Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1915)
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 3. 1015. TETZLAFF TO TRY ENDURANCE TOUR Former Famous Racing Drirer Will Pilot Car from Mexico to Can ada Without Stop. WILL EE RECORD-BREAKER A nonetop run ot more than Z,S"0 Inllea, In whloh the T'nlted 8ta.tr will be trerereed from the Mexican line to the International boundary at Canada, li cheduled to start within a few day. Teddy Tetilaff, hero of a hundred epeed duels and former world's racing king, will be In charge of the crew of driver. The car he and hie fellow pilots will handle will be a little stock Maxwell "J6" touring- ear. According- to motoring experts the contemplated trip Is the hardest test to which an automobile has ever been subjected. Should the Maxwell be suc cessfully driven from Mexico to Canada without the stop of Its wheels It will have accompltohed something thought almost impossible. Even should It mske the run without motor being shut off for a single second It wilt have proved con clusively the absolute reliability and sturdlnees of the modern gas-driven con veyance. Two Relief DrlT.re. Present arrangements call for Teti l&ff to be relieved at the wheel by Jack Griffin and Al Waddell. of Los Angeles. At all times the former racing driver must be ready to resume bis task, for to him will be entrusted the iasK of put ting the little car over the strenuous mountain passes and rough trails that will be encountered. A moving picture operator from the Universal Film Man ufacturing company will acompany the Three Flags tourists to record scenes en toute. Arrangements have been made for the far to have dear passage in the larger cities en route. In the mountainous country a pilot car will be employed In order to guard against a blocked road In the narrow places. At places where no other bridge Is available the railroad companies will be asked to let the car travel over their structures, running on the schedule of a special train. It is probable that the only place In which this method wll be employed will be at Portland, where the Columbia river is spanned, to Vancouver, Wash. To Eat oa tae Ran. In conjunction with Frank Jordan, of the Southern California Automobile club, Tetslaff is working out a most minute schedule, which he will follow as closely as possible. Arrangements in the var ious towns by supply machines, wblch will deliver gasoline, oil, water and food, without a single stop being- made. All eating and sleeping will be taken "on the run." Tetilaff anticipates that If no tire trouble is encountered he will seccAias fully conclude the run wtth an average speed of close to twenty miles an hour. He announces that the start from Tla Juana will be made within a few days. Winter Cars Along Auto Row Arc in Great Demand at Present JECD - .... ' I V?-l. CAV.i -C r ;. ( m i sisli" Heard At the Omaha Automobile Club MAXWELX.. i ""wKhii iii m m t I r aw -yur . wr it-- " -Wif-jaw-.. ,... ..... v-iy CHALMERS. Wins Tire Changing Honors of the Coast Leslie Bonette,. employed m the tire de partment of the Miller Automobile com pany, dealers in Dodge Brothers' cars, of Sacramento, Cal., la the champion tire changer of the Pacific coast He won the title in competition with the repre sentative of another motor car company, the test taking place on the stage of the Empress theater at Sacramento. -' The battle was hard fought, Mr. Bonette tying the first time with his opponent, but winning out some days later. The winner gives unstinted credit to the Stan weld rims, with which Dodge cars are equipped, for his success. ' ; ; .-if - H The driver or owner of an unregistered automobile, who la injured, or whose car Is damaged In accident on the public streets, hss been denied recovery of dam ages In the cases cited below, the court decisions holding that the driver, while operating a motor vehlrle unregistered, "was trespassing upon public property." The cases are: Dudley against North ampton Street Railway company, 109 Mass. 443, ft N. K. . O, U R. (N. 8.) Wil: Love against Worcester Consolidated street Railway company, IIS Mass. ITT. W N. B. m: Holland against Boston, lit Mass. WO, 100 N. K. 1006: Holden against Gllllcuddy. 115 Mass. i3, 1( N. E. Kl While the question is an open one In Nebraska, in the absence of a statu tory provision, attorneys would cite the above rases and the courts aouM be likely to recognise them. "Automobile thieves travel in small bands or squads," declares Detective William J. Gleanson of the Philadelphia automobile squad, "and every member Is generally an expert mechanic-Inn. The first step taken by a thief after stealing car Is to file the number from the body of the car and from the engine. .New numbers are then stamped Into the ircn, and only experts can detect the fraud. Nearly every car has some ma-k or de fect by which the owner can Identify It. The thief looks for this and eradicates the mark. The lamps, windshield lind other parts are generally taken off and distributed among other cars. Frequeitly he will trannfer the body of car. A coat of paint completes the deception. The manufacturer of every car mnrks his car and the location of these marks sre placed In the hands ot the police. "There Is another brand of thief, known as a 'stripper.' The 'stripper" never runs the risk of selling a machine. He is clever .enough to steal any car without a key and then strips It of lamps, tiros, tubes and other parts of value and aban dons the carcass." pre4 Witnesses. It Is well established that witnesses who have ordinary ability and means of observation, or who have observed passing automobiles frequently, may tes tify aa to speed. (Court decisions In countless cases). ' Absolute accuracy as to speed of an automobile la not re quired In Judicial proceedings In which the fact la pertinent. .lability for lnjarr. It haa been held that a son Is acting as a servant or agent of his father, and that the latter la liable for an injury resulting from the son's negligent opera tion of the car, where It waa bought for the pleasure end comfort of the owner and his family, and hla son la author ised to use it at any time, and at the time of the Injury he was driving it for the pli-nsure of himself and his sister with a friend who was a guest of tho father's family. 9alc the Speeder, Every person who speeds on the public streets does so with full knowledge of a possibility of arcldent and probably kill ing some person. Were a person to drive a horse and buggy up Farnam street at a rate ot twenty miles an hour, the speed would Impress Itself upon everyone. Rut Is have become so used to seeing a car going at that rate that the Incident leaves no other Impression upon us than the remark "going some" or " some car." When a thief la caught In a bank, even If he haa not stolen anything, he la arrested and fined or Imprisoned for contemplated robbery. While a speeder does not contemplate killing anyone, he Is, nevertheless, breaking the law and fully conscious of the possibility of accident and his re sponsibility in same. There are ten tlmea more Instances of speeding than there are of burglary and the burglar when caught la generally given his deserts. Rut the speeder, who In pro portion, runs a greater risk of taking a human life. Is generally given a light fine and rarely Imprisonment. ' The speeder is more of a menace to human life than the burglar, and the only re son why this form of outlawry la not more fatal la because of our dally train lng In avoiding them. The average man meets a burglar seldom, the apeeder every day. Ten daya in a oell will do much toward "clipping the speeder's wings." We hope the police magistrate has a few vacant ten-day sentences lying around and wilt present them to a few of the Seed bugs. "Blow Down! Pa hi la tefcool." This sign seems to Impel some of the motorists of Omaha to greater speed. instesd of conveying warning. San Francisco places movable algna a blook esch side ot a public school and the tno tortat Is forced to slow down In order to run around them. Omaha could not do better than emulate San Francisco' example. New Winter Dodge Car Put on Market Formal announcement Is being made this week by Dodge Brothers of a n?w winter car. The deaiere have Just re ceived their first cars and the reception accorded them has created a great atlr In the motor car trade. The winter cars are built with the regu lation touring and roadster bodies, but each one has had a demountable top ' Individually fitted to It at the factory; The tops are carefully and firmly at tached to the body without dtaturWn the windshield and can be entirely re moved in summer and the ordinary tno- hair top, which la furnished aa part ot the regular equipment with the new win ter car, substituted. Or the ear oan be quickly converted Into a semi-open car by removing all window glasses, side panels, front posts, etc. The Interior ! electrically lighted. 4 Rare Opportunity For good man to handle faateat retrtngj auto necessity on the market. Will net any one 136 00 weekly hustler eamlnaj 60.n0. Middlewest motorists enthiisl sa tin about It. First demonstration bring order. Easy to carry easy to sell. Ho innHinii'ii necessarr. Write at emre for detsllsj. Lightning Mfg. Co.. Perlisl Bid., Cincinnati, O. WHITB. tlon. This car is as beautiful as can well be conceived. Its Interior appointments are beyond criticism. It can be had in a variety of upholstery fabrics found us ually only In the highest priced car riages. The bodies are from the shops of on of the best known New England carriage builders. This firm hss been famous for generations for the beauty of ita designs and the excellence of Its fin ish. Hudson cars show this skill in pcr fec degree. The Hudson limousine Is adapted to both social and business use. It Is as highly favored In moderate-alsed country towns as It is In large metro politan centers. No Twelve-Cylinder Cars in Europe on Account of the War Hudson Limousine Arrivesta Omaha Distributor Guy L. Smith, representa tive In Omaha for Hudson cars. Is ex hibiting In his show, room his latest ar rival, the new Hudson limousine. This Is one of the new line of Hudson closed cars that haa attracted such favorable attention. It is a surprise to people who before have thought It necesssry to pay big prices for closed car luxury. The Hud son designers have changed this condl- Miss King Says Good WordvforKisselKar ' "Speeding eastward through Ohio on a stiff enough schedule to tax the average man, little Anita King Is rapidly nearlng the end of her nerve-racking cross-oon-tlnentai trip,'.' says.W. L, Killer of the Noyes-Killer Motor Co. "She expects to deliver the- message given her by Mayor James Rolph, Jr., of San Francisco Into the hands of Mayor John Purroy Mitchell of New York during the first -eek in October. . , "Spanning the country in even so de pendable an automobile as the KlsselKar Is a difficult and dangerous venture for a woman to attempt alone, and Miss King Is frank enough to admit that she doesn't want to do it again," continued Mr. KUler. "Mlrs King saya that the performance of her KlsselKar has been nothing short of wonderful, only one replacement of minor consequence being necessary, al though the roads have been terrific. The weather through nearly the entire trip has been as bad as possible." 'If the war had not Intervened. It Is certain that the 18 li European shows would have marked the appearance ot twelve-cylinder motors. In England a well ' known company haa produced a twelve for aviation purposes, and Is al ready supplying this type of motor in big quantltiea to the British and French flying corps. It la understood that the company has made all arrangements tor producing a car with a twelve-cylinder motor, but this cannot be offered to the public, for the entire output of the fac tory has been requisitioned for military purposes. It is declared that the car Is fitted with two speeds only, the low gear being for starting away and emer gency service, for the motor will be ca pable of doing 99 per cent' of Its work through direct drive. Big Auto Travel to Yellowstone Park During August, the - first month In which Yellowstone park has been opened to motor car tourists, a total ot S'X motor cars have toured the park. These cars have carried a total of S.010 tourists, an average of over three persons per car. Owing to the bad weather, tourist travel In the park has been falling off quite rapidly, the heavy rains throughout the territory west of the Mississippi being largely responsible for this decline In travel. j&Zfl Mi Wm The P uaMy rice Is High S LOW YOU never hear the Maxwell spoken nf in r.nnnppiinn with Hia "phpnn" cars it is not of that class, and we are proud of it. The Maxwell is a quality car at a VERY reasonable price. In the Maxwefi quality and economy meet, they go hand in hand. The Maxwell now sells for $655.00 and in it you will get a car superior to others at the same price, or equal to machines selling much higher. But, talk is cheap, so we want all Ak-Sar-Ben visitors to come and examine the Maxwell so as to see that we are telling the truth. BRIEF SPECIFICATIONS Electric Starter nnd lights. Demountable Iiims.. High Tension Magneto. "One-Man" Mohair Top. New Streamline Design. , Double Ventilating Windshield, Clear Vision and Rain-Proof. Electric Horn. Wider Front and Rear Seats. Aluminum Transmission Housing. Handsomely Rounded Radiator and Hood. Automatic Tell-Tale Air Gauge. Heat-Treated, Tested Steel Throughout. Improved Instrument Board with all instruments set flush. C. W. Francis Auto Co. Cadillac "Eight"the Car You Know Is Right It would hardly bo fair to say the Cadillac "Eight" is the only good car. Yet you feel there is a certain degree of goodness about tho Cadillac which no other car quite approaches. Your assurance of getting your money's worth of getting a thoroughly dependable car and a long lived car seems doubly sure when you buy a Cadillac. It is not that other cars lack merit; but tho goodness of tho' Cadillac is so well known. So many thousands of buyers have proved it for you that it has ceased to be a matter of speculation. It is always a question whether the other car is as good as the Cadillac. You know the Cadillac possesses a degree of goodness you are not sure of in any other car and that's enough. As to your money's worth, the signs are clearer stillIf you know how to read them. Most makers don't seem to know what a good car ought to cost rather they appear to be gueising at what price you would like to pay. But there is no guessing at the Cadillac Factory. Tho Cadillac is always made as fine as it is possible to make a car-and when cost records proved the Cadillac cost more to manufacture the price was increased to cover it , There is something fair and square and true and brave about such a policy something that makes you , trust the Cadillac people when they say $2,080 is what the .best car ought to cost. And if these people dare to raise the price when nearly all other makers are cutting prices, they must have wonderfully inflexible standards of quality. It would be diffi cult to.believe anybody is capable of producing a finer car. Cadillac dependability and long-life are bywords the world over. No- body knows how long a Cadillac will last the first ones are 13 years old and are still running. As for the Cadillac "Eight," its smoothness has doubled its chances of life, and its marvelous performance and de pendability have revolutionized the industry. Yes, these are tho things that make you feel there is a certain degree of goodness about the Cadillac which no other car quite approaches. The Cadillac "Eight" is the car you know is right. Standard Limousine, $3,550 F. 0. B. Omaha. S-PauoDgr Victoria. $2,500 r. 0. B. Omaha. Berlin Limousins, $3,700 F. O. B. Omaha. 2060-64 Farnam Street. Standard 7-Paseenfer Touring Car, 5-Pasaenxer Salon and 2-Pasaeogar Roadster, $2130 P. O. B. Omaha Cadillac Company of Omaha CEO. F. REIil, President Phona Douglai 4225. J. i Phone Douglas 853. 2024 Farnam St.