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H1U Bill TOURS ON MOTORCYCLE PATHFINDER SETH HUDGINS DESCRIBES SOME OF DIF FICULTIES EN ROUTE Scth Hudgins, formerly of Phoe nix, but now identified with the Na tion Touring bureau of the Good rich Rubber company, wits a visitor here during the past .week. The following article relates some of his experiences while touring the west ern part of the United States. Since making the trip, Hudgins has ridden from Los Angeles to Phoenix, and is now on his way back over a dif-, ferent route: Another evidence of the growing efficiency of the motorcycle and the recognition of its merits by the large companies is furnished in the arrival in Portland, Ore., of Seth Hudgins, "The. Goodrich Motorcycle Path finder," working for the National Touring bureau of the B. V. Good rich Rubber company on a 1917 Powcrplus Indian. Three days after his arrival in Portland, he married Miss Lillian May Callahan. Air. Hudgins has. made up route inscriptions or logs of most of the principal routes In the following states: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, 'olorado, Utah, California, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana Ida ho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. His version of the trip runs: "On April 12 1 started from Phoe nix, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, via Clobe and Spril.gerville, Arizona, and of course, met a heavy snow storm in .the Black Canyon near Cooley's Ranch in the White Mountains of Arizona, where a lot of riders have had to leave their machines and walk out, as it is the stickiest kind of 'adobe' mud. 'How deep?' Well, whei, it has thawed out nice there ain't any bottom'- but I was lucky it was about half frozen (so was 1) by the time I got there. Then about half way over the shoulder ot 'Baldy' (altitude 9,000 feet) I found nice soft snow about four feet deep, which the natives had forgotten to mention when they told me the road was open. (It was open to a bird.) So I tuned around and went out by way of Holbrook, then to Spring erville. "From El Paso I returned to Phoenix via Columbus. New Mexico, and Douglas. Then from Phoenix to Colorado Springs, Colo., by the Santa Fe trail. lYom Colorado Springs I went over Tennessee Pass near Lead ville, Colo., altitude 10,000 feet. Met some more snow, but I had a down hill pull so I made it without much trouble. 'Some scenery' from there on down to Grand Junction, after you leave Tennessee Pass. The Mountain of the Holy Cross looms up on your left, and in about 30 miles you follow a narrow road through the Canyon of the Grand River to Glenwood Springs, then to Grand Junction. "From there I started for Salt Lake City. At Price, Utah, it started to rain and by the time I got to Colton, or top of Soldier Summit, it was snow and rain mixed. From there on down to Thistle the big idea' was to keep from skiddii.g off into Spanish Fork Canyon. When I got to the foot of the Canyon I went into 'low gear' and stayed there for ten miles 'some mud' then 1 managed to get in second and had to ride that way to the pavement at l rs 1 THE BEST MINE in the world Avill not pay higher dividends than a RIGHT selec tion of YOUR DRUG GIST. In a year's trading" where vou are CONFIDENT that your inter ests are every day being eared for CAREFULLY and the low est possible living prices are charged you whether you come in person or phone your orders, vou are receiving a COMFORT ABLE DIVIDEND and your investment is nothing. Right now, after the holiday season we have many bargains to offer in White Ivory, Ladies' Purses, Fancy Papeteries and pounds paper with envelopes to match. Come in and look them over and make your call about Hot Lunch time (11 until 2 o'clock) Our methods are OUR OWN and our PRICES RIGHT. fltd-"'" ' lH.iL. RfMfMMIVIMf Phones: 3004, 3005 Free Delivery WE HAVE BUILT A big business A firm foundation A satisfactory- service In Guaranteed Titles for all property owners when titles are considered by our Safe Way Be sure to specify our guaranteed titles Phoenix Title & Trust Co. the end of State street. Then, of course, I spilled crossing a car track when everyone was looking to see what was inside that ball of mud on wheels: More Haste, Less Speed "In Salt Lake I got orders to log the road from there to Sacramento, Cali fornia. I had a fine journey all the way through Nevada by Ely and Ton opah, Nevada, then into California at Lake Tahoe. As I rode past Myers at the foot of Placerville grade some one yelled something at me, but I was in a hurry so I din't stop (not then). When I got about a mile up the grade 1 rounded a turn and ran into a snow drift clear up to the tank before I could stop. Huh? Snow the first day of June'.' Must be some mistake. But there wasn't. I walked up the moun tain about a mile sinking to my knee every step. 1 knew then what that fellow was yelling about, so I turned around and went bacK to Myers where I learned that a couple of fellows had taken a Henderson over(jthe summit a week before. " 'What has been cone, can be done,' so I started out next morning before daylight with chains on. fore and aft. duc oerore 1 got to the summit I learned an awful lot of things about riding on top of a thin crust. For in stance, if you 'juice her on' too fast your hind wheel will spin and down you go ana nave to die and lilt nearly 400 pounds of motorcycle out There was a drift nearly 20 feet deep at the summit, mat was some steep, but 1 finally made it just as the sun came up on Lake Tahoe. The view from there alone was worth the work of get ting up there, but the snow was get ting soft and I rode on down over six miles of snow, all down grade, which simplifies matters a lot, if you don't spin. 1 ant several times but I fin ally made it and in another three hours was up in a tree eating enough cnerries to make me sick. Remarkable Tire Service 'From Sacrament I went to Los Angeles, and then back to Phoenix bv the Parker Cut-off. navincr made the trip of 3,500 miles with the same air 111 my tires that I started with. Rut I bragged about it and foreot to 'knock on wood,' so the next trip I had lots of punctures. "The next week I started out for Denver by a partly different route through the great petrified forests of Arizona ana then to Santa Fe via Gallup and Albuciueioue. "From Denver I made up routes to the Rocky Mountain National park ana return. Then to Manhattan. Kan sas and through to Lincoln, Nebraska and Sioux City. Iowa. Sioux Citv to Ortonville, Alinn., where I started to make a log of the reilowstone trail "The Indian '17 Powerplus never failed me once, although 1 put it through some of the Jiardest tests that a motorcycle could be put inrougn. The Goodrich National Tour ir.g Bureau intends to keen at this work until every road in the United States has been accurately described, and as fast as .possible to put up in destructible metal signs on all the main highways. "I used Goodrich 5 bar 28 by 3 tires exclusively, and Dixie ignition. Aly speedometer reads 10,000 miles for the season's work." ASK TO PLAY Republican A. P. Leased Wire NEW YORK, Jan. 12. At a special meeting today of the officers of the Seventh Regiment Lawn Tennis club, it was decided to apply to the United States National Lawn Tennis associa tion, to hold the national indoor cham pionship tournament for men begin ning Saturday Alarch uO. Cancellation of the tournament a week ago brought forth much criticism. 0 - REASON IN RHYME NT 1 One of the most enjoyable programs yet given by the pupils in expression. piano dancing and violin was pre sented to a large number of people at the Arizona School of Music yesterday. The pupils taking part are in Mrs. Lu ther B. Steward's piano course; Sara Ward Hetherington's expression pu pils; the violin pupils of Heinrich Klingenfeld and the dancing classes of Edna Pearl Revare. The program pre sented yesterday afternoon was as follows: Piano Duet German Air Lowe Sarah and Pauline Bone Piano Through the Looking Glass .. .Lynne Irene Lamb Traumeri Schumann Little Romance Schumann Sylvia Lewis Reading The Raggedy Man James Whitcomb Riley Frank Perry Piano Waltz . ...Tschaikowsky Mildred Mickle The Flowing Stream Burgmuller Irene Sale Dance Highland Fling Janice Hildreth Piano America First Rolfe Otis Young Violin Melody Klingenfeld Pearl Clark Piano . Coppelia Leo Delibes Ruth Johnson- Valse Melodique Fischer Marie MacDonald Reading Courting Under Difficulties Archibald Campbell Piano . ( Waltz :.. Rolfe Elizabeth Phillips Songs of the Pines Allendorf Helen Welcome Dance On the Village Green Patricia Gettins, Irene Loftus, Martha Tuttle, Mabel Wetzler, Lorine Douglas, Helen Newhouse Piano Duet Minuet Mozart Ruth Johnson, Elizabeth Phillips Piano Star Spangled Eanner Elizabeth pnunps (Written by X. B.' Moore, Salesman Overland-Rochester Company) Once upon a day most dreary As I pondered weak and weary O'er the cars I'd owned and "rode in" And of various types galore: Some were fours and some were sixes. Eights and twelves and other mixes, But they failed to satisfy me As they had dor once before. They had varied kinds of motors, Valves in top, L-head and rotors, And they all possessed a feature That would drive one to despair, For no matter what attention They had had, its strange to mention That it took a lot of dollars Just to keep them in repair. The valves all needed grinding And the valve-springs Constant mind ing, And the way the carbon gathered Was the queerest thing to see The piston rings were leaking And the camshafts always squeaking, While the gasoline consumption Seems impossible to be. So I hied me to a "garridge" Where I bought a motor carriage Built by Willys, of Toledo, With a motor called a Knight: For it had no valves or valve sprii.gs, Nor other pesky small things. That the other fhotor makers Seem to think are such delight. And after months of driving All the time, meanwhile contriving To find out some criticism That I could with justice say, I find though 'tis surprising That my mileage rate is rising And the power is increasing As I drive it day by day. Now my motor trials are over And I feel I am in clover For my Willys-Knight is proving All that's said of it and more. So all the fours and sixes Eights and twelves and other mixes Can belong to other drivers, But for me not any more. OLD HORSES WERE LOYAL TO CAVALRY (Brooklyn Eagle) Displaying almost human instinct, one hundred horses at Camp Wrads worth, Spartansburg, S. C, turned over to the remount station by the First New York cavalry when that or ganization was transferred into ma chine gun companies, demonstrated their disapproval ot the reorganization the other day by stampeding. The horses paid no attention to the mili tary discipline, but broke down the barricade of the remount station and galloped over the picket line of the First cavalry, their old rendezvous. Many ofthe horses took positions in front of the tents of officers and sol diers who have ridden them for years. An alarm was spread and the cavalry men were compelled to corral their former dumb assclates and drive them back to the remount station. Si Used Gairs Priced Buj 'Em They talk about 'opportunities and bargains in used cars just look at this list of ours. Note the prices on good cars, come in and see them and if you are in the market for a used car you'll drive one of ours away. Buick Six, seven- QOOO passenger tpiUU Chalmers fire- tfl passenger tp'tOU Hudson five- QPH passenger PoOU Dodge Roadster; good ' 700 as new.. DlUU J'!1..: $450 Studebaker 1916; seven- 0 passenger ; . . . . . . PtJtJ" Pullman 1917, five- Rfift passenger vOOU Case 1914, seven- QOft passenger DDUU s"up.w."..,...., $1300 One Vim Truck, almost new, Knft bargain OUU CAL MESSNER 301 North Central Phones: 1386, 4218 WILLYS ADDS NEW LAURELS TO FAME Almost since the inception of the automobile industry, John N. Willys, of Toledo, Ohio, has been a leading factor in the industry. Each year he has gone to the New York na tional automobile show with new records of achievement during the preceding twelve months until it has become a common matter of fact that he should stand in the lime light as an indispensable element in the success of the industry. The 1918 show proved no excep tion to the rule. In fact the Willys accomplishments in 1917 are of an even more enviable nature than those of almost any other mat: in the industry. , Not only does the company, of which he is the head and directing genius, show a bigger sales volume of cash business for 1917 than for any previous year in its history, but he has managed to branch out into another important industry with the result that John Willys is today one of the leading producers of aero planes in the United States. . . It seems quite fitting that the man who has given so many years to the development of the automo bile, until It has become one of the country's most necessary utilities, should now turn a considerable part of his attention to the development of the aeroplane that most effec tive fighting arm in the war service of the allied nations. Incidentally, Mr. W'illys four.d time this fall to take charge of the na tional war camp community service campaign and put the movement over with his usual success. Sec- A, Pullman Service ecently inaugurated between PHOENIX and DOUGLAS, in connection witn Golden State Limited Practically mpans Through Pullman Service TO KANSAS CITY - ST. LOUIS CHICAGO You anly have to step from one car to another after 'breakfast in order to avail yourself of the splendid accommodations offered by the , . Finest Train in Trans-Continental Service address, Ask your agent for reservations, or GARNETT KING. General Passenger Agent, TEXAS? retary of War Baker has referred to war camp community service as one of the most essential factors in civilian work to win the war. A leader of mew was wanted at its head and Willys was the logical man to select for the important position. Forceful initiative and shrewd fore sight are the factors given the prin cipal credit for the success of Willys. He entered the automobile manu facturing business at a time when it seemed doomed for failure. His friends and associates tried to dis suade him from buying the Pope Toledo plant when that property went begging on the market. They pointed to the failure of experienced manufacturers who had sunk - their all in the "automobile game." But Willys had the vision and foresight to look beyoiid to the day when the home without a car would be almost as uncommon as the of fice without a telephone. He saw the evidences of permanency which have placed the automobile industry in the prominent position it occupies today. Moreover, he had the cour age to back up his convictions and lost no time in consummating the deal for the Pope-Toledo property. That happened in 1909. Since that time the Willys-Overland has grown and grown until today it ranks the second largest single auto mobile manufacturing organization in the world and the greatest or ganization producing a compreheu sive line of cars. Success, however, has not changed in the slightest degree those per sonal characteristics that have al ways made Mr. Willys so popular among his fellows. He still . carries the weight and responsibilities of his vast and varied business inter ests with a smile and therein lies what his most intimate associates regard as the secret of his success. We are equipped to paint SIGNS any place any time Call 1310; 21 North First Ave. & Broadway ' WAFFLES ! GAS The kind that mother used to make h ot from the iron with maple syrup or honey. That's the kind of waffles tha t you can make with one of our .WAFFLE IRONS SPECIAL OFFER FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Wo will sell a good Gas Waffle Iron, for $2.00 and only one. to a customer TRY THIS WAFFLE RECIPE RECIPE NO. 1 2 cups water, 1 egg, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup rye flour or bran, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, half teaspoonful soda, 1 saltspoonful salt, 1 half cup butter substitute or lard; sift the cream ot tartar Into the flour with the salt; dissolve the soda in a little hot water; beat the egg veiy well; add the flour the last thing. If the batter is too stiff, put in more water. Telephone 1654 RECIPE NO. 2 1 egg beaten light, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, flour enough to make a thin tatter. Add 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter or butter substitute just before baking. Have iron hot and greased. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO. Phone 1668 128 W. Adams EL PASO