The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1924, Page 16

ant nena TI "Be poor prospects for land vehicles, cers’ quarters of the President Grant - fand again, Christie says. "CHEV" AGENCY IS COMER Westlake Corporation Will Exceed Fondest Hopes it totals $4 indicate that the autome ° is & good t DOUBLES NUMBER OF EMPLOYES The remarkable growth of Westlake Chevrolet Co. ts eviden ™ & comparison of the various Groups of employes “then a Thompson's company, owr What he claims ts the richest cor Poration for the sale of low-priced | ears in Seattle, started in w in the office force; there are five tn | there now. The stockroom for parts had one workman; today there are three. There were b two or three mechanics to start, as compared with nine first-class repairmen six months } “It would indicate,” Thompson be Heves, “that there is a big demand for Chevrolet cars. That demand @nd the service and sales idea we! are selling with our cars are the Prime reasons for our rapid growth and development.” If the Westlake Chevrolet Co. gontinues to prosper during the next twelve-month as tt has during the past half-year, it appears cer. fain that it will get larger and more | beautiful quarters, in a new loc: tion, perhaps. | “We are selling antomobiies on the basts of a true representation of the car and good, clean service,” the youthful-appearing corporation president added. “I base much of Our sales success on the fact that h one T have taken personal interest tn | the schooling of our salesmen. Our Service begins with the sale.” Seamen | Auto Sales |. Prospects Overland Salesman! Finds Business on Big Ship BY JOHN NELSON One ordinarily would think that the men who roam the bounding Main, as officers of the palatial Ad- miral-Oriental line steamships would Such as automohiles, but not so. FP. T. Christie, of the sales depart. Ment of the WillysOverland Pa- ‘ific Co, of Seattle found the offi- Most fertile field for salesmanship, he said Saturday. Christie, known among salesmen for his ingenuity, went aboard the Grant one day recently as a guest, And before he left the big ship had| obtained a half-dozen good prospects. » He expects to sell cars to several of the men when the ship docks again. And even if the visits to the big boat do not result {n sales, there is at least a friendly and genial at- Mosphere aboard that ‘World look rosy when oneJreaches ) ed; 4} Oakland. e MEMPHIS CONSUMERS MEMPHIS, April among Memphis oil dealers waxed warmer last week when the Refining Co, price 6 cents a gallon. The com pany is now retailing gasoline at 22 centa Thres of the six large refining companies are now retailing gaso- line for 22 cents BATTERY CARRIER THE SEATTLE STAR ONLY au TO RAIN te 4 / ‘es -, Set Dates for Forestry Week HE fifth annual Forest Pr tection week has been set for ational observance f { April 2ist to 28th 12. — Warfare Guilt raised its gasoline tance. A length of one-half-inch or three-fourthsinch pipe is flattened on each end, can be used as a han, dle. One end ts formed into ® hook, gallon. Carrying « sis battery by the | While the other end is formed Into handles provided is an awkward, if/ tance of a few inches not difficult task. The handles are | often too small makes the/ hand and generally are thin enough to cut Into the hands when the bat- | tery must be carried for any dis- Automotive engineers acknowl ige that Oakland’s advanced tures have set a new standard for light-six power, d eae , in Osekland’s permanent top on open Onkland’s chinsels ine si thea / models Meeks better and lasts L and beet, and Waa par 4 longer. It will be on other cars designed to make this a perfectly- light-six, CG Stans aniave tau enclonre \ Oakland isthe only light-six havin can ied to any ‘True Blue d foseowheel Hriksahr eed open ear in a few minutes, equipment this year, Centralized Controls on the steering wheel are exclusive with Be sure to see them. See the True Blue Oakland and drive it. Then you will realize wh Northwest Oakland Co. 1000 Pike Street at Terry Avenue Open Sundays and Evenings, “Some Good Dealer ja U and ts loft straight for a dis This per mits of batteries of different lengths being carried with the sume handle, which would be {mpoasible both ends formed Into a hook tomobile Digest. for the average wore Au Oakland's special Duco body finish lasts indefinitely. Next year many cars will have it. fea- sooner or later. ) Most car builders admit that disc / wheels are superior by chargin, extra for them. They are standar equipment on Oakland, it pays to make careful comparisons, EL iot-1233 Territory Open Me + «6 $1445 Glass Enclosures for Toure LAs! Pere (8 sl ' . zy feo. be fe a IER NOW! ot Seattle motorists, thru the efforts of the Women’s Com- mercial club and the Sports- men’s association, principal- ly, can now reach the Rainier national park in just half the time and half the mileage as formerly thru the volunteer work recently on the Carbon river road. Upper, a crew club and of men women |jclearing brush and rocks |from the trail; lower, two | fair road workers perspire under the weight of “hefty” boulders. Photos by Jim Marshall DENNY CREEK TOURIST CAMP OFFERS MUCH TO MOTORISTS NE of the popular tourist camps| which expects another success. season to begin soon, is the Denny Creek forest camp on the Sunset highway, about 68 miles Jeast of Beattlo—easily accessble to |tourtets thru Seattlea, Tacoma and Everett. The camp was first established by the United States forestry service tn | 1027 and now has its own water aye tem and Is furnished with tables and concrete fireplaces. Firewood t» also furnished and there are no charges, tho campers are expected to conform to sanitary regulations and to be careful of their fires, ; In spite of adverse weather con fitions during the first part of the ummer the Denny Creek camp ful broke all previous records in the jumber of people using the camp. The camp was open to the public from May 15 to October 15 tn 1923, and the registration books show that about 6 0 visitors were in the is that period. Tho the of campers are from this Not Out’ “Down,” but Works on Diesel Type Auto Engine Alexander Winton LEVELAND, 0., April 5—Pio- neering !s Alexander Winton's middie name. He was ono of the greatest plo neers of the automobile industry, and one of its most helpful inventors. Now, his fortune greatly reduced by the comparative extinction of his company, and at the age of 64, Win. ton is planning to take another chance at pioneering, This timo he will work on the Diesel type of of! burning engines, with tho view of introducing this cheaper and more efficient engine to the automotive world. Talk of using the high-compression engine, which burns crude ofl and eliminates electric ignition, In auto. mobiles has been-going on for the last few years. Somo experimentors are still at work on such an engine, with the hope of taming down this all-too powerful mechanism for gon. eral automotive use, But Winton divulges he wit no {nto this phase of engineering with greater intensity than has ever heen displayed. He expects it to be his return to tho automotive game and, he hopes, his gain again of the $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 loss he suffered ns presi. | acne of the Winton company, |county board of commissione Ing certain roads of Snohomish cow NEW FINISH Held More Durable Than Is Oidtime Black Variety nt, ever needs or desires | One of the chief features of the Oldsmobile sport t and one exclusive is the new colored baked ename! finish This was perfected by the Olds Motor works and is even more durable than ts the black mel used by several of the first time in the history t the a bile industry that it hast 6 to enamel! tn colors. Variow facturers have expert mented fr to time, but it was always found that the ¢ # could not © enamel to 4 glos finishes had to be paints than black form of ¢ nishes The finished tn a sh {® \ ty. brown Spanish the trimming. mmon i a A ' i Oldsmobile sport touring of green called upholstery used in Tents, poles and wash bollers are | Swain en on the run the cars roll north } ee | The ton register, or unit of ca |pactty of a ship, wan originally the space occupied by 100 cuble feet state, most other states and two or three foreign countries are represent ed. A great many people from eant ¢ the mountains used the camp, es. pecially du periods of hot weath hen they seemed to be migrat- ing en maase from the east side Many campers remained tn the camp f as long as three and four weeks Several good tratin radiate out from the camp and new ones were built by the forest service during the year, Among these is the creek trail which now ts completed far an Melakwa lake, It opens |"P & region of unexcelled scenery jand was traveled considerably dur. | ing the latter part of the summer, | Tho Silver Peak trail, now built a» far as Silver peak, will in the near future be constructed as far ap Mea- dow pass, where It will connect with & trail to @ point near Stampede pars on the main line of the North- ern Pacific raliway The new trail to Snow lake Is a great improvement over the old route which fs in the fall and spring of the year almost impassable travel. Tho new trafl leaves the Sun-| ot highway at the summit of Sno-| qualmie pass. DIRT HIGHWAYS ARE OPEN Snohomish Stormy Weather | Order Expires EVERETT, April 5.—Order of the RY culled culls oad) 6 ra, clos. 1 ty to truck traffic, expired April 1. The roads were closed last fall to| prevent damage during bad weather, | The order brought on court action in | which the Bear Creek Logging com. pany sought to have the county re. | scind {ts order. The county's atand | was upheld by both the superior and | supreme courta. County Engineer Ross D. Alverson was Instructed by the board to con. duct survey for a new road in the Silver Lake district, GLARE PREVENTED BY SEATTLE-MADE E-KLIPS SHIELDS NCORPORATING economical original costs with efficiency and simplicity of attachment and use, tho Automatic Machine Works ts initating Pacific Coast sales work for their E-Klips headlight and sun glare shield, The Seattle industry 303 Westlake ave, Blerd, proprietor. The attachment, one is located at N., with R. B, of the most cheaply Priced on the mar ket, consists of a single small sheet of blue transparent cellu. old quickly adjustable with two screws to the frame of the wind. shield, Tt shades the driver's eyes, but does not obstruct a clear vision of the road, accord. ing to Herbert G. White, factory manager, and has been given praise by Portland newspapers And Lieut. Gov. W. ©. Coyle and Fire Marshal Mantor of Seattle, The E-Kilps shield is made of bluo celluloid because of the mak. ers’ discovery, that it more effi. clently prevents glare and sep. Arates the light rays than does green or other tints of the ma. terial, It {# planned to appeal! to those motorists who cannot afford or fre unsatisfied with the visor and other types of glare preven. tion attachments, Denny | to} -s. ) = | | & s By reason of the annual variation of the magnetic neodlo, it {a bellaved that the magnetic poles aro not sta. onary, but have a slow motion ‘round the geographical poles, TT OLDS’ ENAMEL coplithp call cpledh culls) colithy AUTOMOTIVE ys SPECIALISTS EVERYTHING FOR THE MOTORISTS YOU CAN ENJOY YOUR CAR GEO. r Distri 1412-1416 Twelfth Ave When Your IGNITION, CARBURETOR ARD ELECTRIC SYSTEM Are in Perfect Condition SEE US D. GRANT & CO., Inc. utors for We one IA #t-05 inghouse B= or EL tot-09: and Fourth Ave Stewart S¢ tes 8 per cent of us w 1 ‘Tires are « transportat: ¥ WESTLAKE | You will be more than pleased, you will be actually thrilled when you exemine the job of re- boring that we are prepared to do on your cylinders. Do not hesitate. 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