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The "Olds" Experiences All Kinds of Weather
A Fine Day Not Necessary
for the Pleasures of
Motoring.
Hot Weather and Thunderstorms Only Add to the
I nn?Car .Makes 97.6 Miles on Seven
Oallons Gas, Despite Handicaps.
By M. L. ELSASSER.
You do not have to
amit for a nice day to
have fun with a car.
The Oldsmobile
proved that Tuesday.
It was so hot ln the
morning that you
eould hardlv bear to sH ln thfl car Lf
iding still, and it stonned
-,i ia thc afternoon that you
hardly se. thc road in front of
- when you arc out, all of
rt merely experiences
? ? ? exciting.
That's thc fun of motonng. \\ nen
nt m thc morning you may
have evervthing planncd to the most
minute detail. But when you come*
home at night you have usually had
a lot of adventures. You may have
found Fome Fpot that you had not
seen before, or you may have lost the
road. But something interesting is
eure to happen when you are out in
For instance, we started out with
the Oldsmobile Tuesday morning at
We took a spin around town
? irting out in the country,
?Bfl thfl way tho car acted.
Quick of aetion and smooth, it made
ffie have no discomforts.
On the Way.
The city was too hot and the country
too allufing for us to stay in town
long, though. So we cut through
ral Park, followed Seventh Ave?
nue, crossed the 145th Street bridge
oul on Mott Avenue. Wc
:hrough Bronx Park, tinding it
t fully cool, and came out on
Pelham Road. Following the road,
von catch frcquent glimpses of the
sparkling bay. Pass I'elham Ifanor
OU in the outskirts of
New Roehelle.
The jov of the ride was already in
our blood. The cool breeze of the
?V was fanning our cheeks.and
?Tcenness and freshneas of every?
thing added zest to the relief we all
felt. , .
Out of New Roehelle we took the
?road leading to Mamaron-ck. Pretty
seasidfl place. with yacht cluhs, coun
handsome residence*
wore passed on the way. Riding is
ly with a car
that behaved as the Oldsmobile did
that day. But the ran aml the ont*
create such an appetite that
once you feel thc first pangfl of hun?
ter thore ifl no more joy for you till
you have your lunch before you.
On to (.reenwich.
So it was with Iti. Wfl wore simply
famished, l P*d Ib Mamar
oneck for lunch. After lunch the
? r; to the. B
? again. with the happy
iar to its motor, taking
_ thi fragrant fields
that sen Mamaroneck and
I ce Andcrson's Ideas
On Truth in Business
Lflfl Anderson, commercial man?
ager of Hupp Motor Car Corporation,
iperation" before thc
--. in _> -
troit Stating tha: '>n as
applied to the travelliBg salesman
three aspecta- first, t ?> taraen the
thfl house;
the salesman and his cus
third, I etweei one
another, Mr. Anderson con
sd:
"lt ifl now generally accepted that
the biggest fool in business is the
foolfl himself into the be
Uef that he can be anything bul
th the people to whom be
i ? ? t.nlden Rule
I i even stronger than
in morals, religion or ethics.
"Hut there is a broader phaae of
the cooperation ! etwet n thfl
- er than merely
or too ; harp in
dealings. And this broadcr
s< r\ice."
I Rye. Still good roads through Port
Chester, and then we were in the
anaint little town of Greenwich,
( onn.
It was just 1:55. The morning
had simply flown. We had enjoyed
the Oldsmobile so much that we
bad gone further than we had ex
Dfl-cted. We had almost no poor
roads, and those had stretches that
Wfl had struck had heen made so
? v the riding qaaliticfl of our
car'thiit Wfl had no fatigue.
Beautiful Greenwich Lake.
In Greenwich we detoured, follow
1 ing Tark Avenue, a winding street
topped hv overhanging chestnuts. We
turned at North Street, following the
road that led to Greenwich Lake.
This was a charming epot. Blue
water surrounded by gently rolling,
wooded hills, fleecy clouds and myr
iads of tiger lilies growing close to
the water's edge completed the pic?
ture.
Even while we stopped to drink in
the heauty of the place the clouds be?
gan to take on a more threatening
appearance, and the occasional
-rrowla of thunder warned that a
storm was brewing.
So we hurried on toward Bedford.
In an astonishingly short time the
skv before us became inky black. We
prCflacri the Oldsmobile to make tfood
time. lt made good speed as easily as
it had made the rest of the trip. But
almost before we knew it the storm
was upon us. The rain came down
in perfect torrents and the thunder
hoomed all around us. But we irot
the top up and the curtains on with?
out hardly a drop touching us. It
must be said that the Oldsmobile top
1 is arranged very conveniently. Had
it not been quickly and easily put
! up we would surely have been
drenched, for it rained so that wc
could hardly see the road.
Enjoyinj- a Storm.
We had no thought of seeking shel
ti r even so. We were as comfort
Bbk as we would have been in a
I house. Besides, we had the fun of
splaahlng around in the storm. The
1 heavenfl were beautiful, with their
? mystcrious coloring?inky clouds,
. with a suggestion <>f dull green. An
occasional tlash of lightning wouid
light up the aky. We had turned off
the North Street extension and were
now on a bumpy little road that led
through the hills. The road itself
, was a rivulet, but the "Olds" did not
falter, and even in the baek flflflri
there was no shock from the ruts.
We were going through the most
beautiful country we had found that
<lay, green hills and shadowy, shel
terr-ii valirys as far Bfl vou could see.
' The storm'simply added fascination
to it all. It cooled the air, too.
So before we knew it we were in
Willvs Entertains
60,000 at Circus
Host to KO.OOO people?one-quarter
of the entire population of Toledo?
John N. Willvs, president of the
Willys-Overland Company, of Toledo,
entertained for thrflfl days, July 117,
28 -irid 1".', the fam-ilies of the 17*800
employes of the Willys-Overland
Company, and those of several other
Toledo factories associated with his
big automobile plant, with six per
formances of the Barnum & Bailey
circus.
I ot three days everything was
free. from the tickets admittingtheir
bearera to sideshows, managerie
ftut and main attractions, even to
ear tickets to and from the circus.
Each eniploye waa preaented arith
three admission tickets and .mx car
tarea. Sixty thoDaand ;i Inusaion
and 120*000 streetcar tickets
were apeciall*/ printed for the occa
Bion and distributed.
! THE "OLDS" AT GRI-ENWICH LAKE.
'-?4
Armonk, following the ever-wind
ing roads?good roads again this
I time?to Croton Lake. If you have
never been to Croton Lake, go, for :
i it is more beautiful each time you j
see it than it was the time before.
When we got to the lake the sun
! was just beginning to break through j
: the clouds that had covered thc sky. I
The trces and flowers were all frosh
; lv wash.d and fragrant, and the soft
' light on the water, with the blue
i haze that was hovering over the
I hills, made the pieture fairy-'ike.
We passed through White Plains,
i came out on North Broadway, turned ;
into Central Avenue, running
i through Van Cortlandt Park, and
i finally . winging on to Riverside
Drive. The sun was again shining,,
just to give our day ? bright, happy <
ending. it seemed, and the waters of ;
tlie Hudson looked bluer than ever.
It was 4t:30 when we got back to
the Oldsmobile salt.-rooms. The'
speedometer showed that we had
' gone 97.6 miles. but we were not tired.
1 The day had been so easy that we
were re ally surprised when we saw '
; we had covered that mueh ground,
espeeially during such a storm. It
had raincd almost the entire after
? noon and the roads had been running
streams. We filled up the tank with '
gasolene to see how mueh we had
' used. The entire trip, including the
! run around town, had taken only 7
gallons of gasolene. That made an ,
j average of 18.9 miles to the gallon. <
\ We were more than gratilied, consid
! ering the weather and the roads wc
had gone over.
_.-__-?
New Lights Remove
Blinding Glare
With a desire to make night driv?
ing safe for its own users as well as
all ottter motorists, the Pierce-Arrow
Motor Car Company has lateiy
adopted a? part of its equipment the
Sutterly offset rcfloetors.
The principle of the Sutterly
can readily bfl understood. The up?
per and lower halves of the refleetor
are each true paraboUc sections, but
have different 1' .al lengths.
Aa a result all the lipht is pro-,
jected on the road and the level of
the beam ifl reduced so as not to daz
zle the eyes of other users of the
highway.
At 400 feet distant a man can be
seen distinetlv. with thfl exception
of his head. It. is poflsiblfl to drive
OT walk toward these lights and fljet
no bad glare unless the eye level is
lowered to approximately three and
a half feel from the road.
Wh.-n thfl lights are full on they
give | better light than the old type,
and the abaencfl of glare makes it
unnecessary to dmi them OH country
roads. In cities where it is fldvisablfl
to dim them they will be found to
give a good "nght for slow speed
, driving.
?
SAMUE1 B. STEVENS. OE THE AMEKK AN DEFENCE SOCIETY.
?I I i| \\\i ** *? v -* ' rr
? 1 ?*?
F" REMONT.
THE MAKMON THAT SMASHED IHE TKANSt (1NTINEM AL KE( OKI).
Samucl B. Stevens.'s transcontinental car, standing in front of the Hotel Kremont, Fremont, Neb. This
car : niashcd all previous transconlinenta! records, making the trip from NflfW Vork t.i San Kramisco in ii
daya, 18 hours and 30 minute*.
Thfl man in tbfl car who has the white bandage on his arm il an observer. An observer went with
UM car from every town to thfl ri.-xt. To save time. the arrangement was made that each obflflrnrer should
hnve ? handage 081 his arnr, U) distinguish him from the rest of the crowd which invariably gathered to
catch a glinpM of the car. In this way no time waa lost in picking up the right man.
32 Entries for
Pike's Peak Climb
Seven hours before the official
closing time for entering cars in the
rirst annuai Pike's Peak hillclimb on
August 11 and 12, there were thirty
' two cars entered to compete for the
| $1,200 Penrose trophy and the $4,800
j in cash prizes offered by the Pike's
Peak Auto Highway Company. The
I entries represented twenty makes of
'cars, all specials, and the list of
I drivers included names known
throughout the motoring world. The
entries follow:
, Cadillac, Brrnker; Studebaker.
Morgan; Cadillac, Marksheffel;
Grant, Jones; Chalmers, Stentz;
Chalmers, Walden; Buick, McCoy;
Hudson Supersix, Mulford; Wiscon
sin, Weir; Hudson, Patterson; Dues
enberg, Hughes; Pengeot, Hill;
Milac, Whalen; Stutz, Puaray; De
lage, Oldfleldj Maxwell, driver not
announced; Ford, Peter*in; Path
tinder, Hughson; Ford, Henry; Pack
ard, Johnson; Ford, Spangkr; Peer
less, driver not announced, Ford,
Knowles; Giddings, Fei.erman;
Stutz, driver not announced; Buick,
driver not announced; Romano,
Lent/.; Saxon, Wetmore; Peugeot,
Mulford; Duesenberg, Buzane;
Duesenberg, Buzane; Hudson, driver
| not announced.
f ABOVE) IIMtlNI. REAL (Ol NTRY_A_i*OOD PLACE TO FIML
QUERIE5 AND ANSWERS
Tkat co-operation ol the heads
ol the various automobile service
dcpartmvnts makes it possible for
The Tribune to offer its readers
expert advice on an\ question per
talning to their cars. In this way
evert question that is asked is an
swered b\ a specialist.
C. M. K.: I have a Studebaker 35,
with Splitdorf magneto. It runs per
fectly on battery at all speed-, but it
will not run on magneto unic.-s at
fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
When I ajow down fnr any purpose I
must switch to the battery or the en?
gine will die. I have had the arma
ture out, and the circuit is not open
anywhere. The magnets have been
recharged and everything has been
done which should put it in good
eondition, I have concluded that one
or more coils in the armature wind
ing are shorted out and will produce
current enough only at high speed.
If such is the case. what kind of in
strument [fl Dflfld to test an armature
for a short and where may I obtain
one?
It is hard to diagnose a case of
this kind, for there are many condi?
tions that might bring about the
trouble you sptak of.
Pint, th. ean nray be placed in
reverse position, and this may be
tested by rotating the armature just
when it is ready to break away from
the tields. This distance is about
i.ne-sixt.-enth of an inch. At the
same tmie the breaker must bfl in the
aiivit:. tion and the platinum
pointa about to onea. The proper
rjiatai ca bctwean these points at full
break .- 0.081 t ch.
Although you state that magrnft
have been fully eharged, it might be
to check this item over again.
Inasmuch as you cannot throttle
duwn Udow lifteen miles an hour, it
is possible that there is a slii'ht bat?
tery current passing through the
arniature winding. This would havfl
a tendency to partly demagnetize the
magnets.
One method fre'iucntly used in
testlng an arniature for open cir?
cuit is to place a good arniature in
sencs with an ammeter and it-volt
battery. By eloeing the circuit a
reading can bc obtained in amperas,
aml this would be a proper reading
for an arniature in satisfactory con?
dition. Then place a defeCive arnia?
ture in series with an ammeter and
t.-volt battery and a higher reading
in amparefl would denote a defect in
the insulation of the wiring. In
other words, there would be less
ohniic resistance in a defective arnia?
ture than in a good one.?C. E. Stan
tial, manager Studebaker Service De?
partment.
B. L. M.: Would you recommend
soda or lye to clean a radiator?
I would adviae you to use soda, as
lye is so strong it is likely to be hard
on the metal.
If the motor ifl started and allowed
to run a few minutes before starting
the car, will carbon trouble be
averted?
No. You are likely to have more
carbon trouble than ever, because the
oil is not burned up so fast as when
the motor is pulling. So it is likely
to splash up im the cylinders and
eauflfl you more trouble tharr ever.
In cold weather, however. it is arlflfl
to let your motor run a few minutes
beforfl vou start the car. as continued
effortfl in trying to run the car when
th.' motor is cold causes carboniza
tion to take piace from the .-\r.-s~
amount >>f raw BBS ilene ar.d pour
eombustion. W. F. Kussell. manager
Buick Service Department.
J. J. A.: My car weighs 3,200
pounds, and I have equipped it with
...x4-inch tires. Could I get more
mileage out of tires 85x4% inchea.
Ye.-. because the rated load for
34B l-inch tires is 3,150 pounds.
Your car, with passengers. would
weigh about 4,000 pounds. I arould
then advise you to use tires 35x4 '.
inchea. -C. E. Stantial, manager
Studebaker Service Department.
-*
Apperson Climbs
Toil House Hill
Fresno, Cal., Aug. 7.?Har?
ris Han.-hue, manager of the Los
Angeles, Cal.. branch of the Apper?
son Brothers Automobile Company,
yesterday added another triumph t >
the Apperson by climbing the fam?
ous Toil House Hill at Fresno With
gears oflkially seaied in second
speed.
The Toil House Hill is known all
over the.Pacific Coast as one of thfl
most treacherous and difficult in
clines a car can be called upon to
climb. The hill i.- sevan milfli lon'.,
full of dangeroui ruts, and at pres?
ent is covered with a deep heavy
dust. The steepelt ftari of the hill
is about middlfl way- of the m.liii",
and here the car ifl obliged to eovtr
a rise of eighteen hundred feet in
two miles.
home
ll.lll- lll 1'CUUH. 4?...' ??? v..^ ..._.
CU ownad by thc famous batting
star. and he dflclarflfl that it is his
-_-_.-*__-_.
t'avorite.
Two other memhers of the Detroit
team. Bobby Y.-aeh, the hard hitting
left fielder. an.i "Big Spin" Stanage, |
first string catcher for thfl Tigers, |
also bought Dodgfl Brotlwri cars.
1 this year. J
Proposed Code
Iieing Distributed
Safety First F:ederation
Prepares Standard Code
for Adoption.
The much needed Standard Code
of Traffic Regulations is now being
distributed and is being filed with
the state and municipal officials for
feneral adoption, according to F. H.
Illieu, executive secretary of the
Safety First Federation of America.
Recognizing the great need of
some such code, the street traffic com?
mittee of this federation had some of
the foremost experts in America
studying the situation _ for the last
year and a half. The result of his
study and investigation is the pro?
posed code that is just released,
This is comprehensive it, its scope,
covering even the smallest details.
It deals with the carrying of a li
censi', with the regulation of lights.
with the provision of brakes and
warning signals. It prohibits the
use of whistles, deals with unneces
sary noise and smoke and defines the
course to be taken in case of acci?
dent.
Its clauses are conservative, but
at the same time comprehensive. For
instance, in reference to speed, it
merely states that "no person shall
operate a motor vehicle in a reckless
or careless manner, and shall have
proper regard for the width, traffic
and use of the thoroughfare, so as
not to endanger the life or limb or
the property of any person. No ve?
hicle shall cross any street or make
any turn at a rate of speed exceed
ing one-half of the legal rate of
speed."
The code includes instructions
about the right of way, how to drive
slowly moving vehicles, the distance
a vehicle may be from a streetcar,
instructions to pedestrians, how to
meet, pass and overtake other vehi?
cles, and how to turn, stop and baek
with no dangerto traffic. It includes
regulations in parks, deals with safe?
ty zones and parking, and covers
ruies not only for motorists, but for
bicyclists, streetcar drivers, pedes?
trians and drivers of other vehicles.
A uniform code of signals to be
adopted by local legislative bodies
for use in the regulation of traffic
was recommended by the committee.
This standard code of traffic signals
and a uniform system of signs, sema
phores and the like will be presented
for approval by the street traffic
committee at the annual convention
nf the Safety First Federation, which
is to be held in Baltimore in I)e
cember.
It is evident from the advices that
are being received by the committee
that this standard code of traffic reg-,
ulations is already filling a long felt
want. Every motorist will haii it
with joy.
ADVERTISFMKNT.
CtEOGRAPHY
All over thc map,
from Buffalo, N. Y.
toBangor.Me.,you'll
find the most reliable
garages and supply
stations selling
POLARIXE
thc friction-proof,
carbon*proof oil for
all motors.
lOOKfor*
THIS SIGN
m
STANnARDOILCQ?QCf
New Mitchell 6-40
Now on I.xhibitioc
One of the first of the new I.;*
cars to make its appt-arance or. tmt
mobile row is the tstm model m
40 Mitchell Six, which is now on tt
hibition in the Mitchf" :a!esi*>ja_i
the Circle Building, Ceh_____r> O.
cle, facing South. The Six... U t
small ed ition of th_ I Ig .8-herM
power Mitchell. It has a wht_! hxst
of 120 inches and ia driven by a
light and powerful long itroki ty
by 5 inch motor of the high ipe.;
high efficiency type.
The cylinders are ot the "_."____
type east in block intflgraj with ii
crankcase, which red'ices vibntk.
appreciably. The car has s itr___..
line body, double .o\C, with strslght,
clean rakish lines with r.o mo.ldir._i
or stripes to come too?. The docn
are extra wide front and back w;__
ample leg room in both the tonnet.
and front seats. The upholsttris*
is luxurious, and the eushions _
ten-inch thickness are eomfortibj
slanted. One of the sccessibilit*
features is a removahle Feat stoc;
under the front cushion, giving rf
markably free access to the drivi_?
elements of the car.
Among the other features of *J_
car is a power driven tire pump. i
carburetor control hirtton on th'
instrument board, an electric _M
mounted under the ho. ,1, quick ac
tion side curtains. one-man top, I
two-piece rain vision ar________,
vacuum gasolene system and a_uo
lene gauge on the fuel tank, ah_:
is located in the rear.
News and Notes
The grand prize, highest awavd
for motor cars and trucks exhibit? 1
at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition, San Francisco, purple
and gold and bristling with oflicial
ity, is in the office of H. H. Hillfl,
sales manager of the Packard liotor
Car Company. It reposes in the
centre of a great banner of purple
silk and gold, framed and always ci
the job of impressing visitors.
Cecil Hamelin Taylor, consulting
engineer on the staff of the Republic
Motor Truck Company, and alsu ofl
the Curtiss Aeroplane Company.
leaves this week on the Anierui 1
Line steamer for Engrland and
France.
Mr. Taylor will confer with Mro
nautical engineers of Great Britain
and Krance and conduct an investi
gation into aeronautical develoo
ments among the warring nation-.
H<- will also give especial attention
to motor development.
The greatest evidence of the atti?
tude of automobile manufacturers *..
give their customers ralofl n-reived
mr their money is the general policy
that is observed to-day in ref.-renee
to admitting visiton to the fac
tories, says Stewart McI>onald, of
th'* Moori Motor Car Company at St.
'
"The factory of the Moon Auto?
mobile Company has always been
open to vi.fttors and members of OUT
?iffice force have been detailed t >
-how them about. This open hou M
policy of ours has brought us mo-e
visitors the last year than have nyat
paaacd through our factory in a
similar space of time previously "
A new catalogue. Bfl original as
the Scripps-Booth it-elf, and
tractive, has just been pat our '.-.
thfl Scripps-Booth Company. It i-i
eludflfl a new type of printing. a new
type of cuts, a new type of color
work, and one might even say that it
is really interesting reading. That
il -aving a great d.-al for an auto?
mobile catalogue. It.i very artistic
ness would attract any reader.
C. Arthur Benjamin, ?/??
sales manager of the Ro?.s Automo?
bile Company, of lt.'tioit, has made
announcement of the appointment of
Ben Rennard as special saies repiv
sentative. Mr. Rennard is a vet? nn
in the automobile field, having on
Vred in the earliest days when h>
was connected with the Locomo
bile Company in a special engineer
ing capacity. For the last y.*ar
i and one-half he has been a diatn*tt
sales manager for the (halmv-rs
Motor Company, acting in the South.
Previous to going with the ("nalmers
company he was district afldflfl rep
re*entative and special aalea repr ?
M-n'ative for the Chandler Motor
Car Company, with the South and
Southweat as bifl special tield.
Announcement has been made Lv
Production Manager S. H. Hum
phrey, of the Briscoe Motor Cor
poration, of Jackson, Mich., of tho
appointment of A. C. I.everton. for?
merlv general superir.t.-ndent of tt'
Chalmers company Mr. I.ev.rtor
ager. Previous to bil joining 'Jk
Chalmers company, Mr. Levert.'.
was wi.rks manager of the Cartt.
Car C.mpany, and befoffl that wi*
general Buperintendant of the BruM
Runabout Company
On Tuesday, August i, thfl ".st
ein speed wi/.anl, Boy Artley, ?*?
tablished an anuaual rec >rd wh.nh*
drove his Fireab m ?? J motor?
cycle from San Francisco to U*
' Angele>. ? distance of 163 cniles. in
ten hours and thirty nine minute:.
He had no tire j ra
I.O.'.S H. I'F.Kl MA.1.
A -...table Ogun a itomob'-'
w.,rld to-dav Is Lon H. I'erlmst
who recently flfltfl "?'?* v* ,
ity Of his dcmountale nrr. 9tsW
after ? hard ten-year legal w*
The OUteoiM ? ''
rosulted in the ? ?* **'
Perlman Kim Corporal
A Dovalt] ? /? uii 0 noteltBj ?
?f.reu -
motor car fl "Thfl *-<r
Spot." at 204 W. '
Street. For a .-. Ii n ?'? nwnt~
charge this compai.y will l^brt<*
any make of automobile. It ?" f**j
erally a.imitted that rr- lt eart ?n
road to-day ar. ' >' 1-'*\
cat.-d a* onaor morfl i ''""" k'* *T
In fact, it is this \er\ fact thit?*
pels all manufad ? "**
- in their cata.o??*i.
ri>^t_*
bihtv fnr wear oi
from lack ^f lubricati . IJ "J^
nsovi all r. iponsibility i "? ?
driver or owner that ths ? *'nt^-1<
"The Graase Spot" have hit ?r
this plan.