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The above shows the Pathfinder Twin Six Cloverleaf Roadster, with J. J. Garvin, sales manager of the
Pathfinder Sales Company at the wheel. Co-operating with Mr. Garvin this week in the local field is H W
Prine, representing the Pathfinder factory. The coiverleaf roadster has attracted a great deal of attention
locally because of its beautiful lines. A Twin-Six Pathfinder is now making a ooast-to-coast trip on high gear.
This trip from the Pacific coast to New York City is officially supervised by an observer and is considered one
of the most remarkable tests to which an automobile has been subjected.
Pathfinder Making Coast
to Coast on High Gear
Miss Hilda Argall. of Denver, press
d a button at twelve o'clock, Pacific
time. July 3. which started the motor
of the Pathfinder twelve-cylinder car
in the Panama International Exposition
Grounds, at San Diego, Cal.. and amid
the cheering of twenty thouand on
lookers, the car started on its record
making high gear run across the entire
continent to New York Citv. The elec
trical equipment between Denver and
San Diego is the same used by Presi
dent Wilson in starting the Exposi
tion a year and a half ago. The motor
started smoothly and the car rolled away
from the Exposition Grounds on the
first leg of its journey to San Francis
co. Fron San Francisco the Pathfinder
will follow the route of the Lincoln
Highway over the Rocky mountains,
across the deserts and prairies on its
way east. The Pathfinder Twelve is a
regulation stock model with the excep
tion that there are but two gears in
stalled, high gear and reverse. This
does away with any sealing of the
years or any chance to make use of
low or intermediate gear in all the con
ditions of cross country touring, and is
heralded by The Pathfinder Company
as the greatest test of which a stocK
car was ever subjected. The car is
painted in the national colors, red
white and blue, and carries the Lincoln
Highway emblem on the sides.
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ENSMINGER
MOTOR CO.
I TiIIRD AXD CUMBERLAND STS.
Distributors.
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Ensmioger Motor Co.
Third & Cumberland Sts.
DISTRIUUTOUS
5-Passenger Touring 8665
Roadster Type $540
Ensminger Motor Co.
THIRD AXI) CUMBERLAND STS.
Bell Phone 3515
HUDSON SUPER SIX
SAXON
Hudson Sales Agency
1139 Mulberry Phone 1396
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SATURDAY EVENING.
Hudson Speed and Power
Surprised High Officials
"John A. Wilson, former president
of the American Automobile Associa
tion, has written President Chapin of
! the Hudson Motor Car Co., con
! gratulating him on the performance
of the Super-Six," said L. H. Hager
ling. Hudson distributor for this ter
j ritory.
I "In his letter the former head of
the A. A. A. said, 'I want to congratu
i late you and your company on the
performance of the Super-Six at New
York. When I was on the contest
j board of the A. A. A. at one of our
i J Chicago meetings the question of a
j mile-a-minute car came up, and when
I I made the statement that I did not
1 1 believe any 50-horsepower car then
\ built as a touring car would carry
I four people a mile in sixty seconds, I
i got. the laugh. Chairman Butler spoke
lup and said, "W r hy don't you offer a
cup?" I told him he could put the
I ofter In any one of his programs he
desired and make the price of the cup
anything he wanted, because I knew
I would not have to buy It. Stipula
tions were made that the 4-cylinder
cav was to have cylinders no larger
than 5%, to carry four people Includ
ing driver, each one to weigh at
least 160 pounds, top on but down,
no windshield, carrying no extras.
Only one person qualified, Barney
Oldfield. who drove a Knox car of the
required specifications and made one
way of the track mile In 1 minute
II seconds, the other way of the track
1 minute IS seconds. This was the
record for carrying four people In a
50-horsepower car for a long time.
Then along came the Packard, Mr.
Vincent driving, and he did better than
j Oldfield, but his car is what is called
! a high-powered car. Then came the
j demonstration of your Super-Six at
Sheepshead and, to the utter astonish
ment of the automobile world, you
reeled off not only one mile but many
miles at the rate of 72 miles an hour,
carrying four people, top and wind
shield up. Then to follow up with
the test at Daytona at the rate of 103
! miles an hour and then at Sheepshead
| Bay, making the wonderful run of 24
; hours, averaging 75.8 miles per hour
| for 24 hours, including stops. We cer
| tainly must all take our hats off to you
| and your staff. Where you get your
j power, how you get your speed, I, for
] one, am not able to see, but I am
i rather inclined to think you have set
j a mark that will keep them all guess
j ing for a while'."
"The Car of No Kegreis"
The Klug is the second oldest auto*
I mobile in the United States; 1916
model sllsO
7-Passenger Touring ..
Good Territory For Live Dealers
King Car Sales Co.
80 S. CAMERON ST.
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Number of Cylinders
Not Main Consideration
"Both the six-cylinder and twelve
cylinder cars of to-day are successful
and there is no occasion for a dealer
selling one kind to try and depreciate
the other type." said J. M. Davidson,
of the Pennsylvania Auto Sales Com
pany, Harrisburg, distributor of Na
tional cars.
"The fact that one manufacturer
has made a success of twelve-cylinder
cars is no reason another can not make
a success of six-cylinder cars. If a
layman prefers a twelve-cylinder ma
chine, very well; he can get his
money's worth in such a car, but there
is no reason why the builder of a six
should try to poison his mind against
twelve-cylinder cars as a class.
"Any sincere manufacturer of auto
mobiles is entitled to his opportunity
to tell of his product and to prove
that his claims are right. But no one
should try to tear down the good con
structive work built up by another.
"National builds both twelves and
sixes. We say that the number of
cylinders under the hood do not de
terminate the worth of a car. It is
possible to have a perfect engine and
still have a very imperfect automo
bile as a whole. One part, or one
feature of one part. Is good only when
it helps to compose a harmoniously
operating unit mechanism.
"We believe that a good twelve Is
a good car and a good six Is a good
car, and that is all there is to it. The
noise and row being raised over the
question are foolish. People who own
automobiles don't buy cylinders, gears,
axles, or any other separate me
chanical things jUBt to have such
pieces of machinery for themselves.
They want whole cars, complete units
of construction. Therefore, live and
lot live; let the public judge automo
biles by the only true teni, by perform
ance. If the right materials are in the
correct place and the car is built right,
you will get the right results from it."
Rubber Supply Increasing
and Lower Cost Possible
So many Industries are face to face
with constantly decreasing supplies of
raw materials and ever-increasing de
mands due to population growth that
the contrast afforded by the rubber
business looms up vividly.
In 1905, according to* figures given
out for publication by the B. F. Good
rich Company, uncultivated or "na
tive" rubber comprised 60,800 tons,
while In 1914 the production had
dropped back to 60,000 tons. But
cultivated or plantation rubber in the
same space of time had risen from 145
tons to 64,000 tons.
In 1917 the Goodrich company esti
mates that while native rubber pro
duction will have fallen to 34,500 tons,
plantation rubber will amount to
147,000 tons. By 1921, it is predicted,
209,000 tons of cultivated rubber will
be available, while but 30,000 tons of
native rubber will be produced.
Thus 1917 will show a total Increase
of 50 per cent. In crude rubber sup
plies over 1914, due to the fast-growing
production on plantations. And when
raw rubber reaches that level of cost
which vastly Increased supplies would
indicate, myriad new uses will be
added to those for which the present
relatively limited production is re
quired.
As ranches and open ranges become
converted Into farms, and the number
of cattle decreases, lessening the sup
ply of leather, while the population
which must wear shoes and the fac
tories which must have belting in
crease, rubber will step In more and
more to furnish better service at even
lower aqst.
Illustrations of these changes are
already at hand. The B. F. Goodrich
Company has announced textan, a
composition solo which is said to out
wear leather and is superior in many
respects. Goodrich rubber belting Is
fast supplanting expensive leather belt
ing and is said to perform the work as
well or better.
Keenly alive to the Importance of
to-morrow in the rubber field, the
Goodrich company states that it be
lieves in holding to fair and moderate
prices upo nail it produces. Thus it
hopes to hasten the "age of rubber,"
which, In its conviction, means greatly
Increased benefits to all humanity.
WILL MEET IV LANCASTER
Lancaster, Pa., July 16. The an
nual convention of the Pennsylvania
State Hotel Men's Association will be
held in this city October 16 and 17.
Lancaster won out over Scranton and
Bedford Springs in a contest before
the executive committee meeting here.
AUTO STORAGE—
First class, fireproof rarat>
open day and night. Rate,
reasonable.
Auto Trans. Garage
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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11 In No Other Car — |
under S7OO to SBOO do you get —
31V2 horsepower en bloc motor
50 miles per hour speed
I 4-inch tires
Cantilever springs ! I
20 to 25 miles on a gallon of gas
II Electric starter % • 1
| Electric lights
Complete equipment
That is why people in all parts of America are
1 1 almost fighting each other to get early deliveries.
|| Never in the history of the entire automobile ||
industry has there been such a phenomenal value.
We have just received a big shipment —hence
|| can make immediate deliveries if you place your ||
order now.
11 Do so at once —quick. 11
If The Overland-Harrisburg Co. if
Open Evenings 212 NORTH SECOND ST. Both Phones
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio
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Time Payment Plan
No need to wait any longer. Get your new car now. No need
now to dig deep into your savings or to scrimp for months in order
to pay for your car in one lump sum. The "GUARANTY PLAN"
makes that unnecessary.
You can now get any Overland or Willys-Knight Car for a small
payment down. Then you can pay the balance monthly—a little at
a time.
That in a word is the "GUARANTY PLAN" a thoroughly
organized, financially sound system of time -ayments to help people
buy Overland or Willys-Knight Cars.
The "GUARANTY PLAN" is one which we can heartily
recommend to all.
Come in right away, learn all about it and pick out your car.
It's just the sort of plan everyone has been waiting for.
And now it's here—an accomplished fact.
Of course there'll be a rush to take advantage of it.
So don't wait until we're slowed up on deliveries. Get your
order in now—specify immediate or later delivery as you wish, but
make sure of your car to-day. *
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The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
212 NORTH SECOND STREET
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JULY IS, 1916.
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