HUPP PRODUCTION BREAKS RECORDS Freight Car Shortage Makes It Necessary to Drive Cars to Destination By standing an almost unbelievably Increased expense on account of the freight car shortage and material market which reached its most acute J>oint in January and February, the Hupp Motor Car Corporation suc ceeded in producing and shipping more cars this year than even during the record breaking winter months of 1316, according to a statement Just made by C. D. Hastings, vice president and general manager of the corpora tion. "As I view the motor car situation at present, It is one of production and shipping," said Mr. Hastings. "Even with our increased production, orders for immediate shipment have piled up on us and the month of March finds us with orders for nearly 2,000 cars for immediate delivery. These orders we are filling as fast as production and the freight car situa tion will allow, but each day finds or ders piling up still more. The break ing up of winter weather will aid us greatly In getting machines to the dis tributing points as they can be driven overland in greater numbers. The opening of lake tralHc next month will also be or grcai Venefit. "The material market continues to he a source of trouble. From the time the European war was well under way the prices of practically all ma terials used in making motor cars, as well as all other manufactured ar ticles, have been constantly on the Increase. At first this condition was received with much concern by those in the industry, but after several rapid advances in tho prices of foodstuffs, textiles, metals and all manufacturing materials, the whole situation was taken more as a matter of course. As a matter of fact, during the last win ter, prices of parts and materials, like most necessities, have increased more often than before although not as hiuch has been said about the advance of raw materials as about the increas ing costs of food and clothing. This ■was because price increases became a regularity rather than a novelty in manufacturing lines. "The redeeming feature of the situ ation, however, is the big demand for cars from all over the United States. Our orders do not come from any par ticular section or sections, but are distributed well over the entire coun try. This fact shows a healthy condi tion of business in general and our own in. particular." ALEX SLOAXE'S LATEST J. Alex Sloane, leading impressario of dirt-track automobile racing, has been spending several days in De troit, in the endeavor to secure a Harroun car for speed work. Sloane believes that the new car's revolution ary power and light weight will yield remarkable results, especially in half mile track work where acceleration Is always so great a factor. Your saving of garage rent will quickly pay for a Butler All-Steel Garage, 10x14 ft., $71.00 f. o. b. fac tory; larger sizes; fireproof, large doors, window ventilators, tool shelf; write for descriptive booklet. C. Frank Class, Union Trust Bldg.—Adv. ~ —X the Standard of Va'lue and Quality I Fairfield "Six-46" seven-passenger, j Fleetwood "Six-38" five-passenger, j E. L. COWDEN ( It. J. CHURCH, Salcsmanager 108 Market Street > * f "**^l 5-Passenger Touring $605 3-Passenger Clover Leaf Road ster sos Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AXD CUMBERLAND STS. , Bell Phone 3515 * f •—— | --the efficiency car more miles— less gasoline— more comfort— less weight— E. W. Shank 107 MAKKET ST. AUTO STORAGE— First class, fireproof garage, open day and night Rates reasonable. Auto Trans. Garage £ aheap" Roaster '' fILOT C Moroi? 'collr aw* > 8110 10U Tl Vl^ ENSMINGER MOTOR CO. Third and Cumberland Streets, Distributors, Harrisbnrg, Pa. SATURDAY EVENING, | Gasoline Standard As Adopted by Detroit Following a series of investigations conducted by C. C. Hinkley, chief en gineer of the Chalmers Motor Com pany, and J. C. McCabe, Detroit city engineer, the City of Detroit has adopted a set of standards for gasoline which must be strictly observed by all dealers in the city. Designated as "Detroit City Stand ard," the new type of gasoline is de fined as a liquid hydro-carbon obtain ed by straight distillation or by the cracking process and having a boil ing temperature not exceeding 450 degrees Fahrenheit. It must distill at least 20 per cent, at 220 degrees Fahrenheit and 50 per cent, under 300 degrees Fahrenheit when tested by the distillation test provided for in the ordinance. Any mixture of gasoline and kero sene which does not measure up to this test must be labeled "Mixed G- K" and sold as a mixture of the two oils. Signs designating the quality of the gasoline sold must be plainly dis played on the pump l'roin which the liquid is drawn so that the customer knows which type he is paying for. With the constantly decreasing quality of the gasoline being sold in our city streets to-day, we decided it was time to stage a campaign of edu cation for the benefit of motorcar users," said Mr. Hinkley, discussing the new ordinance. "For test pur poses we purchased samples of gaso line at different stations around De troit and tested it for kerosene. We found that from 8 to 23 per cent, of the liquid was kerosene. The big oil companies blame the various dealers for the adulteration and have O. K'd the Detroit City Standard as a method of protecting the public from an in ferior product. "We are sending the Detroit form ula to other cities and are endeavor ing to start a nation-wide campaign which will materially improve the operation of cars for hundreds of thousands of automobile owners." Indians Now Use Wrench And Hammer on Motor Cars Almost on the very site of some of the bitterest wars waged a century ago by his ancestors in defense of their hunting grounds, the American Indian to-day helps the paleface build his "devil wagon." Just a few miles from Fort Meigs, Fort Miami and some of the other bat tlegrounds of "Tippecanoe Jlarrison, "Mad Anthony" Wayne,Tecumser, and other warlike leaders of another day, is the main factory of the Willys-Over land Company, one of the most im portant units of the automobile in dustry. In this factory are a score of full blooded Indians—Chlppewas, Nava.los, Pomos, Pueblos—sent there by Uncle S&m from their western reservations to learn another of the trades of the white man. And these Indians are taking to their training like so many ducks to water. They are very interested in learning what makes the wheels of the automobile go round. A dozen redskins are assigned to various duties in the assembly of one of the Willys-Overland models. One pair aids in chassis assembly; another pair assembles wheels; five of them are engaged in final assembly; while still others work on running boards, etc. Instead of being confined perma nently to one operation, they are shift ed every few months from task to task, in order to give them a general practical knowledge of motor car con struction, such as is required by good mechanics, garage men and automo bile repair men. "The work of the Indians is a source of muph satisfaction to us," says the foreman of their department. " "The Indians we have are among our most willing, most accurate and most pains taking workmen. "To top this off. they are very ambi tious and are reading every bit of lit erature they can find in connection with their work, in ord<>r to acoutre n better knowledge of the relation of their own particular task to the manu facture of the whole car." Chevrolet Plants Cover Millions of Square Feet The seven factories of the Chevrolet Motor Company In the United States and Canada cover 2.474,097 square feet of floor space, an area equivalent to fifty-six and a half acres. This group consists of fifty-six buildings, not including annexes and wings, situated at important indus trial centers from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. The manufacturing plant at Flint, Mich., with subsidiary plants at To ledo. Ohio, and Bnv City, Mich., are mado up of 35 buildings, covering 1,- 086.824 square feet. The assembling plant at Oakland, Cal.. covers 133.072 square feet; at St. Louis, Mo„ 239.525 square feet; at Oshawa, Ontario, 13 buildings, cover ing 431,695 square feet; at Fort I Worth,.Texas, 138.1 20 square feet; at Tarrvtown-on-the-Hudson. N. Y., two buildings, and in New York City, tliree buildings, covering 441,861 square feet. This entire area if Included within the limits of one city would occupy over a thousand city lots. The minimum production of Chev rolet automobiles for 1917 is placed at 150,000 cars. HAT.Ii HEADS I. c. o. By Aisociatcd Press Washington. March 17.—Commission er Henry C. Hall was elected chairman of the nlterstate Commerce Commis sion yesterday, following the custom of annual rotation in office Mr. Hall was appointed to the commission by Pres ident Wilson in January, 1914, to fill the unexpired term of Charles A. Prouty, resigned, and has had per sonal supervision of the commission's divisions of law and inquiry. KILLED BY FALLING TANK Sunbury, Pa., March 17. —Struck bv a falling side of a steel tank car at the American Car and Foundry Com pany's plant at Milton. Matthew Irvin, aged 27, recive'd injuries from which he died shortly after being admitted to the George F. Geisinger Hospital, at Danville. He was unmarried. PHYSICIAN DIES SUDDENLY Sunbury, Pa., March 17. —Dr. M. H. Groton, 40 years old, of Batavia, N. Y., died suddenly of uraemio poisoning In a roominghouse here. He is sur vived by his wife. Duplex First to Apply Power to Front Wheels The Duplex truck, which is now manufactured by the Duplex Truck Co., of Lansing, a million-dollar cor poration, is the original four-wheel drive truck. For several years the Duplex truck was manufactured at Charlotte, Mich igan, with a small number of motor trucks being placed on the market each year. The development of the Duplex truck was watched, however, by sev eral Lansing automobile men, and a few months ago they organized a cor poration and purchased the Charlotte factory. This company also controls the basic patent on the application of power to front through exter nal or internal gears. The company's president and gen eral manager, H. M. Lee, entered the automobile industry In the early days, being a graduate of the bicycle busi ness. Mr. Lee was thoroughly convinced of the many superiorities of the Du plex truck before he became the head of the Lansing company. He says that as a competitor, Duplex perform ance demonstrated to him that It would consistently out-pull and out last more costly trucks on lower oper ating and upkeep costs. Mr. Lee asserts that Duplex trucks in U. S. army service, in lumber camps and oil fields, in engineering, mining and contracting service have hauled capacity loads where other trucks have stalled even when unloaded. Since Mr. Lee became head of the Duplex Company the capacity of the Charlotte factory has been trebled, and building operations are about to start in Lansing. When the new fac tory is completed the production will be increased fco ten trucks per day. Preparations Under Way For Bumper Chalmers Year "With one of the largest manufac turing plants in the country and a manufacturing schedule of 30,000 cars for 1917, it is hard to realize that the Chalmers factory just nine years ago consisted of one building in thirty acres of Michigan prairie," says W. L. Agnew, director of advertising for the Chalmers Motor Company. "For the past eight years, there has scarcely been a month when some new addition to the Chalmers plant has not been in the course of construc tion," continued Mr. Agnew. "During the Hrst fiscal year of the company, 3,000 of the famous old four-cylinder Chalmer's 30's were turned out. To day those same 1909 cars are still piling up tha mileage. Many of them have over 200,000 miles to their cred it. "Old Reliable," the first Chalmers 30 built, has passed the 300,000 mile stone and is still going. "At the present time the 30 acres of land on which the factory was lo cated are covered with 25 giant fac tory buildings, manned by 6,500 work ers. Many departments are working on a full twenty-four hour schedule Within the past year a huge main building has brought the total area of lloor space up to 825,000 square feet. Recent purchases of additional prop erty and proposed new buildings will again increase the magnitude of the plant in 1917. "We confidently look forward to the greatest year in our history and are preparing for it on a larger scale than ever before. Chalmers dealer repre sentation lias been increased greatly and competition for desirable territory is rapidly closing the few remaining points now open." i Cadillac Manager Honored With Testimonial Plague The dealer organization of the Cadillac Motor Car Company recently expressed its regard and esteem for Wilfred C. Leland, vice-president and general manager of the Cadillac com pany. Mr. Leland was presented with a handsome gold and silver tablet, mounted on Circassian walnut, the whole executed by Tiffany. The in scription reads: "To Wilfred Chester Iceland, in recognition of his concep tion of the high speed, high efficiency V-type engine and its application to the motor car. From Cadillac Old Guard." The tablet is of silver. At the top appears, In a panel, a bas-relief repre sentation of the front end of the Cadil lac. eight-cylinder V-type engine. The relief* is done in gold. On one side of the panel is a figure representative of Mercury and on the other side a figure representative of the goddess Ceres. At the bottom of the tablet, In Its conventional circular form, appears the trademark of the Cadillac, a wreath around the eoat-of-arms of La Mothe Cadillac. The coat-of-arms also is in gold relief. Peerless Prices Will Be Advanced in April Effective April 9, 1917, the Peerless Motor Car Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, builders of the Peerless two power-range Eight, will advance the prices of all but one of its models. The one model not included in the increase is tne new Sporting Road ster, which will continue to sell at the attractive figure of $2,250. The tour ing car and roadster are each ad vanced from $1,980 to $2,090, an in crease of sllO on the Standard models. The unusual feature of the Peer less announcement of an increase in price is the fact that the notice can prove very little if any incentive to the taking of orders under .current prices. This is because the large num ber of orders accepted by the com pany prior to announcement of the new price schedule will require all of the cars that it Is possible for the fac tory to produce between now and April 9, the date when the new sched ule takes effect, in spite of the fact that an entire new plant has been added to The Peerless establishment, increasing the passenger car facilities by nearly a half million square feet. The pronounced growth in Peer less output of pleasure cars is evident in the following notice which is being sent out from the factory to all dis tributors. "Prospective purchasers of the Peer less Eight who contemplate specifying delivery even as late in the spring as June, should take prompt action and file orders with distributors at once. As spring weather approaches, the de mand for the Peerless Eight is quick ening. This demand, together with the unusual shipping conditions which confront us, makes the precaution of an early order doubly important." CLOSING CONFERENCE YEAR Duncannon, Pa„ March 17. The Rev. Willis ShoH, pastor of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, will leave for Conference, at Lewistown, next Tues day, after four years in the service here. Holy Communion services will be conducted in the church all day to morrow, as a fitting close to the Con ference year, and new members will be admitted to church membership. at'OIt.WTISU LIFTED Ellzabethvllle, Pa., March 17. Quar antine for scarliit fever here has been lifted and children will be allowed to go to Sunday school to-morroW and the public schools will again open on Mon day, after a two-weks' vacation. The sick are rapidly being released and no fear of a fresh outbreak is entertained by the local llNealth Board. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH > JEFFERY SIX IN LARGER NUMBERS Increased Schedule of Produc tion Throughout Present Selling Season An official statement has been made by C. W. Nash, president of The Nash Motors Company, that a large produc tion order has been issued on the Jeffery Six, and that this car, incor porating certain changes and refine ments, will be continued throughout the season as the product of The Nash Motors Company. This is the first official declaration of policy made by C. W. Nash, the manufacturing and merchandizing genius, who has held the center of interest since his acquisition of the big Jeffery plant last September. So much conjective has been cur rent as to the probable manufactur ing policy which Mr. Nash would pursue that this announcement has aroused much Interest both among the trade and the general public. Mr. Nash, in outlining his reasons for this, decision, states that since his purchase of the Jeffery plant, he has examined the construction ot' the Jef fery Six in every detail, and put it to every test of machine shop and road. These tests, he says, convinced him that the Jeffery Six was one of the best motorcars made in thig country. Some slight changes have been made which Mr. Nash says have still further improved this car. in reviewing some of the points of Jeffery Six construction, Mr. Nash says, "I have been in the business of building and selling carriages and motorcars for some twenty-five years. But 1 can say frankly that I have never known a car that was better constructed than this Jeffery Six. "I have personally inspected this car in every detail. Some of the things which I learned about it surprised me. For instance it has more alloy steel in its make-up than most American cars. Alloy steel is a superior mater ial because of its great strength and resistance to wear. But because of its great toughness it is difficult to ma chine. It is also much more costly than ordinary carbon steel. "Another unusual feature about Jeffery Six construction is the fact that nothing but best grade white ash is used in the bodies. "After I had satisfied myself on the various points of construction I tested this car for performance, driving it over every kind of road. I found that it was extremely flexible, that the 53 horsepower motor permitted a range of speed on 'high' from two to sixty miles an hour. "Then 1 called our > engineering staff into a conference and we went over this car together. We saw where we could make a few slight refine ments which would make it a still bet ter car. These improvements have all been made and 1 am sincere when I say that I think the Jeffery Six ts one of the best cars built in this country to-day. "We here at Kenosha are so well pleased with the improved Jeffery .Six that we have decided to continue its manufacture throughout the present season. In fact we are even increas ing the production of this particular model." ( \ m Permanence light Four* IZis" : • ! 6% When an institution, almost from This year we are building the Countryciub! f T] o its inception, takes the com- most comprehensive line of manding position in its field — motor cars ever produced by flf I * v .i j_ • . any one concern, nig Four* And when that institution main ' Touring . tsjo tains that commanding posi- They include Fours, Sixes and cE#'". \ tion without interruption over an Eight. Stian .. . $1430 a ser j es Q f years Tf . . y If yours is a family of average Then you may be assured of size, you will be particularly Light Six* that institution's integrity— interested in the comfortable, Tourin, . . t 0 g f both as to its product and its powerful, Big Four at SBSO con* . dealings with the public. or Light Six at $985. They II ' ' exemplify the remarkable ountH .tun From an output of 465 cars values characteristic of the M % eight years ago the Willys- entire line. Overland industry has grown Wiiiyi-Knightf steadily and this year our When you buy any car in the rZ'rcZt'.". i'i'i dealers have corftracted for Willys-Overland line you are more than 200,000 cars. assured by our commanding EitUTowint una position in the industry, by Our net resources have grown our unequalled facilities and Aa tries/, o. b. Totedo * n ti me f ron * a little more resources, of integrity of value Subject to ckanf without notici than fifty thousand dollars to in your car throughout the "Had* in u.s. A." more t j ian s i x ty-eight million whole period of its perform dollars. ance in your service. The Overland-Harrisburg Co. Big 212 North Second St. Light sqo r ( Four O OVJ Open Evenings Both Phones Slx *3® 3 More Power at Less Cost. Both Series ''lß'' Studebaker know how to use the best features FOUR and Series ''lß'' Studebaker by continually improving, refining SIX are noted for their great power, and perfecting —through the expcr and especially their great power in ience of a motor in actual service. ratio to their very low consumption . . , , , , c v lhis is why Studebaker can of gasoline. . , . truthfully claim that the design of It has taken Studebaker four j(- s mo tor is unsurpassed in simplic yeais to improve, refine and perfect ity, accessibility and power. By the the wonderful Studebaker motor. refinement of reciprocating parts, It has been solved through the ex- vibration has been reduced to an al perience of 250,000 cars in the hands most unobservable minimum. of owners. It is only, through an evolution like this, that perfection The bearing areas of the motor of power in ratio to fuel consump- bave been enlarged and increased, tion can possibly be developed. giving greater durability, more . strength, still further insuring 1 here are no secret processes: no ~ . , . & , . , , , £ , • smooth, vibrationless operation, basic patents; no features of design 1 that are unknown or prohibited by But you cannot appreciate the patents. The Engineer can use splendid POWER of the Stude what he wishes, but he can only baker car until you TRY it. FOUR-CYLINDER MODELS SIX'-CYLIXDER MODELS '•°™ • Driscoll Auto Co SI £5SSU"::::::::::';SS FOUR Roadster 08.5 IwWWll HUtUa Wi SIX Touring Cnp 1250 FOUR Touring Car 985 SIX I - ail(,a 'i Roadster .... 1350 FOUR Landau Roadster.. 1150 1 47-155 S. Cameron St. SIX FOUR Every-Weatlier Car 1185 SIX Coupe 1750 Harrislmrg, Pit. SIX Limousine 2000 All Prices F. O. B. Detroit All Prices F. O. B. Detroit MARCH 17, 1917. 12
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