Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, August 07, 1915, Page 11, Image 11

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    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.
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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
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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
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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.
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