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1 Chalmers I
1 Dodge Bros, I
I Saxon f
M MOTOR CARS U
KEYSTONE MOTOR
CAR CO.
1019-1027 Market Street
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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.
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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
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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 roa<l
l intersections, and more imposing mark
! ers at intersections of official tribu
taries."
"Use of hedges instead of fences
where conditions permit."
"Memorial bridges at important riv
ers and streams."
Had It Lowered
Sir Augustus Harris once settled the
i pitch question in his own offhand t'asli
i ion. A famous prima donna of his
! opera company came to him complain
• j ing that the piano used for vocal re
hearsals was too high and asking that
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Auto Gloves
II 81.50 TO $5.00
rfIDDVIC THIRD AND
rUnnT o WALNUT STS.
, | i
; 1 When in trouble on the road, phone us —Bell
' Phone 1710—and we will tow you in free of charge.
We Repair and Remodel Automobiles of every make. All work guar
anteed. Let us estimate on your repairs.
Auto Transportation
Machine Shop
!
No. 5 North Cameron St., Harrisburg, Pa.
i i
MOTORCYCLE
AND
BICYCLE
SHOW
Chestnut Street Hall
March 6th to 13th
DOOR PRIZES DAILY
ADMISSION 10c
I it might he lowered.
| "Certainly," replied Driiriolnnus,
11 with a bow. ''lU'vc, Forsyth, have a
I couple of inches sawed off the logs of
>jthis piano."
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1451 Zarker Street
Sterling Auto Tire Co.
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The effect of the powder thrown upon
. a fire is almost incredible.
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