DAYTON AIRLESS TIRES Are neither solid nor pneu matic, but are built with piers of live new rubber within and vulcanized to a casing similar to a pneu matic tire. NO PUNCTURES OF BLOW-OUTS Women can't change tires, men hate to. All tire troubles are eliminated by the Dayton Airless construc tion. EASY RIDING AND ECONOMICAL We guarantee in writing that these tires are as easy riding as a properly in flated pneumatic. They are the utmost in tire service. We will gladly demon strate them and show you the principle of construc tion. See us to-day. Harrisburg Equipment Company 50 S. CAMERON ST. Distributor* for the Watxon Suspension Wheel r 6-Fiissetger Touring $665 Roadster Type $540 Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Pboue 3515 "The Car oi Xo Regrets'' The King Is the second oldest auto mobile la the United States; 1916 model sllsO 7-Passenger Touring .. Good Territory For Uve Dealers King Car Sales Co. 80 8. CAMERON ST. in Ensminger Motor Co. Third & Cumberland Sti. AUTO STORAGE— First class. fireproof garage. open day and night. R a t<» reasonable. Auto Trans, (jaragc Brmgmg Up Father @ # «j>~ <g> # us ? 1 -, i|| «sssss I , —■, IIIIIIITI u ST" V /C\ > "SK"! I MO' ) LLJ 'SS'SSJ' «_*— _._» i_! !!_J! »' 'i • ■ SATURDAY EVENING, OUR HOME STATE KEEPS STEP WITH GOOD ROAD MARCH National Touring Week Shows Advance of Highway Development America is enjoying a steady and emphatic progress in the building of good highways, in which our own State is a very material factor, accord ing to the information brought forth by National Touring Week. In con nection with this campaign in the in terest of a national automobile out ing those in charge found It in line with their work to make as first hand an investigation as possible of the mileage and condition of that mile age in the several States. The report on roadway in our own State contributed to the promoters of National Touring Week by our State Highway Department is as follows: GOOD ROADS IN PENNSYLVANIA By W. R. D. Hall. Statistician State Highway Department The Pennsylvania State Highway Department has exclusive Jurisdiction over 10.200 miles of roads forming the State Highway System. There are 97,850 miles of public roads in Penn sylvania or approximately two miles of road for each square mile of terri tory in the State. The State High way Department of Pennsylvania was reorganized in 1911 by the passage of a law known as the Sproul Act, which provided for the reorganization of the existing Department, increasing its personnel and amplified its powers. This Act also designated 296 routes, forming the State Highway System, over which the State Highway Depart ment, as noted before, was given ex clusive control. The Sproul Act num bered each route and gave the list of important places through which it passed, as, for example: "Route Num ber 1, from Harrisburg to Sunbury. Commencing at a point on the boun dary line of the City of Harrisburg, and running by way of Dauphin, Hali fax and Millersburg to a point on the dividing line between Dauphin nad Northumberland counties: thence, by way of Hemdon, into Sunbury, North umberland countv." Each one of the 296 State Highway routes was thus designated and described In the Sproul Act. It was recognized by the Legislature of 1911 that the formation of this vast highway system would necessitate j large expenditures for the purposes of | reconstruction and maintenance. The revenues of the State, from which all legislative appropriations are drawn, were known to be insufficient to fl | nance the highway problem in Penn- I sylvanla. Therefore, it was proposed jthat an amendment to the constitu- I tion be passed which would permit a i bond issue of fifty million dollars for highway purposes. It is necessary in Pennsylvania in order to amend the | constitution, that two successive Legis latures pass a resolution calling for the amendment and specifving the purposes for which it is proposed. This : resolution, having been passed by two successive Legislatures, then goes to the people for ratification at the polls. The 1911 Legislature, having passed the Sproul Act. approved a resolution calling for the constitution amend | ment. There seemed to be sentiment in favor of such acUon at that time. | The State Highway Department en ! tered upon a period of reorganization and reconstruction. The Sproul Act provided, among other things, that ; complete surveys be made of the State | and of the counties of the State for the purpose of issuing road maps : which should be entirely accurate, i With this survey work and with such | reconstruction as was feasible with the I moneys at hand, the State Highway : Department occupied Itself during the next two years. ! The 1913 Legislature, with the same j ideas in view as had its predecessor, increased the mileage of State High way routes by adding ITS more routes to the system, bringing the total mile age up to 10,200. This Legislature, I likewise, again passed the resolution | for the constitutional amendment. This constitutional amendment came before the people for ratification at the election of November, 1913. it j was defeated. Under the Constitution | of this State a defeated constitutional amendment cannot be resubmitted for popular approval until five years have elapsed. i The Commonwealth of Pennsvlva- I nia. therefore, was left in the embar rassing position of having assumed the jurisdiction and exclusive care of 10,- 200 miles of its highway with revenues totally insufficient to finance such an undertaking. In consequence of this the State Highway Department has been living a hand-to-mouth existence since that time and has been com- I pelled to devote most of its energies to the proper maintenance of the State j Highway System. 1 _ thtAißiYicsn /wm/frjr ENSMINGER MOTOR CO. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Distributors. That life is not all a proposition of ] guns and drums along the Mexican border, is shown by the accompanying photograph, taken recently at El Paso, Texas. The Buquor Motor Company, I distributors of Maxwell cars in El Paso, were awake to the romance of j the month of June. They painted some of their Maxwell touring cars pure white, a real bridal tone, and any happy couples getting married in the Texas town had the use of a car free for the weddng festivities. This photograph shows a gay wed The 1915 Legislature, realizing the conditions which confronted the De partment, declined to sanction the ad dition of more mileage to the State Highway System, the sole exception being one important historical high way which it was generally recognized should belong to the State. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, who has been a consistent and able advocate of good roads and who has insisted that the State Highway Department be so conducted as to give the greatest effi ciency to the people, supported the Legislature in thus limiting the in crease of mileage in the State High way System. With the knowledge that any ex tensive era of construction was out of the question in view of the financial limitations of the Department, the 1915 Legislature made an appropria tion of $8,300,000 to the State High way Department for all purposes dur ing the biennial period of 1915-17. Of this lump sum appropriation sl,- 500,000 was specifically designated as the State's share of the cash tax bonus due the townships under a previous enactment which abolished the time honored practice of working out road taxes on the highways and specified that each township collect its taxes in cash, the State agreeing to a re fund of fifty per cent, of the amount thus collected provided that it did not exceed twenty dollars a mile. As the State had been unable to fulfill its pledged repayment to the town ships, this $1,500,000 was specifically designated for that purpose and over it the State Highway Department ex ercised merely custodial care. In the $8,300,000 appropriation, $500,000 was set aside as the State's share in State-aid construction and maintenance of highways, this being the system whereby the State bore fifty per cent, of the cost of the con struction and maintenance of an im proved road, the remaining fifty per cent, being borne by the applying par ties, who were designated as the county, the township and the borough, any one of them or any two of them or all three of them in conjunction. Still another item in the $5.300,000 appropriation was that of $250,000 specifically appropriated for the pur chase or condemnation of turnpike toll roads. Fifty thousand dollars was specifi cally appropriated for the mainten ance, repair and reconstruction of the Old National, or Cumberland Road, the only road ever built by the Fed eral Government. This road passes through three counties in the south western corner of Pennsylvania. With these specific appropriations deducted from the $8,300,000 lump sum, there remained $6,000,000 or $3,000,000 a year, which was appro priated for the maintenance, care and construction of State highways. As the mileage of the State Highway Sys tem is 10,200 and as the amount thus appropriated is $3,000,000 a year, it can be seen readily that the amount available for each mile in the State Highway System is less than S3OO a year. With these fActs confronting the of flclals of the State Highway Depart ment, It was decided that the subject of construction must be left indeter minate and that the work of the De partment during the seasons of 1915 and 1916 must be concentrated upon the proper maintenance of the high ways under its control. Another factor entered Into this consideration. The moneys derived from the registration and licensing of motor vehicles by the Automobile Di vision of the State Highway Depart ment had heretofore been appro priated to the Department for use on the State Highways. Owing to the fact that the State's revenues were deemed Insufficient to meet the large demands made upon them by Institutions and charities. It was found that the Legis lature would not be able to appro priate the full amount necessary for the State Highway Department exclu sive of this automobile money. There fore, the Appropriation Bill, calling for $8,300,000, contained a proviso that the appropriation should "include and not be in addition to the moneys derived from the registration and li censing of motor vehicles." There fore, while the State Highway Depart ment receives indirectly, as a part of the general fund, the motor vehicle license money, it does not receive It in addition to the appropriation made from the general funds. Necessarily, the amount of construc -1 tlve work done by the Department HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH ; ding party. The bride and her attend | ants are wearing cunning sport jack ets with stripes to match the slip cov i ers on the Maxwell car. I Needless to say, the fleet of pure white Maxwells has been very popu j lar in El Paso during the open season | for matrimony. While a war game is in progress across the Rio Grande, ithe Maxwell distributors are promot ing a little game of hearts in Texas. Business is reported brisker than us ual at the marriage license counter in El Paso. during the 1915-16 seasons has been slight. One important link in the northern main route to the west. througTi the Juniata Valley, is under process of construction. It is ap proximatey four miles long and ex tends from Mill Creek to Huntingdon, in Huntingdon County, or State High way Route Number 33. In Chester and Delaware Counties State High way Route Number 131 is the Old Baltimore Pike, the original highway opened up from Philadelphia into Maryland and connecting the colony of Pennsylvania with the southern col onies. Public-spirited citizens of these counties, recognizing that the State Highway Department was ham pered by lack of funds, raised $70,000 by private contribution to assist the State Highway Department in the re construction of this historic highway Fifty thousand dollars of this sum was contributed by residents in the towns and one contributed SIO,OOO to swell the total. The State entered into agreement with these public-spirited citizens, and, as a result, construction work is beirg carried on this year on this road. With the exception of these two pieces of State Highway con struction, the only other constructive work being done by the Department is on State-aid applications, several of wnich are under way in various coun ties of the State. Negotiations are pending with sev eral turnpike toll road companies for the acquisition of their properties by the State Highway Department. Four turnpike toll road properties have passed into the possession of the State, having been paid for out of the sum appropriated for that pur pose. The total mileage thus as sumed approximates 30. It is likely that several more of these toll roads will come into the possession of the State prior to January l. 1917, thus expending the total appropriation made for this purpose by the 1915 Legislature. In the season of 1915 the work done by the Maintenance Division of the State Highway Department was the maintenance of 6,648 piiles of earth, flint, gravel and shale roads; the re surfacing of 525 miles of waterbound ■ Used Car J have a number of exceptionally |a^" good propositions in used cars of var ious makes traded in on eight-cylinder During the last year we have sold about 85 used cars. These cars are practically all refinished and put in good condition. The purchasers have §? received good value for their money. g| ■gSl sold within the next couple of weeks, IpE' ygj and it would pay you to get in touch fp^ § Bj Crispen Motor Car Co. jgj |j 413-417 S. Cameron Street 3s' macadam roads: the oiling of 1,084 miles of roads and the maintenance of 1.355 miles of stone and other im proved roads. The work outlined for the 1916 sea son is as follows: The oiling, with a heavy grade oil covered with stone chips, of seven hundred one and three hundred ninety one-thousandths miles of State high ways and one hundred eighteen and ninety-one one thousandths miles of State-aid highways and the oiling, with a dust-laying oil. of two hundred ninety-seven and one hundred thirty eight one-thousandths miles of State Highways and forty-two and nine hundred thirty one-thousandths miles of State-aid highways, a total of one thousand one hundred fifty-nine and four hundred sixty-eight one-thou sandths miles. Of this work, on July 1. one hun dred fourteen and twenty-seven one hundredths miles of State Highways had been completed with the heavy oil and six and forty-three one-hun dredths miles of State-aid Highways had been similarly completed. On the same date twenty-two and thirteen one hundredths miles of State high ways had been treated with dust-lay ing oil and six miles of State-aid high ways had received the same treat ment, a total of one hundred forty eight and eighty-three one-hundredths miles done. The apparent smallness of this grand total is explained by the fact that the present season, to July 1, had been extremely ill-suited to road main tenance purposes. There had been persistent and heavy rainfalls and, as dryness of the roadbed is an essential to successful oiling, it had been im possible to push the work as rapidly as was desired. The following table gives the amount of resurfacing contemplated by the Maintenance Division of the tate Highway Department during the present season, the .first column con tains these figures and the second col umn gives the total number of miles completed July 1. In the first col ufnn the decimals are of thousandths of a mile. In the second column the decimals are of hundredths of a mile: Resurfacing State Highway Unbound Macadam. 105.412, 18.81; State Highway water bound macadam. 207.732, 52.39; State aid waterbound macadam, 25.695. 2.40: State highway flint, 6.312, 1.09; State highway gravel. 14.798. .93; State highway concrete construction. 5.255, 1.53; Total. 365.234, 77.45. Packard With Aviation Motor Breaks Record The track record at the Indianapolis speedway was broken on August 2 by Phil Rader in the "Aeroplane Car," equipped with a Packard aviation mo tor. J. G. Vincent, vice-president of en gineering. sent the following telegram to Alvan Macauley, president of the Packard Motor Car Company, relative to the trial of the speed car: "Rader driving Packard Twin Six Special equipped with 298 cubic inch aviation motor broke Indianapolis track record to-day by driving a lap in one minute, thirty seconds, flat, or an average of 100 miles per hour. He carried a mechanic and 40 gallons of gasoline. Best previous record was jnade with 380 cubic inch motor, no mechanic was carried and very little gasoline. This is just another proof that the Twin Six principle is right for both high and low speed. Could make faster time by putting in lower gear ratio for this track, but am satisfied and will make no further trials at present." AUGUST 12, 1916. BIG BICYCLE TIRE SALE See Large Window Display All tires purchased here cemented on free of charge. $3.00 Gripper Tread $1.95 $2.00 Non-skid $1.75 $3.50 Firestone Non-skid $2.95 $3.50 Triple Tread $2.95 $2.25 Roadster $1.85 $2.50 Success $2.20 All the above are First Grade Tires —No Seconds — and are all guaranteed. HEAGY BROS. 1200 N. Third Street Open Evenings CLASS RATES UNREASONABLE Washington. Aug. 12.—Class rates and commodity rates between Shreve port. La., and points in Southern Texas, were to-day pronounced by the Inter state C<ynmerce Commission unreason able and prejudicial to Shreveport and ordered readjusted. The decision is the culmination of the celebrated Shreve port rate case. jfi SATISFACTION IS OUR WATCHWORD S L£j Does the O. K. of thousands of satisfied customers mean lortklSK I • Ra to yout Holiest dealings and full value have made us the largest r J jjf used enr dealers la Anertea. I ■ P" 1910 STDTZ Touring car; 1916 CHANDLER Touring 1916 COLE Touring car: 8- f ■ run S00() miles: two eitra oar: 7-rassenger: All up- cylinder: divided scat In ■ 1 na tires. ,to date fixtures front: great value. T J 1910 OLDSMOBILE: Bctl- 1916 PAIGE Touring car: iqia rttick Rnadtm nui- I ■ Bj 1 « a co"en ß t C ?o ß n<itU U n n" C " ! mTm" a 2U I ' art 1916 HAYNES Touring car: riflca. 1 1 E|J extra equipment: big sac- 1916 Studeb.iker Touring '? m "i'*'?! rc i r ■| J IUS rifice car: practically brand 1916 MITCHELL Touring " Z rfj 1916 nrnsov Roadster: new; agent's price. car: use onlT as demon- _ 1 |£ A 1 runn'ng order. 1910 PILUMAN Touring strstor: big bargain. ■II 1916 Bulck Touring ear: csr: roomy: 6 oas»eoger«: 1916 STCDKBAKCR Road- I 1 ll" D-45; crscksr-jsck condl- economical to run: bar- iter: 3 n»Mcngers: excel- f ■ 3™ tioa. gsin. lent condition. ■ * [c REBIILT TRUCKS A\D DELIVERY WAGONS [ " S GORSON'S AUTOMOBILE EXCHANGE [ J ftj 235-240 X. BROAD ST.. PHILADELPHIA. F J JJI SBTO FOR FREE BARGAIN BULLETINS. AGENTS WANTED. | J #— By this motormark is motorworth reckoned CJ Search the highways and the biways for a lagging Chalmers car. The late lamented Diogenes would have an easy occupation by com parison. Chalmers don't lag. Chalmers simply can't lag with that 3400 r. p. m. motor trans forming big antimated horsepower into liquid-smooth power and speed. The keen joy of going—easy go ing—without mortal knowledge of the source of unbroken, unhalter ing power, and push, and poise. That's Chalmers. <jf As a suggestion, spend five min utes with your hands on the wheel of a 3400 r. p. m. Chalmers and learn what "mastery of the road" really means. 1859 is our 'phone number will you call us, or shall we call you? Keystone Motor Car Co. C ' H M .®^er NER ' 1019 to 1027 Market St. XOT TO INTERFERE HERE The Western Union Telegraph Com-' pany will abandon the distributlon_£f mall order packages, and other de liveries after September 1. An order from New York City to thla effect reached Harrisburg yesterday. It will not interfere with local business. 9
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