"FLY" EXCEEDS SPEED LIMIT Gets 'Pinched" For Speeding While Testing Apperson "Jack Rabbit" Harry Gardiner, the "human fly" is an enthusiastic motorist. When not scaling the outside of some sky scrapper he can generally be found in his Apperson "Jack Rabbit" en joying the relaxation from his stren uous work which it affords. Eut as is usual, the fly became in volved in trouble where he least ex pected it. After risking his neck by scaling all the tall office buildings in Atlanta, Gorgia last week, Gardnier was arrested for speeding in his Ap- ' 800 RS TO RELIABLE CATALOG CHOOSE Mai™ FROM Matte REQUEST This EASTER a memorable one. Decide NOW to own a Reliable Used Car, and every day will be a day of happiness for you and yours. CONVENIENT PAYMENTS ARRANGED 1917 CHANDLER 4-paps. Chummy 1917 RIO SIX Touring:; equal to Roadster; mechanically perfect—a now; aplendidly equipped $776 snap. 1917 MARMON Touring; like new; 1917 CADILLAC Coupe: tip-top con- ,•fIT™ 1 1 "A* ~ , dltlon: used very little. 1817 CHALMERS SIX Tourlnj; run 1917 BTUTZ 4-pass. Tourln B ; wire •; ! 875 wheels; equal to new. 1917 t EUK SIX Touring; run 3000 1917 OVERLAND BIX Tourlnu; ,-.^l l : Jf' 1 L ? cr 4, ftc , splendid condition G75 1017 NATIONAL Touring; shows no 1917 BUICK SIX Touring. D-45; A-l • , bar * aln L, shape; splendid equipment. 1917 PACKARD Twin Six Touring; 1917 COLE EIGHT Touring; divided •S u > '2 ."'"V front Beats: 7-pass.; new tires. i7i ? . y l' Ro *dter; A-l con -191 STITD.KBAKER Roadster; equal ,-J' I "Sfi*•£•= . ® x , tra S; to new; run 1500 miles. I#l7 HAINES 6-cyl. Touring; wire 1917 SAXON SIX Roadster; very e ®'" „ economical sr>so 1917 JEFFERt SIX Touring; A-l 1917 CADILLAC Touring; beautiful e ", u| PP ed 50 condition: a bargain. Touring, very eco -1917 DODGE Touring; tip-top condl- ,s^lfmiKßAKKß* 'Vn £ tion; used very little. 19 " ,„P Roadster; 30 H. eq S u?pped ToUr,n ' : 1475 Touring 1917 fIOAMKR 4 -pass ; wire wheels; ,„yi nu £li* Kh T Motor -• • ■'f 7s very classy; a bargain. 1917 ,'?;* XON * ,X Touring; tip-top 1917 & lfl CHEVROLET Touring; , a ., also Roadsters; fully equipped; as JL J#'*, , T ° UrinS: low ah |2o run 3500 miles. lota of extraa. 1917 MAXWELL' Touring' Car';' used 1B i? n ? n Al ®® Bl * J°" h r !" r: f<}, con " only three months; a bargain. dltlon, very good shape; will sac -1917 MITCHELL, JR., Touring; e*- , 0 [„ - „ . cellent condition; fully equipped. 1918 LOCOMOBILE Touring; very powerful; A-l ahape; a bargain. Bp 1917 ACBCRN Roadster; 6-cyl.; per [JBHRELIABLE AUTOMOBILE COMPANY I (All That the Name Implies) y/J m\ 249-51 NORTH BROAD SY.. ?'HILA., PA. Agent* Wanted j _ * The Comfort Car The passenger ear to-day has entered the daily activities of our people to an unprece dented extent, regularly displacing other forms of transportation. No other car of the times offers as much in thrifty serviceability to the user, together with unusual Economy, Comfort and Quality as does "The New Hupmobile." Humpmobile Sales Corp. 103 Market Street Sales and Service . ' x . n. J. CHURCH, Manager. to This man hit a pole in North Sixth street and damaged his car to such an extent that the dealer would only allow him SIOO in a trado on a new car. After straightening the frame, fenders, etc., welding some of the parts and putting in new ones elsewhere, with a bill of 1139.36 the same dealer offers him S7OO In trade on a new car. Both the dealer and the owner of the car said, "Pretty fine job." IT'S THE MECHANICS AT THE REX who are responsible for thlß high grade work—not only mechanics, but in most cases factory experts, on four, six and eight.cylinder cars, and are able to remedy your magneto, carburetor and generator troubles as well. YOUR LEAKY RADIATOR REPAIRED SKRVICE STATION KING CHANDLER OAKLAND JACKSON VIM TRUCKS Distributors Portage Tin's, Guaranteed 5,000 Miles. Dealers Wanted Rex Garage and Supply Co. 1917 NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG, PA. SATURDAY EVENING, person. The trouble, grew out of a little test. J. M. Niskey, the gen eral southern representative of the Atlanta, Georgia, last week, Gardiner he could climb nny reasonable hill at a speed of forty miles per hour In his "Jacto Rabbit." "I tried it," said Gardiner, when arrested. "NlsKey was right. It did forty an hour. As a matter of speed ometer, it did forty-five. But then the car is not mine. You know it belongs to my wife. I liked the little Chummy so well I couldn't resist getting it for her." Later In the recorder's court, the Judge dealt with Mr. Gardiner in the following manner. "Mr, Fly—-1 mean, Mr. Gardiner, I prefer to regard you as a distin guished guest of the city. This be ing the case, it is impossible for me to fine you. Also I may suggest that a man who can climb a sky scraper on the outside may be trust ed to pilot a motorcar at a higher rate of speed than other folks. I will dismiss tha case." MOTORTRUCK INTRODUCED P. H. Keboch Appointed Dis-j tributer For Conestoga Trucks Conestoga Trucks, tho Lancaster product of which a great deal has been seen in the automobile pages of metropolitan newspapers, have come to town in number sufficient to meet immediate demands and for in stant delivery. P. H. Keboch, B South Fourth street, has been ap pointed distributor for the city and nearby counties. This house is now [ ready to grant liberal contracts to local dealers In their territory- One of the handsomest commercial ve hides that ever came to Harrisburg iis the Conestoga %-ton truck I mounting a steel panel body of ex j ceptionally beautiful balance both :as to size and lines. Rarely has such , dignity been put on wheels for pur i pose of trade; nor has there been I such evident strength or a livelier get-about. Every inch of load space has been turned to account; the in side dimensions are 72 inches back of driver's seat, 44" inches width, 56 inches high. Heavy double doors in rear with oval, glass. The driver is protected by curtains a\ side and heavy plate glass ventilating wind shield—at his side are paneled in windows. In this series are also chassis, express body, cabin top body and a convertible farm body. The latter is a combination of truck and passenger car or station wagon for the large country house. Two ex tra seats are part of the regular equipment, which when added, will accommodate nine adult passengers —or, stripped for work it will whirl about an 1,800 pound load as easy as the empty body. Another notable Conestoga Is the ton-and-a-half truck—well named Conestoga Giant —with 190-ln. frame. This is prac tically a two-ton truck, so strongly is it built. Over strength and over size is a family trait of the Cones togas—a thoughtful consideration of the general weakness for overload ing. Maxwell Truck and Touring Cars in Government Tests Triumphing over obstacles the equal of which have never before been seen, Maxwell truck and touring car, sent to Texas for a government test, came through without a single adjustment or broken part. The t*jst course was 2,000 miles in each case. The government was frank. In the letter of Instructions cov ering tests, it was stated that Marfa, Texas, and the surrounding territory has been chosen as a test ground be cause the road conditions there were the most severe that could be found. The government was right. Sand, inches deep, through which it was possible to make progress orfly on the lower speeds; mountain trails—mere imitations of roads; rocks, military passages, intended, primarily, for pack trains—all these were the rule. There were no ex ceptions. Government orders, covering the tests, called for at least 2,000 miles for both truck and touring car. Both Maxwells exceeded this mileage by several hundred miles. Cars in test were used to carry men and provisions to the various military camps on the border. Head quarters wjpre at Marfa and from that sun-colored town, trips were made day and night to Presidio, Can delria, Polvo, Indio and Kuidosa. None of these garrisons may be reached by railroad and the roads are, to make use of a bromide, in their infancy. The Maxwell truck, on each of these trips, carried not less than a ton-load and often even a greater one. Some of the grades were particu larly dilticult and dangerous. One, called by Texans, the "Rim Rock" was, perhaps, the worst. Starting from the top or "rim" itself, tho descent was startlingly sudden. In less than six miles, there is a descent of 4,000 feet and some of the turns are so short that a mistake of six inches on the part of the driver would mean a fall of 2,000 feet or more to the rocks below. The Max well was the second truck to ever descend this trail and the first to ever climb It! ' Pinto Canyon is another hard one. Wliile not HO abrupt as the Rim Kock, there is a steady ascent of twenty miles. This is between Itui dosa and Marfa. the difference in level between the two towns being almost 4,000 feet. There are but few stretches In • this trait where "high" can be used. There was a romantic side to the test for the Maxwell touring car was often used to chase the bands of Mexican bandits which Infest the country. Thus, it was a modern "tank," faster than its prototype but not so well protected. Following the test, both truck and car were driven overland from Marfa to Dallas, stopping at San Antonio to give the Army men there another test of its efficiency. Both truck and car were stock In every particular, this condition be ing demanded by the government. Duplex Truck Furnishes I Power For Factory A Duplex 4-wheel drive truck again substantiated its manufacturers' claim, that the Duplex is equal to any emergency, when a truck supplied power in one of the factory's de. partments which otherwise would have been forced to close. When flood waters of the Grand river made impossible the operation of the Michigan Power Company's plant in Lansing, among the scores ' of factories affected was the Duplex Truck Company. However, it was not necessary to close the Duplex tool room because of a novel arrangement whereby power was furnished in this department by a Duplex 4-wheel drive truck. A pulley wheel was attached to the rear of the chain case shaft of the truck and a belt transmitted the pow er to the lino shaft above. The Du plex supplied ample power to operate all the machinery In the tool room. L/UMBEIi BUSINESS SOLD New Bloomiicltl, Pa., March 30. Tressler Brothers, proprietors of the Perry County Bending Works, have sold their planing mill, lumber yard and coal yard to Hoffman & Mc- Clune of Now Bloomlleld, who will take possession next week and will reopen the bending works which part had been abandoned by the Tressler Brothers and will enlarge the business. WOMAN'S LEG BROKEN Columbia, Pa.. March 30.—Katie Brandt, a young woman employed in the family of John Westerman, pres ident of the Columbia Trust Com pany, was the victim of a strange ac cident while preparing breakfast for the family. In walking across the floor the woman's foot slipped and she fell, breaking her left leg near the knee. I I ) Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. DODGE TOPS MT. HELENA Gasoline Vehicle at Last Con quers Washington Giant by Climbing Roadless Slopes For a long time it seemed as though gasoline would never- drive a motor car to the summit of Mt. Helena, in the state of Washington. But it has done so at last, and the car was left at the summit of the roadless old giant for all of one night and most of the next, day, so that the whole city of Helena might testify to the accomplishment of the hitherto im possible feat. Mt. Helena is a peak In the foot hills of the main range of the Rocky Mountains. Its summit is approxil - 6,000 feet above sea level. The city of Helena, at the base of the mountain, has an elevation of 4,000 feet. There is no wheel road to the top of Mt. Helena, and it in difficult even for a pony to Jiiake the ascent. Nu merous attempts have been made to put an automobile on the mountain top, and in 1910 it was claimed th'at a car with special gear ratio made the climb. However, no one except the claimants saw the ascent or saw the car on top of the mountain, and the story caused no great excitement. The car which finally made the dif ficult ascent was a Dodge Brothers motorcar owned by the Helena Motor Company of Helena. It made the climb from the garage to the rocks on the summit in 45 minutes. Four men rode in the car. At the foot of the rocks which crown the summit, the car met loose and stony soil. It was necessary to build up a roadway for it. Repeatedly the car clipped backward off the track and had to be blocked up to give traction for the wheels, which were quipped with driving chains. In the last hundred feet, the rise was a 61 per cent, grade. After the car reached the top, It was blocked In position and remained on the mountain all night and part of the next day, in full view of any one in Helena who looked toward the mountain top. Then it was driven back to Helena. Cross Country Tour in Hup Beats Former Records From Australia comes the report of a record breaking cross-continent tour that makes similar undertak ings in this country look like pleas ure excursions not because of the time made, but because of the diffi culties encountered. From .Free mantle on the west coast of Aus tralia to Sydney on the east is a dis tance of 2,677 miles. In January two men in a Hupmobile covered this distance in seven days, two hours, nineteen minutes, besting the for mer record for the trip by forty-five hours, eighteen minutes. People unfamiliar with the coun try have no conception of cross country touring dilficultles in Aus tralia. Our United States is by no means free from hundreds of miles of terrible roads, but In Australia the hardy tourist, in most cases, does not expect to find a road at all. The American tourist is annoyed if he misses even a singLo meal; the Aus tralian knows before he starts that he will travel hundreds of miles, and day after day, without a single opportunity of securing food or wa ter other than the supply he car ries with him. It seems almost inevitable in this island continent, where the animals and trees are unlike the animals and trees of other lands, that -the road conditions should be equally unique. There is no sand quite so deep and quite so shifting as Australian sand. Riding, or "jocketirig" as the Aus tralians call it, the spare tire to give the rear wheels more traction, is common practice. Rivers with in nocent white sand bottoms have a habit of swallowing up cars that at tempt to ford them. Trails that meander tlresomely for miles over perfectly level plateaus lead sudden ly to gorges five hundred feet deep. All of these hazards were encoun tered by the Hupmobile tourists in their record breaking run. So severe were the road shocks and strains that, although frames artd springs withstood the wrenching, the hood was split from end to end. The tourists themselves slept only six hours in the entire seven days and then only in snatches while strap ped In the seat beside the driver. Record breaking insofar as It deals with the time element alone is of small consequence in this prac tical age. The importance of this recent trip lies in the fact that an American car came through the grind absolutely unharmed and withefut repairs of any kind. This is extremely significant when one con siders that most of the cars tsold in Australia are purchased by men living on the ranches, or "stations" as they are called, often hundreds of miles from town, necessitating con stant driving over roads like tho3o encountered in this cross-country tour. STORAGE * AI,IJ ACCOMMODATIONS IJIOHT—HEAT—FREE AIR RATES REASOKABIaE Hoffman Garage Seventh and Camp Sts. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT BEN! Don't envy your frienda who have such bright, new looking brass beds, chandeliers, etc., In their homes. At small cost we can replate and reflnloh your old pieces so they will dofy the most critical examination—they will look like new. We replato gold and silver ware, also repair and reflnish auto lamps, radiators, band in struments, etc. Harrisburg, I'o. 11l H'"I"U'C TEi-tcium KSTurrnt ill OVER 100 gj I Harrisburg's Leading Business Firms Are Boosting For a Bigger a j .mMlllmt TtLtCMPH KBTtIHTTt * J .£ nousands or r ostcrcttcs —■ ggppolg Will Be Sent All Over Manufactured Products | indorsements of the Plan ' "■ P., January W.ta P., Harrisburg, pf„ ' TO THE PUBLIC:—The Harrisburg Tele- The "arrlsburg Telegraph, HI Gentlemen:— graph Is now running an Industrial and clvio Gentlemen"- Your project to advertise Harrisburg by campaign -with their posterettes for t.le pur- We are Bonding the posterettcs broadcast the use of pictorial stamps has our hearty pose of boosting the City and developing you have had Published for the liar endorsement and we believe it of excellent hp inrtnatrioi „,„i„ .. , J" s nirg Telegraph postorettos campaign and value in impressing other communities with * ,ndustrlal and clvlc conditions thereof. Iwant to wyta a >™that the plan appeals the fact that ours Is a good town to work, Having investigated the matter and be- ticul way to assist in advertising throughout play and live in. iev ing it to be a good thing, because of its tri!l°featii^^®. a " ractlve an <J Indus- May you succeed in getting as many of . T .. i of Harrisburg, and it ought our business houses and Industries to use ar " reach ' n offect ' *• a the Chief Magis- to spreading tfle fame of our city this plan as there are institutions in the rate of the Clty - heartily endorse this cam- We will be glad to put these stamps HI town whose activities go beyond our own paign. all our out-of-town letters. borders. Wishing you all success in this enterprise. Yours very truly, very respectfully, Yours very truly, HARRISBURG SHOE MFG. CO. D. L KEISTER Mayor KOBERT B. REEVES, , • Gen. Secretary Y. M. C. A. Join the List of Harrisburg Boosters—Here They Are: A. H m Arcade Laundry Harrisburg Bag and Box Co. M „ 4 . , „ (Affiliated Conaolidnted Manufacturer* "3tlOnal Cash Register Co B Harrisburg Baking Co. Baker, M. H. and Co. Harrisburg Bridge Co. anufactunng Co., The Barker, James W. Harrisburg Conservatory of Music Beckley's Business College and Civil Harrisburg Electric Supply Co., Inc- Service School Harrisburg Light and Power Co. Office Training School, The Bill, George E., M. D. Harrisburg Manufacturing and Boiler n HI Blough Manufacturing Co., Inc. Co. P Bluemenstine, Edward A. Harrisburg News Agency / p,„i w B HI Booda, Guy E. Harrisburg Rendering & Hide Co. Pavt ' p, ' ° es _ Brz Bros., (Hardware) Grindi " g a " d C ° rrU - W M C ' 1 Harrisburg Shoe Mfg. Co. ptSZ' i\"T Y - M ' CA ' 111 Class, C. Frank Harrisburg Storage Co. Poneck'f rr L " nch ooms Capital City Junk Co. Harrisburg Typewriter & Supply Co. p Qm . ' 1 , Carry Stores) Capital Optical Co- Harrisburg Welding & Brazing Co. ffi rocer) HI Central Construction and Supply Co. Hantzman, Fred H. Pratt Paiot, ™ City Star Laundry Harry, Fred B. . " att - Ral Ph D., (Eyesight Specialist) Commercial Bank Hassler, Samuel Freeman, Jr., M. D. D Crow, Wilmer Herman Cigar Co., The Hickok, W. 0„ Manufacturing Co. i, J°* e P h E - D Hippie, Harold A. Robbing, Frank A. U Dauphin Electric Supplies Co. Hoffer and Garman S U j S ® rot .^ ers I ce Cream Co. 11l Deiner, Peter G. Hoffman Bros, and Wilson Ryder, Snively, (Hardware) HI Drumm, B. B. (Groceries and Meats) J g r Jackson Mfg. Co. £* i£ Sacred Heart Catholic Church I East End Bank ' n r u„ ui School of Commerce Eckenrode, T. O. (Dry Goods & Gents' Kelley H M an" Co Silberman Brothers 111 . Furnishing) n. ai. and Co. Snyder, Edwin C. Enterprise Coffee Co. *-• Francis Roman Catholic Church Etter, Calvin, and Son Lack, Fred S. (Tailor). St. James Church, Steelton || Evans-Burtnett C 6. Lehr, James M- St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Lloyd, Charles Howard Sunshine Garage F Loyal Order of Moose First National Bank Lutz, James H., Jr. T Fogarty, Eugene J. Lyme, I. R„ Plumber Tax Audit Company Freidberg, N. M Matter, Jacob O. f O ui Mauk ' Charles H. Wallis Coal Co. | ? a * Briquette Co. McFarland, J. Horace Witmer, Bair and Witmer Gannett, Seely & Fleming (Engineers) Mehring, W. J. Williams and Freedman - Gernert, William A. (Groceries and Meyers Manufacturing Co. (Calendars) Worden Paint & Roofing Co., The Provisions) Michlovitz & Co. ' „ Gately and Fitzgerald Supply Co. Middletown & Swatara Consolidated Y 111 Ge " eral , Clgar Co " Inc * Harrisburg Water Co. Y. M. C. A. 11l /-• f nC T vdi fa. Moatgomery & Co• Y. W. C. A. HI Gipple, J. J£., Real instate and Insur- Montgomery, J. B. 11l anCe *• a • Moorehead Knitting Co. Z Greater Victoria Theater Musser, Frank E. Zacharias, H. C. I! In this great civic movement and help boost Harrisburg and B®SpSS her products all over the world ° VK . iltviiWiNC IIAWTMUIIQ AND viciNinr. i MARCTT 30, 1018. 11
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