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FIGHTS ITS WAY
THROUGH SNOW
Scries 18 Studebaker v Six Makes
Fine Showing in Battle For '
Yosemitc Honors
After weeks of hardships and perse
verance a Studebaker crew has reach
ed the floor of the Yosemlte Valley,
and the Chester N. Weaver Company,
San Francisco distributors of Stude
baker cars, is entitled to the Desmond
trophy offered as the prize for the
first car to get Into the Yosemlte.
The following dispatch has been re
ceived at the offices of the Studebaker
Corporation, South Bend, from W. B.
supervisor of the Yosemlte Na
tional Park: >
"The Studebaker boys, driving a six
cylinder seven-passenger 18 series
model Studebaker, have arrived at the
Sentinel Hotel, Yosemlte Valley, the
first car to arrive in the valley this
year. Car made the trip from San
Francisco via the Coultervtlle road,
carrying 'A-l* license plate."
During a recent heavy snowstorm in
the mountains, Weaver thought that
the boys who were driving the car
were either lost or had suffered seri
ous injury. For many days no worS
had been received from them, and until
'a lion hunter employed by the United
States government to shot wild ani
mals on the Yosemlte reservation
brought the news that he had encoun
tered them at the Merced Grove of Big
Trees checking station. Weaver had
no idea of their location.
According to the report received by
telephone from the crew, the battle
with the muddy roads and deep snow
was a severe test for the sturdy little
car and the men who were piloting it.
Weaver sent out the car in order to
thoroughly test the power and strength
of the motor and the machine itself. He
is well satisfied now that the new
Series 18 Studebaker is able to with
stand any sort of hard driving to which
It may be subjected.
Fighting its way through soft snow
and over roads which were practically
washed away, the Studebaker behaved
beautifully, according to the statement
of the boys in charge of the trip. Any
one who is accustomed to mountain
driving can well appreciate what the
crew and the car had to go through.
Under ordinary conditions, when the
roads are in fine shape and the weather
is perfect, the trip into the Yosemite
Valley via the Coulterville road is one
which requires careful driving. When
this narrow mountain road is banked
with snow and in Spots has no bottom,
owing to the soft mud. It takes a
staunch car and a nervy crew to" reach
the valley.
It has been a great fight each year
to see who could master the huge
snowdrifts first, and the honor has
fallen on the Studebaker for the fourth
consecutive year. The trip this year
was made more difficult due to the
extremely heavy fall of snow, which
is the heaviest on record in the Yo
semite region.
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given preference.
Certain woods are well
suited for use indoors and
are wholly unfit where
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Other woods give good
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strength is a factor.
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SATURDAY EVENING,
Phenominal Growth of
Willys-Overland Co.
Tho_ statement that a manufacturer
of motor cars lias attained a produc
tion of a certain number of thou
sands of cars Is BO frequently made
and commonly heard, In this day of
astonishing: motor car demand, that It
excites little If any comment. Never
theless, actual figures showing the
annual growth In production; for
some of the larger companies, di'.rlng
the last eight or nine years, are most
impressive and they demonstrate em
phatically the stability of some of the
leading organizations in the industry.
The Willys-Overland Company, of
Toledo, furnishes evidence to bear out
the foregoing statement.
In 1911, the company was produc
ing 14,749 more cars than it built
in 1908. The gain of 1912 over 1911
was 11,668. In 1913, the additional
growth in production amounted to
7,716. Nineteen fourteen saw big
strides forward with a gain of 13,976
and the 1915 gain exceeded this by
45,251. Close to 100,000 cars were
produced by the company that year.
A still greater growth was recorded
In 1916 when the production figures
reached 142,807, or a gain of 49,083
over the previous year. With a pro
duction contracted for 1917 of 200,-
000 cars, gain of more than 57,000
cars is-apparent.
"The stability of the Industry as a
whole is to no small degree due to the
progress made by The Willys-Over
land Company," said J. R. W. Hunter,
of the Harrisburg Overland Company,
the other day. "The progress which
the company has made in its manu
facturing methods, leading to a great
er production, is a factor which plays
a prominent part in determining auto
mobile values in America.
"Thafproducer who has the cour
age to turn out a great and ever-in
creasing output, and the reputation
which makes possible a ready market
for this product, is best able to turn
out automobiles at a correspondingly
low cost per car. For this reason, The
Willys-Overland Company, because
of the courage and foresight of John
N. Willys which led to the remarkable
growth of the institution, has had a
stabilizing Influence In the industry.
It has had a great deal to do with
keeping motor car values from soar
ing in the same degree with the tre
mendously Increased cost of ma
terials.
"It is obvious that such methods on
so vast a scale should have an effect
on the methods of other manufactur
ers. That is why I claim that The
Willys-Overland Company has a stab
ilizing effect on the whole automobile
trade. Competitors have to meet con
ditions as established by the more
prominent manufacturers."
Hupp Official Predicts
Shortage of Automobiles
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A shortage of autorriobiles this sum
mer is predicted by Sales-Manager J.
E. Fields of the Hupp Motor Car Cor
poration.
"The country is taking automobiles
of the better and popular types faster
than he factories are able to produce
them," said Mr. Fields. "All winter
the manufacturers have been strug
gling with the freight car shortage,
but this summer it will be the con
sumer who will suffer from the short
age of the better makes of automo
■biles. Even the higher cost of mate
rials and labor, and the necessary in
creases in thi, prices of all the better
classes of cars has not slackened to
any noticeable degree, the demand for
machines. But the difficulties of se
curing materials and producing the
cars are so great that none of the big
concerns -Will "he able to fill their
rapidly increasing orders.
"This is evidenced by sales records
of the Hupp Motor Car Corporation,
which are typical of conditions in
most of the leading companies. We
enjoyed in the first months of 1917,
the largest quarter in Hupmobile his
tory, yet we were nearly 2,000 cars
behind our orders for immediate ship
ment. This is the condition even be
fore the big selling season opens in
May. It means there is absolutely no
chance for us to catch up with our
orders now during the entire summer.
It is simply a question of relieving the
pressure as far as possible bv speed
ing production as much as the limita
tions of the material market will
permit.
"This bier demand for motor cars,
even with the increased production, I
believe, is due not only to the pros
perity of the country Dut largely to
the many practical uses being made
of the motor car. Roads have been
improved wonderfully in many sec
tions of the country. This has natur
ally opened up new efllds. Commer
cial advantages of the motor car were
never better demonstrated than dur
ing the freight congestion of last win
ter, when in many localities the motor
car was used almost exclusively for
transportation.
"This demand for cars is not local
nor is it sectional. For the last month
the pressure upon the factory and our
dealers has been something tremend
ous. Telephone calls, wires, pleading
letters and special trips to the factory
have been the practices of our dis
tributors everywhere. This is as true
of Seattle as of Boston. The South
is taking a considerable proportion
ate increase of cars and the demand
has never been so great in the North
west as it is to-day. The Middle West
is continuing to take a large percent
age of the automobile output and is
especially keen for cars of the better
grade.
"The prosperity of the East has
continued, and the demand for cars
has been enormous. The same situa
tion prevails on the Pacific Coast."
Hershey Will Organize
Red Cross Chapter Monday
Hershey, Pa., April 21.—For two
years this town has held the world's
record In the sale of Red Cross seals.
Now Hershey seeks to organize the
largest Red Cross chapter of com
munities of its class and next Monday
evening a mass meeting will be held
to complete the organization. A gen
eral invitation has been extended to
towns of Lebanon valley. The address
will be by Jackson Herr Boyd, of Har
risburg, who will give his experience
as an ambulance driver in France.
WORKMAN DIES IN COLLIERY
Williamstown, Pa., April 21.
James Hlggins. aged 35 years, died
suddenly at his work at the colliery
from heart disease. He is survived by
his wife and two small children.
MAXWELL TOUR
OF 10,000 MILES ON
$147 IS RECORD
Seeley Table of Costs Reveals
Trip Is Cheaper Than
Staying Home
Ten thousand miles of Maxwell
motoring for $147!
With this record for achievement
to her credit, a woman has now estab
lished for the first time in the history
of the automobile industry that the
greatest of vacations, the motor car
tour, is possible for the Maxwell own
er for less money than it costs to stay
at home.
She is Mrs. Miriam Thayer Seeley,
professor In the department of phys
ical education for women, Oregon
Agricultural College, Corvallls. Mrs.
Seeley, who toured from Oregon to
Boston and return, covering 9,700
miles in all, to aid motorists to an
understanding of the economies of the
light and economical automobile, has
just made public a complete table of
expenses for the drive. Helpful facts
for intending automobile buyers are
contained in this table, given below,
which in analysis reveals that she ac
complished the equal of a season and
a half of automoblllng for a cost that
figures out to about $8 a month.
Nothing like this table has ever be
fore been forthcoming from touring
experience. In complete detail and as
signed by Professor Seeley, it shows:
Complete operating expense, auto
mobile trip—Maxwell touring car—
from Corvallis, Oregon, to Boston,
Mass., and return—9,7oo miles:
Total number of miles travel
ed Fast 4,500
Total number of miles travel
ed West 6,200
Daily average In miles cover-
Ed
Plains 175
Mountains 150
Average number of miles per
gallon of gasoline (transcon
tinental • East) 22.4
Average number of miles per
gallon of gasoline (West
from Chicago) with loaded
trailer 17.2
Cost of gasoline going East... $40.11
Cost of gasoline going West
(with loaded trailer) 67.69
Cost of oil and grease going
East 6-90
Cost of oil and grease going
West (with trailer) 8.66
Cost of food going East (two
persons) 19.58
Cost of food going West—
Boston Chicago (2
persons) $4.16
Chicago—Spokane (4
persons) 33.11
Spokane—Portland (2
persons) 3.87
41.14
Repairs going East (including
service) 3.50
Repairs going West (including
service) 10.50
Tolls going East (bridge and
ferry)
Xolls going West( includes ad
mission to Yellowstone Park
7.50) 9 00
Cost of tires—
Rather difficult to estimate. I used
oversize tires of the same make as
the Maxwell car is equipped, which
gave more than 9,000 miles.
MIRIAM THAYER SEELEY,
March 31, 1917. Corvallis, Oregon.
Professor Seeley and her husband
put their car through every descrip
tion of road that America has to of
fer, and in twice crossing the con
tinent they established the deductions
that Maxwell motoring not only costs
much less than traveling by rail, but
that the costs for such minor repairs
as were necessary amounted to only
sl4. This indicates that the car in
service will work with less than fifty
cents a month for repair upkeep.
The tire equipment that comes with
the Maxwell gave the Seeleys upward
of 9,000 miles. This tire service re
veals that correct and scientific weight
distribution as a Maxwell engineer
ing feature has been accomplished.
Automobile Notes
William M. Tugman, a reporter on
a Providence newspaper, who accom
panied the Rhode Island troops to
the Mexican border last summer, is a
strong booster for the motorcycle, es
pecially as it effects the worlt of the
war correspondent.
"Motorcycles are admirably adapt
ed to the needs of army correspond
ents," he says. "At least that has
been my experience while on the
Mexican border last summer. X should
think that with an army in actual
service, a motorcycle would be almost
essential to the work of a correspond
ent.
"Of course, there are all sorts of
conditions to be taken into considera
tion. First of all, the commanding
officer of the district to which the
correspondent Is assigned will have
something to say as to what means
of conveyance a correspondent shall
use and how.
"Nowadays, a correspondent has
his choice between a horse, an auto
mobile, a motorcycle or getting
around with such lifts as army car
riers can give him. A horse or an
automobile is almost out of the ques
tion. It's too hard to get forage for
a horse, and an automobile is too
clumsy. „ . ,
"A motorcycle does the work and It
Is easy to ship and handle. I had no
trouble keeping up with detachments
on the march even in the sand hills
around El Paso. I could always get
to a telegraph station at night and
get back to camp before taps. If I
had to wait for army trucks I fre
quently could not have made it.
An American motorcycle has cap
tured practically all of the important
speed records in the Antipodes, ac
cording to a report received from
Sydney. Australia, which states that
H. A. Parsons, riding a Harley-Davld
son, broke the 10, 25, 50 and 200-
mile, together with the 3-hour rec
ords recently.
The 200-mile record was made in
exactly 200 minutes, which is 21 rtiin
utes better than the previous time,
and in the 3-hour record he covered
177.6 miles, 14 miles farther than the
former mark.
What one motorcycle patrolman Is
able to accomplish in upholding traf
fic laws is shown in the report made
to the police department of Portland.
Ore., by Patrolman Frank Ervln, one
of the city's Harley-Davidson mount
ed men. It is a condenced diary of a
motorcycle cop, with a hundred
thrills and mlle-a-minute chases left
out.
Exactly $7„246 was assessed by the
municipal court In fines on the ar
rests made by this one officer. The
number of arrests made was 698, the
majority being for speeding, although
nearly every variety of traffic offense
was represented.
The report is an effectual reply to
criticism made in most cities employ
ing motorcycle police officers, which
alleges that favoritism is shown in
enforcing traffic laws.
Patrolman Ervin's report of arrests
goes into every walk of life, business
and professions that might reason
ably be expected to endow its fol
lower with an automobile. Chauffeurs
head the list with 2 88. but It is rea
sonable to suppose that this occupa
tion is given by many who desire to
conceal their business identity.
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War Will Boost Rubber
Supply Says Tire Expert
Every man who owns an automo
bile, every man who hopes to own one,
as well as all automobile manufac
turers, have been asking one question
since the United States plunged into
the world war. 'AVhat effect will the
war have upon the crude rubber mar
ket?"
As the rubber capital of the world,
Akron, Ohio, is keenly interested. This
city will build and sell over 18,000,000
automobile tires in 1917. This huge
quantity of tires is needed for pleas
ure cars alone. In addition hundreds
of thousands of trucks must be sup
piled with solid rubber tires. Then,
too, ft tremendous tonnage of rubber
is needed to supply the thousand and
one demands of the public for such
articles as fire and garden hose, rub
ber boots and shoes, rain coats, sur
geons' gloves, aeroplane cloth, etc.
In discussing the subject, Jacob
Pfeiffer, president of the Miller Rub
ber Company, of Akron, Ohio, one of
the largest buyers of crude rubber in
the United States, said that the war,
in his opinion, would tend to boost the
rubber supply rather than to diminish
it. The submarine activity of the Ger
mans has for some time past curtail
ed the importation of rubber and that
situation will now largely be alleviated
since the United States has become an
ally to England, which nation prac
tically controls the supply of crude
rubber.
According to Mr. Pfeiffer, a large
quantity of crude rubber has been
reaching the United States at Pacific
ports, coming from the East Indies
where it is produced in large quanti
ties. He said, however, that the bulk
of the supply is held in London where
thousands of tons are available at the
present time. This gum has been at
the disposal of the United States"
manufacturers, though shipping has
been seriously jeopardiezd by the Ger
man U-boat warfare. Now, that this
nation has joined in breaking up the
submarine menace, the shipping of
rubber will be made easier.
It is not generally known that it
was only through an agreement with
the English parliament that no manu
factured rubber goods should reach
the enemy, that England in the last
three yeaYs has permitted crude rub-
The Studebaker SIX
—An Investment
WHEN you buy your next car use Because in ratio to its power it is the
the same care, the same caution as most economical car on the market in
you would if you were going to spend gasoline consumption
your money for a home or an interest- Because its perfect balance insures extra
bearing or profit-sharing investment. ordinary tire economy —a single set of
Almost any car looks well and runs well tires frequently runs 8000 to 10,000 miles
at first. You want a car that looks well on a Studebaker.
and runs well six months, a year, two Because new parts can be obtained at
years after you buy it. lower cost than you pay for the parts of
On this basis a Studebaker SIX is a other cars of ec * ual value and quality.
sound investment. The Studebaker pays you dividends —not
T . • • i + • j 4. t4. °nly in comfort and pride of ownership,
Its original cost is moderate. Later on, . \
should you care to -liquidate" you will but kee f ng doWn eXpenSeS year in and
find that the price of a used Studebaker ear ° U *
is much higher in proportion to first cost or these reasons thousands ofprominent
than that of most cars. business men all over the country bought
i i_ ,i , Al Studebakers on the very day the series 18
If you do not sell you mil find the opera- was announced .
tion cost of your studebaker for a year .
or two years to be far less than other cars. What better guide can you ha* r e in the
selection of a car than the knowledge that
Because of the splendid quality of the your car is the choice of the shrewdest
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case of inspection, adjustment or repair, their names.
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her In any amount to leave her mar
kets.
Pfelffer Is firmly of the opinion that
If any change results rrom the entry
of the United States nto the world
war. It will be for the best, but that
our ability to secure crude rubber de>
pends on tho power of the two govern
ments to furnish sufficient boats to
prdtect a lane across the Atlantic.
Business Deitation in
His Closed Chalmers Car
Decidedly versatile Iri methods was
the automobile salesman who recently
disposed of a Chalmers touring sedan
to Gordon J. Gordon, prominent real
estate man of San Francisco.
Mr. Gordon, who resides in San
Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco, had
refused to buy a closed car, but when
the salesman countered by showing
him how the car would save him
money, he reconsidered his decision.
Gordon lives about an hour's ride
from his office and this .ime was for
merly wasted. Since purchasing the
Chalmers sedan, he hits had the car
fitted up with a small table and type
writer. Now, he simply calls for his
stenographer and spends the hour in
dictating the day's correspondence. Ho
arrives at his office prepared to tackle
the real problems of business and has
gained an hour on his competitors.
As Gordon figures his time to be
worth $lO per hour, he will have more
than paid for the car before the year
Is out.
Because of San Francisco's change
able climate, the tourinsr sedan is fast
becoming one of the most popular
types of cars on the Pacific coast. In
the chill of the evening, the remov
able sides and windows can be placed
quickly in position and nuring the day
the car's Interior can be again opened
to the breezes. Motor car dealers in
the west assert that the car with a
permanent top will be the big seller
within the next year.
CAPTAIN STINK TO SPEAK
Captain Harry M. Stine, will be one
of the speakers to-morrow night at
the Young Men's Hebrew Association
meeting. Other speakers will be
Rabbi Lewis Haas, and Robert Rosen
brg, attorney. The meeting will be
held atthe rooms, Sixth and Sayford
streets.
APRir; 21, 1917.
Firestone Tire Branch
Now in New Quarters
Evidence of remarkable expansion Is
shown by the Harrisburg branch of the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,
which has outgrown Its present quar
ttrs at 231 North Second street. In one
year. April 9th the branch moved into
larger fjooma at 210 N. Second street.
According to Branch Manager L. I*
McClintock, the new quarters contain
11,000 square feet, or nearly three times
the space in the old location. This
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Excelsior Auto Company
g+gg Eleventh and Mulberry Streets
IjSP H. JJ. sn'ERS Harrisburg, Pa. I
enlargement, he said, hus been mads
necessary by the enormoua Increaae In
business since the branch was estab
lished a year ago.
The service department occupies a
separate building In the rear of the
new branch building. This department
now lis a hydraulic press for putting
on Firestone pressedon truck tires, and
all other equipment for 8. A. E. work.
The service department takes up 4,700
square feet on the first and second
floors of the building.
A complete stock of Firestone tires,
tubes and accessories will be carled
In the branch.