A JEFFERY WITH SPECIAL BODY DESIGN r S ..SSV*- • ; •" s.v '. ■ • « ~-. ' "* \ Tn<> above shows « Jeffery with a specially constructed liody for funeral car purposes. The hody was designed smi built by the FenU-Lsndis Auto Company for R. W. Day A Son. of WiUiamstown, Pa. This is but one of many special jobs placed by A. Ilentz. manager of the local company, who has made rapid progress since he became an automobile distributor two years ago. ■mmMITOKMtiWMttMV>WMIWV>W%WWWWHW%<%WW%*WWH%MWMWmwmW. II THE II \*Big Four 9 * I COMBINATION The most complete line of pleasure cars and trucks ij jj any dealer could have to sell. ][ Absolutely the greatest value ever offered in any automobile. Specifications upon !' !> | request. || j! 1 Standard Five-Passenger, four-cylinder, 40 11. P SIOOO |! ! Jertery With auxiliary seats $1035 •* i Roadster, three-passenger SIOOO |! 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Fedders Radiator, Covert Transmission, Spicer Joints, David (' | C|. 1 . 1 J Brown Deflferential, Timken A.vles. front and rear; Gemmer Steering Gear; in fact, ji OIoOOSI Cfi everything is the best of its kind that can be had. i| ]! f 2-ton Chassis S2OOO "1 Worm j! DDTPUC -I 3-ton Chassis $2875 i and "111,0 . 4-ton Chassis $3075 | Chain 1> ] | I 5-ton Chassis $3600 J Drive J| OUR TERRITORY j! JEFFERY Dnimhin. Cumberland and Perry Counties. # PULLMAN Dannbiti Northumberland, Perry, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder and Union Counties. !! VIM Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, Juniata, Mifflin and Snyder Counties. # i STANDARD —dauphin. I >anon, Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Cumberland | and Perry Counties. Wholesale i A 50-Hour Free Service Card IsGiven With Each Retail Sale ij Bentz-Landis Auto Co. J. A. BENTZ, Mgr. : 1808-10 Logan Street Harrisburg, Pa. j Bringing Up Father # # # # # # BY McManus F OETE ARE *") VCUL- WE "WIPE TOLO , . _A~ ~ - < % JW, _ _ IMPORTED % ME TO TEU.VOU THAT (FN BY ' 0 FOT R R-= : M I RUSSIAN SOMETHINC, NEUTRAL- * TFI SATURDAY EVENING, TLARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 29, 1916. REVIVING THE SPEED FETICH ; Reo Engineer Says Speed Points Are Not Essential For Practical Usage "I am surprised to see "speed" again coming back and being used as a sales argument in the favor of a number of new models," says H. T. Thomas, chief engineer and designer of Reo cars. "I thought the day of high speed talk, save in the case of cars espe cially made for racing, had gone never to return. "It is illogical—that talk about speeds of 70 and 80 miles an hour, in a car made for general utility, touring, etc. ""Of course it makes a strong appeal to the unitiated and the uninechan ical, and perhaps we engineers are too prone to look at it from a scien tific and practical standpoint. "Our sales manager frequently tells us that as salesmen, we engineers are hopeless. "I suppose that is so, too; yet 1 am sure he agrees with me that in the long run he would rather sell cars that have a sound engineering basis than those built with an e>e singled to talking points. "It Is difficult for one who has not studied the practical engineering prob lems involved, to understand why speed possibilities should not be argu ments in favor of any automobile. It seetns to them that, though they may never want to use it. still it must be a good thing to have in the car. "Now there is just the point. It Is not a good thing to have in the car. "I contend that it Is not possible to build an automobile that will make 79 to 80 miles an hour and yet retain i in it those qualities the average buyer j needs and should have—long life and low maintenance cost. "I guess 1 am hopeless from the salesmen's standpoint, because now that 1 have gotten this far, 1 lind It difficult to put in words so that the average layman will understand, those technical reasons which have such a | tremendous bearing on the case. "Let's see if we can do it. | "A gasoline engine may be made jto develop Its maximum efficiency I (no! I didn't say maximum power, I but maximum efficiency) at any speed the designer may predetermine. , "There! That sounds pretty good. I 'Read It again, and you'll understand it,' as the publicity man says. "This is accomplished in devious ways; by variation in compression and valve sizes; periods of opening and closing; degree of opening and clos ing; by ignition, etc. "Ratio of stroke to bore, on which so much stress is laid by some ma kers. and which so greatly impresses the tyro, has in fact, very little to do with the case. "Nor is a long stroke motor neces sarily a _ high speed motor, or vice i versa. You can get any old speed you I want out of either if you know how. Make the compression high enough and the valves large enough and you'll get all the engine speed you want. But. —high compression motors are notoriously bad performers at low speeds and the action is very severe on crankshaft and connecting rod bear ings in the long-run. "The engineer who knows his busi ness can perform all kinds of stunts with a gasoline engine. "There is a great temptation to do it, too. AVe Reo Folk gratify our curiosity by doing it in our own lab oratories. We are never tempted, however, to foist these things on Reo buyers. We know the ultimate con sequences too well. Besides, the Reo policy of producing and selling only that which our greater experience teaches us has proven the best after all. "We engineers, looking through the periscope from out the laboratory, have frequently noticed that when some new and hitherto unproven fea ture is to be tried out on the public the 'speed' argument is resurrected to conceal the real issue. "You can, as I have said, produce various interesting phenomena by juggling with the various parts of a gas engine, and among others you ] can produce maximum efficiency at any engine speeds and also by gear ratios at any desired car speed. "Now if the average speed at which the average owner wanted to drive were 80 miles an hour we could all, and doubtless we would, make our motors so they would develop their I maximum efficiency and run with the I greatest ease and the least vibration at that speed. That is easy. "In fact, that is precisely what is done in a racing car, But did you ever take a cross-country trip in a racing car over roads where you had to hold the speed down to say 25 or 30 miles an hour? "If you have. I would not need to go any further with this argument. "You would appreciate what I mean, and you would not want in your car a motor that developed its maxi mum efficiency at 70 miles an hour. "You would want exactly what the more conservative engineers, from the fullness of their experience, have de signed lor you. That i 3, a motor that develops its maximum efficiency—that runs smoothest, most silently and with the least vibration and wear at those speeds at which you will want to travel 95 per cent, of the time —and that is about 25 miles an hour. "But I suppose the advertising: men and the salesmen need something new to talk about from time to time. It must get pretty monotonous talking about the same things all the time. "Wo engineers can at least sym pathize with them in that regard. For if we just kept working away in the laboratory at the same old thing all the time, we would get tired of It even though we knew those same old things were after all the best things. "I would commend to the salesman, however, another way of relieving his nerves. That would he to take a spe cial racing car. go ouf and burn up the roads for a few hours once a week. I have found that Is an effective cure for rhe racing spirit. "We in the laboratory accomplish a similar purpose in another way. We build and experiment and try out all the freak things we hear of in Amer ican and European engineering jour nals. "That gives us scope for our imagi nation and yet does not Impair the tteo prestige with the public. "Once in a while, too. we And some thing that is really better and then the Powers that Be let us put it into the Reo car. "For the most part, however—say about 9!i per cent, of the time—we discard the new ideas as impracticable or useless." GUNMAN IMPORTED TO DISCREDIT POLICE [Continued From First Page.] Agency and the resultant murder of Policeman Kror Johnson. He said that should this connection Vie proven, and also that certain oolieemen and politicians had allowed the criminals to work in Chicago, charges of acces sory before the fact to the murder of Policeman Johnson would be lodged against them. Rosenthal Murderers Brought With the alleged confession of Mack and the Kramer brothers that they robbed the Washington Park Bank, the authorities to-day are paying spe cial attention to reputed importation of criminals to discredit the adminis tration. The Kramers were quoted as having said they were intimates of the Rosenthal murderers in New York. According to Charles Kramer the brothers were taken into custody by the New York police shortly after the murder in July, 1912, of Herman Ro senthal. They were found, he said. In the room of Harry Horowitz, known to the New York authorities as "Gyp the Blood" and were held for a few days while the murder was being in vestigated but were released when they established an alibi. They came to Chicago last September. Brodie and Feine also are said to have police records in New York. Only portions of the alleged confes sions were made public. Practically ail of the money stolen from the bank has been recovered. Arrest Son For Breaking Into His Parents' Home Breaking into his parents' home at "05 Capital street, which had been locked and nailed shut when they left the city, John Green was arrested early this morning together with a companion. Charles Smith. Both are charged with felonious entry. Officers McCann, Schelhnus, Cummings and Scliaffner made the arrest after neigh bors had reported earlier in the day that someone had been sleeping in the house. The parents are visiting at Butler, Pa., and had the place se curely closed when they left. Al"TO KILLS PET DOG A small white pet dog was struck by a large automobile while going down Race street at breakneck speed in the vicinity of Conoy street this fore noon and killed. The driver of the car never stopped. Drive In! Yes, sir, just for air! You don't have to buy a spark plug or leave a tube to be mended or buy a pint of oil because you need air. Just say, "I want some of your air." and you'll see smil ing faces and men eager to help you out. And any other time when you really need us or any thing we carry we know you'll remember us. "Air in time saves a blowout" Shaffer's Garage Bell Phone 27(17 40-78 S. CAMKHUN ST. H. D. La Tour, Malinger. ftftl Ensminger Motor Co. Third & Cumberland Sts. DISTRIBUTORS CASE § The New Forty JMbL SIO9O With all the merits of the earlier "40" which sold \/M for $2,300, the Case Company gives you proof of j the progress which the company has made in the The Sign of automobile fleld. In taking: over the distribution Excellence | for the Case with its international reputation for World Over j quality and efficiency, we Invite your inspection of the new model with | perfect confidence in the merit of the product and guarantee the best of service, hacked up by the splendid factory organization and the ex cellent mechanical facilities In our own service station. 120-lneh wheclbase: 3%x6 L-head motor, 40-45 H. P.: Westlnghouse ; starting, lighting nnd Ignition: Tlmken hearings; floating rear axle with spiral bevel gears; cantilever springs: 34x4 wheels; one-man top; divided front seats, adjustable. Price JIO9O, f. o. b.. Racine, Wis. B4 AND 8 CYLINDER RISCOE CARO The capacity of the four-cylinder Briscoe motor Is 190 cubic inches; that of the eight-cylinder motor 196 cubic inches, so that the power output of the two motors is about the same, both being rated i at 38 horsepower. Whether you prefer a Briscoe Four or a Briscoe Eight, you cannot go wrong In either case, for Briscoe cars are the result of latest engineering thought. Briscoe 4-38, $750 Briscoe Eight, $950 I'rices f. o. b. factory Connover & Mchring Sole Distributors for Central Pennsylvania 1713-1717 North Fourth Street Veteran Firemen Buy Third Street Property At the first annual meeting of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Associa tion officers were elected and announce ment was made that the association has secured the property at 923 North Third street to be used as headquarters. The new officers include: President, William L. Jauss. of the Washington Company; vice-president, E. Levi Tittle; recording secretary, S. P. Dunbar; finan cial secretary, T. S. Cless; treasurer, / ' ** C/rr e/th* American Ami ENSMINGER MOTOR CO. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Distributors. The Time To BUY TIRES Our Annual COMPARATIVE PRICES 30x3 >4 Non-Skid SIO.OO 33x4 Non-Skid $14.75 34x4 Non-Skid $15.00 35x4J/2 Non-Skid $19.00 37x5 Non-Skid $25.00 FIRST FIFTEEN FEBRUARY DAYS Front-Market Motor Supply Co. Augustus Wildman; trustee, W. DeWitt Franklin; auditors, Jesse Smltli, John W. Williamson and John T, Ensmlnger, Jr.; membership committee, George D. Kills, John T. Ensmlnger, Jr.. and E. 11. Nickel; delegate to State convention, A. K Patton, and alternate delegate to convention. I* IT. Eickol. Committee to select furniture for the new home, Howard O. ITolstein. E. Levi Tittle. T. S. Cless, Augustus Wildman, Charles H. Spicer, George I). Ellis and A. I* Pat ton. r, i "The Car of No Regrets" Five-passenger, eight-cylinder $1,150 Seven-passenger, eight-cylinder $1,350 Prices f. o. b. Factory King Car Sales Co, 80 S. Cameron St. 11