The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1922, Page 4

LIBERTY MAN LAUDS MARMON, Asserts It Is ‘a “Nearly Per- fect Car” | “col. ¥. J. Man, "eodesigaer of the motor and considered one of | —the automodiie authorities of the world, has written a letter giving his of his Marmon car | touring sedan has been such ® pleasure that I am writing to tell) You how well pleased T am with it.) T have been doing a great deal of | touring tn ail kinds of weather and | the results have been equally good | under all conditions. *What pleases me most is to re- bw, fe car fully equipped with all of | ‘the Mitle details puilt in, even to the sheck absorbers, automatic wind. Shield cleaner, rear traveling trunk, eta, “You are certainly to be congrat: ulated on turning out a nearly per. » fect car.” No Oil Is Needed for This Clutch © The clutch designed for the) “Cadillac uses no oil at all. Fifteen Smooth, stee! dives, alternately lMned | With asbestos facing and the 300 pound pressure of a nickel stee! cot! spring transmit the engine power thru gearset to rear axle. TESTS OF motor cars running on @legho! and benzol will be made April 2 SALE-SALE-SALE “Ayaan 9 “right ore nee ughtered. Prices no ob- “Bill Warner Says” have too many “care” I Bee Cn l space And quitting: be ‘ Far from tt Must sel! about fey | nationally known sights of interest, | and | Leonard and Henry Rothschild, of Santa Barbara, Cal., as they appeared on the double Ht coved trip across the country, during which they passed thru 25 states and covered 9,750 miles, | gained from the following facts | \and saw the principal wonder spots of the continent, j A double transcontinental trip, | crossed mountain peaks and encoun- during which they covered §,750| tered every known road condition, miles, visited ates, the principal | has just been completed by Leonard Henry Rothschild, of Santa i | Barbara, Cal The brothers drove a Buick road.) ater on this trip, and while the car's mileage in in excens of 26,000, It aver aged 15 miles to the gallon on the trip, and 1,200 miles to « gallon of oll, Only one tire change wag made during the return tour, The trip wae made with the pur- pose of secing ad much of the coun try as possible, and took them thru California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kan sas, Maryland, [Iilinels, Indiana, | Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Isiand, ————— Times longer than the old white| resistance, withstand the deteriorae, ltrende, withstand the deteriorating | ing influence of of and grease to @ | ett tn of the sun's rays much long therto unknown extent, and wag or, renist cutting and chipping to « oximately 26 per cent lighter is Brothers Travel Twice Across Nation How $5 Plus an Idea Made Him Millionaire From $5 to $2,000,0001 From bookkeeper to head of a huge business concern! That is the story of George Pep- | perdine, nt of the Western | Auto Supply Co., who was a viattor | at hin Seattle atore thin week | Pepperdine bean his business | career in 1909 when he was 22 years) old, a bookkeeper in Kansag City, | Mo, He concelved the idea that an} could be done successfully by mail, He decided to get out a few cirew | Jars. He knew « printer who would | give him credit on a small job of | work, and he had an « with the automobile «# Jenable him to obtain wholesale prices on the articles he wished } ‘The first outlay for the new bust. | noas wan $5, required for postage on | the circulars. This Pepperdine sup: | plied from his wages, When orders began to come tn he still held his Job as bookkeeper | handled his new business at home at night, but the business became #0 [heavy within @ month that he was obliged to give up his job and devote | | all his time to his new venture During the first months the profits had been about $100, and this was uned to start an accessory store down- | town. A show window and « amall | apace in front of a garage was rented } at $20 & month. A show cane, a dewk | jand a few aceemnories consumed his | | $100, but he arranged to buy goods | be pay for them when sold. f the proportions of the | 6 present time can be There are now 60 stores, and 10/ more are under construction. ‘The average daily sales this year have been about $25,000. | On heavy days, sales in all stores combined have reached $42,000 The stores now carry « combined stock of nearly $2,000,000 worth of | merchandise, They turn the stock | | over nearly four times a year, | j ps ENERGY REQU InED to move an Automobile, experts say, equals the power needed to lift the great Japa- Rese dreadnaught Mutu three feet. auto accessory and tire business | ___ George Pepperdine BLACK TREADS ON BEST TIRES Color Changes as Product Improves, Says Expert “There are a s number of reasons why @ black tire fe superior to « white or gray one, but the mort tm- portant of thone from the motoriat's standpoint ts the increased wearing quality,” said Ralph b. Brown, ae sistant superintendent In charge of production of the Spreckies “Savage” Tire Company, in a recent statement. “The tread of a tire contains ap- proximately 60 per cent of rubber by weight, the balance being chemicals, greater degr i ht.” have greater skidding The Master of the Road | Buick Seven Passenger Touring—%1435 Sweeping refinements in motor, chamis, bedy and equipment mark the Buick seven-passenger open car for 1923. Re-designing has brought the car's height down several inches with no sacrifice of head-room; an entirely new cantilever ae of Bes comfort unexcelied. DELIVERED PRICE Model 23-6-49 Seven-Pass. Touring SIXES Ziv. - OS sey Touring. Buick bag tl! aad COAST mR 23-6-41 "es q + ere Roadster. 1400 4 2 is | : 1 Sere_ond tm azine, to © 1 ni WILL BUT A ‘MATTER WHAT You ‘WAST—WE HAVE IT ee. in he = : ‘Terms Include Interest. Insurance, Gas and OW . H. Seattle CENTRAL AGENCY AUTHORIZED DEALERS SoD BROADWAY ruown pee tm looking for wil not walk An 4 heme.” Ee is Buknige ano | BALANCE IN 18 MONTHS The Utility Coupe $877 Delivered in Seattle ‘A better salesman’s inclosed car for better salesmen. A sturdy, letely equipped chassis, with a powerful, economical over- a motor, three-speed transmission and spiral bevel gear rear axle. A comfortable Fisher body, rattle proof, co plate with genuine Tursstadt window fittings, metal visor, win hield cleaner and all dash equipment built in. A compartment in the rear that will accommodate a steamer trunk easily. Cord tires, rear gaso- line tank with vacuum feed, of course. A phone call will bring this car to your door. Deliveries Now in Rotation Fred S. Haines Company ° Twelfth and East Madison GEORGETOWN BRANCH: North End Rainier Brewery Premises Phone Glendale 0896 Phone East 1442 OS ea scones | Maasach usetta, Hampshire, | Maine, Vermont, Iowa, Nebraska, | Artaona and New Mexico, Besides sesing all the scenery along the roade in these states the | brothers decided to take side trips to | 800 Yosemite, Tioga pass, Yellowstone park, Niagara Fails and Grand can you, Roads buried deep in anow were found tn New York and great mud holes blocked the roads of Iowa, they said, but the worst roads were en- counteréd in Nevada and the beat found tn Massachusetts. A teat they put thelr car thru. which few can boast of, was tn the New where they crossed Milner pass at 10,750 feet, and Berthoud pass at 11,530 feet elevation. only expense involved in the opera- tion of the car was that of gas, oil and tires, BY THOMAS BR, BEEMAN, King County Mnugineer WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 2, 1998 PRINCIPAL PAVED ROADS All im Kaceilent Condition North Traumk Reed—From city limits te nohomish county jine, point four miles north, " ane Mighlands-—- Te Richtnond jem | Reston A ton, thru shorwef Lake Washing- jewport, Bellevue, Medina, Rocky Mountains National park, | / During the entire trip, deapite the 3 | unusual conditions, no trouble with | joer car was experienced, and the GASSAWAY MILES YOU OLD WALRUS!-HERE WE ARE READY TO GO, AND YOUVE BEEN PROWLING THAT OLD GREASY ENGINE AGAIN =: , EVERY TIME YOU SHAKE HANDS WITH A FRIEND ‘THEY IMMEDIATELY START OUT LOOKING FOR A CAKE oF SOAPIS APAIR OF WHITE FLANNEL TROUSERS HAS THE SAME CHANCE AROUND HIS CAR THAT A LOOSE CANARY BAS IN A CAT SHow— pega! which tmpart the necessary proper Fr | a nr ce iciet Pt tien to withstand road shocks, wear, | ba - e hip t) 1 exported last year was $102,945.60. er tcomgye chipping, weather cond} Five-pass, “Sport - sistance oth aio __- | Hons, ete. Bedan 1500 Touring ...-sse0+05 1943 / “The wearing quality of a tread ts i Rensheen, muweng, Jeantta, Kenmore, | produced by introducing a very fine ake Vorest Park . i Retheth-Meliveced-Retment-—~To o point |” Givided substance. Until a few three miles southeast of Redmond. lyears ago zinc oxide was ured for Moines Brick Highway-—From eevth {this purpose, which resulted in a y ity limite of Beattie along B. Marginal | white or gray tire Gome manufac wer to Des Motnes. From & point on the Dee Metnes reed near fumhydaie to Lake Burien. Dee Motnee road halt- Sunnydale te Three -Aubure From Renton eouth ever east side valley road, thry Kent and | Sevurn, te © point twe miles south of Auburn. Aobura ta Faumclaw. Knumclaw-Freakite—From Rowmetew to | & point about 1% miles north toward Vrankiin. Enumclaw to Buckley. GRAVEL ROADS Diamena turers added a few ounces of lamp black to obtain the gray color, and a few used tron oxide to produce a red colored tread, “Later, rubber engineers and chemists turned thetr attention to carbon as a compounding ingredient. Carbon black is one of the most nearly perfect forms of amorphous carbon; its particles are in a state of infinite division and it is chem! cally pure. “After several years of experment- ing and testing it was found that a tread could be compounded by using | carbon black that would wear several pe ' Eiaridee 'Buiit” Baies Co. 2 gaa a gen me com; cue Joe 1923 Buick models. . —T ' 1 Name .. 1 Address .. 5 cee oe a cere oe ee en et three miles beyond Skykomish. Fair poy pera Ryle exception of 1,006 feet at Maifor which te rough but peaabdle. | | Weedinvitle-Duvall—-Good Kent-Dee Moines In good eonfition. | Seattle-Kent — (West side valley road! wement) closed. Det ction enet to east a4: Tecome Rough tn places. —Open to park entrance | tion in King county, an on upper end tn Plerce Scat and Spend the Aetour via Trwi / 7 Se difference Lake Foret Tert-North Trunk Conner. | tlem—One mile pavement excellent, tT Tolt, 6 via Fail City or Woodinville Deval. BY SFAN i] —— Nl 9 Nie $ Your deliveries made quickly at less expense; your trade zone enlarged; your patronage increased; your bus- iness made more progressive by the F.O.B. use of a Ford Chassis and a body to DETROIT suit your requirements. Let us figure it out with you. Terms if desired AUTHORIZED FORD and LINCOLN CAR DEALERS The World’s Greatest Motor Car Values The World’s Greatest Motor Car Values RAINIER MOTORS CO., Inc. ital duchoon Be Ma Feurth are Beacon 053% Elliott 0750 WILSON & KREITLE, Inc. 4763 Ballard Ave. Sunset 1633 WEST SIDE AGENGY Ine. 4203 West Alaska St. West 1474 WM. L. HUGHSON CO., Inc. Third Ave. and Stewart St. Elliott 0076 LAMPING-McDONALD MOTOR CO., INC, 12th and East Pike CANAL MOTOR CO. 315 Nickerson St, Garfield 0074 CENTRAL AGENCY, Inc. au _ eg Pike COYLE & ‘WOODRUFF, Inc, 1100 BE. 45th Street Kenwood 0031 HART & HART, Inc. 6200 Stanley Ave., Georgetown East 7776 Glendale 0550