Paige Orders For New Year Close to $5,000,000 ■ Nation-wide prosperity and confl- B| dence in continued good times are in dicated in the flourishing condition of the 1200 Paige dealers throughout Br the United States and the amount of K. new business they have been piling ■ up on the desk of Henry Krohn, sales- W manager of the Paige-Detroit Motor ■ Car company. Anyone who had any I lingering doubts about i-ie future will | find comfort in Mr. Ktohn's experi- I ence and will be able to see a reassur > ing reflection of a general trend. Shortly before Christmas Paige dealers had sent to Mr. Krohn orders i tor new Paige models which totaled L about $4.500.000; and at the rate in which the new business was mount ing daily it was very apparent that the Paige men in the field would turn in over $5,000,000 worth of business 4 before the bells had rung in the New , Year. This business is not based on "estimates," but represents genuine, honest-to-goodness orders, although no announcement has yet been made as to the character of the new models and the public will see them for the first time at the New York show. .Mr. Krohn regards this situation as! . significant, considering it ample evi -1 dence of the success of 1917 as a year of big business, not alone in the mo i torcar field, but in industry in gen eral. for the Paige men to start the new year with from $4,500,000 to $5,- OOO.OOU worth of business means that Paige dealers are going to have the biggest year in their experience and that also means that prosperity con tinues and conditions remain sound. STUDEBAKER NOTES A skating compartment in which ' milady carries her skates on the way to the ice rinks of the city is the lat lest Innovation for the Studebaker town car. designed for Mrs. W. C. Graves, leading society woman of San Francisco. This machine, which is built on the regular stok chassis, has all the comforts of home for the occupants, and is specially finished in old rose and silver. It is equipped with a dainty miniature boudoir, with mirrors and powder puff, electric heater, smoking set. card case, tele phone and a ilainty writing desk. Silk window curtains and tloor car-! pets are of old rose, harmonizing with the interior finish, and have been spe-! rlally selected by Mrs. Graves, who is a leading authority on decoration and who has chosen a wide variety of beautiful fabrics of exclusive pattern and special weave. A 1900 Studebaker "HO" which has run 200,000 miles to date and is still in good shape and ready to go at any time, has been discovered out in Ok lahoma. With the exception of one connection rod and. bearing, the orig inal car is intact. This is the same car Barney Oldfield, the veteran speed king, drove 101 miles an hour on a straightaway course in 1911. Aside from the naturally interesting facts connected with the unusual perform ances of this old car. it goes to prove conclusively that Studebaker quality and Studebaker design have not been made possible in a day, but are the J-esult of years of experience and con scientious effort. TIX >!11,1. TO ItESI'ME The Lolance-Grosjean Mills will re sume work Thursday after a shut down of a month, due to repairs at the plant. Many orders have been receiv ed for the coming year. i Successful Advertising Not a Quick Jerk—A Steady Pull! The telephone directory is unique in its per sistency—in its power to keep your advertising message always before the public. It gives you twenty-four hours of service every day in the year. It creates and maintains that steady pull of in quiries and orders on which depends the healthy growth of any business. The director}- can serve YOU. Call the Busi ness Office for advertising rates. THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF FA„ I? H S E. W. GILPIN, Local Manager, i ! H AIIHIS 111 RG, PA. If you could realize the infinite care with which the good name of KING OSCAR 5c Cigar is guarded, your smoke troubles would be over. You would then know that here is an all-day, every-day smoke which is always of a uniform high quality. They couldn't be better because they are made of the finest tobaccos that grow. JOHN C. HERMAN & CO., Makers / SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER Closed Models Are Now Motordom's Chief Interest „ "Winter motoring is the usual thing to-day, even as it was an Impos sibility in the infancy of the Indus try," says It. T. Hodgklns, genera! salesmanager of the Studebaker cor poration. "Few there are who store their cars during the bleak and frozen months nowadays, although no one formerly required service for his mo tor beyond the first appearance of Jack Frost and his justly famous paint brush. And with the growth ' of all-the-year motoring has come a wealth of luxurious appointments in design of cars and accessories that would have bewildered the hardy pioneer of the industry. 'Told weather has been robbed of ! i all its terrors by the resourcefulness of the designers and the motorist can well enjoy all the comforts of his own tlreside and his home while eftgrossed in the pleasures of skimming over I the country or using his car between house and office. "Milady, in her furs and wraps, finds they are more for appearance , than grim necessity as she bowls along from tea to card party or after noon call in her cozy touring sedan, j now adapted to every change and : mood of the weather. "To the designer of the interiors of the modern automobile is the trans formation due. in no degree les3 than to bis sterner brother who made pos sible the smooth-running motor that bids defiance to all weathers. "The average buyer of automobiles began to insist upon a car which would do him service throughout the round of the calendar. And this de mand is only now being met. The | powerful magnate and his bank roll have been able for a few years to ob s tain a car to fill all weather needs — but this season finds the man on sal ary or with a small but growing busi ness able to command the same de gree of service. The latter will find no difficulty in obtaining all that his i heart, or that of his wife, demands from a motorcar that will stand the grind of twelve months on the road. And to me it is not only certain that winter motoring is practicable, but it : is fast becoming a necessity." Texas Saxon Dealers to Attend New York Show Twenty-eight Saxon motorcar deal ers from the State of Texas will journey northward to New York for show week and will spend the days of the big automobile exhibit in get ting pointers for their work in Texas. They will go under the direction of the Ray-Rose company of Dallas. , Saxon distributors for the State, and one of the five largest motorcar distributing companies in the world. The trip of the Saxon dealers from the Lone Star State to Manhattan for the show is something new in motor car annals as it marks a step forward j in the progressiveness of these auto mobile dealers. Heretofore Chicago has been the big motorcar show for the West and j southwestern dealers and each year has seen more and more of them at tending the exhibition in the Coli i seum. New York, however, opens the motorcar show season and with the Chicago show coming two weeks later, the visitors to that get an in troduction to the new lines on exhibi tion much later than their Eastern i coworkers. THE CAUSES OF CAR SHORTAGE i Renschaw, Sales Manager For Reo, Tells How Sidetracks Are Used For Storage "I don't like to tell tales out of I school and everybody in the trade I knows I'm no knocker." says R. C. liueschaw, salesmanager of the Reo! I Motor Car company, "but I will say j | this : It automobile manufacturers j ; would pay less attention to the ticker- j 1 ! tape and more to the real business of l j making and selling cars, there ; wouldn't be nearly the railroad con-1 • gestion nor the 'car shortage' there is.' "Here's the idea: A lot of con- j cerns are eager to make a good show- j ■ ing—on paper. They play on the fact j I I that the public that deals in stock- j margins does not know that automo biles shipped from the factory may : not be automobiles sold, though on | the surface It looks like it. ; So they ship on dealers' allotment schedules —made some months pre j vious. Many dealers are not prepared i at this time to pay the 'sight draft,': i and take deliveries, and the result is ; a carload of automobiles standing on a siding for days, weeks—yes, months,' i in some cases. Case shipped in De-1 ; eember may not be unloaded till May. i . | Frequently they have to be refinishedj ; j before customers will accept them. I The records show that thousands of . i freight cars are being used in that way for storage purposes, to the end . j that the stock quotations may look . good to speculators. A few concerns are monopolizing the freight-car sup , ply while those who have a lively de i mand can't ship. •! "And, mind you, those are the big-1 ; gest, best boxcars the railroads have ' j —SO feet long, extra high, and with 10-foot doors made especially for ! shipping automobiles—and the only kind we makers of big cars can use. "Jf they would all follow the Reo, plan, half the congestion would be re-: ,' lieved —it never would have occurred | in the first place. "We Reo folk never ship on a deal- j | er's contract allotment only on monthly specifications. In other j ■ i words, while a dealer, when signing! ; up in July, hay specify for example,! ! 150 cars per month in December, Jan uary and February, we do not ship; until he sends us, in November, his; ,! specifications for the coming month, [ | indicating that he needs that many j • i Reos in December and is ready to t , i pay for and unload them the day they . i arrive at his station. ■j "You'll find no Reo cars stored ini , freight cars on sidings, nor anywhere ; | else, for that matter. For we haven t 1 . been able to catch up with orders ! even in 'bleak December.' > "But then, we Reo folk do not try 5 I to make 'all the automobiles,' and we! • are concerned not at all with the item | . of stock quotations!" "It's becoming quite the thing," j ! says R. C. Ruesehaw, salesmanager of i the Reo Motor Car company, "to s present the parson with an automo . bile, and since in such a case the; . first consideration is to preserve the i gentle disposition of the father of the flock, the good people invariably se-; lect a car that is sure to give its own- j ! er the least possible amount of 1 trouble. "I know of nothing better calcu- i ! lated to preserve the temper, even of a parson, than a thoroughly depend-1 I able automobile. "Imagine, for example, a car whose ' starter wouldn't begin; one whose! brakes would fail to brake; a steer- ! i ing gear that was 'tipsy;' and above! j all, a balky motor—can you imagine' i how difficult it would be, even for! ! a preacher, to keep from saying bad words or thinking unkind thoughts? "Seems as if the ladies—who, of j ■ course, are always the ones to do j these kindly acts —have thought of ali this for. in countless cases, they i have selected dependable Reos for the occasion, more often than could bej accounted for by mere coincidence. "Of course the fact that Reo cars> ! are driven by women more than any j ; other make, undoubtedly has some- : . thing to do with it. 'That simple 'one rod' control | strongly appeals to them. Then, too, j ! they look to appearance, and at the same time must count the cost —a ! consideration that must weigh heav ! ily in the selection of a Reo. "One dealer who recently sold three; ! Reos—two Fours and a Six—for Christmas presents for the parson, insists it is because he and so many j i other Reo folk are good churchmen i that they get the preference. "But that doesn't entirely account • | for it. for we all know a Methodist ! ! Indies' Aid society wouldn't willingly | buy a car from a Presbyterian dealer! | Beside. Fred Volger, of Portland, Ore.,' recently sold twe Reo fars for par i sons' presents—and he spends most! of his Sundays fishing, as all his j i townsmen know! "Must bo the car," says I. "Anyway, no automobile could be ! put to better use—nor a more suitable | present selected; for the dominie's • time Rr.d radius are multiplied, and hw field of usefulness vastly broad ened when, with his own car, he can' call on the needy and the sick and the unhappy and minister to them. "Recently I was honored for a sub- i scription for a Reo for the parish priest, and although I don't attend his church, I fell for it. "Does me good, too, every time I see him drive by on an errand of ■ I mercy I wish every Reo could be put to such good use." Tests Cadillac Eight; Calls It Masterpiece "From an engineering standpoint.! j the Cadillac Eight is a masterpiece," I says F. Paul Anderson, deam of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Kentucky State Uni-; versitv, after testing and demonstrat- j , ing the car before the students. The car was loaned to the college,' at Prof. Anderson's request, out of the ! stock of the Lexington Cadillac mo- j j pany at Lexington, Kv. At the con- j elusion of his tests, Prof. Anderson wrote to the company, saying: "From an engineering standpoint, this car is a masterpiece, and we were a little surprised when it ran with no vibration at 58 miles per hour, which was the highest we ran it. "Although this car was not tuned up for the test, it pulled 550 pounds at 48 miles an hour, developing 70.4 1 horsepower. "We will say that since the instal i lation of our testing plant, this is the only car that has ever been able to keep itself cool under a high speed test; our usual practice being to cool I the radiator with auxiliary water con- i nection, which you understand is to compensate for that part of the cool ing due to windage on the road." f.ATE CAR SERVICE FOR "WATCHSIGHT" WORSHIPERS t For the convenience of the members ! 'f the city churches who will attend! w atchnight services to-morrow night lute trolley service, will be maintained by; the Harrlsburg Railway* Companv, ! initll l o'clock, Monday morning A twelve.minute schedule will he maln uuned on the S<coiArl street. Riverside nd Reservoir line#. while the Third fctr i e viH l? th * nd and the Race I and % Ine street cafrs will be run on a flfteen-minut* schedule. The last pars l will leave S(Juare at j Sport Model at Low Price Unusual Overland Product ! Originality and distinctiveness fur nish the keynote for the latest prod : uct of the Willys-Overland company j of Toledo, Ohio—tl.e Country Club, a , smart four-passenger sport model, at $695 f. o. b. Toledo. The Country Club is the only sport \ model in the small car class and bids fair to be one of the greatest successes ' of the season. Heretofore "sport model" has been associated with "high price," but in j jthe new car the Willys-Overland com-I I pany offers a model of marked dis-1 tinetion, at an unusually low figure. j I The outstanding feature of the | i Country Club is its unusual body de- j sign, which gives it a compact cus-' j torn - built appearance. This is j | strengthened tyv a color scheme of rich I gray for the body, long-grained up-' j holstery and mohair top. The slop- j . ing windshield lends added smartness. > Fenders and trimmings are lus ' trous-black. Red wire wheels add a touch of brilliant color, further ac- . centuated by an occasional Hash of! j nickel and polished aluminum. | The sealing arrangements are equally distinctive. In front are two 'comfortable chairs which move inde-! pendently forward or back* to the' length best suited for the driver and I his companion. The wide aisle that divides the front seats makes tho rear compart-1 I ment easy of access. A roomy, comfortable rear scat for] two is close up. although allowing ample leg room. Four grown persons ; can comfortably ride in the Country i Club. Wide "U" doors, front-hinged, with ; j largo pockets for tools and other ac- j cessories are provided. Officials of the Willys-Overland company' believe that the Country Club will find ready sale among peo ple who also own heavy large cars and are accustomed to easy riding, special care having been taken to| make it so comfortable and easy rid ing that it will not suffer by compari son with the most luxurious make. 1 Large four-inch tires; the famous! shock absorbing cantilever springs, which are now a feature of all Over-I land pleasure cars; and special springs I for the cushions, go a long way to i achieve this end. Thorough tests have shown the per- j formance of this car to be in keeping with its style. "The volume of power developed; iby its four-cylinder motor and the smoothness and* ease of operation, ac- j ] cording to the Willys-Overland com-! ; pany are going to be a source of, charm and lasting satisfaction to I ! Country Club owners." The Country Club has a whcclbase of 104 inches. The motor is of the four-cylinder j embloe type; 3%-inch bore and 5- inch stroke. The ignition is furnished I jby the battery and distributor sys ' tem. The car is equipped with Tillot- ! | son carburetor. The 12*4-gallon gasoline tank is | under the rear deck: the vacuum feed' assures an even fuel flow under all, | driving conditions. A bracket is pro- j | vided for a spare tire in the rear of i the car. An extra wire wheel is in- > 1 eluded in the equipment. Early shipments of the Country! I Club have found a ready welcome > among discriminating people to whom j low price and economy in operation j promised gratification of a long-cher- j ished desire for an out-of-the-ordinary . i car as well as with those whose choice j of an automobile is in no way gov i erned by 'its price. i It is on this satisfaction which the | Country Club has already created, j . that the Willys-Overland company is; ! basing its prediction of this car's j I sweeping success. Pacific Coast Plans For Most Beautiful Auto Show San Francisco, Dec. 30.—Enthu-j 1 siastic over the prospects of the most j beautiful automobile show ever held. San Francisco boosters for the Paci- j tie Automobile show, wl.ich will be held in the Exposition auditorium I February 10th to 18th, will invade the! East in force during January. They i will depart from San Francisco either j Christmas or New Year week, and' j will visit both the New York and the ! ' Chicago automobile shows, as well as ! the factories which they represent on : the coast. i The plans of Manager G. A. Wahl green for the most beautiful show ■ ever held, from the decorative stand point, are going forward in a very im pressive manner. Leo Lentelli is hard at work on the sculpture, while Borg iiesi, the artist who has charge of the murals, has placed a big force of men on the stencils, and himself is pre paring the three immense murals, 671 by 36 feet, which will form the central features of the decorative treatment ! of the walls. In the meantime San Francisco dealers are preparing to make the most impressive showing of enclosed j cars ever seen in the West, and many ' of them declare it will surpass any thing ever heid outside Chicago. Tho I custom bodymakers will have a i prominent place in many of the cx- I hibits. their work appearing in many of the high class tar exhibits, in ad , dition to factory bodies. Holbrojak, of New York; Healey, Kimbell, of Chicago; Thompson, of Pittsburgh, the New Haven Carriage company, Larkin, of San Francisco, and other builders of high-class bod ies will be represented in this depart ment of the show. California is the home of the sporty roadster model, and several exhibi ! tors will show this type of car, while i the special open body will come in for a large share of the interest. As the opening feature of the ex hibition, Manager Wahlgreen is plan | ning a parade which he believes will ; take rank with the famous New Year tournament of roses parade at Pasa ! dona, the Los Angeles fiestas or the Path of Gold celebration which was afforded San Francisco to inaugurate the use of the new electroliers on Mar | ket street. The Eastern automobile show spe cial. which will bring many of the Eastern factory men to the Pacific , coast, will depart from Chicago on ; the evening of February sth. follow- I ing the Chicago automobile show. Reservations for the train can be made now through the offices of the automobile show. 943 Monadnock building, San Francisco. Cumberland Valley Bridge Piers Are Completed Ail 'piers of the new Cumberland Valley railroad bridge are practically completed. The Itobert Grace Con struction Company of Pittsburgh, has . fixed no time for turning the bridge . over to the company. While the last concrete has been poured, there are minor things unfinished. ' During the present cold weather wa ter proofing is rather difficult, and flll : ing the crevices and smaller holes is out of tho question. What the con tractors desire is warmer weather. In the meantime the railroad company has everything in readiness for placing the second track in position. Signal poles are up, and switch connections i made at the east and west ends of the : bridge. OPERA CAM,ED OFF I The Philadelphia Grand Opera Com pany, which was to be presented at the I Orpheum Theater by Gayle Burlingane this afternoon and evening has can celed its engagement. The money for tickets purchased will be refunded. The I company is in the hands of the re | ceiver. New Overland And Willys-Knight Prices * Effective December 25th , Country Club .... $750 Willys-Knight Coupe . $1650 85-4 Touring Coupe . $1250 85-4 Touring Sedan . $1450 85-6 Touring Coupe . $1385 85-6 Touring Sedan . $1585 Overland 1200 lb. Delivery Wagon . SBSO All prices /. o. b. Toledo The Overland-Harrisburg Co. Open Evenings 212 NORTH SECOND STREET Both Phones The Willys-Overland Co., Toledo, Ohio Manufacturers of nml Overland Automobiles and Light Coinmerelnl Cars "Made In U. S. A."' PROMOTION FOR GIRL ADJUSTER Miss Eleanor V. Atticks Goes Up Ladder in Aetna Company 'fSal 1 * ' MISS ELEANOR V. ATTICK When you lie abed trying to recover from a broken leg or shattered arm or twisted collar bone which you got so readily in that auto crash or railroad wreck or fall frm the wagon, wouldn't you prefer to have some gen tle-voiced feminine insurance adjuster visit with you and the wife for the purpose of adjusting your accident claims? At any rate you would if the adjust er had happened to be Miss Eleanor V. Attick, Camp Hill. Just the way she goes about her business —she has a way all her own —combined with extraordinary ability and pluck that would do many a member of the sterner- sex vast credit, - ... —p> AUTO STORAGE— First class, fireproof garage, open day and night. Rates i easonable. Auto Trans. Garage | has won her a heap of reward, too For one year she has been adjuster for the Aetna Life Insurance Company —the only girl adjuster in the State, so fars is known. Her chief work has been in the Workmen's Compen sation Department. In September, 1912, Miss AtUck en tered the employ of William S. Essick, general agent for the Aetna. She didn't stop there eithc-r. Her latest promotion has been to the office man agership of the Philadelphia claim office. And in her upward climb did she neglect her old office friends and ac quaintances? Or did she endear her self in such a way as to cause uni versal regret among her fellowworkers nt her departure? Just ask Miss Attick to let you see that handsome wardrobe trunk that she received from fellow employes as a going-away token of their appre ciation of her friendship. Pipe Mill Soon to Start Work on U. S. Shell Orders Work will be started within the next two weeks on two orders for shells recently awarded by the United States government to the Ilarrisburg Pipe and Pipe Betiding Company, it was an nounced by officials of the company this morning. The contract calls for 293,000 three-Inch shells, at $700,000 for the War Department, and 130,000 four-inch shells at $1,100,000 for the Navy De partment. As- the foreign orders are about finished the men now working on these order.* will be used for the government orders and no additional new men will be hired. | 5-Passenger Touring $695 3-Passenger Clovor Leaf Road ster $695 Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Phone 3515 Prices Advance T\ f| SSO Jan. First Immediate deliveries If desired, or make your deposit before flrt of year and secure present prices for future delivery. Four and Five-passenger, $1085; Seven-passenger, $1650; Roadster. $1065. PRICES F. O. B. FACTORY. Velie-Harrisburg Co. SIXTH AMD HEHK STS. H. F. Wll.l.OlC; lin V HELL PHONE 271-.1. LODGE 75 YEAItS OLD The seventy-fifth anniversary of State Capitol Lodge. No. 70, X. O. O. F., will be celebrated this evening at the Technical High School auditorium. The committee in charge includes: <3. M. Dobson. chairman; \V. li. Grissinger, J. C. Krnest, C. E. Gray, C. M. Zentmeyer, J. D. Wagner. Paul E. Sellers. R. E, Wagner, B. Lloyd and C. S. Shelley. PM'MBERS FIXED IN SUIT Pittsburgh, Pa.. Dec. 30. William McCoach, city treasurer of Philadel phia, formerly national treasurer of the Master I 3 lumbers' Association; S Louis Karnes, formerly national presi dent of the organization, and B. F. Durkin, also of Philadelphia, with twenty-nine other defendants, pleaded guilt:- yesterday in United States Court here to charges of conspiracy to violate the Sherman antitrust law. Each was ordered to pay a fine and a portion of the cost of the trials. TWO STEAMKRS SI NK London, Dee. 30. The British steamship Copsewood, 509 tons gross, has been sunk. The Norwegian steamship Ida, 1300 tons, is reported to have been sunk. FYour "| or Q f <="% You won't get the last full measure of satisfaction that comes from driving a Ford until you install a Heinze-Springfield Starting and Lighting System l'rioe, SBS, not. installed Front-Market Motor Supply Company 10 MARKET STREET %i 9
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