diers May Remain n Army Until They Get JobsJJaker Orders rasldngton, Jan. 25. —To solve problem of unemployed dis rgod soldiers, the War Dcpart lt has ordered that no man be harped from the army against desire until such timo as he can tin employment In civil life. . was announced to-day that or s had been telegraphed to all artment and division comniand j,t Socretary Baker's direction, etain all men who desire to re n temporarily in the service, iout prejudice to theh r subs&- it discharge to take employ- j t. I Looking for a Used Car ? Wc liavc several of vari us makes that are in first lass condition and reason ble in price. Come in and ; jok them over. We Sell Tires Goodyear and Racine Cords and other makes \ lex Garage & Supply Co., j Third and Delaware VELIE SERVICE STATION U Save Money Now B u y Used Auto Parts CRANKSHAFTS CARBURETORS V. BATTERIES MAGNETOS II A V. BEARINGS /%. Vv SPRINGS I We also GEAlfc carry a com- M I AXLES pleto lino of Stan- TP Vy tlartl Roller and Bull J[ Bearings and quite an f \ assortment of Cones and \S. \ J Races and practically every tiling pertaining to a car. We also Handle Used Tires and JL m Tubes. /I USED CARS BOUGHT AND SOLD. Chelsea Auto Wrecking A SCHIFFMAN, Prop. Q 22-21 X. CAMERON ST. BOTH PHONES. kF U j 11 a ''Let's Go" H m M k • m gO Under all weather and road conditions, the Overland Model 90 has won its present high reputation as a car that is easy to start, easy to run, rwt • ofM , and economical to maintain. This reputation is founded on ten years IpyS . MS J'TV, of constant effort to merit the appreciation of the public. The Over- IsOj Mp * land car today is more deserving than ever of that prestige which has grown from the enthusiasm of 600,000 owners. (M . 1 The Overland-Harrisburg Co. ' f|| Pgg 212-214 North Second Street |f*| BjK? V(tHK SHAXCHi r\ -r- NBWFORT lllt\\tii> ~ *2B-130 Wnt Market St. 1 Open Evenings Opposite I*. H. It. Station . jjpjjpl Model Ninety Fire rsienee- Tourin, Cr *915 Sedtn. *1495- I. O.k. Toledo. SATURDAY EVENING, ti | WILLIAMS MOTOR CO. PLACES . s NEW EQUIPMENT IX SHOP I j The Williams Motor Co., authoriz ' jed agents in Harrisburg for the Ford | Motor Co., with salesrooms at 231 , North Second street, and Servlce < • Station at ISOB-12 Logan street, have recently remodeled their scrv . ice station and placed new equip ment there in order to give the full I service advertised by the Ford Motor ! Co. This new equipment is in the ' form of modern and up-to-date ma- I cntnery for the complete repairing of Ford cars. Ford repairing has been brought 1 down to a real system by the Ford • Motor Co., and the various agents i all dVer the country are being urg i ed to adopt the methods approved j by them so that universal service can be obtained by Ford owners no j matter whether they are in New I York or in San Francisco, t One of the features added by the 1 Williams Motor Co. is a large stock | room for parts at both their service i station and at the salesrooms, so 1 that owners can be supplied with j whatever parts they desire at either i place. This will be a big saving in j tune and distance to the Ford own | or. A complete stock of parts will j be carried at both places. And still the stealing of automo i biles keeps up and more of it. Who's ! doing all this stealing anyhow? Is ' it a gang of boys, as the police were i loth to think a short time ago, or is lit some one else? It certainly is a j sorry state of affairs, no matter i ! who's doing it, and is beginning to , I get on the nerves of auto owners, j i It seems that- the one safe way left) ! to be sure your auto is where you j j leave it when you come back is to j ' get a big healthy logchain and a AUTOMOBILE NEWS TIMELY LOCAL FEATURES OF INTEREST TO AUTOISTS BY ALFRED P. DAVIES, AUTO EDITOR. real lock, and then hook it to a telephone po3t. NEW FUEL TESTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PROVES SATISFACTOR Y A substitute for gasoline said to be satisfactory in every respect, to cost less, to be available in ample .quantities and to give more power than gasoline has recently under gone a series of tests by the gov ernment at Washington. The results of these tests by Cap | tain E. C. Weisgerber have pi oven I highly satisfactory and a deal is now under way to commercialize this product. Some of the high points in the test and the ones that will interest automobile i.owners most, are the tact that used on a passenger car tile fuel drove it 17fc miles on a gallon, against nine miles per gallon of gasoline, atA increased the speed of the auto from 47 miles per hour to 69 miles per hour. A Garford 3-ton .trufk, weigh ing 7,373 pounds with its load, av eraged 10.4 miles per gallon with Liberty Fuel (as this new substi tute is called), used two gullons of water in the radiator, and consumed 2>i quarts of lubricating oil, or 103.1 miles per quart. The journey was made at a speed of from nine to 12 miles per hour, some of it through rain. With gasoline in the same truck it averaged 6.37 miles per gallon, used 8 gallons of water in the radiator, and 4ft quarts of lubricating oil, and aver age of 63.5 miles per.quart. it is claimed that this substitute is scentless, tasteless, and that its prod ucts of combustion are cooler thai* gasoline. It is reported to lie non corosive. It does not give out soot oi carbon, according" to reports, and starts easier than gasoline. No special apparatus is needed to use Liberty Fuel. It will ignite only from flame or spark. • It has been rumored around that the present traffic officers are to be displaced by officers now doing pa trolman's duty and the traffic men are to do the patrolmen's work. 1 \\ ho ever thought this out sure did look into the future (?). The pres ent corps of traffic officers have had over a year of experience and are just beginning to be of real service to the t ravel infr-public. To break in a new lot of men to this job is to RETTBERG BROTHERS, 128-150 X. Front St. STEELTOX AUTO REPAIRING, BATTERY RECHARGING, United ytates and Goodrich Tires, Mobiloils, Texaco Motor Oils, Agency Gould Storage Battery. HELL PHONE &X2mi3bCKG tfiSb TELEGRXPfI welcome more accidents instead of doing everything to prevent them. MOTOR WORLD'S EDITOR GIVES INTERESTING ADVICE TO DEALERS Ray W. Sherman, the well-known editor of the Motor World, writes an interesting little> story on how to manage an auto show and the course of this letter gives some in teresting information on the plac ing of cars in an exhibit. Mr. Sher man sees the auto show from both sides and is very capable of giv ing this advice. . v Speaking of crowding he says, "All this crowding of exhibits costs i the exhibitor real money. He gets !an idea he is losing money if he doesn't use every possible inch of ! space foi- planting cars, while as ! a matter of fact he is losing money ! by jamming his space so full. ! The dealer's object in going Into I a show—even if he doesn't know it —is to get the eye of the public and make sales and the beginning of sales. Ills sole object is to adver tise and get prospects. But how is I he going to get the eye of the pub -1 lie and create a favorable want j to-have-it opinion if he shuts off ! the view of the public and makes it impossible for people to get into his space? - How can a salesman do anything at all if he has to climb over run ning-bcards and duck around un der tops and lead his prospects through a mystic maze, making it as hard as possible for the pros pect to see the (hing he is most in terested in? Cars can't be sold in that way. Of course a few ean be sold, but so can a few of anything be sold without any effort. Here's hoping the Harrisburg! motor dealers have an artistic show, a real show this year. They have the space and the inclination. Now to put it into effect. A good suggestion for* traffic reg ulation has come to us from a farmer in the upper end of the county. He says: "Why not stop all vehicular traffic at a street in tersection and let all pedestrians pass. Then stop all pedestrian traf fic and let all vehicular traffic pass?| In this way the two won't get alii mixed up and hurt each other. You i ; never can tell which way a car is j going to turn or whether it is go ing straight ahead. Let's play satety first and let one go- through while the other waits." Good ad vice. we say. Other citiea do, why not us? w MOTOR DEALERS TO MEET MONDAY EVEXIXGG A meeting of the Motor Dealers! Association is scheduled to take place .Monday evening at 7.30, in the salesrooms of the Packard Mo tor Car Co. Important* business is to be'discussed and reports froht various committees, especially the show committee, will be heard. Everything is moving smoothly as far as the show is concerned, only small details are left to be worked out. ——. J. J. Conroy, representative of the Philadelphia branch of the Ford Motor Co., has*"been spending the last few days in this city with the Williams Motor Company, going: over the Ford situation in this territory. The Williams Motor Co. are the au thorized Kord distributors Tor Har risburg. It is understood that Mr. Conroy lias been taking up the mat i ter of Kord repairing with some of the local garage men. At the pres ent time the Williams Motor Co. maintain a service station at 1808- 1810 Logan street, but the Ford cars have become so numerous in this territory that additional authorized service stations are badly needed. NEW YORK AUTO SHOW STARTS NEXT WEEK The annual automobile show held in New York is 'scheduled to start next Saturday morning and will be | held this year in Madison Square ! Garden. Owing to the lack of space j there will be two distinct shows. ! one for passenger cars and the other for trucks. The passenger car show will begin February Ist. and con ! tinue until the Btli. The truck show i will then begin and continue until I and including February 15. j The third annual Farm Products | Show proved a huge success from ' point of attendance and sales of | implements. Larger crowds than j last year attended and every dealer who displayed tractors and other ! implements claims to have secured many sales and prospects. ! MAC'S GARAGE BREAKS RECORD THIS WEEK IN SALES Ten used Ford cars have been the record of sales this week for Mac's Garage. This part of the busi ness has been ptfshed to the front recently. Guying up used cars in large numbers and repairing them t and placing thegi in llrst cluss con- i dition for sale is one of the big ends of Mac's business. Mr. McMillan and Mr. Cohen are in Philadelphia to-day with the in tention of buying up a large fleet of Ford cars, which they will bring to Harrisburg and offer for sale. Re cently they purchased a fleet of sixty cars in this way and the demand created for them at that time was larger than the supply. REPRESENTATIVES OF HARLEY-DAVIDSON CO. TO BE HERE On February 17 and 18 E. J. Mueller and Fred. Stierhoff, repre sentatives of the Harley-Davidaon Motorcycle Factory, will be in Har risburg for a conference of Central j Pennsylvania dealers. Many important phases of the j motorcycle bpsiness is to be dis-' I cussed. One is the new 1919 Sport j Models, which will be placed on the market in a short time. Heagy's: Sporting Goods store, the local deal- ! ers. expect this new model any day, ! and will soon have one on display i in their show windows ut Third and i Cumberland streets. A dinner at tlie Penn-Harris Hotel I will be a feature of the conference. | The exceptionally fine weather! that has .prevailed this winter has i been the eausd of more sales in au- ' tomobiles than has ever been re- ' corded in any January since the | automobile business began. Every I local dealer is reporting anywhere j from live to twenty sales, and the; outlook is .the brightest of any sea son at this time of the year. REPUBLIC TRUCK COMPANY INCREASES WORKING CAPITAL 1. IV. Dill, the ' local Republic dealer, is in receipt of a letter from President P.uggles of the Republic Motor Truck Co., Inc., of Alma, Mich., to the efTect that the recent Republic Gold Note Issue had been oversubscribed many times. The issue was to secure $3,000,000 more working capital and that applica tions for over $14,000,000 had been received. This is strong evidence that the motor truck business and especially the Republic Motor Truck Co., was sure to be a "comer." Investors j are eager to subscribe to this loan because of its substnntiability. The Republic Co. is now working on a peace time basis and will soon be putting as many trucks on the market as before the war. T. C. Black, who recently went to Akron, 0., where he spent a week in the repair department of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., learning the line points of vulcaniz ing, has returned home. Mr. Black made this trip in order to be able to apply up-to-date methods in his vulcanizing plant, at Black's Gar age, on South Seventeenth street. EASTERN APPERSOX R E PREMEN TATIVE IX THE CITY W. T. Taylor, the eastern repre sentative of Appeison Brothers' Mo tor Car Co., of Kokomo, ind., was in the city yesterday to take up the question of delivery of a large num ber of the neij Anniversary Model with the Keystone Sales Co., the lo cal representatives. „ Mr. Taylor's headquarters ase lo cated in Philadelphia. He motored here from York, coming by the tvay of Marietta. In speaking of the roads of Central Pennsylvania lie did not seem to be very enthusiastic. He says that the recent bond issue will be a blessing for the community as the roads are badly in need of repair. He was very enthusiastic about the coming season for Apperson Mo tor Cars. The. new Anniversary Model has been creating much fa vorable comment and the outlook for a large number of sales is very bright. The Keystone Sales Co., un der the direction of E. L. Cowden, G. G. Giliing and W. P. Grove, is planning for a very strenuous cam paign on this model, and will en deavor to niake it the popular car of Central Pennsylvania. MAGNETO AND SPEEDOMETER SERVICE STATION OPENS Arthur P. Meyers bus rented the second floor of 109 Market street, and purchased the service stution formerly conducted by the Front- Market Motor Supply Co., for Bosch Magneton and operate the busi ness as heretofore. He will also do all kinds of repairing of speedome ters of all kinds, as well as mag netos. Mr/ Meyers is a well-known auto mobile man, having seen service in several of the large factories and recently he has been in charge of the work at the Front-Market Mo tor Supply Co. A detective from Portland has made the suggestion that a law be embodied in the regular motor ve hicular laws of the state whereby anyone purchasing anything from an accessory store or garage must show their ownership card to prove that they are the owner or driver of the car they have. If a regular driver of the car, hp should have the owner's card to show. Being unable to display this card on re quest, it would be considered that the car was a sto'en one. This sug gestion is in the way "of eliminating theft. MOTOR CLUB GIVES OUT TOURING INFORMATION 1 Touring information on routes to any part of the United States or Canada can be had on application to the Motor Club of Harrisburg. In a recent bulletin issued by the club a route through Virginia that had recently undergone a course of re construction was listed. This infor rtiation tells the conditions of the roads, whether toll must bff paid, and many other interesting bits of information. These bulletin s are issued quite frequently, keeping the members informed as to the chang ing conditions of all nearby roads. It seems that Pennsylvania is one jump ahead of a large number of oilier states on the matter of good roads. Recently Virginia has begun talking of a loan of $25,000,000 for good roads, as well as many of the western states. Keep the good work up and by 1925 the highways of the entire country will be "one bed of roses" for the touring public. We carry a Complete Stock of Everything For The Automobile Tires—Accessories— Gasoline P. H. KEBOCH 111 Market Street Successor to Retail .Dept. Front Market Motor Supply Co. V V FAST MOTOR EXPRESS to and from New York, Phila. and Harrisburg 1 Commercial and Furniture Hauling General Loeal Hauling Anytime • Anywhere All fully covered by insuranee A. T. Raffensperger & Son Mala Office Pbtla. Office MM Market St. 307 Market St HarrHbara, Pa. Pboa Pkaae, 85SHJ Market 4439 - I f DODGE BROTHERS j MOTOR CAR I • ' i • P i The people who buy this car represent jb j the substantial class in their own com- U* munity, and hold fixed ideals of value. Buying Dodge Brothers car is,, with them, a matter of business because | . they seem sure they will get more jjjf I out of it. ! / j[j j It will pay you to visit us and examine this oar. jjj I The gusoline consumption is unusually low. J j • the tire mifenge is unusually high. Keystone Motor Car Co. | 59 S. Cameron St. . |> . Bell CHARLES' R. BARNER, Mgr. Dial 709 , 6 4454 | JANUARY 25, 1919. f Powerful AUy Prepare for increased business — the right delivery facilities is the place to start- Bethlehem Trucks fill the bill-of-demands. u can know a Bethlehem by its armored >e, correctly designed, properly mounted liator—but that is only the outward sign of efficiency—Bethlehem owners can count worth on their cbst sheet and delivery I receipts— I It is the make of trucks designed to help I business —not merely to haul goods— Bethlehems are clean cut, dependable repre sentatives of your business wherever they go— I 4* They are easy to operate —economical to maintain without tinkering without trouble and with prompt engine response and the continual purr of an even running motor — There is a right capacity for every line of busi ness— all models equipped with Gray & Davis Electric Starting and Lighting.' IJ4 Ton Chassis 2J4 Ton Chassis Ton Chassis I $1965 $2365 $3465 U F. 0.8. Allent*;wn, Pa. Be known for prompt deliveries a Bethlehem M will shoulder that share of the job. |§k 11 ( Overland-Harrisburg Co. 212-214 North Second Slreet YORK lIIJAM Il': linWHOIIT RRAYCH: WMwflNw 12S-130 \V. Market St. Opp. I*. 11. 11. Station 9
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