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portion of au BASED ON the Pomobile accidents to Pp — n Louis ie the “sate the epentry THE NATIONAL Pari highway crosses 11 states « n Rational parks of the west A 0 BY 3% tire makes #67 revolutions a mile about THE “SANDS PLAR” THR ENVELOrS + a THe Mere is what you know e & Sands t t * number, the reason he sold the car, the rm from whom he bought new, the kind of service given the car. the actual Bumber of miles run, what Fepairs and overhauling were done on ft and how Invested in it to it salable, With this mation, no one can Ko @ Sands sears: worn or broken gears to be replaced be sure all replacements are n not imitation parts. “ts the only way to be ‘of having quict, smooth- gears that will wear. We can supply your dealer, or garage man. YOU SHOULD KNOW IT Ralph R. Wheaton, Dist. In conjunction with Machine Werks the largest and cylinder grinder Ta the "Northeet Let us estimate your work. Automobiles or Marine, Gene East 1176 705 See Us About a New Top PICKARD & TRAILL 1125 Pine st. Main 3401. BETTER, FOR LESS Radiators, Fender SEATTLE RADIATOR & FENDER WORKS B"'TQ PARTS Nickel Plated Reflectors SILVER PLATED Phone Main 4687 Seaiiic mevhanical and Electroplating Co. With Ave. NO FOULED PLUGS vos: IN NEW OAKLAND, idles System Guaranteed for 15,000 Miles thing has recevéid by the automobile world at large as the new guarantee the Oakland Motor Car Co. offering on ite oiling system to the purchasers of Model 34D Oakland car The new guarantee, given in writ ing to each purchaser of the new model, guarantecs the car to run 15,000 miles, or thru a period of 2 rs, against excess oil in the com- bustion chamber. “OU pumping has been a prob. no one been ‘lem with motor car manufacturers, dealers and owners for years,” said B®. A. Henderson, manager of the Northwest Oakland Co, “Any mo: |tor engine that is continually ‘mis» | } | | than excessive otf spark pluge—the be traced to a ing’ on account of deposit on the trouble can quickly dafective oll! pumping system.” “After months of testing, after the completion of the first approved modela, the engineers announced themselves so thoroly satisfied with {heir results in producing a special ly designed alloy pist & glaselike smoothness, Ollsealing engine rings of special design, that they did not hesitate to recommend to the company that they place this special guarantee on every new Oakland car in writ ing “Under the terms of the contract }every car is guaranteed for a max jimum of 15,000 miles usage out of | |his car thru a twoyear period of time on his car, If any one of) and carry honed to| | | The new Martin alloys. It will go 75 miles on make 40 miles an hour, it ia claimed. The Martin Motor Co; it is especially fitted for the} manufacturers of the car, say Scootamobile. | the New York Automobile show, January 7th to 14th, This model weighs slightly over 225 pounds, is built of aluminum THE SEATTLE STAR "Which will be shown at a gallon of gasoline and will them should give trouble in the! | narrow streets and roads of tl the Orient. olling system in any way the dealer | & under instruction to replace ait| defective parts absolutely without cost to the customer, veresinee the announcement of | new gual ed with letters from dealers, cus tomers and others thruout our ter ritory in Washington and or | eathusiastionlty indorsing it.” GAS SUBSTITUTE MADE IN SOLIDS | Inventor Uses” By-Product for Lubricant MAPLEWOOD, N. J, Dee %4.-—- lid gasoline at 10 cents a gation! Dr. O. F. Reinhold, scientist and inventor, promises it After 14 years’ research, Reinhold fuel that may be sold tn lump form or as @ liquid. As a solid tt re sembles vaseline and has all the combustible qualities of gasoline It will burn without exploding, and, }the inventor says, makes an ideal | fuel for cooking or heating. To prepare the solid gasoline all) that is necemary Is addition of wa- ter! Yes, water—which does not mix with gasoline and reduces fuel efficiency! The resultant liquid contains at least one-third more heat units than the. motor fuel of today, Reinhold says. SOLID | KEROSENE, TOO Reinhold has produced solid kero. sene, too, for which same claims. Besides, he says, the solid kerosene will burn more easily the present without the aid of a wick or other conveying agent. The residue left after this product has been burned resémbies oi! and can be used as lubricant, the in- ventor says. Reinhold haa completed final tests and is preparing to send his prod ucts out wholesale at $ cents a gal- | lon, that they may be bought by the consumer at about 10 cents. LIGHT CARS are being plannea| ‘now with engines the torcycle plants. size of mo- WEEK GRAY Kent-Des Moines Den Moines-Tacoma Highline—Gooa Renton- Maple Valley —fwligh, New gravel Valley-Binek Diamond. Diamond Good. inville-Davall Redmond-Kellevne Connection — from O'Brien Bridge matt apes, Issaquah-Fall City-Norrth Bend ioe Ieeaquah-Redmond (via Lake Sammam. inh — Redmond t0 Inglewood tough Renton to Rennydale Newport closed. New vonedete road m Bnumeiaw. ¢ Parking is probih bridge over Green of county comin: Black Diamond —~ New mites beyond Aut Alno via Room ad open to Camp Ma. road, Renton Tass (formerly Water river) Imelaw exce Wighway—Open nea roads around Fin Btevens Pans Bick Diamond-Pranklin— Good. le River k-North Trunk Connee- mile pavement exe All lent to Index Near One lent avel hayand. PAVED. ROADH CONDITION Richmond Beach Road Renton-Fnumelaw (Fi ALL ‘IN GOOD Main 6909 ntee I've been flood: | he makes the| liquid form and} ane | PeCeption y CUS Ae | White has a business car that looks like @ passenger auto, says @ line. S'queert Ne ° Reputation of manufacturer and | dealer influences half the auto buy ers, according to some bone just dug up by a statistician. Murph, | } ne wonder business is dull! | eee ' Systematic attention lengthens «& car's life, says a contrib, After all, | }the Ligsie t9 something like the) wife, e ee | Society for Automotive Engineers | j wilt revise automobile steel stan darda Now, some fool printer, jsays he has produced automobile | don't spell ~~ heal Ag Pi oS les ‘Went trom Mexico to Quebec. More interna | tional complications Meseal in Canada, Scotch in Mexico, and water / i'a the U, 8. A. FEW HORNS ARE WORN OUT.| eee Short-line railroads will eventually have gasoline rail cary to carry their passengers and freight, says « tine. lY¥-enh, just likely as oot they'll have rubber tres with G. M. G on the} radiator. ' eee | Alcohol, 26¢ a gallon, says a sign on a barrel In the Western Auto company on Westlake. It's dena tured. eee | | ‘The state read commission of Maryland is erecting road marks {on highways that will not only in form a traveler where he ia, but will | givg him @ map to guide bim on his| way. No use talkin’ that sign't too jderned useful. | . . } In earty days of automobiles |feople thought it scandalous for a woman to do anything so extreme ly vulgar as to drive a car. Now, |i that's oll she does, ao angel, indeed. he eee automobile bag become part of the equipment according to Robert superintendent of | Bloomington, Iilinois, district of the Presbyterian church Probabi thinks it will enable the parson keep up with his flock on Sundays. The essential a church, Biggar, an of RK the nice MYSTERY You may stop, And you may 90, But the taxi-meter Goes on forever. . tually line railroads have gn their paswenge a tine. Y-eah, they have M. the will even- m 10 freight just likely rubber tires wita| lator, line as \G. on Alcohol 20¢ a gallon, rays @ barrel in the Western on Westlake. It's INew Type Cadillac | Approved by Public With both public and the dealers Jacclaiming the new Cadillac cars | Tyr , and with thig acclaim |flected in orders which have forced the factory into big production, the new Cadillac can be genuinely put down as a tremendous success Since the car was first shown to the publlo the fastery bas been over. |whelmed with congratulations, ‘The given Type 61 has been junanimous thruout the country | In the New York metropolitan jarea, where Cadillac has long been a pr, it has been given marked ap- proval Out on the Pacific const it even Jwurpassed the mark of good exteem in which. It Weon held, Jana the same condition exists thru {out the country } a sign Auto denatured. ead has always “EVENTUALLY 1 think at) tracks will be torn from the streets, The motor bus i# far better adapted to the needs of the public. It ts and cheaper to operate.”- easier Henry | | financial ‘FORD PRICE CUT WILL NOT OCCUR : Local Branch "Queries De troit Direct ‘There will not be any drop in Ford car prices after January 1 Acoording to advices received from the Ford Motor Co., in Detroit, N. W. Hale, manager of the mies department of the Ford Motor Co, Fairview ave, and Valley et ‘There has been an undercurrent rumor gives strength by reports of | magazines thrwowt the Unitet Sta that | F make an unprecedented go Prices after the first of the year In order to confirm the rumor one way or the other for his own | ratintaction, Hale telegraphed De troit, and received & ponitive denin! that Ford car prices wit! flsd lower COOLING THE motor oi! chamber at the top of the case by the alr from the fan new development. in Ina FIFTY-FIVE PER CENT of the motor cars in the country are towns of 5.000 population or tess WORN OUT rudder tires may be ned ax subgrades to give cushipn. ing power to roads. Purchase Your Oil by the Mile — Not the Gallon makes no difference much of! you pour into your crankease, the only oll which protects the engine is the thin film be tween moving metal parts Only King Ott will retain full lubricating efficiency under the heat of service. We solicit your inquiries and will be glad to submit &@ line of samples GARAGES HANDLING KING OIL TERMINAL GARAGE Raliroad Ave. and J SOUTH BND GARAGE Third Ave. and Yosler Way KUAY GARAGE 10 Merear St es \ ANNE GARAGE aler St Jam aenvicn: 4910 Leary Ave. STANDARD Ganacn 26 ‘Third Ave “19 RAC KNER rity Bailey ND TIRE CO, Marion & RAVENNA G 701% law Natty GARAGE wnir 1. Vv WEARY'S GANAGH $203 Gard Ave. 8. W AUTO SUPPLY STATION 4 SERVICN >. 1628 Fifth Ave THE sPrer STA STATION >, Wash, PTT DEALERS JOUNSON & 200K K&S. AUTO REPAIR HUN" wD BROADWAY TINH stor King Oil Sales Co. Distribators 99 Marion Street by | DOES 90 MILES ON RECORD RUN jLexington Hangs Up New Time in Old Mexico Rounding out an énviable record for hillelimbing, endurance and speed, a Lexington stock model, in charge of Harry Tarkington, serv foe manager of the Lexington Los Angeles company, a few cays ago in @ tent over a one-mile eourre on the beach at Ensenada, Oid Mex foo, made the mile in 40.2 recondn, or at the rate of 8955 miles per) hdr, The speed record made over thir beach in a non-competitive mile Fun completes a series of te conducted by the Lexington Ls Angeles company, which tat to stand or some time in that ter ritory. The powerful Ansted enaine | proved efficient from the stand Point of mpeed as it in in its ability to climb hills or to endure long, hard pulls. The tnne with whieh with the Ansted motor at an average of 89,55 hour for the mile, wan ¢ Tide nditions were }and the driver innists he mark under tin car travele miles an nvineing. unfavorable, that he can better con ton was the performance accurate timing wae carefully handled and the mile course was measured by David Goldbaum, enaineer jin the employ of the Mexican gov- ernment. Far down the haifmoon, described by the shore line of Todos Santos ay, the Lexington stock car, with ‘Tarkington the wheel, barked @efiance at time and space, and soon it was whiting along like a faxh of fire Like ® bullet the car [a straight line, @hd as it acroms the one-mile mark watches hed. held by the two Lexington credit for a mile in 40.2 80 in, oF 89.66 miles an hour Driver Tarkington was enthusl astioaily cheered in English and Spanivh, and the firet man to ehake jhin hand wax David Zarate,, presi [dente municipaie of Lower Call jfornia. He + Hagtted over the spectacular night, bud even more |impreswed by the high wpeed qual | tien of Eneenada’s wonderful beach. It te the mayor's belief that speed records will be estab jthe sand where Lexing up such a splenaia score. “ USED CARS SLOW UP NEW SALES Dealers Lose on on Trade-for- New-Car Deals taken to followed the ner no turned ‘The ured car problem has become so complex that manufacturegs a are devoting most of their tion to its solution There are about 8,000,000 uaed re in the country, Oguring on the sin that a yearoldcar is And cach year about 10 per cent have been turned in for new ma- chines, or repped. Leaving few! new newear buyers Manufacturers have come to real ize that greater annual production goes to the per sons who tura tn used cars and get an allowance for Uhem. | AGENT THE LOSER | This atiowancn, cided, is what te of the new car market. eager to sell, have been too much for old autome owner, rather than the sa jhas been pocketing the profit | ‘Three solutions to this situation [have been offered: 1 ch manufacturer, twing his new car, should also quote the market price of his older mod 8 giving a greater “used. the it has been de ttratning the back allowing les. The ntreaked ttop | Comparieon | part Of their | Dealers, | agent, | in ndver | PLA LEY HO YOU’LL GET WRECKED ON 2ND AVE. UNLESS YOU CONCENTRATE! “The ls making the Amer the greatest concentrators in the world,” mays William C. Hunt, advertising manager of the Columbia Motors Detroit motor car an nation mpany, “If you believe man and don't centration ix neces sary when driving, Just look at & pretty girl for the fraction of ‘Then when you elimb out of your wrecked car, figure up how much departure from driving concentration is going to a second. cst you CLASSES IN CAR | HANDLING FREE | Central Agency “Starts New Service Feature Central “Agency, Inc, Broad. at, has organized a | ‘The way and Pike | series of free clanses to teaab proper | handling and use of Ford srs to customers and others | Wor the past six weeks these |claswes have been meeting In the miesroom at § p, m. Thursday of each week Many people have been attending, and it is apparent that owners and drivers are vitally inter ented in the proper and handling of their cars, said A. ¥. | Blangy, manager. | in in « the public to attend the classes, whether they are car owners or pot, Blangy bas ‘urated a fareecing policy realizes the hotter understa the public has of the product of careful | Tourists’ Paradise Tapped by New Road Motorists thruout the Northweet are expressing their keen cantante, | ton for the summer's fishing and! * along the new scenic ro . unty, open for the first | to the tourist by the recent | cussed dedication of the Carbonado-Fairfax paved highway. The new road not | only opens vast new region abounding in scenic beauty to the tourist but also gives the town of rfax an outlet, and provides the link for the development of the nertti side of Mt Rainier, rich in forests and mineral. Both the forestry service and the | national park service are engaged extending the road from its toretna) to the Rainier national | park. This new entrance to park will be partially opened | coming reason The dedication of the new paved! |road and the James R. O'Purre! bridge was held December 18 under the auapices of the Rainier Sports| men's association, representing | Montezuma, Fairfax, Melmont, Car bonado, Wilkeson, Spiketon, Burnett, South Prairie, Buckley and Orting |For the past several years the as | sociation has been active In stock | ing the rivers and lakes in this gee |Uon with EBastern trout. The new bridge at Carbonado i» an alleteel, Onexpan structure 340 feet long wetting on heavy conerete piers feet above the Carbon | river low water level. It was built | by Pierce county under the direetion|to be hauled an average of four of County Comaliasioner James R.| miles, but motor trucks maintained a | O'Farrel, at & cost of $80,000, and) steady flow of crushed stone and named in his honor. It links Car-| other materials. bonado with the new paved high-| | way leading along the crest of the| TEXAS HAS the greatest road Carbon canyon river wail for # dis-| mileage of all states in the union, tance of 3 miler to Fairfax long this stretch of 4 exceed hone Scenes highway are ot Nisqually Planw for the road have been dis for @ score of years. Ten years ago a road was built by Pierce county along the bane of the can. wall to Fairfax. This soon be- came impassable even to pack ani- In 191% Pierce county voted 0,000 in bonds to build and pave ® road to Fairfax from Carbon War prices made this amount ins sufficient, final cost of the roa@ |reaching the neighborhood of $450, 000 Motor Trucks Speed Road Construction Speed records in road construction work have been shattered during the last few months as a result of @ more rapid handling of raw mate rials, according to contractors, The increasing use of motor trucks | during the last few years aided great. fly im accelerating the building of roads, but recent improvements in motor truck design have enabled joperators to haul more materials lthan ever before, As an instance of this may be cited the Monteclair-Danville road ni Newark, N. J., completed recently, The contractors laid this 20-foot con- crete highway at a rate of more than 700 feet a day. The materials had ume lyon | a the | fered tor saf® the more likely are) | the nalew prompects, and later satis lfaction by the owners with their purchane Oncar Oblstrom te the mechanical tnetruction having had a number of experience with the Ford Co, and as inetructer in He te well qualified Clase, years Motor or aehools, impart age car owner shout his car desires to know Im addition to the clase under Ohistrom, expert tire and oll men instruct the class in ‘oper handling of cars to get the moet mileage from tires, and in the proper lubrication of the motor and | parte. lowance would know the risk they jare taking | APPRAISERS st GGESTED 2. Public appraisers, paid by the dealer, to give the sales value of any car submitted by a prospective new-ecar customer. In such there would be no bargali the dealer would have a true kaow! edge of the car's value. 3. Formation of a ‘national ured car comp: which would buy and well all ured cars from only those ewners buying new [There would be wet prices for all | modela, which would be paid to the new-car dealers as part payment on the new car sold to the owner. Action will |probiem ‘That promise of Arthur Reeves, general manager of jthe National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. That is certain, for t ly realized that the new car mar ket will be slow until a practicable j solution of the used car situation is obtained. is the FARM TRACTORS in ure in thie country have increased from 6,000 in 1910 to 135,000 last year, AMERICAN MOTORISTS con sume 20 per cant more oil per per- pon than the British. tomobiies were joo last year, : imported into Mex- | FIRST AL TOMOBILE rear signal device was invented by @ St | Loulsan in 1908 | THERE ARE 3 000 auto dealers and 26,000 public garages in the | United States. The caraven Reo illustrated above is owned by Dr. W. P. | Pread of Ottawa Ill. the “Road Home,” the Pacific Coast. It is show The Road Home He has christened his speed wagon n all set for a long ramble to carries Dr, and Mrs. Vread, Mr. and Mrs, R. O, Carter and their daughter, Miss) Reva Carter. of usual But, new kind the Gypales be all unlike a former day, they nor talk Romany Americans in every the word. Yet. they are gypsies just the same because timy tive in a home on wheels, eat-by the way- ide, sleep wheré night overtakes them and they are as independent of hotels ys any Te'wane The new gypslew travel by “« miniature hotel fitted | cooking outfit, books, heating devices, regular plumbing, pantry, jand sometimes a shower bath. In this equipage a man, nis family and guests may rt out on thelr coming States. over the gypsies of do not tell for but are sense of tunes reat motor with wan derings and as out, the whol civilized world is theirs, Towns are setting aside camping grounds for these nomads. The ands of them annually tra verse the Southwest, Their trade is valuable. Each member of a party on an average lea dollar day behind him at stores en row At many places motor tourists given the freedom of the municipal | Parks as well aa wood ready for use, running other camping needs movement abroad. In jcaravaning. The tendency there is to have a living car in for ofa trailer attached to the owner's tour jing car, ne as choy water and is in England it foal blast in charge of| of the} the knowledge the aver. | automobiles. | soon be taken on this | NEARLY $4,000,000 worth of au | funds hold called | | A Low Price for Such a Good Sedan | ‘The great popularity of this Over- land Sedan indicates its outstand- ing value. | it has every convenience—four- } doors, adjustable plate glass windows and windshield, cowl ventilator, dome light, demount- able wire wheels. looking! Thoroughly com- ! Surprisingly economical! " THE SEDAN —§§905 f- o. b. 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