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THE WJSHINGrTON TIMES. SATURDAY. MARCH 25, 1016.
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HERO! OF FLOOD
USES AU
TOIBILE
Miss Helen M. Tullock Tells of
Trip at San Diego, Call-
fornia.
During the recent floods In the vicin
ity of Ban DIcro, Cat., Miss Helen M.
TullocK was the heroine of n trip
through the flooded reRlnn Hint attract
ed considerable attention on IN) coast.
Miss Tulloch Js the driver of one of
th stages operated throuRh the Im
perial Valley, all of the cars used being
Dodfiq Hroii. cars.
Storm conditions were so bad that
other bars wcro rcfuslnR to mnkir the
valley trip, but the Insistence of somo
people who desired to reach 8nn DIcro
was so strong that Miss Tulloch con
sented to make thp trip. She started
with six people In the car and a quan
tity of bnRRafe, consisting of two bi
cycles, four suit cases, and a quantity
-bf beddlne.
Describing the tilp. Miss Tulloch says:
"The roads wore nothing hut mud
paths front the heavy rnlns thnt had
continued three days, and It wns raining
when wo sot under way.
Told It Was Impossible.
"Wo plowed through nineteen miles of
the worst possible travel, but Anally
reached the concreto road thnt was
higher and where we bad good travel
ing for fifteen miles. Wo mot one car
that told us to turn back, us It was Im
possible to Ret tliYough the flooded dis
trict, nut wo kept on and ran Into
threo or four land slides on the Moun
tain Springs grade, and It wan tough
work getting through, but w0 did not
even havo to unload.
"At Jacumha we Htruck the river
and it certainly looked dlscouraclnc.
Jt was swollen to 100 feet wide and
i ii over four feet ileop In plare and
It had to be crossed. We stayed over
night anil In the morning It had j?one
down a little nnd with the aid of a
b ock and tackle and by building a
Piece of new road, wo were able to
get acrosx.
,!'.T1?.8 r2m.' lo Boulevard wna badly
?i.butiWe ""needed In kMUiik
n-hHfJl.01,"1 "I'ont the night there.
nSf..nc1 ,,ny J l,l,ck',tl ui wo mote
passengers wUo bad tr0() , Kel
ihnn" n .". CHr wl,lcn l!le.v .nd to
abandon In the mud. and wo went on.
AH Bridges Out.
"We got to t'ampo and they told
as there that no one could k further,
but we atartoil. The people were
nearly right. We had to clear tiie
road of land slides In places and In
?ineKBi3" Bullion and washouti. .ll
BL&" iw?ue 0,,t and ,v" iu,i t
P.?JE tnr"gh the streams.
h.nei.fttt,i?.ed.i '"an, car that ''ad
it?!1, i ft .'J1 tho mlld f ''ad broken
them had been laid up for a week,
in the Jamul mountains, where we
&?& (? .nn oll trn" ''-VaUMo of 2
bridge being rut, we ran Into a milek.
hard time getting out, hut ilnnllv
made It and then ran Into blink
mlieH. lhat ICpt Us ln " low for
"Wo reached San Diego lhat aftei
noon and at once the car van "out.
over thoroughly Wo found tlm It
sV irte";',,"11 "" a.i ,001
fhe,roa,I"nga,.Cna"ed U WM rMll' for
THREE MILLION CAftS
IN USE THIS SUMMER
Will Use at Rate of 1,375,000,000
Gallons of GasolCTc Yearly.
ThorA were moro than, J,100,000vu
tomoblles licensed In this country In
1M5 nnd It In flgule'd that next sum
mer the toM will fce not far from
I.78O.000, allowing -Jo per cent for cars
which probably vyM. be Junked;
If, ns oil men ostlmnte, each car con
sumes alxrit 600 gallon'4 of gaaolene a
year on the nerage. tlio consumption
next 'jmmcr luob-xbly will be at ll.o
rate of UJS.COO.noo- gallonr yearly.
With the prlco of gasolene. now well
above SO cents a gallon, nnd going
higher, tho matter of operating motor
cars as economically a possible, with
out curtailing their iitcfuincM, become
a problem of trcmopdous Importance. In
thousands of Individual cases it Is -a
really .serious problem.
Tilling tho winter months tho con
sumption of gasolene for nulcmobllo
purpose has. of course, been at t'.ie
minimum: with the opening of thn tour
ing season It will mount to maximum.
As there Is nn likelihood df tho'crst'
of tho furl ilecUnlng. it Is safe to say
that car ovnr nro golnn U give mero
Intelligent conslrlerntlbn than over bo-'
foro to econiuny In operation."
For one thing, tliero undoubtedly will
te keener appreciation of tne fact that
n car which Ik slmplo In dslgti and en
stritctlon Is the cheapest to operate, be
fauec wel-jht. friction and the brepk
ng' hizard have each been reduced
wltli the elimination or evory unneces
sary part.
Bluipllllcatlon Is perlmps the most im
portant thing In connection with the
manufacture, snln nnd uno of automo
biles today. It Is Important not only
from the economic standpoint, hut be
cause tlie greater the degree of sim
plicity In a car tho greater tho Joy
of motoring In It.
CORPORATION
BACKS
IE PAYMENT SALE
Guaranty Company Organized
in New York Said to Have
Big Backing.
TELLS 0 F VALUE
OF
ROTOR TRUCKS
Buffalo Firm Considers Dcliv
ery Automobiles Valuable
Investment.
Among the rumors current In New
Yoik'n llnancial circles is one to the ef
fect that .big New York and tnicago
capital Is back or tho newly formed
Uuiiriinty Kccuiitles Corporation. I
This New York company Is said to
have formulated a new and original .
plan whereby automobile dealers, hand-1 "Our trucks art- In '. winter mil
ling various makes of cars, miy sell on summer for out if town delivery. Our
me -lime payment pasis. (He-ton trucks not only take tho
,11 itlllKliUllli" tll.WU) Utile f.'l'll I'll
tereil Into between several motor
"Do truck pay? Wall, all I know Is
tiat ours arc considered a dccldedlv
profitable Investment," said Jacob
J.nng. vice piesldent or the tlerhurd
l.aug tli e wing Coiupan, ftulTalo, N. Y,
Air. I.ang was In Now York, nt tho
andcrhilt Hotel, n short llmo ngo,
when the cbovu question was asked him.
"Of courie," went nn Mr. I.ang. "Just
buying trucks nnd putting them to work
Is not all there Is to the proposition.
Wo Ictrncd our lesion early, but wo
learned it, woll, When uo first went Into
tho trjick delivery proposition some
years ngo, we were one of tho llrst ir
not the tlrrt brewery to uso tflicxs tn
liiitlalc Wc gave no thought or over
loading or tho proper care or our trucica.
When we bought them I think the sales
man wns very anxious to make the sale;
claimed that while the trucks were
rated at tlvo tons capacity, lie wotilit
guarantee thorn to carry oven tons.
o took him nt his word and overloaded
them every chnnce we had. When we
woko up we leund that, Instead ot
ti ticks, we had on our hands four pieces
Of Junk that had cost ua a considerable
amount ot money.
$oon Sec Saving.
"The. way wo came to buy tho trticas
In tho flist placo was that tho 1'iercc
Arrow Motor Car Company loaned us
their experimental truck to try It out for
them. It was not long before wo re
allsert what a saving tho truck was over
team delivery nnd we tried to buy It.
U hen 1 put the proposition up to the
coinminv 1 was told that the truck was
wl tor sale. All truck looked the same
to us In those I'nys, so we bought four
-n s wun a lot or promises tnrown in.
liy tho time w had luund to our nulls
diction that overloading did not pay, tne
Hcrce-Arrow Motor Oar Company was
on the market with their live-ton worm
drhe trucks. Wc bought one to try it
out, and now lavo rour live-tons and
one two-ton truck ot th-it make.
"Our new gnrnje Is built tr ncc
Arrow truck meaituii- in'nts nnd is with
out poitri, thi itjof neiiig trussed rrnm
wall to wall. At one in nl the build
ing, there (ire three rooms divided olT
one ror repairing, ono for painting nnd
the oilier as a stcro loom for rarta and
tcoli.
Make Three Trips.
PETITIONS
F
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HOSPITAL SENT OUT
Circulated by Monday Evening
Club in Campaign to Re
move "a Disgrace."
To hundreds of churches, clubs, citi
zens' associations and other organisa
tions today went blank petitions to bo
signed by these who doslra to go on
record n. nvorlng tho building of a
new municipal hospital to rcplaco tho
nntlqunlcd and Inadequate Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Tho petitions nro being circulated by
a special committee from tho Monday
Kvcnlng Club.
Attention Is called to tho dilapidated
conditio,, of this hospital ps described
In articles appearing In The Times, nnd
tho letter nccompanylng, tho petition
stutes, that "present conditions at the
hospltitl are by common agreement a
dUgraco to tho Cnpltal.'
Letter Makes Appeal.
The letter mokc.a this appeal, ln con
clusion; "I'lcaso net nnd act quickly, as h good
social worker interested In your own
city nnd determined In. the name of tho
Monday Evening Club to do your best
to substitute for the dilapidated Wash
ington ASYlUm llnsnltnl n mnttorn itn.
to-dato hospital for tho tiontmont of i
.nr uiKciu men oi minti nnn tooy.
Tho letter Is signed by Or. A. J. Mc
!. , ny' "enrgc !', iJowermnn and
alter IJ I'fford. who compose the spe
cial committee to clrculato the peti
tions. For Ihla campaign the Mbmlay
hvenlng Club, appropriated JCOO nt Its
last meeting.
The Petition.
The petition to which signatures are
asked reads, nn follows;
"Wlurcas the Commissioners of tho
district of Columbia and the Hoard of
Ciarltles havo requested an appropria
tion for a new municipal hospital to
tnKo the Place of the present antiquated
Washington Asjlum Hospital, and.
' , .lfrpn Mln tinn.l tm Ilia lin.ntlnl
Ins been lone recognized by the cltl-
zrtlil nt lh nlalflnl
"hesolvcii
resldetits of the Dlntilct of Columbia,
icspoctfully petition tho Cougicsn of tho
L iltcl Htiles nnd the leepecllvr Appro
piltiCoim Commlltcco of tbo Korute and
loij-o of ltepicsciitallvcs to provide In
"ic D'strlct appropriation bill the ncccn
nary iiwua wiui wnjpn 10 ucgin tne
construction of the hospital."
To Go Hcfore Congress.
Wiicn thene petlllons nio llllAl they
will bo sent to Mrs. rt. Thomas West,
.oi-i rmincnim vucui. nun moro pen
lions mny ho secured from Mrs. West,
When tho petition nro nil In they
will bo prcnented to tho Olstllct Com
mltteea of tho House and Bonate, and
pierrort will ho mado to havo District
citizen appear to urge that the Item
fill. tllA VflBhlnr.nt1 Aa. .!.. 1I....H.I
bo Included In tho appropriations.
New England'Girls
Visiting the Capital
Nearly 00 high school girls from
lown cast" took possession or" tho
Capital today, having arrived on a
sightseeing trip from New Bngland.
They -tiro slopping at tho National
Hotel.
High flchoom at tho following towns
me represented by members of their
senior clanses.: Newport and Homcrs
woith, N. H. Topsfleld. Duxbury, Chal
liam, Koxborn nnd Webster, Mass.i
York. Kcnneuhkpoit nnd Augusta, Mc.,
nnd Plnlnvlllo. Conn,
Slghlscelng parties, composed of em
ployes of the Jordon-Mnrsh Company,
of noston, nnd nf, Thomas Cook & 8on,
nro also Mopping at tho National Hotel,
Scouts Collect Clothes
For War Sufferers
Serviceable clothing to bo forwnrded
to Belgian, French, nnd (Jermnn war
Mlffclcr is blllR collci'teil at Unv
Front hcadqunrtcra In the Corcoran '
cunning.
Clothing which has been outgrown
lut Is cloan and In condition In wear
will be received at tho seout lieadquart
irs and prepared for shipment to tho
war zones.
Three school troops recently organized
nro .lerrcrnon Troop, No. 41, under lead
er Thompson; Cook Troop, uijler Lender
Johnson, fttld Wntllieb Tr)hi. Knrh
will probably complcto Its registration '
wiinin n ween.
Hannis Taylor to Speak
Before Atheneum Monday
Itnnnls Taylor, former minister to
t'paln and nn International law author
ity, will speak befoto the Kpanlsh
American Atheneum Monday night.
Hon .lose Tlble Machndn. of Quata
mnla, nlso will speak. Musical features
will be provided n Sciiuri Poiih Khidla
Cnrvnjal cc I.aninan, Mark I'hilllps and
Hanfoid Covington.
Place
rt I n (num. I.,t. vnln , 1. ...... t.t.i.
. ... .w i.tiniDi mmw iimni: , leu t ijis ,
icams
seventy
miles a dny. Our driven, nre all utile
ful men nnd lmvo lien Instructed how
we want the tiucka iifcd.
We have our i.wn mechanic, who
munaraclurrra nnd their dealers which ' 'ln- msteaii of one nip a da: for
enable the latter to offer cars to their ll,,,'"y vW from jibty to ;
customers on deftrred payments. In
earh case, however, the pluns dltler, and
It h to offnet this objectionable feature
If.... .1.. I!.lnnn... Unntl.111. lnnA..A-
Hon has entere,d the Held with a selling SJT" .. rii', .'.".ftf. w'Jcn VCr w8
plan that Is declared to be unirorm for , 'c " "J'0" "',,1,,I',,V" wri"'Kl ,""
nil makes of enrs and national In its,".''0 ,.,i?.r"F,,i. "V''1'" '" ml repalnta
"MC m. I'll' is HI l'fJJ LtlL'lfJ (IT
( fourtepii moiithtj. in thli way. mc arc
enabled to kvcp our icpnlm don vcrv
r
rwmx
,1,1
scope.
While
dctnlls of the plan have not
been made public. It Is understood that . """'"V" v p0?,!",,10."!,1? ,1,W",V'!;'
the gioup of capitalists who ore le-l!?"," B f " Ut of ou
Henderson Now With
The Semmes Motor Co.
Humors to the effect that Irving J.
Henderson, following his rerlgnatlon
from the Hcnderson-flowo Company
would enter another line of commercial
endeavor, wero proven to be Ill-founded
by a statement from the Semmes Motor
Company tarly this week.
Mr. Henderson entered Into negotia
tions with his new nssoclates as enrh
ai" t5n,.,,oy.8 nK0 ""' "o deal whs
closed Monday morning.
i UI,intllue Scmc Company his acllvl
tles will bti conllned for the most part
to the pleasure car huslnts.s-th0 aeMIn'
of Uodgo and Hudson cais- and each
Sf!.ho par.tJf s, la t0"''dent It will prove
highly gratlfjlng.
His association In tho automobile In
dustry dates bad; to tho old da) a. and
embraces selling experience Iwth 1'opo.
Jlathcson. Oakland. Oveiland. Pullman.
Wavorly electrics. Chevrolet. Cole, and
Kissel cam.
Solid Trainload of
Buicks Make Record Trip
A aolld trainload of thirty-two Hat
cars, containing eighty-two nuick 101C
models, nrrled here. Tuesday morning
from Flint. Mich. The shipment wns
in charge ot K. A. Owns and It. C.
Taylor, of th? local nuick bianch, who
roughed It In the caboose, acting In the
capacity of pcisona! tracers to carry
put the orders of tho ralload company
In seculng rluhl of way.
The route taken covered UK mllca
and the entire time required wns three
days, the train making better llmo
than a lettur mailed In Flint on tho
afternoon or departure.
Special clearances wero provided for
the entire route, and ou some ot the
heavy-graded llnka double-hcudcr en
gines wcro employed.
The three-day inn Is tho fastest time
any freight train hns even made over
this route, and much of tho crcuit or
tho quickness of tho deliver Is ivon
to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
for Ua splendid njstem of routing.
Guardsmen of Nebraska
Have Motorcycle Squad
The ilrst motorcycle company In tho
national guard west of Now York has
Just been formed at Omaha.
Tho guard of the atates of Virginia
nd New York and the District al
ready havo motorcycle detachments
which were organized during the past
twelve months for signal corps duty.
The Nebraska guardsmen, llko most
ot tho boys in tho East, furnish their
own machines. Tho nro already plan
ning motorcycle manouvera to take
place on some early Sundays, scouting
and mapping between Omaha and Lin
coln. Tho motorcyclist will spread out
to cover ail tho roads, bridges, camp
ing sites, water supplies, and rorage
ror animals and discover whother roads
are passable for heavy artillery.
Porto Rican Birds Are
Agricultural Benefit
Th bird life of Torto nico Is ex
ceedingly valuable to the Island In tlyi
uppresslon of Insect pests, and meas
ures of Government protection for the
blrda aro recommended by experts of
the Department of Agriculture.
A?tudy. otM tho various species of birds
on the Island waa recently completed by
tho Department In co-operation with tho
Prtrtn Hlfan vsw T ...
w. w ,...,. tu.siiiiiniii, ii naa luunu I
that charges that the birds Injured fruit I
at other crona r n imiBinAj I
spohMDlc ror It arc numbered among
the most Influential hi the count iy.
That till new company Is destined to
play nn Important part In the future or
the motor car business is evidenced by
the fact that it Is capitalized ou the
basis or handling JiO.WiO.liUO worth or
automobile paper this year,
Investigation of Sinking
Norwegian Ships Asked
COPKNHAC.KN, March 25. Norway
has made a demand on Ocrmany for nn
Investigation of the sinking or tho Nor
wegian ships Llndllcld nnd Knnnlke, ac
cording to Chrlstlanu dispatches today.
'J-ast year, lenair liftrts cost u.i KM
for 23.000 miles this yn.tr It will br a
llltlo more. i'it not niuclj. which Isjhot
so bad. u i.se our tiucks every W
nnd although we havo had Irts of snow
this winter. We have not had to ship
b rail once. All I hv.e to say Is, if
yoti can possibly uso trucks, buy them,
don't overload -keep them running and
they will mako you money"
Gorgas to Speak.
MaJ. Gen. William C. Gorgas, sur
geon general of the army, will speak
tonight nt tho Wlllard before tho mem
ner.i or tho Southern Society on th
cleaning up or the Tanamu Canal Zone
A dance will follow
Phone Main 6916
Harper-Overland Company
AUTOMOBILES
1022 Connecticut Avenue
5lccvc-Valve Motoi
till
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HIGHWAY 'SIX"
$1,690
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r' 1 The National car acquired, the keynote of its character
z, in ns eariy racing clays, tvery lnaiviauai National car
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in us eariy racing ciays. tvery individual National car
x f; cnmsulinf rminicrAnf nt rh mco irorV Tha llnor
H i q (J this latest National Highway Six are lines that bespeak
' 0TJir a Jook of strength and cleanliness and aggressiveness
tHaJUrio other car begins to possess. It might be said that
k ,-tfie Rational seems not only aristocratic, but athletic.
Combs Motor Company
Vermont Avenue and H Street N. W.
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Facts
GET the facts on the operating cost before
you buy any" automobile. Find out the
truth before not after. And don't be satisfied'
with hear-say or a salesman's claims. The
price of gasoline is high; so is oil, and there
is sure to he an increase in the cost of all tires.
,So, what you want is the car that will give
you most miles per gallon of gasoline, per gal
lon of oil and per set of tires.
Here are the facts proved by the Maxwell
stock touring car that recently set the World's
Motor Non-Stop Record.
Maxwell World' Non-Stop Record FacU
Mile without a motor stop r, . - 23,023
Average miles per day (44 days) 500.6
Miles per gallon of gasoline 21.88
Miles per gallon of oil r ...-.. 400
Averago miles per tire '...',9,871
Remember that this was a Noji-Stop En
durance Record in order to prove that the
Maxwell car was exceedingly sturdy, reliable
and trouble p'roof.
No attempt was made or could be made to
save gasoline, oil or tires. So these figures
merely indicate what would be possible under
ordinary driving conditions.
RIGHT NOW we have a MAXWELL we
can deliver to you, and if you don't want to
pay cash, make a deposit and pay the balance
as you use the car. BUT DON'T PUT IT OFF.
We know the Maxwell factory can't get half
enough freight cars to carry their doubled out
put. Later on we may not be, able to supply
you. But we can NOW. Better phone us "for
a demonstration TODAY.
Touring Car, $655
Roadster, $635
Prices F. O.B. Datrolt
H. B. LEARY, Jr.
1321 UthStN.W.
Phone Ndrfli 4434
DISTRIBUTORS FOR
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Used Car
Bargain
We wish to announce that
we have a number of used
cars in first-class condition
which afford unusual buy
ing opportunities.
A special arrangement in
collection with the sale of
these used cars makes it pos
sible for the purchaser to se
cure one of them immediate
ly for a cash payment with
terms for the balance.
Demonstrations On
Request
TheCook&StoddardCo.
1138 Conn. Ave.
North 7810
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