10 Gasoline Leakage Makes Motor Wear Expensive '•I am not at all anxious that motor ists should consider me a crank or a calamity howler," says Max Hagel stine, service manager of the Stude baker corporation, who has attracted considerable attention throughout the country by his frequent pertinent tips to automobile owners, "but 1 cer tainly do want folks to know more about their cars and the proper care "'"Take the matter of lubrication, for instance. 1 ilrmly believe motorists cannot know too much about lubrica tion and lubricating oils. Lack of knowledge means loss of pleasure, loss of time and, oftentimes, considerable loss of money. And there is one un derlylng phase of the subject which is often overlooked by motorists and jet which is the base of many lubricating troubles. 1 refer to what is common ly known as 'gasoline leakage. "Gasoline leakage Is generally caused by a certain amount of mix ture which is not burned and finds its wav into the crank case diluting the oil and destroying its UibricaUng qual ities from 10 per cent, to 30 per cent. !n from two weeks to a month's time, depending upon weather conditions. This means that on the compression stroke some of the gaseous mixture from the combustion chamber leaks nast the piston rings and condenses in the cool crank case. This action is due to the fact that the oil does not perfectly seal the space between the cylinder walls and the piston rings. In some instances this leakage has been so marked that oil taken from a crank case, due to the la . of gasoline present, exploded when touched with a match. "Of course It Is perfectly that gasoline is not a good lubricant. And It does not take much speculation to determine what will happen to a motor if no steps are taken to prevent the gasoline from leaking into the crank case and becoming a part of the lubricant. . . "Oil, diluted with gasoline, becomes a mighty poor lubricant and will leave the cylinders dry if allowed to con tinue unchecked. This will cause wear and necessitate the replacing of some vital part of the internal mechanism of the motor. "Wrist pins, cylinders and pistons are very apt to suffer from this gasoline leakage—with great danger of burnt out connecting rods and main bearings. "Motorists can avoid this trouble and gain assurance of a perfect seal between piston and cylinder walls by the use of a good motor oil, of course, and the frequent draining of the oil in the crank case. "If owners will drain off the old oil in a crank case often—say once everv two weeks in cold weather, and once' a month during the summer— and replenish with fresh oil, there need be no fear of the oil deteriorat ing and losing its oririnal lubricating qualities. Five dollars spent this way may save a bill of from fifty to one hundred dollars in a season for neces sary repairs. The frequent changing of oil in the crank case during a period of seven months would not amount to the price of one piston— and it only takes about ten minutes' time to make the change." FREEI 5 Tests and Water $ i For i I STORAGE! | BATTERYI I / :■ and ■: I EXPERTI I REPAIRS| L„ * I ;i FRONT-MARKET j; Motor Supply Co. j: 109 Market St. \ ————— |i Prest-o-lite j Battery j | Service r 5-Passenger Touring $695 3-Passenger Clover Leaf Road ster $695 Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Phone 3515 V .J the Standard of Value and Quality Fairfield "Six-46" seven-passenger. Fleetwood "Six-38" five-passenger. E. L. COWDEN R. J. CHURCH, Salesmanager 108 Market Street P—l SATURDAY EVENING, COMPARISONS ARE APT TO MISLEAD Miles Per Gallon Does Not Necessarily Prove Service ability of Car During a discussion among several show visitors last night concerning the advertising claims of many motor car manufacturers, W. R. Strickland, chief of the Peerless Motor Car Company's engineering department, came out flat footed with a statement which, on the face of It, appears to conflict with the ideas of about 90 per cent, of the automobile builders. "In the absence of definite standards, comparative fig ures on the performance of a car are misleading and generally worthless," he declared. "Broadly speaking, the statement that a big car will make better than twelve and fifteen miles an hour on a gallon of gasoline means nothing," he continued. "Or to say that it will make seventy-two 'miles an hour, means very little to the consumer. The real Information sought by the in telligent buyer is: What will the car accomplish under all conditions; how will it take the bad roads; Is it easily handled in dense traffic; will it climb hills; does it waste fuel and so on and so on. "Anyone who knows anything at all about building automobiles knows that it is no extraordinary feat to put to gether a car which under certain con ditions will make ninety miles an hour, but the suitability of the car for ordinary purposes is another ques tion. In fact, It might be absolutely worthless for touring or normal city driving and still It would make ninety miles an hour. It is no real trick to get a big gasoline mileage under cer tain conditions. For instance, if the driving surroundings are just right a car might roll off twenty miles to the gallon of gasoline on one occasion and that same car would have less than a twelve-mile average for down town work or for average country roads." "My advice to the buying public is this: See what the car will do under all kinds of conditions, before you buy. Make the demonstrator take you over rough roads, climb hills, drive through crowded traffic, speed It up on a level highway and then compare its per formance under those conditions with | that of competitive cars. Finally, buy | the one which shows up the best. That lis the way to tell the efficiency of a car." "Because of its powerful 80-horse power motor, the Peerless car can fur nish all the speed, and even more, that anyone could wish. It was only a few weeks ago that It won the dealers' event at the Unlontown, Pa., races with an average speed of 80 miles an hour and at times negotiating as high as 95 miles an hour. Even then the driver had not exhausted the full pos sibilities of the motor. But, neverthe less, the Peerless has something to talk about besides speed. It points to the fact, and proves it, that it is an admirable car for all around service. It has power, speed, comfort, beauty and a type of design which is used only by the makers of the most costly cars. "When any reference is made to Peerless gasoline mileage, you can de pend upon it that the figures used were not taken on a test trip, es pecially to obtain the maximum mile age under the most favorable condi tions. The figures are taken from across country trips, generally, and' they include every kind of driving ob stacle which the ordinary motorist would be liable to encounter. With this in view, it means something when the Peerless Company says that 15 and more miles per gallon of gasoline have been obtained by its product." "The public is beginning to realize this and that is one tf the reasons why the demand for Peerless Eights is greater than the supply." BIBLE CLASS SOCIAL New Cumberland, Pa., March 31. On Thursday evening an enjoyable so cial was given by the Men's Bibltf class of Trinity United Brethren Church under direction of a commit tee with George Rigling as chairman. G. W. Heffleman, president of the class, delivered a short address and welcomed the guests. The Rev. J. R. Hutchinson offered prayer and the Sunday school orchestra of twelve pieces furnished music. Features on the program were: Music by quar tet, consisting of Miss Esther Snell, Miss Ruth Williams, J. W. Wright and Daniel Sites; baritone solo, William Boycr; solo, Frank Entry. The Young Men's Glee Club also sang and Jesse Stone and Ira Ryder gave an instru mental duet. A feature of the enter tainment was cartoon work and slight-of-hand tricks by Prof. Haley. Miss Elizabeth Smaling was the pian ist. Ice cream, cake and sandwiches were served. Nothing marks an auto as of the ancient vintage so distinctly as the tarnished and battered brass work. Why Not Give Your Car the 1917 Look? by having us replate and repair your lamps, radiator, windshield, etc. All work gusyanteed. Our prices are the kind that suit the economically inclined. . Botli Phones Harrisburg, Pa. ■ / —• - - - - abbs --the efficiency car more miles— less gasoline— more comfort— less weight— E. W. Shank 107 MARKET ST. AUTO STORAGE— First class, fireproof garage, open day and night. Rates reasonable. Auto Trans. Garage All Super-Six Racers to Finish Is Hudson Policy "Hudson's fleet or Super-Six racers virtually will run 'from back of scratch' in all the Important Events this year," said L. H. Hagerling, Hud son representative. "The handicap is self-imposed. In order to satisfy Hudson alms, all of the great roces must finish. "When one considers the compara tively small percentage of racers in the big speed events which finish at all, it is at once apparent that the Hudson has assumed almost an im possible impost. "But in winning all worthwhile rec- j ords last year the Hudson was never I extended to the limit of its endurance. There always remained a big reserve of power and endurance that was never required even in those terrible tests. "This year, therefore, the Super- Six will be put to the ultimate test. Long distance races at frightful speed will be required of the cars —and all must finish to satisfy Hudson. An honest exposition of these qualities of endurance of endurance and power demands that the race cars adhere to Super-Six stock structure. This has been done. The principal change is in shortening the chassis. The Super- Six racers will be pitted against spe cially constructed freaks in which every quality has. been subordinated to speed. They do not even distantly resemble the stock cars of the names they bear. Therefore their perform ance signifies nothing of what can be expected of their stock car. In the course of a year of ordinary car usage, one of these cars would con sume thousands of dollars In fuel. "But the qualities which the Super- Six racers will demonstrate in these speed events are the same that the purchaser of a SUper-Six stock car gets. That is why the Hudson did not radically depart from stock car struc ture in building its racers. "The Hudson does not expect to take first place in all of even a few | of these races. But it does expect the Super-Six to maintain a high average speed—always among the leaders— and always to finish. "That undertaking is so broad that to be perfectly honest it must be quali fied. Hudson knows the Super-Six, and knows it is capable of enduring the most terrific trials of speed and endurance, and always to finish. But there are the chances of the track, over which no amount of scientific building has control. Some track catastrophe, spraddling across the course of a fast-flying Super-Six, may involve it also. Bar those chances all Hudsons will finish. The makers are confident of that because they know the Hudson cars. And Hudson own ers everywhere are confident of ft be cause they know the Hudson Super- Six, also. jeffery Quad Solves Difficult Haulage Problem Because a Jeffery Quad proved its ability to negotiate the heavy mud roads leading into a tract of timber near Erie, Pa., after teams and rear drive trucks had been abandoned in despair, the Conneaut Shovel Com pany of Conneaut, Ohio, saved 40,000 feet of first quality white ash. "We purchased this timber under a contract with a teaming concern to haul the logs into Erie at $7.50 per thousand loaded on the train," says G. W. Benton, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Conneaut Shovel Com pany, in a letter to C. W. Nash, presi dent of the Nash Motors Co. "The teamsters went into the woods with three big teams and worked two months. At the end of that time they had made no advancement and we were forced to loan ihem money to continue their contract, incidentally advancing the price per thousand to $10.50. They finally thx*ew up the contract. "We then tried to sub-let the job but found that it was impossible to get anyone to undertake it. I called a directors' meeting and laid the case before them. They suggested trucks. The i writer went personally to sev eral of the big motor truck factories and asked for demonstrations. But I found that none of the rear drive units could hope to cope with the problem. "Then I went to Kenosha and saw a Jeffery Quad perform. In this dem onstration the truck was loaded down with pig iron and driven down to a dump lield where dumping from vari ous excavations had ben piled. When we arrived at this field the demon strator simply turned at a right angle to the curb line and the truck waddled up the curb, across the sidewalk and into the field. Through piles of loose earth that came up to the body, through mud holes, over railroad ties the truck kept on its way as if this was a usual performance. But after watching the test I was convinced that 1 had found the solution of our haul ing problem. "When we tried the Quad on the timber we found that we could bring tho logs from Erie, we found that we could deliver to our factory for almost the same amount that it would otherwise cost for Just hauling it to Erie and loading it on the train. In other words we affected a saving of $7.00 a thousand in bringing in this timber. "Since that time this truck has been driven through the deep sand along the shores of Lake Erie where teams were unable to load up their quota of sand and pull out. We have climbed wash banks on the creeks south of here with loads of logs where all telims, trucks and automobiles gave up in despair. We even drove it into a moulding sand pit where no team has ever been able to pull a load out and where four horses are often stuck with a light wagon. We backed through this pit when one end of the truck was sunk so far down that the frame dragged on the sand. But the Jeffery Quad pulled out without scarcely an effort." Haynes Breaks Washington to Richmond Auto Record D. B. Gish, Washington, D. C., driv ing a stock six-cylinder Haynes tour ing car, broke the automobile record between Richmond, Va., and Wash ington, D. C., September 19. The new record of 4 hours and 4 minutes clips 61 minutes off the previous mark. Mr. Gish drove the same car with which l he recently broke the New York-Washington road record in 7 hours and 26 minutes. The driver with three passengers motored to Richmond on the day preceding the run to prepare for the dash over the rather rough roads of the Old Dominion. At 5.25 the fol lowing morning, they headed in a northerly direction, passing through Solomon, Spotsylvannla, Fredricks burg, Dumfries, Alexandria and across the Potomac into Washington, where they checked at the municipal build ing at 9.29. The motorists passed through the Chopwamslc swamp below Dumfries, while it was still heavy with mud in various places, following heavy rains, without shifting from high gear. Af ter negotiating this bad stretch of road, while speeding down'a hill in the vicinity of Occoquan, one of the rear tires blew out. This accident pre vented a high gear run, and raised the time of the drive over the four hour mark. The average on the run over high ways on which fast traveling is diffi cult was better than 35 miles an hour. On the last leg of the trip from Acco tlnk Into Washington a speed of 55 miles an hour was maintained. The previous record of 4 hours and 55 minutes for the 138.5 miles between Richmond and the national capital I was made over a year ago in a twelve pvHn(joP HARRISBURG TELEGI APH The Sun Never Sets on the Briscoe Host everybody'is familiar with the proud boast o£ the English, which states that the sun never sets on the English flag. Briscoe cars can also claim this dis tinction as they are now sold in fifty one foreign countries, islands and colonies. Regularly established -deal ers are to be found in Algeria, Antigua, Argentine Republic, Australia, Barba dos, Bolivia, British East Africa, Brit ish Guiana, Chile, China, Cochin China, Cuba, Curacao, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Gibraltar, Grenada, Hawaii, Holland, Hungary, India, Japan, Java, Mexico, Morocco, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippine Island, Russia, St. Martins, Salvador, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Spain, Straits Settle ments, Sumatra, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Wales. The Briscoe car being of French origin and design is very popular with foreign buyers, whose discriminating taste has been developed by the high priced machines manufactured and used extensively abroad. It would require a search through a pretty big Atlas to find mfiny places of importance on mother earth where Briscoe cars are not to be seen in gratifying numbers. Three Super-Sixes Added to Japan's Imperial Fleet The Emperor of the Flowery King dom rides in a Hudson Super-Six. It is the only American built car attach ed to the Imperial Household of Ja paij. The llrst Hudson Super-Six—a Limousine —was purchased for the imperial household a month ago from the Japan Automobile Company, Hud son distributors in Japan. Within two weeks two others were added, a town car and a town car landaulet. They are for the emperor's personal use, and it is reported that the selection was dictated by him, although of course, attaches of the household made the purchase. The prestige accorded to the Hudson Super-Six in Japan through its selec tion by the emperor can scarcely be estimated by Americans, unless they know the Idolatrous esteem in which the ruler is held hy his subjects. I • The Studebaker SIX —An Evolution THE Series 18 Studebaker Six is an The roadability, the easy riding qualities evolution. It is the result of four of Studebakers are recognized by all ex years' concentrated study of the perform- perienced motorists. ance of 300 000 Studebaker Automobiles p ackard and p; m the hands of owners. . . , . „ . . , .. baker retains its graceful, aristocratic It is even better than the Series 17, for ,; nes from year to year it embodies ninety distinct improvements of mechanical construction, convenience The manufacturing methods applied in , and comfort. the production of the Studebaker Six It has been refined to a point of practi- have been developed by four years con cal perfection. tinuous experience with single basic de- It is the lightest car in ratio to its power This fact al ° ne ha . s enabled on the market. baker to kee P lts P rlce remarkabl y In ratio to power it is the most econom- ' ow ° ical in consumption of gasoline. Last year the entire Studebaker output • Its weight L- scientifically distributed, its was balance refined to such a point that a were disappointed. This year, too, the single set of tires frequently runs from production is limited. Be wise—place 8,000 to 12,000 miles. your order now. k Four-Cylinder Models Driscoll Auto Co. SIX Roadster .... sl2s* FOUR Roadster .... $985 SIX Touring Car . . . 1251 fourLandau^taadater * .' h.S 147-155 South Cameron Street : : 85 FOUR Every-Weather Car 1185 w. t nnmnim/i n . SIX Limousine . . . . 26W Aiitrialf.#.t. HARRISBUKu, PA. Willys-Overland Announces Staggered Door Type Sedan The Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio, is now building a stag gered-door type of convertible sedan body on its Willys-Knight Four chassis. The doors in this type of body are placed so that the entrance for the passengers is located in the middle of the car on the right side, giving the passengers an unobstructed passage way to their seats. The driver's door, however, is at the front of the car, on the left side, so that he interferes with no one when he enters or leaves the automobile. Up time of the introduction of this type of body, the convertible sedans were equipped with doors on each side in the middle of the car. It is expected that the installation of staggered doors will add to the popularity of the Willys-Knight sedans which already have become one of the most admired types of the comprehen sive Willys-Overland line. Touring Sedan Has Proven Practical For Summer With the summer touring season on apace, another time-worn illusion anent the closed car. has been dis pelled. Heretofore, the only manner in which a single chassis could be utilized the year round, was to pur chase two bodies of lirpousine and touring design and switch the two nt the dictates of temperature. The touring or convertible sedan I has changed ail this. It has long been demonstrated that the vast majority of motorists seldom lower the tops on their touring cars during an entire season. With this in view motor car designers brought forth the touring ! sedan with permanent top, and the driving public has welcomed the type with open arms. Reports from the Chalmers Motor Company indicate an unprecedented sale of the Chalmers touring sedan model. It has proven to be the only type yet brought out that is called for MARCH 31, 1917. 365 days In the year, \yomen motor-" ists In particular, who have struggled with refactory "one man tops," dur ing sudden summer showers, have flocked to the standard of the sedan, and their influence is seen in the rec ord spring sale of these cars. The all-giaps construction of the body, which has rendered it a "sun parlor on wheels," in the winter months, is removed with ease and the interior is opened wide to the summer breezes. In the Chalmers sedan the driver's seat is of the club chair type. 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