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REO CARS AND TRUCKS
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6-Cylinder Touring, 122 Wheel Base, $1385
4-Cylinder Touring, 115 Wheel Base, SIOSO
4-Cylinder Roadster, 112 Wheel Base, SIOOO
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% to 1-ton Truck complete with body $1075
to 2-ton Truck Chassis only, $1650
ALL F. O. B. FACTORY
HARRISBURG
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THE NEW REGAL CARS
REGAL CARS for (he Coining Season Will Comprise Three Models
The New Regal Light Four
Touring Car or Roadster
The New Regal Standard Four (PI AOF
Touring Car or Roadster J-l/OO
The New Regal Eight
Touring Car or Roadster J-
D. W. FITTING
Residence and Office, 1240 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.
GARAGE CLOSE TO RESIDENCE
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. '
Appointed to New Hampshire Pastorate
Lebanon, April 10. —The Kev.
leorge Edgar Wolfe, of Annville, has
teen appointed pastor of the Congrega
ional church, of Milford, Now Hamp
shire. The Kev. Mr. Wolfe is a son of
lenry Wolfe, of Manhoim, Lancaster
jaunty, and is a graduate of Gettys
iurg College.
Farmer Drops Over Dead
Lebanon, April 10. —E. C. Greena
ralt dropped dead shortly before 7
'clock last evening ou lys farm south
f Campbelltown. With his family
IT. Greenawalt had just finished milk
ng his herd of cows and was pick-
ing up the milking utensils preparatory
to going home when he was stricken.
Bees that have honey in their
mouths have strings in their tails. —
Scottish Proverb.
Try to do your duty and you at
once know what is in you.—Goethe.
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS!!
Seat Covers, 33 1-3% Off
Write to-day for samples and prices.
Sterling Top Equipment Co., Mfrs.,
521-25 West 57th st.. New York.
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M[AJffRISBURt> STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1915. r
CARBURETOR PROVES BIC
FACTOR ON AUTO, SAYS HOIN
Causes Gasoline to Be s*ut In Cylinders
In Little Drops Instead of Gaseous
State, Which Increases Its Con
sumption
"No matter how perfect a carbu
retor may be," states C. E. Hoiu, of
Roberts & lloin, distributors of the
Haynes Light Six, ''if a long exposed
intake manifold is employed between
the carburetor and the Intake valves,
a certain amount of gasoline will reach
the cylinders in the form of tiny glob
ules instead of iu a gaseous state. The
importance of the location of the intake
manifold is being indicated more clear
ly as the quantity of the gasoline
drops. In the first place, it requires
heat to convert the liquid gasoline into
vapor, the same as heat is required to
convert water into steam.
"The modern carburetor is .fitted
with a hot air intake so that the nec
essary heat is applied at the carburetor,
but this is not sufficient. Assuming
that the gasoline is properly vaporized
—that is, converted into a gas—at the
carburetor, this gas must come in con
tact with tho manifold walls. If these
wtlls bo exposod to the air, they must
necessarily be colder than the hot air
drawn into the carburetor from around
the exhaust pipe. The. effect is that
the gasoline will condense on the in
ner surfaces of the manifold, the same
as one's breath does when blown
against tho cold window pane. The
gasoline collects in little drops and ei
ther ruus back to the carburetor or is
swept along into the cylinders.
"It is obvious that the proper mix
ture of air and gasoline vapor cannot
be maintained under such conditions
by any carburetor. This condensing of
the gasoline and its effect on the power
of the motor can be avoided by casting
the intake manifold entirely within the
cylinder casting. Of course, the ex
ternal exposed manifold cannot be
avoided unless the en bloc casting is
used.
'' The effect of introducing the gaso
line into the cylinders in the form of
little drops instead of in a gaseous
state is to increase the gasoline con
sumption. It must be remembered that
there is but a very small fraction of a
second for the burning of the gases,
and, if there are drops present, tho
time is not sufficient to burn them up.
Incomplete (burning and deposits of car
bon result, in addition to the loss oc
casioned by some of the unburned gaso
line passing on through the cylinders,
through the muffler and into the air."
Adv.*
JEFFERY FIRM ADD 500 MEN
Company Received $4,000,000 Worth
of Orders in 3 Weeks and In
crease Working Force
Four million dollars' worth of truck
orders received in three weeks' time,
500 men added to the factory working
force, a great organization of mechanics
and workmen laboring twenty-four l
hours a day in three eight-hour shifts
to produce the Jeffery product; has
placed the Jeffery organization at the
hijth peak of prosperity in the automo
bile industry.
Two years ago the Jeffery Company
introduced into America the Jeffery
four—the first high grade motor car
with the high speed, four-cylinder motor
to see at a moderate price. During the
past year the Jeffery Com/pany de
veloped tho Jeffery Quad —the four
wheel drive truck which has been en
dorsed 'by the leading governments of
the world —and brought out t'he Jeffery
Chesterfield Six—the first car in Amer
ica selling at $1,650 to be equipped
with features found previously only in
t'he highest priced cars.
As a .result of the sale of large quan
tities of Jeffery cars to all parts of
the world wit'h a consequent reduction
in manufacturing costs, the Jeffery
Company has decided to place within
the renc'h of the people of the United
States a high grade four-cylinder car at
a price never heard of before in the
industry. The Jeffery Four is announced
at $1,150. The purpose of this an
nouncement is to give to Jeffery pur
chasers, Jeffery dealers and Jeffery
friends their share of the benefit of
this prosperity that has come to the
Jeffery Company.
Some manufacturers have offered
small bonuses to their owners on con
dition that they sell a certain number
of cars. The Jeffery Company instead
of offering a bonus has given a price to
the public which places an automobile
of the finest quality within the reach
of every man who previously 'has had to
be satisfied with a cheaper car.
The production plans of the Jetrerv
Company for tho coming year have not
yet 'been announced, 'but during the past
two years they have rapidly advanced
to a position in the industry which qual
ifies them to be counted among the top
notchers.—Adv.*
ROSE TO THE OCCASION
Attorney Thomas C. Brinsmade
doesn't object to a good story, even if
it's on him. He tells this one:
"The other day an old colored man
came sauntering up to me in my yard,
whore there was a big pile of rubbish.
" 'Morning, John,' I said.
" 'Mornin' Marse Tom. Don't you
want tlfat rubbish hauled awayf'
" 'What'll you take?' I asked.
" 'Dollah a load, an' I think it'll
take jcs' about two loads.'
" 'l'll give you 75 cents a, load,' I
told him.
" 'You remember me, do you, Marse
Tom?'
" 'Why, sure, -John.'
" 'Well, you remember when I was
up for shootin' craps>an' you pleaded
me guilty in police court?' j
" 'Sure,' I said.
" 'An' you charged me $lO an' I
never said a doggone word!'
"John hauled the rubbish at $1 a
load, and he made three loads of it."
—"Cleveland News.
MASSACHUSETTS WANTS
PRISONERS WORN UN ROADS
Bills Introduced In State Legislature
Provide They Be Employed on
Highways—Committee Gets Infor
mation From Other States
Bills have been introduced into the
Massachusetts Legislature to provide
that prisoners may be employed in
large numbers upon the highways of
the State.
Last year an amendment was passed
permitting prisoners to- be used by
counties, cities and towns 011 the roads,
the same to be worked under the cus
tody of thp local sheriffs. The present
bills seek to broaden the scope of this
work and to place it under the super
vision of the State Highway Commis
sioner, as recommended by the Nation
al Committee on Prisons and Prison
Labor.
The people of Massachusetts have
heard through tho committee of the
success which has attended convict road
work in a score of States. Information
has been afforded them as to Colorado's
wonderful roads, worth $2,500,000
and built by prisoners for less than
$50,000; also that West Virginia is
saving over 53 cents per cubic yard by
having her prisoners build roads, and
that lowa is able to pay her prisoners
$2.50 per day for their road work.
Massachusetts never lags 'behind the
other States in any upward movement,
and the National Committee on Pris
ons and Priscn Labor lias been assured
that this year wili see tho legislation
enacted which will bring her in line
with other progressive States in the
matter of convict road work.
SAXON COMPANY SHIPPED
800 CARS IN PAST MONTR
H. W. Ford, President of Firm Says
Manufacturers of Low Priced
Autos Are on Verge of Greatest
Business Boom
The Saxon Motor Company has just
fltiished one of the most successful
months in its history, with a total of
1,200 cars shipped from the factory
during the month of March. While
most of these cars were distributed
among Saxon dealers in this country,
a considerable number of machines
went to foreign dealers.
Not only was March one of the ban
ner months as far as shipments were
concerned, but the Saxon company re
ceived more' than 2,000 orders during
the thirty-one days of the month, the
largest number of orders received in
one day being 2>28.
In speaking of conditions in the
automobile industry, H. W. Ford, pres
ident of the Saxon company, says:
*'l think there isf no question that
the mamufacturers of automobiles, es
pecially those making good, service
able, low priced cars, are on the verge
of the greatest business boom they
have ever seen. The buying season has
opened up this year much earlier than
usual. The next few weeks will see a
precedent established in the sale of
automobiles, I am quite sure. All in
dustrial lines are beginning to feel the
trade stimulus that is sweeping the
country.
"Some lew months ago the Saxon
company moved into new quarters.
We took over a plant more than five
times as large as our old home, with
increased facilities in each depart
ment. While we have not knowu what
slack time was during the past winter,
we are now pushing the factory to its
utmost capacity to take care of the
large inumber of orders we are receiv
ing.
"We have recently announced our
six-cylinder, five passenger touring
car, selling at $785, and have already
placed a good number of this model
into our dealers' hands. We plan to
be turning out this car in quantities
within the next few days, and by
April 30 expect to have shipped from
1,200 to 1,500 'sixes.' This of course,
will be in addition to our regular road
ster production."—Adv.*
MOTORCYCLE NOTES
Dealers in Harrisburg report motor
cycle sales so far this year average
aibout 20 per cent, over 1914.
Alexandria, inn., has a new motor
cycle club of sixten riders.
The Jamestown, N. Y., Motorcycle
Club recently became affiliated with
the F. A. MI.
Work will shortly be begun on a
two-mile automobile and motorcycle
speedway at Waterloo, la-
A recent trial demonstration of the
■motorcycle mounted fire lighting ap
paratus in New Paris, Ohio, became a
real demonstration of the utility of such
equipment When a telephone message
announced that a farm house about six
miles from town was on fire and that
the adjoining 'buildings were endanger
ed. Without the loss of an instant, the
outfit was plowing its way over the
mud-covered roads to the farm house.
It arrived not only in time to save t'he
outbuildings, 'but also extinguished the
'blaze and prevented the house itself
from being completely destroyed. Of
course the officials of New Paris agreed
that the demonstration was satisfactory
and expect to secure such an outfit for
the protection of the buildings in the
village.
When a street car strike recently oc
curred in Springfield, Mass., the motor
cycle solved the problem for at least
one large factory there, of getting its
office help to the plant. A number of
men from the factory mounted motor
cycles with sidecars attached, hurfied
about town collecting the office em
ployes, and delivered ttoem at the plant
in double quick time.
LAWYERS' PAPER BOOKS
Printed at this office in best style, at
lowest prices and on short notice.
AUTO ASSOCIATION ISSUE
NEW 1815 TOURIST MAPS
Large Variety Sent to Many Clubs in
Cities Showing Different Routes
and Best Roads for Long Motor
Trips
Requests for varied touring data
reaching the American Automobile As
sociation indicate that, while unprece
dented interest centers around the
cross-country arteries, there will be an
unusual number of long motor trips
through virtually every section that af
fords travelable roads.
The A. A. A. clearing houses for
touring information in New York City
and Washington find these outings are
now planned with exceeding care, and
this has led to a remfcrkably increased
demand in the number and variety of
maps of automobile routes, which
growth for several years the association
has been anticipating. In its practice
the A. A. A. has developed a method
which permits annual revision of tho
lires of travel shown on each of these
maps, thus definitely portraying the
road construction work, or any improve
ment for touring, in any State or sec
toin, during the year.
The needs of this procedure have
never been better illustrated than in
the maps for lit 15, because of the
large amount of road improvement
throughout the United States accom
plished by the various State and coun
ty authorities. This map service is
particularly inclusive in allowing rela
tive importance and varying values of
the automobile routes north, south, east
and west. Starting with a road map of
the entire country, the list ranges
through the scale, embracing the gen
erally accepted geographical divisions;
these are again sub-divided into small
er areas. Each division increases in
the detail obviously possible by this
method of supplying tourable routes.
These maps are part of the service
rendered any tourist, and inquiries re
garding a proposed tour, short or long,
may be addressed to the Motor Club
of Harrisburg, Pa.
CARRY 7,000 FEET OF FILM
Lincoln Highway Association to Take
Educational Pictures Along 3.400
Miles on Transcontinental Route
The 7,000 feet of moving picture
film which the Lincoln Highway As
sociation will take along the 3,400
mile transcontinental road thiq sum- i
iner, will probably present, when com
pleted, one of the most unique educa
tional and humanly interesting reel
features ever attempted.
Many tliinigs combine to make the
film unusual. First the fact that it
is taken along the Lincoln highway,
that great road which has attracted
the unanimous interest and support
of the entire country, and will show
the actual conditions along the route,
conditions about which so much has
been written and said in the past two
years. People will have an opportun
ity to see with their own eyes the
wonderful improvements which have
been completed, and which are even
now in progress in many of the States.
Second, the fact that the Lincoln
Highwaf Association itself is taking
the film. This means the co-opera
tion of thousands along the way. Gov
ernors and Mayors will greet the
party, great crowds will congregate
in every locality while the pictures
are being taken, every city will put
forth every effort to present the best
possible appearance in pictures which
the whole nation will see. Special
"stunts" will be inaugurated for the
benefit of the film by automobile clubs,
■boards of commerce and civic organ
izations in every section.
Special opportunities will be afford
ed to show the varied industries of the
different localities, flashes being taken
in many of the principal plants repre
sentative of each section "on the Lin
coln Highway," wnieh vary all the
way from the steel works of Pitts
burgh, the potteries of Bast Liver
pool, Ohio, and the packing houses
of Omaha, to the mining operations
of Nevada, the vast herds of Wyom
ing and the orange groves of the Pa
cific coast.
Flashes along the roadside will
abound in human interest; home
steaders seeking new fields, plodding
along in the prairie schooner of
earlier days; the man who is walking
from New York to San Francisco;
the president of the Lincoln Highway
Association caught cooking flapjacks
in the Nevada desert; the armored
military cars driving the route to the
coast on a test for the government.
Why, ten times 7,000 feet of film could
be taken nlong the Lincoln highway
this year and every foot of it be
throbbing with the very life of the
people; film which would show millions
America, a» she is.
COAST-TO COAST RELAY
Will Probably Be Staged If Motorcy
clists Meet in California
If the 1915 convention of the Fed
eration of American Motorcyclists is
held in Sacramento, as now seems
probable,- the trade journals, "Motor
cycling and Motorcycle Illustrated,"
proposes to stage a coast-to-coast mo
torcycle relay race during the time of
the assembly. It is the purpose to have
the contestants relay a message from
President Wilson to the commandant
at the Presidio in San Francisco, going
'by way of Sacramento. The partici
pants will ride in teams, so that in
case of accident to one man, the mes
sage will not be delayed. Each rider
will cajry the message to a given
point where it will be relayed without
loss of an instant to the waiting con
testant, who will scurry away to the
next point.
The race will continue night and day
and it is anticipated that the message
can- be relayed clear across the conti
nent in »bout six days.
AUTO ELECTRIC WIRINC
MUST RE WELL PROTECTED
Louis Bchwitxer, Chief Engineer of Em
pire Auto Company, Says Motor Car
Designer Should See All Wires Con
coaled In Conduits
''With the development of electrical
equipment for the modern automobile,
the motor car designer finds himself
called upon to give the utmost atten
tion to electric apparatus and its instal
lation on the car," says Louis Schwit
zer, chief engineer of the Empire Au
tomobile Company.
"In the old days it was a simple
proposition with no other wiring to be
provided for than that necessary for
ignition purposes, but now with elec
tric starting and lighting, wiring is a
much bigger problem. To my mind
much of the dissatisfaction found with
electric starters in the early days was
due, to a considerable extent, not to the
apparatus, but to carelessness in wir
ing. No electric installation is subjected
to greater strains than the wiring on
an automobile. With the car moving
at high speed over all kinds of roads,
there eauuot help but be contact be
tween the wires and parts of the car at
variot* points.
"Ori nary insulation will not stand
such friction; it will quickly wear off,
allowing the metal to touch the wire.
When this occurs, there is a short cir
cuit immediately, with a very good
chance that the entire electric installa
tion will be put out of service immedi
ately. Because of this, every inch of
wire on the Empire car is carried
through metallic conduits, a special con
duit for each wire. This is what we
call our system of armored wiring. Clips
to hold these wires in position aro
placed every few inches along the
frame and each wire end is securely
fastened in an individual terminal, so
that there can be no pulling out, as
often occurs when the wire is simply
wrapped around a screw head. With
such an installation as this, the entire
electrical equipment on the Empire car
is absolutely protected against wear,
while the metallic cxmduits keep the
wires dry at all times. It is the one
way in which the driver can be as
sured of the reliability of his electric
installation."—Adv. *
TURN DOWN BIC WAR ORDER
Dodge Brothers Have Entire Output
for Coming Season Sold and Re
fuse Foreign Order
A cabled offer of an order for over
$1 ,000,000 worth of motor cars has
been received and turned down by
Dodge Brothers, the big Detroit motor
car manufacturers, during the past
week, according to an official of the
company. Tho order came from an
agent of the Russian government, sta
tioned at Stockholm, Sweden, and was
for immediate delivery of cars.
"Every car that Dodge Brothers
can turn out during the coming season
has been contracted for by dealers in 1
this country," says George C. Hubbs, |
Assistant 'General Sales Manager.!
"Naturally we intend to satisfy the!
American market, before filling foreign
orders, and are shipping our cars as
fast as completed to all quarters of the
United States. A remarkable fact cos
nected with the marketing of the new
car, is that although we have already
shipped thousands of machines, prac
tically none of our dealers report a sin
gle car in stock.
"Sinco the manufacture of motor
cars was commenced last fall, the force
of Dodge Brothers' employes has been
increased from 3,000 to over 7.R00.
Practically all manufacturing depart
ments are working on day and night
shifts to fill orders."—AdV. *
SELLS BTRUCKS_IN ONE WEEK
I. W. Dill Says Business Outlook Here
Is Pleasing
I. W. Dill, of the Hudson motor car
sales agency, unloaded on Thursday
of this week, three Republic trucks—
two more are on the way here now
from the factory—and three more
were to be loaded on the cars to-day
for shipment to him —scoring the larg
est number of motor truck sales ever
made by them in Harrisburg.
He is highly pleased with the im
mediate business outlook here.—Adv.*
The Bentz-Landis Auto Company, of 1808-10 Logan j |
street, hereby wish to inform the motor-buying public ;! 1
that the Jeffery "4" which heretofore sold for $1450, j|
was on April 1 reduced to ! |
sllsO $1275 f
Rothchild Body Full French Streamline 11
Jeffery Chesterfield Light Six, $1650
Jeffery Six-48, $2400
The Bentz-Landis Auto Co.
1808-10 Logan Street, Harrisburg, Pa. j j.-
HAYNES
AMERICA'S GREATEST LIGHT SIX
A Light Six That's Different
Two Models Three Body Styles
Model 30—Five-passenger Touring Car 91485 ■
Model 30 —The prettiest Roadster in America $1485
Model 33—Kokomo Six, a light seven-passenger Touring Car $1550
Ball Phone 724. Arrange for demonstration now.
ROBERTS & HOIN, Distributors f
Salesroom—CENTßAL GARAGE, 384 CHESTNUT ST., HARRISBURG j
RXRUESCHAWREOSALES* t
MANAGER PRAYS FOR RAIS
(Had When Boads Are Mucked Up a
Few Days to Believe Demand—
Largest Orders in History of Auto
mobiles
"Thank heaven, it's raining in Ne-C
brask-a—now we can let "California hav* ■
a few extra carloads," exclaimed R
0. Ruesehaw exultantly as he glance'"
at the weather map and saw that thf,
State of Nebraska promised to be wel' '
for a few days at least.
"I have gotten in the habit of pray
ing for rain—anywhere I am not par
ticular as to locality, just so long as it
rains enough to muck up the roads for
a few days and relieves the situation,"
says the R«o saleß manager. J
"Dealers are about driving me daffy 1
with their demands for cars and we'v<»
learned to look for a let up in the tele
grams only when rain makes the roads
impassable in so' ! favored section.
"It is a remarkable condition. In all
my experience—and I'd hate to say
'how Jong I have been in the automobile !
business for few people realize the tousi- J
ness is as old as that—l have never J
known such a demand for cars. Seems
as if there is no end to it.
"This morning when I got down to,
the otiice I was surprised to find Nor
man DeVaux, our California distributor,, , K
there waiting for me. DeVaux had
wired twice a day for weeks beggiug
for more cars. \V'e were shipping his J
full quota regularly, but he said that A
didn't relieve the situation. "Wh" M
that doesn't take care of the sales t'rf
customers who just drop in and buy—' fl
what are my salesmen to do without
workt I can't fire them—they have
been with me too long. Besides I don't
believe they'd quite if I did fire them.
They wouldn't know how to sell any
thing but Reo cars."—Adv.* ■
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Rarrtotirt, Pa.
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Distributors and Adjusters 1
1451 Zarker Street 10,
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American Dry Powder Fire Extinguisher 1
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The effect of the powder thrown upon
a Are Is almost incredible.
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Manufacturing Chemlata and Phyalclaa
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S3 S. FOURTH ST- HAItRISBIKU, PA.