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EL PASO HERALD
Saturday, .February l, 1913
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Get ,An Automobile If You Can
Move to tie Sabexfes if Necessary Yoh Can Live There With an Automobile
as Cheaply and More Comfortably Than in tie City Without One.
By Artkar Brisbane in New York JpurnaL
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HIS. the beginning of a year, is
the time for the man who hasn't
ye., got an automobile for himself
and hie family, to think hard about
getting one.
Here are some facts actual facts,
not imagination that ought to help
thousands of citizens to make up their
mind that tneir automobile hour has
come.
You can get a small house in the
suburbs, live under your own root, with
j our own front yard, plenty of fresh
air and sunlight, AND KEEP AN
AUTOMOBILE, for less than it costs to
live in the city without an automobile.
The automobile today is an absolute
ly different thing from what it was
five, tea or even three years ago.
An automobile kept by aa intelligent
man now is less expeasive than a horse
and buggy.
The smaller economical cars, built
solidly, substantially, and to last for
years, cost so little-for upkeep that the
man acquainted with the facts can
scarcely believe them.
You may go for six months without
changing a-tire if you care to take the
trouble to run your car carefully.
You can fill a small tank with gaso
line, with one of the modern, economi
cally constructed cars, and you can run
the whole week with that small gaso
line supply if you don't go touring
off in the direction of Honolulu.
The cars are so simple that the man
who chooses can keep his car without
a chauffeur. His wife or his 16-year-old
boy can meet him at the station,
take him to the station, and use the
car while he is away.
At the end of- long use the car can
be sent back to the manufacturers, and
a new one obtained for half the price,
or even less.
Remember that automobiiing is no
longer a luxury of the rich, hut it is
actually. A NECESSITY OF THESE
THAT ARE ONLY FAIRLY WELL TO
BO.
The man to whom time Is important,
who must run around seeing many difcj
To Hueco Tanks In Automobiles
Party to Go Oat SaBday and Another Party Went Last Week Many Cars Sold
This Week Local Automobile Gossip.
MR. and Mrs. R. H. Rinehart, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. F.
W. Berkshire, and Mr. and Mrs.
G. a. Martin, accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. L, P. Boyce, will make an auto
trip Sunday to Hueeo tanks. 31 miles
east of Fort Bliss. J. G. Carr may also
take out a party. The road is now
said to be in good shape, owing to the
recent rains and snows. These have
packed the sand, which in dry periods.
is impossible except for the heaviest
cars. Last Sunday L. E. Booker, E. H.
Hurd and C. B. Stevens went to the
tanks in their cars.
,
r Maun, J. G Carr and C. H.
Lai comprising the Chalmers
Sale; -pany. of Bt Paso, this week
contracted to handle the Peerless ears
and trucks for the El raso territory
and hereafter the company will be
known as the Chalmers-Peerless com
pany. They have the northern Mexico
agency for these cars as well as the
El Paso territory. Chalmers cars were
delivered this week by this company to
three purchasers in this territory. H. E.
Merteeney received a "six- Chalmers,
seven passenger, and Hyatt & Conley.
of Deming. bought a "36" and a "3d,"
both torpedo bodies. The Deming cars
were driven overland from El Paso
Friday and stood the test thoroughly.
The Neff-Stiles company has sold a
1913 model five passenger Beo to
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ferent people, OWES IT TO HIMSELF
TO HAVE AN AUTOMOBILE.
The mkn who hat a wife and children
who realise that the health built up
today is worth more than a few dol
lars saved for the future, OWES IT TO
HIMSELF AND TO HIS FAMILY TO
GET AN AUTOMOBILE.
Buy a car WITHIN YOUR MEANS.
Buy it carefully, take, the advise of
the maker as to how you can, make
your tires and your gasoltne last, AND
RUN YOUR CAR CHEAPLY.
If you don't want the cost of paying
storage in the city, get outside of the
city, and remember that the automobile
and the country house combined will
cost you less than city lire without the
automobile.
Whatever else you do, go to the big
automobile shows and visit the indi
vidual shops where the type of machine
that you want can be purchased.
Look over the field, study it, AND
GET A MACHINE IF YOU CAN.
Remember that for children growing
up, and for you yourself, there is no
greater interest than the care of a car,
the understanding of machinery.
And, above all, remember what It
means to CONQUER SPACE AT WILL,
to see all that is beautiful in the coun
try about you, to visif neighboring
lunjiB, cumD xue nign iuiis, run down
to the ocean's edge in summer when
you choose.
With an automobile you can, by turn
ing the crank and starting the ma
chine, CHANGE A HOT SUMMER DAY
INTO A DAY OF BREEZE AND COM
FORT. You can take your children and
your wife for an entire day's happiness
at a very slight cost
You will find your wife very glad to
save on clothes, and your children glad
to forego many other things that they
have thought necessities, if you will
give them NOW the machine that they
ought to have.
GET AN AUTOMOBILE, IF YOU
POSSIBLY CAN.
Copyright. 191 by the New York Bven
ing Journal Publishing Co.
Herndon Lehr, of Silver City. N. M. He
will arrive in El Paao Monday and drive
the car ack to his home. The same
company has sold two one-ton trucks
to W. L, Samuels, of Deming, N. M..
and one truck Vf the same pattern at
Lordsburg.
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F. C Emery purcbwsea a fixe passen
ger Cadillac this week.
The International Auto company
shipped two five passenger Bulcks to
Nordhaus & Taylor at Deming this
week and sold a Commerce delivery
truck to T. V. Farnsworth, of Cananea,
Mexico.
Lieut. R. P. Palmer, of the 23d infan
try, stationed at Fort Bliss, has pur
chased a Studebaker roadster. ,
The Longwell Auto company's three
horse power White truck this week
made a trip to the water plant on the
mesa in 48 minutes, carrying 469
pounds.
The Southwestern Auto Sales com
pany sold F. G. Billings a four pas
senger Hupmobile this week.
Joe Gardner, of Sierra Blanea, Tex.,
purchased a five passenger Studebaker
and T. D. Love, of the same town,
bought a five passenger, Buick this
week.
Automobile owners are complaining
Will be glad to demonstrate this truck to
ere anytime. Phone us and our man will call. TheJ
and economy of operation. Easy to hahdle.
It's As Catchin' As the Measles -:- y Hal Coffman
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about the amount of glass and nails
thrown in the streets. They say that
milkmen break bottles in the street
and never attempt to sweep them to
one side. Joy riders down the valley
throw their beer bottles out Into the
road and often cause serious damage to
auto tires.
The small crushed stone placed on
top of newly laid pavement is very hard
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on auto tires and will cut them like
glass. Freshly laid pieces of pavement
should therefore be avoided by autoists.
Many of the automobile agencies are
getting In new cars for the expected
spring demand. Among the new cars
received or on the road are Coles, Car
tercars and Overlands.
Chalmers' owners are talking of
TAYS, Sales Manager.
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forming a Chalmers club for the pur
pose of making Sunday runs out into
the country and meeting during the
week with the factory experts and
learning things' they do not know about
their cars.
The county roads between Tsleta and
Clint Is very rough and the drive Is not
at all pleasant. It is really a better
drlre OTer the old dirt road through
Socorro, for this road is in splendid
shape almost all the way from Socorro
to San Elizario and the ban Elizaijo
road to Clint is in fine condition. The
Clint-Fabens road is also In good shape.
Friday evening Bert Ramsey ran his
six cylinder Chalmers- Into the curbing
and bent the front axle so badly that
both wheels were almost fla,t on the
ground. It looked like a tleup for two
weeks, but this afternoon the local
Chalmers service station had returned
the car to the owner in as good shape
as new.
The automobile driven by Dave
Crockett yesterday evening ran Into the
motorcycle ridden by Charles Brown,
of company I, signal corps, at Bliss
and Copia streets, practically demolish
ing Brown's, machine. The motor
cyclist received a number of bruises,
but is not seriously hurt.
LITTLE GASOLINE HOPE
IS GEOLOGICAL REPORT
There is not a gallon of gasoline
hope for the automobile owner In the
report of Uhe United States geological
survey, which has just been issued. It
gives the gasoline and fuel oil outlook
for the year 1913. and the glooms are
in control of the oil fields, judging
from the report of the government sci-
enuiic snarps.
The report shows a decrease of 258,
000 barrels in the petroleum yield dur
ing the year 1912. as compared to the
1911 yield, with a forecast of still
greater reduction in 1913. Last year's
lesser product had a valuation of $16.
O&e.OO more than the previous year's
production, despite the fact that it was
short 258,900 barrels. The report states
that In all other fields except Califor
nia and Gulf of Mexico, there has been
a steady drain on the accumulated
stock. Neither of these fields produce
a good grade of gasoline making oil. as
it has the asphaltum base rather than
the paraffine base, making it unfit for
anything but fuel and road nutin.
Even the Russian oil fields, which
nave always oecn consiaered as stable
producers, decreased more than 6 090 -666
barrels during 1912, over the pre
vious year.
PHOEXIX AUT03IOBILISTS TO
ILVVE snow THIS 3IOSTH.
Phoenfcc Aria- Feb. 1. Under the
name of the Arizona Automobile asso
ciation, an organization of automobile
dealers has been formed in this city.
Practically all the agents and access
ory dealers are members. J. s. Mor
rison Is president: W. H. Carter, secre
tary: J. A. McCondra. treasurer.
The first thing undertaken by the
association will be to give an automo
bile and home products show in a new
garage on North Central avenue Feb
ruary 14 and 15. Automobiles will meet
all trains during the time the show is
in progress and carry outoftown visit
ors to the hotels free.
Contractors, look over our sash and
d- ir and save money. Lander r.nm-
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Importance of Springs In Motoring
Value of Power Inflation for Tires Correct Ratio of Engjne Revelations to
Wheel Revolutions.
By PHILLIP GIBSON.
ALTHOUGH the pleasures of mo
toring largely depend upon the
springs, usually' the latter re
ceive far 14ss attention, upon the part
of the purchaser or owner, than is due
them. ,
The two prime requisites of good
springs are resistance and resilience,
both of which may be fairly judged
by the buyer upon "trying out" the
car. However, he should not favor, to
the extreme, springs that are suffi
ciently resilient to rebound with a
series of gradually shortening oscll
atians, as these movements, although
at "first pleasing to the senses, very
quickly become displeasing and even
annoying to the occupants of the car.
Itaiuife unaue wear upon me ures. uie
Tarious running gear parts and, as a
whole, have a deleterious effect upon
j the entire chassis mechanism. In ad-
dition, rapid travel over a rough road
! is quite likely to -cause a succession of
1 Jolts and consequent oscillation which
frequently, by accumulation, reach the
J, limit of spring endurance, resulting in
breakage,
i If a spring of great resilience or
the leaves, oiling them, while eliminat
ing the squeak, will result in increased
flexibility and oscillation, reducing the
shock absorbing qualities-of the spring
It is admitted that the jars and shoots
ot travel produce heat, friction and
wear of the leaves, but the heat is of
no consequence; the friction is neces
sary to absorb road shocks and the
wear of each leaf upon its neighbor
is negligible. Therefore, it would
seem that the wise ultimatum lies in
selecting a heavy spring that is not
over sensitive to such shocks and still
not sufficiently rigid to allow of these
shocks and jars being transmitted to
the body of the car and. its occupants
in a series of short jerks. Unless such
a spring is selected, the bouncing,
springy motion developed by the tires,
instead of being neutralized or entirely
absorbed by the springs, will reach the
sody of the car, producing that rack
ing, jolty, vibratory effect so often
found in the smaller cars.
If the springs upon your present car
frequently break in the center, bat
otherwise. In your opinion, meet spring
requirements as to comfort, eta, you.
can remedy the trouble by placing be
tween the clips and the upper leaf of
the lower half of the spring an iron
plate the exact width of the spring." ex
tending about one inch beyond the
clips In length and of sufficient thick -nees
to prevent any upward bulging In
the center (where springs generally
break), when great stress is laid upon
me springs. rne enos or this plate,
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slightly sharper curve upward than
the inside face of the spring at normaL
Any mechanic (or blacksmith, for that
matter) can easily make and apply this
plate as the spring clips usually ex
tend half an inch or more, beyond the
retaining nuts, which is ample allow
ance for the insertion of the plate. The
device by holding the spring firmly in
seat will prevent crystalication and
breakage and on account of its inex
pensiveness is at least worthy of trial.
4
A very Ingenious, useful and valuable
adjunct to any machine is the auto
matic nower tire uumn. TMse numns.
either gear, friction or power driven,
are usually permanently placed be
neath the hood, out of sight, are operat
ed by the motor and. as a general prop
osition, are practical, simple, cheap
and efficient as a tire inflating device
and soon pay for themselves in tire
saving alone, not to mention the elim
ination of back breaking .labor of in
flating tires by hand. Generally when
the band oumo is used the tcmnbttlon
to make one's self believe that the tire
is properly inflated, is almost beyond
the, power of resistance and as a result
thet car is driven upon under-inflated
envelopes, to the expense and detri
ment of the motorist
If such a pump (as mentioned above)
is not used, then the motorist should,
by all means, secure a garage pump as
the hand pump usually delivered with
the car is far too small aid inefficient
to give good results under ordinary
conaiuons.
When the signal or warning horn be
comes slightly indented, bent or twisted
do not discard it without an effort to
restore it to its original shape. This
feat can usually be accomplished by
first straightening out the twist or
bend, after which a foot length of
heavy wire, slightly battered at the
end and bent to a sharp angle, should
be soldered to the indented portion of
the horn, the opposite end of the wire
being placed in a vise. A few gentle
pulls or jerks upon the horn will
bring the dented or creased portion in
line with its original contour. The
blow torch is then brought into ser
vice for removing the solder and wire.
This operation should be repeated un
til all indentations or depressions are
removed, after which a good polishing
wlll restore the horn to Its original
appearance. However, care must be
exercised in the pulling process as .oo
-evcre a pull or jerk will cause a pro
tuberance which is even more difficult
or satisfactory removal than a dent
"How is sh eMrrf?" it niiMHon
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No Gears to Strip
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oXten put by aa intending automobile
purchaser who, doubtless, has no con
ception of the meaning of either the
question or its answer or what effect
a different gear ratio would hare
upon the performance of the machine.
As a general rule the average pas
senger machine is geared three and
one half to one, or, in other words, :he
crank shaft performs three and one
half revolutions to one revolution of
the road wheels. This gear ratio, com
paratively, is a fair serviceable divid
ing point- between speed and power
possibilities, allowing as much of both
the former and latter as this particular
branch of automobiiing demands or re
quires without the serious curtailment
of either, resulting in an all around
serviceable, reliable, good-performing
motor vehicle equal to the exegencics
of almost all classes of highways en
countered. If it is desired that the engine de
velop more speed than the manufac
turers Intended it should, it is simply
a matter of employing a lower gear
ratio, that is, increasing wheel revolu
tions per crank shaft revolutions.
However, this ratio, while increasing
the speed of the car upon a. level, re
sults in an appreciable loss of power
necessitating the use of the slow speed
gear upon an incline or when driving
through heavy sand or mud. In a word,
low gear ratio limits the power of the
motor. On the other hand, the car may
be geared, say 4 to 1. This ratio limits
the speed but adds untojd power to th?
motor. With the employment of this
higher gear ratio, the necessary in
creased speed of the motor and conse
quent wear and tear and depreciation
must be taken into consideration, to
gether with the greater consumption
of gasoline and oiL Hence it will fo
seen that the machine performing most
capably on a grade and possessing
reasonable speed on a level road is the
machine sensibly geared to a ratio f
something like three and one-half to
one, sacrificing neither reasonable
speed nor 'power to a whim and. as a.
result the motorist reaps the reward
of greatest mechanical efficiency
linked with economical operation.
HOW MAKEES FIGHT
EBBQBS ET AUTOS
Inspection In the Plant Is Continuous
With Many Road Tests Jnst
' How It la Done.
"One of the secrets of success of an
automobile plant is the proper inspec
tion of all parts both before and after
assembly." said service manager C. H. La
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Tance, or tne local Chalmers,
a-vwao lately came here from the factorr
'As an example, in our nraat all Darts
are inspected twice before assembly
experts being in the assembly room o
give the most rigid inspection. The
cars are assembled by what is known
as progressive assembly, one man and
his helper doing one job on each
chassis, then going to th eneyt one and
performing the same operation.
"The theory of this system Is that
one man can do one thing better than
he can a dozen. The second crew fol
lows immediately. Each operation is
Inspected as the men finish and must
be 'OK before any more work is done
on this chassis. The car is turned over
to the tester, who gives it 1W miles of
the hardest kind of use. After making
&u m nis aojasuneBis tne car is then
sent to the head tester, who tries out
the car for pwer, speed, quietness and
thoroughly inspects all parts. The test
body is then removed and the car Is
cleaned off.
"The chassis Is taken by the "repair
man,' who sees, that all bolts and nuts
are tight and adjustments on brakes
and steering gears, are correct
"The car is then run into the paint
shop, where the testing wheels and
tires are removed. Before the painters
start to paint the chassis it is thor
oughly inspected by the chief inspector.
"After the chassis Is painted new
tires and wheels are put on and it goes
into the final assembly, where the body.
fenders, top. glass front running board
and wiring are put on. There are two
inspectors who are looking over cars
all the time In the final assembly.
Afti' the cars have recived their
OK the final tester goes over the cars
and tries them on the road."
THE GROWING WONDER
OP THE AUTOMOBILE
The automobile Is coming to be more
and more every year one of the richest
sources of pleasure and profitable rev
enue to the American pople. says the
Los Angeles Examiner.
J5i l8 s,naDly amazing know, from
statistics carefully compiled, that there
is today an automobile to every 119
people in the United States.
The American automobile is now
leading the world and outseUlng al!
other machines in the markets of everv
country. The balance of trade thit
was once overwhelmingly with Europe
and carried every wealthy American
I1k J .buJr the oest ca. s nw
lWJtH,n,Bsly,wlth the American car
Where America exported only 500
i- ti? 9Q1,JSn exported nearly 22.000
in 1913, and where the value of this
?orit llii?1 W8S only JLm.OOO. in
iaiiJL'- nriy S2,m to the
nation's revenue
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