Five-Passenger Touring Car, $1975
More than all other High Grade American Cars combined,
selling at or more than Cadillac Price.
Such is the record to date of this year's Cadillac sales.
Has ever a motor car received such overwhelming endorsement?
The above is authentic and should mean something to you in deciding your
car.
CRISPEN MOTOR CAR COMPANY
413-417 S. Cameron Street
MOTORCYCLE NOTES
"Just for the fun there is In it."
That's the reason M. Raltchevitch, a
Servian count, who is now traveling
in America, gives for using a motor
cycle in making a tour of the world.
A 125-mile sociability run to Ke
wanne was recently made by the Mo
torcycle Club of Galesburg, 111. ,
Heads of the police department of
Buffalo, N. Y., have recommended
that at least twenty more motorcycles
be purchased for the use of patrolmen.
The Phoenix (Ariz.) Motorcycle
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HH 1814 CADILLAC Touring Si* passen-1 191? E. M. F. Touring, equipped $275 B§|
g|g| ger, electric liglita and starter; run 1912 FLANDER Roadster, big snap. §Sg3
Nag less than 2000 miles. 1018 KBIT Touring, equipped. |&s3
1914 OAKLAND Touring, like new, 1912 HUDSON Roadster MOO BBS
ESga fully equipped. Big bargain. I 1913 CHALMERS Six Touring, like 8888
Kg|B 1914 STUDEBAKEIt Six. Touring, ! new, fully equipped.
111 offer rlC Btar,er aDcl llKhts - Make 'i9l2 MAXWELL Special Touring, i|l
fSSs 1918 REGAL Touring, equipped, .$425 tiptop condition gjjgg
fcggj 1914 FORI) Touring, bargain. 19,8 CADILLAC Touring, make offer. H
Egg] 1913 ntICK Touring oars, all mod- 1913 KRIT Roadster $275 HI
Egg <:[*■ nt ,J nw ? r T P f' Hlr " 32 " Touring; fully equip- H
Mft] itK?. Mr P ed; tiptop shape. At a snap. rail
frag llfrnts. fully equipped $525 '' JL , „ KKg
Ef§] 1912 HI P "20" Roadster *275 19,1 PEERLESS Touring, 45 H. P., BB§|
fga 1913 AMERICAN Touring, run 2500 _ , _ «» eß|
ESSa miles; paint and tires like new. 1918 CARTERCAB Touring, 7-pass., BUUHU
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SATURDAY EVENING, fiARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 27, 1914.
Club is planning ta sociability run to
the Grand Canyon in August.
About 100 enthusiastic motorcyclists
participated in the first summer outing
of the Dixie Motorcycle Club, of
Roanoke, Va., which was held re
cently.
The Yonkers Motorcycle Touring
Club recently made a 216-mile tour
to Hudson, N. Y.
Richard Strauss, of Berlin, son of
the composer, Is an enthusiastic mo
torcyclist. He says that in many re
spects he prefers American motor
cycles to those built on the Continent.
SLAVERY SYSTEM IN
OUR PRISONS UNJUST
National Committee on Labor Ad
vocates Honor System and
Wages For Prisoners
Trusting men, Instead of beating
them, were ontrasted at the annual
meeting of the national committee on
prison labor, held at Heather Dell
farm, the home of Adolph Lewisohn,
near New York City, June 20.
The national committee heard of the
magnificent highways which prison
ers are building, miles away from any
prison building, guarding themselves
and taking pride in their work. They
heard also that this honor system is
not in use in many prisons, and cases
were cited of cruel punishments in
flicted in the last few weeks which de
grade the prisoner so that he never
can be fit for free life. A strong ap
peal was made at the meeting against
capital punishment, based In part on
its futility to prevent murder and Its
evil effect on prison officials, tending
to keep men of high type out of prison
work.
The injustice of the sentence im
posed by many judges was referred
to, and a plea made for sentences
which shall be absolutely inter
mediate. It was shown that the first
need of the prisoner is for scientific
examination, mental and physical,
and the application of measures to
overcome his defects. Then he should
be assigned to some industry which
will develop what ability he has.
Finally his release should come after
he has proved, both by his skill in
labor and his conduct in prison, that
he can be freed without danger of a
speedy return to the prison.
The slavery of the prisoner was held
to lie at the root of all the evils of
our prison system. The committee is
endeavoring to break down this slave
system by securing wage for the pris
oner, and to this end is conducting-a
case to test the status of the prisoner
before the courts of the State of Rhode
Island, the constitution of which pro
hibits slavery without exception as to
punishment for crime.
The work of the committee during
the past months has grown to be of
such magnitude and is covering so
many lines of activity that it was de
cided to change the name to national
committee on prisons and prison la
bor. Under its new name the com
mittee will push with vigor its cam
paign against the contract system of
prison labor and for the upbuilding of
the prisoner through fair treatment,
fresh air and sunshine, and incentive
to do the best that is in him.
Cadillac Dealer Found
No Need of Tools For a Year
The superfluous mechanic was the
topic of an extensive article by J. P.
Holland, printed recently in a well
known English publication. To illus
trate his point the writer related an
Incident that happened to W. F.
Peare, a Cadillac dealer in Ireland,
which not only proves that mechanics
are not generally needed, but that in
some instances one need not bother
about the contests of a tool box. Mr.
Peare was giving a demonstration. At
the close of the run the prospective
purchaser expressed his delight with
the car, its electric self starter, light
ing and Ignition system, and the oth
er features that characterize it. But
fearing that, being a green driver,
something might go wrong while he
was at the wheel; he asked to see the
tool box and to have the contents
explained to him.
Mr. Peare was quite willing to
oblige and showed the prospect where
the tool box was located on the foot
board where it would be easily ac
cessible when occasion arose. But to
his consternation he discovered that
he had lost the key. Search as he
might he could not find any key to
fit the lock.
"I have been driving this car for
nearly a year already," he explained
"and this Is the first time I have, had
occasion to discover that the tool box
is even locked."
WILL/ VISIT NEW YORK
A party of a dozen or more motor
cyclists of Atlanta, Ga., are planning
a trip to New York this summer. They
will start about June 20 and expect to
reuch the metropolis in five or six
days. These cyclists will not 4 try to
break any speed records, but are
merely going for the pleasure of the
trip a-wheel. They will be accom
panied by two motorcyclists from New
York who recently rode to the south
ern capital.
i'TRMILIGHTON '
IPICKCOUIffIT
First 1914 Transcontinental Tour
ist Hands Out Timely
Advice
The first motorist to cross the Amer
ican continent this season has arrived
in Detroit.
The trip was made in a Studebaker
over the Santa Fe Trail. The tourist,
O. J. Gidney, was accompanied by his
wife and son, both of whom unite
with him in pronouncing the roa_s of
the mountain section in terrible shape.
As the result of experience gained
in this transcontinental trip Mr. Gid
ney hands out some timely advice to
motorists contemplating a trip to the
Pacific coast.
"Get over the idea that you must
pack on a ton or two of freight to
guard against emergencies," is Mr.
Gidney's caution.
"This was my first trip across the
continent. Of course I received ad
vice from every quarter, as the result
of which I packed my car with a
sleeping tent, cooking utensils, agricul
tural tools and extra supplies of water
and gasoline until it had a load of at
least half a ton. Very little of this
added equipment was ever used.
"This Fall we will pull out for our
3,000 mile journey with practically no
more load than we would carry for a
Sunday afternoon spin.
"We will pack no extra gasoline nor
water, no tent and no cooking uten
sils. My Studebaker has always
brought 'us to a town and a hotel each
night. And where there is a hotel
there is gasoline to fill the tank for a
day's journey.
"The only appliance I would take
with me would be a block and tackle.
This weighs only a few pounds and
can be stored away under a seat. In
the mountain regions the tourist is
apt to encounter mud holes that no
car ever built can pull out of without
help, and a block and tackle does oc
casionally come in handy.
"There never was a time when my
engine could not spin the wheels, but
in mud that buried the axle, that did
no good, and a rope was necessary."
The mountain roads, Mr. Gidney re
ports are in unusually bad shape this
season, and for long stretches he was
compelled to ride over rocks eight and
ten inches high. In many cases floods
have carried away bridges all over the
southwest.
In the desert the sand was in many
places bottomless, making it necessary
to lay canvass strips on the roadway.
The greater part of one day a sand
storm prevailed which Mr. Gidney de
clares beat any Canadian snowstorm
he ever saw. Through it all, however,
his Studebaker stood up to the work
and kept coming.
CADILLAC AXLE
A STRONG FEATURE
Two Speeds on Direct Drive Gives
Added Economy and
Efficiency
BY K. P. DRYSDALE
In a recent article K. P. Drysdale,
of the Cadillac Motor Car Company,
described the advantages of Jie two
speed axel as follows:
The methods by which the 1914
Cadillac two-speed direct drive axle
secured increased luxury, efficiency
and economy are most appreciated by
the man who is thoroughly versed in
automobile mechanics. Some idea,
however, may be given of this revolu
tionary feature in more or less non
technical language.
It is not morely as an axle that
this mechanism is a great advance in
motor car construction. Its peculiar
function is of another nature. Here
tofore, the power of the engine has
been transmitted to the rear axle by
a single bevel pinion and a single
bevel driving gear. Therefore, there
could be at all times, and under all
the various conditions of travel which
might arise, only one ratio between
tho revolutions of the engine and the
revolutions of the rear axle as it ab
sorbed the power, except for the
changes afforded by the shifting of
the transmission gears by the hand
lever. Now, however, by means of the
new axle, the Cadillac will have two
direct drive gear ratios in transmitting
the power to the rear wheels.
Usually the single direct drive gear
ratio ranges from 3.1> to 1 down to 4
to 1, according to the car and accord
ing to the success of the mechanical
designer in securing that ratio best
adapted to his particular car. That
single ratio had to do the best it could
under all circumstances. Now, with
two ratios, there is just double the
means for promoting the economical
and efficient application of the power
developed by the engine, to the driving
of the car.
On the 1914 Cadillac the low direct
drive gear ratio is 3.66 to 1; the high
direct drive gear ratio is 2.5 to 1. The
low is especially adapted for city driv
ing where traffic problems are met,
where speed must be slow and stops
and starts frequent. A simple conveni
ent electric switch changes the gear
ratio from the low direct to the high
direct and the car is ready for condi
tions which permit a speed rate of six
teen miles per \our or more.
With the high direct gear ratio in
operation at any given speed of the en
gine, the speed of the car is increased
about 4 2 per cent, over wha* it would
be with the low direct gear ratio. This
point is illustrated thus: At an en
gine speed of 700 revolutions per min
ute with the low direct gear, the car
speed is twenty-one miles per hour;
employing the high direct gear will
increase the speed to thirty miles per
hour without any increase In engine
speed.
One of the prime benefits is lower
fuel consumption because of the facts
just stated and because the fuel is used
to greater advantage. Other advan
tages include less friction in high gear
by reason of the parts moving slowly,
hence less wear and almost the entire
elimination of vibration. There is also
greatly Increased comfort due to the
luxurious smoothness of operation; yet
these desirable results are obtained
without complicating the engine.
1,000 RIDERS EXPECTED
More than 1,000 motorcyclists are
expected to attend the first State F. A.
M. convention of Michigan, which is
to he held at Bay City on June 18, 19,
20 and 21. Tours to the convention
are being arranged from all parts of
the State. A 200-file endurance run
will be a feature of the assembly, and
there will also be a two-day race meet
held on the dirt track at the fair
grounds.
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See This Wonderful New 1915 Light Six.
Ask us to give you the Chalmers Standard Road Test,
which proves every claim we make.
191 5 Light Six Touring, SIBOO
1915 Light Six Coupelet, $2050
Larger Master Six 5 Passenger, . • . $2175
Larger Master Six 6 Passenger, . . . $2275
Fully Equipped F. 0. B. Detroit
KEYSTONE MOTOR GAR CO.
1019-1025 Market Street Robert L. Morton, Manager
BUYERS NOW WANT
USABLE. VALUES
Useless Appliances Recognized by
Consumer, Who Knows He
Must Pay For Them
By G. H. Bryant, Advertising Manager
Velie Motor Vehicle Company
Developing a field for automobile
sales is becoming more a question of
presenting real usable value ifi the car
than anything else. Glowing specifi
cations and glittering generalities are
thrown away on the average reader of
automobile literature, and automobile
salesmen are relegating this kind of
talk to the dim and dizzy distance.
Why should a discussion of specifi
cations play a very important part in
the sale of the rar? Buyers every
where know that if the manufacturing
company is in business on a solid basis
It must build a good car.
There can be no great difference in
the motor dimensions and other speci
fications of the driving and running
gear in cars selling at practically the
same price. Out of all you will prob
ably get very nearly the same amount
of power and the same amount of
speed.
Usable Value Needed
Real usable value goes a long ways
back of the bore, stroke, the number
of speeds, on the type of rear axle
used. It finds Its foundation in the
first car built by the manufacturing
company; it furnishes Its own proof
in the subsequent development of this
car through years of manufacturing
into the present day product.
Real usable value means giving
everything to the buyer that is of vital
importance to him In the satisfactory
operation of his car, and then charg
ing him a fair price.
It Is folly to Incorporate Into the
car some spectacular feature' as a
selling argument and then sacrifice In
real usable value of the car and lower
the standard of quality and strength
in some vital feature In order to main
tain a popular price.
Wise automobile buyers know what
they want and what they do not, and
spectacular features are discounted
even before the purchaser has gone
Into the details of the car Itself. And
because of the limited demand of such
features, due to the fact that the con
servative manufacturer has found
them of no real value, the cost of
building them Into the car Increases in
much greater proportion than the cost
of building into the car real vital,
usable features.
Devices of No Value
Thousands of devices to be used on
automobiles are being brought out
every month and a tremendous small
percentage of these are of real value,
yet the majority of them get used
somewhere. This means that the buy
er who is not careful to examine every
feature of his car finds that he has
something that he cannot use, the cost
of which has made it necessary for the
manufacturer to take away from some
other part of the car.
Of course, such features as electric
lighting and starting, speed indicators,
etc., are requisites of the properly
equipped automobile, but the number
of these requisites is limited. If fea
tures which were not of actual usable
value to the owner did not creep into
the working parts, but vere confined
merely to accessories, there would
probably be much less chance for
the average owner to pay for some
thing for which he Is not getting ade
quate returns; but Inventors and man
ufacturers are constantly working out
schemes to alter standard types of
cars and present alterations that offer
possibilities for breakdown or require
an unusual amount of attention with
out proving themselves of actual value
or real merit.
Three Bridge Orders;
One For Pennsylvania
Special to The Telegraph
New York, June 27. The New
Haven Railroad has placed a small
bridge order with the Boston Bridge
Works, requiring about 100 ton of steel
shapes. The Boston and Maine has
also given a small order to an indepen
dent fabricator for about 100 tons, and
the Erie has ordered a span, requiring
about 100 tons, from the Rlter-Conley
Manufacturing Company.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has taken
bids on a bridge near Pittsburgh re
quiring about 900 tons of structural
shapes. The Cleveland Railway has
awarded a contract for shops to be con
structed at Cleveland, requiring 1450
tons of steel, to the Riverside Bridge
Company. The same fabricators will
also furnish 526 tons shapes for a
building at Wheeling for Stone &
Thomas.
snniwiw
ens BUYERS
Constructive Features of Car and
Buying Model Within His
Means Main Consideration
BY C. E. GU/TNER
Sales , Manager of the Velle Motor
Vehicle Company
"A particularly gratifying phase of
the buying spirit among automobile
prospects this year has been the same
attitude they seem to be taking on
constructural features, and on design.
"The demand for various types and
prices of cars is shifting down In all
cases to Its logical level. This is a
good thing for the manuafcturer and
for the purchaser of the car.
"It has too often been the case that
dissatisfaction has been caused by a
man buying a car unsulted for his
own particular requirements. A man
who can best find satisfaction in the
car of medium size and medium cost,
has, because of his desire to keep up
appearances, purchased a car beyond
his means at first cost, and because
of this much need is meant in gen
eral cost of upkeep, for it is the usual
case that the higher the price of the
car the more expensive it is to keep
up. This is true not because of any
Inherent defect in the car, for natur
ally the high-priced car, built by
reputable manufacturers, Is the bet
ter in Its general construction. The
higher cost of operation is due to the
greater -veight and Size of the more
expensive cars.
"4*d directly opposite to this dis
satisfaction has often been caused
among men of ample means by their
buying cars that have ultimately
proved too small to satisfy their de
mands for speed, comfort and ap
pearence.
"Naturally the big bulk of automo
bile buying is confined to purchasers
willing to pay from SI,OOO to $2,500,
and within these limits the majority
of manufacturers turn out their
product.
"And to an extent greater this year
than ever before manufacturers of
cars ranging in price from SI,OOO to
$2,500 are finding keen interest In
their product evidenced by men of
good business standing and more than
average earning capacity.
"Equally pleasing reports come
CALL 1991-ANY "PHONE. s #*
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HARRIS BURG'S POPULAR DEPARTMENT STORK
All Auto Tires Reduced
Guaranteed 3,500 Miles
FRESH, PERFECT
Goodyear Kelly-Springfield
Plain Non-Skid Tube Plain Knnt-Sllp
30x3 $9.49 $10.98 $2.49 $11.49 $13.98
32x3 13.69 15.69 2.98 16.39 19.98
34x4 19.49 22.98 3.98 24.98 29.49
37x5 33.69 39.49 6.39 40.49 47.60
Nassau Imperial
Plain Non-Skid Plain Noa-Skld
30x3 $ 9.01 $10.43 $ 8.39 $ 8.98
32x3*4 13.00 14.90 11.98 12.98
34x4 18.51 21.83 15.98 16.98
37x5 32.00 37.51 27.98 28.98
All other sizes at correspondingly low prices.
Auto accessories at lowest prices.
Are you going to take a trip? We will loan you extra
tires —ask our plan.
Third FIoor—BOWMAN'S.
"riyersTDTGARAGE^
Rear 1417 North Front Street, enter to garage from either Riley or CM*
| der streets. Careful attention given to repair work and storage of oar*
GEORGE R. BENTLEY, Proprietor
from the manufacturers of higher
priced cars, and from manufacturers
of cars manufactured to sell at a very
low price.
"When this natural process of shift
ing into distinct fields has been passed
through with the automobile Industry
will be devoid of many of the problems
which confront it now, and the whole
growth will be more healthful and
more generally profitable.
"The manufacturer has been the
one in the past who has paid the price
for bringing about this shifting, and
for this reason the automobile Indus
try has been productive of less profits
to the manufacturer than any other
line of endeavor.
SPECIALS
Ford Clamp-on and Bolt-on Bump
ers, black and black and brass,
each $4.50 and 95.00
Automobile Headlights, black and
nickel, satin blaeic finish, fitted
with genuine inangin mirrors
large size, per pair *B.OO
MOTORCYCLE OAS HEADLIGHTS
N. P. with brackets, size 8-inch,
each $5.90
N. P. with brackets, size -inch,
each $8.75
HIGH GRADF. TUBULAR
TAIL LAMPS
Black and brass $2.7.1
Black and nickel $2.50
Front and Rear License Brackets —
black enamel, each 50c
Oil Can Holders 25c
Goggles, (High Grade) 25c
Ford Oil Gauges 25c aad 30c
Spark Plug Brushes 25c
Chamois Skins 25c aad 90c
Sponges, large size 45c
SPARK PLUGS
All kinds and all sizes, each .. 50c
Benton, Splitdorf, Mezger, V-Ray,
Bethlehem and A. C.
Combination Oil and Grease Guns,
1%-In.x9-In., brass, each .... 90c
Tool Kits, complete, $1.25 to SB.OO
Auto Clocks $1.75 to $7.00
Auto Mirrors and Reflectors, all
finishes $1.25 to $4.90
Long Horns $8.25
Hand Klaxons $10.90
Ask to see the Hamilton "Perfec
tion Pink" tube.
E. MATHER CO.
204 WALNUT STREET
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