OORSOM'S We offer you unusual itfingt on used auto* of quality. We feel confident of pleasing you in your selection of an auto a* we have at this time a most imposing array of £jfffe-used cars. We solicit a visit from you. • 1000 USED CARS ON OUR SALESFLOORS SEDAN; run 1918 PAIGE Roatlater: 1916 PULLMAN Taurine imL ' e3: , c ?! l< ' u t fun- "Fairfield" 46: (illicitly cnr: electric near shift" oltlon: extra tire: bar- .i.eil: hie banrain. extra tire- barvaln IWO SUPHIt six HOD- " SON Cabriolet: mm mirnr i\?t\ t j Hl>ft DC ■' J25. 101(1 MAX WELL Touring A® 23J5 li -MM O ? HUP Raeeabout: fallT cnr: coot* little to hin: ' *7 n<l Winter e.iulDDcil: *17."., crackcr-Jack nbstx: 1425. flnp "bane: *475. 1910 j SCRIPPS BOOTH 1916 CHEVROLET tjnn -1918 WINTON Tourlne ear: "£*•££=♦ I JH?,?"" : electrfc equlpi^S?; perfect condition: can be tf ,V r Vrl V? 'i.? 5 ' . MOO. bought rlcbt. 1016 CHALMERS 'louring 10| _ _ . _ 'ar: light PIX: ownor will 10 .™ BUICK Tourfn* enr: I® l ® CADILLAC Touring soil at n uncrlftce. ■D-45: Derfect condl enr: 8-c.vl.; divided front 1016 MAXWELL Touring: tlon:.a roiid. seati: *lto coTcre. *330. FORDS. 1100 to $225 LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LIMOUSINES AND TKUCKS. GORSON'S AUTOMOBILE EXCHANGE 238-240 NORTH BROAD STREET. PHILA. Open Sunday 9to 2. Agents Wanted. COMPENSATION HELPS THE MINERS Results of First Eight Months Shows What It Meant in Hard Coal Field State official figures show that dur ing the first eight months of the operation of Pennsylvania's workmen's compensation law that 7,291 compen sation cases occurred In the anthracite coal field of Pennsylvania. Of this number of claims 333 were fatalities, while 6,968 persons were more or less seriously injured, being Incapacitated for fourteen days of more. The average weekly wage of the 333 men killed was $13.80, a total of $238,960.80, As 233 of those killed ► < ►: The Price of ► '< Briscoe Motor ► < ► < Cars Advances < ► < : $60.00 Jan. Ist < ► < SAVE S6O by getting your < Briscoe car before the < fjjM* of the year. On and after i ► New Year's Day the price of < the Briscoe Four-Twenty- < J Four Touring Car and Four- ' ►! Passenger Roadster be < ► $685 f. o. b. Jackson, Michi- < I gan; the beautiful Coachaire ■ ► will be sßlo—now is $750. - < ► < ► < > See the Half-Million Dollar " ► Motor and the stunning f* > Briscoe models at our show- < v rooms to-day. ' ►S ■ 4 > SAVE OVER 11 PER CENT ' J BEFORE JANUARY FIRST < ► < E. T. MEHRING Distributor 1717 N. 4th St. < ► 4 THE CAR WITH THEVIA HALF MILLION DOLLAR MOTOR ► ► BATTERY ♦ < ** SERVICE ' AN EYE FOR THE OPTICIAN I ► < * A TOOTH FOR THE DENTIST { j i AND A STORAGE BATTERY I t FOR ' * " fiXt&C " Battery Service Station. Specialists , We care for, recharge and repair or renew all makes of storage bat-' ' ~ Excelsior Auto Company t 11th and Mulberry Streets SATURDAY EVENING, were married and 100 single It is figured out that in 181 cases already adjusted it will take $-158,499.08 to pay the compensation claims or an aver age of $2,505.51 for each man killed. The men killed left 481 children. The figures were completed for Commissioner of Labor and Industry John Price Jackson from reports filed for the period between January 1 and September 1 and form the first com plete statistics of the kind for the State. Eighty-seven Americans were in cluded in the death list, more than of any other nationality. Seventy-four Poles, included in the fatality list, left 14 4 children while the 87 Amer icans killed left 9 6 children. The nationalities of the other men killed are: Lithuanians, 43; Russians, 33; Slavish, 21; Italians, 32; Austrians, 18; Germans, 6; Welsh, 7; Irish, 4; Hungarians, 3; Greeks, 2; Scotch, 2; English, 1. NEW HOME OF MILLER 1 I \ f •.-•.• ••• • • i N' 'r~ rr .-'H-V- T v '''ifiMi'tfKMHf'fflßffil • ho T U® .A*#®. Tlre Company, Harrisburg distributors for Miller Tires, have been compelled to seek more convenient and larger quarters. The new l rl a M°.lJ l,^^ aboVe a ; I° 9 South Second street was bought and specially remodeled for the uses of the company. Basement and storeroom are given over flr, flo a . lb ' of tires tubes and sundries; while rear cellar, rea? of 2 reai' of second floor are used for repair shop purposes, where, ihi /q. i'i ® Piece of equipment, modern vulcanizing will be done in the expert Sterling way by thoroughly competent workmen OVERLAND BOYS HAVE RETURNED Three-Day Trip to Toledo Fac tory Proved Entertaining and Instructive Back from Toledo, Ohio, tired but en thusiastic In their praise of what they saw and how royally they were enter tained, the Overland distributors, deal ers and guests arrived in Harrisburg yesterday at 4 o'clock on the Overland special. The three days enroute and at the factory was crowded to the limit with a good time, instructive informa tion by lectures and inspection of the mammoth factory, as well as getting posted in the new features on the 1917 models, and the pleasure of travel. The two days' program Included a rollicking beefsteak dinner, a more formal banquet, a minstrel show, a con cert by the famous Overland l Band and a concert by the glee club, and a speech by John Willys, the moving genius of the great Willys-Overland organiza tion. Tho best talent selected from among the 18,000 employes was there to help entertain the guests and their effort wasfequal to many of the lead ing professional events one sees at lo cal thoaters. Mr. Willys Is an entertaining talker of pleasing personality who t6ld of how the big motorcar works was de veloped from a little plant purchased In 1908 wherein forty-seven cars were built that year by a working force of 250 employes. The next year 468 were built and 350 dealers to sell them, and to-day the plant has a capacity of one thousand per day, or 312,000 per year which requires a floor space of 103 acres and 18,000 employes. Regardless of these stupendous figures, Mr. Willys said the plant Is but in its Infancy, but a healthy baby with good parentage. Tlie tour through the factory was an impressive one. There are amazing machines. The toggle press, for exam ple, held us all. This monster, with its pressure of 1,000 tons, shapes cold steel like cardboard. A piece of metal fed to it comes out as a side frame. It can make 2,000 of these in an eight hour day. Other mighty machines stamp out radiator shells, fenders, cowl dashes and doors. You take oft your hat to the drop forging machines. Down comes tho hommer and tho flery piece of iron is beaten into shape. The com plete drop forging of the front axlo can be accomplished with one heat. Kvery kind of part requiring strength was drop forged while tho Harrisburg delegation looked on, axles, crank shafts, brake assembly rods, brake and control rods, spring shackles, gear blanks and brake rod sectors. The company's accurate system o die making calls for a special work 5-Passenger Touring $605 3-Passenger Clover Leaf Road ster $695 Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Phone 3515 HUPMOBILE 7-Passenger 91340 B-Passenger sllßs Roadster sllßs (f. o. b. Factory) Will demonstrate against any six, eight or twelve-cylinder car. Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Distributors HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH man on each detail. One works on the sliaper, another on tho planer and a third on die sinking. The multiple spindle drill in one op eration drills all the holes in the front axle. This is a guarantee that each will be in right relation to the other. It was hard to drag the boys away from the automatic turret lathe that surfaces and finishes fly wheels. It works as though somewhere within its metal vitals a brain was concealed. The workman has only to put on the rough fly wheel, adjust the first set of tools, push the lever, and let the ma chine do the rest. The cast iron is peeled off as readily as wax. Sometimes four or five opera tions are performed at once. When one set of cuttings is done, the machine stops automatically, and the next set of tools comes automatically Into place. Twenty operations are performed in fourteen minutes. Twenty-six pounds of metal are removed from the wheel. One man can watch three of these ma chines. The vertical cutter of gears on fly wheels almost matches tho turret lathe in interest. Moving up and down, the cutter at the same time slowly revolves, the fly wheel turning in the opposite direction. By the time a complete revolution of the fly wheel lias been accomplished, all the gears are cut. Of special interest was the aluminum foundry and for the machines that finish the aluminus parts. The multiple spindle drill bores SI holes in the crank case in one opera tion This is a proof of the superior ity of machine processes, for the holes must be in the right relation to each other. Another machine smooths the sur faces of the crank cases, finishing seven in nine minutes. * Diamonds, real diamonds, are con sumed with apparently reckless in difference in the wet grind room. Placed in small tools they are used to true the emery wheels on which are ground tho bearing surfaces of the crank shafts. They are bought In 115,000 lots. Whole forests of lumber were being turned into bodies in tho wood work department. This lumber comes in by carloads. As 214 feet of wood is re quired on a small touring car, it is readily seen why so much was re quired. \ou niakf} this round and you can understand tills company's immense consumption of materials 16,000,000 pounds of solder annually, 2,500,000 pounds of tin and lead for smoldering, 10,000.000 pounds of brass and copper. 12,000,000 feet of steel tubing and 125,- 000 tons of steel. But what impressed the dealers moro than all was tho department in which materials are tested. They insist up on knowing a thing is right before it goes Into a Willys-Overland car. Tests in the physical and chemical laboratories are made in two ways. Completed steel parts are subjected'to terrific tests. arc twisted like rolls of taffy candy. Small bits of steel, six inches long, cut from com pleted axles, arc. attached at both ends, and literally pulled apart. The regis tering machine shows 200,000 pounds to the square inch necessary to accom plish this, whereas a resistance up to 125,000 pounds would be proof of am ple tensile strength. Springs are tried for their resistance. Steel articles are also put through both heat and chemical tests. The former determines the amount of car bon, an Important factor: the other de termines the chemical composition of the steel. Naturally every, operation In all the plants tends finally towßrd the assem bly conveyor tracks. There are four of them, each 645 feet and and the In spection began at one end where the frames and rear systems are put In place. By the time the other end of tho conveyor is reached the frame has grown Into the finished car. From overhead parts are lowered by chains. Along the way men are at taching the parts. The frame Is not in motion all the time, but can be In stantly connected with the links of an endless chain and sent on its way when ever desired. Top quality of workmanship Is as sured by having each man do work on which he Is an expert. If It bo only to tighten a bolt. Lines of motors, already tested, wait on both sides of tho conveyor. These are put Into place, cantilever springs are put on, steering machanism and lighting and starting system are ad- Justed. Gradually the car takes form, instead of painting the chassis with ■ THE DESIRABLE SEDAN I Here is the most modern car the country knows —a Chalmers touring sedan. A touring can I and yet a closed car. A summer car, as you will observe, and a winter car: wind-proof and storm-proof. Simply pull up the windows all around. Not a heavy car. Weight, 3235 lbs. Active. An easy rider. Plenty of power. SIBSO. (All prices f.o.b. Detroit) MS Keystone Motor Car Co. I 57 TO 103 SOUTH CAMERON STREET HARRISBURG, PA. IC. H, BARNER, Manager J fl Mm I I B m mn B SB H ../SB The winter top may be removed without difficulty, thereby affording an Ideal conveyance for use tha year around. ° a brush, a sprayer is used. It does the work more rapidly, more uniform ly and at a lower cost. The tracks of the assembly lead di rectly through ovens in which the paint is baker. Fenders and running boards come into their places. Wheels with the tires on are brought along on a runway. First comes a iront wheel, then a rear wheel. You ought to see them put on the tires. It la lightning. By a special device, Invented by one of tho men in the department, the tire can be put on a wheel In three seconds. From overhead bodies are dripped down on the chassis and soon made fast. Tho car is now ready for its testa. Rapidly engage the wheels of the car, and send them at high speed to make sure that they are operating freely. This is not a test under the power of the car. Gasoline and water are then put In to the car. It is pushed off the track Into another room, till Its wheels arc In contact with wheels in the floor. With the use of the self-starter, the machlno Kets Its first chance to prove the success of its construction. It surprised all tho way the motors started. They were off with a rush. There was no hitch or delay. All the work had been done right. In a fe\£ minutes the motor was working appar ently with almost as smoothly as if it had been a year on the road. Kveryone saw how the cars were shipped. The export department has the big feature in this line. The fin isher car undergoes preparation by having Its wheels taken off and fasten ed on the under side of the frame which forms the top covering for tho car. The top is covered with tar paper as a protection against the elements, and all is securely boxed. Along comes a big crano running- in an overhead grove a quarter of a inlle long. The operator sits in a small cab not unlike that of a railroad engineer. Chains grab the box containing the car, and within forty-five seconds have carried it outside tho building and place It on tho flat freight car. It Is processes like these, all that have been described, that explain why every car in the Willys-Overland line 1s what It 'ls at so lotv a cost. Making so many Is the answer, making them to go all over tlie world and' having profited by the experiences of users everywhere. Quantity production. Im mense and costly machines, skilled de signing, careful inspection, accurate tests of material, efficient factory meth ods, rapid assembly and advanced meth ods of handling, all these were seen; all these tell why tho Willys-Overland Company lives up to its Ideals of a car for every need or taste, price, class and service right. All told, the trip was pronounced 'o be the greatest joy gathering and edu cationally project. Industrially, ever conceived and carried out by one man on so large a scale. And, as Carl Han sen and J. R. W. Hunter, of the Over land-Harrlsburg Company, said: "It put pep Into the most sluggish dealer." And OB a local Illustration of how a convention of such magnitude affects the distributor, even, the Overland- Harrlsburg Company contracted for fifty per cent, more cars for 1017 than allotted this year. DECEMBER 1916 DODGE BROTHERS SAXON "SIX" A Big Touring Car For Five People One piece of specific evidence that points to the superiority of Saxon "Six" is the Conti nental high-speed, 'six-cylin der motor of Saxon design. Only Saxon "Six" among cars costing less than SI,OOO has this fine-car feature. Saxon "Six" is $Bl5 f. o. b. Detroit ( Specifications: New body design, larger body, new • finish, 12-inch brakes, 41',4-inch full cantilever type ; rear prlng, 2-incli crankshaft, tilted windshield, new style top with Grecian rear bow, new style fenders, instruments mountod on cowl dash, chrome vana dium valve springs, new design carburetor, 112-inch 1 wheelbase, light weight six-cylinder high speed mo- ' tor; 32x3% -inch tires, demountable rims, two unit \ storting and lighting system, Timken axles, full Tim- J kon bearings, and twenty further refinements. Saxon Distributing Agency 1139 Mulberry St. L. H. Hagerling ! USE/TELEGRAPH WANT ADjS 11
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