"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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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