gave a hardihood necessury to negotiate | 5,452 miles im 168 hours, gave also | at extreme flexibility of motor ah permitted ita power plapt to hold the car to the high speed neces- | sary to cover 1,000 miles in less than | 24 hours. It wae an expression of the new union of economy and stamina on the American highway. ‘The run was observed by Secretary Seroggin of the Hoosier Motor club, and other officials. American Cars have here, is selling at about 74 cents an English gallon, which is| high compared with our price here. This is the result of bigh taxes and the fact that all gasoline has to be imported. “I think the English as well as the French are pretty well satisfied that they get high value for their money { in the purchase of an American car. “The European makers nSturally are putting forth every effort to off. set our trade in cars and trucks In other countries, The rivalry is keen but friendly, European manufactur. j@rs not overlooking the fact thaf | America has a great advantage in the price at which it can nell its cars throughout the world, owing to our (Dig home market that permits quan- | ty production, “Italy has ruled that 99 per cent of ite motor cars must be @xported. France has just taken off the em-| bargo on cars altho continuing a 4 per cent duty. “In general, I would say that trade conditions over there are rather ex- traordinary at this time. Cars are selling at figures far beyond thelr actual values, simply because of a shortage.” Piedmont ts the center of the au- tomobile industry tn Italy. ‘The Overland hed no serious competition sf ies price, and at ite price it had oo competi quality. 000 Oren bad en ols ea oe tinent was clamoring for more. ‘Then the Overland organisation concerned about the price of gasoline, ee ee became Overland busines when the wel pangs erm patie pales The sale of an Overland is the beginning und not the end of Overland interest im the {naa or woman who buys i, So Overland designers were told: boasds and bring it Moathe end months of experiment Millions end millions of expense! And then, up and out of the Valley of Dilemma, Passengers than all the steam rail roads in the United States. 129 motor cars, 33 motor cycles and| listed tn 7 motor lorries. 1919 in the total mileage of con- tracts for road construction. AUTO TALKS A traffic policeman prdered the first automobile Michigag ave. in 1896, The motor car carries more Aden, in the Red Sea region, has| There are 123 Chamber of Commerce, Penneyivania led the nation tn thruout the United States. [e) ka iv . For a Few Days Delivered in Seattle The price will shortly advance because of increased freight rates. WY NY A new body has just arrived, with | Gypsy curtains and curtains that open * with the door—large frame — longer wheel base—larger bearings, etc. Think of it! The lowest-priced six- cylinder car in Seattle, and only $650 down—balance in 12 months. ri Buy before the increase‘in price. Austin-Moseley Co. pon tet 4 Vote for Good Roads—Referendum No. 1 irs 19) What Would You Have Done? Bat the Overland theory is, that nothing is that can conceivably be better, 75 ‘fan yomcrrprrerd exs have pany en fo progress! In that epirit, the Overland wascseated, In that epirit, the Overland is presented, Aod now, in that spirit, let ws get together! Begin Today To Get More Mileage For Your Money! 97 Cities Report an Averoge of 25 Miles Per Gillon in the Overland Sedan The Economy SEDAN East 660. WILLYS-OVERLAND PACIFIC COMPANY Twelfth Avenue and East Pine Street in Chicago utomobile makers the National Automobile» More than 600 permanent Tnotor truck lUnes are now established