SATURDAY EVENING, SXHRISBURG <££& TELEGRAPH APRIL 11.1014. I' J Abbott-Detroit A Big Trade Now ✓ 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. 8-Cjrl 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 | '.06 South Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa. BrII Phone, 3583. L —— ■"■ in v - —— ~ r --~ t--—r Hamilton Made Red Inner Tubes i i Standard of America Compare these prices with the prices of any other HIGH GRADE Tube. 30x3 *3.1 T. 3tix4 96.20 ■ 30x3S 94.25 34*4Va *7.30 32x3V* *4.r.0 3."5x4>* *7.45 34x3M: 94.7,'. K6x4% 97.65 1 38*4 *-..7.-> 37i4V» *7.90 34x4 ...,| fn.'.lO 37x3 9U.30 Perfect Pink Tubes are not to be compared vlth nny tube that Is gritv ! In color and Mboulri only be compared nlth the be*t quality of red tabes. Our price compares with the cheapest grnv tube. Our quality comnares with the best red tube. * j 204 WALNUT STREET E. Mather Co. Ensminger Motor Car Co. Wholesale Distributors Ohio and Mitchell Cars and ONE TO FIVE TON Dart Trucks Ohio "6-60" S 1.985 Ohio "4-40" ..$1,275 Mitchell "6-60" 51,895 Mitchell ••4.40 ,f .$1,595 Dart, 2-ton, sl,7<S; 1-ton, $1,300; Delivery, $875. PRICES F. O. B.—FACTORIES Salesroom Third and Cumberland Streets (l 1" "V " V'" "V " V" •Apperson "Jack Rabbit' 'fi •, "The Wizard of the Hills" '' I America's Oldest Automobile ( ! POWERFUL, QUIET, DURABLE f FULLY ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED ~ j I Prices F. O. B. Kopomo, Ind. "4-45"-~$1785; "6-60"~-$2200 'ENSMINGER MOTOR CO.": Salesroom Third and Cumberland Streets ■ ► Q" Wi ■<>'■'■ i -ft fl) n iirjin u ij| MILLER S TIRES ] Grip the Road Like a Cog-Wheel STERLING AUTO TIRE CO. 1451 Zarker St. VULCANIZING |, COFFIN TALKS ON i FUTiEJ HE SIX Predicts That Six Cylinder Cars Will Displace AH FOOTS Selling For More Than SI,OOO "The basis of the new type Hud son Six." said Howard E. Coffin, "is economy. People used to think the j very name six-cylinder meant size, j t weight, extravagance. Now we know i ' l>etter. We can build a four. This la because we have lower explosive | strains meet. We can machine a, six-throw crank shaft quite as cheaply ' as we used to turn out a four. It ' I 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. I 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. I "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 field 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, i Fours are mechanically less efficient and more costly to maintain than i sixes. And the whole history of ma- j chinery tells us that the better type j machine inevitably drives out the less j efficient. When a buyer can get a six i at $1,750. for example, why should he! pay SI,BOO for a four? When the six I Is lighter weight, handsomer, uses less i 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 con sldefing the four? Yes. I designed many fours. But we all grow and progress. And 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 dav 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 feeing the greatest sufferers. I 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." j . 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 ears 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. CANT 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 TOI HISTS 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. Lowest Prices! Greatest Mileage! on Extra-Heavy Tires FIRSTS I noi BI.K CVRED WRAFPRI) Til I".AD Prion Subject to Change Without Notice 28x3 Plain Tread 9 7.67 Tube*. 91.85 30*3 Plain Tread, 7.8« Tube*, 91.93 30x3 Vi Plain Tread 10.28 Tube*. 92.45 31x3% Plain Tread, 10.80 Tubea, 92.50 32x3Vi Plain Tread, i 11.18 Tubex. 92.55 31x4 Plain Tread, 14.58 Tubea, 98.05 32x4 Plain Tread 15.12 Tuben. 93.15 33x4 Plain Tread, 15.73 Tobea, 93.23 34x4 Plain Tread 16.33 Tobea, 93.35 Win Shir C. O. D. Snbleet to Examination J. A. PLANK 1017 Market Street HARRISBURG PA. Next to Keystone Motor Co. Aak For Quotation* on Firestone Selected Seconds SEE PERSONAL TESTS AS AID IN CAR SALE Mitchell Co. Says Its Dealers Will Pat Demonstrators at Service of Interested Critics fly K. C. WBSTLAKF. "Personal touch" and "personal ex perience" are two features that the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company leaders emphasize In their publicity, making; a statement that any Mitchell dealer in any part of the world will turn his demonstrator over to the prospect for the mere asking, with permission to put the machine through any test the Interested critic may suggest. "By this plan," said O. C. Friend, general sales manager, upon his return from the Bast 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 g- e t letters from Mitchell dealers in all parts of the country complimenting the Mitchell- L.ewis 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 fills 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 it, and under the stranger's direction at that." One of the best recommendations ever volutariiy given to the .Mitchell „X, "If? Company's selling forces at Michigan avenue was that of a well-known representative of an F.ast tl.'l 9" concern who drove up In hi? 1914 -Mitchell and told Manager Hall's sec retary that he probably made more i a A', ay s run thnn a °y motorist In Chicago. od-^ 1 a Mitchell car several years i 1 took this territory." he d ' 1 found It more economi. J?' "" d efficient In starting and stop ling hundreds of tunes every day than other cars i had 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 *>f the Reo—either at the Truck plant or at the Pleasure car factory. Ihe demand for Reo cars and Trucks keeps the Pleasure Car and Truck 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 a day was the limit of production, with the additional buildings, and the factory facilities that were added last Pall, 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 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, would be impressed with the wonderful la bor-saving devices which lend their mechanical brains to produciug ac curately and in large quantities in the Reo factories. One large building was added to '.he Reo factory for storing cars, but that building has been a 9 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 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 All 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— heads of departments are busier than ever before, and the employes are sharing the satisfaction that goes with a busy organization. Hupp Makes Triumphant Run of 2,000 Miles in Louisiana A 2,000-mile trip over Louisiana, the moat extensixe* of its character ever made in that state, was ended last week when Fred Perkins, Manager of the Capital City Auto Co., Baton Kouge, I a., 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 boriiface, 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 snow storm that extended all through Louisiana. j The contestants made the trip over t 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 | ville, 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," said Mr. Perkins. "We didn't have to touch a thing on the trip, and all in all the car was in Just as good con dition as before we left on this fruel- I ling tour." MILE AN HOUR ON HIGH Before a jury of open-minded sp«c tators, President Peck of the Peck Auto Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., as a test of flexibility, drove a Stude baker "Six" in high gear for one hour and covered exactly one mile, without once stalling the motor. < JX/s monogram on tflm I radiator stands for all , raucannskaacKicrcar 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 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 Don't Buy too Light a Car emergency, comfort on any road. Let lis 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 1915 Master '"Light Six is a that claim made for the newest product of medium weight car. It has a four-fold the Chalmers Motor Companv means a margin of safety in every part. great deal. Ihe difference in gasoline cost between It means that here is a 1915 "Light Six" the sturdy Master Light Six and a too- at the astonishingly low price Of SI,BOO on mmn "i S "T ° a [ . t0 in which one of the largest companies in .XX) miles. And wont buy many America stakes its reputation. It means repairs if >ou get a car so light that it that you can't offord to buy any car at anv shakes itself to pieces in ordinary service. price' until vou have made us prove our Medium weight iSrieht weight. The 1915 c i aim> tliat the 1915 Master "Light Six" is •TZ Light . ix, like all Chalmers cars, the greatest motor car value ever produced, is built to give satisfactory service, throusrh \ t >.i /-«_ i t< many seasons. g , Arran S e for the Chalmers Test Ride to day. Take the Chalmers Road Test mm Maxtor "Light six" Touring enr ... *isoo Apply the same logic to your purchase ' «Sl£*• a'.*-! nnd rf'pi imrnKer, V2I7K of a motor car that you would do anything I~~'£2f 1 ~~'£2f Keystone Motor Car Company DISTRIBUTORS 1019-1025 Market Street Robert L. Morton, Mgr. Hudson Production For Auction, the local dealer, I. W. Dill, known demand the Hudson has re * lOUUtllWli l Ui received advice under date of March 30 celved this season. in reply to a request for additional lTiaiCn DFCaKS rvecorus cars: "Your allotment must stand as A For Kent ad in the Telegraph - Wants reaches more homes in ono When the whistle blew at the close cr^f e '*•" . evening than there are people pass of work at tdie Hudson factory on These con <""°ns Indicate the well- ing your home in a week. March 31 1,204 cars had been built _____ and shipped. The production of 1,204 cars in a and a car every 10 mintues. every car JT / , „ _ > V _ _. _ J of which was tested and inspected In ♦♦ i i 6/6 O M OUf fXCLTXCQ ** every part. JJ ♦♦ When we take into consideration the 44 ♦♦ and' that every part was Inspected In \XX These Are Real Bargains, and Worth the minutest detail, it was an engi- 44 I . . «« ma e g r n'ifude per ' ormance of enormous ♦♦ an Investigation :: Regardless of this enormous pro- 44 ♦♦ - ♦♦ One light track, with good panel body, suitable for Grocer, XX Butcher or any delivery not wanting to haul over one ton. 44 • —— ww On e light truck, with Canopy top anil roll up side curtains. Salt- 4? able for marketing or any kind of delivery. ♦♦ _ 44 Three new 1913 Michigan "40" touring cars, with every modern II |lk IllKni FR tt Two new 1913 Michigan "33" touring cars, with every modern XX I f\wLl II .1 .l\ .ft equipment. 4f f ZZ One Kverett touring car. A big bargain. 4j olle0 Ile Yei| e touring car, in good condition. TT .. . , 44 One Maxwell Houdster. A dandy for the nionev. Tx Suitable®Sr°any bSInSS ® .... WSO g shape" 6 Abbolt - Detrolt seven-passenger touring car. In excellent ♦♦ C i t C A r ii. Each of the above is a SNAP for quick buyers. Don't miss look- ♦♦ Stanley Steam Cars ♦♦ J ♦♦ HARRISBCRG BRANCH ♦♦ Pleasure and Commercial. ♦♦ 44 11,3.10.00 to KT.ftOO.OO, fully equipped. ft All ■ ■ JkK m 4j Equipped to burn kero.ene. 44 ADUOtt IVlOtOr V/SF tO. jl Paul D. Messner H 106-108 South Second Street. ' XX ills JAMES STREET B** ' P,, ° ne 8393 ' HARRISBURG, PA. n 1- p — ttxxxxxxnxmxixxxxxuxxxxxxxxxxtxuxxxttxxxxxxtxxxi i JACKSON fT JT,?V"' I 1 What fs YOUR Definition of the Right Car? jjj By Is it what thousands of careful, shrewd buyers have demanded and found in Jackson [!pj. cars? If your definition of the RIGHT car means H AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION OF THE MANUFACTURER, ro ga A HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY REASONABLY PRICED, H DEPENDABLE SERVICEABILITY AT LOW UP-KEEP COST |1 ran then you too will find it in any one of the models of the Jackson 1914 line. v m THREE MODELS COMPRISE THE 1014 LINE. EACH POSSESSES QUALITIES AND FEA ifii TURKS THAT MAKE IT A LEADER IN ITS CLASS. K g "Olympic Forty" $1385 "Majestic" SIBBS "Sultanic" $2150 1 V nj|j 6-cyltnde* £ j CENTRAL GARAGE 334 Chestnut Street | ® P. H. KEBOCH & DeWITT A. FRY, Agents. |- 13
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