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•ajbt. AUTOMOBILE SECTION rfW*
AUTOMOBILE NEWS AND ADVERTISING
ALFRED P. DAVIES, AUTO EDITOR SPECIAL FEATURES EVERY SATURDAY
HACK AGENCY HAS
CHANGED HANDS
Overland - Harrisburg Com
pany Will Act as Central
Pennsylvania Distributors
Carl Hanson, president and gen-
Bral manager of tfte Overland-Har
rteburg Company announces that his
company has been appointed Cen
tral Pennsylvania distributors for
Mack trucks. The contract has just
recently been signed and every effort
will be made to secure a wide dis
tribution in this territory of these
trucks.
The Mack has been handled In
Harrisburg for years and there are
now a large number of them on
the streets. The truck is made In
Allentown and has won a reputa-
Uon that is hard to equal.
In the handling of this truck, the
Overland service staUon and parts
department will be at the disposal
of both old und new owners. The
counties under the jurisdiction of
the Overland Harrisburg Company
include Dauphin. Cumberland,
Perry, York, Adams, Franklin, Juni
zta, Mifflin, Fulton and Lebanon.
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Prest-O-Lite Battery
"A SIZE FOR EVERY CAR"
Atlas El-ctric Service Co.
FISH MAX'S GARAGE
Fourth and Chestnut Sts.
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The Supe^^^SmaU
The striking beauty of the Templar touring car is accentu- !
ated by Its long, low-hung, compact appearance. It typifies !
strength, speed and class in every line.
The quick acceleration- and agility on hills is uncanny for a
motor of this size. Its ease of control makes it justly popular
with lady drivers. The car performs like a thoroughbred in
crowded traffic, due to its quick pick-up, short wheelbase, short
turning radius and simple control. A proper distribution of
weight, coupled with a low center of gravity, results in the
remarkable riding qualities. The accessory equipment Is com
plete.
The one convincing argument we offer in talking of Templar
cars is for you to see and ride in one. You will readily appreci
ate that It is a superfine car. Phone for a demonstration.
Scandalis & Frederick Motor Car Co.
Bell 4968 443 South Cameron St. Dial 5347
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WE KNOW HOW
In the field of moving not many concerns can say, "we know how." We can say it
with the greatest amount of conviction as our fourteen years of continuous service in
the trucking field give us that knowledge. Besides that knowledge we have the equip
ment so essential to successful moving. Our giant pneumatic tired Armleder trucks
are prepared to move your furniture with the minimum amount of breakage. All goods
delivered out of the city limits is insured.
We have several dump trucks which are at the service of contractors and builders.
GET THE BENEFIT OF OUR EXPERIENCE
H. A. HARTMAN
535 N. Front St. Steelton, Pa.
Bell 117 9 - Dial 9478
SATURDAY EVENING,
NEW TRUCK SALES
CO. IS ORGANIZED
Will Distribute "Service" in
Dauphin County and Ad
jacent Territory
The Service Motor Truck Sales Com
pany has been orgknlzed in this city,
with offices and headquarters at 10T
Market street. This new firm is com
posed of local men. W. A. Wingert,
of the Good Service Tire Company,
and E. Phelps, a well-known automo
bile man. will be active in the new
company. Mr. Phelps will act as
salesmanager. and will conduct af
up to the minute service station at
1336 Thompson street. They have se
cured the distribution of Service Mo
tor Trucks for Dauphin and adjacent
territory.
The Service truck, while a new
comer to Harrisburg. has been manu
factured for 12 years, and has a large
organization back of it. It is manu
factured by the Service Motor Truck
Corporation at Wabash. Ind. The
line to be handled by the local firm
is comprised of 1. IVi. 2. 2H. 3V4.
and 5 ton capacity models. It won
an enviable reputation doing all man
ner of war work and is extensively
used all over the country.
The local firm will maintain a com
plete line of parts and service and
has already started btisiness with the
sale of a couple of trucks. C. J.
Hughes, factory representative, with
headquarters in Philadelphia, is here
now helping in the organization and
Is pushing things for an early spring
start.
Home of the USL Battery; 206 N. Second Street, Harrisburg
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WORK STARTS ON
NEW WAREHOUSE
OF OVERLAND CO.
Walls Now Going Up; to Be
Completed Not Later Than
March Fifteenth
The new Overland Service Station
and Warehouse that is being built
by the United Ice and Coal Com
pany for the Overland-llarrisburg
Company at Fourteenth and Howard
street is now under the course of
construction. Work was started
about a week ago and all ready the
walls are beginning to take shape.
This is a rush job and must be com
pleted not later than March fif
teenth of next year.
It will be one of the largest gar
ages and warehouses la Central
Pennsylvania and will be entirely
of steel and concrete. There will
be two floors which will -house the
repair shop, a paint shop, quick
service department, warehouse, the
main offices of the company and a
large showroom facing the corner
of Fourteenth and Howard. The
building over all will be 120x205
feet and will cost approximately
J 125,000 when completed. This will
give a floor spa,ce of 24,600 feet.
The fixtures and equipment will
be modern in every respect. The
stock rooms will be much larger
than those now used by the com
pany and a much larger stock of
parts for Overland, Garford, Beth
lem and Mack will be carried at all
times. The Overland-Harrisburg
Company are factory representatives
for these cars and will be in a po
sition to give regular factopy service
at all times.
The present service station of the
Overland Company has been sold
and must be vacated by the first of
December. The showrooms at 212
Second street will still be re
tained but the general offices of the
company will be moved to the new
plant.
Temporary quarters for the shop
and service station has been secured
in the City Transfer Building at the
corner of Cameron and Berryhill
streets. The rooms tb be used there
will be on the second floor and at
the rear of the part used by the
Scandalls and Federick Motor Car
Company. A definite date an
nouncement as to just how soon the
equipment will be moved there will
be forthcoming shortly.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
HARRISBURG IS
DISTRIBUTING
POINT FOR USL
New Bettery Firm Covers
Nineteen Counties in Cen
tral Pennsylvania
Announcement is made by Charles
L. Merrill, president of the Battery
Service Corporation, that his new
ly-organized firm will act as factory
distributors for USL batteries in
nineteen counUes of Central Penn
sylvania. The Battery Service Cor
poration is composed of Harrisburg
men with Mr. Merrill, who was for- !
merly service manager for the U. S.
Light and Heat Corporation of Nia
gara Falls, N. Y., manufacturers of
the USL Battery, as president.
Thetr headquarters are at 206
North Second street, the storeroom
formerly occupied by tlie Dauphin
Tire Service Corporation. They will i
conduct both a retail and wholesale
business in U S L Batteries for this I
point. They have installed all the!
latest equipment for recharging and ;
repairing batteries here. It is their I
intention to give service and do re- I
pair work and recharging for all I
makes of batteries.
The counties that they will cover ]
Include Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks, i
Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Fill- '
ton, Franklin, Adams, Perry, Mifflin, j
Juniata. Huntington, Center, Lycom- [
ing, • Northumberland, Snyder, Clin-i
ton, and Union. They have already [
established branches, at Beading, |
York, Lancaster, Lewistown, Cham- I
bersburg, Waynesboro and other'
cities. This distributing point Is one
of the thirty-four established in the
United States.
The USL. battery has been sold
in Harrisburg for some time, but
due to war conditions and the small
output because of lack of materials, !
has not been pushed to any con-1
siderable degree. A large number ;
of cars are now being turned out :
from factories with the U S L as,
standard equipment and the need
for an up-to-the-minute service sta
tion here was seen. One of the fea- j
! tures of the U S L is the exclusive
machine pasted plates. The battery
is sold on a fifteen months guaran
tee. Every battery is shipped here
"dry charged" and the acid and oth
er ingredients are added when the
battery is placed in the car, making
it the same as a new battery leaving i
| the factory.
Dauphin Tire Service Co.
to Move About December 1
The Dauphin Tire Service Com
pany, now at 206 North Second
street, will move about December 1,
to their new quarters across the
street at 209-13 North Second street.
The new building is on the site form
erly occupied by the Fager Hard
ware Comjjfiny and a grocery store.
It is just above the Automobile Di
vision of the State Highway Depart
ment. A large room for accessories
and tires is included and a drive in
service station for tire changes will
occupy the lower part of the build
ing. This firm is the factory rep
resentative for Goodyear Truck tires
and for Brunswick and Oldfleld
tires. They will also carry a com
plete line of other tires. George W.
Hill, Jr., a former Tech professor
is the general manager of the com
pany.
Marko Storage Battery
Headquarters Here
1 Announcement is made in another
part of today's Automobile Section of
the establishling of a headquarters
here for Marko Storage Batteries.
The new firm handling these bat
teries will operate under the name of
the Marko Storage Battery Company
and they have opened up a service
station at 2&0 Hamilton street. They
will carry a complete stock of these
batteries for every make of car and
will render service and repair all
makes of batteries.
Cotton Ginning Below
That of Last Year
Washington, Nov. 22. Cotton
ginned to November 1 from the 1919
crop totalled 7,577,826 runing bales,
counting round bales as half bales,
the Census Bureau announced to
day. For a corresponding period of
1918 the total was 8,706,420 bales.
Round bales totalled 83,643; Amer
ican-Egyptian, 17,067, and Sea Is
land, 4,226 bales.
FRANKLIN MAKES
GOOD SHOWING
ON LONG TRIP
Local Men Cover 107 Miles in
a Day to Washington
and Return
Driving a new Franklin tourjng
car that had been run less than 100
miles, G. C. Kerr of the Franklin
Sales and Service Company and
Harry Cooper of the Capitol City
Artificial Limb Company, made an
excellent record last Wednesday,
j when they covered 407 miles on a
i trip through Haserstown into West
Virginia, Virginia, Washington and
return.
Leaving Harrisburg at 6 a. m. the
route lead down the Cumberland
Valley, through Carlisle and over
the Walnut Bottom Road to Cham
j bersburg where they branched off
| going to Hagerstown. For there
j they proceeded to Charlestown and
| Leesburg, West Virginia. Business
I was transacted at all the above
| named places and time was taken
off for meals, etc. After finishing
, up the business in Leesburg they
j proceeded to Washington, D. C., anil
| from there returned to Harrisburg
|by the way of Baltimore. They ar
| rived home at 1 a m. the next
I morning after an elapsed time of
j nineteen hours. This shows an av
erage of nearly 22 miles an hour
| for actual time. In gasoline con-
I sumption, even though the car was
brand new, an average of 21 miles
per gallon was obtained. This
shows that while the Franklin is not
so flashy and speeded In spurts tha?
it can make record time in long
distance running.
These records are being made
very frequently by Franklin cars all
j over the country. List of spegial
| events held by dealers show that the
! Franklin not only lives up to its
! reputation but in many Instances
far exceeds it.
J QUAKER TIRES
i Give You Mileage Because That -
I is What Quakers Are Built For ■;
Y Ever since we became headquarters for these famous "Miles
I Cheaper" tires we have heard nothing but the most favor- 1 '
| able reports from users of QUAKERS as to their mileage
-gj. ■ We know how QUAKERS are made and we are not sur
< prised at the results which QUAKERS get. * |
The QUAKER Guarantee protects the buyer of these tires in 1 '
j > the most liberal way. Let us tell you about it. Put
QUAKERS on your car and let your speedometer tell you * \
how far they will go.
Complete Stocks Prompt Service |
ALEXANDER & SCOTT
j i 315 Chestnut St., Harrisburg > 1
BELL 2789-W DIAL 3803 , i
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AUTO AND AERO
SCHOOL IS BUSY
Many Students Takng Course;
Trips Arc Made in
Plane Daily
The Automobile and Aeroplane
Mechanical School at Fourteenth ]
and Sycamore streets are very busy
these days. There ure a large num
ber of students now enrolled in both
the automobile and aeroplane
courses. Repair shops have been
built on the corner of the large
landing Held and instructions are
being given now in both courses.
W. F. Delhi, n former civilian in
structor in the army, has charge of
the aeroplane instructions. He
makes flights daily in the Curtiss bi
plane, that is the property of the
school and aside from instructing
students in the school, takes many
passengers in flights over the city.
Aeroplane instructing at the
school is getting to be a big feature.
Aeroplanes are fast coming Into
daily use and .the demand for
skilled aviators far exceeds the sup
ply. Flying looks easy and is
easy for some people, but it requires
a greut deal of nerve and skill to
successfully operate the ship of the
nir. Deihl has had a long and vari
ed career in the flying business,
j having been a flyer before the war
broke out. He has made long
Why Not Obtain
Expert Battery Service?
WE operate a thoroughly equipped service station for
testing and repairing automobile starting and lighting
batteries. Bring us your troubles. We guarantee courte
ous treatment and prompt intelligent service.
We recharge and inspect any make of battery. If your
battery requires repairs, we will make them and guarantee
our work for 8 months on an adjustment basis.
"The longer we make your present battery last the
surer we are of eventually selling you a new one."
We sell only the USL—the battery with the exclusive
machine-pasted plates. Sold only on al5 months' guaran
teed adjustment plan.
And every USL comes to us "Dry-Charged," which
means you obtain a brand new, factory-pcrlect battery.
Battery Service Corporation
i Central Penna. Distributors
206 North Second St.
Bell 4895 Harrisburg Dial 6269
NOVEMBER 22, 1919.
trips in different makes of planes
and for a long time was stationed
at Relmont Park on Long Island as
nn instructor and in carrying pas
sengers.
No Change Has Been Made
. in Garford Interests
Recently there have appeared in
various Issues of the press through
out the country items stating that
John X. Willys of The Willys-Over
land Company owns control of The
Garford Motor Truck Company,
Lima. Ohio, one of the leading motor
truck manufacturers of the country.
The Garford Motor Truck Com
pany has given out a statement that
these rumors are unfounded. They
advise that neither John N. Willys,
nor the Willys-Overland Company
are financially interested in the. Gar
ford Company.
The statement of the Garford
Company goes on to say that on
January 13, .1915, the interest of the
Willys-Overland Company, and all
other interests In the Garford plant
; were purchased by the present or
ganization. since which date the
I present management has been .in
! charge. The Garford Motor Truck
[ Company is an independent corpo
| ration, and has no afflliutlon with
; any other automobile or motor truck
' interest.
' WILL ESTABLISH BRANCH
Hagerstowii, Md. N'ov. 22.—A
1 branch of the Worden Roofing Coni
| pany, of Harrisburg, it is announced.
will shortly be established in this
I city under the direction of S. M.
Worden.
CAMP CURTIN
GARAGE SOLD
R. F. Curric Takes Over Build
. ing; to Make Many Changes
in the Business
J The Cump Curtln Garage at Seventh
i and Camp streets, changed hands last
| week when R. F. CurWe, a local ad
! vertlsing man purchased the bulld
i ings and business from B. F. Hoff
j man. It Is Mr. Currie's intentions to
; make several changes in the building
and to operate an up-to-date garage
i and accessory business.
A large plate glass show window
; will be placed on the Seventh street
side of the large display window and
another gasoline tana will be added,
; also on the Seventh street side. As
| the buildings now stand, there are
I three larg rooms on the ground floor.
Two of these rooms will be made into
j one large room which will be used
! for storage purposes. A paint shop,
(repair shop and vulcanizing and re
treading plant will be maintained: An
agency for some popular car, the
make to be announced later, will be
taken on. A complete stock of tiros
! and accessories has been added.
BOARD TO REORGANIZE
New CiiinbcrhUHl, Pa.. Nov. 22.
j The school board will reorganize on
I Monday evening, November 24.