' ' X GET AN * "Exf be" STARTING BATTERY and assure yourself of a right start at the right time We are storage battery specialists. We will recharge, repair, renew or replace your battery, do the work right and do it promptly. Come to Us For the Right Kind of Battery Service EXCELSIOR AUTO H. L. Myers, Mgr. Bell Phone 80 11th and Mulberrv Sts. Harrisburg, Pa. MCNSEY TRUCKS SJunsey's Magazine is unusually well Informed on matters of public policy. | In the January Munsey's is an article, I "The Automobile in War," in which ' appears the following statement: "It might be worth mentioning here ihat the general staff of the united States army has designed a splendid ! type of army truck, driven and steer-1 ed through all four wheels. It is not j BO encouraging, however, to learn that : ■while there are about three hundred end fifty automobile manufacturers inj the v country, only one at this writing j Is producing a vehicle approved for| army use." The motor truck In question is the 1 g§r" I This Powerful Engine I JL yj Pajps for Itself in Lengthening j Its Own Life j |h S j J J C, If a motor hasn't the power to do I I p things easily it strains itself every time it is fej E |i - called on for hard duty even if it does just "get |H ■ y by"—like a weak heart on a long flight of steps. |g| I If % B This straining is the hardest kind of wear on a II I I ' motor. It hastens depreciation. IIV/ Th INCH f MDDN 'I; Six-Thirty (|> liflirn '/■ V has all the power the car's weight and fw WMI I I T carrying capacity can demand under any nor- [<Yv Til MLLL iAj ma i motoring conditions—and then some. 1A / D A QT7 C Continental-Moon 30-H.P. six-cylin- jlj xOJU der motor —3} 4 :c4 3 cast en bloc with new type ' r,i j •-T removable cylinder heads. 118-inch wheel- S base. New convex-side body design. Stewart |§| jgl patent vacuum gasoline feed system—tank in g jgj rear with gauge. Genuine tan Spanish leather |S .._ __ B [ upholstery. Silk mohair one-man type top. ill 11 \l* 31 C. Fully equipped, including 1916 Delco start (/111 I □( ing, lighting and ignition system with new switch Jb C>l I I having ammeter on dash —$1195. lid C/ —See the Car — FULLY AT THE AUTO SHOW EQUIPPED N MARKET STREET WINDOW STANDARD MOTOR SALES CO. 1103 NORTH THIRD STREET DISTRIBUTORS Big Truck Exhibit At No. 619-21 Walnut St. Many special motor truck equipments now on exhibit, and demonstrations given daily. When you lift up the hood on an International truck you will see an International motor. Your future protection is guaranteed. VVc never change agencies, we are always Inter national, and prepared to furnish parts and competent expert . service The better future protection, the more valuable and dependable service is included in the purchase. The new International models should be carefully inspected before a purchase is made. All models furnished in 36-inch solid or pneumatic tires. International Harvester Company of America / (INCORPORATED) Motor Truck Department, 619-21 Walnut St. Other branch lioimc* at l»lttfthiirgh, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Klntirn aa«l I'orkeMhurif. SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 19, 19IC iJefTer.v Quad —the truck with the positive non-slipping drive to each I of the four wheels. I TWO VETERANS WHO ARE IN FAVOR OF FORDS Two of the oldest automobile en thusiasts in this country are Adam Haybrlght of Downs, 111., and John ! McMullen of Lake Odessa. Mich. Mr. Haybright is 105 years old, or young rather and Mr. McMullen 104 years. 1 These men drive their Ford cars wherever they go and rarely experi ence any difficulty in running them. ! Mr. McMullen has the distinction of I being one of the Michigan Paved Way Boosters, who went over the route from Lansing to Grand Rapids, Mich. INTER-STATE FOUR POPULAR PRICED Local Company Have Distribu tion For Weil-Known Make Now Selling at SBSO Although this year marks the first anniversary of the Interstate in the medium-priced field, the business of the Inter-State Motor Company has grown to such large proportions that plans are being laid at this time to ! increase the production to forty cars | a day for the coming year. Based on a ten-hour day, this will mean a i finished car every fifteen minutes. In speaking of the increase in pro duction of the Inter-State, B. AW i Twyman says: "A car every fifteen minutes will bo our slogan for the coming year. Kor the past six months, we have been doing everything in our power to faci : litate matters. We have been able to anticipate the material shortage, which has been prevalent over the I country for some time, and by the time the show is over wc will be | building our full quota of forty cars a day. j "Based on the short time we have 1 had to perfect our factory and or ganization to the point of building the Inter-State on such a large scale, such an increase in production is re j markable. Our car with its particu ; lar claim of power, comfort and I beauty is Ailing: a long-felt need in its I 1 class. "At the 1915 New York show we J announced our price at SI,OOO, and at that price created such a demand that j we were only able through the most | I intense manufacturing application toj ! meet the demand. Since o\ir change ; of price in July 1915, our manufacur j ing space has not been large enough i to take care of the business created by such an announcement. We were able to reduce the price without j changing the quality of the car by ; making immediate preparations for an increase in production and carrying a i much larger stock of material than formerly. ! "We have added in the past sixty j days 50,000 additional feet of manu i facturing floor space to our factory, ' bringing the total well over 200,000. We have v ample room to enlarge the j factory as the necessity arises and j 'from present indications it will not be I long until we will find it necessary to | | use more ground." The Inter-State continues its policy of marketing only one four-cylinder 1 model which lists at SBSO as compared ' with SI,OOO a year ago. It employs the same type of valvc-in-liead Beaver j motor with three and one-half by tive inch cylinders. The motor of this car is a long-' stroke engine with large overhead j valves: it is made by the Beaver Com- | i pany and has conspicuously good i 1 pulling power on high gear. There! is a Remy lighting and starting | equipment which also cares for igni ; tion and a Schebler carbureter, bolt ing direct to the cylinders, since all manifolding is internal. A decided j i feature of the Inter-State Four is the great accessibility of the motor and I ail connected with it. The bodies offered include a five- i r passenger touring and a roadster I model, the former holding its rated I i capacity without any crowding. It is nicely proportioned, being a very manageable length over-all. Quiet j running and good acceleration are j other characteristics. The Inter-State is handled locally; •by the Auto Sales and Distributing Company, 125 South Eleventh street, J. D. Ferry, manager, whose reputa tion as a real mechanic is to be envied. In addition to the local distribution, the Auto Sales and Distributing Com pany covers 20 counties throughout ! Central Pennsylvania. Says It's the Greatest Business in the World That's what one of the most sue-! ' cessl'ul garage and tire men in the country calls his business, says F. C. Millhoff, sales manager of the Miller Rubber Co., Akron, O. And before this man went into it, three or four I years ago, lie had in turn been a traveling salesman in the textile field, : a branch salesman for a leading auto manufacturer and proprietor of a' small tire and accessory shop. Now 1 lie owns a string of three garages in j one of our largest cities, and people \ , speak of him as having made his pile.• So we can take considerable stock in \ what he says. "The greatest business in the i world." How queer yes, almost ridiculous —that statement would have! sounded a dozen years ago. Then a : garage was thought of as not much j more than a new kind of livery stable, I land a garage man a rough, ignorant | jack-of-all-trades who puttered with I one's car when something was the matter with it. In tliose days, if anyone had men-1 | tioned the garage owner as being a! merchant, he would instantly have | been set down as being crazy. ">ler- j I chant—humph! Why, all a garage j man's good for is to tinker!"—would have expressed the common opinion. ! But in these few years there lias: been a wonderful evolution, and! there is as much difference as day and , . night between the garage man ot' yes-1 | terday and the garage man of to-day.; The garage und tire man of to-day is a real merchant, says Mr. MUlhoß —a businessman, first and last. True, he has considerable mechanical knowl ; edge and he "tinkers" as of old. But I most of his ability and energy are di rected along modern merchandizing lines, which lie has found ore the lines of least resistance in building his' ! business. Particularly progressive is the! garage and tije man who handles one! i of the leading brands of tires, such as .Miller "Cearcd to the Road" tires.! Miller dealers everywhere are proving' ! that this is the shortest and surest! route to success. The modern garage man knows the I | principles of salesmanship. He knows! ] how to adapt the great tool advertising ! to his business. He realizes the value | !of his show windows, and never j neglects to keep in them attractive, inviting displays which will bring the passing motorist into the store. He co-operates with the advertising ef i forts of the manufacturers whose 1 lines he handles, and thus cashes in on the thousands of dollars they spend each year on national publicity. Ho knows the importance of keeping his shop clean and tidy. And best of all he fully realizes the meaning of that all-important word, service—and he talks service and gives service at all times. All in all. the modern garage and tire man plays a pretty important part In our commercial life. And no ! one thinks of laughing when lie de ] dares that his is "the greutest busi- I new in the world." Enger Twin Six-Only $1095 A Wonderful Car | The Enger is not exhil)ited| A Wonderful Price ttw seen at 131 South Third street. twelve \-ylimler>. Its "construction it.' Sub-agents wanted means the accessible motor. A in nine neighboring counties. Distributor For H. DeHart 131 SOUTH Central Penna. Bell Phone 61 . M THIRD ST. MOTOR TRUCK ADVANTAGES Garford Official Explains Benefits to Be Derived From Vehicles For Hauling By K. E. TAYIiOR President R. E. Taylor Corporation, Eastern Distributors Garford Motor Trucks. The young man of twenty-five well remembers how as a boy of ten or twelve he would go miles to see a "horseless carriage," propelled all by itself by steam —"just like an engine on the railroad." Then, two or three years later, came the invention of the motor that could use the explosive force of gasoline vapor as a motive powe, and the adoption of the electric spark to ignite the vapor. From that moment began the great industry which to-day stands unrivaled in the history of the world's inven tions. The marvelous accumulation of motor vehicles shown at exhibitions bears evidence to the avidity with which the buying public has responded to the appeal of the motor car. To-day the man who does not own an automobile or motor truck is lying awake nights trying to figure out some way he can own one! It is the realization of man's (and woman's) fondest, dream to fly smoothly over the face of the earth with the speed of the ostrich and the comfort of one's own home! Deluged With Orders Those who started the manufacture of motor vehicles in the beginning thought that perhaps a comparatively few of the wealthier people would buy —but not one of them ever dreamed of the perfect deluge of orders they would shortly receive. In fact, the whole motor car busi ness became so suddenly the frenzy that makers have had no chance or time to do more than crowd their fac tories to the utmost and turn out cars as fast as human hands could make them. And the one thing that impresses the cosmopolite who has visited the great show just over is the supremacy of the United States in the production of motor vehicles. There was a time when the French car had precedence, but that has long passed. To-day there is no car produced the equal In any respect to the one made right here in this little United States of America. We are now getting time to put on (he little finishing touches that so ap peal to the imagination of the buyer— the frills and furbelows of the trade, as it were. Just as the unbeautifui though practical dress of the peasant woman becomes a "costume" when enriched with trimmings and "sich," so the bare chassis has now built upon it most wonderful creations of luxury and beauty. How About Motor Trucks? And while this show was purely an automobile show, no businessman could visit it and not have the thought, enter into his head, -"If a machine is so good for myself and family to ride in. how about a motor truck for my business?" That is the inevitable con clusion of the practical man of to-day. It is now no longer a question with the businessman as to the superiority of the motor truck in all sorts of haul tng. In point of economy and efficiency, over the horse. Our salesmen no longer need to present arguments of that kind. Tf a "green" salesman starts it. the "prospect" says "Oh, cut it. T know all that. What I want to know is what your Garford can DO!" The one great obstacle to the prog ress of motor truck supremacy is the fact that the average buyer of one puts Ihe man who had been driving his horses on the seat us the motor man. When he himself bought an automobile he realized it was an im- L possible thins for him to ilriv# it until lie liad learned how. So he learned— studied his machine and made It his business to know all its little pecul iarities. But when he buys his motor truck he puts a man with usually far less in telligence than he himself possesses on the seat and tells him to "Go to it." The man with the cocksureness of his class airily informs his boss that he "knows all about them motor trucks" and the boss intrusts his costly ma chine to these ignorant hands. Blame in Wrong Place The result is easily foreseen. Some iti'Ju.i... M R ffjp*UCK m "The Honest Truck at an Honest Price" A Truck For Every Purpose, Built by The Largest Exclusive Truck Factory in the World I mi OLHp REPUBLIC y 4 TO 1-TON CAPACITY, WITH BODY, $995 Continental and Buda Motors; Bosch Magneto; Stromberg Carburetor; De mountable Solid or Pneumatic Tires and Shaft Drive. COMPARE OUR SPECIFICATIONS 1 to \y 2 Tons, $1275; 2 to 3 Tons, $1575; 3 to 4 Tons, $2350 SOM) IX CENTRAL PENN SYLVAN IA BY HUDSON' SALES CO. AGENCY, Harrlsbure W. N. SARVANT MOTOR CO., Lebanon .J. C. SMYSKR, York G. G. GREINER, Palmyra M. K. THOMSON, Lancaster FISHER GARAGE, SelinsgroTe COULSON BROS., CarUsJe ELLIS B. SHAFFER, Lock Haven W. L. FORNEY, Chanibersburg KAHLER & ZEIGLER, Hcrndon BURR HULI/, Shamokin 11 ERR & BABYLON, Westminster, Md. C. D. CIvARK, Siutbury H. KURTIS KROUT, Maryland Line, Md. Distributed by PEN-MAR AUTO CO. I. W. DILL Harrisburg, Pa. M. K. Thomson, Mgr. thing happens, and usually mighty soon. Then the maker is blamed, the service department is swamped with complaints, and the motor truck busi ness receives a black eye. This has been going on now for a long time. Is It not about due for motor truck makers to get together and absolutely refuse to intrust their wares to inex perienced hands? Should we not in some way combine to light this evil — have schools for the instruction of prospective drivers, and not. allow a truck to go out until the man who is to drive it is competent to handle It? Garford motor 'trucks are built al- J most fool-proof, but not quite. In fact, nothing human hands make can be, absolutely. It requites some tiny bit of human intelligence to guide these monster trucks, let me tell you. And may I leave with you this bit of ad vice: Mr. Businessman, get a motor truck as soon as you possibly can, BUT get a competent driver at the same time. The Garford is sold in this territory by E. J. Cavender. of the Commercial Car Company. Mr. Cavender makes a specialty of selling trucks and has had remarkable success since he went into business for himself a year ago.
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