The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 9

SECOND SECTION, WANT TO SEE “BIGGEST” TIMBER CLOSE-IN? HERE'S CHANCE OFFERED TO SAVE TREE Huge Cedar Grove Doomed to Saw and Ax if Not Bought PARK BODY SEEKS FUNDS Wonderful Mecca for Nature Lovers Close to Seattle By Clarence Bailey A KING is about to end his reign, A mighty monarch who first viewed the sun before the founding of the ancient city of Rome will soon have to bow his head. eral centuries all at once. He's encircling about one- enteenth of the total circumference of the “daddy of ’em _,In the woods below Mt a huge cedar in a hardly-known grove near North Teneriffe, about five miles i F beyond North Bend, stands It’s doomed to be c p into logs unless the people of the largest cedar in the state Washington purchase it and its slightly smaller sister trees of Washington and, possibly, as a@ permanent par: Pee oes: eee _,| “Old Betsy,” the famous touring Flint of the Seattle sae een ree is 58) Automobile Co., took The Star's motor-logger up to view red ight af arn eke the cedar and the North Bend timber operations this week feet from the : ; + “Petey? 4 ground above the butt-swell. Hiberedia ew esineypanirsp itd oe 3 Start Phot It’s age fs problematical but, pos satanic Besa in citihmaie Batol sibly, s the birth of Christ ——— This and ¢ large nes inti ‘proves Sones" 2) THREE- A HEAD {wevaoa rinos Free Already a road has been CAMP GROUNDS NOT | GOOD, ABANDONS ’EM t. 12. extended to grove But the trees can be saved “Contributions are being COMES HERE received & Practically by Herbert Witherspoon, treasurer | ge ebm of the Wasbiogton Natural Paits ‘ i Sie aD Mr ne Keeton: Nascont’ Gao b Thomas P. Henry Arrives in | fetiowea Reno's lead by abolish: By nen If $2,000 ts raised by Sep Seattle on Monday oh ‘inl gael career, oaeareeg tember 25 the grove will be pur Fait tticlal rt chased and another park will be 2 ste ha or pradl xe ed available to the motorists of Seattle.| Preparatory to a return trip nds are a menace to first check contributed to this c ent, on which sat ‘ fund was for $25, and came from a follow the Yellows Price age og ns dei New York man—Madison Grant athoéu 4 nearer tits \speat t a president of the Natural Parks As vad he ser greseativan Bete ner sociation day trip from New h to prey on commun SHOULD HAVE ROAD wis Py a 70 ANCIENT GROVE Thomas P. Henry, De Se sible to the public, can be made s0, as soon as the logging seneral operations around !t are over. Te the grove is saved ttle Mon- starting will be In 8 be the ttle will it will be one of the finest to be! point for the return, which will be| ROADS SOUGHT made out of Seattle. as important to the motoring public It will be a 45-mile drive, all of|as was the weatward tr | wht with the exception of two - — —|A. A. A. Plans to Mark Good npgpiye pont ag ied Springs on Trails mnjles, can be made highway Thursday Tho Star weekly trip was made to this tree. | “Old Betsy," |, on the Sunset} Sunset high | Falls, wh motor | now. T ich | hish water just ree miles east of North Bend A Fiint touring car, long felt by the 1 can learn the location at the furnished by the Seattle Automobile a eers te leer : isda’ of t Rey : pense orth Hend Timber Co, office) hop| ing millions of moto: company.1ith ave. and Pike st. out of the car and walk up thru) *pend thelr vacation’ on open ‘pe = and pio Lew. of the trip | towering timber along the rallroad|read, namely, assurance of pure % over the rough am BIL | ead, he left 7 ‘ h wate the lane of} grade on the left-hand side of the! di ater along y grades of a Inz road, this easy-ri ling road ra will be filled as the result touring car with its driver, M. D of a new launched by the Baker, made trip almost uncom.{| It's real “wilderness ng 008 of oerttan AX 6 ansociation fortably as tho the road had becn {the Mor: naturally beautiful wood- | Americal Aut rn paved boulevard land spots in King county and the! | “{COunht 1° a latan te Steep hills were negotiated on high | “hole state of Washington—beenuse ae w at work and rough, choppy spots were|!'s ® eee eaanowe. ans for and st and ndicate ms smoothed by flexible springs deep-seated cushions Motorists wishing a woodland trip ind who don’t mind a hike to reach ‘A Mecca at which all lovers of big| g the main tr eled highways of tho ‘These been indorsed by the bu public health service of drinking w Tire Output Grows Tire output for is expected to reach the half billion mark. Pro- country. plans hh reau of th trees should bow a reverent .and/ duction, which was about 100,0 the United States treasury and by awe-filled head, should drive out thru| day in 1924, may reach an average! the conference of state sanit Renton towatd North Bend on the! of ally this year. giners. NEW PRICES On B-40 Flints. Effective Sept. 1, 1925. Delivered in Seattle : Old Price Touring ...........$1535.00 Sedan, 4-door ...... $1935.00 $1655.00 Brougham .........$2025.00 $1745.00 The above cars fre priced to include equipment as follows: Balloon tir ze 80x5.77 Lock-head hydraulic, 3-shoe, internal brakes with 14-inch drums Stop light Automatic rain swipe Rear view mirror. The touring car has permanent top, fully lined, hand-buffed leather upholstering. The B-40 Flint Six represents the greatest auto- mobile value on the market today. Be Sure and See These New Cars ‘Now on Display New Price $1340.00 Seattle Automobile Company 1101 E. Pike Street Seattle, Washington USEMIEN He Seattle StarTOMODBIL, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 15 PAGES 9 TO 16 mr E STAR AUTO SECTION | APPEARS WEDNESDAY, BEGINNING SEPT. 16 CAR INSURANC IS PROBLEM SPONDING to the insistent mand of Seattle's automo- ne bile dealers for nidweek aut Plan Is Sought to Help In ite canis for a “Sai ea lish this section on Wednesdays instead of Saturdays hereafter. iusg lana Jeateccasim ent Next Wednesday, September 16, 4 ¢ there will be another section de group of fi. || Voted to dealers and owners of jured Persons The che plans have establt motorists whose responsibilities and personal, seem to be in to the re m CAR IS SAFER THAN RAll Railway Hazard Higher, Is Shown by Figures proportion s with which they ve y automobile of # 4s the re | clubs ures and order | pedestrians are trying to devise some form of inurance that would strike at these reckless drivers and make them pay for the injuries they in flict on others. Today many a person 1s run down | by a driver whose car is mortgaged and whose income hardly covers his expenses, The result js no reward | NEW HEADS FOR Look Your Car EBERHARTER'S Frank Dunn New President of Used Car Agency Here Keeping It in Shape Wi Life, Auto Club C 1. SBERHARTER, president ik vy. tine durian tt nel Ser t “ 4 ; " The total train mileage, freight A 1 a extra heavy use during the sum. |Jerkily at low speeds, simply because | ,, 2 vr otha: at ; lees va Year® and over m kinds of re and | ularly and before the danger signals | ot F Z f Mie | Showing, apporianiey one accident one of th ading used car the wise owner, 1 tho his use| force It. And when they have wait-| ther forms of insurance, ere- | fo! very 18,000 } ; ar has been free from trouble, |ed that long they frequently find|fore have been sought by which| In the same year the accidents ip in looked over 5 exp as the summer tour: ron clones aren © Aut mobile Summers Wear and Tear verage automobile is put to wasting gas, losing power, running | drivers, to the injured pedestrian. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The A long array of repressive legisla-| rasiway hazard on a mileage basis i tion has not succeeded in curbing | ning times greater than the autome the Irresponsible reckless driver. He| bie hazard, according to statistion has gone to jail and come back ready | made public by the American AUté& for 4 al thru the streets.) mobile association. Compulsory for all Mo-| The statistics are b has been suggested as the | ures the last for wh lution, But the objection is that | craw are available. it would cause the large majority Of/ During that year railway accidents careful drivers to contribute to aN | accounted for 6,922 deaths and 56,466 insurance fund for the payment of | injuries, a total of 63,386 killed and victims of the irresponsible careless | injured, if Over for nother carou ir urance torists ed on 1923 fige complete ree ll Add Yea hief Advises s to Its t their neglect has led to other|the burden of payment for an acci-| which motor vehicles figured ac sbles which at best mean more|dent {s placed upon ‘the person re-| counted for 17,000 deaths and 500,000 enne. sponsible for that accident |injured, a total of 517,000. automo today in a Connecticut ts to try out one such| A total motor vehicle mileage for pleco of machinery which res plan. It is the {dea of Commissioner | the yea ris estimated at 860,000,000-, fer. owners never gO to &/ well to fair treatment, but it won't|of Vehicles Stoeckel 000 miles. This would mean one mo j The deal was 1 they are sure that keop on working effectively and| Under Stoeckel’s plan, any panne accident for every 160,000 miles. something in seriously wrong, Just economically if it is continually neg-| convicted of reckless ? | act: Saat eae many human -belnge never. cénl eras re Veation oF running away after anac.| , ETHICS FOR MOTORISTS a specialist in the human body | ; A code of motoring ethics is to be * - cident, must prove his ability to pay | i 2 | until they are scared Into it by some L Ieniti tammigia Or have SHU “GAIA tes Ube arate up by ney ot nationals symptom that creates of an : sates nown men. The code Js sponsot arly grave,””, Maxwell de eave Ignition On amount of $10,000 for personal in- |}. the American Automobile ansaee mori ks ak If the ignition is turned off while | juries and $1,000 for property dam- | tion. kGer peabidenicl polit jon na|FONK down a hill with first, second |age. ‘This. requires the convicted | ————__J and gencral) well, declare periodical exami.| oF third mear engaged, gasoline will ver to show a non-cancellable pol- | gain nothing from it. It is only after man. of the | nations and overhaulings for the hu flow into the engine. This washes for these amounts, or to put up |the first offense, after a driver has Reena f tked ore a eaderd tee erecibin “caieg eenlibe off the side wallx of the|a bond gr deposit ca ateral |: DUNN recat ae re itl HAHA RHA ceive, \deladng Joneer site dera and when the ignition is | with the state | driving or been the cause of an ag nent figure in the local automobite for the Nurian-mechaniam, and that| ‘ ned on again heavy explosions of} This appears to be a better plan| cident, that he is made to insure past aix years, Heladvice applies just as well to the| fo# in the engine may blow the|(han general cumpulsory insurante. | himself against any further Soa lated eit ese kate RHEE raak eo evahunble a’ plese | RURCREAOEE But the victims of first offenders | dents. , 28 manager for of machinery as the human body, Tao ar but still worth keeping in good harter, prominent East. | shape. ern automobile man, who severed |AUTO GENERALLY iin business connections with the | WIDELY NEGLECTED baker distributors of Indiann “There js no other class of prop county, Pennsylvania, two years |erty, comparable in value to the au ago, and since tomobile, which is so widely neglect that time jed as it's, I doubt if half the own been connected lern of cars even take the elementary with Eberhar | precautions of changing oll frequent: | tern garage of }ly and of seeing that all parts are will be well greased. And I know that and there are literally millions of cars| urer of the firm, Both the firm's necretary WESTERN AUTOS BE new heads are considered lead. ers among the local automobile | experts and will carry out the old firm's policy. Being veterans in this field, they Intend to carry on an aggress- | {ve campaign {n selling good used they announced A. A, A. MEMBERS AID TOURISTS | Announces Temporary Re-| EBERHARTER | quotion on Chain-Store Price| In the face of an antlclpated gen- | eral raise in the price of tires, the! | Western Auto Supply Co. this week | announced a temporary decrease in| | the price of tires sold thruout Its) chain of 125 accessory stores | In making the announcement re- | garding the new price schedule, President Pepperdine said | “The prophets are no doubt right; | | prices may continue to advance, but, Comrades of the Road to) aus to the foresight of our com: Be Appellation | pany, a large quantity of high-grade cars, | crude rubber was purchased a fow | “ne | weeks ago, when there was a tem: | WASHINGTON, D. C., Bept. 12—/ porary decline in the rubber mar- | Henceforth automobiles bearing tho| Ket, This purchase of rubber at a emblem of the American Automo-| jower rate reduces the average cost | bile association will serve to desig-| of our tires, and this temporary sav- nate a car owner from whom motor | ing {s being passed on to our cus-| tourists may obtain information re-| tomers." | garding local traffic, road conditions| | When preparations were mado, a ithe tters hie 6 | and other matters in which {hl tow years ago, to market tires un: | inte tales} oeens a ap Mik | dor its own namo, the Western Ailto | An announcement from tho na-} Supply Co. took Into consideration | all the conditions to which a Weat-| ern tire would bo subjected.” | Offer ‘Pullowahivs tlonal headquarters of the associa | tion today declared that this is ono} feature of a plan developed by tho national motoring body to restore | the camaradorio of the raod which the tremendous increase in auto- | mobile registration had all but ex- The University of Michigan is) tingulshed, proparing to mako reven awards for advanced study of the nation’s road need’ and economical trans: | portation, ‘The awards will be in| the form of Iellowshipa offered by | important road construction and transportation Industries: | Thos, P, Honry, president of the A. A. Ax explained that this. form of car owner co-operation represents a“ voluntary offer on the part of many thousands of expertenced A. | A. A. mombora to function as “branch offices" for tho local af fillated clubs, Altho the wervico In primarily intended for members of | the nssoctation, ull motorists will henefit, Mr, Henry sald, Use Standard Chain Standard non-skid chains oan be used on balloon tires, making chains of special construction unnecessary, AUTO FORK WON OVER One of the most implacable foes of tho automoblie, the Now York, | Now Haven & Hartferd railroad, has | finally been won oyer to the idea of | g| truck and bus transportation, ‘The Jroad has organized a million-dollar company for traffia in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Mas- rachusetts, LIKE LINCOLN ARE NOT LINCOLN While we acknowledge, as sincerest flat- tery, imitation of Chrysler outward appear- ance, Chrysler performance, stamina and tried and proven quality still keeps this su- per-car far beyond competition. We are still sold ahead on all models, but with carloads arriving daily can promise seven day delivery. 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