Abbott-Detroit
A Big Trade New /
We are now over-stocked on four cylinder cars. But
we have sold practically all our used machines and have
a market for more.
This is your opportunity for a much better trade on
your old car than we could give you under ordinary con
ditions. Take advantage of it to-day. Get in on the
ground floor before conditions change.
S-Cyl Demonstrator
At Reduced Prices
Are you interested in a big six-cylinder car? We
have a demonstrator, nearly new and in first class con
dition, that you can buy at a reduced price. The figure
we are putting on this machine makes it the best six
cylinder bargain in Harrisburg, bar none.
Come in and see this car. Ride in it. Investigate
for yourself the exceptional proposition offered.
New "Michigan" Cars
Cheap
Our stock of 37 new "Michigan" cars, 1913 and 1914
models, is offered at about half price. These cars are
wonderful value. The failure of the Michigan Motor
Car Company need not deter you from buying. Because
if any breakage occurs, we guarantee to get you replace
ment parts immediately.
HARRISBURG BRANCH
Abbott Motor Car Company
106 South Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Bell Phone, 3803.
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Hamilton Made Red Inner Tubes i
Standard of America
Compare these prices with the prices of any other HIGH '
GRADE Tube. j
30*3 *B.IB ! 3Hx4 .
30*3»-i $4.25 i 34*4Va $7.30
32*3 Vis SM.r.O 35*4% $7.45 '
34x3% $4.75 :«(*4Mi $7.«5 !
S** 4 $5.75 ; 37*4 Vi $7.00
81x4 . $5.!10 37x5 *0.30 |
Perfect Pink Tube* are not to hp I'Oinpnrf.l with nnv tube tlint In rrnv
In color nnil xbuulil «>nl> be compared with the be»t quality of red tubes
Our price eompiircN with the cbcnpeMt itrnv tube. Our quality compare*
with the bent red tube.
204 WALNUT STREET ;
E. Mather Co.
Ensminger Motor Car Co.
Wholesale Distributors
Ohio and Mitchell Cars
and
ONE TO FIVE TON
Dart Trucks
Olilo "6-60" ~,...,...51,985 Ohio "4-40" .......... $1,275
Mitchell "6-60" $1,805 Mitchell "4-40" !sl!s»s
Dart, 2-ton, $1,775; 1-ton, $1,300; Delivery, $875.
PRICES P. O. B.—FACTORIES
Salesroom Third and Cumberland Streets
Ap person "Jack
"The Wizard of the Hills" ' :
America's Oldest Automobile ,
. POWERFUL, QUIET, DURABLE i
FULLY ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED ~
i Price* F. O. B. Kopomo, lnd.
"4-45"—51785; "6-60"~$2200
ENSMINGER MOTOR CO.'';
Salesroom Third and Cumberland Streets ■ *
t" »' VV' M Vt"»l Ir-HSS
MILLER 5®
Grip the Road Like a Cog-Wheel
STERLING AUTO TIRE CO. . 1451 Zarker St
VULCANIZING |
SATURDAY EVENING, . SaRRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL It. 1014.
COFFIN TALKS ON
FUTURE OF HI SIX 1
Predicts That Six Cylinder Can
Will Displace All Fours Selling
For More Than SI,OOO
"The basis of the new type Hud
son Six." saltl Howard E. Coftin, "is
economy. People used to think the
very name six-cylinder meant size,
I weight, extravagance. Now we know
, better. We can build a four. This is
because we have lower explosive
Btrulns meet. We can machine a
six-throw crank shaft quite as cheaply
as we used to turn out a four. It
| takes no more time to bore six holes
I than It does four, when we use the
| new multlpje spindle drills and taps.
And in the items of gasoline and fuel
consumption, not to speak of lessened
tire wear, the 'six' has demonstrated
its supremacy over any four-cylinder
car built. Yes. lam more modest in
my claims than some of the six
cylinder advocates, but I want to be
absolutely fair to both types. 1 have
built them both and know them both."
"Will the "six' completely displace
the 'four' in all sizes and types of
cars?" Mr. Coffin was asked.
"Yes and no," the great engineer
replied. "But in cars at a price about
51,000 I can see no hope for the sur
vival of the four. The six-cylinder
even now dominates the Held over
$1,500. It is a repetition of the way
in which the 'four' swept the boards
of twos and ones when lirst the low
priced four was built. Twos and ones
went out of use almost over night.
Fours are mechanically less efficient!
and more costly to maintain than
■ sixes. And the whole history of ma
chinery tells us that the better type
machine inevitably drives out the less
efficient. When a buyer can get a six
at *1.750, for example, why should he
pay SI,BOO for a four? When the six
Is lighter weight, handsomer, uses less
gasoline, is easier on tires, costs less
for repair, and is very many times
more pleasant and comfortable to
drive, what is the sense of even eon
sldertng the four? Yes. I designed
many fours. But we all grow and
progress. Arid new things are con
stantly being discovered and old ones
improved. I see no reason whv we
should stand still. If a better motor
than a six-cylinder is evolved it will
as surely drive out the six-cylinder
type as this model is driving out the
four. How far distant that day may
be, no man knows. But now the six
is supreme."
[ Mexican "War Measure"
Favors the Saxon Cars
Buying automobiles by the pound
is the way they are doing it in Mexico
these days. And thereby hangs a tale.
The Mexican government in its des
peration to get out of the throes of
financial stringency, is levying a duty
of fifty cents a pound on all motor
cars that are imported. Everv make '
of car is being hit by this duty/the big
cars keing the greatest sufferers.
There is one automobile that is get
ting off easier than any other, and it
is the Saxon, which weighs slightly
more than 1,000 pounds. A few days
ago the Saxon dealer in Mexico City
wired to the Detroit factory as fol
lows:
'Send us all the cars you can as fast
as you can supply them."
. A letter followed explaining that
the Saxon being the lightest on the
market, less import duty is charged
than for any other cars. The agent
added that he had given up hopes
of selling the larger cars he handles
until the excessive duty is cut.
It is announced by President H.
W. Ford of the Saxon Motor Com
pany that the high water mark of
March shipments was reached with a
record of 36 cars shipped in a day.
The output for the last week in March
was 187 cars.
Good Mileage From the
Miller New Tread Band
We have just heard of some re
markable mileage made by The Mil
ler Rubber Company's new tread
band. A short time ago we made an
announcement in these columns of the
mechanical design and special fea
tures of The Miller retread band con
struction. So that this quotation will
substantiate the remarks. "I got
nearly, if not quite seven thousand
miles before I turned in the old car
and got a new one, and those bloom
ing tires not worn out yet," says F\
D. Blessing of Hummelstown, Pa.,
wh had his tires retreaded by The
Miller Rubber Company's Harrisburg
Pa. agency, the Sterling Auto Tire
Co. This band is evidently gaining
much headway.
CAN'T STAND CLOCK'S DIN
Dr. G. W. Milton, of Cairo, Egypt,
writes a Detroit friend that he has
had to remove the auto clock he had
fitted to his Studebaker "Four." He
alleges that the ticking disturbed the
quiet which he had enjoyed touring
in the car, prior to the clock's ap
pearance.
HELP TOURISTS AND EACH
New England Studebaker dealers
have banded into a formal association
to promote mutual welfare and to pro
vide systematic service for the owners
of Studebaker cars who tour the re
gion in the summer. Joseph S. Dono
van, Studebaker distributor in Boston,
is president.
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Lowest Prices!
Greatest Mileage!
on Extra-Heavy Tires
FIRSTS: nOI BI.K CURED
WItAPPEO TKEAD
Price* Subject to Change Without
Notice
28*3 Plain Tread 9 7.07
Tubea, $1.85
SO*3 Plain Tread 7.88 I
Tubea, $1.85 ,
30*3% Plain Tread, 10.28
Tubea. 92.45
31x3 Mi Plain Tread 10.80 !
Tubea, $2.50 I
32iSH Plain Tread, 1 11.18
Tubea. $2.55 , *
81*4 Plain Tread, 14.58
Tubea, *8.05
32*4 Plain TTead 15.12
Tube*. $3.15
33x4 Plain Tread, 15.73 I
Tubea, $8.1:3
34*4 Plain Tread 1«.3a
Tubea, $3.35
Will Ship C. O. D. Subject to
Examination
J. A. PLANK i
1017 Market Street
HARRISBURG PA.
Next to Keystone Motor Co.
A alt For Unotatlons on Flreatone 1
Selected Seconds I
SEE PERSONAL TESTS !
AS AIDJNCAB SALE
Mitchell Co. Says Its Dealers Will
Put Demonstrators at Service
of Interested Critics
Dy E. G. WESTI.AKE
"Personal touch" and "personal ex-
Serience" are two features that the
iitchell-Lewis Motor Company leaders
| emphasize In their publicity, making a
. statement that any Mitchell dealer in
i any part of the world will turn his
demonstrator over to the prospect for
I the mere asking, with permission to
! put the machine through any test the
i interested critic may suggest.
"By tills plan," said O. C. Friend,
| freneral sales manager, upon his return
l from the East to-day. "the critic may
| get personal experience which proves
. to him the merits of our car.
| "Rather risky to turn a demonstra
tor over to anyone who comes along?
[ Not much. Men who mean business in
the auto world—men who are interest
ed enough to study cars and get per
sonal experience in their operation
are not going to deceive dealers who
own demonstrators and pay for run
ning them.
•'Almost daily I get letters from
Mitchell dealers in all parts of the
country complimenting the Mitchell-
Lewis company on this phase of ex
ploitation and lauding the plan to give
over demonstrators to prospects. They
say that the execution of this idea
brings sales that no other plan can
bring. There's nothing like a close
personal knowledge of the 'feel of the
car, and there's nothing that tills a
dealer with so much elation as to have
a critic admit that the car has done
more than the seller of cars claimed for
.' I\_ .under the stranger's direction,
at that.
One of the best recommendations
ever voiutarily given to the Mitchell
' v " t . or "« b| ie Company's selling forces at
-...'4 Michigan avenue was that of a
well-known representative of an Kast
t'.i'i ""concern who drove up In ln = 1914
Mitchell and told Manager Hall's sec
retary that he probably made more
Pill 0 ! 1 , a A ay ' s run than any other
motorist in Chicago.
''l picked a Mitchell car several years
1 took this territory." lie
sr d, because I found It more economl
t ? efficient in starting and stop
pin!. hundreds of times every day than
5fJ rs 1 ha <l driven. The same holds
good on my 1914 Mitchell."
High Water Mark in Reo
Production and Sales
A trip through the Reo factories
at this period discloses activities such
as have never been witnessed before
in the history of the Reo—either at
the Truck plant or at the Pleasure
Car factory.
The demand for Reo cars and
Hrucks keeps the Pleasure Car and
Iruck factories in a continual riv
alry; this also applies to the Pleasure
car and Truck Sales Departments.
And rivalry exists between the sales
and factory organizations—the sales
men to sell faster than the factory pro
duces, and the factory trying to get
a hundred or two ahead of the sales
men.
Last year at this time 40 Reo cars
was the limit of production.
\\ ith the additional buildings, and
the factory facilities that were added
last Fall, the production has been in
creased to 65 a day, which is the
daily average. There have been
many busy days lately when the
shipments have run up to 115 cars
per day.
Not infrequently during the past
few weeks have orders been tele
graphed and mailed to the number of
225 cars or more a day. This indi
cates a glowing tribute to the popu
larity of Reo the Fifth. The orders I
now coming in to the factory are not
by a large majority the greatest in
dication of general prosperity, for
there are over 2,000 orders already
on the books for April delivery.
An immense amount of new ma
chinery was installed last fall which
greatly increased the manufacturing
facilities, and a man even remotely
familiar with manufacturing, wouid
be impressed with the wonderful la
bor-saving devices which lend their
mechanical brains to producing ac
curately and in large quantities in
the Reo factories.
One large building was added to
the Reo factory for storing ears, but
that building has been as empty as
a furnished apartment in a plague
infected city. This building was
erected without giving full considera
tion to the popularity of the car and
the ability of the sales organization 1
to place the cars as fast as they were
turned out.
The Truck end of the Reo business
has been hit with the same wave of
popularity and the factory is work
ing full capacity, and then some, to
fill orders on the now famous Model
J. It is a safe predication that the
Reo Truck business will be double
that or last year.
All in all, everybody is happy— 1
heads of departments are busier than
ever before, and the employes are
sharing the satisfaction thut goes with '
a busy organization.
Hupp Makes Triumphant Run'
of 2,000 Miles in Louisiana
A 2,000-mile trip over Louisiana, the
most extensixer of its character ever
made in that state, was ended last
week when Fred Perkins, Manager of
the Capital City Auto Co., Baton
Rouge, La., and J. A. Garrity, travel
ing salesman of the Hupp Motor Car
Company, returned to that city in a
Hupmobile.
The trip was the result of a wager
which Mr. Perkins had with the man
ager of the Grand Hotel at Baton
Rouge. The boniface, Mr. Grant, in
the course of a conversation with Mr.
Perkins, stated that he did not be
lieve there was a car on the market
to-day that could negotiate the mud
roads of Louisiana. Mr. Perkins de
clared that the Hupmobile could do
it and, what was more, he would
leave the city with a "32" 1914 model
with the hood, crank and battery box
sealed, travel 2,000 miles and return
with the seals intact.
Accordingly he had a special glass
hood made for the car which was
sealed by Mayor Grouchy of Baton
Rouge, and he left In the teeth of a
hard snew storm that extended all
through Louisiana.
The contestants made the trip over
the worst roads Louisiana has known
for some time, driving from Baton
Rouge to Lake Charles as far north
as Shreveport, as far east as Mander
vllle, and as far south as New Or
leans, a total of'over 2.000 miles. On
his return ot Baton Rouge, Mr. Per
kins was met by Mayor Grouchy and
a committee of citizens at the out
skirts of the State capital and escorted
to the city hall where there were
speeches and a general jollification.
"My Hupmobile acted splendidly,"
Bald Mr. Perkins, "We didn't have to
touch a thing on the trip, and ail in
all the car was In just as good con
dition as before we left on this gruel
ling tour."
MHiE AN HOUR ON HIGH
Before a Jury of open-minded spec
tators, President Peek of the Peck
Auto Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., as
1 test of flexibility, drove a Stude
baker "Six" in high gear for one hour
ind covered exactly one mile, without
>nce stalling the motor, (
This monogram on ifim
radiator stands for aO
, toucan ask Lt a mokr oar
Light Enough For Economy
Heavy Enough For Safety
The 1915 Chalmers "Light Six" at SIBOO is, like the larger Master "Six" at $2175,
relatively a light weight car. It is light enough to be economical of tires and sparing
of fuel It will give as much mileage per gallon as any car—either "Six" or "four"—of
equal motor size; and MORE than nine-tenths of them.
For its long stroke, T-head motor (only 3*/2-inch bore by stroke) develops
up to 50 horsepower on a minimum amount of gasoline. And it is so perfectly balanced
that it is unusually easy on tires.
But the 1915 Chalmers "'Light Six" is else. Let us give you the Chalmers Stand
heavy enough for safety and comfort on any ard Road Test in a 1915 Master "Light
road. Heavy enough, too, for that greater Six," and prove to you that it is light
economy which comes from endurance, enough to give every economy of upkeep
from freedom of repair bills. and heavy enough to insure safety in any
nt, „ T • i_*. emergency, comfort on any road. Let us
Don t Buy too Light a Car , ® . ... 1(l1 - . ...
show you why tins 191 a Chalmers model is
Flimsiness—skimping in the vital parts the most wonderful automobile value ever
of a car—is expensive. It means constant built.
repairs which are both costly and danger- Such a claim for a car built.by an un
ous; __ known company wouldn't mean much. But,
So the 19L~> Master ''Light Six" is a that claim made for the newest product of
medium weight car. It has a four-fold the Chalmers Motor Company means a
margin of safety in every part. great deal.
Ihe difference in gasoline cost between jt means that here is a 1915 "Light Six"
the sturdy Master Light Six and a too- a t the astonishingly low price of SI,BOO on
/n rvvi , S -y ca [ t am cunt to $25 in which one of the largest companies in
.000 miles. And v _s won t buy many America stakes its reputation. It means
repair.3 if you get a car so light that it that you can't offord to buy any car at any
sia-es itself to pieces m ordinary service. price until vou have made us prove our
Medium weight is neht weight. The 1915 claim> that the 1915 Master "Light Six" is
. aster Light Six, like all Chalmers cars. the greatest motor car value ever produced,
is built to give satisfactory service, through A r
many seasons. ou okk Arrange for the Chalmers Test Ride to
day.
Take the Chalmers Road Test lnlß Ma«<er «M*iit.six» Tonrinc c n r ... *imm>
\ 1 ,1, . . . 1015 Mnxtrr "Mirht Sl*" G'nnpelrt ....... 52050
Apply tne same logic to your purchase i.ar»CE MUMIT "Sl*," 2. -I MM r. PNXNONNPR, *217.%
of a motor car ,l,at yon would do anything '
Keystone Motor Car Company
DISTRIBUTORS
1019-1025 Market Street Robert L. Morton, Mgr.
Hudson Production For
March Breaks Records
When the whistle blew at the close
1 of work at ttae Hudson factory on
March 31 1.204 cars had been built
and shipped.
The production of 1,204 cars in a
single month would mean that 47
cars were built a day, G per hour
and a car every 10 mintues, every car
of which was tested and inspected in
every part.
When we take into consideration the
size, power and beauty of the Hudson
and that every part was Inspected in
the minutest detail, it was an engi
neering performance of enormous
magnitude.
Regardless of this enormous pro
'
(RjPEHIER,
1-ton gasoline commercial cars.
Suitable for any business $750
Stanley Steam Cars
Pleasure and Commercial.
11,350.00 to $2,500.00, fully equipped.
Equipped to burn kerosene.
; Paul D. Messner
1118 JAMES STREET
I Hell Phone.
JACKSON fT s "/; ,s r~ I
I J n No Sand Too Deep g
1 What Is YOUR Definition of the Right Car? jj
Ba Is it what thousands of careful, shrewd buyers have demanded and found in Jackson =j=
>|lj. cars? If your definition of the RIGHT car means |»
H AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION OF THE MANUFACTURER, ||
H A HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY REASONABLY PRICED, §
j H DEPENDABLE SERVICEABILITY AT LOW UP-KEEP COST |j
Icj then you too will find it in any one of the models of the Jackson 1914 line.
I fen THREE MODELS COMPRISE THE 1014 LINE. EACH POSSESSES QUALITIES AND PEA. jS
lis! TURKS THAT MAKE IT A LIJADGR IN ITS CLASS.
p| "Olympic Forty" $1385 "Majestic" SIBBS "Sultanic" $3150 j§ V
Bfl a
L CENTRAL GARAGE 334 Chestnut Street |
P. H. KEBOCH & DeWITT A. FRY, Agents. p|
duction, the local dealer, I. W. Dill,
received advice under date of March 30
in reply to a request for additional
cars: "Your allotment must stand as
specified. It will be impossible to in
crease It."
These conditions indicate the well
| Here's Your H
XX Xt
XI These Are Real Bargains, and Worth
♦♦ an Investigation H
T+ One light track, «1tl» good panel body, suitable for Grocer, XX
7Y Butcher or uny delivery not wanting to haul over one ton. XX
TT One light truck, witli Canopy top and roll up sido curtains. Suit- ♦♦
44 able for marketing or any kind of delivery. TT
X 4 Three new 1013 Michigan "40" touring cars, with every modern TT
♦♦ equipment. TT
ft Two new 1913 Michigan "33" touring cars, with every modern XX
TT equipment. XX
XX One ICverett touring car. A big bargain. ♦♦
X# One Yelle touring car, in good eomlition.
44 One Maxwell Roadster. A dandy for the money. II
44 One Abbott-Detroit seven-passenger touring car. In excellent XX
♦♦ shape. 44
Kacli of the above is a SNAP for quick buyers. Don't misa look*
XX '"g thein over. ♦♦
♦♦ HARRISBURG BRANCH
| Abbott Motor Car Co. H
44 106-108 South Second Street. * 44
X 4 Bell 'phone 8503. lIARRISBCKG. PA. 44
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known demand the Hudson has re
ceived this season.
A For Rent ad in the Telegraph
Wants reaches more homes in one
evening than there are people pass
ing your home in a week.
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