TULSA DAILY WORLD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1017
RPMARKARI F RFPflRn
AUTO MEN YOU AUTO KNOW
MADE BY A MAXWELL
T. Singleton Drove 35,895 Miles
Without Spending Money
for Repairs.
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Fcldoiu has n talc been tolil of a
motor i'it performance w hich p fials
llTat of tho mul-;;Hlcred old Maxwell
which Mr. 'J'. Hmvlctoii drove 3 5 . S !t 5
miles without spending a doll ir "or
repairs.
Mr. Kinuletnn completed hi .'i'ir
ney when he arrived in l.os Ani?ele-i.
liiKt ween, and the record lie has mule
hIiowh what an enormous dcsro of
service It iH possible to get out of u
small, light c:ir when the dilver Ivm
the car proper rare, j-ayx the bos An
geles Times.
"Not one driver In a hundred eires
for his oar prnperlv," said Mr. Hin
ton. "nnd the tales of broken pni Is
and undue wear hjoh wo hear aro
usually due to carelessness on he p' t
of the owner. This Maxwell has rev
ered roads In every statu In the union
except Montnnii. South Dakota and
Khode Island nnd its speedometer
reulsters pint 3 r . S !t r miles. Absolutely
no repairs have heen made on the cir,
Its motor has t ever heen cleaned,
valves have not heen Krnund, trans
mission linn never been opened, reir
end has not heen inspected and with
ihe single exception of the cot of a
new fan belt not a cent has been spent
on the car for repairs.
"The car has covered the soutli-'rn
platen with their notably had roads
tboroly, nnd there Is hardly -a hit of
orcn road or country lane In the en
tire stnt'i of lyonislana where th
Maxwell has not been. Over one of
the Louisiana swamp roads t was
necessary to drive for lfO miles In
Intermediate gear, and the worst
reads of New Mexico nnd "Arizona ar
pared bnulevan's as compared witii
these Louisiana swnmp roads.
"High speed is death to motor cars.
I h.ive driven this Maxwell at an aver
age of 22 miles per hour. I'ally it hai
ben carefully Inspected nnd oiled, and
thrunut all the long journey It has
been kept Clean.
"If motorists realised how many
thrusfinils of. miles of good sen lee
they could ret from their cars hy tak
ing good care of them and by drlvlnfr
at slow speeds the 35,JtS5-mllo trip f
my Maxwell would not be nn unusual
thin k," continued Mr. Slnglo'on.
"There Is everything In favor of slow
driving. It means the utmost In ser
vice from th? car, the greatest econ
omy of gasoline and oil nnd the
highest tire mileages. In spite of the
fact that my MaxweU has carried a
load of five hundred pounds sf mer
chandise on the entire trip and h -s
'covered thousands of miles of very
bad roads, the gasoline avenge iris
been close to 21 miles per (ration,
three hundred miles per quart is the
figure for oil. and from 10.000 to 11
00 1) niil'.'K were covered by every set
of tires. -
AUT0M03ILE CARRIES
LESS PASSENGER WEIGHT
IiiUtchiIih; Fcononilo Comparison llc
fwern Traveling; on Trains
nnd Motors.
As n mears of transporting Inll
viduals the steam railroad train, with
Its liiK passenser inpacity, its level
loute nnd tracks of steel, has, the cas
ual observer will tell you, all the ad
vantages in Its favor as a utility
;nong modern power-driven convoy
ances. It remains for the autouir
bile, however, to upset this old stand
ard, and it the Fame time to snow the
fallacy of nny connection betweol
automobile travel nnd extravagance.
The thins" that throws 'ight on com
j.arisons of trim efflelency Is the ques
tion of weight. Take for Instance, the
average f ive-passenger automobile: It
wciiths about 2.500 pounds, without
passengers, or when londed not over
3,f00 pounds. On this basis, the auto
mobile is required t move seven hun
dred pounds per passenser; load tint
the automobile engine must push up
anil down hill and over tho country.
How moderate this weight Is besido
Tills is Hay Sturm, the popular and energetic owner of Sturm Motor
company, distributors of the Hudson make of cars, Including the Hudson
six, a model frequently seen on southwestern roads.
that of other forms of c in veyancc.
)n the other hand, high-class Pull
man trains carry a weight per passen
ger of ten thousand pounds. n local
trains, with day coaches, the bnrleii
Is, of course, smaller betwen one
and two tons per passenger seating
rapacity. These figures necesvnillv
Include the weight of the locomotive,
lender, baggage car. or. In utlie
words the weight of the entfre trsln,
Ji st as the automobile figures Includ"
th? -weight of the entire car.
!t Is evident 'hat in both enss, ti"
weight per pnsiengcr requires power
In proportion to move It, ami power
means fuel. In these days of conser
vation, when the saving of fuel Is huci
an important Item, weight reduction,
ns worked out In the automobile. t
apparently a key to the volution that
tur railroads will sometime have ti
consldir.
- That the average auto:noblle design
also has room for development along
this same line, l.s shown in the latfst
nchievemrnt of the I'rankli.i Automo
bile company in building .1 full-six-
five-passt nger car weighing 2,210
pounds, inurh tinder the average five
passenger cur weight. W hen londed
to a passenger capacity of two thou
sand pouiids, this particular car car
ries not ever fS5 pounds per passen
ger. The well-known economy rec
ords of the Prank1 In serve to s'iow
how weight Influences gasoline and
tire consumption.
raise nto Company.
I'ntil recently the Paige automobile
hiifinexs has not been pushed to tiw
considerable jxtent In Tulsa for suni'S
'i r. Known reason, hut under the new
management of t'lydo M. Uoblnson
Ihe -nr ij coming Into its own again
In this locality. Mr. Robinson pur
chased the agency from the Shiileler
Auto Halen coinpauy In October, nnd
has since then made considerable
ch.inges in the hiislncs.s policy of
handling the cars. "Service to Paigo
owners" is the way Mr. Robinson is
doinif business nt 10 Kast Sixth streot
and tie Invites all owners of PaigJ
cars to vi-it tils agency whether thev
want to buy a car or not. lie wants
to look ocr yorr car and tone it up
f ir you, and talk about pew improve
ments and models put out by the
Pni(;e people. Mr. Kobinson is an af
fable misiness man and came here
from Sapulpa where he was engaged
in the printing business for the past
several years.
IiOiig-l'M-c Curds.
Some recruits thot they ''would rag
their sergeant-instructor and on his
command 'Number' the following
took place: "One. two. three, four,
five. six. seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack,
Queen, King."
The sergeant as is the wont of most
sergeants, had a quick retort. With-
ut any apparent hesitation he
roared: 'Vourt cards fall out and re
port .it the orderly room."
Christmas is Near
What nicer gift for wife and family than an automobile?
Drive one home today while they may be had. A beautiful
Chummy for the wife, a Roadster, a little Touring Car, or
large Stratford. Ours are truly "The Most beautiful Cars in
America."
See the new safety lock. It is impossible for thieves to steal
your car. It cannot be driven off, while locked with our new
safety device. It saves you worry, and saves insurance. Let
us show you.
Unless we are greatly, mistaken the Paige "Six 39" is just
. the car that you want.
Come in and see it allow us to demonstrate
And Its Onlya Month Until Christmas
PAIGE AUTO
OF TULSA
10 EAST SIXTH STREET
Phone Osage 7532
WILL NOT ASSEMBLE
TRUCKS IN FRANCE
Army Trucks Will Not Be
Shipped in Knocked
Down Shape.
A proposal has been made to the
I'nlted States government to ship the
ne-.v J S. A. war trucks to France
partly assembled and assemble them
there, thus permitting a vaving of ap-
roximately $330 000 on fen f.vnis.uil
(tucks, In addition to saving consid
er. l tile time. The offer which was
made by Flint Ac 'o., of New York, a
lartre exporting house has been tur.vd
down by Q. M. (len. Henry J. Sharpe.
The plan of Flint 'o. contem
plated the assembly of trucks In t
plnt at Neullly Sur Seine and tho
training of drivers at large plants
which the Flirt company claims to
have at its disposal. The Flint offer
points out that the shipping displace
ment of n chafsls partly assembled
and boxed is 402 cubic feet, whereas
under the Flint plan of shipping ii
knncked-dow n form, a complete
chassis would require only 2 SO cubic
feet. The saving of J33O.000 Is based
on present "hipping freight rates
which are $70 a ton or $1,100 per
chassis: with two weeklv 4alllnirs of
! five thoui,and tons, it would require
25 weeks under the present plant t
transport all tnu'ks while under the
Flint plan th's could be reduced to six
weeks.
It is also pointed out In the Flint
I Inn that drive-nways front factories
here will require the building of ser
ire stations en route and assembly
and testing plants at. the seaboard.
In refusing ti e Flint offer, (iererxl
Sharpe stated that if a plan of this
i character is adopted, siu-h work w ll
be done entirely hy the quartermaster
department and In shops opcrited by
this department. The Fl'nt offer vas
submitted t. manv departments and
war considered hv H. K Horning. Ma
jor Orton, Christian tllrl, Cloneral l!a
kt r tvnd others.
Major Orton has a plan for assemb
ling the trucks and driving a part of
(hem ocr land loaded with parts ex
c?ding the number normally re
quired for repair work In Fiance aul
using the extra parts for the assembly
of trucks In France.
A Catastrophe.
"What was the most terrible sight
you saw In the trenches?" asked the
interested friend.
"Well," replied tho soldier Just
home from France, "the most terrible
sight I saw was the sergeant's face
when I broke the rum Jar."
CO.
The Aluminum 'Six wM
AN OVERLAND CARAVAN
CROSSES THE COUNTRY
Army Kilclicii, Delivery Wagons anil i
anil Tniirlm; ar tJoc to j
Wii'-liiiiKton. )
An unusual caravan started from
Toledo, to Washington, V. C, la.it j
liwnth. It consisted of an army I
kltrhen. ullnted bv rapt. H. Iiizi-
c tt, of I'hli ago, which wn mounted I
in an rrlainJroiiimerelal chassis.'
two l."U0-iouml Overland delivery )
uagon.s, with Hpecinl army bodies .if'
the prairie rchoomT typo, and ino
overlaiid 85-4 flve-anneiiKer touring
car.
t'nptaln Purznrott haR be?n In the J
c'osest poKHible touch with field cook-
Intj methods In the Lnllcd States for
36 years nnd he has devlned this now
Ifit'ld kitchen as an 1 1 urovcmr nt
over anything which has been In ex
istence In th- past. The object of tho
caravan was to submit the unique, nr
raiiKemcnt for Inspection by the fed
eral authorities in Washington. Among
the fcatat-CH of the motor kitchen urn
the follmv ilia:
Ttn n. nnt v-irallon soup and coffee
Voilers; four ten-sallon reaerve li"t
Ii nd retainer vessels: two iarRe ovens
for roastini; anil b.ikinn pnrp'meit;
pfins fur frvi"K nnd a cumplele si-t of
ccolt's ton's essential for work In thf
fi ld. I i addition to the ubove, space
la (iri ided lor extra fuel and ratines,
sufficient for one complete food re
newal. The rooking capacity of tho
r.i tor k lichen 's 2L0 meals at one
time nnd It can be operated equally
well on the march, when traveling ten j
to went- tiiitPH an boar, as when It Ih '
at a standstill.
Moth in t'hicafo and Toledo Cap
tain IJiuzncott demonstrated the
cookiiiK nnd ndvantatps of the nfl ilrj
by rookinir meals for tro-s stationed I
near thoe cities.
The ni hile ndvantar's "f the mo-J
toi kitcticn are said to he far superior '
to horse or mule-drawn rolling kitch-i
ens, inasmuch as during a campaign.;
nter. uel and rations can be lfi'.th-i
erecl r the kitchen Itself while en'
route. The .imtor kitchen can deliver j
the food hot, direct to the trenches,
which Is an liuab'ablc feature, he-'
cause tt release, army trucks which
were hitherto the only available ,vi
hit lis fur such duty.
The kitchen can be removed by nn- !
screwing four bolts and placed on
the ernund and the chassis utUinc! fo'
:nany other purposes about the ennui.' ;
The amount of fuel required) fo
nch meal for 20 men is IX pounds of!
wood or 12 pounds of soft coal.
''apt. Iluzicicolt chose- an Overland i
ihssls for carrylni the novel kitchen.!
n the trip from Chicago to Toledo!
he made the entfre distance In Ml
hours. In sriltc-tf very muddy roads.
The delivery wnttons which are In
cluded in the caravan are fitted with
f pedal tops suitable for army requlrt
ments. similar to the red it In r khalii
ti ps that are used on standard army
trucks.
Where They Don't fcimtel Snow.
"He In not so hot as formerly," a
preai her-phllospher Is cpioted. bright
nlng our hopen that ( Id I.uclfer Is en
joying the anine coal sliortane as -our
Ct JT
IW III
ANY, manv
11 til
i ii in
Mm
tjl town, after comparing the new
Premier, point by point, with
the very best cars on the market, have
echoed the question of thousands:
"How do they do it at $2285
No matter what strange new motor
car luxury tomorrow mav bring forth,
the luxury car just now is Premier.
You have probably already seen Premier, and
identified it by its beauty but have you ridden
in it? driven it? Let us take you for a ride.
Ad ams Motor Sales Co.
809 S. Main Street
T
Iitxik for No. 4
Nest Week.
(Gates
NO. 3
GATES TIRE SERVICE CO.
First Class Vulcanizing a Specialty
224 East Second Street Phone Osage 3855
Magnetic Gear Shift
people riuhtin this
Phone Osage 7S40
HALF
Cost as Much
GUARANTEED PUNCTURE PROOF
TT7HFiN you see for yourself
yy what a Gates Half Sole
Tire is you will say just
as hundreds of other motorists
have "Why didn't someone think
of this idea before." It means
the revolution of the tire busi
ness. Five thousand miles more out
of tires that you have been
throwing away. Investigate.
Tim
neighbors.