The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1924, Page 13

' SATURDAY, JULY 26 THE SEATTLI STAR scene men BANGERT, HARRY W. Automotive Manager TOMOBILE. .SECTI PLAN BIG TIME)(Tett worto wonoay FOR CAR MEN Automotive Trades Repre- HOW SEATTLE DOES HOSPITALITY WORK sentatives to Meet in August | °**8"* » ’ . : a KI t ad ! le W ston ak on He wo n of tt . told y i ja Marr, of ( go, while P. B. } 0 | Shekion, f pharm ma’ t | ! w veal “What the being made t s " or e with law w es th ment y rodec aged at the close of the se This we an an thrilling wild we at th the fuste: rform lelegates will be club to prepare ¢ Seattle t 1 nur anged by the v 1 1 will be. inter esses, Bob La Marr will be heard & hits, accompanted by Helene | H H t Del Missier will play. Little F a1 cars old, w y t ity num 1 by N. M Ensch, elect t mate, U. 8. 8 Relief, banjo expert, and J. A, Hewitt, yeoman U, 8. 8. Re ef, who ts said to play anything AUTO CLUBS TO START WORK to Function for Drivers WASHINGTON, July 26.—-Final with the aid of two ordinary kitchen | New A. A. A. Organization | [novel enterprise of driving a Fint| | Six preprietor MAKES SERVICE RUN WITH FLINT ON A WAGER ] ge or Br TLLIAM HORSTMAN of San} Francisco, Calif., shown above. of the California Exp shows, is engaged in the car over a prescribed course | | PAGE 13 Engines Possible Now Ethyl Anti-Knock Fuel Develops New Opportunities for Power Units e t n, afford ROR: % ‘ t bile already ene _ | been produced of car Be with rear drive were tried out in _ Europe reorr. ls principle is still in stage, it cthy! gas. It Is this fuel, they say, | few years at, inf eliminating the carbon } With the ¢ small and com Sets ianeninenlon: 4 2 kes | pact, wu h the rear seat, the onsible the production of| auto on @ 120-Inch wheelbase may ; ele eae ar be able to deve I that space for i passenger une of only about 0 inches it affords toda sion of 0 pounds fuel, engine fi nds compre fon might be m The reason for such an increase in compression Mes in th compression output from the compression has beer theory | uce engine. | mited of such engines to Higher erating, if the spark isn’t retarded. The theory is that the more highly as is in the cylin der the easier it is to explode from overheated deposits before regular explosion takes place Ethyl gas, as well as other forms jof antiknock fuel, is designed to} cure just this by preventing carbon. lzation as much as possible. With| ss carbon fn the cylinders there 1s| . SEE IT s chance for the compressed gar to be exploded in part by hot carbon, | when or 6 carbon The- 1925 Gardner Is Herel! ngs; [thee old Atwevioens Aaterabie eect |of 14,780 miles on a bet. If he wins before the entire flow 1s exploded by E IN IT quartet } jawed hd the rebel National Motor. |t2® Bet he will get back the money |the spark. RID cowboy quartet pr ‘aneuted te seule ee paid for the car he ts driving, mines of higher compression After 1 be Mnbined effort toward greater {224 & brand new car besides; and | would result in cars that pick up| nl taken for a rece flea | outmsuiite tha bs ot o> 1 | if he loses, he ke the car he} | casi climb hills with little diffi DRIVE IT of Ellensburg. an)” ee ont Baiete pie is driving and pays for another. | : i jculty and travel farther on a galion —- ‘. : pe rey ¥¥e B M. D. Buker, manager of the Se | jof fuel. Smaller engines, for the Y I os = attle Automobile Co., is shown at| same output, may be made,’ cutting | BU T ’ ape : " the left, with Hortsman at the| down weight and resulting in lighter | per cent of the country’s auto clubs! ist: On the top deck are two cars f Whose combined fnfluence will be o¢ his passengers: ob q yh 1 for the betterment of motor Eldridge Buick Co. Host to All Its Employes Here's one automot firm that does something for its employes be sides handing o checks. It's th staging Its cig day Approximately and m were ¢ 240 comp mbers of t oute by early Saturday morning fe ness lake for a day of fi ing, a basebal} swimmir game an tmportan the day's program. dinner is adjunct of at outin: ays exper Last company “big day” at the Benbow POPULAR SHORT TRIP One of the popular shorter trips of the country is the tour around La Erie. This includes Niagara Fall the air flats and beautiful Can jan country. ad | Organtzation } said to be about 25 the publi Among ght by the new orga 1—Prosec fake motor. of which are scattered about there country. ablishment of national emer road service. problem to decrease the accidents at ,. | these points. 4—Formation of a motor truck owners’ 4 n, a new department in present auto clubs. Besides these, plans are on foot for a new home for the headquarters here and improvement of the little} «. fees the A. A. A. and {ts mem ber clubs already give to thelr mem bers WITH HOME BUILDID rease of auto sales in the last riven virtually paral ir years haa lel with home building, according to | passengers with him, and figures filed by the F, W. Dodge Co. |paggage has 1,702 pounds welgt and the National Automobile Cham: | besides tha car, ber of Comm I st 10 years the America invested over $17,000,000,000 for motor vehicles. Tourist “Yes, it's my first trip to the Pacific Northwest,” admitted the enthusiastic Tourist to the new arrival whom he had Just met in the hotel lobby. “I'll confess that I never real- ized before that the good old U. $. A. held anything to compare with the marvelous mass of scen ery that's been heaped up in this corner of the continent. I used to read descriptions of it and even ee it in the movies, but it didn't seem real until I saw it at first hand.” “Well, I've just got. in,” ex- plained the new arrival, “and I'm wondering what to do tomorrow. I'd rather like to get out on salt water, as I live a long way from it when I'm at home.” “Then you'd better take the boat trip to Tacoma. I made it today, and I'll say it's a wonder. We left the Colman Dock at 9 o'clock this. morning on a fine, fast steamer. My wife and I stood out on deck as the boat pulled out from the dock and while I’ve seen the skylines of many clit I never saw anything more impres- thi of tle as we 1 Eliiott Bay. “The harbor was filled with 4 med out great variety of craft, ranging from grim, gray battleships to tiny motor boats. A gigantic ocean liner was just entering the harbor and overhead a hydroplane (ADVERTISEMENT) Enjoys New _ Wonders on Puget Sound darted in loops and spirals. Our vessel sped along past the West Seattle shore and in sight of the famous bathing beach at Alki Point. Summer cottages and camps lined the shore and along the bluffs were magnificent rest. dences “Tl not try to tell you of the many wonders of the trip or the glory of Mount Rainier when seen from across the sparkling blue waters of the Sound. You must see these things for your- self. We arrived at Tacmoa about 10:30, made a tour of this pictur- esque and thriving city, went out to Point Defiance Park and had a bath in the Sound, strolled about the beaches and developed famous appetites. “After dinner, we came back on the 7 o'clock boat, saw the most gorgeous sunset I ever beheld—a blaze of riotous color above the rugged peaks of the Olympics— and then the twilight with the flashing lights as the darkness n to fall, with the tluminat- ed skyline and hills of the city as we came into port. “Gh, yes, I almost forgot to say that the round trip, more than thirty miles each way, only cost 80 cents, How's that for cheap travel?” founds almost too good to be true,” wswered the new arrival, “but right there's where you'll find my family tomorrow.” Take the Water Way to TACOMA LEAV COLMAN DOCK, 11:00 a. m.; 1:00, 3:00, 5: RETURNIN DOCK, 3300, 5: TEAMER TACOMA—7:15 00, 7:00, 9:00 p. SEATTLE—7:00, 9:00, 00, 7:00, 10:00 p.m. LEAVE MUNICIPAL 9:00, 11:00 a.m.; 1:00, mM. CFare Only C One Way--Round Trip 'ON BET jau } Solution to the grade crossing | | | jtrip is from Ban Fri lcouver, B. C., DRIVE MADE which was made by an mobile executive on that Flint the coast could be was car ~ | driven from San Francisco to Van | couvem. Cas foes cath Wa: ne round fFip. Whea: Mr. Horstman ene, Ofe., last w ly gone 3,000 m ut any Fepair, and was beginning to feel pretty confident that the car would stand up under the course of pun ishment prescribed. for tt. “L have always been a riced car enthusiast,” he ‘and I have seven high-priced cars | tight now. This friend of mino| made this little bet with me to prove that the Flint is as good as any of thetn, and I am beginning to beliey he knew what he was tatki | Mr da, on only th or a total of @ nervy x for arrived in had al high-| Horstman is carrying four | with his which be must | carry over the entire cour The! isco to Va 6 Cana over Rockies, and back thru Monta Idaho, Texas, New Mexico Mexico. OIL COMPANY USES 1,500 WHITE TRUCKS | The largest single fleet of high: high-grade motor trucks is owned by the Gulf Refining Co., with head quarters at Pittsburg. The company | at tho present is operating 1,551 White trucks, with 100 more on| order for early delivery. ‘The Gulf} | Refining purchased {ts first White in| 1911, and since then has steadily | added from 100 to 200 trucks each year, the trucks being operated in 23 states from Maine to Texas. ‘The oll industry uses many thou sands of trucks, mpgnies alone operating 7,762, Whites in fleets of 10 or more. Fifteen of these com panies operate fleets of more than 100 White trucks. In addition, there are scores af ofl companies operating Whites in fleets of less than 10. MORE CARE SHOWN Motorists are more careful in crossing railroad tracks, report offi- cials of the Long Island railroad. This is made after a check of repre sentative railroad crossings. WHITE NUMERALS Most of the variety of license tags in the United States have white nu- merals on a colored background. | Eleven states are using black back- grounds with white numerals. Road Bulletin ] ooo KING COUNTY ROAD BULLETIN Thomas R. Beeman King County Engineer Week Ending Juty 26, 1924. All paved roads in good condition, Renton-Maple Valley: fenton ‘to ono milo beyond Killott closed; balance in xood condition; detour to Maple Valley Vin Cedar Grove and Hobart roads Kent-Bluck Diamond: Pay miles out of Kent; threo gr at end of paving; good grave Muple Valley - Black Diamond: gravel, Eoumelaw-Vranklin: Good. Use caution in approaching Groen fiver gorge. Sunset Highway— Kenton-Imaquah: Paved. mi Paved. yi Good gravel. | | Prew € Fall City-Denny Creek: Good gravel; Donn Creek to Summit, fair gravel, lewport: Wxcellent Via Soow Creek, ection good ase Highway: ndition. 1 Open to Alpine; Good gravel | condition in open to White rly Luke Forest Park-North ‘Trunk connoo- tiont One mile pavement excellent; a balance Hellevue-M edmond. ravel, . O2GA on brick Moles, cloned, Do: at Infor orth ond of bridge, Jon, all MA In- Vor further 6900, loval 264 stated,» § Good ] Here's Fred J. Englert, new sports touring model, | MPOVERISHED | SHOE | MANUFACTURER, i] BY WIL M. . E. A. Service, Inc.) the City that Ruined the Shoe Trade, The first record we find of Detrolt was in 1701, when a French auto- | py mobile manufacturer, by the name | i+, of Cadillac, came there and estab. lsh a Detroit branch of the Cadil- lac factory. of English tourists, under the com- mand of General Brock, came to town, knocked the town apart and put it together to sult themselves. Buta of ar later an American patriot, Sir Henry Ford, reeap- tured the town, built a little lagt, picture mache hotels and 21 public parks, shop and started making Eagle boats for the United States navy and Ford cars for the rest of the population, By 1824 the town had grown s0 i that it was made the state cap- al. But it was not a success. The minute a legislator would get there he would throw up his job and go to work for Henry Ford. §o, in The town and the shop did real|1s47 they moved tho capital to woll up until 1812, when a party|Lansing, where there would be nothing to disturb the deliberations the lawmakers, Detroit is a real pretty Uttle yil- with street cars, a moving theater, several paper the largest of Belle Isle, these The Sensation Touring—It’s Sold on 118 Westlake Ave. No, of the Year New Chevrolet DeLuxe Sport a Beauty! Price $780, Seattle sy Terms—-18 Months to Pay! Be Sure It's From Westlake! “Seattle’s Large Downtown Dealer” Phone BL iot-4501 , \the salesman for the Westlake Chevrolet Co., demonstrating the all-factory equipped, eee Guru accessory equipment, the first ever attempted by the Chevrolet people, is making the new} sports touring in 8 the Westlake Tho first model a big feature Chevrolet Co, model reaching this |Seattio agency was on the display | floor just 15 minutes before it was purchased, The sports touring has a standard Chevrolet chassis with a hand-fin- ished body by the Fisher Body cor poration. It is Duco-finished in |gray-blue. Gray fabrikoid upholstery gives {t an exclusive tone and additional equipment includes nickeled bump- ers, radiator shell and cowl lamps. There is also a motometer, diso wheels, plate glass windshield wings and large steering wheel and rub- ber covered running boards. ee parks, is on an island that !t cost three and a half million dollars to get to, Just illustrating what De- troit folks are willing to pay to get out of town for an hour. On this island is the largest flock of tame canoes on earth, Jt was started in 1896 with only one palr of canoes, And by letting (Human) Nature take its course it has grown to its present size, In former years, during hard times, the other 20 parks were de- voted to potato raising. But now they are given over éntirely to fruit—Peaches, Prunes and Night-Blooming Dates, They also abound in such 4 Squabs, Goslins, Ducks, Dear, Old Buc Sad Dogs and Young Pups, Old Hens and Young ‘Wild Life, Chickens, Night Hawks, Chicken Hawks, Sparrow Cops and Nurse Girls, If all the automobiles made in Detroit in a year were PAID FOR nobody in: America but automobile mukers and agents would have a nickel, Detroit makes more stoves in a year than all the countries of Burope would use in 60 years, In addition to all the automobiles made in Detroit, Henry Ford also makes money. For « while there was talk of putting a Ford in the White House} but it was a flivvor. Detroit js called “The Working Man's Paradis No matter what trade, business or profession you fol- low, you can have your own news: paper or magazine In Derolt. For there are: The American Blk, the Beekeep- ers’ Review the Bulletin of P' macy, the Concrete Magazine, 1 troeraft, the Gloaner, the He shoers’ Journal, the Medical Jorn: Dairy Warmer, the Motorman and Conductor, Motor News, the Retail Drugegist, the Stove Mounters' Journal, the Studio, Perin’s Stenographer, the Thera poutic Gazette—and, altho I do not know where they get thelr subserib- ers the Truth, Vivo la Detroitll Jon Joc: Investor, | tle, according to officials of | You'll Be Satisfied Our Terms Make Owner- ship Easy GARDNER | J{NGINEERS are looking forward | to the time when automobiles | jwill afford much more room for| | Passengers on the same size frames they have now. | | They vision this advancement by | progress in the construction of en gsines and thelr tendency toward | Small sizes. SMALLWOOD MOTOR | At present, the actual tendency COMPA | seems to be toward straight elghts—| \longer engines requiring more room on the chassis and therefore more space for the entire car. But the \time will come, say some of the| more visionary engineers, when the! engine will be as small ag a motor 104 E. Pike EA st-1069 “Ask Any Gardner Owner” ITS THE “WORD OF MOUTH” advertising about our Service and Courteous Treatment that is bringing new buyers of Star Cars to our place every day. And incident- ally bringing “old” Star Car owners into our Ser. vice Department. + NOW COUNT THE STARS | HOWELL-BORNESS STAR MOTOR CO. CORNER OLIVE AND TERRY MA in-2400 SEATTLE, WASH. new youngster - is coming to town, completely equipped, ' $1,295 delivered in Seattle 1