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$100,000,000 in Orders
Without Knowing Price
Recently there gathered at the
WUJyB-OverUuid factory 250 distribu
tors from various sections of the
oountry. Ail were clamoring- for more
Over lands and Willys-ivnlsbts-
Now it happens that the Overland
oomptny Is about to Introduce certain
new types of oars, but. In view of
uncertain market conditions and limit
ed material sources, the price of the
oars for the Fall season had not yet
been established. The distributors were
Informed to this effect but. one and
all, they wanted a guarantee that they
would be apportioned a definite number
of oars for the Fall business. Irrespec
tive of price and other details. The
result was that when they left the
plant, those alert distributors had loft
oaatraots with the company calling
tor between 175.000.000 and $100,000,-
: 000 worth of cans Co be delivered be
tween now and January 1. 1917.
"Yes, it was probably the largest
aoatraot for an unlisted popular and
nedlum priced oar ever recorded." said
Jobs X- Willys, president of be Wlllys-
Overiand Company. "Athough it as
sures us, beyond question, of an even
greater production than we had plan
ned on for the next twelve months,
tfcare is an intense personal satisfac
tion for me In the achievement which
ts almost a£ attractive as the busi
ness end of the transaction.
"The oonfidence which those dis
tributors placed in our product pays
it a higher tribute, concerning its effi
ciency and selling qualities, than all
the alluring descriptions of the expert
enginoers who have designed the car
and all the statements which we manu
facturers may make concerning the
high standiard of the product we are
taming out It is obvious that the
engineers would be proud of the re
sult of their endeavors because of the
labor involved and the long hours they
have spent In perfecting their work.
It is natural that we should speak in
the highest terms of the Overland and
Willys-Knight cars beoause we be
lieve In them. The distributors, how
ever, have no personal bias to sway
their opinions concerning our make of
automobiles. They want them simply
beoause they know the public wants
them and when the public clamors for
a certain product that product must
have already demonstrated its worth
and superiority over other products in
the same line.
"The Overland and Wfllys-Knight
cars are not new to the pubic. They
ba.ve been on the market long enough
to have firmly established their posi
tion among the highest grade of mo
tor vehicles. The distributors who con
tracted for between $75,000,000 and
$100,000,000 worth of them, without a
definite selling price, were not taking
a chance. They had watched our
methods of doing business. They knew
that the best of materials would be
placed In the cars and, more important
to them from a selling standpoint, they
knew that our long experience in the
manufacturing world and our unex
celled factory system would enable us
to sell those cars at a price just as
attractive to the buying public as our
prices have been in years gone by.
"Therefore, confidence in Overland
®?»d Willys-Knight cars and faith in
the Willys-Overland Company led to
one of the most unique and probably
the largest! contracts of its kind—
nearly $100,000,000 of automobiles un
seen and unpriced."
The success of the OveriarrJ Com
pany elsewhere is reflected in our
lown local situation. Out of the Har
ristmrg office alone there were 1,200
(oars delivered during the 1916 season.
This represents an average of one
| hundred cars each month for the year,
making a freight train of about
thirty-four carloads every month, if
shipped in trainload lots. This local
business is even greater than that of
Baltimore, which speaks well for the
buainenss enterprise of the Hajrls
burg-Overland Company.
Connie Mack's Star
Likes Overland 75 B
The Overland Model 758, which has
proved such a popular model, due to
its light weight, its completeness of
equipment and its ecojjomy of fuel
consumption, is rapidly gaining favor
with all classes.
Here is Elmer Myers, the new Ath
letic pitching star, in a new model 758
roadster.
Does Elmer like the car?
Take another look at him seated
proudly behind the wheel and then
judge for yourself whether the Over
land hasn't another live 758 roadster
booster in Connie Mack's newest pitch
ing phenora.
SHRIXER.S HOME
Membes of the Zembo Patrol and
Band, who were attending the na
tional convention, held in Buffalo this
week, returned home last evening.
Today—Now
The new series Path
finder is ready
Nothing we can say about it can
equal what the car itself shows.
Sit behind its wonderful
twelve-cylinder motor and
you'll learn a new meaning of
car value and pleasure.
These are things no advertise
ment or salesman can tell you.
Try it to-day.
Seven-Passenger Touring Oar, $2750;
Clover Leaf Roadster with concealed
top, $2900; Special Enclosed Bodies
up to $4800; all f. o. b. Indianapolis.
Complete details and catalog on re
quest.
PATHFINDER SALES COMPANY
TEMPORARILY AT
1849 Whitehall St. Harrisburg, Pa.
Phone 3887-M
SATURDAY EVENING.
THE JEFFERY QUAD
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The track shown above is a Jeftery Quad, with four-wheel drive, delivered
this to the Penniwlvanla Steel Company by J. A. Bentx of the Bentz-
Landls Auto Company. These Quads are famous the world over, 200 of them in
use by the United States and twenty-three foreign countries are buying them.
Hupp Factory and Business
More Than Doubles
With the close of ths 1916 selling
season, July 1, the Hupp Motor Car
Corporation, announced an increase in
business over the 1915 season of 47.3
per cent. Outside of the Indicated in
crease in the demand for four-cylinder
cars of the Hupmobile type, the s*ln in
the Hupp Corporation's business was
made notable by the fact that for prac
tically eight months the main Detroit
plant has been In the hands of build
ers.
During the past season, the floor
space in the Hupmobile factories has
been increased 93.9 per cent., practi
cally doubling the space of one year
ago. Because of the extensive build
ing operations affecting every struc
ture in the big Detroit plant, the com
pany, a year ago. set a minimum pro
duction schedule about equal to the
business of Lhe biggest previous year.
In spite of plant additions, this
schedule has been beaten in every
month but one of the past season.
With the buildings now being com
pleted, the Hupmobile plants will have
a capacity more than double that qf
one year ago. In the enlarged Hupmo
bile plants, both In Detroit and Jack
son. Michigan, the company is install
ing approximately one-half million
dollars' worth of cost-reducing ma
chinery and efficiency equipment. With
the shortages of material and increas
ing oosts of materials and labor, the
Hupmobile Corporation has maintain
ed a consistent policy of strictly qual
ity manufacture. In preparation for a
steadily growing business, the com
pany's investments in enlarging and
imy-ovlng the plants have in the past
year, aggregated approximately sl,-
000,000.
To produce its 1916 record, the Hupp
Motor Car Corporation has increased
the number of factory employes 74.6
per cent., and an additional Increase
of nearly one thousand men will be
made within the next ninety days, when
the final factory additions are com
pleted.
"Our faith in the future of a car of
the Hupmobile type is unlimited." said
President J. Walter Drake in announc
ing the 1916 record of the Hupp Cor
poration. "We are adhering strictly to
the four-cylinder practice. In the
erles N Hupmobile. we ha\'e developed
a car. the public demand for which has
greatly exceeded our production capac
ity throughout the past year. We have
no radical changes to announce with
the tart of the new selling season,
through each series of five thousaud
cars has contained such minor im
provements as our engineering depart
men has developed from time to time.
The past season has proced the correct
ness of the principle of building In
series rather than in annual models.
Had we deliberately made radical
changes In the most successful car we
have ever built, simply for the: purpose
of creating interest in something new.
we should not have been able to achieve
the big production record of the 1916
eason.
"While a general automobile rales
report of the past year would show
one of the most unusual selling sea
sons in the history of the mortoioar
industry, it is our beltef that the fu
ture holds equally bright prospects.
The Hupp Motor Car Corporation has
backed up its faith in the public de
mand for its product by an extendi v-e
Investment in new buildings and equip
ment. We are entering upon the new
selling season with one of the best
equipped automobile manufactories in
the country and with manufacturing
plans for between 18,000 and 20,000
cars during the next twelve months,
or approximately 40 per cent, increase
over the season just closed."
TYPHOID IX CUMBERLAND
Carlisle, Pa., July 15. Scattered
outbreaks of typhoid fever are caus
ing health officers some concern in
this section. There are several cases
in the lower end of the county, and
others near Mount Holly Springs and
Plainfield. There Is no fear of an epi
demic, however.
Oldest Haynes Car Seems
to Be in New Jersey
In all probability the Haynes Light
Twelve car ottered for the oldest
Haynes car thai Is running in America
at the present time, will be awarded
to Walter E. Smith, Bound Brook,
N. J., who has an old two-cylinder car
that was built in 1897. The car is in
operation to-day and this Spring won
a prize as the oldest car in a county
contest. Its nearest competitor was a
1902 two-cylinder car.
The automobile retains its original
appearance almost hi entirety. Even
the rubber matting which was fur
nished with the car i» still intact, and
the original warning system, a bell
operated by a foot lever, is used by Mr.
Smith to-day. Throughout its tenure
the old car has received the best of at
tention and has never been In any sort
of an accident.
The old automobile weighs 1,950
pounds and originally cost $1,900. It
is a surrey that provides ample room
for four passengers and is steered by
a lever. The car to-day makes from
fifteen to twenty miles an hour over
good roads.
Compared to the high-speed mul
tiple cylinder motors of the present
day, the old two-cylinder engine pre
sents a vivid contrast. Each cylinder
has a carburetor and dry battery of its
own. The engine has a 5-inch bore
and a 6hi -Inch stroke and is rated at
15 horsepower. Only last Fall the car
pulled a four-mile mountain grade on
second gear.
The body plainly shows the designs
and panels thai were common In the
carriage work of nearly twenty years
ago and the old car evidently stands
on ths border line between the horse
loss carriage and the automobile. The
comparatively high wheels, with single
, tube 36x3 tires, and full elliptic springs
raise the body to what appears to be
an ungainly height, although the rid
ing qualities are not impaired in the
least and are certainly one of the
virtues of this motor conveyance.
The Bound Brook car was built
shortly after the Haynes company be
gan building two-cylinder models in
1897. With the exception of three
one-cylinder cari, that Elwood Haynes
built himself and have since been lost
trace of, this car stands, according to
present records, as the patriarch of
the old Haynes cars ir. America,
Why the Miller Company
Have Added Another Tire
"Since the advent of the new Miller
back tread tires," says F. C. Millhoft,
general sales manager of the Miller
Rubber Company, "we have been ask
ed 'why the new addition to the Miller
tire family'? It's a legitimate ques
tion and easily answered. Many auto
mobile owners feel that the condi
tions in their territory or the use to
which their car is put does not war
rant the purchase of high-priced tires.
They wish a popular priced tire yet
hesitate to buy of a company whose
sole object in manufacture is to meet
a price. Realizing the need the Miller
Rubber Company set about to supply it.
The Miller black trearf tire is made of
the same materials as the standard
Miller tires, but by lessening the num
ber of operations in manufacture the
price has been reduced. You see it is
this way. said MUlhotf, a certain father
of several sons is a man of high ideals,
which are instilled Into each boy, both
by training and inheritance. Each son
Is fitted by nature for a different voca
tion. One may be a statesman moving
among the elite of the land, another
may be a forest ranger, guarding the
resources of the nation. Though each
has a different mission in li(e the ideals
of th« father Is common In both. And
though the forest ranger will never
reach the height of social attainment
of the statesman he will make a far
better forest ranger than another man
: who may be as well fitted by nature
for the job, but lacks the character of
I the other. So the new addition to the
Miller family, because it is one of the
(Miller family, must have the character
| that goes with the name."
Touring Week Stirs Nomad
Spirit of True Motorist
The country's call of the road,
sounded by National Touring Week, is
singing in the ears of every motorist
to whom vacation spells the free and
the open. When August 6. the date
of the week automobilists are setting
aside for spending their vacations in
their cars, is bared on the calendar,
motorists by thousands will be on the
road from tho Atlantic shore to the
Pacific coast.
No movement has ever produced a
more spontaneous or nation-wide re
sponse. The call to "Come, wander
a-wheel," has cast its spell to the re
mote village and into the isolation of
the great city.
There is yet much of the nomad in
the human animal, notwithstanding
his centuries of what he terms civiliza
tion. In his heart he is often the
gypsy. He dreams, as he works, of
fields afar and beauty spots hidden in
the woodlands tor his particular Joy.
With vacation the spell to go forth and
find them grows irresistible.
What more in harmony with mod
ern efficiency and love of creature
comforts than that the nomad should
do his wandering in a motor car?
The automobile tourist is the gypsy de
luxe. Therefore, motorists by thou
sands are hearkening to the Gall of
National Touring Week.
Newspapers, automobile clubs and
automobile dealers, at once sensing
the popular appeal of the movement,
have aligned themselves with it. The
momentum it has already gained will
carry the outpouring of motorists far
beyond the single week set for the
touring festival.
"Take that vacation in your motor
car if you would drink the full meas
ure of It" Is the warning of the sum
mer.
FIRE IGNITES DRESJi
BI'RXS TO DEATH
Bharon. Pa., July 18. Mary McDow
ell Buchholz. eight, a granddaughter of
the late Major Alexander McDowell,
wa* burned to death yesterday her
clothing igniting from a bonfire.
HAKRB3BURG TELEGRAPH
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i| $12 95
J J There Has Been No Springtime
I | But There'll Be a Long Summer
' * ITIHERE have been months of cold and rain and mud, but now I '
II X there will be months of clear skies and hard roads.
It is the motoring season. It is the vacation season and the touring sea
son. It is the time to buy the new car.
I *
In the Chandler Type 17 you buy a car tested and proven, a car with
nearly four years of refinement and development back of it. A car free from
experimentation too, a car of which thousands have gone into use on American
roads in the past six months.'
The Chandler does not introduce mid-season models. Chandler leads,
and Type 17 announced January Ist is distinctly the car of the year.
There has been no occasion to modify it, no opportunity to improve it,
no need to call it by a new name.
Seven-Passenger Touring Car » $1295
Four-Passenger Roadster - - $1295
(F. O. B. Cleveland)
Come Choose YOUR Chandler Now
Andrew Redmond,
Central Pennsylvania || I
THIRD AND BOYD STS. HARRISBURG, PA.
CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO |
To Continue Praying and
Playing Ball, Rector Says
Philadelphia, July 15.—"We're go
ing to continue our policy of 'pray and
Play' at the farm at Springfield—
baseball included—and it's up to Doc
tor Mutchler to stop us."
This was the ultimatum issued by
the Rev. David M. Steele, rector of the
Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany,
to the Rev. Dr. T. T. Mutchler, secre
tary of the Lord's Day Alliance of
Pennsylvania, who had written a let
ter to Mr. Steele calling his attention
to the fact that baseball on Sunday
is a violation of Pennsylvania's blue
laws as interpreted by the Superior
Court.
Told of the stand taken by the Rev.
Steele, the secretary of the alliance,
said he personally would not bring the
prosecution, but that he expected ac
tion to be taken by the Delaware
County Alliance, an auxiliary of the
State organization.
Allies Parade in Paris
to Mark Turn of Tide
! Paris, July 16. The grand army
of the French Republic—a tiny por
tion of It drawn from the trenches —
No More Dangerous
Glare or Dimming
WARNER LENZ
Puts Daylight over the whole road and on both sides
Throws enough light everywhere—and nowhere too much
Sizes to fit any motor lamp.
B to 9-in. incl. 9 % to 10-in. incl. 10 V 4 to 12-in. incl.
$3.50 $4.00 $5.00
(All orders prepaid.)
HARRISBURG AUTO CO.
HAMILTON AND SUSQUEHANNA STREETS
supported by detachments of the al
lies, marched down the Champs Ely
sees yesterday and paraded the boule-1
vards in triumph. Paris had her day j
at last. After two years of weary, anx
ious waiting, to-day's ceremonial was
a patriotic celebration of the fact that i
it is Germany's turn to be on the de- !
fensive, rather than on the 127 th an
niversary of the fall of the Bastille.
Although the weather was leaden—
the morning beginning with rain—the
crowd began gathering at the Inval- j
ides and the Place Concorde as early
as 4 o'clock. By nine it is estimated
1,250,000 persons packed every evail- j
able space along the four-mile route of |
the march. The crowd was probably |
(different in its cheers and different in
jits faith. Although enthusiastic and.
i often wildly so, not once was gay.
! This was a war parade, not a peace
i one.
TO CArCTJS OX SESSION
By Associated Press
Washington, July 15. Senate
Democrats will caucus to-night to de- |
cide whether the legislative program |
drawn up recently shall be extended
at the cost of lengthening the pres-1
> ert session of Congress beyond Sep-'
tember 1. Many Democrats are in-1
sistent that special measures be added
to the program agreed on, hut leaders j
realize this means a session lasting i
into the Fall.
JULY 15, 1916.
Protest Forces League
Island Into Navy Bill
Washington, July 15. Without de
bate, the Senate late yesterday restored
the Philadelphia Navy Yard as one of
the four government yards on which
$6,000,000 is to be expended for equip
ment for battleship building.
Senator Penrose explained that the
Philadelphia yard was eliminated from
the House bill by a "typographical er
ror." and no objection was made to its
restoration. At the same time Senator
Penrdse had the bill amended to in
clude Philadelphia as one of the
ports which should be investigated by
the army and navy officials and im
provements made which would pro
vide adequate facilities for operation
of the fleet.
I. Used Car Sale jf
Quite a Number of Good Serviceable !S3>
££= Cars of Older Types
H $125 UP
Nothing Misrepresented
Must Be Sold 'Within a Few Weeks
No Reasonable Offer Refused
2 Paekards
4 Chalmers W&;,
Haynes
Everett
National aj'
Pullman
Mitchell
Regal !§£
Electric * !§£,
Inter-State Sjf
Several rebuilt Cadillacs. pjg-
Sold this week: One Chalmers, on® gg;
Overland, oue Chandler and one Ram
bier. |H
Crispen Motor Car Co. |||
413-417 S. Cameron Street
Nine New Typhoid Cases
at Altoona; Trace Source
Altoona, July 15. Nine persons,
supposed to have typhoid fever, were
admitted to the Altoona Hospital. The
total number of cases in the city since
June is now 34. Thirty of these are
due to infected ice cream. The others
, are believed to have been contracted
outside of Altoona. The health au
" thorities believe they have discovered
- the cause of the outbreak. A young
i man working at the icc cream plant
. became 111. His father, living in a
nearby town, took him home before
' the case was diagnosed. It is now be
i lieved the young man had typhoid
fever.
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