Evening star. [volume], October 27, 1912, Page 6, Image 24

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j A C AR OF PROGRESSIYE AYD STYLISH LIARS. YET DIGMFIED
AMD ARISTOCRATIC IV EVERY FEATURE.
The Mfw llaker Electric Conpe In built to meet the pnblle demand for
a ear of progressive and stylish linen, yet dtarnlfled and arlntocratle In 14a
varlona featnren. The body in of the aeml-eolonlal type, with fnll llmounlne
hack. It han eolonial rear panels. with rain vision front windows,
front and front quarter windows extra low to give the operator full view
of the road. The body panels are all of aluminum.
The new model in built In two types: One with eontroller and steering
levers operated from tbe rear neat: the other with steering wheel and controller
on wheel operated from the left front neat. The continuous torque
drum type of controller Is used. Two individual front seats make It possible
for the occupants to face in practically any direction. The upholstery
In of cloth or leather, as desired, with the Interior of the ear fitted with
toilet case, cut glass flower vase, umbrella bolder?In fact, every appointment
for comfort aad convenience. An artlnttc dome lamp lights automatically
when the door In opened. Tbe wheel base bas been lengthened
to H?;l>l>-?"5nht inches.
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The 1913 Ford Touring Car
IS ON EXHIBITION IN O'JR SALESROOM
We Want You To Cail and See It.
HAVE YOU NOTED THESE 1913 PRICES
Runabout . . . $555
Touring Car . . . $630
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Town Car.... $830
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Automobile Supplies
Wholesale?Retail
The Washington Motor Car
Equipment Co.. Inc.
1317 New York Ave. N.W. I
Telephone Main 7870 I
"A Full Line of Automobile I
Accessories and Supplies" I
R. T. McKnew, Pres. VV. S. Boteler, Sec'y-Treas. I
ATTTO MODELS OF CLAY ! ???lu?dr.v. Every model of automobile
muut-i-a ur j tlirnfifl out by this, t.ooipany for the ap_
I proval ?>f the buying public is first per-T.
_ ? -r> lUTue* fected ill clay before a machine starts
Every Part, Even Mudguards, Must working on the mrtais ami wood of which
_ j the completed car is composed. Touring
PaSS in Keview. car, or big limousine, in exact scale, and
... , true to the sligiitest detail, is built of
"i'oniinon clay is an expression otten clay in the designing room, away from
heard in referring to the human race, and the prying eye of *he public and the
seldom, if ever, connected bv the layman possible competitor.
with an automobile plant. But some of P^posed new model
. . Is built up of clay, to pass in review be1
ii,- most expert sculptors are to be fore the designers and emrlneem fnr
found In the engineering and designing cisms and suggestions. Body, engine'
departments of the big motor car plants, hood, even mudguards and spare tires are
Theirs is Just as important a duty as is molded 'n to form until the completed
?f ,1.. famous of s.a.uo and cLV'E.lcT'wfc'S
monument designers, for in the tlmsh.-d later turned out of metal and wood,
automobile fully as many critical people view
their handiwork as see the me- ?, . , . . . ...
, , , L? , The four companies of the t oast Artilmorials
In our public places. lery ('orps, I", fi. A., stationed at Kort
A western automobile company fur- Howard, near Baltimore, which have been
nishes an illustration of the importanc e out on a practice "hike" for several days,
of the modeler in clay in the motor car arrived at Annapolis, Md.. "Wednesday.
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Washington motorist? are taking advantage
of the fine weather, and every
Sunday the roads in the adjoining states
are found well patronized by them. This
fall the weather has been inviting, and as
a result touring has been greatly on the
increase.
* * * *
A Reedville Visitor.
R. B. Moore, Buick representative at
Reedville, Md.. was a guest of R. H.
Martin, manager of the local branch,
during the past week.
* * * *
Base Ball in 1492.
The automobile having been traced
back to the early Egyptians and Chinese,
and the internal combustion engines to
the fifth century before Christ, some one
comes forth with the information that
rubber was in use in Haiti when Christopher
Columbus made his first transatlantic
trip. In a volume written in 1U01.
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ket and Patrick street?, Frederick. The
last half mile of the race will be througn
the town proper. The Frederick company
of the Maryland National Guard will patrol
the course, which is about eleven
miles long. Arrangements have been
made for giving the school children a
holiday to witness the event. The cars
will l>e started five minutes apart to
guard against accidents or collisions on
the road. Several cars have already been
entered from Frederick. Baltimore and
this city, and a large field is expected to
participate. Three silver loving cups
have been donated as prizes for the race.
The race will probably start in the morning.
* * * *
Harrisonburg Auto Exhibit.
T? IT Hawkins returned Fridav from
Harrisonburg. Va., where lie managed
the Buick exhibit at the fair held there
during the past week.
* * * *
Solid Tire Test.
Comprehensive tests of solid lires In
England, covering the use of thirty-seven
British automobile trucks ranging In size
from one to six long tons capacities,
have been concluded recently with most
illuminating results so far as tire mileages
are concerned. The trucks represented
six different makes, including
some motor omnibuses, and the average
of the whole lot was miles per set
of six tires, and based upon the consumption
of three sets to each truck. The
compiler of the figures. A. E. M. Turner
of London, in commenting on the
comparative service of tire?, states that,
with one exception, the British tire makers
are behind those of the European
continent, and that the American tires
were as good or better than those of the
continental factories. In the face of the
fa< t that users of American trucks get i
materially lower figures In miles than
the printed table shows, the comment ot
Mr. Turner on the quality of American
tires seems to prove that road conditions
are accountable. In the Automobile last
summer it was shown that the average
of truck tires In actual use was
somewhat in excess of 1 !,<*"* miles. The
British experience shows that the average
guarantee of American tire makers
is on the conservative side.
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A Delightful Fall.
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hall game with gum balls?the gum having
been collected from a tree of the
caout-chouc family.
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1913 Overland Deliveries.
1013 Overland ears were delivered last
week to the following: W. T. Schane,
rif*nrp'p Rntl^r fionrfA r*nlf1f?nstroth iniH
John Brayshaw. jr.. model sixty-nine
touring cars, fully equipped.
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Buys Gramm Motor Truck.
A two-ton Gramm motor truck was delivered
a few days ago to Liebman
Brothers of thjs city.
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Ford Cars Delivered. - <
Ford cars were delivered last week to
Or. S. B. Moore, J. T. Kenyon, II. G.
Mac-hen and the Manning-Strode Company,
Boyce, Va., touring cars, and toppedoes
to William illtz, A. S. Pattison.
J. F. Kelchner and three to the Manning-Strode
Company, Boyce, Va.
* * * *
Left for Ohio.
R. C. Smith, president of the OverlandWashington
Motor Company, leaves today
for Toledo and Uma. Ohio, to be gone
several days.
* * * *
! Motorists Make Big Haul.
A party of local motorists spent the
week end at Chapel Point. Md., last
week, returning Sunday night with a
catch of sixty-seven white and silver
perch and rock fish. The party was composed
of John Imirie. I,. Z. Thompson,
\V. B. Acker and Samuel Acker, the trip
being made in Mr. Imlrle's Pullman touring
car. Leaving Washington Saturday
afternoon the night was spent at Cox's
station, just below La Plata, Md. Bright
and early the next morning they motored
to Chapel Point and procuring a motor
boat, spent the day in the vicinity of
Beacon Light. Every one In the party
was enthusiastic over the trip, which is
rapidly becoming a popular one with
Washingtonians.
* * *
Studebaker Deliveries.
Studebaker "30" touring cars were delivered
during the rast week to IV. B.
Thompson and U. C. Easterday and
Studebaker delivery wagons to James S.
Topham and Peter Latterner.
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Owns a Michigan.
A Michigan "W five-passei gcr touring
car, equipped with electric lighting
system and finished in '-ream color v ao
delivered Thursday to R. C Richardson.
* * =:- -AVisiting
Territory.
Charles E. Miller and H. G. Marhc-n
will leave Washington tomorrow on ar
extended trip in a Ford car through the
twenty-seven counties wh'ei, comprise
the Ford territory In Virginia.
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The fact that the salesroom floor of
the Overland-Washington Motor Company
has been clean for some time past has
caused considerable comment, and much
"kidding" has been the result. R. C.
Smith, president of the company, who
leaves for Toledo today to hasten the
new 1013 models along, explains it this
way: "To the average person who comes
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nothing but radiators, desks, chairs and
office furniture to sell, but the fact is
that we are having such a demand for
this year's models that it is impossible
to keep a ear on the exhibition floor. I'p
| to the present time we have delivered
forty-seven 1013 models in Washington
and in nearly every Instance they are delivered
without ever entering the salesroom."*
* * a *
Gone to Bluefields, W. Va.
Joseph M. Stoddard and E. S. Marlow
are spending a few days with XL W. Fuller
at Bluetields, W. Va. They left Friday
night and are expected to return tomorrow.
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Purchases Rauch & Lang.
Mrs. Caroline Gibson has purchased a
Rauch & Rang electric coupe to be finished
in dark, blue, with upholstery of the
same color. *
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To Open Truck Proposals. ,
The general supply committee of the
government will open bids Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock for supplying ten
gasoline or electric trucks for the executive
departments.during the coming year.
The specifications call for. one truck of
1,000 pounds capacity, four * of 1.300
pounds, four of 2,000 pounds, and one
of .1.000 pounds.
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On the Glidden Tour.
"Never in all my travels have I experienced
worse roads tiian we are
traversing in the present lakes-to-the gulf
tour." said Charles J. Glidden upon his
arrival in the Maxwell "Forty" Pilot
car last night at Greenwood, Miss.
"Rroads impassable unde ronrnary circumstances
have been rentlereu treachously
dangerous by the heavy rains, compelling
us to trav.ji ihrough sketches of
deep mud. sometimes seventy-fi 't miles
in lcn ort 1 ? -.'I i k"*
? ci ?.i7v ri ' u uvitoms
and danrerous levees!"
Notwithstanding 'he many hardships,
the tour Is only ouc half day behind
schedule time, with all car?, including
the No. 3 Maxwell that won last year's
Glidden tour. maintaining perfect
scores. Mr. Glidden continues to reiterate
the benefits that would aecrue toward
good roads developrr. r;t from a
vigorous support ol next year's Glidden
tour over the route now being traveled.
Everywhere there is assurance that
vigorous support will be given next
year's echitest.
* * * *
End 4,600-Jtile Tour.
Mr and Mrs. A. H. Cordes have returned
from a 4,COO-mile tour in their
Pullman '4-44" touring car. covering the
middle aand western states. They were
on the r^ad 110 days, the farthest point
re.ie.icd b^Sng the border of the Black
llilh, South Dakota. leaving Washing'on,
they motored to York, Pa., the first
day over muddy roads. Their next run
was from York to Chicago, passing
through Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana.
Illinois. Michigan and Wisconsin. Owing
to the construction of a new highway
between York and Pittsburg they were
compelled to motor 125 miles over crushed
stone. Mr. Cordes says that within
another year Washington motorists will
be able to leave here on a Friday morning
and spend all day Sunday in
Pittsburgh. The roads on the lake
front in Ohio, he says, are very good, but
the inland roads very bad during rainy
weather. Fifty per cent of the roads in
Indiana are pikestone roads. The road6
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The Dart Motor Manufacturing Company
livery trucks. Dart cars are now in service in
the first Dart cars are still running, after year
The Dart, therefore, is not an experiment.
It has been subjected to longer, more severe
and more varied tests than any other motor
truck in its class, because it was the first on
the market and the first to be tried out under
the different road conditions of different cities
and many lines of btisiness. L
It has made good in every test. It has fj
proven its true value?its stanchness, its de- "
pendability, its durability. Hundreds of en^
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musiasuc letters ana oraers ior more cars trom
Dart owners form conclusive evidence of immense
significance. d
In fact, and not in theory, the Dart is
covered hv a guarantee?a real guarantee
against flaws, defects and imperfect work- t
manship. t
Furthermore, if anv part is broken by ac- ?
cident, it can be replaced at once. Duplicates 3
of every part, from the complete motor to the c
small bolt, are kept in stock in this city. s
Let us demonstrate what tl
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number of automobile owners who have already
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iu if ill i in unniflL and their desires to witr
ceremonies, to go at a l
tlon which they might
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Date for Second Convention ' ready under way. Assu
received from some of
Ic Cot fnr Morrh guished statesmen und
Id OCl IUI nidi Wl cates that they will att<
6 federal aid on an extern
onn 7 the good roads orgat
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pate, as weil as many <
Two days after the inauguration of the c,vlc improvement bodie
, ... ,, . . .. _. . _ fiA a .. way from the Atlanticnext
President of the Lnlted States the Governors of twenty-si:
second federal aid good roads convention, ed delegates to represer
under the auspices of the American Auto- the convention of 1P12.
mobile Association, will be held in Wash- ,s t.^iat Practically every
ington. the dates being March 6 and 7. cia,,y "^presented in 1*1
1!>13. The* success of the initial federal ~ * *
aid gathering In Washington last Janu- ww
iry was so pronounced that the A. A. A. ffl W^2
national good roads board decided to! 11 111 A
make It an annual feature until federal
tid shall have become a substantial, ac- Rfl
mmpllshed fact through congressional J[ JL
ictlon. If results follow future conven- L????????
af,rapldIy a8 they d,d the flrst one* Motorists should give
1 " - seeing that the mud gi
.efore a comprehensive system of na- englne ^ Kearing Is k
?nal highways constructed by federal tile ol, for thp reason th
ippropriation Is In existence. Uule mlght ge
The assembly in Washington last win- atart a jjre
er, attended by delegates from two
birds of the states, was the first con- Many methods of prev
'entlon devoted to the subject of federal ening of spare tire tub*
lid in highway construction. The action plotted, but one of the i
aken memorialised the Congress for the is to place them in hot
ippolntment of a Joint committee of Sen- month or six weeks. Th
ite and House to Investigate the subject torists to keep the rut
if federal aid and formulate a program condition,
or national participation.
lUcelve Many Aa.ur.ncw. cua'ntftten .J"? JZFSZ
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oilefo 1 nlii will ho nno ftf the orroolocf I, . ? . ., ,
w- oea on me wma snieiu
luestlons for the new Congress, which rain to run off hs rapidly
till take office March 4, to deliberate Klass. Ownera will find
ind decide upon. Whatever action the ?Teat va'ue when drlvlnj
oneludlng session of the present Con- s onn
tress may take, it is certain-that-it -will . If you find yourself or
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The Dart has something more to otter \ou
ban a saving over the cost of your horse ;
Iriven outfit?although this saving i- a
>ne. and just like so much more clean profit it; j*
our pocket. The Dart offers you service? R
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DOLLARS will pay for a THOUSAND- I
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on thf subject, at dusk and you have no matches in yottr
A. A. A. will hold pocket, an expedient can resorted to
le when the new which will light the lamps in such an
rgining Its labors, emergency. '1 ie a niece of < ??tton waste
s ^assured since a ^tlck. soak ii liberally with -asol tie
life of tlie re- disconnect one of v..ur spark plugs and
the inauguration. ft near the saturated waste and turn
less the inaugural your engine over slightlv until you obime
to a conven- jaln a few attempts will ignot
otherwise nj(e tjie wa.stc, from which you can light
, your lamps,
onvention are al- _
ranees have been \ first-aid kit, consisting of bandages,
the most distln- peroxide, surgeons' scissors, adhesive
good roads advo- tape. cord, newskin or some similar nra&nd
and advocate terlal. cold cream and healing salves,
live scale. All of should always be taken along. l>eather
ligations of the cases are sold which are adanted esnp
: organizations of cially for these kits. This kit may ?? !again
to particl- doni if ever he used, but when required
Jrganizations and "the tourist will he thankful tiiat lie took
s in cities all the it along. At least one vacuum bottle
to the Pacific, should he taken on the trip. Two ante
states appoint- better, one being rest rved for hot drink?
it their states at while the other is suitable fo.- cold. 0?h?
and the outlook articles which should not be overlooked
state will be offi- in the emergency equipment are the lir3.
chains. a waterproof cover. folding
_____ aluminum drinking tumblers. electric
^??? Hash lamp, rubber spring bumpers, radi_
ator mud aprons, leather straps, it houml
r I straps. volt-ammeter. tin - press up
} 1 gauge, small oil stone and a couple it'
blow-out pitches.
Inexperienced drivers frequently stall a
1 car in a mudhole when. h\ careful
^ handling, it would lie possible to MM
^m through without external assistance. Tin
special care to common mistake at such times is to
. . . t. i force the engine ahead Instead, the
lard beneath the clut4.h 8(louid be released in-fore thept
free of vola- crank-shaft actually ceases to revolve, the
at at any time a throttle being held wide open and the r?t
in with it and verse, quickly applied. If the gear-change
is made quickly enough, the clutch mav
be again engaged before the engine has
,^?n_ begun to race dangerously, and the car
* M | will be driven backward?possibly until it
"ill" entirely free of the mud. If not. the
ci ?; ; clutch again should be released before
water once ever} ,,ng^ne stops and the low-speed forila
is said by mo- ward again engaged while the engine re>ber
in excellent cover8. Xn this way the ear may be
rocked back and forth until the wheels
roll down a fairly hard track through the
mixed in equal soft spot. The method, of course, does
ly liquid for pre- not always apply, but if skillfully used
mutating on the will be found to do so in many instances
mall amount rub- where, if the engine were permitted to
1 will cause the stall, the car could not be moved until
as It strikes the the mud had Iteen cleared away or a false
this remedy of surface was beneath the wheels.
; through a rain- , ,
If you want work read the want ooii
a country road utnns of 1 he .Star.