The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 7

The Used Car A Sound Investment used car long since has established itself as a definite factor im our economic fabric. It is an agcepted fact today that the purchase of a good used automobile from a responsible doaler whose indorsement may be received with confidence, is a sound investment. The integrity and standing in the community of the dealer from whom a used car is purchased is a matter of vital concern to the Duyer. It was, no doubt, with this thought in mind that the Toledo +NewsBee on April 28 published the following editorial: The Used Car ‘The auto has played a large part tn the develope if America tm the last few years, Just how great is probal matter of Speculation, but tt cannot be denied that It has added to the pleas ure, profit and advancement of the Americas people. Naturally its milsuion is destined to be greater as the country progresses hu & Rew car is an event in the family life, And the new car Is covet ed by all members of the family, the new car is the source of joy, the ured car te cor own and more rapidly ts becoming an economic fa life. Did you ever look upon the used car as an Romie factor? Probably not. But as @ factor it le a fact. ‘The used car has introduced thousands to the joys and sorrows ~ of motoring, It has developed agricultura It has made possible escape from the crowded dweilmgs of the city and has led people to the joys of suburban homes, it has increased (he earning power u im Why? Fecause tt has been possidle for people of Itmited m: te accure | used car where it was out of the question to der rice, Dealers, too, have recognized Itho this market has been sadly miftreated ‘The sale of new care depends in & measure have been taken reason the responsible dealer now will that a buyer is given value in the pure Dusiness of disposing of used cars is rapidly being placed er plane and the buyer need bave no fear now im trading responsible deaier. To repeat the last sentence from the foregoing: “The business Of disposing of used cars is rapidly being placed on a higher plane, and the buyer need have no fear now in trading with a responsible dealer.” The summer mobths are here, Do not delay in the pur- chase of that used car. The responsible automobile dealers of i] «Seattle invite your close inspection of the good used cars which * bear their indorsement. They will appreciate the courtesy of a " yisit from you and they urge that you act mew before the coming warm weather depletes their stocks. ‘ See The Star Automotive Section for Real Values x SFEXAS IMPOSES a fine of $1,000 &® year’s imprisonment, or both, ee re came potetrinn | peome calcium carbide, to take the refuses aid. place of gasoline. FRENCH CHEMISTS are work ing on a synthetic alcohol evolved | READY FOR THE 6TH BIG SEASON THE WILKES PLAYERS Will Reopen at The WILKES THEATRE SUNDAY MATINEE, JULY 31 MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW Telephone ELLIOTT 2526 or ELLIOTT 2525 j BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN “Bigger and Better Than Ever” is the promise of Thomas The Opening Attraction will be “SMILIN’ THROUGH” JANE COWL'S GREATEST SUCCESS Pp Loew: Longgang PHOTOPLAY— CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 PALACE HI WHERE YOU GET ¢THE MOST FOR THE LEAST TODAY TILL, WED. ALLSTAR VAUDEVILLE . “RU BETOWN FOLLIES” 5 OTHER GOOD ACTS HP i PANTAGES Iners—2120 BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE Ni; SPECIAL ATTRACTION—THE AUTHENTIC Dempsey-Carpentier Fight Pictures Secured by Alexander Pantages for Exclusive Use in His Vaudeville Theatres Showing All Important Blows of the Big Fight, Including the Knockout ° to—7 & 9 DOROTHY MORRIS & CO. “On With the Dance” PANTZER-SYLVA “What's It All Aboutt” Alexander Pantages Presents “GOOD NIGHT, LONDON” Sparkling Musical Comedy with Clever Cast and Bevy of Broudway Beauties General Admission; Matinees 25c. Nights 40c. ‘Russian Millionaire Is Seattle Mechanic |Says He Has Invention Which Will Cut Expense of Running Car to Almost Nil) Makes Auto Out of Junk; Costs Him $5 Alexander F. Agafadoroff spurned his Russian millions. Except for three thing»—-the as | | BY GEORGE CHANNING | lahegaee of three frugal meals a day; | the privilege of helping bis friend, | | Kerensky, become head of the Rus: | sian government, and the ability to establish his own factory where he lcould develop his mechanical genius \.his money meant nothing to him. Today, in Seattle, whither he has fied, his millions are worth less than) | ever. The bolsheviki, | stripped him. | ESTABLISHED IN | LITTLE GARAGE HERE he says, have} | | Out at @ ttle garage where he! ‘has established himself temporarily while learning the ayenues of ap- | invention, destined, | to revolutionize the use of automo | biles, he showed his credentials and! | told his story, | Off the main thorofares of traffic on a dirt road at 3503 EB. 45th st., |he demonstrated his prowess. | He could not speak a word of | English, Thru his friend, Rev, A |M. Vyacheslavov, rector of the | Russian Serbian Greek Orthodox ‘church, he commanded that all eyes \be turned on bim. | “Look,” he said, bending his tall frame and rising again with the weight of a Studebaker car held » foot in the alr, “I never use a jack. 1 lift any car with my hands while my wife slips blocks beneath.” He stroked his long, gray whinkers and hin eyes twinkled. “1 put this car together my- self,” he added. “It cost me just $3. It is worth a few hundred new. I junk and 1 ham- mered straight. 1 took old fabric and I patched It Into tires. 1 made the rusty, old engine do service. "I now go anywhere.” “Your invention,” he waa asked, | “what does it do?” | “It_merely makes poslb! | plained thru the rector, ” he ex- straight lerooked one now considered neces sary by all manufacturers. REDUCES OPERATING COST | TO ALMOST NOTHING 4 “It is the next thing to perpetual motion. It will save an enormous |amount of power. The cost of run- | ning a car will be reduced to noth- ing.” His targe gray eyes assumed a deferential look. “Will you read?” he asked, hand ing his interviewer several letters of recommendat “Have a ciga: He parsed out one of the best brands. “Have « cigar and—read.” Among the letters was one from the Russian consul explaining that Agafadoroff's mission was leading ‘him to Henry Ford to whom he would explain his device and en- deavor to put it in every-day use. |There was another from Sale & Frazer, Ltd. of Yokohama. It sald | Agatadoroft had worked for them | five months and it vouched for his extraordinary mechanical ability. “T gaid nothing of my invention In Japan,” he said, “because the Jap- anene would hire me and use it and | discharge me shortly without paying | me for it." |65, BUT HE'S A BOY! WEIGHS 180: IS GIANT | In his black Russian biouse and knee breeches his figure was ro |mantic. “I am 65 years old.” he said, “but I am a boy. I weigh 130 pounds, but I am a giant. “T have always been a boy — a sort of dreamer, you know. “My people, an established family |in Russia, had wealth, I cared not I went out and worked in machine shops at & cents a day just to be jdoing the thing I loved. I played with machinery and I made things. That is how I learned. “When I became a man I took my money and built a factory. I was making the best of machinery. “The government recognized it crank shaft instead of a twisted and/ proach to the men who will buy bis} if it works out,> | | | j | when the war broke out and I was! America, used as an instructor in the army.!have gone to Switzerland. 1 showed them the use of hand gren- ades “Then the upheaval came. bolsheviki threatened. I thought we | |might save things thru friend Kerensky, my boyhood play- mate, who lived in the town of| Volcky with ma Kerensky was am: ‘The! Fords, Chevrolets, makes of cars, months—Reduced to. jand then 1 will see your Mr my good | height, SPECIAL! PHILADELPHIA DIAMOND GRID BATTERIES — REDUCED 20% Buicks, Overlands and 70 other de dhe THE SEATTLE STAR Alexander F. Agafadoroff and (below) how he jacks up his $5 auto by oa. lift- ing it. bitious, but he had no property. And the Russian laws required a man to own much property before he could | hold the highest position in the gov- ernment. “I went to a few friends. We gave Kerensky sufficient property and he qualified. But his power was short BOLSHEVIKI DRIVE HIM TO SIBERIA “The bolsheviki came to me, fay ing I no longer owned my factory. If I employed a man I would be fined far more than he could earn “I fled to Siberia and established another factory, But I knew the bolsheviki would come there too, “So I closed up and went to| Japan, “There I warked five months on | machinery and then, stripped penni leas, I took my wife and we came to My son and my daughter “Some time I will find out how Ford. I ha¥e a mission.” He straightened fun long up to his then reached for his black Russian coat, “You will ride with me to the street car,” he said. “You must not walk a mile? he had made and drove like a de Mrs. Bergdoll says Grover is worth | half @ million dollars. She means he has that much, $28.00 Chandlers, Chalmers, Basex, Paige, Velie and 18 other makes of cars, guaranteed months—Reduced to.......... $31.10 All other sizes and types in like proportion— both 18-month and 2-year batteries And with each battery you get that old time service which made this station so well known and popular. The same crew of experts on deck to serve you. Marine Work Solicited Philadelphia Storage 1512 Eleventh Ave. Battery Depot Fred Hansen, Manager Phone Kast 6 PAGE 7 OLD KING RICHARD KNEW REAL VALUES, SAYS J. G. FENTON “When King Richard the Third lifted up his voice on a famous battlefield of mediaeval history and shouted ‘My kingdom for a horse,’ he emphasized the incal culable value of; transportation when transportation is vitally needed,” saya J, G, Fenton of the Eldridge Buick Sales Co. “Today, in @ like situation, some such leader of men would be likely to shout for his auto and if it jumped off when he stepped on the starter, he would reckon that ft had been a good buy even if it had cost afl the money in the royal treasury,” he adds. “Sometimes a car justifies its cont at any price by just one trip.”” When getting somewhere in a hurry is worth a life, or a fortune, any car that is réady to «0 and able to get there is worth far more than It cost. “To have his car in constant condition to meet emergency de mands, the motorist should buy it of a dealer who has put in the necessary investment in parts and service equipment to keep the car in roadable condition.” b camel Forfeited for $2,300 Taxes A launch and a houseboat owned by I. J, Pelletier on the canal near Salmon bay, have been forfeited to the government to satisfy $2,300 in- ternal revenue taxes growing out of iMegal liquor dealing on the prem- ines, Action of forfelture were taken by William T. Beeks, chief deputy collector of internal revenue ue ARAATEED NOT TO SCORE, SEIZE, SLAP Of PUMP OW. Half the weight of old piston. WE ALSO CARRY . HAMMERED RINGS LUMEN ONZE SHarTs “AND Whust PINS FLY WHEEL RING GEARS Wash. Mach. & Supply Ce.) Busineds Phone East 1178 Residence Phone Hainier 7053 EAST PIKE $ He cranked the $5 aptomobile (Arkansas Gazette) | A SMALL ELECTRO magnet in | | the base of a trouble light holds it new motor fuel called acetol, a to any part of the ar near: the |bingtion of alcohol and ether, source of trouble. In this way the driver gets the most Possible ight | at night where it is most needed. Edward Jone has started to Stewart, Warner & Van Sicklen SPEEDOMETER | SERVICE CITY ORDINANCE “Section 36—It shall be unlawful to operate such Motor Vehicles as are fully equipped with, pneu- matic tires, without having attached to such ve- hicles in a conspicuous place, a speedometer that will gene gent png at all times the speed at which such véhicles are being operated.” Keep Your SPEEDOMETER in Repair DRIVE IN FOR SERVICE Stewart Products Service Station” _ 910 East ‘Pike Street ISTONS Whole To prove that John- ston Pistons do all that is said about them, a few sets for Fords will be sold at ‘20 Per Set Installed at $45 per set, at RR Piston ‘ The Price Is ‘Practically Cost as the finest steel and pure gray iron is amalgamated iin this piston to produce the best results obtain- able. It is accurately ground and finished. a & Piston Cut in Half Johnston Piston & Ring Co. Manufacturer 1214-16-18-20 East Madison St. Phone East 0205 Johnston Piston & Ring Co. Agency 514 East Pike St. Phone East 0535 AN INVENTOR 1s working on & © . Jean Paige in “The Prodigal Judge?