8 1 Chalmers I 1 Dodge Bros, I I Saxon f M MOTOR CARS U KEYSTONE MOTOR CAR CO. 1019-1027 Market Street t ~ Biggest Single Shipment of Automobilss Ever Made to a Pennsylvania Dealer The above cut represents seventeen carloads of Reo four-cylinder touring cars received by the Harrisburg Automobile Company and unloaded on South Tenth street from the Philadelphia and Reading platforms on Monday, March Ist. This is the largest shipment of automobiles ever received by any one dealer for his own use at one time in the history of the automobile industry in this territory. This shipment, which is very large, only represents a very small fraction of the Ileo cars that the Harrisburg Automobile Company have had or are getting for the rest of the year. They have alreadv delivered to their customers 132 Reos, in addition to ♦this 51 which have been bought for supply for the early pleasant summer months. Twenty-one additional carloads will be shipped them this month to fill further orders that have already been booked. There is no doubt but that this showing indicates the popularity of the Reo car in this territory. The Reo people shipped 1800 cars during the month of February and will ship 2600 during the month of March. They were on the 25th of February, 1500 cars back of their orders with very little chance of catching up. The storing of these seventeen carloads by the Harrisburg Automobile Com pany helps them to a certain extent to take care of buy ers in the early summer months and shows the pro gressive policy of this automobile firm. Harrisburg Auto Company Hamilton and Susquehanna Streets, Harrisburg, Pa. - ■ --r • r y~ t '•■•>;- '^%w HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1915. OF INTEREST TO MOTORISTS NEW ENGLAND ROADWAYS PROVE BEST IN COUNTRY William D. Sohier, Chairman of Mas sachusetts Highway Commission, Arranges Color Scheme for Main Routes in the e Northeastern States • Interstate road travel has reached its highest development in the New England States because of their early recognition of the fact that highways progress means many visitors and con sequent investment and an increase of temporary and permanent residents. Chairman William D. Sohier, of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, has come forward with a color scheme for marking the main rontes, not only of the Old Bay State, hut of all the New England commonwealths. In a com munication to the American Automo bile Association Touring Board of Mas sachusetts road head sets forth a sum mary of hjs marking proposition. Chairman 8. Percy Hooker, of the New Hampshire Commission, has al ready put into effect color scheme of his own, which he would have to revise somewhat in order to meet with the Sohier idea of one color for routes north and south, another color for roads east and west, and a third color for sec ondary and diagonal routes. Former Highway Commissioner Charles \V. Gates, of Vermont, and now the Governor of the Green Moun tain state, confronts the same difficulty as Mr. Hooker in New Hampshire, be cause the Vermont color scheme, while designating through routes, also de notes the kind of road, and what civil sub-division is responsible for its up keep. One color indicates State high ways, and another color specifies what are known as State Aid roads; am! hence all know that a blue marked road , indicates State responsibility, and a red road makes clear that the local authorities are in charge. Chairman Bennett, of the Connecti cut Highway Commission. tins afireed that the Nutmeg State will participate in any comprehensive plan, and Chair man Lyman H. Nelson, of the Maine Highway Commission, asserts the Pine Tree State will accept any color scheme agreed upon by the others. The High way department in little Khode Island | also announces its vote in favor of the I general plan. A conference of the New England | Highway Commissioners will take place in the near future and Chairman Sohier believes a plan can be drawn up which will make clear to the road traveler the interstate complexion of the New England avenues of communi cation.—Adv.* MOTORCYCLE NOTES Reports show that the motorcycles used last year by the police of Newark, N. J., averaged about 12,000 miles each. Seven additional machines have been ordered for use of the police de partment there. The F. A. M. Ins just paid its twen ty-fourth reward for the recovery of a stolen motorcycle. The Motorcycle Club of Philadelphia has just 'become afliliated with the F. A. M. The Wheeling, W. V.. Motorcycle I Club will hold its annua! 300-mile en durance run on June 19. 20 and 21. Motorcycle riders of the cast end of I>ong Island have organized the Hamp ton Motorcycle Club. Two hundred and twenty motorcy cles ordered by one cenceru! That's just wh,"f the New York Telephone j Company has done—ordered 220 ma chines for the use of its collector.;, messengers and trouble men. The firs! motorcycle and bicycle show held under the auspices of the | Keystone Motorcycle Clui'j, of Harris | burg, opens to-day at the Chestnut j street auditorium, and will be coutin j ued all of next week. j Paluyra Man's Auto Burned Palmyra, March 6.—Andrew 8. Stnuffcr, jirahi and feed mer hant, yes terday morning io;t iiis $2.03-0 Inter i state automobile as the result of an j unusual accident. As he was in the act [of cranking the car preparatory to i using it, it "back fired" and the ex plosion sei fire to the machine, causing i its total destruction. ' Does the Bottom of the Bin Show Don't neglect to replenish your coal supply. Because it's March don't think that winter is over and you'll not need any more fuel. Weeks of weather is ahead of us j which will demand continuous furnace fire. Get Kelley's Hard Stove at $8.70 —most in demand for the average furnace. Don't wait till the last piece ' in the bin disappears. H. M. KELLEY 1 N. Third Street Tenth and State Streets STEAMSHIPS. Golf, Tennis, Boating, Bathing, and Cycling Tour* Inc. Hotel*. Shore Excursions. Lowest Rates. Twin C a KF?MI!MiN" 10 - 518 Tons ScrewDEiimUUlAn displacement Fastest, newest and only steamer land ing passengers at the duck la Bermuda without transfer by tender. WEST INDIES 8. S. Qui ana and other Steamer* every fortnight for St. Thomas, Bt. Croix, St. Kitts, Antiqua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Bar bados, and Demerara. For (nil laformatlon apply to A. B. OCTKRBRIUGE A C 0., Agents Quebec 8. S. Co., l.td., » Broadway, New York, u asy Ticket Agent. DODGE BROTHERS APPOINT NEW PHILADELPHIA AGENT Hanson Robinson, a Well-Known Auto mobile Man, Takes the Place Made Vacant by the Death of F. L. Jones Dodge Brothers announce the appoint ment of Hanson Robinson as Phila delphia district representative, to fill the position made vacant recently through the death of F. L. Jones. Mr. Robinson is one of the well-known men in the automobile industry. Purchases amounting to millions of dollars, by agents of the British and French governments in Canada, have resulted in greatly relieving the finan cial situation in the Dominion, accord ing to E. P. Clarkson, Canadian dis trict representative for Dodge Brothers. Mr. Clarkson is visiting the factory in Detroit after a tour through part of his territory. "Canadian business men have more available ready cash right now than they have had for five years past," says Clar!"son. "This is all due to the im mense influx of foreign cash for pur chasing war materials, including every thing from food and clothing for the armies to the supplies of ammunition to keep the big guns at work. "The automobile business has been one of the first to benefit by the changed conditions. Not only has there been a big increase in sales of cars to farmers, due to the high prices and big profits on grain, but a healthy impetus has been given the trade all along the line. "One of our big implement makers recently received an order for 1,000,- 000 shovels from an agent of a Euro pean power and every factory is work ing overtime on orders of similar mag nitude. Much of the ammunition, pur chased from the big American makers, is sold to the British government through Canadian brokers, and here again, a vast sum of cash is involved. "Although the Canadian buyer has been one of the best customers of the | American automobile manufacturer, the trade between the two countries should be greatly increased during the coming jyear, due to the inability of British j makers to furnish cars. I look for a record year in the sale of motor cars throughout the entire country." The Keystone Motor Car Company, local distributors, have been greatly pleased with the interest shown in the new car built by Dodge Brothers.— Adv.* COST OF RUNNING AN AUTO Owner of Jcffery Four Buns Car H,OOO Miles in Chicago and Tabulates Expense For a fraction over 4 cents a mile, actual out-of-pocket expense, the owner of a Jeffery Four automobile has run his car a distance of 8,000 miles in Chi cago during tile season March 25 — November 10, 1914. The items enter ing into the cost statement are as fol lows: Variable Expense Gasoline (253 gallons) $73.50 Oil (20 1 ,-4 gallons) 7.90 Grease 4.53 Tire expense 101.50 Tools and equipment 17.47 Labor, 27.08 Repair parts 5. 80 Total $237.7 8 Fired Expense Taxes and insurance, $40.60 Rent of garage, 53.02 Total, $93.62 Grand total $331.40 M ileage—B,ooo. Direct expense per mile, . . .$0.0297 Overhead expense per mile, . .0117 Total expense per mile, . .$0.0414 —Adv. * REO MAKES GOOD SHOWING New Care Cavers 102 Miles With Small Gasoline Consumption—No Troullc Experienced oil Run The new Reo Six has made a fill showing in holding-up ability and gasoline consumption. Karl Kimmel, one of the demonstrators for the Har [iisbnrg Automobile Company, tele phoned last night to Geo. G. McFarland, ; from Millheim, Center county, Pa., that 1 lie had made the run from Harrisburg ' to Millheim over the roads us they ex ! ist at the present time with this new j Reo, covering a distance of 102 iniles and consumed five gallons and three quarts of gasoline. Xo troubles of any 1 kind at all were experienced on the I trip. Mr. Kimmel is out covering part I of the twenty counties that the liarris j burg Automobile Company control for j the Reo. This is remarkable mileage ! over country roads with a heavy wind blowing and with a new stiff car. — Adv.* Credit , Credit is an estimate of your ca pacity to worry about paying your bills which is held about you by a lot of strangers. Credit is aiso a belief held of your ability to pay for some thing long after you have ceased to derive any benefit from it. Credit is likewise a gauge of your willingness to deceive yourself into the belief that you can afford to buy something be cause you cannot pay i«.»h for it. If everybody paid cash there would be no foond issue, 110 huge clerical forces, no national debts, 110 armies or military systems, no schools *uc-h as exist to day, no war, no degenerating fashions —nothing but plain, everyday living. Credit enables everybody to live a fic titious existence. Nothing exceeds like ciedit.—Life. Thi«—and Five Cents! DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose five cents to Foley & Co., Chicago, 111., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in re turn a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a whole some and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, especially comforting to stout persons. Geo. A. Gorgas, 16 North Third street.—Adv. E"Th* Stmndmrd •{ Vcim* and Qaality" j jjj Good As The Glenwood -36" At The Amazing 1 New Price? ||| arse, what the Paige, and compare its essentials with Ijj|]|| id always has t *' e a l ge "Four- 36.'' Take the motor; Jljljlj „ the Paige has the famous Paige-Motor I w its acknowl- 415 Take the wh eelbase; the Paige U1 the motor car Glenwood has 116 inches, a big, roomy, H|K|| lervice, beauty, comfortable five-passenger car. Take the |||||| value. electric system; the Paige Glenwood has ||||l| the unexcelled Gray & Davis lighting and ill ||| U think Of the Starting system. Take the ignition; the 111 5 identical same lamTI am T Bo ?£ h 1 IHHKI »4 T ji_ , • magneto. Taloe the carburetion, the II nil . J. S . a P rlce clutch and the lubrication; the Paige I III] of S2OO less than the price at which it Glenwood has the Stewart carburetor, the III] originally won its Supreme Position? multiple disc cork-insert clutch and the ||||||| combination force-feed and constant-level ||l|||| That new price is $1075! splash lubrication and the silent chain |H|||| - I j We believe that the Paige "Six-46" at tenance and operation. The Paige, be- HH $1395 has set new standards of "Six" cause of its excellence of mechanical de- II |||| values. We believe that the Glen- si * n and construction and materials, has U , „ r , put owners maintenance and operative IIIIHI wood Four-36 surpasses in the costs at the minimum. • j|{ ml vital essentials any other and every What, then, so good, so substantial and so IHH IHHB other four-cylinder car on the market economical as the Glenwood "Four-36" I I! I— regardless of price. at $1075? J j|| Come and see these two epoch-making |II I Take the essentials of any "Four"—never cars—the Glenwood and the Paige "Six- ||||||| mind how much more expensive than the 46," the latter at $1395. II I Paago-Detroit Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan I] w|[ RIVERSIDE GARAGE, Rear 1417 N. Front I George R. Bentley, Dealer Bell 3731E I |jl|fl I || f """""l j j lli I i iiiiliiif I WEST POINT CHOOSES PAIGE The United States Array Quartermasters Are the Most Exacting Buyers of Motor Cars . There are no more expert purchasing agents in the country than our Army quartermaster. ' It is their business to buy right and to test thoroughly before placing their order and the Paige Com pany can consider it quite a feather in their can that one of their cars has ,iust been bought by Major Timber lake, quartermaster of the United States Military Academy at West Point. When a motor car is wanted the one car that conies nearest to filling the specifications is sought. It must pass minute extminntion and every mechanical part must be the best of its kind. It is then put through its paces and if the performance proves satisfactory it is bought regardless jof price. Sales Manager Krohn, of the Paige Company, in speaking of the matter, jsaid: "I am more pleased with this order from Major Timberlake than or ders from a dozen opera stars, Gov ernors, or other prominent personages. !In order to make this sale, we had to I show that our car was right all the way ! through—it was not the color of the paint or the lines of the body or the popular price that Major Tiniberlake wanted —it was service." —Adv.* | LATEST SAXQNJNNOVATION Electrically-Driven "Endless Chain" Speeds Up Production in the Com pany's Factory' in Detroit An electrically-driven endless chain which will carry Saxon cars through the various assembling departments with greater speed is the latest inno vation at the plant of the Saxon Motor Company in Detroit. The Saxon Com pany has begun the installation of this apparatus. With its completion this company will have the most up-to-date and efficient assembling plant in De troit. Plans for this "endless chain" sys tem have been approved, and it is ex pected that the system will be com pleted within two weeks. This chain will carry the machine through the dif ferent stages of assembling from the time that Saxon is nothing more than a axle and set of wheels until it is ready to be driven to the loading dock. —Adv.* THE GREAT LINCOLN HIGHWAY Famous Architects Make Suggestions for Its Beautification Chicago, 111., March 6.—The follow ing suggestions have been adopted by the Lincoln Highway Committee of the American Institute of Architects and are being sent out by Elmer C. Jen son, of this city, the chairman of the committee appointed by President R. Clipston Sturgis of the institute: "Encourage the location of parks and public, or other important build ings contiguous to the highway." "Locate monumental markers at the ! entrances to villages, towns and I | cities.'' "Locate imposing monuments at all I state lines.'' ,I "Encourage construction, by private funds, of mile sections in various lo calities, in accordance with approved designs, to serve as examples of de sirable treatment." "Simple, attracting markers at roajthis piano." I " : 1 fHtlln* ©trrs 1451 Zarker Street Sterling Auto Tire Co. —————-————✓ American Dry Powder Fire Extinguisher. Tented —Tried and Proven The effect of the powder thrown upon . a fire is almost incredible. 10BY fIIEMICAIi COWPA !\ Y AlniiiifnctiirinK; ChemlMt* and I'h\Mlcliin SupplieN . 2:t s. PQI K i ll sr.. HARRIS!!! lUi, PA. VULCANIZING EXPERT WORK ONLY 1451 Zarker Street Sterling Auto Tire Co. '