The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1923, Page 4

5 Le naeety The new home of the Wm. O. McKay Co. at 609 Westlake and most modern Ford buildings in the Northwest, costing approximately $115,000. the right is Wm. O. McKay, head of the concern. iabotnn ee? N., which is one of the finest} To Member of House Tells | of Dangers on Highway BY HON. HOMER T. BONE (Me nber of Legislature From Pierce County) I have driven a pleasure car for many years, and during this time have covered all of the highways of Western | Washington and Oregon and most of the highways of East- erm Washington. Such a driving experience necessarily Penables one to form certain definite conclusions concerning ey the character of driving done) a: on Washington roads. As result of my observation experience, I believe that there several types of drivers who a } distinct menace to life and prope One ia the driver who persists in maintaioing on his car blinding head. lights. Many, {f not most, drivers do not use a spot! consequently are afraid to dim their lights for fear of injury to them. | to 15 miles’ an hour, thereby possibly inelves,.thereby. placing the approach. | holding up a long line of cars back ilk ar in 0 dangerous position. No|0f him who cannot pass him, or even car did-travelon the lapse wb is emt tjmsa him, because of o w i ment so that in approaching a car | Dass one of these slow drivers has | traveling in the opposite dircetion, |ftequently resulted in serious acct. BE tha driver can dim his headlights and| dents. With the highway in good by the use of his spotlight sa!:.y' fol- | Condition and no sharp curves to re few the road without danger of go-|@uire slow and careful driving, a H th off onto. the side. There is a} Speed of 25 and 30 miles an hour is @ great lack of courtesy among drivers, | reasonable speed. A slow driver D growing out of this very state of | May under some conditions be almost facts. “A proper spotlight directed to| 49 great a menace as a mat who is @ man’s right side of the road does | Speeding in excess of the Mmit Mot menace approaching drivers, and| owed by law, or und enables the driver of a car tw at mile speed would be high times see the road plainly without |! us, The fact that the law using his bright headlights. Tho use speed of 30 miles an hour of spotlights for this purpose, and fic ee driving at tha’ fe not as headlights, bhould be encour- | Speed. if conditioms are not safe. aged, and {t seems to me, enforced| the other hand, where tho road by law. open and clear the driv i The careful driver will never run | Wh0 Is holding up a long line of cars Minto a sharp curve at high speed.| bY © 16-mile speed ts placing himself The danger of meeting an inexperi a position he endangers “enced driver who be ten’ clously behind wh to “hanging to the middle of the road| 1 belleve on the whole that Erenders the practice of speeding | ix a better spirit among drivers, “around such turves a very danger-| every effort should bo mado to s ous one. In trips up Hoods canal I| ulate a desfre to be courteous Whave passed drivers on many curves| the laws on our books will not 7 who were negotiating the curves at| vent accidents. It rests with pe not less than 30 miles an hour. Atj drivers to always be decent and fair this speed the car fairly bounces with the other fellow curve on two wheels r is and or m ughter laid at bis door in ness kills anyone. a. criminal, a There ts one other phase of road travel which is not often emphasized, opinion such as I express t meet with approval from all I refer to the driver who ts in driving at a speed of 12 conditic he sire 188. the Transportation— The Second Family Necessity After a home, the modern family needs its own transportation unit. Modern life demands an efficient automobile for the time it saves and the health it gives. fe Eoosemicel Trensportetion 5-Pass. Sedan $1,065, Delivered in Seattle fe the ideal afl-year family car, combinin, © comforts and spon sin of home with high-grad ly construc- tion, mechanical reliability, ease handling, and low purchase and ting costa. It affords ample room for the whoic family. It is easy to drive and easy to care for. It protects frown bad weather, yet it can be opened wide for cool comfort in the scorching days of summer. The Fred S. Haines Company Stuart Bldg. —i2th Ave. at East Madison—Georgetown OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS FOR INSPECTION ONLY ith a| Une Of cars coming in the opposite | ‘OLDS GARING FOR EARLIER MODELS {Concern Has Special Shop for Old Car Parts of cars made date and seldom their fate has the present what | siona’ been can however, one seen one of ithe real old models and they some times wonder what the owners of | these older cars do when they need | service parts | There are few automobile con |cerns whose production dates back & quarter of a century or even a | decade, ‘but the Olds Motor works, | | whose prod for j.that length the} and service on St 1AS Bh BEEMAN Engineer | mar shop for the productio : Jan economical basis of p jearlier carn. This ma |thoroughly equipped wit jot almost any tyr adapt to the mach fied parts. often f 1 ALL VAVED KOADS LN GOOD CON- DITION WRAVEL MOAD le Valley—Ore machines necessary x of diverst e department > the to | Maple Vailey-Biack | Hnumetaw- Franklin Sunset Highway Diamond © cou ti wea, Alternat manufac t a 4 4 op-| Wall City-North Ben yo special. |, Bentan-Iseac | ft Teeaquah- Red 6 kept busy making parts. Ish) 4 Executives of Any state | Iseaquah-Newport—Good stribatore’ tn 9 of |ABburn-Black Diamond (via Soon Creek calls from stevens Fase 1 try are rec ti pa his, it is said, f the more remoto| grave th and | Naches | Moines-Tacoma Highline — Pat | ticularly tru | rural communities of the § pride in appearance, ownership of late model 0 pronounced as in the of Pass condition Open to park entran made by tion—One gravel talr, Believue-Kedmond—Fair, Kedmond-Fall City—Cood gravel |For further information call Main 6 focal 28, mile pavement excelient Oakland Six Hangs Up New Speed Mark Oakland Six hung up another |record on the Pacific Coast—this time a speed record—which followed jon the heels of the sensational vic |tory of the Oakland in the Yosemite which it won both trophy and Hordennchuld, covered 600 miles in 442 minutes—an avernge of miles per hour for more than sever hours of continuous running. Automobile 516,307, in Canada now num 16 ber or one to « the having 69,024 41,885, car er jonomy run ® ne joup. } In }run ¢ ly ne six, persons. numbe Ontario own on 8,600. an¢ sweepstakes class of ca necond third, n 40.968, F next place the Cotati speedway Al an Francisco, the Oakland | bia c “on Bill Cooper and Leo | ca ah Colum: with 33,88¢ | C WHY NOT TRY THIS HER nod de he JOIN SAFE DRIVER CLEVELAND SAFETY S CLUB COUNCIL, This huge clock on Cleveland’s most prominent corner shows from day to day the number of traffic deaths in the year and how they compare with the previous your, J. EB. Thompson, chairman of the Safe Drivers’ club, is author of the idea, a3 | Lake Forest Park-North Trunk Connee- 67.8 and M'KAY AGENCY [ NEW QUARTERS Ford Concern in Modern Building on Westlake N. McKa quarters tonight William ©. new he D0 Westlake av which th a pub yection, starts at #30 v new of ke Ford agency the finest and most m ped Ford plant in the The size of bulldings ts 108 by re and a full Tho attractive sal ) feat, The huge service room, quarters the n ar 1 equip ent an orth the new fireproof 120 feet, with two basement room, 100 by will be on the main floor 120 by 60 will also be on the same floor Th offices of the concern will be tuated on the mezzanine floor. The md floor will devoted to lerniy equip i and p with an k well lighted room, overt a huge tank for washing mo. radiator and fender depart and the latest im ed mach driven by in 1 motors. The basement will be for the used t some department, a storage room and Ash room, lam 0. McKay, } erp, is a graduate of the Unt of Washir has been in the aute Last December he went into busl seee for himeelf, For agency 404 EB. Pine at ring the month of February, | Seattic was blanketed f jenow, his concern sold jered 163 cars, In the eighth month of business it necessary opening 4 when and deliv home credit to his atatt for this remark Harry Gibbons is sales manager for the concern, Claude 3 former state bank examiner, is office man | ager SW success | Karner In récredit lger:; KR. A. Tatro, accountant; Fred Spink, shop superintendent, and | | Wiliam Walsh, stockroom manager NEW CHEVROLET RECORD IS MADE | |June 26 Shipments Breaks | | All Oakland Factory Marks Establishing the greatest output | record In ita history, the Oakiand | plant of the Chevrolet Motor com. pany, on Tuesday, J to Chevrolet dealers automot mana ne 26, shipped | passenger | Shipments trom the Big Oakland factory were made both by rail and series of big dealers’ drive aways. | The rail hipment, during this one ded 75 solid carloads of | cars going to the va dealer organizations thruout the en- tire Pacific coast region, | A notable feature was the big} dealers’ drive aways of closed models. During the period from 9 a. m, until , 76 cloved models, Including id utility coupes, away from the plant by in the Coast territory An- other unusual feature of this day's big business was the fact that of the tal shipments for: this day, 163 se and 42 utility coupes were in The increasing popularity of closed | > * wan conclusivel monstrated | of 1 in the carload factory and an widespr axing demand for cl | to be found in th t all of the | drive aways from the Oakland plant | ) fact tl were ¢ josed models While this one day's nent of | automoblies established a now record in production and shipment for the Chevrolet plant at Oakland, tho de- }mand for this popular priced, fully |eaquipped automobile ah has grown far in advance of the manufacturing fa- | |citities, The Chevrolet Motor ‘com- | | pany is operating a mumber of exten- | sive plants at full capacity and oe n | Feeently erected three additional fac- | | tories in Eastern cities; still, the de- | | mand for Chevrolet is far in excess | jof the supply all over the United | | State | Out here in the Pacific coast ter. | ritory, all Chevrolet dealers are ex- | periencing a at deal of difficulty | | 1 in securing sufficient cars to supply | the demand, and in many Instances > alers have orders booked for from | 60 to 90 days in advance of the| manufactur ule: | NEW MANAG Ww. general the Durant Mote and plant made vi ignation of C. M R now occuples manager's chair | Car Co.'s Ouk nt by the Steves James Hawk PAY LARGE TAN Manufacturers of trucks and four |whoel trailers in Southern Califor. |nia. paid $21,876 taxes. in| May | Jagainst $4,662 in May, 1922. ‘This | was n gain of 969 per cent | a MANY PRIVATE CARS ] According to figures compiled. by the bureau of public roads in W ington, D. C., there are 13,29 | motor vehicles in the United States |The report shows 10,800,112 passenger 69,459 buses and for hire, motorcycles and 29 | private taxicabs 182,714 | 28 trailers, | TIRES WITH 500 NAIL | HOLES LEAK NO AIR| A. A. Milburn of Chicago ae | Invented a new punctura-proot J nor tube, which, In actual te punctured 500 times without ¢ your mileage | 100 miles without of any air Increnae from 10,000. to removing thia wonderful tube trom | the wheel, a t cara Mr i t\ than the = ordini and makes riding « real pl You can writh, Mr, burn at 388 Weat 47th at. jae he wants them introduced ry whore. Wonderful opportunity for th If interested write him to- Advertisement, JULY 192% ATURDAY The new model “60” Haynes touring car, recently received by the Seattle Automobile Sales Co., 1424 11th ave., is shown above. W. E. Delfel, sales manager of the concern, de~ claves that this car is the greatest car value ever offered to the motoring public. jproved they had to use their ma- |chines thruout ¢ Great Municipal Garages |": ss Now Given Consideration: WASHINGTON, July 7.—-Great municipal garages, where automobiles could be parked during the day! Government officials are beginning to give some attention to this suggestion. Leaders in the various automobile asso- ciations likewise are interested. The latest plan has been put forward in Detroit. The city, it is contended, should build a garage to house as many as 4,000 or 5,000 cars. Space would be rented at a} very nominal charge, se 10)" pointed out, the would: be cents a day or $30 year dou No effort would be made to | ing pHa ng fe da reap a profit as the city would be interested only in| ‘ery *ffective , “© put operation. And with} paying all the expense and two or three garages the city might overhead charge. insue street parking permits i” con With r gested only to thone it is asserted, @ Much = might easily result @ wear and (ear on an auto would be ended {ro mobile there would and parking ¢ no den t of no time fir Roads of the De- |partment of Ag is interest- ed In the suggestion but as yet haa not had time to report on ficially “Most of dur work here is now devoted te the roads outside the j cities,” sald bureau officials. There's no doubt that parking is a great pre ll have to be given atte city relieved of the problem witn street park 00 cars off More than 5,3 gusolin who ! mot 100,000 gallons of consumed by auto. The Lowest Price in 30 Years The Greatest Value! 121-inch wheel base. 32x41-inch cord tires. Haynes built six-cylinder motor. $1,295 F, 0. B, FACTORY Seattle Automobile Sales Co. H. P. GRANT. Manager 1444 Eleventh at Pike Seattle's First Dealer FOR BEST LETTER The Wm. 0. McKay Co. will give $800 in prizes to con- testants sending in the best letters describing their new building at 609 Westlake No., near Roy, which will be open for inspection from Saturday, July 7, to Saturday, July 14. All answers should have not more than 250 words, and must be in our office not later than 6 p. m., July 19th. PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED AS FOLLOWS: PORST PRE The on any mi having the Best Letter will receive the Down Payment on 1 Ford Car ($115 to $200, depending on model), SECOND PRIZE: The one having the Second Best Letter will receive a Credit Memo- randam good for $50 toward the purchase of any Ford Car, THIRD PR The Vord having the Third Best Letter will receive a Complete Set of Tires, Prize winners will be announced in The Seattle Star on Saturday, July 21. The Seattle Star, The Seattle Times and the judges, The Automobile tors 0 The Post-Intelligencer will REMEMBER, WE ARE OPEN FOR INSPECTION STARTING SATURDAY, JULY 7, WILLIAM O. McKAY CO. AUTHORIZED FORD DEAL 609 WESTLAKE NO., NEAR ROY “AFTER WE SELL, WE SERVE"