10 TEN THOUSAND AT NEW YORK SHOW "jMxlecnlh Annual Automobile Exhibit Represents a Value of $3,000,000 Not only Harrisburg automobile dealers, but motor car dealers and accessory men of almost every city and hamlet throughout the country nre again centering their attention on the opening of the sixteenth annual nhow In New York. This year the exhibit will include eight days. Some of our local people were present last evening and most all of the others will attend during the week. One of the mechanical features or the show is the presence of four makes of car with 12-cylinder en- Bines. hast year the eight-cylinder was the novelty. The 87 manufactur ers of cars represented are showing 302 new moilels of cars. Accessories, which oeupy the third and four floors are shown by 310 exhibitors. The booths will be In charge of some 3000 car salesmen and 1250 accessory dalesmen. Three thousand dealers have applied for tickets to be distri buted to prospective customers. Only one Pennsylvania concern, the Pullman .Motor far Company, of York, is exhibiting a car. Twenty Pennsylvania concerns, of which 16 ore Philadelphia manufacturers, are represented among the exhibitors of accessory parts. OHCAXIZED CVtXK THIEVERY Police departments and sheriffs have discovered that motorcyclists are of great assistance not only in locating motorcycle thieves, but automobile thieves as well. Through the informa tion bureaus maintained by the Fed eration of Motorcyclists and tile liarlcy- Jjavldson Company, the running down of clues has been systematized, the In formation Is promptly wired to the au thorities and frequently leads to the rounding up of organized gangs. SEPARATE KEYS PROVIDED Automobile practice of throwing the Ignition system on and off with a key that can be removed and put in the pocket of the driver has been adopted in motorcycle design by the liarley llavidson Company and .will, It Is be lieved, result in greatly decreasing the number of stolen motorcycles. Separate keys are provided for the electric lights and ignition system so the owner can be sure both are safe. m Ensminger Motor Co. Third & Cumberland Sts. DISTRIBUTORS v / > "zrcftAeAmpvrcan j ENSMINGER | MOTOR CO. T.IIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Distributors. "■ ■ -J Exclusively Sixes For 10l«. Five-passenger 6-.18 selling for $10.50. Seven-passenger fi-46 selling for $1295. Cabriolet .SI6OO. Coupe SI7OO. Sedan SI9OO. Town Car S-'">n. Limousine—yes, but let us tell you about the finishing touches yet "to lie put on. See the 6-1G at 101) Market street. Riverside Auto Co. ICIOXIt 1417 \. FI«O\T STIIKKT (icorKo It. Kent ley, Dealer. V _ uxxxxxxxxtxxxxxxxxuxxxxxxxxxxxtxxtxtxxxxxtxxxxxtxxx It MORE THAN 200 OF THE ♦♦ 1 cKaxw&U i ♦♦ MODELS WERE SOLD LAST YEAR ♦♦ For this evidence of appreciation of the Maxwell's merits, the ♦♦ I? first year of its representation In Harrishurg since the Introduction tf of the "Wonder Car," we are duly thankful, and look forward to JJ 44 a still more successful year in 191(5. XX H F W SHANK Distributor ♦♦ tt V * Oil/\i>l IV. 120 Market St. XXXtXXKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIXXtXXXXXXXXXXXXUXXIt : Built of Standard \ j and Powerful; $640 Complete Delivered i • PAUL D. MESSNER j 1113 JAMES STREET j The AUTOCAR TRUCK has the Capacity, Power. Simplicity of Control Accessibility and Ruggedness of Parts—Gives Efficient Service tinder all con ditions, even when subjected to overloading or other similar abuses. IT PAYS TO INVEST IN THE AUTOCAR For Business Expansion , Andrew Redmond, Distributor Third and Boyd Sts. SATURDAY EVENING, Remarkable Popularity of the Motor Truck "When asked about various rumors and especially one that was current last week in automobile circles, to the j effect that the Reo Motor Truck Com pany had just received an order for one thousand trucks from one of the belligerent nations. Sales Man ager R. C. Rueschaw replied, "We not only did not accept the order but we are not looking for business from those countries at this time. "We feel that good business policy dictates that we take care of our home trade before going after the other and with our present factory facili ties we find it absolutely impossible to catch lip with the domestic de mand for motor trucks. "The truck business has gone by leaps and bounds during the last year | and It seems as If at last, this branch of the automobile industry, to the de- j velopment of which We have all looked forward, is rtnally coming to j its own. "Why, we ship more motor trucks in a week now than we used to ship in a year and still the orders come I faster than we cun make the trucks. ! "Undoubtedly the European de mand worked beneficially for the truck business in two ways. "in the lirst place, it enabled many manufacturers to go into the truck business on a larger scale than ever before and the performance of Amer ican trucks in Europe demonstrated, as nothing else could, their sturdl ness and reliability. "Emboldened by that accomplish ment, American businesshouses, who had been hesitating for a long time about, discarding the slow, expensive horse equipment and installing motor trucks, finally made the plunge. "It is interesting to note that even the largest houses usually go into the business, gingerly by buying one or two at lirst. and after carefully trying them out, ordering a whole fleet of them. "Look at any of the metropolitan dailies and you will see advertise ments indicating that various large concerns are cleaning out their en tire horse equipment. "In many cases you will notice that they ai e offering to rent one-half or three-quarters of the old stables. This is more significant than may appear on the surface. It indicates that the truck equipment is sufficient to do all the work that was formerly done by the horses and actually occupies only one-third to one-half of the space that was required for the horses. "The nicest part of the truck busi ness is the repeat order feature and that is what we Reo folk are now revelling in. It is a poor day when we do not receive an order for a fleet of trucks, ranging anywhere from five to forty, from some concern to whom a year or so ago we sold one or two trucks. "To meet this overwhelming de mand. we have under construction and now almost completed, what will be, 1 think, the largest truck factory in this country. It occupies four and a half acres. That i 3 not four and a half acres of floor space but four and a half acres of ground. "Already we are wondering whether even this big addition to our plants will enable us to catch up with the domestic demaud so you see we are not out after foreign business." Dodge Brothers Show Marvelous First Year Hodge Brothers, Detroit, have inst completed their first year as manufac turers of motorcars and the record es tablished is unique even in this amazing industry. The first completed car rolled out of the plant in December. 1!t1l. and actual shipments started in January, t9ir» With the close of the first year, Dodge Brothers merely state that tho public has "bought more than $.15,000,000 worth" of their cars. Nothing is said of production plans for next vear, hut the announcement is made that the de mand, which has always been ahead of production, remains unsatisfied. The record made in the first year is the talk of motorcar circles. Before beginning the manufacture of a car bearing their own name. Dodge Broth ers were well known in the trade as large makers of automobile parts. But no one anticipated when it was an nounced that they would bring out a car that within a year they would jump among the first six companies in the country in the production of ears. But such is the fact and the career of Dodge Brothers is sure to be carefully watch ed by both the trade and public during 1910. ATHLETICS VOIt SHOP BOYS Manager Jameson of the Maxwell factory at Newcastle, Ind., has found athletics a valued aid to shop effi ciency. The plant maintains one of the finest athletic tlelds in the State and has champion baseball and foot hall teams during the current year. The plant also boasts o running track formerly used for testing purposes. THE NEWEST OF VELIE MODELS The now Velle "Biltwel" Six at )1065 is the product of a factory organl/.a tion which Is backed by millions of dollars. The Velle "Biltwel" Six is rapidly becoming one of America's foremost cars for quality and general popularity. La Roche Bros., Inc., 508 North Broad street, Philadelphia, are the Eastern dis tributors of the Velle line which will be on exhibition at the Philadelphia show, .1 a unary 8-15. I.a Kochc Bros, are now busily perfecting their sales organization through out Haste I'll territory which includes Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Eastern part of Maryland. Bosch Company Has the Largest Exhibit at Show The Bosch Magneto Company's ex hibit at the New York Show will be by far the largest in the accessory see tion, and on account of its size will not be on the fourth floor, but located in the northwest corner of the third floor, next to the automobile exhibits. Seven completely equipped automo bile engines will be shown, ranging from two u> twelve cylinders and alt equipped wlln various types of Bosch electrictl systems and accessories. A Packard twelve-cylinder engine will be shown fitted witli the Bosch flywheel drive starting motor, a Uoscti lighting dynamo and one of the very latest Hoseli products, a Bosch twelve cylinder magneto. It will be fitted also with a vibrating duplex ignition sys tem, Bosch cable anil Hoseli plugs. Vari ous other Bosch acessories will be in cluded and the entire display will be so arranged that all the accessories can be viewed while they are in operation or use. Another feature will be the display of an eight-cylinder Perkins motor that will be fitted with all the latest Bosch electrical accessories required to com plete the modern motorcar engine of eight cylinders. The more important Uoscli accessories fitted to the engine will include a flywheel drive starting motor and complete Boscli standard lighting system and an entirely new type of Bpscli magneto which is especi ally suitable for high speed eight-cyl inder automobile engines. In addition to the eight and twelve cylinder engines, there will be various types of four-cylinder engines, as well 'as one of the largest six-cylinder en gines used in present motor car prac tice. All these engines will be com pletely equipped with the latest Bosch accessories and these will be so arrang ed that they can he put into operation and will be in full view while in op eration. In addition to these large units, there will be separate demonstrating stands also. These will show the Bosch stan dard and de luxe lighting systems and the Bosch flywheel and overrunning clutch types of starting motors, all ar ranged so that they can be put into op eration at the. will of the visitor. In addition to the main operating units al the accessories will be mounted so tnat the.v too can be watched closely while performing their functions. Quite aside from the above display of accessories will be the complete ex hibition of the varied and numerous types of Bosch ignition systems, includ ing the most popular types of magneto, us well as Bosch spark plugs and other Ignition accessories. There will be se\eral Bosch magnetos shown this year that will be making their_ lirst bow to the motoring public. In addition to the standard instru ments. several new Bosch-Ford attach ments will lie on exhibition as well as a complete lay-out of test stands and tools for the repair and testing of Hoseli distributors and supply stations which make up the Bosch service or ganization. • Cadillac Exhibit at New York Auto Show In the Cadillac booth at the New York automobile show is shown a chassis with many portions cut away, exposing the internal construction and mechanical operation, a feature which the Cadillac Company, was first to in augurate in the early days of the in dustry and which has been a feature ill every show since that lime. This chassis is a duplicate of the one which attracted so much atten tion at the Panama-Pacific Exposition where the Cadillac was the only mo tor car exhibited with a V-type en gine. A comparison of tlie present chassis With that shown a year ago reveals no radical changes in mechanical principles. This is quite in contrast with the usual. Almost invariably the auto mobile manufacturer discovers after placing a new type of car in the hands of the users that a number of changes and betterments are needed. The opposite, however, proved true of the Cadillac Eight. No shortcoming had been developed throughout the year and no reason for marked change in mechanical construction was made manifest by continuous everyday use in the hands of thousands upon thousands of users. Changes that have been made af fect principally the accessibility of the engine and the appearance of the car. The engine remains of course, the 90 degree eight cylinder V-type that the Cadillac made familiar last year. Washington Camp Meets and Elects New Officers Special to the Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa., Jan. I.—At a meeting of Washington Camp, No. 164, Patriotic Order Sons of America, last evening, an election of officers was held for the ensuing six months with the result as follows: Past president, George i'. Flshel; president, Chester C. Weber: vice-president, Charles M. Duey: secretary, E. C. Gardner: mas ter of forms, W. A. Beck: inspector, Robert Render: guard, John A. Hail ing; conductor, C. M. Cocklin: treas urer. W. F. Fishburn: host, J. A. Rail ing: trustee. Guy H. Lucas. TO PREVENT THE Gltll* Colds cause Grip—Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause. There Is only one "Bromo tjulnlne." E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 25c.—Ad vertisement. WORLD'S NEW ENDURANCE CHAMPION Stock Maxwell Touring Car which traveled 12,405 miles in 26 ilays on Southern California roads. The run is still In progress. Callfomlans predict that it may continue until 20.UU0 miles have been covered without stopping the motor. . i HARRISBURG $£&&& TELEGRAPH Saxon Reports Big Increase Over Last Year's Business "Thirteen hundred per cent, ahead of last December" is the remarkable re port of business made by the Saxon Motor Car Cororation. December used to be considered a pretty dull month in the automobile industry, but the Saxon Company has shown not only that au tomobiles can be sold in thu winter, but that people actauily clamor tor them. The January schedule calls lor :j,i>(Jo cars. At the New York Show, which opened last evening, the Saxon Corporation is planning a nig jubilee and celebration of tile ri niarkable winter business, ami also of the fact that the Saxon exhibit which two year.*; airo occupied an ob scure corner of the fourth floor is now one of the features ot the main floor at the Grand Central Palace. Space at the show is awarded in ac coruance with volume of business done. Consequently the arrival of the SUMJII on thu main floor is tangible evidence of the growth of the com pany, which now ranks sixth among Oetroit makers and ninth among all automobile manufacturers in number cf cars produced. One feature of the Saxon jubilee will be a banquet at which hundreds of dealers will be pres ent from all over the country . Commenting on the remarkable way in which business is holding up during' the winter, bales Manager It. C. Getz inger says that the Saxon district man ager for the Pacific eoa.st ha* put Sou cars Into his territory in December alone F. L. Dutbroy, the San Fran cisco distributor, received a trainload of twenty-three freight cars full of Saxons earl- in December, and expects to move another trainload by the mid dle of January. The Saxon dealer in Philadelphia has ordered eight carloads of Saxons for delivery to customers Christmas morning. The Northwest and all the. Missouri Valley report large business, ltusiness is tin In the South west. The Dallas dealer alone has taken over 200 cars within the last month. The Texas district manager, C. E. McNulty. has arranged to bring fifty Texas dealers to the Chicago Automo bile Show, occupying part of a special train. According to Mr. Getzlnger, the Saxon business is about equally divided between the six-cylinder cars and the four-cylinder roadsters. The new "Six" Hoadster is proving a very popular model. Greatly Increased Demand For Motorcars This Year The manner in which the American public lias consumed the largest out put of motor cars ever turned out by the American automobile manufac turers has been the marvel of the 1915 induslrial year. Practically every large factory increased its pro duction front 10 to even as high as 100 per cent, and even then manufac turers have been unable to keep up with orders and during the winter are maintaining: mid-season produc tion. "The 1915 automobile selling sea son has been the greatest our indus try has eyer experienced," said I-.ee Anderson, sales and advertising man ager of the Hupp Motor Car Cor poration. "The demand for cars has been un precedented and it keeps us worry ing all the time to handle the trade. We increase our output and then the dealers and distributors flood us with orders and we find ourselves in the same position again—our production always behind our orders. "For instance, during the last quar ter of 1915, we produced and sold 26 per cent, more cars than for the same quarter of 1914, which formerly held the record for Hupmoblle sales in October, November and December. The last quarter of the year Is usually about the slowest of the entire sea son. yet, in this quarter of 1915 we beat any quarter in the history of our business up to 1912. "And with all our increased pro duction we have not yet been able to catch up with the depiand for our series "N" Hupmoblle which met with instant approval by the public the moment we placed It on the mar ket. Our orders now on the books for immediate delivery are 100 per cent, greater than at this time a year ago. This despite the fact that we have been keeping up a mid-season production in what were formerly lean months. We are now running and will continue to work our fac tory to capacity. Additions are being rushed and we hope to have things ready for the big rush for cars which always comes with Spring. The pros pects for the Spring season were never so good." FROM DETROIT TO TAMPA Raymond Bletzaeker recently fin ished a trip from Detroit to Tampa in a new Maxwell touring car. Though much of the road was of the roughest sort, including mud and mountain climbing, the ear made the trip at an expense of less than a cent a mile, averaging 22.5 miles to the, gallon of gasoline and over 730 miles to the gallon of oil. RED STRKAK FOR FIRE CHIEF Chief Eley of the Eos Angeles fire department now speeds to a blaze in a bright red Maxwell roadster, which enables him to lose a minimum of time in traffic, due to Its characteris tic ability to leap again into speed after a slow-down at a crowded cross ing. * For the THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR Overland has been allotted the POSITION OF HONOR at the NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW now being held IN NEW YORK. | It Signifies I National Supremacy I It signifies that Overland has led all manufacturers exhibiting there in volume of business for the 1915 season. For the calendar year of 1915 Overland built and sold 100,000 cars. Almost One Hundred Million Dollars, —a close second to United States When you grasp these facts you will realize WHY Overland offers more Dollar for Dollar Value than any other manufacturer. Notwithstanding the tremendous shortage of steel, aluminum and other raw materials and its paralyzing and price-raising effect upon the smaller manufacturer Overland will produce One Thousand Cars a day during the coming season—and STILL will be unable to supply the de mand. \ I "All the World Loves a Winner I 1 The Overland-Harrisburg Company I 1 212 North Second Street B Both Phones SLAYS SELF WITH DETECTIVE'S GUN ! [Continued From First Page.] Hospital where he died 20 minutes later. O'Brien's real Identity is not known. Ho had been in Harrisburg for three weeks. It is said that he drank heavily. On Tuesday he was arrested by Joseph Ibach, city detective on a charge of larceny. It was alleged ho had taken an overcoat from Ed ward Miller, proprietor of the Aldlne Hotel, Market street. The charges were withdrawn after the young man said he had been drinking and did not know what he was doing. When he first came to Harrisburg, a woman was with him, but she left over a week ago. They were register ed as his wife, at the Plaza. Later, the man was seen at various hotels. For two days Joseph P. Thompson, acting chief of police, lias been try ing to locate friends of O'Brien. Yes terday the young man appeared to be suffering from a nervous breakdown. When he failed to get an answer late In the afternoon, he walked In to the detectives' room, picked up the re volver and shot himself. The ball passed through the head and struck the door of a closet. O'Brien fell against another door. He was picked up by Charles Fleck, the desk officer. The man ,was uncon scious and died without giving any statement. The body is in charge of Charles H. Mauk the undertaker awaiting word from friends. • Deaths and Funerals DIES WHILE AT CHECKERS Reuben Diehl, aged 53 years, an in mate of the Dauphin county almshouse ince 1912, died there last evening while plaving a game of checkers. Death was caused by hemorrhage of the stomach. He is survived by two sisters. ANNA I.ANICCS The funeral of Mrs.Anna Eanicus, aged 64 years, of Eansdowne, Philadelphia, will take place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services Will be conducted at the home. Mrs. Eanicus was an aunt of Edward Brook, of 3321 Woodbine street, this city, and a former Harris burg resident. She was the widow of Benjamin Eanicus. MRS. CATHARINE I>. FITZGERALD Mrs. Catharine D. Fitzgerald, widow of James K. Fitzgerald, a resident of this ctty all her life, died early this ii COME AND SEE THE "CHANDLER SIX" The Best Value Obtainable at a Priie So Lo W J The Chandler Removable Winter top,|s2oo.oo 2133 Aofli*ovy Redmond, a. 418W | JANUARY 1, 1916. ' morning at the homo of her daughter, Mrs. Catharine Hlcusing, T62S Logan street, after an illness of several years. She was in her eighty-fourth year. Mrs. Fitzgerald was the daughter of Peter Wenrieh, one of the oldest resi dents in the lower part of the eity, and was widely known here. She is sur vived !>y her daughter. Mrs. Blessing, and the following sons: Samuel W. Fitzgerald; William T. arid Charles B. Fitzgerald, both employed by the Penn sylvania Railroad; .Tames 10.. of North Carolina, and Harry S„ of Chicago. Funeral services will be bold nt the home of her daughter. Monday after noon, at 2 o'clock, the Itev. Uaniel Rup ley, of the Salem Lutheran Church, gmmmtm* mmmmrJgF tt :: tt A Happy and Prosperous New tt Fear fo All Our Cadillac tt tt Friends ti H Crispen Motor Car Co. H tt 417 S. Cameron Street g C We Make Old Batteries Young i .Storage Battery Service is our business, V *" c fn show you how to keep a young bat- f t S Z%Z A t ZZ,. Your Tow* 3 J - • wu«d J. G. DUNCAN, JR., CO. 2 MT and you 11 soon se« , , v ' ** why a starter doesn't ** ortli Hiver St.» Harrisburg, Pa. hesitate. ]{ C H 3907 Oberlin, officiating. Burial will be made in the family plot at the Harris burg Cemetery. M Its. MARTHA H. CONK I,IN Tlie funeral of Mrs. Martha B. Conk lin, 23S North street, will be held Mon day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will be conducted by the Rev. 1.. S. Mudge. pastor of Pine Street Presby terian rhureh. Mrs. Conklin was horn at Lewistown, daughter of the late Dixon Burns, of that place. She was the widow of Ezra W. Conklin who died ten years ago, and a niece of Colonel James Burns, of Lewistown.
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