SATURDAY EVENING, SXHRISBURG <££& TELEGRAPH APRIL 11.1014.
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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.
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Hamilton Made Red Inner Tubes i
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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
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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. |-
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