The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1921, Page 8

wate ee Biggest Tourist Season Is Ahead “The tourist season for 1922 is) from Vancouver, B, C. likely to be the m st in the his-| “This is not merely an opinion,” tory of the Pacific Northwest,” ts| explained Mr, Cuthbert, “based a: the assertion of Herbert Cuthbert, | faith, but upon facts which a secretary, Pacific Northwest Tourist! known in connection with the next Association, who has just returned year's business. The greatest in “Only another Buick can ever satisfy a Buick owner” “T have owned seventeen Buicks,” says Dr. Victor L. Garbutt, Detroit. “During all the years I have driven a Buick I have never had to walk home. And that’s going some. I doubt if there is another car on Whe market that would have given me such service and I know of no car that would have given me better.” There is no proof of an automobile’s intrinsic merit so convincing as year-in- and-year-out dependability. Dr. Garbutt speaks from experience. PRICES poereerrrrern: Int.) - 1180 sececees L730 . 1925 - 1790 . L780 PRICES corftributed more than anything else in the past half century to the far ES jmer's standard of living and to the attractiveness and pleasure of farm Ute. S waen BETTER Prosser ES ARE euins BUICK WILL BUILD THEM ‘Third Ave. and Stewart St. Elitett 4824. Fourth and James Elliott 0750. 315 Nickerson St. Garfield 0074. 907 FE. Pike St. East 0320, 1001 Jackson St. Beacon 0532. 1102 BK. 45th St. Kenweed 0031. Clark-Baker Motor Co. L. M. Cline Motor Co. Wm. L. Hughson & Co. Hart & Hart Wilson & Krietle Westside Agency Sake crease of alt will probably be in the rail travel, because there are three or four very large national conven tions to be held on the Pacific coast, | Jand because the railways are con sidering tourist travel as they ner hever considered it before.” Mr. Cuthbert sald that suggestions with reference to the development of tourist travél by rail had been sut |mitted to most of tho large railway companies engaged in transeont! nental business, and that it is pos |sivle some important developments may take place as the result of these suggestions which are in eferencve to rates, equipment, advertising and co-operation with tourist agencies The automobile travel will show an increase over that of the present year, it is predicted, and this ha been by far the greatest of any year “We have already commence: effective work in the cold E provinces of Canada to bring people out to the Pacific Northwest for thi winter,” added Cuthbert. “Last yoar there were between 5,000 and 6,000 people from the prairie provinces who wintered in the Pacific North-| west.” >/AUTO MAKES THE COUNTRY GROW G. W. Davis Tells How Farm World Is Widening That the motor car has today be-| come an instrument of business of vital necessity to the farmers ts the} statement of George W. Davis, pres! dent of the Davis Motor Car com:| pany, | “In' Towa, which exceeds all other states in the annual value of its farm products, there are more motor cars owned by farmers than in any oper state. Many farmers operate mor than one motor car “The abto brings the. farmer in| closer touch with bis market, and with hig sources of supply for im plements, household supplied and all} manufactured articles, It save time. And a saving of time between | the farm and its market is an econ omy of inestimable, advantage. | “Besides the valuable contribution of the motor car to the business of farming, there are its Important #0 | cial and recreational advantages. | The motor car has vastly widened the farmer neighborhood. It has ms agrt | buyers | And the | “The most prosperous #' AKIMA | —uiturally are the greatest and users of motor cars. ly to thelr prosperity.” OLD TIMER CLUB TOHOLD MEET New Members, New Buttons | Sought by Club An active campaign for new mem. berships in the Old Timer's Club has i been Inaugdrated with the advent of fall. Memberships will be increased rapidly. Every member of the organ tzation has been asked to take up the work In its behalf in order that the men of the trade may be en- rolled tn commanding numbers by the time of the national auto shows. | It ie hoped that every member will wear his button at that time. } Men of the auto trades are nat urally anxious to wear their buttons at show time, and applicants at the! New York and Chicago national| events will not be able to secure thelr buttons immediately as was the case with the original Old Timer’s club, which has been succeeded by motor car has contributed inestimab- Ie SEATTLE STAR YY. 1 Vu Wily Local Invention Going Big * it ‘Has a Field ‘of Its Own 1 his procure Lens ine waole BloTy. As long Ee your enmyint is running the swipe moves back and forth across the full width of the glass. How many times have you prayed; The swipe fs connected up with the for @ clean windshield as some pedes | | intake manifold. It can be started trian ducked from under your fender | o- stopped at will by half a turn of by a hair's breadth on @ rainy day? Well, you can have jt now. & dash button. There are only two and the material Down at Spokane st, and Pacific; Working parts, highway the Polk-Hueber Co. Inc,|thruout Is stout and practically in {a manufacturing an automatic wind. | destructible. shield swipe that will keep the en-| Tho Polk-Hueber automatle wind tire width of your front glass clean| shield swipe meets @ long unfilled as a crystal in any old sort of weath-| need of motorists. It is equally ap- or. plicable to street cars, boats and oth And It's a Seattle Invention, pred-|er vehicles, Ten of the swipes are| uet of the genius of Henry Hueber,|now in operation on Beat munic- a local man. ipal railway coaches, ‘Uses Auto Prairie Bus From Maine to Seattle From Rockland, Maine, to Seattle, construction, It would be like greet is some little joy-jaunt. Especially | when made leisurely in the manner | a a in which the pioneers first crossed | . the Western prairies in their prairie| “The roads, most of then, were schooners. Here's how C. E, Dem-| very well marked “and by all devices mons of Bremerton did it: made safe for autoists, no matter “In our Reo ‘speed wagon’ we|how steep or winding, and we en | left our home in Maine, June 9, last, | countered but two road hogs in all to go overland to Seattle. I had | the distance. covered our auto with brown ‘canvas | stretched over a frame, like the old-|and stayed tn the public auto camp fashioned pioneer . wagons, and | that night, coming to Bremerton the equipped it with cot beds, a Sterno| next morning. We had but two tire camp stove and other necessities to| punctures during the entire journey make life comfortable, and which | and one of the forward ones, a U. 5. the ploneera would’ have thought) cord, Is now filled with Maine air. luxuries, In fact I didn't have a mechanical “We traveled Ieleufely and took) wrench on the car after leaving advantage of the tourist camps when | Syracuse, N. Y., except on the spark possible, We found some very fine| plugs. I used Mobil.Oll, and on hav. ones and a number just opened this | ing the engine taken down after ar. year. At other times we asked per-| rival, found it free of carbon. The mission to stay in a farmer's yard, | where we always received very|from Portland, Maine, to the Cob courteous treatment. Only three| man dock, Seattle.’ Nights did we patronize a hotel on account of rain which made outdoor cooking quite unpleasant. “We followed the Yellowstone traf, and when the signs were’ lost in Making detours on account of road) HAYNES MOVIE MAN MISSING Fuld 8. Stanicy, motion picture eee producer, employed by tho Haynes| The short skirt craze, says Lieut. Motor Co., is reported missing. Stan. |C: G. Carr, traffic cop, is extending ley was making a national tour in /*Ven to the “flivver” bugs. Lots of the interests of the company at the |¢™ &ppear without their fenders on. time of his dimuppearance. The | They should be fined for indecent ex- Haynes Co, is now beginning « |Powure. search for Stanley, who was under contract to them té furnish pictures. An appeal has been made to the public and the press to locate the miasing movie man. yellow background Berlin's great auto show was a howling success. Both cars were sold, reports Oscar Tinroof; our se eret service agent PHOOEY! “Canadian gasoline smugried ac cross border!--newspaper, Yes, and after tasting that last quart we have decided $10 is too much to pay any Briscoe Don’t Like = [""*"T.. the: more formal organization of to- day. The present button worn by mem- bers is quite different from the orig- inal. It is a modest and shrinking violet in comparison. The buttons issued prior to last January are now obsolete and will not be worn. Arrangements for headquarters of the Old Timers have been made at} the Hotel Commodore, New York, and the Congress Hotel, Chicago. A/| desk has been provided at each hotel, where new memberships and late bookings for the annual banquets will be made. President Champion has tnstructed | Mr. Maxwell to see that the speech. making is confined to one good speaker for ¢ach evening. Mr. Max well is the chairman of the enter- Huge Generator Shipped on Special Car} 25,000 Kw turbine-generator ‘The largest single shipment baer made from the East Pittsburgh works of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company was huge turbine-generator recently or. dered from New York, ‘This gener- ator when loaded on a special 95-ton | car welghed 201,000 pounds, and because of its dimensions—16 feet | six inches in height and elght feet| four inches in width—had to be tak ¢n over a special route in order to avold railroad tunnels. | When it arrived at the pler in| a | reinforced, jant upon shipping, the special car Name; Changes It) 1)... had a little bug It's the “Earl Motors, Inc.,” now; She painted it with pride when you speak of the firm behind Briscoe autoe, The change in name| The blamed thing fell in a mo, bed from Briscoe Motor Corporation to And Tow she’s mortar-fied! eee |Eart Motors, Inc, is announced by | the factory, to take effect at once. Cr» ‘ According to the heads of the com- | pany, the changesis one of name only jand will not affect the personnel or} * relations of the company, tainment committee. The events will be promoted purely as a good time, and as the greatest reunion the club > haa: ever known. DON'T TRY to deal a train toa crousing. Horse squad at cop headquarters didn’t dare stand still or he wouldn't have been in the picture, and be- sides he hasn't the time to do so. see e The guy who said it's never too late to mend ought to see some of |the wrecks rolling up the boulevard. It's a cinch he never rode on a Phin: jney ave, street car. eee DON'T Never put sand in the geénr case |to keep the wheels from squeaking. | It should be put.around the pistons |to prevent skidding in the engine. eee “Chauffeur means fireman in French,” says news-item. All right, we'll bite, what does it mean in Eng- lish? eee About 94 kinds of autos were ex- hibited at the New York Auto Show. |—The Star. 93 Fords and a Dodge? arr Patrolman M. A. Coons says his idea of a soft job is being a motor- New York, the lighters witch were|°7“l® °°P in Venice. | to carry it across the sound to the|: Brooklyn Edison Company had tobe| me can taniniy Eeeenne wat yee. The workmen, when putietin, Also’ carry a keg of home ready to install it In its housing also found added difficulty in’ that |Toating aia Ne? (he dust off the having no crane facilities they had eee to jack up this huge weight a dis- tance of 20 feet. In spite of the diffiguities attend. on car ready for shipping. Over 10,000 “flivvers” were export ed to Zulu-land in 1921. What a hor- rible revenge for jazz music! ee. with its weighty load went from Wast Pittsburgh to New York seven days, “One-eyed cars cause accidents,” in |Cock-eyed drivers cause the rest, we presume, ing an old friend to see the black | “We arrived in Seattle July 11,/ George Reynolds, ace of the Iron! ne MAN SETS FAMOUS PISTON of King Oil Co.,| First Prize at at Salem Fair | Makes Big Sale Given Seattle Product King oll, mado by the King Of| Johnston pistons and rings, Seat Co, of which 8. W, Riddell of this! te made products, have scored an city is manager, ts to be used on} rigslaarbPnacet i 2,700 miles of the Chicago, St. Paul | & Milwaukee lines, according to | today, when H. B. Johnston, man recent announcement ager of the company, received word Riddell's contract followed bis re-|trom his Oregon representative, O. V. cent trip to Tacoma where he was called by A. J, Krohe, asstotent gen-|emtick, that first prise at the; eral storekeeper of the Milwaulcoo, | Salem state fair had been given his | product. The new piston was de-| and L, W. Smith, assistant signal manager, to discuss the matter, | clared the greatest improvement on | me ? | auto engines on exhibit. According to Hemrick the selection | was made from a dozen competitors, consisting of many well known makes of pistons, Johnston appeared LACK OF lubrication ts the chief| very much enthused over his vic enuse of hard-working steering| tory, as, indeed, he has every right wheels. to be | Riddell, { | other triumph, ABOUT 28 PER CENT of all per sons killed by automobilec are chil dren under 15, | ‘S 4 S 9 | my Saving Sam, | Says: Quality, Service and Satisfaction Are Three Reasons Why “Western Auto” Leads We are here not only to sell goods, but to save you Moncey and give entire satistactiof. WE AIM TO PLEASE. 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Reg. price $2.5. €4 OB Our Special Price WESTERN AUTO 1110-12 & Pike Ss E Be Tx Johnston Piston A Proven Success THE LONGER YOU RUN THEM, THE BET- TER THEY GET. . Every Day You Run Your Car Without Johnston Pistons Means a Real, Defin- ite Loss to You, Mr. Car Owner, WE CARRY THEM IN STOCK FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS. Johnston Piston & Ring Go. Manufacturer 1214 E. Madison St.—East 0205 | Ol Purchase Your Oil by the Mile — Not the Gallon It makes no difference how much oll you pour inte your crankcase, the only oll] which protects the en gine ie this thin film be tween moving metal parts, Only King Ol) will retain full lubricating efficiency under the heat of serview To get full protection you must have a constant, full, even off film. We rolicit, your inquit and will be glad to «| @ line of samples. uni King Oil Sales Co. Distributors 99 Marion St. You can obtain King On at the following places: The Metropolitan Garage jHenry Building The Koay Garage 10 Mercer St. The Queen Anne Garage 126 W. Galer St The South End Garage Third and Yesler Terminal Garage « Railroad and Jackso- Standard Garage 2126 Third Ave. WEBSTER & VOSSER Phone Main 5203 | 2211 9th, Cor. Westlake debgston Petes & Ring Op 514 E. rae ‘St—East 0535 8 & A: gs Fe hag oa pl Os Oy Zs: é Zasf24 ce Iyhts -