The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 15

SATURDAY, FBBRUARY 16 THE SATTLE STAR GARDNER SHOWS LATEST MODEL © Tour de Luxe on Sale Here at $1,185, Equipped The new sell at $1, jardner Tour de Luxe, to in Boattle, has been an. noundéed by officials of the Small. wood Motor Co,, 1024 B, Pile at, This new model is bullt with stand ard Gardnér chassis and ‘equipped with cowl iimps, nickel plated radi ator and front bumper, Ure, tube and cover, aluminum step plates and scuff plates, aluminum trunk rails and water and heat indicator The black enameled hody finish Is baked on under Intense heat, and will not discolor, check or peel even after thousands of miles of running according to.claims, The topjis cov ered with black double-texture ma terial, Seats are deep and are up- holstered In hand-plaited black lea- ther. Like aii Gardner cars, the new Tour de Luxe fa powered with the S-bearing crankshaft Gardner motor, which provides freedom from percep: tible vibration’ at all driving speeds, and insures longer life for tho car. | Quick on the getaway—goos from five to 25 miles in 1,7 seconds— 2 to 60 miles an hour tn high gear, It goes from 20 to 25 miles on a gul- lon of gas, salesmen aver, Gardner factory men state that Tour de Luxe will out-perform any car In Its class, spare JACK AID IN PARKING AUTO No Maneuvering Necessary With New Apparatus ALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 16—Soon we shall observe large automo- biles siding easily and quickly into parking spaces only as long as the cars themselves, tf the Invention of Victor P, Williams of this ¢lty is adopted generally. No more toiling back and forth to get Into a space slightly longer than the car, If Williams’ appliance 1s attached. It consists of a four-wheel hy- @raulic jacking device, which lifts the car from the street three inches in a few seconds The whole affair is attached permanently to the chassis and geared up with the transmission, so that the engine itself lets down the jack, lifts the car and then moves It sidewnys Into the opening. By ita use, Williams says, space is saved, and considerable wear and tear on. the tites eliminated, ‘The framework of the hydraulic jack weighs less than 100 pounds and fts Installation, if done on a quantity basis, would be no more than $100 per car, claims the tn- ventor. A lever, similar to the speed con- trol, operates the brake. Both levers have to be in neutral before one can be operated. Thus any [lability of accident, or clashing of both con- trols, is avolded. Williams, a graduate mechanical engineer from a French school, has worked on this device for the last eight years and triumphed only last November, when he got his patent for this country. The new jack is being demon- strated here on a Moon chassis, while automotive engineers con- NEW GARDNER DISPLAYED FIRST TIME IN SEATTLE ee ¢ sPeaad st., local distributors. This is the new Gardner tour de lire model which has been announced b y the Smallwood Motor Co., 1024 E. Pike when it is up; below, when d SHIFTS CAR FOR PARKING Hydraulic parking jack attached to a chassis. | | other preparation now, | Charcoal Used as Fuel for Motorcars; Cheap French Chemist Utilizes Homely Article as| Substitute for Gasoline Saved, at last! under which a fi no burns, forming | “Charcoal saved my life, I started | gas, which is sucked In by the mo- | jusing charcoal and would use no|tor’s aspiration into & small recep. It is cheaper |tacle and thence into the cylinders jand better than any other substitute |thru a special carburetor, | vertising testimonial Charooal is in| charcoal bought for about $1, |demand for stomach disorders, I have found.” A motor truck, it is claimed, ran No, this fan’t a patent medicine ad | 218 miles consuming 165 pounda of The | to| present apparatus ts too heavy for| | teed day-old chicks, as @ sketching | small cars, but is declared ideal for material for young artists, and a» & | trucks. Above, lown and ready for use, CHILDREN'S LICENSES Children driving toy automobiles, if the cirs are’ ptopelled’by any pow. er other than muscular, must get a Moonse like those of their fathers, in Connecticut. Parents have been buy- ing many toy gasoline autos for their children, sothat this ruling had tobe mado. nected with other Jarge ‘mantfno- tufing firms are considering Its adoption as a permanent feature om thetr préduct. A tent tiny be warmed up for tre night by an inverted metal bucket filled with red-hot stones, | First Motor ¢ BY JIM MARSHALL )° Satnuel Hostel and his party are ayriong the first tourists to vinit tho Pacific Northwest this year. They cathe trom Pihelands, Cal, where Hostel is vice president of the State bank, Their hew Lafayetto tx out: side the Arctic bullding, while Hostel jor Economical Transportation. Compare EVROL E ! eo ONE OF THE MANY OUTSTANDING ADVANTAGES to the owner of a WASHBURN Gold Line Radiator CHEVROLET is our facilities for service before and after purchase, Assur- ance of every advantage in purchasing here, as to terms, trades and interest rates, is given every prospective purchaser. Every Washburn Gold Line Radiator owner is satisfied —Ask any number of our 400 purchasers! WASHBURN CHEVROLET COMPANY * Twelfth and East Madison—“ON THE ROW” OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS Our Purchase-From-Income Plan 24 Months—25%% Down—toterest 6% Makes it easy to own a Washburn Chevrolet ‘of Year Visit Seattle California Party Romp Thru Mountain _ Snows; Hang Up Trail Records fuel combustible in Mexico and Italy. | And now Itis being used an a sub-| stitute for gnaoline in automobiles, Over in gay Paree, Mons. an Alsatian chemist, has derived | new motor car fuel from the lowly | charcoal. The best part of it im that the automobile manufactures its own | ms. A receptacle in which the gas produced holds a supply of charcoal Tourists {4 up at the Chamber of Commerce, getting some literature to mall to friends back Enst. The young man In the car is Hos- tel’s brother. Here is his cart: |“Lemuel J. Hostel, manager, Pine- }lands Mercantile company, Inc.” | Will Mr. Lemuel Hostel give the | reporter a few imprensions of the ltrip? Stre, sure! Only too pleased. Mr, Lemuel Hostel has been with | Sam thru Rainier park and will be glad to contribute Jmpressions. MILEAGE BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED “Leaving Seattio and traveling to | Longmire Springs hotel we averaged | 22 miles to the gallon,” say# Lemuel. “On the return trip we didn’t do quite as well, And on the whole rourtd trip we used less than a pint of ofl. Our average speed was 32 | milea an hour.” Not bad, that. The reporter will | make notes. Twenty-one miles to the gallon. ‘Thirty-two miles an hour. Lens than pint of oll. From Longmire Springs Mr, Lem- |uel Hostel and Brother Samuel walked up to Paradise Inh. ome say It's 6.6 miles and some say 6,1 miles," says Lemuel. ‘We made it ia 6 hours and 42 minutes—- and we weren't trying for any rec- ords, either. I walked 1.7 milés on snowshoes. That beat Sam by two |tenths of a mile.”’ BUT 8AM HUNG UP A RECORD HIMSELF And here is Sam himself, his fists full of booklets and literature. He will give the reporter some impres- sions, too. Oh, no trouble at all. Glad to! Sam hung up a record for the fast- est tenth of a mile on the Paradise trail—eight minutes. This was near the Nisqually river, and somebody sald there was a fine view of the mountain from the bridge. But Sam was after the record right then, so he missed it. | Coming down, Sam missed another |view, too. He was determined to |hang up another record—for one- |tenth of a mile, on snowshoes, Made jit in 9 minutes, yea, sir! Good joke Jon Lem. Lem stopped to watch the sun coming up over the peaks and the wind drifting the snow out in a |filmy curtain from Gibraltar. Dog: jgoned if the tenth of a mile didn’t |take Lem 20 minutes. | The reporter may say In his paper that Lem and Samuel will be back | next summer, to try to better their | recordsbetween Longmire and Para |dise. They hope to clip an hour |from the trip. With good roads, too, they hope to average 25 miles to the gallon and perhaps 35 miles an hour |for the round trip from Seattle. Well, good-bye! . . . . Ah, walt a minute, Sam. The reporter wishes to know about the scenery. Did the sunrise flood the snow with pink and gold? Did snow-laden trees nod po- litely in the wind, to sift white crys- tals from their black limbs? Did Rainier stand majestically thru the shifting mists? Did... “I got aj the pitchers here,” as sures Samuel, thumbing pieture postcards, “Look at ‘em when I get back to Pinelands. If the roads are any good we oughta average 24 miles to the gallon going back.”* | The Cadillac organization was the first to introduce V-type, elght cyl- inder automobile engines In the Unit- ed States. It now has more than 160,000 cars of this type in opera- tion. Possibly the old boast will he chang. ed soon to “I made 60 iniles on 16 | potinds Imbert, | fuel pow: | | | \ of wood,” or “What's ge of your car?” the FEDERALAID ROADS Ten years from now, according to |the Inw now in effect, wo may ex _|Pect to have 200,170 miles of com. pitted well-paved highways in this |country. At present there are only about 27,000 miles of stich roads, The federn}-aid system calls for this work in co-operation with the states, LONGVIEW WILL | STAGE EXHIBIT Expect 40 Cars at Initial | Auto Show of Town 'The newly formed Kelso Automo tive Dealers’ npsociation {# centering its attention two proponitions the staging of an automobile show to be held In Longview or Kelso In March, and war the transient unodear dealers, H. 1B. Dove wan appointed a com mittee of one to make tentative ar rahgements for the show, “We will have a show modeled after the bly New York and Chicago annual func tion,'’ he atates, “Nine dealers in Longview and Kelso will co-operate This should give us a dinplay of at Jenst 40 types of cars, Others may join us, It will be conducted on a standard basis." Fifteen thousand square fect of space will be required for the local show. Whether the affair will be staged in nome billding or under a tent has not yot heen decided. Using Longview and Kelso as a dumping ground tor second-hand cars by transient dealers from Portland And other citie# Is being fought by the new association, The permanent dealers contend that the competition is not only unfair, but It workw a | bardahip on automobile buyers as well. on FLOOD DAMAGE NOT NECESSARY Plan Proponents Ask That Channels Be Cleared Flood damages in the northern part of the state during the past week, Causing several thousand dol- lars damages to highways, bridges, agticultural lands and town streets, developed the opinion among auto- mobilists that éngineers watch streams this year to prevent dam- ming ahd jams in the channels dur- ing the flood time next season, Fioodh are becoming a greater menace each year with the logging off of Western Washington forest lands, It was potnted out, until the past week has seen higher water marks set than ever before In the hin tory ot river measurements herd, Snag-infested rivers have overflowed thelr banks, demolished aatety dikes, flooded farmlands, inundated towns and torn up roadways, tying up the wire and vehicular communications to the north «particularly. Bridges in several cases are al- leged to have too arrow archés, jand the. water, backing up behind them, has carried them away. The forest# and tree roots can't be brought back to conserve the I vibration, Its Prices of Models Here—Tax and Freight Paid Sedan - -- $990 Coupe - - - - 8% Roadster - - - 625 Touring Car - 630 $490 F. O. B. Lansing, Mich, BEAUTY Right at you! —over the brow of the stiffest grade, still in high, the new Star shows its distinctive radiator, its long low pos tapering off to where the top of the car be- hind is barely visible. Its Continental Red Seal Motor purrs or growls at your touch. The exclusive, Tubu- lar Backbone eliminates strain and frame springs ease you over YEE: rN PETROLE: CORPORATION COUPON BOOKS containing gasoline serip, of all our deniers or at com= pany's office. 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Fill up your | tank—let your engine decid, POWER GENERAL GASOLINE “clean power/” Copyright, 1924, by General Petroleum Corporation CARS PREDOMINATE ‘Therd are more automobiles in Texas than telephones, according to| & recent comparison of state motor | vehicle registration and statistics of telephone companies, Against 625,- 000 telephones there were more than 600,000 licenses for motor vehicles last year. Monthly schedtiles for 1924 at the Olds Motor Works call for more than double the production reached in De- | éetmber, the highest month since the introduction of the new six cylinder model. Additional machinery equip- | ment and the establishment of a Fisher Bod¥ corporation plant in con. nection with the Olds factory, will, | it is expected, permit this larger pro- duction. pa ee snows and prevent floods, they say. The only alternative {9 to clear the chantiels during low water and make ain that arches give sufficlent rance for the flood crests, WE HANDLE JUST GOOD USED FORDS AND CHEVROLETS Y, Down Terms 5% Interest Look Our Stock Over Before Buying That Uused Car WESTLAKE CHEVROLET CO. Two 13-year-old Los Angeles boys admit theft of 150 to 200 automo biles. 118 Westlake Ave. N, Phone EL tot-4501 ECONOMY bumps with the courtesy of a $5000 model. All this and more—really the best motor investment in the world today—at $490— and that’s a price that certainly is geared to your pocketbook. You owe yourself an appo intment with your nearest Star dealer. Ride with him—he has 27 additional feature reasons why —the Star Car is geared to your pocketbook, W. S. DULMAGE MOTOR CO. 925 EAST PIKE STREET Fourth Avenue Motor and Sales Co. 1114 Fourth Ave. Tacoma Branch 781 Broadway { i