10 In a few weeks the Blue Birds will sing and the Spring Buds will be on the trees and everybody will want an Automobile, then the good cars will be hard to get. Place Your Order Now and Take Your OVERLAND as soon as you can get it. There is not such a value in any Automobile on the American market as found in the Overland ll4 wheelbase, 4-inch tires, floating rear axle, Timpkin rolling bearings, electric lights, SSO speedometer, clear vision ventilating wind shield, deep cushions, mohair top with top cover, robe rail, foot rest. 35 Horse Power Motor Cylinder I Cylinders cast separate, with 5-bearing crank shaft I and natural cooling. Delivered in Harrisburg for $985.00 And With Gray and Davis Electric Self- Starter, $1,110.00 Compare these specifications with any other auto mobile and you'll cash the Overland. Roadsters, Touring Car and Delivery all the same price. Send for catalogue. Andrew Redmond Third and Boyd Sts. | HARRISBURG, PA. I Distributor Tor Dauphin, Perry and Cumberland Counties. *follllllllHllllllll irrill'i II II it MM——IB That 1912 "Ths Car That Put the Start in Starter" IJBy the way, those are good cars yet. <][ Every man who ever owned one has the highest regard for them. The Electric lights and starter is very satisfac tory. More so than many now used 011 other cars. These cars have been sold practically as fast as they were traded in. We have made several more trades, which will give us some additional Cadillacs of this model. ||You cannot get equal value in any new near the price. And remember they are Cadillacs. Have Cadillac features. Have the Cadillac guarantee, and entitle to the benefits of the New Cadillac Service House. IJ See us early and get the pick of these cars. Crispen Motor Car Co. 413-417 S. Cameron St. --■ - ■ SIMFLEX Shock Absorber For Automobiles PEIt Here at lnxt IK a lotv-prleed xhock absorber thnt onii PtHt \ \ depended upon to do the work. o£r-\ \ Tl i e SIMPLEX has been proven the simplest and - - Cj# 1 " lost efficient shock absorber In the market. Absorbs abcer**- Sri ■■; ;■ ] both vibration and shock. No wearing part to tret __J "" t of 01c,p| - Friction parts case hardened. A de — mm pendable shock absorber is a necessity in the pre- H SPT servation of your car. SIMFLEX is dependable. Half WKITL. Ml to one-third the cost of others. PHONE bM ciuri Ell « , ' ct "? *! v^ - you " trial oC the SIMPLEX. HI. Money back if not Nattstled. Price, (120.00 per pair put or CALL || on. INFOH- Eureka Wagon Works, Agts., MATION A. 11. UAILI2Y. llell Phone 1.140 J. 614-18 North St. AUTO PAIINTIINO Wagon and Auto Delivery Body Building Repair Works a Specialty During the next month or so your automobile will be almost idle Save that month's storage bill, and more, by having us naint ami varnish it to look like new. Get in before the rush .starts. Satisfaction guaranteed. Eureka Wagon Works A. H. Bailey. Bell phone 1310 J. 614-16-18 North St. MILLER K TIRES Grip the Road Like a Cog-Wheel STERLING AUTO TIRE CO. 1451 Zarker St. VULCANIZING SATURDAY EVENING, NEW JEFFERY CIR IT W. E. GWE J. A. Bentz and Charles Beshore Join C. H. Conrad in Sale of Well Known Car j The Jeffery Four is an absolutely new car; modern and so handsome in appearance that it commands admi ■ ration whenever the graceful outline l of the car is to be seen. Associated with C. H. Conrad this year in the selling; of the Jeffery'are A. J. Bentz and Charles Beshore two well-known local men. The agency will remain at the West End Garage at 1808 Logan street. The Jeffery car is backed by one of the strongest companies in the country, the Thomas B. Jeffery Company wl/li forty years manufacturing experience and five and one-half million dollars In assets. The Jeffery motor is among the greatest high speed light motors in the country. The Jeffery engineers took to pieces every successful motor in Europe and America before deciding upon the present, high speed monobloc design. From all these they took the best features combined them with their own ideas and the result is a remarkable motor, powerful, light and I economical. This high speed monobloc motor is compact and simple. It develops, at 2,200 revolutions per minute, forty horsepower. The cylinders, 3%-inch bore and 5%-Inch troke, are formed in one remarkable solid casting, together with the valve sets and water jackets. This makes it strong, without vibra tion and easy to cool. It can travel forty miles per hour on second speed and you will be surprised how quietly it runs. The power of this motor can not be figured on paper from the diam eter of the cylinder or the length of the piston stroke. It takes motor speed to make power and. when deliv ered to the rear axle through mechan ism which is almost entirely free from friction, the result is wonderful. The Jeffery has the U. S. L. electric starting and lighting system, said to be the most expensive made and pro tected by exclusive patents. The Jeffery Four can be provided with five differ-: ent body styles. The standard five- , passenger touring car selling at $1,550, I including complete equipment. The Jeffery Six is the newest model and comes in a five-passenger touring car at $'.',250, a six-passenger touring car at $2,300, a two-passenger roadster at $2.2!">0, a fl ve-pnssenger Sedan in side drive at $3,2. r >o, and a five-passen ger Limousine at $3,700 The closed style bodies of the Six, as in the Jeffery Four are so fitted that touring or road ster bodies can be substituted as the season demands Reo Motor Truck Ousts The Old Army Mule The quartermaster's department of the State of Michigan has definitely discarded mule-drawn vehicles in favor of those motor driven. In the event of the mobolizatlon of the troops of the State for war or for any other pur pose, the vast amount of hauling' made necessary would be done with gasoline Instead of with horseflesh. Colonel Walter G. liogers, the quar termaster-general, lias been using a lfeo motor truck since its purchase for his department June 1. The truck lias proved itself at Lansing, at the Calu met strike duty camp, and on the State military reserve at Grayling. It is a two-ton vehicle which does the work on an average of four teams and wagons every day sometimes more than that, hardly ever less. The daily cost of operation, figuring depre riation, tires, repairs, gasoline, driver, interest on the investment aiul all other possible costs is $8.70. Four teams with wagons and drivers, cost S2O per day, to hire, not to own. The proprietary cost, when feeding the horses is con sidered, is much higher. There are some steep hills about Calumet and Houghton, hut the truck hauled tentage and supplies from one end of the district to the other day after day without faltering. At Gray ling, it was used for weeks hauling brick and lumber and other building material over soft, sandy roads. It is five miles from Grayling to the reser vation, and the truck was kept busy. Michigan In purchasing a Reo truck for its quartermaster's department Is ahead of many other States, and of the army as well. Though the army has a few trucks which are used in cities where there is good pavement, it still sticks to the army mule for the long, serious hauling over broken coun try. The Michigan truck is now in daily use in Lansing,and has. it is estimated, saved at least half Its original pur chase price—sl,Boo In draying since June 1. PORTER BUILDING BURNED By Associated Press Philadelphia, Feb. 14. —One of the buildings of the C. B. Porter Com pany, manufacturers of tinware, located near the Delaware river front, was destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. About two weeks ago two other buildings of the Porter plant were damaged by Are to the extent of about $7 5,000. Reo Truck I*A to 2 Ton New Price ( Chassis) SI6SO Loadening Space 10 to 12 Feet Reo-Mack- Chase Truck Reo-Stevens-Duryes Pleasure Cars Harrisburg Auto Co. Third and Hamilton Street L A.ID - WINTER PRICES] —ON— Used Automobiles Here's a tip for you, Mr. Wide awake. Do you know that real money held under a dealer's nose these dull winter days will buy more automobile value thefn can be had when the Spring sun begins to peep through the clouds. We have a number of used cars that we will let go at Interesting figures. CRISPEN MOTOR CAR CO. 413-417 S. CAMKISON ST. » Auto Storage KEPAIItS A.Nf) SUPPLIES PAUL D. MESSNER A Kent for Stanley Steamer Cara HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AUTOMOBILE FAMINE HEADED WAY So Predicts A. I. Philp, Sales Man ager of the Studebaker Plants That tlio Spring and summer months | of the present season will see a repe tition of famine conditions In the sup ) ply of new motor cars Is definitely pre dicted by Sales Manager Arthur I. Phllp, of the Studebaker Corporation, I who has just returned from a trip of ithe middle west. Mr. Philp's personal observation Is also supplemented by the reparts of Studebaker representa tives in other parts of the country and in the foreign field. I The Studebaker arrangement with i dealers is based on a definite schedule of deliveries for the entire year. This schedule consists of carload lots, so arranged that as often as possible they i may be conbined into trainloads each of which will go direct from the load ing platform in Detroit to a certain territory. This schedule is then pass ed along for guidance of the produc tion department. "I do not recall a winter in recent ! years which has so tested the elasticity :of our delivery schedule," Mr. Philp ! declares. "Energetic dealers who know by experience how to estimate their local conditions, have been urging In creased allotments and have been beg ging us to advance their deliveries to include in February cars scheduled for delivery as far ahead as April and May. "The comparatively open winter has undoubtedly Influenced this unusual demand to some extent. The fact that all our cars are fitted with a built-in electric starting and lighting system which makes cold weather motoring easy and feasible is another consider ation But the demand springs from a source much deeper than Immediate sales and is based on the belief of these dealers that the winter purchas ing is only an indication of what will happen when the sun gots to shining on both sides of the street. "To a certain extent we began pre paring for a limit production several months ago. Our plants are able to build 200 cars daily with an occasiona spurt to 225. We know that we shall be able to advance our schedule to some extent. But we are sure that we shall never be able to satisfy the demand of the motoring public. "Look out for the famine that is on the way! It will strike the market in April and will increase in degree as the season progresses." Hudson Six Holds Record of Farthest North in America E. Alexander Poweii ana party, rep resenting Sunset Magazine, have re turned to California after their trip through British Columbia to the Alaska line. Mr. Powell made this trip in the interests of Sunset Magazine and in connection with the good roads move ment on the Pacific coast. Botl lie and Mr. Kuhn, his traveling companion, re turn ardent admirers and great boost ers for the Hudson car. The car went back to California under its own power In practically as good condition as when it left San Francisco with the ex ception of a scratched body, bent fen ders and other ordinary road damage. Mr. Powell liked the car so well that he has had it repainted and slightly re paired where necessary and is keeping it for his own personal use. The gentleman who went along as Mr. Powell s gue t Is a retired capital ist of San Jose, Cal. He has always been a strong booster for another car of which he has owned several. Since his return, however, he has been thor oughly converted to the six-cylinder idea and one of the first things he did upon reaching his home was to place, his order for a Hudson Six 54. I Mr. Powell Is the well-known travel I writer who was in Africa with Itoose- I velt. He has added to his experience ! by this trip In an automobile from the I Mexican line south to San to the j southern boundary of Alaska near Hazleton, British Columbia. His ac count of this trip will be brought out In a forthcoming book, but will appear first serially In the magazine. The latest letter from Mr. Powell read as follows: "Here we are almost at the end of our journey to the nearer north, 250 miles from the nearest rail- I way and far beyond the end of the 1 Caribou Trail, where civilization quits I work and the wilderness begins. I have | seen bad roads In Quebec and in Vir j glnia, in East Africa and In Honduras j and in Turkestan, but I never dreamed I of anything remotely approaching these British Columbia highways, and I cer j tainly never dreamed that a car was i built capable of negotiating them. But 'we have the satisfaction of knowing : that we went farther north than any j automobile has ever gone on this con tinent on Its own wheels, and that three tenderfeet, all strangers to the country and unfamiliar with its condi tion, succeeded in driving a two-ton six-cylinder Hudson car across British Columbia, a feat which everyone along the route warned us could not be ac complished with any automobile. We carried a little silk American flag on the bonnet and at all the construction camps and towns through which we passed we received most hospitable re ceptions." Colossal Growth of the Motorcycle Trade "Very few people outside the in , dustry have an accurate conception j of the colossal growth of the motor cycle trade in the past few years, or of its potential possibilities of devel opment," points out the West End Electric & Cycle Co. "The extraor dinary production of automobiles has had a tendency to distract the public from the great strides being made by the motorcycle, but nevertheless it haß been coming up strong and to-day is one of the most prosperous and stable industries in the country. "Since the motorcycle projected it self on the public eye after a long struggle for recognition, it has re mained in the spotlight, and won de votees by the thousand because of the manifold advantages it possesses both for business and pleasure pursuits. The 1913 output was 75,000 machines, while for 1914, material contracts placed indicate a total output of at least 110,000, which will be built by twenty concerns. "It is interesting to note that just as a well-known car has maintained production leadership for several years, the condition prevails in the motorcycle field, where for fourteen consecutive years, or since the birth of the industry in this country, the Indian has been the most popular ma chine. 'Count the Indians on the Road' is not a mere advertising slogan, but a statement of fact, proven by statistics. For instance, 29 per cent, of the 1911 output were In dians, while 1912 saw 35 per cent, of I all the motorcycles built bearing the Indian name. In 1913 the 35,000 Indians manufactured constituted 41 per cent, of the total volume, and the j 1914 schedule of 60,000 Indians will represent 50 per cent, of the total output. "As thai inexorable business law, | 'the survival of the fittest' upplies to i motorcycle manufacture equally i strong, it must be admitted that this \ sustained supremacy has been pos sible only by the maintenance of lead | ership in mechanical development, sales methods and Service to the owner. The values offered each year | in the new Indian models have ap ! pealed so strongly to motorcyclists as . to completely absorb the total output | and in fact overtax the capacity of i the factory. On the other hand." this j widespread appreciation of the Indian j features has made it possible for the i manufacturers to offer to riders each 1 succeeding year such attractive mod- I els as to practically submerge oompe- J titiou." hi >ll >nt mi v»w-t-ivunu i). I | I J | II Some Food For Thought j Do you know of a motor the equal of the GENUINE CONTINENTAL? j j || Do you know of a transmission superior to the WARNER? ;! Do you know of universal joints better than SPICER? !: Do you know of any bearings that will even compare with TIMKEN? '; Don't, Do You? WELL all these STERLING features are embodied in the ABBOTT j! CARS, and MANY more besides, to say nothing of the refinements that go i| |i to make up the PERFECT Car. ij If you are TRULY interested in getting REAL car value, be sure to ex- j; || amine the "BULL DOG LINE," IT'S THE LINE. NOT MADE TO l| j | UNDERSELL, BUT MADE TO EXCEL. Let us prove it. : : We have both four and six cylinder models, and each model has built in it, ij || SATISFACTION. ' jj j DO NOT FORGET this is a DIRECT FACTORY BRANCH. Our ser- ji ! I! vice department will doctor your sick car. Give it a trial. Free air for inflat- ! j 11 ing your tires in front of our salesroom. jj | HARRISBURG BRANCH ; Abbott Motor Car Co. |j 106-108 S. 2d St. Harrisburg, Pa. ij s ij BELL PHONE 3593. ■ COST OF LIVING MID US ■ j Improper Cultivation of Farm Lands and Unused Acreage Chief Factor in Cost BY S. S. MORTON Mechanical Expert Morion Motor I Truck Co. "Having spent all my life in con- i nectlon with modern farm machinery, j in upward of a dozen foreign coun-1 tries, qualifies and places me in a po- J sition to discern the difference be tween the old and new method of farming. I am amused at the ideas i advanced by the lecturer and writers , on the subject as according to my way' of thinking they fail to set forth up- j to-date ideas In order to produce suf- j flcient products of the farm land to reduce the high cost of living. For •' after all the only solution for this 1 high cost of living is to t obtain greater l results from the cultivation of the ! soli. Owing to the increased popula- 1 tion it is necessary to take proper steps to produce modern machinery which will encourage and induce the young man and woman to stay on the farm and accomplish more and better , results by way of food products with i less expense and by the elimination ; of hard manual labor for the ease' and comfort of sitting upon a cush-1 ioned seat, controlling the machinery ; by levers, ranking in the class with the luxury of the automobile. "It is an undeniable fact that the horse is an expensive quantity owing to the fact that he must be kept the year around for about four months' work and eats too much of the grain and hay which should be used to feed meat and wool producing animals and fowl. "The writer is prepared to explain the plan in detail and demonstrate in part that the work can be done by power, without any consumption of the grain supply, which method will accomplish the results at a reduction 1 of 50 per cent. A detailed descrip tion of the cost and plan of operation , of raising and handling the products i will be furnished on request. "It is an interesting fact to note the effort made to reduce the light cost of living by removing the tariff on certain articles inviting the for eign trade which takes our gold for every bushel of grain which comes to this country when in fact America should be producing the supply by cultivating the countless acres unused and use many which are poorly farmed. "In my opinion there is no justifi able reason why this country cannot with this modern farm equipment produce results equal to the cost of foreign grain after the transportation has been paid." Improvements Almost Complete at Abbott Co. Alterations are practically com pleted at the local factory branch of the Abbott Motor Oar Company and a decided improvement Is notice able even to a casual observer pass ing by in South Second street. The new paper is on, the painting is now being finished, after which the sea son's newest models will be displayed to better advantage than heretofore. New catalogs are in process of printing and C. D. Stewart, eastern representative, with headquarters in , this city, is making every possible ar- ! rangement for an aggressive cam- j paign in behalf of the new Abbott-1 i Detroit models. FEBRUARY 14, 1914. AS A HILITcU the METZ "22" has no superior. It will climb hills as fast »„v made, regardless of its price. The METZ engine develops more than | one horsepower per 60 pounds of weight, hence its great reserve power! 1 ~" lUI4 Improvements METZ "22" $475 WINPfEH OF THE GIJDDEX TOUR A remarkable example of low price and minimum coat of upkeep : combined with the essential features of the strictly up-to-dato car A thoroughly practical car. The ON'.Y oar in the Gltdden Tour that held a PERFECT SCORE for the entire eight days of the rao*. all and investigate, or Phono oi Write for Catalog i MONN 17th and Swatara Streets, Harris burg 11 ">"y . ■■.■■■ l ■ ~■■■■■ ,i n i *h»g—aanp——f \ CHALMERS y \ "Thirty-six" (4 and 5-passenger) $1,775 m \ "Six" (6-passenger) $2,275 M \ "Six" (2 and 4-passengcr) .$2,175 B \ STUDEBAKER # \ !rrr. sioso a \ 6-Cylinder, seven pas- tf* IC7 E% B \ senger SIO # O M I FULLY EQUIPFCD M \ KEYSTONE # \ MOTOR CAR CO. f 1 M \ 1019-25 Market Street m \ Try Telegraph Want Ads
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