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Application of Brakes
Makes Tires Wear Uneven
It is often that the motorist upon
inspecting his tires finds that one
rear tire is wearing very much faster
than the tire on the opposite wheel.
Very likely both tires were put on at
the same time and had the same mile
age. Tho right rear may wear out a
little faster than the tiro on the op
posite wheel because of the fact that
■while tho motorist pulls out to the
side of the road In passing other ve
hicles, subjects this right rear tire
to tho unimproved rond. Hut there Is
another reason, according to Mr.
Wosher, manager of tho local branch
of tho Iflsk Itubber company, which Is
uaually tho cause for 0110 of the rear
tires to wear (aster than tho other
and this is duo directly to tho brakes
not being equalized. By this Is meijnt
that one brake-drum does not take
hold in exactly the same t!mo and
■with as much force as tho brake
drum on tho other wheel.
An occasional inspection of your
brakes should bo made, In order to
reduce your tiro cost per tnilo and
to make your brakes dependable.
For the inspection of tho brakes,
Jack up the rear end of tho car so
that both tires are clear of the
ground, start your motor and throw
in the clutch, start both your rear
■wheels spinning, now apply the foot
brakes to determine it both brakes
act alike on tho wheels. If one wheel
Btops and tho other revolves, you
have located the cause, for one tiro
wearing; quicker than the tire on the
opposite wheel, as tho brakes that
drag will cause excessive strain and
ehorten the mileage life of any tire.
Inspection of the brakes should be
made at least every thousand miles.
New Body For National
Six-Cylinder Model
National dealers all over the coun
try were given a pleasant surprise re
cently, when the National Factories
at Indianapolis announced they were
pi.ttlng on the beautiful new luxurious
body, without extra cost, on the new
Highway Six-Cylinder model.
The National factories explain this
rather unorthodox departure from the
routine way of automobile factories,
by saying that the calendar, does not
limit them to changes or 'improve
ments.
This new body is offered in either
a blue or gray, and is of similiar de
sign and arrangement that is used on
the successful National Highway
twelve cylinder model.
This admittingly is a much more
costly body than has heretofore been
put on a six-cylinder Chassis, but the
National factories claim they arq able
to do this without extra charge, due
to the tremendous increase of cars at
the National factories.
There are two compact parcel com
partments; tilted windshield, which
decreases wind resistance and abol- ;
islies annoying reflections: and ignit- j
ion lock; doors that swing open with
storm curtains adjusted; new type tire
hanger with Yale lock and an aisle
way between front seats, which has
leen a National attribute for three
years.
FYour I
orQ
f CAR^
Tou 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
Price, SBS, not installed
Front-Market
Motor Supply
Company
109 MARKET STREET
ft
We give the 1917 look to those
1915 automobile parts, as we repair
and retinish radiators, windshields,
and
We Repair
Auto Lamps
AVe reflnish, repollsh and repair •
all brass and art metal work, in
cluding band instruments. Charges
most reasonable. All work guar
anteed.
Bell Phone 2833
llairisburg, Penna.
Bell Phone 2833
the Standard of Value and Quality
Fairfield "Six-4G" seven-passenger.
Fleetwood "Six-38" flve-passenger.
E. L. COWDEN
It. J. CHUHCH, Salesmanager
108 Market Street
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B-Paenger Touring 56W
3-Passenger Clover Lear Hoad
ster ~,,, 5895
Ensminger Motor Co,
Tlllltl) AM) CUMBFHI,A\ I) STS. j
Ikii Phono 351$
SATURDAY' EVENING,
Automobile Recognized
as Legitimate Security
According to Walter 11. Alford.
j vice-president of the Nash Motors
Company, formerly controller of the
' General Motors company, and close
ly in touch with linancial matters,
the motorcar dealer no longer has
ditticulty in negotiating sufficient
loans to finance the purchase and
storage of cars during the winter
months
"Heretofore, right in the midst of
the spring and summer selling seas
j ons," declares Mr. Alford, "motorcar
dealers have lost thousands of dol
lar.! in sales because they were un
able to secure sufficient cars to till
their orders. That was because eith
er through their inability to tinance a
proper stock of cars in the winter, or
because of lack of foresight they had
not laid proper plans at a time when
they could have secured these cars
: from the manufacturer.
"There is only excuse for a car
I shortage today and that is lack of
foresight, for the banks now rank tho
motorcar among their best securities
! and are ready and eager to extend
, reasonable loans to the dealer.
"The automobile today is a real hu
; man necessity, an inseparable part of
our civilization. Competition has done
! away with wildcat manufacturers
I who do business on other than a
| real business basis. Consequently ab
normally large profits no longer ex
ist and the selling price of the auto
mobile represents much more near
ly its truo commercial value.
"In order to exist a bank must de
pend upon two classes of - customers;
depositors and borrowers. Without the
first no institution could maintain suf
ficient funds to supply the latter.
Without the latter the interest on the
depositor's money would eat up the
institution.
"Inasmuch as the moneys which the
bank lends are not tho property of
the institution it would be a breach
•of trust to loan it without properly
securing the amount of tho loan.
"The automobile is now universally
recognized in banking circles as legiti
mate security of the first quality and
consequently it is ,an easy matter for
a dealer of good standing in his com
munity to properly tinance his busi
ness at regular banking rates of in
terest.
Haynes Is an All-Winter
Car That Appeals to Many
r The day when the motorist, figur
atively speaking, puts moth-balls in
his motorcar and shelves it away for
the winter, seems to have gone into
the discard. At any rate such is the
case if th§ sales of Haynes cars to
users is any criterion.
With an output three times as great
during the winter months this year,
Haynes officials expected that they
would be able to store up few
cars against the spring rush. Hut
Haynes owners have been driving
their cars in cold weather so much of
late, and have been experiencing so
little Inconvenience in so doing, that
numerous folks who bad made up
their minds to buy Haynes cars, de
cided not to wait until everybody else
was of the same mind. And so .the
orders have been pouring in through
out the dead of winter.
It is more of a habit than anything
else to postpone buying cars until
spring. That is. in those localities
where tho roads permit of winter
driving as they do in many places.
In by-gone days the motorcar was
more or less of a delicate flower and
wintry blasts and frigid temperatures
caused it to wither when it came to
snowstorm performances, v.
But to-day a light car of great pow
er such as a Haynes, works as nicely
as in the balmy days of summer, due
to its mechanical perfection. Little
extra attention is necessary. This is
one reason why a whole trainload of
Haynes cars was recently shipped to
one point, Kansas City, to till orders
for winter delivery.
To paraphrase the Christmas slog
an, "Only a few more days 'till spring.
Buy now and avoid the rush" seems
to be a ruling factor in speeding up
sales at this time.
Let Us
Show You
I low easily you can
own your own car.
They arc all in fir.e
shape—you can buy
your
Jitney
and pay for it while
using it.
The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
212 NOHTII SECOND ST.
BOTH PHONES
--theefficiency ear
more miles—
less gasoline—
more comfort—■
less weight—•
nt the Auto Slintv,
K. W. Shank^
107 M \IIKET NT,
AUTO STORAGE—
first class, fireproof garage,
open day and night. Rates
reasonable.
Auto Trans. Garage
Premier Company Now
Has Active Production
The Premier Motor . corporation
has graduated from the prospect into
tl.e reality class. Twenty-ono cars
wore shipped in a single day last
week, and the daily average shipment
for the week was twelve cars per day.
A schedule of twenty-live cars a day,
it is -said, will be reached before Feb
ruary first. Over one thousand men
are now employed at tho Premier
plant.
Fresh from the New York show,
where Premier scored a tremendous
hit, P. D. Stubbs, general sales man
ager of the Premier Motor corpora
tion, reports the biggest week ho has
ever known, since he has been in the
motor business. The crowning
achievement of the week was the
closing with the J. W. I.eavitt com
pany for tho handling of
cars out of San Francisco. The J.
W. I.eavitt company, until recently,
handled Overland cars in the Pacific
Coast territory. Their sales amounted
to over 9,000 cars in 191t>. They are
building a new home in San Francis
co for Premier, which will contain
4 5,000 square feet of floor space and
is said to be the tinest sales and ser
vice building on the coast.
J. W. Beavitt is president of the
company which is to handle Premier
and A. D. Plughoff Is vice-president
and general manager. The deal is
probably tho biggest "pulled off" at
the New York show.
"We are gratified," says Sales Man
ager Stubbs, "at the astounding re
ception which Premier is getting from
coast to coast. The product is re
markable in many fundamental ways,
but there must be something in our
favor beyond mere mechanical ex
cellence. We havfe gone about this
proposition very conscientiously. We
have put man-power above all else,
and the type of men who constitute
the Premier factory personnel must
have had a tremendous influence.
"Then, too, do not overlook the in
fluence of the dealers who have been
attracted to the Premier's standard.
Men like Jim I.evy, of Chicago, are
typical of the class which is introdc
ing the Aluminum Six to the Ameri
can people—and men of the Bevy type
attract and inspire men of the
and Plughoft typo with confidence in
the product.
"It was hardly reasonable to ex
pect that we, even with a most re
markable car, could build up a first
class country-wid£ representation in
six months—but that is exactly what
has been accomplished. 1 take no
credit for this achievement —the car
and our organization deserve all the
praise. One thing is sure—lndianapolis
now has still another big, flourishing
motorcar factory—Premier is not go
ing to be a success—it already is a
success."
Overland Country Club Is
Feature of Annual Shows
The Overland Country Club road
ster is attracting more than the usual
amount of attention at the various
auto shows throughout the country,
demonstrating clearly that this small
est member of the Overland family is
going to be one of the best sellers of
the 1917 line.
When the Willys-Overland com
pany staged the biggest dealers' con
vention ever held in the historv of
the automobile industry at Toledo last
month, one of its chief attractions was
the complete line of new Overland
and Willys-Knight models on exhibi
tion at the factory's showrooms. The
convention had been in session less
than a week when it became evident
to ofliciaXs of the company that the
entire production of Country Club
roadsters would be insufficient to meet
the demands of its dealers.
E. M. Bachrach, the Overland deal
er at Manila, traveled thousands of
miles in order to attend the conven
tion. He brought with him to Toledo
a certified check for SIOO,OOO and was
::o enthusiastic over the appearance
and performance of the Country Club
roadster that he was half inclined to
invest the whole amount in this one
ntolel alone.
Sir. Bachrach's enthusiasm over the
Country Club sport model was shared
by every one of the 5,000 dealers who
attended the Overland convention,
livery man who observed it had some
thing good to say about it. Those who
cared to, tried it out over the country
roads and the city thoroughfares and
were delighted with its performance.
Its light weight and short wheelbase
enabled them to handle it easily in
any kind of traffic. The powerful four
cylinder motor gave them all the speed
they were looking for.
"One would think that the Country
Club roadster is a curiosity of some
kind, judging from the attention it is
attracting." says John X. Willys,
president of the Willys-Overland com
pany.
"In n way it is a curiosity because it
is the only real smart sport model in
tie low priced class, but it is a prac
tical tar in every detail. It is a qual
ity i ar from base to top, designed to
answei the requirements of an army
of buyers who want a distinctive med
ium-priced automobile.
Saxon Dealers' Enthusiasm
Inspires Increased Sales
Announcement of the new series
Saxon cars has been followed by a
most enthusiastic reception, from the
Saxon dealers all over the country
and, according to the reports that are
coming in daily to the fatcory, the
new machines have already found a
distinct place in the eyes of the mo
tor-buying public.
After two seasons of success, before
unheard-of in the motor car indus
try, the present Saxon motor cars rep
resent the finest product that present
engineering fikill and manufacturing
can produce. Already long and tried
service in the hands of thousands of
owners has won a universal recogni
tion for Saxon cars as automobiles of
unflagging performance, economy of
upkeep and lasting efficiency. The
new series, to which many Improve
ments and refinements have been
added, have, in consequence, impress
ed all who have seen them as cars of
exceptional merit.
No sooner had the Saxon Motor
Car corporation made public the new
series than dealers commenced a
clamor for cars that taxed the factory
to Its utmost, and the factory produc
tion was In smooth working order be
fore the new series was offered to the
dealers, One dealer drove away four
of the new series, after he reached
his home town, the four cars had been
sold and he was telephoning back to
the factory for eight more.
Other dealers find the same enthus
lam among their patrons and they
cannot say enough for the new series.
"Additional \alue given to an al
ready exceptional value, makes super
values," wrote one dealer. "I cannot
say enough for the new series."
The dealers, as well as the public,
considered the series of the season Just
passed as one of exceptional value and
the new care with more Improvements
and refinements have amazed them.
Some of the dealers have written to
the factory saying they cannot under
stand how it is possible to produce an
automobile like the new series for
the price at which It is offered.
This time o>' year, when iiioh! motor
car dealers are retrenching against
the i-oinlng winter, finds Saxon dealers
ordering more and more cars. They
sax the fall trade resembles the spring I
business v£ other years.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH '
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SI'X
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The New Willys Six
In design, finish and appointments and checked against rebound,
it is new, beautiful, complete ~_, . ~^ n ,. . ~, ,
and up to the minute. The P nce > $ 1323 > 1S P osslble be
cause the Willys Six shares in
It sets a new high mark in easy the economies that we effect by
riding comfort. building a complete line of auto-
Long forty-eight inch cantilever mobiles,
rear springs, perfect balance, —with one executive organization,
long wheelbase —125 inches, . .
big tires—43 2x 35 inches— pro- —° ne Purchasing power,
vide the utmost ease and luxury —and selling them with one sales
of riding comfort. ' expense through one dealer
And the low, deep-cushioned seats organization.
are built over improved seat See the Overland dealer at once —
springs—each spiral separably before the spring rush slows up
encased and thus air cushioned deliveries.
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|I The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
Both Phones 212 NORTH SECOND ST. Opih Evenings /^~~—
\ /~A The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo. Ohio A \ /
V / \ "Mad* in U.S.A." J \i Y
COWBOYS FIGHT MEXICANS
Battle Lusting All Duy Reported Near
Boundary
Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 2 7. According
to telephone advices from Arivaca,
Ariz., about forty miles south of Tuc
son, fighting has been in progress all
day at a place called Stoneliowse, be
tween Mexican troops and American
cowboys.
"When the cowboys attempted to
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j SAXON "SIX" !
► A Big Touring Car For 5 People i
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I At l J /2 miles per hour "on <
high" Saxon "Six" pulls i
► without "bucking" or
"jerking." No "four" can • <
► duplicate such smooth
k pulling power at so slow <
► a pace.
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* Saxon "Six" Is $865 f. o. b. Detroit <
. • Specificationsi New body degign, larger body, new i
finish, 12-inch brakes, 41 ',i-inch full cantilever type rear
y spring, 2-ineh crankshaft, tilted windshield, new style j
top with Grecian rear bow, new style fenders, instru- > !
► ments mounted on cowl dash, chrome vanadium valve
. springs, new design carburetor, 112-inch wheelbasc, i
* light weight six-cylinder high speed motor j 32x3 -Inch
► tires, demountable rlins, two unit Parting and lighting
system, Timken axles, full Timken bearings, and twenty .
V further refinements.
Saxon Distributing Agency
[ 1139 Mulberry St. L. H. Hagerling <
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drive their cattle from the boundary]
line, the Mexicans opened fire. The I
report said the Americans retreated |
. and were re-enforced by a part of i
' Troop B, Utah cavalry, who returned I
the tire.
No American casualties have been ;
reported, and it is not known whether j
the Mexicans suffered losses. Further !
re-enforcements were sent from Ari- j
i vaca.
JANUARY 27, 1917.
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"Who Discove
Gas Mantle Light, Father?''
"Dr. Carl Heidelberg, in 1880, my boy, but
. little did the eye comfort, convenience and
economy we would be enjoying to-day from his dis
covery. 1
"That little 3 mantle 'C.E-Z' Gas Light which we
are using in our regular gas shades gives a light equal
to 90 candles at a cost for gas of
ONLY 1 CENT FOR 3 HOURS
"It's really the greatest little light ever invented."'
Price, 750 and up
according to equipment.
EASY TERM PAYMENTS.
See them at our showroom or have us send a repre-
I sentative.
Harrisburg
14 S. 2nd Street Bell 2028—Cumb. Val. 2221
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