The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1922, Page 8

—— OLDSMOBILES IN ‘The Olds Motor Works at Lansing, has announced price cuts from $40 on the ¢cylinder to $160 on the Scylinder coupe, and affecting 11 ‘The new price on the § ts $2,145 as compared nd the touring car is Supersport mode! ts cut from to $1,725, and the coupe drops to @ price of $1,995, The tour ar and roadster tn the same line from $1,595 to $1,495, the for 1923 : Oldamobile will put out six types! in price trom $1,095 to $1,745, Doth the five.passenger touring * ‘and the roadster cut from $1,145 $1,095, and the somi-sport from 4 225, The California top has been reduced from 95, and the coupe from , with the sedan form- $1,795 being produced ————_—__— kless Auto Driver Now Extinct, Claim ist Who Used to Dispute Crossings Is Like Dodo are no reckless automobile im the Northwest. j f. F. M. Metcalfe, superintendent | t® pick the gorgeous yucca blossoms section of the Northern Pa-|found along the highways. Los says he knows this to be a tact | Angeles county has just passed an the drivers themselves have | Ordinance protecting these stately Bim 0 repeatedly and in. | desert flowers, which grow only ta} 4 ty. | Mexteo and Southern Caltfornia | [Sand yet accidents at ratiroad| They attain a height of elght to 12) re and elsewhere keep hap-| feet. * eald Mr. Metcalfe. “We| The Inw wne necessary, according | *4 d hocking Northern Pacific cross-|to a statement by the Los Angeles | Delp has been added to the Canadian ‘and find that thousands of mo-| Chamber of Commerce, because the | force at the Blaine entry, but there day drive over the rail-| yuccas were in danger of extermin.| '* ry Already for additional details without taking thelation by admiring motorists, who|% mounted policemen to help han tracks to look either to right orjenter the state at the rate of hun-| Us the week-end and holiday crowds dreds Galty. | NO EASY TASK & train chances to be reciclens| When the blossom ts plucked, tta| FOR OFFICIALS de won, Se wee the croattng’s| power of reproduction is gene 004 | oir thirty touriete. However, nie te ant to be | the flowering plant dlea The ox | news o¢ the provincial Hauer regula. an YUCCA BLOOMS CAN'T BE PICKED Pretty Desert Flowers to Be Protected Now Los ANGELES, Cal. Aug. t— Motorists from the East entering Southern California are warned not | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 5.— California has long been noted for its efforts to bring tourists to its communities, This summer, however, California leads all oth- er states in the number of auto tourists crossing the boundary from the somewhat arid United States bi the somewhat moist British Columbia. San Francisco people are lead ing all others in the number of tourists checked over the border at Blaine. This, too, with tourint traffic 50 per cent greater than it was last sumuner. Handling these thirsty ptlerime ts no easy task for Canadian custome 0 & collision. | treme heanty of the flower ts so ap | ves Be re at an id lack of caution | peat: ; pealing that the newly arrived Fast | “ Motorists more than | ener could not resist the tempta (rer California, and especially | in hich fille the how | sion offered. | that wine-loving city by the Golden and graveyards of the coun. This practice became so wide Gate, judging from the big Influx. i A big percentage of the thirsty . Metcalfe is tn charge of the Se ee eg ona a mie | sourtsts who would enter thru Blaine Pacific ° campaign tn co- have been diverted to Victoria over a with the American Rail.|, Th? law ts the first ever paged ithe new. Anacortes, Wash, auto Qgescciation to sell the Ameri [in protection of wild Hfe tn the) terry. But tn apite of this the Blaine entries are far larger than last year, people the idea of crossing cross | “°**Tt- a and other border points are kept carefully. *Btforts of this kind are produc-| number killed In any year since 1899.| busy. Incoming boats all carry big parties of visiting tourists. results,” said Mr. Metcalfe. “When it te considered that the “tT year the rallways of the Unit./total number of persons killed tn There are no saloons Btates made the best record for | 1971 was about the same as in 1899,|Columbia. Liquor is nold tho. (gafety of operation that they have|and while since then the number of |i" under government supervision made in the 34 years that acci-|employes has increased about 140/ With special attention given to qual statistics have been compiled by | per cent, the passenger traffic han. | !ty. Interstate commerce commission. | died about 225 per cent, and t ‘Theoretically, the visitor pays $5 total number of persons of | freight handled about 490 per cent,| for a permit, en him to buy Classes—employes and non-em-! some idea of the increase tn safety | bottled Mquors. But dull, indeed are vt ied on the railroads injof operation which hs rrists who cannot “find” some i was 11.839. This was the peak | ¢epecially during the address within British Co fm fatal accidents. The number | car be formed. lumbia, and thus get the permit for fatal accidents has since then| “That a safety campaign ts never. | 50 cents. & decline. |thelees necessary and timely, is| Brftish Columbia lawmakers orists were incloved tn 76 per|shown by the fact that in sidered the saloon and tavern, of all crossing accidents tn 1920.| our country’s popt the Hquor ftself, was a mer in 1921 only about one-half the|68 per cent, wh ing accidents | Therefore, they created the liquor ber were killed that were killed! increased 245 per cent In fatal and| control board, which conducts the 2997, and probably less than the 652 per cent In Inj iquor dispensaries. The board seema occurred, t 36 years, con- not SETTLE THAT FORD QUESTION RIGHT NOW WE CAN SELL YOU A "ms UNIVERSAL CAR 45 DOWN Balance in 18 Months OUR TERMS ARE AS FOLLOW ROADSTER $514.56 Folly Equipped $108.00 Down $26.75 Per Me. SEDAN * 9784.00 7 Equipped 37.00 ‘Dewn ve Mo. $35.65 Per Mo, $35.30 Ver TERMS INCLUDE INTEREST, INSURANCE, GAS AND OILL—F, 0. B. SEATTLE ~, INVESTIGATE OUR SIX-MONTHS PAYMENT PLAN! No Interest and no Brokerage Cee) Y AT PIKE PHONE EAST 0320 tet er in British | Sale | E. L, Stevens, an Oakland salesman, showing the new two-passenger Oakland coupe, which has just arrived, being the latest product of the Oakland factory, now on display at} the show rooms of the Northwest Oakland Co., 12th and E. Pike st. Thirsty Californians Lead Rush to B. C. saloon or public house, they can have anything else they want In the way of liquor. It gives thoughtful jattention to any pleas. For ia j stance j Those who iked their ale tn the old | days sighed loudly, For their bene. lft, the control board chemists are | testing a new beer of 11 per cent imbued with the idea that if the peo |ple are not to have the old-time laleoholic content—or nearly quin | tuple the hoof power of the 2.75 per | cent concoction Americans nought to save from prohibition Jewish congregations sighed for }the powerful, fiery drinke they used | @t thetr festivals in Russia. In came jalcoholic @rink that was finally [banned in bis homeland. Some of the Jewish people preferred a rye Product to the wheatmade vodka | Por theae, the control board tmport ed vishnik, which carries a wallop |second only to vodka. Cognac, me oe, Alicante and sauternes were also Jewish holiday observance, Provincial liquor regulations con template sales of all liquors at gov ernment depots In bottled form. But if ope wants only a drink—-there tx atways the club, British Columbia, be tt known, te about the “clubblest” little province In existence. Club activities took a tremendous jump when the saloons went out. With all sorte of reasons for thetr existence, they aprung tnto existence Ike mushrooms, for the provinelal regulations provide for sale of drinks In clubs. All clubs, therefore, have a bar—and some have little Of course, one must be a club mem ber tm good standing. But it neither difficult nor expensive to be jcome a “member.” | Many of these “clubs” correspond the American “epeak-eagy,” but their days are now short lived. Strict supervision In being exercised tn the issuance and rene club per mite, and many « ” property ts a bar, some ginases and & couple of tables will soon pass out of existence California fears this may occur any minute, judging by the way autos carry Golden state Homnse [plates are streaming over the line into this neck of Canada Detroit, with approxtmately 000 families, has one automobile to each three families. This is said to be the highest percentage in the world, 350. A horee fountain tn Kennet Square, Philadelphia, ts now up for nal, and reestabil A favorite dinposal ground for stolen automobiles ts said to be Mexico City and other large Mext | can towns. sh its usefulness? Tho first cross-country motor trip with a radio receiving set i# claimed | by C. A. Bantmyer, of Reading, Pa. Santmyer {9 a motor and radio fan. So when he got time for a vacation, | he decided to combine both his plona ures in one, He equipped his coupe with a radio recelving set and Is now on his way to the Pacific coast. No matter wher Why not let tt pipe gasoline!” Greatest WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. t- The nation’s gasoline reserve is con tinuing ite record breakt climb, according to figurea compiled by the show that on May 1, the total stocks on hand amounted to $92,267,766 gal lons, an increase of 38,000,000 over the previous high record of April 1 While production records are being broken, the figures for the consump tion of gasoline are also on an up |ward spurt. “Thus, while domestic | production for April, 1922, registered jan tnerease of 10.96 per cent over the production in April, 1921, domes | tle consumption of this product tn | April, 1922, shows an tere of | 11.67 per cent over the consumption figures for April, 1921. While the figures for domestio production plus imports of gasoline for April, 19 registered an increase of 13.43 per |cent over similar figures for April, 11921, the figures for domestic con |sumption plus exports and ship an tmerease of 12.61 per cent over similar figures for the corresponding period Inst year The production of gneoline during April, which amounted to 472,920,182 gallona, showed practically. no tn crease over March, Total consump | tion figures, including exporta and shipments to insular possessions, however, show an increase of 42, 000,000 gailons, Exports for April amounted to 68,007,495 gnilon: ip ments to insular possenstons, 1,894, 426 gallons; imports, 10,681,720 gal jones; domestic consumption 38: 3, S70 gallons A datly average of 1,357,000 barrels of olf twas run thru the etilla of the 203 refineries reported to the bureau of mines as operating during the SPOKANE HAS [Eight Lakes, Two Water-| falls Near City SPOKANE, Aug. 6.—-The moto? ction offers within a comfort drive eight lakes, two Devil's Well,” and a “You can't get this J able 26<n!! waterfalls “Mammoth into the cave, but then, oaves are! ;damp and unhealthy, anyway. | The section containing this ecen-| | ery is about 20 miles from the city |roafs are good, considering the | broken nature of the land, and with jcareful driving no difficulties should | de met. To reach the string of lakes, the tourists turns at West Branch, on |the Newport highway north ef Bpo- kane, and follows the West river. | Three miles from the main road ts | Aloika lake. The next ts Fan lake, where the ¥. M. C. A. boys hold | thelr annual encampment. A few jmiles furtyer on ie Horesshoe which, until this summer, had never seen & white man's boat, Just m short distance Horseshoe inke t= the Well,” an apparently botton ctroular, carved out of solid lite origin is a mystery, but ft | supposed to be an old voleante blow the ground sounds holk the tre indicat ing a cave of tmm © proportions, Qe yet unexplored with no vis thie outlet. Past the p terfall es at Lost lake beyond “Devil's hole. For some “Devil's W Fan Fa namele * the tour tnt n4 arfother f rout Inke ake, farther ot the main and sou of the west branch. It ts only about 15 miles | from lake No, 1 to lake No. 7, more |Inkes to @ given stretch of road than In any other part of the North according to local road ex on Sacheen string weat, perta. Five or six miles above Sacheen i» Diamond iake, and from here the tourist can make hig thru Rocky gorge around Kalispel A down the Pend dOreille past canyon to Metaline falls. There are some bad hills, but for the auto wanderer who isn't ob. | sessed with the notion that he must [fol on asphalt all the way there are*few scenic trips better than this in the whole Northwest. he I, he can keep tn communication with the outside world When he stops for the night and camps out, the radio recelving set ts put up with an outside antenna, On the road, Santmyer has the antenna atretehed inside the car, In the picture, Santmyer is shown Alongside his radioequipped motor ar. United States bureau of mines, which | | ments for April for this year show| ADVANTAGES it, | heard of lake | Gasoliue Reserve Is in History the three month of April & decrease of 80,000 barrels in daily average run, and also lens operative plants thaa the report | of the previous month. The April reports show operative planta to be | running 77 per cont of their daily indicated capacity, The seasonal decline tn the gaso- | Inte wtock curve, occurring genorally 4Uring April or May, has not yet started, an is evidenced by the sharp increase in reserves. Hoth production and stocks of | kerosene showed an increase during | the month of April. Stocks of this| material on hand in May amounted| $36,126 gallons. Production | ‘onene in April amounted to 188,809,285 gailons. Exports and shipments during the month consint. | | ed of 90,000,000 gallons, this being the | | largest amount since December, 1920. | | Production of gas and fuel ofl de-| creneed 68,000,000 gallons during April, and stocks increased 82,000,000 | gallons, indicating @ substantial de- | crease in the consumption of this | product. The month's output of gas and fuel off amounted to 791,642,710 gallons, and stocks on hand May 1/ amounted to 1,282,800,569 gations Production of lubricating ofl tn April amounted to 72,945,168 gallons, \the daily average production increas | ine 64,000 gallons during the month Stocks of this product remained practically stationary, amounting on May 1 to 237,229,814 gallons. Billiard Champ Had First Idea on Rubber Tires “Automobile tires and billiard | boards—a strange combination, but ! the one is the offering of the other,” declared Howell Tatum, @istributor | of Brunewick tires at 1117 BE. Pike st. | “It was he continued “from the brain of Michael Phelan, the first champion billiardist, that the rubber tires came, No, he didn't invent the first tire, but be was the really,” iinmigration men. Additional|a supply of vodka, the 20 per cent/ tet visiting Spokane will find that| first to secure a patent on a rubber compound for billiard table cushions, | And the rubber cushion today ts to the billiard table what the rubber | tire ts to the automobile / “It will perhaps surprise’ yod to | know that while rubber tires are of | very recent origin, Michael Phelan, one of the founders, and other offi. | | brought here in large quantities for|tn practically virgin country. The! cials of the Brunewick-Balke-Collen. | der Co,, have made a study of rubber | ‘and rubber compounds since 1557, or | upwards of 45 years.” “The concern produced ite first | tires at Muskegon in 1909, and the lexperiment proved so successful that | | In 1916 the company went tnto larger | production, In line with the plan to jexpand its rubber manufacturing | business, the following year the/| Brunewick Tire and Tube was intro-| | duced.” | “And all this was made possible jthru the efforts of the ploncers of the House of Rrunswiek, who started tn mding of rubber many | ® pneumatic tires were | } ) the compe yeare Bennett, the English racer, leading in the Grand Priz race which he won at Duppigheim, France. 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