A Wonderful Value Chalmers Six-48 Seven Passenger Touring Car Formerly SI92S— NOW $1550 There is no speculation in the pur chase of this car. It is exactly the same car in every particular that has already established for thousands of owners new records for economy of upkeep and general satisfaction. In beauty of line and ease of riding, it surpasses all cars within SSOO of its price. We are giving you the advantage of the saving made possible by quadrupled produc tion. That explains the reduction in price. It will be good judgment to call on us and investigate this car before deciding to ourchase any car anywhere near its price. KEYSTONE MOTOR CAR CO. 1019-21-23-25 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa. BOTH PHONES CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, U. S. A. —" '' f j>t "Vfftr A7*rt hm n riu/iu<n" " 1 1 Safety Determined to a Great Extent by Tires Streets designed for the village days of the one-horse chaise make the traf fic problem of the modern metropolis one worthy of the studious attention of prominent automobile and accessory manufacturers. While it is true that Monday morning stories on the first page of newspapers about Sunday acci dents in almost any city do not ma terially hurt the business, yet those men responsible to a targe degree for the automobile industry are inspired by higher motives than mercenary ones. Frank B. Bosch, representing Miller tires, says: "There have been all kinds of suggestions for safety devices, loud er warning signals, additional traffic fiolicemen, revised ordinances, and the ike, but these are mere palliative meas ures which lessen, but do not correct the situation." Bosch calls attention to the fact that the streets that were designed for village use cannot ans wer the needs of the modern metro polls. The streets are the arteries through which the life blood of social communities flow. Until a permanent remedy is provided against the clog ging of these street-arteries and subse quent trouble, we know positively that motorists can insure safety and pro mote general welfare by using non-skid tires that put them in control of every emergency. When a car is geared to the road by these tires,' common auto mobile troubles are eliminated The highway was once a place for all kinds of business and idleness, where baby buggies, or any other kind of vehicle, had a divine right. Mr. Bosch fell that the cure lies along the same lines as the remedy of the condition of the steam tracks in cities where grade crossings had to be constructed. Until then "joy walking" will have to cease; and the middle of the street Is no place to renew old acquaintances. Cadillac Eight Again Shatters Records The Cadillac Eight has shattered an other record—this time racing with a Union Pacific Special train from Denver to Cheyenne, and arriving at the sta tion two minutes before the train. The regular schedule of the Union Pacific between Denver and Cheyenne Is three hours: but Engineer Charles Burgdorf, of the Denver Post Special, which carried one hundred of Denver's most prominent businessmen to Cheyenne for the Frontier Days cele bration, was Instructed to make the run in two hours and fifteen minutes. Burgdorf was true to his trust—but when he pulled his train into the Chey enne station after his record run he found that the Cadillac Eight had pre ceded him by two minutes. All Union Pacific records for the run, however, were broken; and the Special at one time touched a speed of eighty miles an hour, which is said to be the fastest a locomotive have ever traveled In Colorado. Much interest was evidenced in the Bringing Up Father ® # # # $ # By McManus a»as|S?'] Ig?~ L, Jtgasrj I lyH""*" Uv. rw - ' ON OUOE VMTIN 1 FER WUP AND a , o=iL I WjK R ' pgjgyJ AT >f OCR MOTHER! >T" —*———— - ——— '—— ANae^,c<L _ J race, and *the towns along the route covered by the motor cars permitted the racers to pass through at top speed. ork was suspended in most places along the route w*here throngs turned out to watch the contest. At times the roa d parallels the railroad tracks, which made the race the mose excit ing, especially when the locomotive ar >d the Cadillac fought for the lead The motor cars were forced to travel 116 miles, while the train's mileage was 121. Its smooth tracks gave the train another great advantage, for part of the dirtancei covered by the motor cars there was practically no road at all. Despite these handicaps Harold Br nker averaged better than fifty miles an hour with his Cadillac Eight and reached the goal two minutes ahead of the fast-flying Special. Engineer Burgdorf had the satisfac tion, however, of beating the other ten motor cars entered, as the second one to finish is said to have been thlrtv minutes behind the Cadillac. Car Goes Along Street With No One Aboard A six-cylinder, seven-passenger tour ing car without a soul aboard, but calmly ambling up one of the prin cipal thoroughfares of New Haven, Connecticut, threw the inhabitants of the celebra*ed home of Yale Univer sity into a state of considerable excite ment a few weeks ago. Before the mystery had been solved, trolley car conductors, pedestrians, automobile drivers, and even the chief of police, volunteered for a role in the little drama, only to discover that no as sistance was necessary. Automobiles have been driven up hill and down, through sand and mud, on high and on low through the city traffic. In fact, it seemed as though every form of demonstration and test had been utilized to prove the quality of motor cars. But the lonely, pilot less car in New Haven was doing something absolutely new. It was proving flexibility and dependability and ease of operation in a manner that was both new and startling. The car that stirred New Haven was a Paige "Six-46" and It was turned loose in the city streets by a salesman of the New Haven Paige distributors. The Paige was started in Whitney avenue, in high and throt tled down, and then left to its own devices. It rolled along at about two miles an hour with the salesman in charge walking along the sidewalk to keep ambitous and over-excited peo ple from running to an ill-advised rescue. The Paige proceeded thus for sev eral blocks, passing automobiles and trolley cars running in the opposite direction. While the "phantom car" shattered the nerves of a few, the demonstration was certainly complete and entirely successful. There is no MOTORCYCLING IN " - ■••" •-' W.M. Taul of Birmingham, Ala., who Is on his vacation from the Electrical Division of the Panama Canal Com mission at Balboa, Canal Zone and who has been an Indian rider on thu Isthmus for nearly a year, says that conditions are in some respects favor able and in others make it hard to enjoy the sport of motorcycling. "The climax makes carburetlon per fect and starting the engine easy," he said in an interview at Springfield, Mass., a short time ago, "but there are only 60 miles of ridable roads on the whole Isthmus and these are so narrow that if an automobile and a motorcycle want to pass, one has to go into the jungle and let the other by. There are about 75 Indian riders in the Canal Zone notwithstanding. One boy got a 1915 Indian three speed as the result of luck in the Panama lottery, drawing a prize of SISOO on an investment in a 50 cent ticket. "The motorcycle cops are strict on speeding, but the limit is so low, eight miles an hour, that it is hardly fair to the riders. The minimum fine for speeding is $25. It was out riding one day and a motorcycle cop who had been laying for me, instead of getting out and chasing me like a good sport, headed for a cut-off at a loop in the road and waited for me to come around the loop, taking my time. 3"> miles an hour, as evidence. The limit seemed so low that I took the chief out one day and rode with him at 20 miles an hour, showing him just how slowly we wore moving at thu,t gait and as a result I understand that the motor cops got instructions to allow the boys a little more leeway. "Employes in the Government serv ice have a fine chance to sav.e money in getting a motorcycle on the Isthmus as anything in the way of personal property of a Government employe can be shipped up to 500 pounds from the States for a charge of one dollar. Gasoline costs 22 cents a gallon and the best oil we can get is Monogram marine oil. "The license fee would surprise the riders from the States accustomed to a small State tax, as we have to pay sll in the Canal Zone and $2 to the longer any question in the minds of the New Haven citizens that the Paige is flexible and will throttle down to a walk on high. Even the chief of po lice admits it. Proper Weight and Right Springs Essential In the early days of the automobile industry, heavy weight was deemed necessary to hold a car to the road, but experience and experiment have done much to explode this idea and to create the present tendency to wards light weight. Holding the road, it has been found, depends on the proper relation of the weight of a car above and below the springs, and the type of spring sus pension. On this principle, light weight, properly distributed and prop erly supported, is better suited for holding the road than heavy weight. In the case of a heavy car going over the road, its heavy axles and wheels strike obstructions with greater force than in the case of a light car, with the result that the corresponding re bound off these obstructions is greater than with a light car. This condition naturally keps the wheels in th air a greater length of time, so that the heavy weight of the car as a whole is given the chance to swing the car from side to side, since It meets no resistance from the road. Light weight In parts below the springs makes it easy for the pressure of the springs to hold the wheels In contact with the ground. With the axles and wheels being light In weight the pounding effect against the springs from below is not as great as if these parts were heavy, and the effective ness of the springs in resisting this pounding is so much the greater. Few people realize the fine point In volved In the use of the proper weight above the springs. This must be chosen in order to produce the proper amount of pressure to helfl the spring action in holding the wheels to the ground. Tf this weight Is made too great, it will, in turn, make it neces sary for the axles and wheels to have greater weight, which Is undesirable. If It is too light, then the proper pressure through the springs will be affected. Locomotives of the modern type Are BARRXBBURG ♦TELEGRAPH Government of Panama, making: a yearly charge of sl3 for the privilege of riding. We go back and forth quite freely between the Canal Zone and the adjoining Republic of Pananja In the City of Panama they have bull lights on Sundays and are altogether more free and easy than in the Canal Zone, which is under strict military authority. A moving-picture man who went from one end of the Canal to the other In a hydroplane, taking mov ing pictures of locks, fortifications and the whole works from an overhead viewpoint was not allowed to exhibit them. "I left the Isthmus June 17th, com ing home by way of Cuba, wheer we spent a week in riding about the Island. Cuba has such fine roads and there are so many advantages to the motorcyclist in climate and so on that theer should be more riders. There is no speed limit and the police of Havana and other places treat the riders white. You wonaer what kind of a motorcycling paradise you've got into when you see them holding up cars and street traffic for you to go by. The people of Cuba everywhere treat the Americans fine, showing quite a difference in this respect from the Panamanians. "A rider going to the island with his machine should be prepared to get a consular invoice, as, otherwise he will have to do a lot of chasing around to get matters straightened out, as I did in an automobile for two or three hours. The customs and brokerage fee cost me about s2l and I also had to deposit a bond of S2OO while I was there. The young lady who is now my wife came back to tills country at the .same time I did, our marriage taking place at New Orleans, and the people in Cuba ran to their doors in surprise when she went by, driving my machine. She learned to ride while we were in Panama. When we were in Cuba we made one trip from Ma tanzas to Havana, 72 miles, In two and a half hours. "Up time I got to Atlanta I had ridden 8600 miles in Panama, Cuba and this country without tak ing the motor down or even changing one of the Duckworth chains." examples of what soring suspension means to holding the road. No engi neer'would run a locomotive around curves at the speeds commonly made, were it not for springs that permit side sway. This sldewise flexibility in an automobile will permit the body to swing from one side or the other with relation to the chassis. Springs that are rigid in this sidewlse direction permit the weight of the bodv and pas sengers to pull the chassis with it, pro ducing skidding, while lateral flexibil ity allows the body to move to the side while the chassis remains in its course . Climbs Mt. Tamalpais Over Railroad Ties Driven by Walter G. Collins, of Los Angeles, a Dodge Brothers' touring car recently established a new record on Mt. Tamalpais, one of California's high est peaks, by climbing eight and one lialf miles over the railroad ties to the summit. The railway which scales the sides of Tamalpais has earned the name of be ing the most crooked road In the world There are scarcely 100 yards of straight track in the nine mile course, which meant constant watchfulness on the part of the iver. Added to the uncertain route was the tremendous strain on the car, caused bv bumping over the ties. Probablv no stiffer test was ever administered to the springs of a car. but Driver Collins came through without a broken leaf in any of the four springs. Strating from Mill alley, at the foot of the mountain. Collins drove the Dodge Brothers' car on train schedule time to the summit, checking In at each station en route. In order to prevent colliding with any of the regular train service. Grades varying from 5 to 15 per cent, were encountered at various stages, but it was never necessary to use first gear except in starting, the trip being made on intermediate and high. Gigantic Deals Show Remarkable Increase Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company at Racine contracted to deliver $1,200,000 worth of autos to one territory. On July 6th was placed what Is said to be the largest single motor car order ever placed for delivery in the States. The Carl H. Page Motors Com- The New 1916 Eight Cylinder Cadillac IS HERE This New Perfected Eight Cylinder Cadillac stands to-day without a peer. Every attribute you would want in an automobile is found in this new car in the highest degree. Demonstrating car at your service and two carloads per week insure prompt delivery. Crispen Motor Car Co. 413-417 S. Cameron Street pany of New York City placed their order for $1,200,000 worth of Mit chell "The Six of "16" cars to be de livered within ten weeks. When the Carl H. Page Motors Company was organized to distribute Mitchell cars in the New York Met ropolitan district it anticipated the delivery of approximately $1,000,000 worth of cars in one year but busi ness prospects were so promising and the whole tone of the automobile market presaged such an increased demand that this amount is going to be exceeded three-fold. A full hundred per cent, increase In business on the 1916 Mitchell models is shown no matter which way you turn. Boston, Washington, Buffalo, Pitts burgh and Cleveland cannot get enough cars to fill all their orders. Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Om aha, Des Moines, St. Louis and Den ver keep up a rapid fire of orders. Orders from Seattle, Portland, Frisco and Los 'Angeles indicate the largest automobile business the coast has ever known. The South is recovering in great shape and Dallas, Houston, New Or leans and. Atlanta are showing the effects of the betterment of condi tions over last year. Since announcing "The Six of 'l6" the new Mitchell Six model and "The Perfect Eight," the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company have booked approxi mately $5,000,000 worth of business for delivery as the product comes from the factory. Only by working the big plant night and day, includ ing Sunday, can this business be J taken care of. The capacity of the big plant is taxed to the utmost and new men are being employed as rapidly as ex perienced men can be brought to that city—the increased output having al ready absorbed all the skilled work men in Racine. Production is mounting rapidly but the influx of orders from all over the States continues to mount rapid ly above even what they can hope to produce for six months to come. Surely the automobile manufactur er and the automobile dealer can safely look ahead to the greatest of all the great years In the automo bile industry. For those who may still carry the business killing bug of pessimism, the sight of this big forty-five acre plant of the Mitchell- Lewis Motor Company working night and day with the glare of the big Mghts streaming out in the darkness i through the hot summer nights an 3 one crew of 1,800 men coming in the gates while the other crew leaves would serve as an effective anti toxin. $5 FOB TCK FUND A contribution of $5 to the ice fund of the Associated Charities was re ceived to-day by the managers. The name of the donor was withheld. .jKKfflwJtmk Republic Factory Will Have Increased Capacity "The truck business is booming," says General Manager F. W. Ruggles, of the Republic Motor Truck Com pany at Alma, Michigan. "During the last year the demand for motor trucks has increased surprisingly, and the fiscal year ending July 15 shows an increase In our total truck sales, over 800 per cent. Considering that 95 per cent, of our total output has been consumed in the United States, this is a remarkable showing." The Republic organization, now In Its third year, has progressed rapidly since 1912, and the increased business of the past year has necessitated new factory additions of which some have just been completed and others are now under way. The latest completed addition is that of the body department wherein all Republic stake and panel bodies are made. This new department is now working full force. The equip ment, here alone, for a new building, latest-type machinery, and a new working force represents an invest ment of thousands of dollars. How ever, the saving of this one depart ment will make possible price reduc tion, which as In any other motorized product, Is bound to be effected, as the demand increases. The second addition is that of a I new stock building 30x460 feet which j will carry the latest improvements for the efficient and speedy handling of all' stock used in chassis and body construction. "New overhead cranes and lifting devices to handle the mammoth frames, the motors, axles, springs and other truck units, too heavy to be handled by men, will be Installed," Mr. Ruggles in discussing the new facilities. "With this new equipment we expect to be able to build from twenty to thirty trucks a day. Our present assembling plant is efficiently arranged to get the maximum produc tion front the space represented, how ever, the new plant will make our daily capacity far greater. Other adltions, including an increase in assembling shop facilities, a new paint shop, additions to the test shop will closely follow on the heels of the buildings already in progress. When finally completed the Republic plant will occupy a total area of ten acres. The Republic trucks are represented here by the Hudson Sales Agency. PRESIDENT ARISES VARIvY By Associated Press Cornish. N. H„ Aug. 7. President Wilson got up early to-day to plav golf with Dr. Cary T. Grayson, and Prof. George Howe, of the University of North Carolina, his nephew. They were out on the private links of F. A. , Kennedy near here before 8 a. m. Paige Capital Stock Increased to $1,000,000 Evidence of the prosperity of the automobile industry in general and of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Com pany in particular is disclosed in the news that the Paige directors have made arrangements for the increase of their capital stock August second from $250,000 to $1,000,000. This ac tion was taken at a recent meeting of the directors when the payment of the regular monthly cash dividend of ten per cent, was ordered. This significant move on the part of the directors, coupled with the fact that an army of workmen are busy night and day constructing a large addition to the plant that will enable the Paige to double its capacity is calling attention again to the sensa tional achievements of this company. The success of the Paige has been won In four years. Three hundred cars were manufactured its first year. This season, with production confined to Sixes, a light five-pasenger Six and a seven-passenger model, the schedule calls for about 15,000 cars. Such an extraordinary growth in such a brief period is almost unparalleled even In an industry that is filled with sensa tional achievements. One of the biggest hits the Paige company made was its production of the Fairfield "Six 4 6," launched last January. This is the car that gave the company its greatest forward Im petus. The 1916 model of the Fair field has been put out just a few weeks and one dealer's orders for the month of July total 232 cars. Much credit for the success of this concern is due to the men directing its policies and activities. The board of directors of the Paige company com prises some of the keenest business men in the Middle West, every one of whom is a recognized factor In financial circles, having already won success by good business Judgment and ability. ■ Cadillac New Model Meets With Approval Two of the new Cadillac Eight mod els were received this week by the Crispen Motor Car Company. The changes alTect principally the accessi bility of the engine and appearance of the car. The local demonstration prov ed its wonderful power and acceler ation. being capable of going from stand to sixty miles per hour in twenty seven seconds and throttling down to less than two miles per hour. A test in Crescent street proved Its capability of going up at a sustained speed of five miles per hour. C. C. Crispen, local distributor, re ports a greatly Increased output at fac tory, with every assurance of receiv ing two carloads here every week to meet deliveries. The demand for the Cadillac Eight is far in excess of any preceding model ever made by this company. 11
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