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TOURING MOTOR
SETS RECORDS
Haynes Light Twelve Engine
From Private Car Wins
Classic
Chicago, June 23, (Special).
The Haynes "Light Twelve" which
set the new amateur record for 100
miles at the Chicago Auto Derby. Sat
urday, June 16. and made a new non
atop record, had under Its hood the
engine which H. E. Doty. Chicago
branch manager for the Haynes, has
been using In his pleasure car the
past winter.
Mr. Doty never expected his en
gine to win such signal fame. It
has the regular stock valves and
stock displacement. He had driven
It over 3,000 miles for personal pleas
ure. Not having time, prior to the
race, to limber up the engine sent
from the factory, it was at the last
moment decided to use Mr. Doty's
stock engine instead.
Percy Ford, Jr.. an amateur driver
and salesman at the Chicago branch,
lined up against au array of special
14.000 racing cars. Fender against
fender the Haynes Light Twelve and
another contestant battled for near
ly forty of the two-mile rounds, each
fiercely lighting for leadership, and
averaging 90 miles per hour.
Thereafter the lead was securely
In the gasp of the Haynes. With
out one stop for adjustment or tires,
the Haynes completed the entury
at an average of 89 miles per hour,
the new record for amateurs. Ford
says he always had plenty of power
in reserve and that if he had been
pushed harder he would have main
tained an even greater speed.
Despite this terriile tax upon his
engine, following the capture of the
trophy cup offered to the winner. Ford
found his 12-cylinder power plant In
even better shape than before the
race and drove home In his racer.
That a stocK 12-cylinder engine
could be taken from a pleasure car,
hurriedly fitted Into a racing chassis
and emerge triumphant from a hotly
contested 100-mile race without even
a suggestion of merchanical trouble
during the grind or afterwards,
speaks well for the engines which
the Haynes people build. The Haynes
engines have always been built by
the Haynes factory and the twelve
thus results from approximately a
Quarter century of engine manufac
turing success.
Ford, the same driver, a year agt>,
attained a 72-mile per hour gait In
a Haynes Light Six on the' same
Speedway. A special gear ratio was
used.
The Haynes Light Twelve used a
set of Goodyear Tires, which had
previously been in two other races.
June to Be Record Month
in Sales Says Nash
In the opinion of C. B. Voorhls, the j
general salesmanager of The Nash .
Motors Company, the present month
of June is likely to be the biggest
period in the point of motorcar sales •
that this country has seen for a j
long time.
"I back my belief along these
lines." says Mr. Voorhls, "on two I
grounds. First, the period of busi
ness hesitation in this country which
inevitably followed the declaration)
of war has been replaced almost uni
versally by a return to normal condi
tions. The public has come to rea-1
line that this hesitation was for thej
most part purely mental and that in
the light of the billions of dollars |
which are to. be expended through !
our various channels of trade both |
by our own government and by our
allies abroad, the future of business !
cannot be anything but prosperous.
"In the second place, the months
of April and May were dulled on the j
point of automobile sales because of I
the inclement weather which prevail- |
ed pretty generally all over th*
United States. Unquestionably this
condition played a strong part in
slowing up motorcar sales.
"For this reason I hope that the
month of June will be a record
breaker. It always has been a strong
selling month. This year in addi
tion to the normal sales which would
naturally accrue, will be added many
sales which were delayed by the cold,
lainy weather which prevailed during
the two months previous.
"While it is true that prevailing
prices of raw materials have forced
many manufacturers of automobiles
to raise their prices, nevertheless
there are a number of companies who
are offering exceptionally big value 1
for the money now under the pres
ent conditions.
"Like other manufacturers who j
purchased their materials far in ad- |
vance, we have not been forced as
yet to raise the price of the Jefferv
671 which was set last rear. The
Jeffery Six would cost $l5O to S2OO
more if the cost were based on the
present market prices of raw ma
terials.
il Your MSeisal
in Business Investment P
1 II
TT is a profit-payer, in the time it saves you in getting around, in the
important hours and days it gains for you in rush errands or busy
seasons. It is a profit-payer in the value it maintains as a piece of
merchandise. Use your Velie long and constantly—and its re-sale
value will still be so high that you make a big profit considering
what the car has.done for you. Proved in the exceptionally high
prices used Velie cars bring—when they can be bought at all
This is Due to the Famous Velie Values
The powerful Vette-Continental motor —there is comfort! Beauty is re
—Timken axles front and rear —mul- vealed in every line and in the Velie's
taple dry disc clutch —automatic igni- lasting, mirror finish,
tion —push-button starter—are simply nm ♦_ , . , ,
. j indication, of the kind of specifications fVT t "j?* Vd, i?
used in the Velie all through. And J™?"n C ? mbl "
9 the deeo-tufted, genuine leather up- at T any
holstery and long, underslung springs fng Sedan,lour-pawengerRoadster,Cou'pe.e'tc!
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VELIE MOTORS CORPORATION, MOUNE, ILLINOIS i :
I BmU4mr* mf AmfmmbUm. Motor Tracks and Trmetor.
SATURDAY EVENING,
Patriotism of Forefathers
Being Widely Portrayed
"Never has the good old-fashion
patriotism of our forefathers been
better portrayed than by the way
our businessmen are meeting the
conditions as they exist since this
country has entered Into the great
conflict which is to establish tho su
premacy of democracy," says T. E.
Jarrard, vice-president of the Apper
son Brothers Automobile Company,
who has Just returned from a trip
through the industrial centers of the
country.
"You see," he continued, "we
can't put a million men uner arms
without putting at least twelve mil
lion men under the eight-hour clock.
We must build cruisers, cast connon,
produce rifles, tin meat, raise food,
weave khaki, pack surgical kits,
cobble footwear, construct motor j
cars, extend transportation, munu- j
facture uniforms, knit socks, erect
forts, roll armor plate, draw wire,'
mine metal and fuel, mix explosives, |
produce chemicals, provide spades, l
picks and tractors, furnish ainmuni- j
tfon, airships, electrical equipment |
In such quantities that existing ca
pacities wil stager under the sudden |
burden.
"Every trade and every branch of
trade, from Bangor to Bellingham
and from cannery to foundry, are be
ing mobilized for the colossal task
of transforming an industrial giunt
into a Titan warror. Within a few
months we will have accomplished
what Germany required thirty years
to do.
are working night and
! day shifts, railroads will operate ex
tra trains, plans aro being lyade so
that in a short time every arable
acre on the continent will yield its
proportion of produce. We have be
come the armory and the breadbox
of our allies, and we have called a
host to the colors whose needs alone
will total billions of dollars in food,
raiment and weapons.
"The heaviest responsibility of the
greatest war in history is now on
our hands. We must not only support
the cause which we have espoused,
but also support our confederates
with their necessities. There will be
work for everybody and everybody
work. 'Get busy and keep busy,'
Is the watchword among the busi
nessmen. Hesitation, delay and pes
simism serve our enemies. This is no
time to retrench or hoard. This is
no moment to reduce operations.
"Consumption will not diminish.
Uncle is in the market for more,
goods than the members of the new
army and navy individually purchas
ed, and their sons and daughters and
wives will soon be holding down their
old jobs and collectingtheir men's
wages, which will in turn be spent |
at the grocer's, the department store
and the druggist's.
"Patriotism is flooding Washing- :
ton with ready cash and Washington i
is shipping it in carload lots to the ;
manufacturer and retailer. There are I
no breadlines ahead. An unpreced
ented era of prosperity is around the
bend.
"However sad the price, the busi
ness outlook was never better."
Trail Blazer Averages
37 Miles on Distillate
Not content with having averaged
twenty-sii miles to the gallon of gas
oline in the first half of its trip
around the rim of the country, the
Saxon roadster trail blazer for the
National Boundary highway switch
ed to a diet of distillate on the coast
and romped away with a 450-mile trip
on an average of thirty-seven miles
to every gallon used of this low
grade fuel.
This record was established be
tween Los Angeles and San Francis
co. Tli trail blazer experienced no
difficulty with the low grade fuel,
operating perfectly except at start
ing when gasoline had to be used to
prime the motor. This trouble, how
ever, is encountered by all cars
which use the distillate and in fact
there . are only a few automobiles
that have been able to operate suc
cessfully on the fuel and these have
been equipped with special car
buretors.
Saxon roadster distributed the dis
tillate through its own carburetor
without any special adjustment being
necessary. When the trial blazer
reached San Francisco its driver
learned that several other Saxon
roadsters on the coast are using dis
tillate regularly. This fuel, which
is only about one step removed from
kerosene, sells for one-half the price
of gasoline and it is verv popular
with Saxon roadster owners in Cal
ifornia. Some tests recently con
ducted there with a roadster model
showed a rate of 51 miles to the gal
lon.
Fran 'Frisco the boundary car has
started for the Canadian border line,
and a week or so more will see it
turning eastward along the border,
headed on its return iournev.
' Hupmobile in Great
Favor Among Movie Stars
There is probably no class of buy
ers which are so particular about
the style and mechanism of their
motorcars as the moving picture act
ors and actresses. In ail the cen
ters where the moving picture stars
congregate, one sees a large variety
of body styles and cars of various
colors.
This desire for individuality of mo
torcars caused movie stars to make
a varied selection of makes as well
as body styles. One of the leading
New York publications making a spe
cialty of the amusement world made
a cifnvass of the recent motorcar
buyers from the moving picture
lields which are located at present
in or near New York City.
Of the sales made this spring, the
desire for variety and individuality
| was shown in the fact that forty
| four different makes of cars have
| been chosen for the summer automo
j bile' work of the movie stars. It
• was remarkable, therefore, that the
Hupmobile lead the list of the forty
| four makes and leading in popularity
] such cars as the Packard, which was
I second: Hudson, third; Peerless,
| fourth, and Pierce-Arrow, fifth.
Dort Owner Takes 300
Mile Trip in Sedan
"This letter from a Dort owner
j who took a 'cross-country drive of
I 300 miles in his sedan last week in
j dicates why closed cars are rapidly
coming into use in all seasons," says
| John D. Mansfield, general sales
| manager for the Dort Motor Car
Company.
"This man bought a sedan at the
| behest of his wife and daughter and
with many personal misgivings about
its utility or comfort in warm
weather. He now declares that he
never wants to drive an open car
again, as the advantage of arriving
at destination clean and presentable
i is a delightful one and was experi
enced without counteracting disad
\antages. The circulation of air was
ample, although the weather was
quite warm."
Motorcycle Notes
An entirely new form of motor
cycle wireless telephone outfit, the
invention in part of Captain Frank
E. Evans, of the corps now in
charge of Npw York recruiting, is
, being tried out by the ITnited States
Marine corps. The generator In
Captain Evans' design forms an in
tegral part of the motorcycle and
when it is desired to signal an aero
plane or field wireless phone station,
all that it is necessary, to do is to
lower a frame which raises the rear
wheel free of the ground and then
apply the power, through a worm
drive, to the generator.
Captain Evans' outfit, including
the aerial pole, which i 3 of line steel
and jointed like a fishing rod, does
not weigh more than twelve pounds
complete and can handle messages
from 50 to 100 miles. Tests have,
been made and show that skilled
men at this work can have the en
tire apparatus connected up and
ready to receive messages in from
one and a half to two and a half
minutes.
The aerial itself is not the least i
remarkable part of the outfit. It is '
made of fine wire, an alloy of copper
ond steel. When extended It looks
like an old-fashioned coiled sofa
spring extended to a distance of
iwelve feet. When released it springs
back into coil, taking up very little
room and weighing not more than
a pound and a half.
•Up-to-date pharmacists are ex
tending their service to customers by
(delivery service with motorcyclas
, and sidevans. While some drugglst3
; have been relying on clerks with
bicycles to take care "of the few de-
I liveries so far necessary, others have
| branched out and made delivery an
important part of their business, and
find that the appreciation of their
effort is evidenced in increased
sales.
The proprietor of the James phar
macy, at Sacramento, Cal.,says: "My
business has grown to such propor
tions that 1 used to lay awake nights
wondering how my bicycle deliveries
would be made the next day. After
a demonstration I decided to pur
chase a motorcycle with a delivery
van, and I must say that I am de
lighted. No more sleepless nights
for me and I am rendering better
service to my patrons. When the
machine is not busy in the delivery
, service X use it to haul my drugs
i from the wholesale house."
| The present war prices and the re
sultant increase in cultivating ac-
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
tivitlcs have given agricultural in
structors in schools that devote part
of their curriculum to courses along
that line more work than they have
been able to take care of, with the
result that many are buying motor
cycles so that they can cover the ter
ritory assigned them.
Leslie M. Carl, in charge of agri
cultural instruction in consolidated
district No. r< of the VUlard, Minn.,
public schools, has found the Har
ley-Davldson indispensable for trans
portation in inspecting and offering
suggestions to numerous pupils
whose plots sometimes are located at
great distances from Prof. Carl's
headquarters.
"I am able to cover from eight to
ten times as much ground with a
motorcycle as I did formerly with a
horse and buggy," he says. "There Is
no mud too deep, no sand too heavy,
no hill too hjgh. and no road too
rough to negotiate."
Motorcycles for the "tired business
man" is the latest feather to be
pinned to the two-wheeler, the use
of which has already prpven its
worth on the battlefields of Europe
as well as In commercial, pleasure
and many other lines.
Arthur W. Park, a well-known
newspaper man of Des Moines, who
is broken down in health, was in
structed by a well-known physician
to get out in the air and ride a mo
torcycle if he wanted to live much
longer.
"Get a motorcycle and get that
fresh air forced down Into your
lungs," was the advice given Mr.
Park by the physician after an ex
amination w.hlch showed that Park
was suffering from overwork and
confinement.
Mr. Park, who has looked upon
the motorcycle as a "health wreck
er" In the past was surprised at the
advice given by the physician, but
nevertheless "took liis medicine"
and has purchased a motorcycle.
The prospects of holding the fa
mous international American motor
cycle classic on the Dodge City,
Kan., two-mile dirt course this year
are slim, indeed. Carl J. Turner,
who was head and shoulders of the
former meets, states that absolutely
nothing has ben done toward pre
paring for a race to be held this
year, and that probably nothing
would be done. The action of the
factories in withdrawing their sup
port from professional racing has
been the chief cause of the>lack of
interest In the Dodge City affair.
Blain Minister Shooting
Sparrows, Wounds Wife
Blatn. Pa., Juna 23.—The Rev. E. V.
Strasbaugh, while shooting sparrows
yesterday morning, with a 22-caliber
rifle, accidentally shot his wife, who
was in an outbuilding. The
passed through the weatherboarding
and struck her In the right shoulder.
Dr. F. A. Gutshall treated her and
she jwas taken to the Harrisburg Hos
pital to locate the bullet.
—the efficiency car.
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Less gasoline—
v More comfort—
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107 MARKET ST.
Two
2S? Power
Ranges
—Hunt with the Hounds
You can —in your Peerless Eight—for it has two separate
and distinct power ranges that give it a "dual personality." r
"Snorting^
In its "loafing" range you may "race But when you want to "hunt with
with the hare." You have the nimble . the hounds" you have a brute of a car
"getaway" for quick acceleration at aU ready to paoe the best of the pack. You Willi i! 1 ' SkVf
speeds, you have the soft, smooth, pur- have only to open your throttle wider ' 'J \ *LII~AL
ringmotor that will wind'its way through t0 ca " u P? n V OUT "sporting" range and W^/
traffic taking the slow crawl or the swift utterly change die character of your
spurt, or the smooth even g *t—-every motor. "tjjpi.
thing required in ordinary driving—with That same softly purring motor now
the utmost grace and distinction. utters a deep growl of brute power. No
You would imagine that thecar was de< ordinarycarkanholdwithyounow. You
signed and builtonfyfor that Itindof work ""WJIPl 1 "
j . _ . * • . v .. rations and few indeed are the cars that
and to utterly excel in it. In ordinary can contend with you—only the few that Ts; ~Wg
driving it performs entirely m its loafing w built especially for thundering speed Mf 3
range at half rations, using fuel so spar- and prodigious feats of power without re- J) M <9
Ingly as to shame many a six of less gard for the gentler virtues which the MI W~~ W M M M S^F
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v Roadster • • • • $2090
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, Prices f. o. b. Cleveland
Sutu'eet he Change Without Nottat
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House-Hunter in Holland
Is an Object of Pity
Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 23.
The house-hunter In Holland in the
days of the great world-war of 1917
Is assuredly an object for pity. The
scarcity of houses for rent at Ams
terdam, the HnKUe and other centers
has greatly increased because of
war's Interference with the house
building Industry and of the influx
of foreign population into the Neth
erlands. At The Hague, for Instance,
of Belgians alone there are thou
sands who have temporarily settled.
The lack is particularly felt in re
spect of apartments—the Dutch
"upper house" or -lower house"—
ranging between S2OO and S3OO in
rent.
So keen was the hunt after houses
in Amsterdam recently that high re
wards were offered for addresses of
houses to let. Races have taken
place and bribing has ben practiced
to flnd home#, if In the morning a
house was to let. In the afternoon
It was let. In the brief meantime
thirty or fort? prospective tenants
had rung the bell and asked to see
it.
The result Is that landlords have
Satisfied Owners Endorse
The Jeffery Six
Jeffery Six combines dependability, power and
comfort. Consequently the nation's list of sat
isfied Jeffery owners is steadily growing.
The Jeffery Six Motor, 53 horsepower, insures
all the power and speed you fln use. It accel
erates on high gear from two to sixty miles per
hour without effort. •
The straight lines of the Hammock-slung body
have found wide favor. Both tonneau and
driving compartment are comfortably large,
accommodating seven passengers.
You'll find this car exceptionally strong value
at <1465.
Bentz-Landis Auto Co.
1808 Logan Street
become more and more particular,
and their demands have multiplied.
A special law was passed by Par
liament to provent the undue infla
tion of rents, so that the natural of
fect of the demand has been arti
ficially prevented. Certain classes of
houses are unobtainable save by pur
chase, and the purchase prices have
risen enormously, certain houses
changing hands rapldiy at an ever
mounting price.
Gen. Wood Warns of
Germany's New Bombs
Charleston, S. C.. June 23.—A warn
ing that German agents are using a
small. Ingeniously constructed bomb
for destroying manufacturing plants
In enemy territory was Issued to-day
at the offlce of Major General Wood,
commanding the Southeastern Depart
ment. This formal statement was
given out:
"We have recently received Infor
mation that the Germans are sending
to France agents whose mission Is to
cause fires In establishments engaged
In national work. For this purpose
they ore furnished with Incendiary
bombs."
'** JUNE 23,1917.
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