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NEW SERVICE STATION
READ YFORINSPECTION
Public Invited to Attend Opening of Keystone Motor Car
Company's Building Tomorrow Afternoon and Even
ing; Again as Large as Former Quarters to Meet De
mands of Increased Business
HOME OP CHALMERS,PEERLESS AND DODGE BROTHERS MOTORCARS
To-morrow marks tho opening of
the new sales and service station of
tho Keystone Motor Car Company at
67 to 103 South Cameron street. This
building has a frontage of 117 feet in
Cameron street and 100 feet deep with
two floors, making a total of 25,000
square feet of floor space. The sales
room for the display of the Chalmers,
Peerless and Dodge Brothers models
Is on the northwest section of the first
floor with offices adjoining and back
of that is a room devoted to the nu
merous repair parts and accessories
carried In stock. The greater part of
the first floor remaining is used for
garage purposes as well as the addi
tional space for car storage on the
■econd floor. The second floor also
Includes a completely equipped repair
department for the repairing and ad
justment of the motorcar mechanism.
An upholstery department for the
making of tops, cushions and back
rests is a feature on this floor and a
large room for the paint department,
as well as a separate room for the
varnishing where the finishing coats
may be applied jobs that have been re
painted.
The more pretentious quarters is a
decided contrast to the former loca
tion where the Keystone Motor Car
Company was established years ago.
Located on one of the principal streets
leading to and from Harrisburg and a
street which is rapidly becoming an
automobile row, the building is con
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C. H. BARNER
C. H. Barner, manager of the Key
stone Motor Car Company, has been
associated with the Keystone Company
for eight years, coming there as a re
pair man and expert mechanic and
later developed from a demonstrator
to a salesman. His success in the lat
ter position led to his appointment as
manager to succeed Robert L. Morton
when the latter resigned about eigh
teen months ago. Mr. Barner is a na
tive of Harrisburg with an extensive
acquaintance throughout Central
Avoiding Material Faults
in Dodge Brothers Car
Much has been said of the great
care used by Dodge Brothers in select
ing materials, but there is still a great
deal to be told of the tests to which
all material is subjected.
For instance, all brass and bronae
need in Dodge Brothers' cars is care
fully tested to ascertain the amount
of copper and lead and if the quantity
Is such that it might prove injurious,
the entire consignment of metal is re
jected. , ,
The method of testing was devel
oped in the Dodge Brothers' labora
toThe process of determining the "un
desirable elements" is similar to the
ordinary electroplating. The brass or
bronze under test is dissolved in acid
and Into this solution are placed two
electrodes, consisting of platinum
eauzes. A direct current Is applied
and the resultant electrolytic action
causes the copper to be deposited on
one gauze and the lead on the other.
The weight of the deposit is then de
termined by an extremely delicate set
of scales. Platinum electrodes are
used because platinum is immune to
the chemical action taking place dur
ing the electroplating. Incidentally, it
might be mentioned that the little
gauzes weigh considerably more than
an ounce—and that platinum these
days Is worth from $3.50 to $4.00 a
gramme—and that there are 28
grammes, of course, to the ounce.
How Steel Is Tested
to Ascertain Hardness
Machines and devices for testing
the materials that BO into automobiles
are being constantly developed and
improved. A notable advance is the
new Brinell steel testing machine, of
•which one of the finest examples In
the country is installed in the labora
tory of Dodge Brothers.
With this machine tho hardness of
the various steels that enter Into
Dodge Brothers' cars is tested and
careful checks are kept on all mate
2*ial
In testing a piece of steel it is
placed in the machine and a small
■teel ball of great hardness is pressed
Into the piece to be tested. By the
pressure exerted, which is indicated
on a gauge, and by the dimensions of
the impression made on the piece,
th operator is able to make com
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
spicuously situated and so near the
principal thoroughfares leading In
every direction that every section of
the city Is conveniently accessible
from this point. At night the electric
sign and a number of arcs will help to
make this busy thoroughfare a still
brighter lookiug place.
Distributors for the Chalmers Sixes,
the Peerless Eight and Dodge Brothers
Four, tho Keystone Motor Car Com
pany covers an extensive territory
throughout Central Pennsylvania with
associate dealers in the various coun
ties adjoining Harrlsburg and in others
more remote.
C. H. Barner, manager of the Key
stone Motor Car Company, reports the
most prosperous senson in the history
of the company. The increasing busi
ness made it necessary to get in more
commodious quarters in order to have
tho proper service facilities to meet
the requirements of a business estab
lishment which is the distributing cen
ter for three of the leading motorcar
concerns in the country.
Associated with Mr. Barner in the
sales department are William Zumbro,
H. E. Early and Merlo Cope. J. R.
Hoffman is office manager. Jacob A.
Markley is foreman of the mechanical
department, with J. A. Herr in charge
of the paint department and S. Wag
ner superintending the trimming and
upholstering work. Assisting them is
a staff of trained mechanics and serv
ice men.
Pennsylvania, gained during the eleven
years in which he has been identified
with the motorcar industry. A great
deal of the success of the Keystone
Motor Car Company, and its rapid
growth in recent years is due to Mr.
Barner's untiring energy and hustling
qualities. No matter whether he is out
after business at the wheel of his car,
or in the service station, the pace he
sets is a rapid one and his example is
an inspiration for his men and imbues
the whole establishment with the
spirit of hustle.
parison with certain standard figures
and arrive at the exact hardness of
the steel tested.
This method of testing steel has
largely superseded the old method
whereby small steel balls were drop
ped on the test piece and the height
of the rebound indicated the hard
ness of the steel.
Both the machines are the inven
tions of J. A. Brinell, a Swedish engi
neer, who has a wonderful reputation
because of his knowledge of steel
and its composition.
FOOTBALL, HURT FATAL
El Centro, Cal., Nov.-22.—Ephraim
Angell, 20 years old, a high school stu
dent, died here yesterday from a
broken neck received in a football
I practice game.
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A native of Harrisburg who is one c
of the livewire salesmen at tho Key- '
stone Motor Car Company.
CHAWS HERE
FOR SEVEN TEARS
Keystone Motorcar Company
Have Placed Many Chalmers
in This Section
For seven years the Chalmera I
motorcars have been represented In
.this district by the Keystone Motor
Car Company, and the hundreds of
Chalmers cars that are to be seen on
the highways to and from Harrlsburg
is evidence of its popularity as their
leading seller. The most popular
model in the Chalmers line is the 3400
r. p. m. which came into being one
year ago last September. This Six-30
had tho remarkable sale of $22,000,-
000 in orders in the convention hall
at the factory when the dealers as
sembled first saw the model on ex
hibit, and before the first year com
pleted $56,000,000 in orders rec
orded for this one r. p. m. Chalmers.
Forty-eight thousand cars in all.
This season the 3400 r. p. m. Chal
mers is being produced in two lengths
of wheel-base; a 115-inch five pas
senger car and a distinct touting and
closed body styles have been built. In
corporating the most advanced trend
of design.
The seven-passenger Chalmers re
flects the influence of foreign design
on American body lines. From the
Blant of tho hood, on through the
tilted windshield and double cowl, the
car has the appearance of an expen
sive European creation. The extra
Inches of wheelbase insure a tonneau
of ful capacity for five passengers,
without crowding the driver's com
partment In any way.
Deep nine-Inch leather upholstery
increases tho comfort of passengers
on long tours over country roads and
on ill-paved city streets. Two leather
backed auxiliary chairs fold into the
rear of the front seats, out of sight
when not in use. A highly polished
black walnut panel in the rear cowl
brightens the appearance of the whole.
The front compartment Is roomy and
comfortable. The conventional In
strument board has been superseded
by a cluster arrangement of the In
strument ), carried in an aluminum
housing convenient to the driver.
Equipped with the 3400 r. p. m. mo
tor, the seven-passenger Chalmers is
ideally suited to the needs of the av
erage American family. The price of
this model is $1,280, Detroit.
Offered also, on the 122-inch wheel
base, for 1917, are three handsome
closed car models. The town car, and
limousine embody distinct advances in
design, affording at the same time
ample room for seven passengers. The
touring sedan is one of the handsomest
all-year-round types ever mounted on
a Chalmers chassis.
Lady Duff Gordon, more familiarly
known as Luclle, and famous in New
York, London and Paris as a modiste,
has designed the interior trimmings,
and upholstery for all Chalmers closed
cars for 1917. As a result, excellent
taste and the richest of materials
have been combined to form a series
of closed cars deluxe for milady of the
American family.
Jn the Chalmers touring sedan, per
fect driving comfort is afforded at all
seasons of the year. In warm weath
er, the front and door windows can
he dropped into the body. If still
more breeze is desired, the windshield
can be dropped, and the rear quarter
windows and window pillars can be
stowed away in a special compart
ment back of the rear seats. The re
placing of the windows, transforming
the car into a vehicle for inclement
weather, can be accomplished in a
few moments.
The driver's seat is of the club chair
type, deeply upholstered. Next to it,
but separated by an aisle is a folding
chair seat that swings back against
the right side wall when not in use.
An auxiliary seat swings out from the
back of the driver's seat if seating ca
pacity for six passengers is desired.
Ebonized interior moldings har
monize with the refined interior ap
pointments of the compartment., All
seats are upholstered with finest qual
ity curled hair and covered with heavy-
Bedford cloth in either black and j
white or buff.
The Chalmers Town car has en-1
closed seats for five passengers with]
room for driver and extra passenger
on front seat. Here too, Lucile has
specified the interior furnishings, in
cluding upholsteries, carpets and silk
window hangings. When the two aux
iliary seats in the passenger's com
partment are not needed, they fold in
to the compartment wall out of sight.
In warm weather, the door windows
may be lowered or adjusted to any I
position by means of an automatic |
regulator. The town car is the ideal j
machine for the city dweller and is
built to meet a big demand in the
metropolitan centers for a car of this
type.
The limousine seats seven passen
gers and also has a handsome inter-1
ior by Lucile. All Chalmers closed car
equipment is very complete including
electric dome lights, vase for cut flow
ers, chauphone speaking tulle, loung
ing pillow, hassock and robe rail. A
dainty toilette case and smoking set
are concealed In panels which are re
leased by a touch of an ebony button.
On the 115-inch chassis, the Chal
mers Six-30 will again be continued
in touring, roadster and cabriolet
styles. The Chalmers cabriolet has
already won high favor among those
motorists desiring an all-season car.
Comfortable seating capacity for three
pasengers is provided, the driver's
seat being advanced to allow greater
ease of operation. For physicians and
other professional men who must
drive in al varieties of weather the
cabriolet Is tho ideal type.
Wire wheels are optional at extra
cost on the Chalmers roadster and
Cabriolet models.
THREE OF KEYSTONE'S HUSTLERS
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MERLO COPE
Formerly a traveling salesman who
chose to Identify himself with the mo
torcar business aa a salesman for the
Keystone Motor Car Company,
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
I A Great Loss and a Greater Gain
This business has rounded out twenty- volume every day, Dodge Brothers are
two months of existence by distribut- "losing business" by their policy of
ing to owners more than one hundred keeping production within the bounds
thousand cars. of continuous betterment. i
Price-concessions on this car are rarely that sense they have doubtless suf- =
asked, and never given with Dodge fered a great loss in the past and will =
Brothers consent or to their knowledge. endure a great loss in the future.
You can therefore figure accurately . over a S a i ns t this great loss is an =
the amount invested by the public infinitely greater gain.
| in Dodge Brothers cars, by multiplying The people of the United States have I
the output by the retail selling price. implicit faith in the integrity of Dodge
One hundred thousand cars at $785 Brothers manufacturing methods,
per car means a sales-total in less than One hundred thousand owners —or
two years' time of $78,500,000 or, rather, one hundred thousand families
| with freight-cost added, considerably —are practically of one mind concerning
more than $80,000,000. the car and the men who make it.
There have been no bursts of speed in This business and its product are
the up-building of this great business. blessed with a friendship probably with- I
§ , , , out parallel in the history of American §
At no tune has there been even an at- manufacturing.
tempt at stimulation of sales or of g
production. Fresh from the factory, or sold at
. second-hand, from one end of the
Never for a single day has production nation to the other, the car has special
been speeded up for the sake of attain- value and a special reputation, because
ing a total. Q f the name it bears.
On the contrary, it has been held down Because of the name it bears, you may
every day within the limits of close, be sure that the principle behind the
careful, conscientious manufacturing. car will never be changed a hair's
1 Both production and sales have been breadth.
stable, steady and spontaneous —scru- Dodge Brothers have only one idea in
pulous care in the one, producing huge the upbuilding of their business.
1 . volume in the other.
That idea is to build so soundly and so
i At this moment, as at every other well that the good will which they have
period, although producing a large won will grow and endure forever.
Tht gaaoline consumption is unusually low.
The tU*e mileage ia unusually high.
1 KEYSTONE MOTOR CAR CO. ]
5 7 to 103 S. Cameron St.
HARRISBURG, PA. C. H. EARNER, Manager |
The price of the Touring Car or Roadster, complete, price of the Winter Touring Car or Roadster,
H ia $785 (f. o. b. Detroit) complete, including regular mohair top, ?.a ~
H $950 (f. o. b. Detroit)
Hill-Climbing Most Severe
Test Says Chalmers Man
That the hill-climb continues to be
the most severe test for motorcars, is
vouched for by Fred Junk, the youth
ful Chalmers pilot, who captured the
free-for-all event in the Giants' De
spair Hill Climb at Wllkes-Barre last
month. Junk drove a Chalmers Six
to first place in his class event on
Pike's Peak in August and is well
qualified to define difficulties of
mountain-climbing.
"Without considering the merits of
speedway and hill-climb events, froijji
the strenuous standpoint, the fact re
mains that the latter test is the one
to which the majority of owners put
their cars," said Junk, yesterday. "No
owner buys a car to race it at top
speed for 100 or 150 miles, but he does
require the motor of his machine to
possess sufficient power to climb the
steepest grades on his touring trips
across country.
"For this reason, the past year wit
nessed a revival of interest in hill
climb events in all sections of the
country. At Pike's Peak and Giants'
Despair, big crowds turned out to ob
serve the performance of the best
American cars on the highest auto
mobile roads in the country.
"In hill-climbing, the strain on the
rear axle, including the driving and
propeller shaft is almost double that
given the car in fast work over level
roads. Second speed traveling is nec
essary in surmounting the steep 20
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W. H. ZUMBRO
Well known In the business circles
i of Harrisburgr, Mr. Zumbro is among;
the young men who are making good
i as an automobile salesman with the I
Keystone Motor Car Company,
per cent, grades on mountains such as
Pike's Peak and Giants' Despair. This
imposes not only extra strains on the
axle, but on the transmission and also
requires a cooling system thjjt will
take care of the extraordinary de
mands made upon it in high altitudes.
"In speedway events, the fastest
speed is obtained in the straight-aways
and the drivers rest their motors on
the turn. In hill-climbing, the motor
must be kept hard at work, because
the force of gravity is constantly in
operation and tugging at the rear
wheels. I have found nothing in track
events which compares with the twist
ing, weaving motions of a car making
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Electrical Wiring and Fixtures
In the new home of the Keystone Motor Car Co., was
installed by the
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Columbia Electric Co.,
1253 Market St.
This is but one of the many large wiring and electrical fixture
contracts we have recently fulfilled. We are always glad to make
estimates on all manner of electrical wiring jobs, etc.
Our Electrical Store will be found completely stocked with all
that's to be desired including gas and electrical fixtures, the famous
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Hot-Point goods and Regina cleaners.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1916.
a fast turn on a hill. In my opinion,
a car which can successfully meet a
test of this kind, is so constructed as
to render perfect satisfaction, even in
the hands of an inexperienced driver."
The crowd of 60,000 persons who
witnessed the contest swarmed out on
the tracks at many points, leaving
only a narrow lane for the cars to
pass through. Junk drove a roadster
and a stripped chassis in the three
events Saturday, winning the SI,OOO
| Hollenback trophy, the Philadelphia
Press trophy and the cup for 230-inch
I displacement event. His time of one
minute and forty-one seconds was the
fastest of the day over the course.
Von Jagow Is Reported
Out of German Cabinet
Amsterdam, Nov. 22.—Gottlieb von
Jagow, the German minister of foreign
affairs, has resigned, according to a
Berlin dispatch. The condition of his
health is given as the cause of his
resignation.
Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under sec
retary of feorign affairs, the dispatch
adds, probably will succeed Herr von
Jagow.
The Tageblatt prints a rumor that
Herr von Jagow will became ambas
sador at Vienna.