The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 13

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY THE § SJTOMOBILE SECTI Autos Held Fire Menace [ PACKER BUYS NEW DODGE BROTHERS CAR in Pacific Coast Cities ——— Earthquake Expert Pleads for Municipal Storage Places to Prevent Blaze WASHINGTON, D. C. ge Warning, to all Pa | Kearns, Latest Overland Dealer, Opens New House Former Pacific Co. Sales Manager Gets the Agency; Associated With Experts fio coast ts salesmen, er at In the aw , Seattle since NEW USED-CAR FIRM ON “ROW" weather bureau Jogger has eturned from Ja pan, where he w tudy the re cent island disas! declares men are all well knows that automobiles were responsi ’ ‘ wpe v15 be » mar of thi . tive industry, Kearns the worst ph r and Yokabama. made arrangements ro full of parked ot Carr & Carr, oper Gallagher Opens Establish- | _ Regt , . : : ment on E. Pike St. | Aimost’ ‘imaiediately, » trattio was | sounces. ” eetlig eurege to headin blocked so that no fire apparatus ecured | ch th: ot be han- could pans thru to stop the flames lease on tho © floor, Both springing up in various parts of the would estat c r ted with the city. | Back automod gasoline he hoped would t Pacific Oo, as shop tank fed the flames. ig’s automotive tnd e that time icearns has One of the latest comers to Auto. mobile Row ts Earl H. Gallagt ounced that he had one of nave to learn says Dr. Jag “Pacific coast cities are in a recognized earthquake district. Yet the population of these cities ao tinues to increase heedlessly to bi fic, by allow sources of fire as p to stand about in the busiest lem in prov ‘ é ethic fh THE areas or bi f Y APPOINTMENT OF 310-312 E. PIKE ] | allowed to st 't t Here's L. E. Beebe, local manager of the Armour & Co. plant, with the new Dodge Brothers coupe he recently re- | | ceived thru W. L. Eaton, local distributor. oe “SCHOOL” FOR Await Stevens Pass Road|NEW PLANT FOR |"ScHOOL” FOR. ) Motorists Will Open Vast Vacation Paradise UVENLANO ONWS 1 ers fe Philadelphia Manufactory to |Srrenacrn, 8° 78? Seattle When court convened this week E. H: Gallagher —Phote by Graay Hrs business Is dit- ferent, he claims, from the stand point of refusing all automobiles more than two years old. Andy Emerson is in charge of Gallagher's sales department. They were formerly in charge of the Times Square Auto Market. Gallagher has been tn the auto tarting out as After serving in the army during the war, he entered tn to the used car business at the mar- ket and asserts his belfef that 90 per cent of the demand for tised cars $11 B. Pike at FIN Rice oy, ba Paty co Mane" iW 43 rf h LOG OF STEVENS PASS ROAD Searrit-wooommt- parto- IBemiles. sent orcascants vo tect 'f Produce 100 a Day | | To take care of what ts expected jto be the greatest demand for its |product tn its history along the jtire Atlantic seaboard, a der presnged by the remarkable popular ity achieved by Overland Willys Knight motor cars during 1923, Wil lya-Overiand announces the acquist |tlon of a new plant in Philadelphia, in which 100 Overland cars a day are to be built wtihin another four jor six weeks’ time This announcement makes Phila- Geiphia a greater automobile center jthan ever before, inasmuch as it is Anticipated that the output of the new factory will take care of the bulk of the demand within the 16 state and tho District of Columbia leach alleged violator of the motor} vehicle laws was given a booklet containing the revised rules covering motor traffic and pent, into an ad joining room, to a school conducted by Ivan Kelso, attorney for tomobile Club of Southern Cal! The “pupils” were allowed to de- part under suspended sentence upon reciting perfectly sections of the| motor vehicle act they were accused of violating. The teacher represent. ed the court. Violators refusing to attend echool and learn thelr lesson were forced to pay fines. | Increased to 200. The present ached: | ulo calls for the manufacture of | Overland models only, but It ts ex | pected that the Willys-Knight isa AUTHORIZED CITY DEALER FOR SALES AND SERVICE or WILLYS-KNIGHT 202 MILES. contiguous to the Atlantio coast, | will be added shortly. from the New England states to the| In checking over the operations | Carolinas, | that are to be erformed at the new | It is expected that tho plant will |piant, it is obvious that the local) begin operation somé time {n Febru-|establishment will manufacture, | lary, with a factory force of approx-|rather than assemble these cars, as | imately 300 men, augmented by a/much of the material will be pur- sales and office force of 60. lohased direct from the vendors and Tho {ntital daily production will|will be shipped to the point and be 100 cars, but this ts soon to be! procesed here. ay CARS Open Sundays and Evenings until 9:30 TT CAROL EO ome TO PORTLAND, ORE. ia for late models. WOORUNNILLE- COUNTY LiNt-CRmED Stomt-I2 miles. \OF ME COUNTY LIME-GOLO Bay Pavt> - 21 miles, GOLD BAR- 1 ULE WE oF ALINE: CAVED StONE-~SD miles \AETAAT GRACED And SuttACtO~ SD miles Ionut Whe! mut EOF ALPINE rz ne \\Leaveamomt ro casnemt ASELAOTAUTION OF ROAD NEEDED ~ © rr les Causaeo stont- 10 miles Ick EOF ALPINE TOT MLE EOF TYE-GRADED im ror7 \ Comment owt nan Wm FamY G00 Comornon-netmD ReFiwisuine-Pmilen — \ partD~ IZ miles. Teme E08 TYE 1 SuMmrT OF CASCADES AO woer core — \TOTAL OSTAME SETTLE TO SEEED 79 86 GmmOeD To) OEY WP Btsamet OF mony t9 nating 2 moles \WEMATEHEE* EI HULLS. TRAFFIC POLICEMAN TO SELL AUTOS NOW E. SANDELL, until a few days ago the “most popular” traffic officer on the Seattle po- Uce squad, hag resigned from the force and will sell Fords for the William L, Hughson Co., hence- forth. Sandell, whose semaphore was at Second ave. and Union st., needs more money for the fam- ily he said Saturday, and 1s look- ing for some sphere of activity not so “tleddown” as is police service. He was voted the most popular officer a year ago by Se- attle motorists. He ends five rs’ service on “the force.” DEPT. of AGRICULTURE, DISTRICT _N®4 > PORTLAND, Ont The federal bureau of public roads map above shows the present status of the Stevens| Pass road construction which will open travel east and west thru this section of the state | when completed. In addition to providing a northerly passage thru the Cascades it will | also make those regions traversed more accessible to rangers and forest fire watchmen. Planned to eventually become one United States bureau of good roads. |of the most scenic roads in the lists of this section with the possible|The King county engineer's office, |Northwest, the Stevens’ pass high- completion of the King county link | however, has not set a tentative jway will be the most northerly con- lin the Stevens’ pass highway late|date for refinishing and grading |"°ct!on across tho Cascades in the |this year, according to announce- the 12 miles yet to be completed. |A™erican continent and will provide )urant Acceptance Corporation AnotHEn summer outing para-|ment of the Portiand offices of the| dise will be Opened to motor- |a, twoday trip from Beattle to We |natchee and return by way of the | Blewett pass road. This cast-west road over the Stevens pass was completed on the eastern side of the mountain range |by the bureau of public roads last |fall. That section ts 16.6 miles long and extends from the summit of the Cascades thru Wenatchee national forest to a point one mile east of Merritt, From that spot to Wo- |natchee the road is open to travel during the entire period that the pass is not blocked with snow, In all there are 12 miles of road} to be finished in King county. | Four miles need grading and eight | miles are to be refinished to open | up travel from Seattle to Everett or Wenatches. The commissioners budgeted $75,000 last month for con- struction work on that section and will probably resume work on the link when the roads in the moun- tains open once more. On this side of the Cascades there is a good, travelable road to a point one milo west of Alpine, From there to a point one mile east of Alpine | there is a stretch which needs relo- | cation and refinishing, the bureau } estimates, The next elght miles, to a spot one mile east of Tye, was | bullt In 1917 and ts now somewhat damaged and must be refinished. 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