PASSENGER AUTOS ARE ASSENTIALS President of Dort Company Explains Everyday Util ity of Motor Vehicle By J. D. DORT The three commodities most es sential to the public welfare are food, fuel and transportation. One of the most important units in the transportation system of America is the passenger automo bile. It not only feeds nnd supple ments the steam and electric rail ways, but reaches destinations that it alone can reach. . 1 , It has freed the farmer from iso lation. It has brought him miles nearer his buying and selling markets. The working hours that are saved through the ground-cover ing ability of his car are many. The passenger automobile enables men employed, in cities to live in the suburbs, not only those of large means but small storekeepers, clerks and mechanics. In, the city thousands of sales men, contractors and solicitors, hundreds of physicians, scores of real estate dealers and many other groups cely upon the automobile to accomplish economies identical with those of the typewriter and the tele phone—economies that conserve time. The war has brought many new duties to most of us. We freely and gladly offer our services to the Gov ernment—in selling bonds, doing Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. work, making speeches, consulting, plan ning. We must manage to crowd into our daljy lives these additional duties, and the automobile is help ing ms immeasurably to do It. DICTOGRAPH PEATI'RE OF BIG .CADILLAC CARS The popular idea is that tho dic tograph is a mysterious instrument, whose use is contined solely to the detection of crime by recording for detectives the conversations of criminals. But the Cadillac Motor Car Com pany has found other and more pleasant uses for the dictograph. This little device, unobtrusive in ap pearance, is part of the equipment of all Cadillac chauffered vehicles. Through it, the owner or passenger within the car communicates with the chauffeur. • At small cost we can mako your brass beds, chandeliers and silverware look like new. We replate and reflnish goli and silverware, brass and nickel fixtures of every de scription. . A phone call brings our rep resentative to your door with an estimate. * 2 Q Midwinter when the car is S m U] being overhauled, or is tempor- Z Warily laid up, is a good time to m Jn —* have the battery cleaned and ' 0 overhauled. Z jo It will pay YOU to have US O QjJ give vour batterv this attention "C f* u • —it checks trouble in time and w r 00 materially lengthens the serv- W Q iceable life of the battery. & Z Regardless of the make of YOUR BATTERY, WE have the skill experience, equipment, supplies and parts to give the best of service. Try US. OXLY OFFICIAL WILLABD SERVICE STATIC) X The Lectroplate Air Pump E. MATHER CO., 204 Walnut St. / f SATURDAY EVENING, HABBISBURQ TELEGRAPH JANUARY 1918. 4,500,000 MOTOR CARS IN NATION j Three Hundred Thousand of These Arc on Pennsyl vania Streets Pour and a half millions of au tomobiles, in round numbers, are In use in the United States to-day. Of these nearly 300,000, or one-fif teenth of the total, are plying the streets and roads of Pennsylvania, which ranks fourth among the states in the number of motor cars. A year's gain of nearly 1,500,000 for the nation is shown by statistics. In the following group table of the states is shown the number ot automobiles registered January 1- July X, 1916, as compared with th® number registered January 1-July 1, 1917: MIDDLE ATLANTIC • 1916 \1917 New York. .. 259,105 749,040 New Jersey,.. 75,420 113,393 Pennsylvania,. . 189,082... 275,357 SOUTH ATLANTIC Delaware, ... 5,438 9,067 Maryland, ... 26,868 District of Co lumbia, ... 15,268 22,000 Virginia 31,272 45,500 West Virginia, 15,71 35,088 North Caro lina 24,060 39,806 South Caro lina 18,000 28,125 Georgia, 31,259 58,020 Florida 25,000 37,000 EAST SOUTH CENTRAL Kentucky, 24,725 38,700 Tennessee, ... 26,437 40,000 Alabama. ... 19,977 29,103 Mississippi, . . 16,500 16,000 EAST NORTH CENTRAL Ohio, 208,705 289,944 Indiana 116,121 168,666 Illinois 203,757 ' 286,579 Michigan, . •■. 132,000 198,750 Wisconsin, . . 99.000 140,000 WEST NORTH CENTRAL Minnesota, .. 122.000 170,000 lowa 169,558 243,184 Missouri 83,742 128,330 North Dakota, 33,669 55,305 South Dakota, 37,240 54,000 Nebraska, .... 80,950 128,142 Kansas 89.223 139,956 WEST SOUTH CENTRAL Arkansas, ... 12,300 24,000 Louisiana. ... 13,594 24,500 Oklahoma, .. 46,000 80,437 Texas, 105,000 170,000 NEW ENGLAND Maine 24,027 29,874 New Harap-' shire, ...... 14,837 18,764 Vermont 12,272 16,813 Massachusetts, 105,488 142,851 Rhode Island. 19,427 26,000 MOUNTAIN Montana 19,580 32,000 Idaho 10,909 18,000 Wyoming, ... 5,900 9,700 Colorado 38,000 54,280 New Mexico,. 6,226 10,966 Arizona, ..... 9,743 16,400 Utah 10,729 17,535 Nevada 3,900 5,822 PACIFIC Washington, . 44,607 69,781 Oregon, ..... 26,110 41,659 California, ... 187,519 247,308 Totals, .... 2,932,455 4,291,684 2,932,455 Gain 1,359,229 The national total of 4,291,684 for July 1, 1917, has been increased by 200,000 new cars registered since that date. It is estimated, bringing the up-to-date figures close to 4,500,- 000 automobiles. FIRESTONE GIANT TIRES DWARF TRUCK — —— " t Tho photograph shows Firestone i Oiant tires applied to a Packard truck. The tires in the picture are the largest truck tires in the world. They are forty-two inches in diame ter and fourteen inches wide. Truck operators are beginning to see the advantage of single tread solid tires over tho duals. Proper base width has long been recognized as a fundamental requirement in| FORD SALES TO BREAK RECORDS Local Agent Looks Forward trt Surpassing 1917's Showing By Howard J. Williams Manager Williams Motor Co. Since the inception of the auto mobile industry, the third largest in this country of tremendous enter prises, the American people com placently looked upon the motor car only as a means for pleasure travel. Within the last few months, how ever, awakened to a wholesome un derstanding by the rude shock that the war has produced, we have come to a definite realization of how vital a part the automobile 'i\ our daily life. We know now beyond all doubt, what an aid the motor car is proving to be to those forces that will win victory for us ind cur Allies. This new understanding of the automobile puts the motor car in dustry upon a more stable basis. Cars are purchased row as a.i eco nomical necessity, as aids to trans portation, to business genera"*", to relieve congestion, to increase the Individual's sphere and thereby h's efficiency, and to quicken the pulse of American business and private life. Under new and stern demands, those cars mejting the essential re quirements of economy and efHclen cy are finding a ready and welcom ing market. Discrimination in buy ing is now a real factor. Witness ihe condition of Ford business. Our sales, to date, have outstripped last year's records, which, in their turn, bad far outrun previous records. Business institutions, retail mer chants, the dcctor, the lawyer and the average citizen more an.l more arc turning to the Ford. Efticlnncy demands economy forces, the choice, fo • the Ford, above all, is the em bodiment of efficiency in automobile construction. That is why, barring tin unforeseen, we anticipate a rec ord-smashing year, In both produc tion and sales, for Ford, " f he uni versal car." New Accessory Store Opens oh Market St. During the past few months there have been several accessory stores opened in Ilarrisburg. One of these is the Cycle and Auto supply Com pany at 107 Market street. This iirm handles the Famous Goodrich Tires as well as automobile and mo torcycle accessories. A Goodrich In formation Bureau is maintained which is offered free to the public. Routes to all the important points in the state can be obtained free of charge. Beside the automobile accessory business, a large business in bicycles and bicycle repairing is done. All make of bicycles and motorcyctes are repaired. Both new and second hand bicycles fire sold. A service station for the Detroit Battery has been installed and all makes of storage batteries are re charged and repaired. C. A. Sprenkle is the manager of this firm. Mr. Sprenkle has had a large experience in this business, and announces that this store will be maintained for the benefit of the public for quick service. It will be open from seven a. m. to nine p. m., seven days a week. Believes He Has a Good Case and Talks It C. U CONOVHB, ' Distributor For Case Oars In Har risburg District solid tire construction. Tests have shown them that this proper width has been found in the Firestone Giants. Grooves are placed in the tread to relieve the internal stresses and displacement and to prevent skidding. The rubber ttsolf is espe cially compounded to give the maxi mum mileage with the necessary re siliency for the absorption of road | shocks. Rayfield Carburetor Great Saver of Gas Federick's Garage at Front and Forster, Is the service station l'or the Rayfield Carburetor." The Ray field carburetor has been tried and proved. A little motto recently at tached to the Rayfield is "Hoover izlng on Gasoline" which explains it to perfection. It is claimed for this carburetor that it is a great gas oline saver. Besides being a service station, general repairing of all kinds on all automobiles is done. General stor age can be obtained. Ajax and Kel ly-Springfield Tires are sold. These can be equipped to any car and the service work of changing Is all done free of charge. This garage is just back of the Armory, with the entrance oft of Forster street. Satisfaction on all work Is guaranteed and a trial is all that is asked to convince any one of the grade of work done. Cleaning Ix-atlier Upholstery Do not use gasoline in cleaning leather upholstery. Plain water, with a little ammonia, will remove tho dirt, and a brisk rubbing with clean woolen or flannel cloth will lo the rest. In still more careful reatment, use a regular leather ressing on all leather. | • • "* ... ... | | THE UNIVERSAL CAR It's 110 longer necessary to go into the details describing the practical merits of the Ford car everybody knows all about "The Universal Car." How it goes and comes day after day and year after year at an operating expense so small that it's wonderful. This advertisement is to urge prospective buyers to place orders with out delay as the war has produced conditions which may interfere with normal pro duction. Buy a Ford car when you can get one. We'll take good care of your order —get your Ford to you soon as possible—and give the best "after-service" when required. . . I . Runabout $345 Touring Car $360 Chassis . $325 Town Car $645 Sedan $695 Coupelet . • $560 One-ton Truck Chassis, S6O0 —All Prices F. O. B. Detroit See the Dealer in Your Neighborhood E. M. Snavely C. T. Romberger John Snyder Middletown, Pa. Elizabethvllle, Pa. Williamstown, Pa. Jacob Hess B. S. Weigle Williams Motor Co. Hershey, Pa. • New Cumberland, Pa. Harrisburg, Pa. '/ * I ' I #I i i See the Ford exhibit at the Harrisburg Show, January 26-February 2. J TODAY MOTORCAR DEFENDS NATION Sales Manager Philip, Dodge Bros., Tells of Auto's Many Uses By ARTHUR I. PHILIP General Sales Manager, Dodge Bros Two years ago, when a motion pic ture film known as "The Motor Car in Defense of the Nation" made the rounds of the country, few persons considered it probable that the pres ent day would see the theme so com pletely realised in aqtual life. Even tho producers, in closing the picture with the statement that a compact organization of motor vehicles "would prove to be of inestimable 4'alue In time of war," scarcely could ha.ve anticipated a more graphic ap plication of the military suggestions they had set forth. To-day the motor car is in reality the defended of the nation. Every army camp purrs and thunders with j the sound of motors. Huge motor trucks c.onvey supplies from city to camp. Motor trucks bear ammuni tion and men to tho battle front in Europe. Passenger fars—the same on which the public once hung the misnomer "pleasure car" —rush back and forth from barracks to barracks and from camp to camp, carrying the ofllcers and men, who, in days gone by, would have been compelled to plod about on horses. Police patrols, fire apparatus and ambulances are motorized. The en tire military life of the nation is pulsed by the throb of engines. Motor Cars Saved Purls It was taxicabs, trucks and passen ger cars that saved Paris from the Germans, and it * was motorized equipment that helped save Italy ( from destruction. Government officials and Army ofllcers would throw up their hands In dismay if called upon to answer the query: "How much time would have been lost if you had been de-' prlved of your motor equipment for mobilization, training and fighting?" Tho question is one which will not reconcile itself with the requirements of modern warfare. The preliminary to the great war, which gave the automobile its first real opportunity to demonstrate its value to the Army, was the Pershing punitive expedition in Mexico. Here truck trains had their origin. Here it was that Dodge Brothers' motor car established itself so securely in the .Government service. It was Pershing who first ordered this car generally used is his operations on the border and throughout Mexico. By the time the expedition was re called more than 300 Uodge Brothers cars bore the placard U. S. A. Oars Found KvCrywlU'ro When the war began the Govern ment naturally turned to Dodge Brothers again. Immense orders be gan pouring In, and to-day every Army camp in the country is jot ted with the monograms DB. Many of the cars are shipped di rect from the factory to General Pershing 'ln France. A train of thirty trucks, which recently made a I test run from Detroit to the At -1 lantlc coast, ws loaded with parts for Dodge Brothers motor cars. All were for Immediate shipment to France. Dodge Brothers' service division has not only adopted the Army'a elaborate and systematic method o( parts grouping and shipping, but has introduced new features which add greaUy to its merit, by .means of which immedalte repairs or replace- . Proved economy! Testing out four Packard trucks, Cunningham Bros, buy 22 more. Four months of heavy hauling with so that we have now placed our order for three-ton and five-ton Packards, have con- twenty-two more Packards. vinced Cunningham Bros., Inc., that they "We have had very little to do with supply the cheapest and most dependable either your Service or Inspection Depart transportation now to be had. ments. But both are able to take care Taking a long look ahead, therefore, of any demand made upon them." these big Philadelphia contractors have Silent, chainless Packard trucks will provided against railroad congestion and insure your business against traffic delays, shortage of trucks and teams by ordering present and future. Seven right sizes—all twenty-two additional Packards for spring with four-speed transmission which saves hauling from their Merion plant. gasoline and tires and reduces upkeep ex ''Our three-ton and five-ton trucks have pense. Call Packard Motor Car Company given entire satisfaction in every way," of Philadelphia, 101 Market Har says Mr. T. F. Cunningham. "So much risburg. Ask the man who owns one menta are made in the theater of war. The same system has now been introduced for all motor cars, trucks and motorcycles in the Army, and is pronounced by .military men as one of the most useful of all the new deficiency devices intro duced to facilitate an early triumph overseas. '■ OVEHIiAND IIAS HI3GK PHBBB ' One of the largest steel presses in, . the world Is used for making sld* ' rails for Willys-Overland motor carifc | It stands 21 feet high. 20 feet wlaa . and Is embedded In 15 feet of sollA i concrete. It weighs 325 tons and has a pressure of 2,000 tons.
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