The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1920, Page 7

ro get more miles out of a gall Of gasnling, automobiles should made lighter and should @own to 25 or 30 miles an hour ‘That ts the opinion of a writer In ‘The Lamp, official organ of the Standard O11 Company of New Jer sey, who adds that such a motor could be made to average (rom 80 mies to cach gation of fuel wu “The United States ix the country in the whole world that in sists on high-powered, heavy | motor ars,” says the writer, “It is time that we stopped it. ‘Che man who from six to eight miles from a lion of gasoline in order to have &@ reserve power for occasional use that will enable him to push his car mlong the road at from 50 to 75 miles fan hour, is an offender against the Public good on be “For ail practical purposes an auto-| gain in ef ti 154,700 Autos Link New York With NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—-New proof ef the immense volume of traffic going in and out of New York daily is presented by the National Auto- mobile Chamber of Commerce. It is in the form of figures showing the Humber of motor vehicles that go @aily to and from Manhattan island. | Based 6m three separate surveys, Mt ts shown that 154,700 motor cars| And trucks enter and leave Manhat.| tan daily. Of these, 139,900 cross the bridges that connect the island | | within the city, } to the mainland, the rest reaching the heart of the city by ferry. ‘The average number of passengers | fm a car is 2.7, and the trucks have! Qn average of 1.14 tons. Manhattan | end Queensborough bridges have the heaviest motor traffic, which at) times reaches as high a# 1344 cars an hour, Over the Manhattan spans the daily travel rate is 20,214 motor) Vehicles, and over the Queensborough | ———-. Diamond — New concrete open two miles beyond Auburn. Sees gravel beyond. Also i. cree! Sunset Highway—(Fast of North Bend) —ieod to summit except frat four miles east of North Bend. via Soo vase Green Water Beyond Eoumciaw around Enumclaw excellent. ALL PAYED KOADS IN GOOD CONDITION Beach Koad—Cioned went of North Trunk road (paving under way); detour. lashon Island — The Heights ferry discontinued Moines-Portage ferry is in Road from Vashon ite’ closed for paving. Seattle-Vashon | The Des Bridge — © Closed; ne passing. Use Duvall bridg Ill Bridge-Over Green river n. Use care in passing. Bridge— New bridge open. For further information regarding King @ounty roads call Main 6909, local 39 “Love—tut not love misused—is the gate to the way home.” —HARVEY BRECK Harvey Breck is the central character— thinker, writer and phil- osopher—in the amazing Basil King story of thé next world—soon to be seen here— be geared | THE SEATTLE STAR UTOMOBILE AUTOMOBILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES Less Weight, Lower | Speed to Save Gas Oil Company is Rais Big Waste Woman Buys, in Construction of U.S.Autos) Hubby Pays; mobile that makes 25 to 20 mites an hour would serve every need. 8 {a car could be made to average bet ter than 25 miles and probably to 30 miles on every gallon of guso line.” An additional gain In the effictency of the motor car, says this writer could be had from the use of @ higher gear ratio and a fourth speed. “Under ordinary driving tions, six-cylinder, 30 horsepower motor with a car doing 20 miles an hour will make from 70 to 1,000 revolutions a minute, depend ing on the gear ratio and the dia ameter of the wheels, Under th conditions the engine is operating efficiency. If the car equipped with a fourth geared-up speed for level roads, the motor speed | in this case could be brought down t 600 R. P, M. with a resultant marked eney.” ry condi he explains, a low were the Mainland connection the number of automo biles totals 17,594 ‘The extent to which traction lines | are relieved by passenger cars ly shown by the fact that 420,000 per sons use the latter method of travel daily, This motor traffic ts| equivalent to nearly one-third of the] Interborough subway business, which | carries 1,367,000 fures daily. The Paswenger car figures take account only of vehicles entering or leaving the city and do not include tripe| Trucking is heaviest tn the early and middie part of the week, show ing @ slight failing off on Saturday | to @ negligible amount on Sunday Twenty-three per cent of the| trucks counted during three days were traveling without loads, which suge@sta the need for fuller use of return loads bureaus and possible lack of economy in planning trips on the part of the owner, KEEP FAN BELT TIGHT If you find it necessary to give your motor @ drink too often, try the fan to see if the belt is loose. A loose belt allows the fan to slip, thus preventing the water from being property cooled. If the fan ANOTHER BRAND PALACE H should be tightened, ~ San. Mon. Tues. Wed. A SPLENDID NEW MUSICAL PROGRAM WITH MYRICK AT THE ___WURLITZER — | | i Weekday Af lacasie 25¢ Children ..........15¢ LOEW ST LACE TINUOU Pais H OnPHErUM cincoir SARE Twine, “seco A TEARS NELSON, KELLAM nd 0! Leon Varvara; Tohp Mand Nellie Olma; Lord and Fuller. DAILY—2120, 8115 | the numb. | wan | Murphy. Says Jordan! CLEVELAND, 30.—Ten | years’ experience automobile mieeman has brought Mdward &. president of the Jordan ompany, to conclude yrmal man ts ruled by tha, th fer) vital point of ©. Oct Jordan, Motor that & woman,” women are the tack for amen.” That what and Cl when smobile at of the Commerce members er of ked to them ustry at the pree ed from hin opti f the industry's fu to explain to his ote in heard the aute ture long ¢ how a an automodile co woman rea buying First ters the says Jor “am she en is bualy Influenced by the ex nes of the Then, or unconsciously, she runs her hand with the fe of it pots her on @ board. sinks back whe ie « asks the name Jordan average in @ car, “On week days,” he sald, ealesroom, she uncon. tor and ar conaciounly whe the and ‘Then, if promptly fo enters the car into the neat mfortable of the ca made «= survey of the number of persons riding “1 found averaged leas than On Sunday afternoons it than four. The greatest seven-passenger car in the world te the Ford, and the two passenger is the Pierce-Arrow Jordan attributes Henry Ford's * to the fact that “he built ar for the other fellow, while most manufacturers built one for themselves.” to & car Kreatent The rage automobile owner drives no lees than 4,000 miles a year, and buys a new model every third year, PRO by the counts, ton, D. ¢ ALS WILL BE RP ireau of Supplies and Ac- Navy Department, Washing- 1.10 o'clock @ m.. No for delivering wader steel the Navy Yard, Apply for pro- to the Supply Navy Puget 8 » the Bureau of Su EL M Lt ton: The above ix a portrait of Jeane F Candidate for State Insur- mmissioner. Mr. Murphy lives at 1526 16th Ave. Ni Seattic, with his family. He has been a taxpayer many years. Hoe is progressive, able and efficient. He is 100% American and rendered splendid aervice in reaponse to every he World War. rves the vote of the State, eape- ing County and Seattle, ty. trained, experienced and | insurance man of 33 in the State of] om every taxp, elally in his home He is successful experience net GUARANTEED BY FACTORY UNLIMITED MILEAGK WONSKID FAIYUC Liat GNAY TURES List see eww eee $2.06 2.65 AutoTire & RubberCo, 618-20 E. Pine st. BOYLSTON AND KAST PINE 1 Orders Promptly Filled HERE WAS A WAR FOR PUBLIC GOOD Recently when two gusoline lers declared a competitive in Charleston, W. Va. the street In the vicinity of the two clogged with automobiles and people that a riot call was sent in to police headquarters, The price had gone down (to 15 cents 4 gallon and one dealer was preparing sign which read. “Three gallons for 16 centa. || t of off with every pur when the police effected @ truce, IE DARK MIRROR By Leake deca Vance ht, 1920, by Leule Joveph Vance) places became #0 (Copyr (Continued From Our Last Issue om XI When It Came True ‘The late autumn afternoon was | Very still, #o still that Priscilla could hear no sound but the unending mut ter of surf breaking on the South ampton shore A window of her room tn the rent- ed villa looked out over the sea. She | lay & chaise-longue, tndolently watching the sea, just as she had |watehed it daily from her window, of hours on end, thra weeks that |ran Into months without her heed. Bhe had been a long time iil, with an fines which Aunt Esther per. | aieted In ing brain fever, tb Dr. ick had for it a name lems |to Kingston to hunt for Marto—on {riage was an affair of sudden tm | the strength of your dream in which | pulse, They loved other you heard him tell Leonora he munt|votedly, but they were never, afte hurry to catch his train there. When | the first few months, happy. You I got home, I found « long distance | mother was out of place in the sc call from Kingston waiting for me.| ciety of your father’s friends, knew Andrews reported that he had lo-|it, aaw how she was handicapping cated camp which Mario had m, and wanted to leave him, and rented for hix honeymoon, On the|he wouldn't listen to it. Remember offchance that he might have been ately in lo’ concerned In your disappearance, I “Eventually they left New York jumped inte my car, and arrived in| planning to establish themselves ir Kingston about nine o'clock in the | some part of the country where they morning. Andrews had « road map, | were not known and try to build up with the location of the bungalow |a life together. That was a foreor clealy marked, We struck immedi-|dained failure. Your father was ately back thru the hills. | misearble awa from his home and “About five miles from our dest!-| his friends, At last your mother nation we met Mario afoot. You) took her fate in her hands and ran know what he had to tell us, While|away. She took with her Leonora, we were talking—it took some time leaving you to your father.” to make him erst d you we "t “Leonor w my sister?’ Leonora and that we had any | “You were born twins, in Califor to butt in nehan bolled up nia, several months before your road in m high-powered r mother ran away * © Your making about 40 miles an hour on a| father used every possible means to stiff grade—didn't see us, because|try to find your mother, but she | we'd stopped just round a bend in| eluded him till the end; she died, a the read, until he was almost on top| year or so later, leaving Leonora in of us, He got his brakes on in time|care of her aunt—Mother O’More. to stop just short of my car, which, | ‘These letters were addressed to your of course, was blocking the road. | mother in her care, It would appear Andrews and Mario recognized him| they were never answered.” instantly, and he knew Mario. After | But Priscitia was no longer listen an interesting a three-cornered pistol/ing; and perceiving this, Fosdick fight an I ever care to see again in, paused. ole of innocent bystander, Car-| “My sister?’ took cover in the woods. We/ nora!’ oe 2 “That is the explanation of the Unquestionably Carnehan took | mystery.” Fosdick affirmed. “That you for the ghost of Leonora, and was |" Strong psychic affinity exists be convinced when he failed to hit you| tween twins has long been a scien lonce in five shots at close range.” | tifically accepted fact. The records “Yes,” Priscilla said, “the last | 0f psychic research contain many in- thing before he killed himself, he) stances of telepathic and packeente |communication between twins. | record exists of a case so spent |nary as yours, to my knowledge; still, that in the true explanation.” “But, Leonora * © © Did she know about me? I mean, did she dream of me as I dreamed of her? I wonder * © o”* “She did, to some extent, at least Bhe told Mario about it. Of course, she had the advantage of you, be cause she knew she had a sister.” | “Mario—? him—t" “Today,” Fosdick sald, smiling. fact, we've grown to be great friends this summer, He's an: ex- |traordinary fine fellow. He wants |to see you, if you think you're Fondick didn't offer to give (em | | strong enough for the Interview to to Princilia, “I'd rather you didn’t | day” read them yet.” he said. “They're rather affecting letters, I'm afraid) Pésetie sot up suddenty. they'd upset you. Later, when you're| “Where is het esich ae the The United States exported 750 India during the | which were valued | motor they were des care to nth of July, $622,645. on Today be was tapping at her door | before Priscilla knew he was in the | house “A little weary, Philip,” she told jhim in answer stereotyped quention, “I wonder if one ever does recover from some things.” “Buch as—T" he amited. “Things you've forbidden me to talk about.” Fosdick to one ster, | . WHEN you BUY THAT BOY A BIKE it should be. the beat— and thats the DAYTON We sell them om EASY TERMS looked thoughtful. “1 don't know," he said in a specula. tive tone, “Perhaps the time has jcome when we may talk.” “Meaning, I presume,” she maid with a quiet smile, “you've some thing to tell me.” “Meaning,” he laughed, “just that. It was no good our talking till I had. | But now ¢ ¢ © He drew from a pocket a handful of old letters, “The ution of the mystery, last?’ “Don't teane me, Philip.” “I won't, but first I must explain. Haa it ever occurred to you to won. der how Andrews and I happened to be with Mario that morning, when he |found you in the cabin with Carne sald the girl—Leo Ine pursued t shrieked her name.” “Well,” Fosdick resumed, “you! were a physical and mental wreck. 1 had to wait tfl you were strong} enough to confront Mother O'More and cheat the truth out of her. Be- fore you were out of bed, she had a} paralytic stroke that put her vocal cords out of commiasion, She |couldn’t have talked if she wanted | to. 1 did everything that could be done for her, but the second stroke came yesterday, and finished hei |had made the manager of the eed & pernonal friend. He telephoned at once, and J ran out to Pawling this morning. Among the old woman’ few effects we found thene ietters. “I've wondered — yen — wondered | whether it were true or not.” “It was all true enough. But tet me tell you * * © The morning after you disappeared, I spent out of ef | town, trying to interview an inmate of a home for the aged, up near Pawling—Mra, Leonora O'More.” “Mother O'More!”* “The same. On the clue you gave me of that name Andrews traced her 1°. She refuned to talk to She refused to talk to me. | However, her very taciturnity told |me she must have something to tell, prewines and Spee! | aa 1 hoped that you, posing to her | application to the Bureau or to the | “® Leonora on the strength of the Pherae Bevkin Kore. cone t) resemblance, might worm the secret} Bele of the Huron of Tarde town—and found you missing, Mra. |quite strong, sometime * ¢ © uirgd ae “sourity |Trowbridge in hyaterien, the lock| “They were written by your father | library—alone.” of the drawings |proken on the studio door, the devil|te your mother, She was Mother KS, Chief of Turean,'to pay all rount ¢ ¢ ¢ O'More's niece, She met your father 6, “Meanwhile Andrews had run up through posing for him. 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