The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1920, Page 7

| | Inventors Rapidly | Overcoming Former | Defects, It Is Said ‘Zhe steam auto, precourser of the @ancline car, seems destined to come @uickly to the fore again. ‘UWlked on by the automotive fuel problem, inventors and mechanicians thruout the United States are work: fng@to overcome the few remaining Gefects which have retarded steam that unless some immediate solution fa found for impending fuel short ge, the gasoline car has about Feached the limit of its development. “*Bteam” ia becoming the slogan. the steam car can use for fuel | PWactically any fluid that makes a fimme. Crude oil, unavailable for : can be used. Equally good kerosene, distillate, or mixed “And manufacturers of the steam are announcing that, by using @ Rew metal, indestructible under the strongest heat, they have over- final serious defect. “NOT SOME- ‘THING FOR DOING WHAT YOU WANT | DONE JINTELLIGENTLY JECONOMICALLY AND |PROMPTLY” If it isn’t right, we'll make it right. Steam has always been considered the ideal automobile power, Unlike the gasoline car, which carries only & constant the steam car can handle with’ ease a variable load. Making only 911 piston movements per minute at 90 miles an hour, aa compared to 33,000 f eight-cyl |inder gasoline car, it is simple in operation, It has no ignition trou: bles, no clutch, no gears or tranamis j sion, and has now reached a point where, with competent handling, it gives less trouble than the gasoline machine. Up to the present the only prac ticable steam car on the market has been in the hands of one fam- fly in New Engtand, the Stanieys. Controlling a2 the basic patents, the Stanleys have steadfastly refused to manufacture more than 1,000 cars a year, The result is that today there are less than 4,000 steam automo- biles running tn the United States, RESTRICTIONS Orr But now the Stanleys have been prevailed upon to allow the use of | their patents by other companies turers are planning to push the | steam car. It ts expected that within a year there will be at least six steamers in the market, all based upon the same patents. With their flexfbility, enormous tractive power, and low, cheap fuel ‘ consumption, it is predicted shortly | to outsell the gasoline machine, | It has been perfected to the point where 20 miles per gallon of kero- | mene is possible with a water con- sumption of 50 miles per gallon. The car is also said now to be able to raise steam from a cold boiler tn less than one minute with no manual ex- perience except closing an electric switch, : 1S FASTEST AUTO ‘i It t= well known that the steam car, even in its present stage of de- velopment, is so fast tliat it is barred in races. Only once, in 1906, has the steam car been driven at full speed. The first mile was covered in 25 sec” onds and the car then left the road, burtied Into the air, and killed the driver, New steam driven cars to be ptaced on the market shortly will probably sell for one-third leas than the car GRAVEL ROADS Beat Dew Metace Got Des Motnes-Tarome Highline— Rough to King county line. Keatce ton Renton-Maple Valley—Ciosed to Cedar Mountain; regrading. To reach Maple Valley, go by way of Issaquah and Hobart, or vie Swan Lake Pine Line road. Maple Valiey-Biack Diameed— Var. Keat-Maplo Valley—Partiy closed near Kent; new construction; good detour, New ment, 6% miles from Ineaquah- Fall City-5 Ineaquah-Kedmoud tsh—h004, jew port -Imaquah—Geod. tween Bellevue and Newport now open. Eaumeiew-Fraaklia — Two Enumciaw being paved. Fair Aubara-Biack New roud now open beyond Auburn to point 2 miles east. Good gravel beyond. Also good via Boos cresk. Sunset Highway—(East of North Bend) —Good to summit except first four miles east of North Bend. Scenic Highway—Open from In- dex to Skykomish; fair condition. ALL FAVED ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION Heattlo-Renton — Via Rainier Valley — Good. Vashon Isiand — The Seattle-Vashon Heights ferry Giscontinued. The Des Moines-Portage ferry ie in operation Road from Vashon Heights south tor paving. Other roads on g004. (Kast @ide)—New con- crete pavement open for travel. Con- tinuous concrete road from Renton to Auburn. BRIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION elty Bridge — Over Snoqualmie — joned; no passing. Use Duvall bridae, Lee Hill Bridge—Over Green river, near Auburn—-Use care in passing. Orillia Bridge——Over White river—Closed ; no passing. New bridge buliding. For further information regarding King county roads call Main 5900, local 29. e talan “SECTION 8¢—It shall be un- lawful to operate such motor ve~ hicles as are fully equipped with pneumatic tires without having attached to such vehicles in & CONSPICUOUS PLACE a SPEED- OMETER that will accurately INDICATE AT ALL TIMES the speed at which such vehicles are being operated.” Stewart Speedometers Are Accurate | under royalties and several manufac-| National Traffic Officers’ ass the association, conceiped the ket st. as steadily as a steam Local Man Designs New Truck Body P. J, Nelson, now manager of the retail truck department of Frank Waterhouse & Co, and who has a torista thru his connection of many years’ duration with the Goodrich Rubber Co, has designed a combina ton body of @ revolutionary type for hauling. Mr. Nelson deserted the tire bust ness to form a connection with the Waterhouse company on March 1 of this year, and since that time has made a thoro study of the truck best ness, both from a manufacturer's | and customer's standpoint. He im mediately saw the necessity of a body which could be used for combi nation hauling, and after several months’ work brought out @ body | which has been named the Vulcan | combination, The idea In mind was to bulld a body which could be used by fuel dealers, who might wish to ume & truck for & double purpore, namely, the hauling of either wood or coal. The bodies designed by Mr. ‘Nelson are being placed on Vulcan | trucks, built by the Vuleam Manu | facturing Co, of this city, and pat | ents have been applied for, and this body probably will come into univer. | sal use on ali makes of trucks, The first body was delivered to Jack St. Marie, coal and wood dealer of this city. It is of steel construction. Combination convertible wood and coal body so designed that you can empty coal from the sides or the rear, also equipped with hydraulic hoist for dump loads. The rear door can either be raised or lowered, de- pending entirely on the nature of the load, whether you wish to dump it or shovelat oft. This new type of body permits the discharge of a load of coal on four minutes, actual time, from the time you throw the hoist into gear until the beriv ts back on the frame of the truck As against the old procedure, where the coal and wood dealer was compelled to use two bodies, one coal body and one wood body, and to keep switching these bodies back and forth on his truck, depending upon the time of year, thin bady will save any dealer, in the course of @ year's time, enough time so that he wilt double the service received from his truck The cost of this body ta very much less thon the previous cost of the two bodies which were necessary in the same kind of work. |West Scores Again With New Truck one-mile board track speedway a’ Fresno, Cal., brings the third great race track to the number of speed The new speedway will be dedicat- ed today, with a 200-mile race, on which al] important racing drivers of the country will participate. Two major races are guaranteed at Fres- no each year, the “Raisin day” clas- sic, on April 30, and a 200-mile event on the closing day of the Fresno fair. ‘When the Goodyear Tire and Rab- ber Co., of California, bought the As- cot Park race track, at Los Angel@s, and announced that it would be @iy- mantied to make way for $00 horkes for Goodyear employes, racing men were fearful that winter racing tn the West might be discontinued, But the erection of a new speedway at Beverly Hills last winter and the new track at Fresno have dispelled this fear, Racing drivers are now planning to spend the entire winter on the Coast, many of them bringing their families with them, With tracks in each end of the country, at Los Angeles, Tacoma, Fresno, Indianapolis, Ginctnnati and Uniontown, all-year-‘round racing is possible, with the California tracks furnishing the center of winter rac- ing activities, The new course at Fresno {is locat- ed on the old dirt track at the fair grounds, and is flanked on, one side by the old grand stands, from which thousands of shouting racing fans have cheered their favorite horses | and jockeys in former days. About 300 feet of hew bleachers have been added, It ils modeled after the new specd- way at Beverly Hills, which, since the dismantling of the Sheepshead Bay speedway, is the fastest in the | United States. The surface is com- posed of two-by'three boards placed |on edge, The course is but a quarter mile shorter than the Beverly Hills track, and will permit a speed of bet- ter than 100 miles per hour with safety. All of the race courses on the Coast are of board construction, al: lowing development of the speed of | the various racing cara, its wheels on the ground all the way. wide acquaintance ameng Seattle mo | The completion of a new $250,000) THE SEATTLE STAR ociation in San Francisco. idea, and it worked like a roller, PARTME Hauled out of its natural element to do menial service in towing an auto along the street, a winged Curtis-Oriole plane demonstrated a new use for aeroplanes in the parade of the Lieut. Dan Sylvester, president of Li charm. The plane plowed up Mar- raising a cloud of dust with its propeller, but keeping One Car for Every Sixteen Automobile registration figures for 1920 Indicate that there is one car rolling for every 16 people in the | United States, ‘This is far in ad- |vance of the showing for England, |the mont extensive user of cara in | Burope, which haa only one car for every §0 persons. H. C. Stoddard, Matinticlan for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California, has discovered a surprisingly encourag ing condition in the 11 western states of Arizona, California, Idaho, Mon- tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, | which embraces the sales territory of |the western Goodyear, This com: bined area of a million and a quarter in the U. S. * equare miles has one car for every 11 persons—five better than the average for the rest of the country. But the real surprise ts found in the registration of California, Oregon and Washington, This coast region has the best per capita showing of cars of any section in the United States, having a car for every nine persons on the Pacific Const. Of the individual states Ohio ranks first with @ car to every 6.09 persons and Minninaippt last with one for every 40.02 of population. But altho Mis- siasippi's registration is the lowest jin per capita in the Union, it ts «till | twice as high as the showing made by England. ‘Plan toKeep Feet Warm This Winter Motoring in winter has rarely been & cheerful pastime to those sitting in the tonneau. The driver and the person at his side find it comfort. able with thetr feet hugging the en- gine, no matter what the tempera- ture be outside, But the passengers behind these two have to shiver thru the whole ride because their feet are cold. Of course, theré have been inventions of all sorts looking to the comfort of the persons in back, electric foot- pads, steam-heated cushions, and #0 on. But something seemed to be wrong with them, because they are not popularty used, A new genius comes to the fore with a different invention—one which he believes will become popular from the start. It makes use of the ex- “We could not eign mar! Touring . Roadster . Roadster .... prociortas The profit in OLD PRICES wie + $1035 Coupe .........$1525 Sedan .......... .$1675 WILLYS-KNIGHT OLD PRICES Touring .......$2300 Coupe .........$2950 All Prices F. O. B. Toledo Willys-Overland Pacific Twelfth Avenue and East Pine Street OHIO TAKES LEAD FROM NEW YORK Ohio has taken the lead from New York in the number of motor vehi cles registered up to July 1. In the | year preceding this date the state | gained 102,174 vehicles, which in- creased its registration to 567,000.) New York dropped to fourth in the} list, with a registration of about 635,- cover the muffler when it is used as @ heater. MINIATURE AUTOS DEMONSTRATE RULES ‘Whenever @ motorist ts brought into his court for violating some traffic law, Magistrate Cobb, of New York, takes out his two mini- ature automobiles and three or four manikins and moves them about in a manner clearly to explain the work- ing of the traffic ordinances. hadet ia @ way that will result In as ttle inconvenience as possible and as great a comfort as could be ob- tained under any circumstances, According to this new pian, the mufer is set underneath the floor board of the tonneau. The floor board has a trap door which is made to spring up against the of the front seat whenever the heat from the muffler in desired. At the same time, the muMer is brought up to a posttion that would make a comfort- able rest for the passenger. A carpet- covered box can be held ready to cover the muxer when it ls used as a heater. OVERLAND Touring ..$1035 Coupe . Sedan . Touring . ..$2300 Coupe Sedan . BEGIN HERE TODAY 4 Varmon admits frankly to his friend Joe, that he “extryordinary pitoher de luxe.” Me writes to Joe regu- larly of the games he wine NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY eee (Continaed from our nat tesue.) So far, Joe, 1 have failed to set the lake on fire at either of my new jobs. I managed to sell Shorty Smith a catchers glove and the lit- tle fathead didn't pay me for it and the next day he gets traded to the Cubs and took the mitt with him. That ain't bad enough, but, Joe, I put in five hours at this trick gettin’ to inside. It was good stuff if I do say it myself, Joe, and 1,000 times better than the hop em reporters writes, which what do they know about baseballs? It was all about how I felt certain that the game of baseballs was eure to catch on with the American pub lic and be @ succeas if given time and Mgc was makin’ a big mistake by not doublin’ my salary before I was grabbed by some more sensible club and I could pitch rings around Ernie Shore any day of the week, not countin’ Sundays and I expect to have one of my biggest years and where does them landlord gyps get off to raise the poor man's rent and eta, and ete, Altogether they was two pages of it, Joe, all hot stuff, Well, they throwed away three-quarters of it and says it was pretty punk but they would try and fix it up and get a reporter to write it hereafter and all I would have to do is sign it. I guess I ain't cut out to be no arthur, ey, Joet” Joe, Jeanne is already goin’ to Columbia's University to learn Eng- lish and payin’ them birds a high price and only yesterday she went to do some bridge whist‘n’ at the Waldorf with the Higher Thought Cult, whatever that is As far as that goes, Joe, I am not exactly ig’rant, but I don’t even know what bridge whistin’ is—it sounds phoney to me. I have showed Jéanne every bridge in New York and if they got one at the Waldorf, they must of put it up whilst I was away. Joe, the other day I was all set to take her and the baby to the circus on account of the rain pre- ventin® me from workin’, when what does Jeanne do but blow into the room all dreased up and ready to set sail for somewheres. “Just a minute! I says. “Get my baby ready for the street, I am gonna treat the both of you to the | circus.” Joe, she gives a little giggie—as much as to say “Where d'ye get that stutt?” “But no, Edouard” she “Jeanne must then go to the ecole for her Anglais lesson. That cirque he can wait, n'est ce pas?” fi “Forget about that goin’ to col- lege to learn English,” I says. “We're blowin’ dough as it is like the Rockefeller foundtaion was keepin’ us. Why can't I learn you the English language as well as them college guys, hey?” “Ah!” she smiles at me, “But then Overland WILLYS-KNIGHT New Prices possibly have taken this action unless we felt thoroughly justified in aiticipating reduced cost of materials, against which conditions our companies have made provision,” said Mr. J. N. Willys. “It has been commented that the automobile business has been roportion to the increase in prices been much less in this industry than prior to the war. “After two months of personal investigation on conditions abroad, I am firmly of the opinion that this country cannot hope to bya a healthy business and be able to compete with for- ets, unless we re-establish merchandise sellin more nearly on a par with conditions existing prior to NEW PRICES * Roadster ... eee cree $1425 oo ee eee. $1475 NEW PRICES see cee $2195 Roadster .......§2195 2 etebereic - $2845 os ee eee $2945 Co. East 660. gays.|bone and muscle with little aes ee Ce Gy: ‘GAS PROBLEM BRINGS STEAM AUTO TO F BY H. C. WITWER you do not yourself speak him that Anglais, me cheri. Maybe soon sometimes Jeanne and Edourd will learn bim together, oui?” And with that she’s gone Oh, boy!!!! Joe, try and tle that one, hey? Can you imagine @ crack like that? I can't speak the English—and I was born on Second Avenue! No matter what Jeanne does I | will have to stand for it, Joe, be cause I am as crazy over her now as I was when I first flashed her in that France place, and if you ever seen her you would: alao see what a boob I would be to let her get away from me. Joe, wouldn't it be a terrible thing if after all I have went thru I would wind up by losin’ my wife? Even the money I would no doubt save would fail to make it up, Joe, and anyways I'd only probably spend it on somethin’ else, hey? Yours truly, ED. HARMON. (A broken-heart- ed husband, which has got to pitch Just the same.) Speedin’ Over the Balls DEAR JOE: Well, Joe, it is ao long since I wrote you I guess you have got the idea I have went to work and committed suicide, and it would be no wonder if I did the way things hag been breakin’ for me of late. I huried seven games on this first trip west and hurled three of them away, but we did ourselves a lotta good altogether and if you ain’t too tight to buy a newspaper you can see we are still leadin’ the league. In spite of the fact that I feel I am gettin’ to be a old man on ac- count of family troubles and the like, I win a game yesterday just before we started for home, shuttin’ out the Cubs 6 to 0. Everywheres I go I am give quite a reception, and why not, but that don't lift the ter- ribly strain I am under on account of suddenly becomin’ unhappily mar ried out of the clear sky. I have only had two letters from Jeanne since I left, Joe, and neither of them would cause no jury to bend forward to listen. I don't she'll be when I get back or even if she'll be there at my baby and etc. Coprright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Compazy Hi H ‘s Us apart into one big der ‘em all and be I will tetl you 8 REEE ith that sive a done about dress and etc., and if I do say myself, Joe, I am a knockout in of them headwaiter’s uneyforms, bein’ built like a model for them collar ads in the subway and check- in’ up at 6 ft. 2 in. not countin’ my hat and tipplin’ the scales at 224, all cg fat. it was @ tough night for was a lot of dames come i i § H R.FEs 5 i desi THERE’S NO BASE LIKE HON ADJUST BRA Your Best Friend BANKS didn’t exist, what protec- tion would you have for your sav- ings? They would be subject to loss by fire, theft and extravagance. They would be a constant worry. But with great financial institutions, like the long-established Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank, you have no cause for worry. Here it is easy to save your surplus funds and know they will be there when you want them. 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