PACKARD COMPANY
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Cadillac Passenger Cars Sent
Overland on Its Trucks to
Avoid Delays From Freight
Congestion.
Three Twin Six enclosed passen
ger cars, loaded on Packard three-ton
trucks, were started December 24
from the Packard factory, overland,
for Baltimore. Another truck carried
a passenger car body.
L. A. Suckenholt, manager of the
specifications department of. the Pack
ard company, says that the demand
for passenger cars is so urgent that
such a means of delivery must be
provided. Purchasers feel that they
can not make the best use of their
time, nowadays, when thoy are so
rushed with work, privately and for
the government, without the use of
their cars. . ,
Mr. Stuckenholt told about L. H.
Mesline, a Washington, D. C , cartage
and trucking man, who took delivery
of two three-ton trucks at the Pack
ard factory on December 22. Mesline
had these trucks driven to the Cadil
lac Motor Car factory, where two
passenger cars were loaded on the
trucks. Before leaving Washington
Mesline had contracted with the Cad
illac dealer at the capital to deliver
the two cars for him.
"It is only a forerunner of what
will be done generally," said Mr.
Stuckenholt. "The freight embargo
will make it necessary to move a
wide variety of commodities by trucks
instead of by rail."
Keep Storage Batteries
Always in Good Condition
If you've, ever had the experience
of cranking a motor with the tempera
ture 10 degrees below zero, you will
appreciate the importance of keeping
your storage battery in good condi
tion during the winter months. Here
are a few suggestions offered by
Elmer Rosengren of the Nebraska
Storage Battery company, which
every motor car owner will do well
to heed: " ,
Very little trouble is experienced
with the storage battery if it is kept
filled with distilled water and fully
cfirged.-
Priming the motor is one way to
avoid the necessity of having the,
starter spin the motor for any length
of time.
It isn't necessary to worry about a
storage battery all the time in order
to keep it wording properly, but a
periodic inspectibn will do more good
than any amount of guesswork. The
car owner can even make this in
spection himself or have it made free
of charge at any of the Willard serv
ice stations. They will tell him the
exact condition of his battery, what
it needs and how he should take care
of it in order to get the best results
from it. A battery should not be al
lowed to run down, especially in .cold
weather, because the danger of freez
ing is greater when the charge is
weak. The results of a frozen bat
tery are too serious to be risked
through the lack of attention.' Since
the successful operation of electric
lighting and starting systems depends
to such a great extent upon the stor
age battery, it only seems natural that
the car owner should take care of
his battery and follow the suggestions
offered by those who have his good
in mind. . " , .
Franklin Price Soars
Without Advance Notice
"Franklin prices have again gone
up," asserts H. Pelton of the Frank
lin Motor Car company. "This time
without formal notice to, the dealers.
This is the strongest evidence of what
motor car buyers must expect for the
present 'prices subject to change
without notice.'
"Fortunately we have a fair stock
of roadsters, sedans, broghams and
touring cars in stock, so for the pres
ent this advance will not affect the
Omaha market. We believe that deal
ers should be satisfied with one profit
und consequently will sell all the
models on hand at the present, prices.
This will amount to a saving of from
$100" to $200 to Omaha purchasers
while our stock holds out.
"We will do no advertising regard
ing the advance m price other than
to notify those we know to be inter
ested in an immediate purchase, but
anticipate a rapid turnover of the
stock of cars on hand."
Autocars for Bigger and
Better Parcel Post Use
The Postoffice department's new
"farm to table" motor truck service
is getting enthusiastic reception from
farmers along the route, according to
department officials commenting on
t?ieV'an to put the farm products at
the disposal of city homes.
The first route links Philadelphia
and Baltimore with the rich farming
district of Chester county. Pennsyl
vania. Oxford, in the center of the
county is the end of the route. Auto
cars bought by the department are
making frequent trips between the
country postoffices and both cities.
Under the "farm to table" plan the
depi'tment has issued booklets giving
the names of the farmers along the
route who are willing to sell their
products on mail orders from either
city.. The farmer fills his orders and
turns them over to the nearest post
office, or other collection point. Then
the auto car trucks carry them to the
Philadelphia! and Baltimore postoffice
City Ordinance Confusing
To Great Many Motorists
From the number of intersection
accidents occuring it seems that the
interpretation of the ordinance on
right-of-way is confusing to a great
many motorists. s The ordinance
passed in October, last year, by the
city commissioners, gives the man on
the right the right-of-way, excepting
that the motorist on a boulevard
shall have right-of-way over car com
,ing at right angles on intersecting
, road or street. "The man to the
right" means the car to the , right of
the right angle. For instance: You
are coming down Farnam street, an
other car is coming ver Twentieth
from the south the car coming over
Twentieth street is the -car to the
right and has right-of-way. A parked
car has the right-of-way over cars
coming to the rear.
' The necessity of automobile clubs
in facilitating traffic on the highways
is apparent in the quick response of
the members in paying their 1918
Circus Train Lends Hand to Aid
Shippers in Stirring War Times
When shameless Salome trees shed
the last of their leafy veils and there
is a hint of snow in the crisp autumn
air, the circus ceases its tireless migra
tions and goes into winter quarters.
The "ponderous, pea-eyed, palm
eared pachydern" trumpets in abso
lute contentment and lifting his trunk
laboriously proceeds to eat his head
off. The clown's smile no longer is
a forced grimace that cracks his white
grease-paint. Even the press agent
puts his trained flock of startling al
literations in moth balls and heads
for Broadway and illuminated hiber
nations. So, with November's chill, Tatter
son's Wild West show adhered re
ligiously to the time-honored circus
custom. Bronchos bucked, Indians
"bit the dust" and the stage coach of
red pioneer days rumbled over the
sawdust littered plains for the last
time, and the train of twenty-six flats
and three "bull" cars clicked over tie
rails on its farewell pull and slowed
down in the yards at Paoli, Kan., with
creaks of fatigue and joy.
But the joy notes of it soon changed
to a dirge of complaint The fates,
the war, the freight shortage and the
Oakland Motor Car company of
from which they are delivered through
the regular channels of the parcel
post
That the farmers are enthusiastic
over the new service is the assurance
given by an Oxford newspaper, which
says :
"The Postoffice department's new
auto car trucks made the initial run
between Oxford and Philadelphia and
Baltimore with great success. Citi
zens living along the routes hailed
the trucks as they passed and plied to
the drivers with questions as to how
they could make use of the service.
The auto cars are of ton and a half
capacity, substantially built and
snugly enclosed. The words 'United
States Mail' shine in new letters on
the sides of the trucks." t
Westcott Has Own Show
At Springfield Factories
The people of Springfield, O., are
tremendously interested in their home
industries and intensely loyal to them.
This has been made continually evi
dent to the manufacturers of the
Westcott cars that have been sold
in that city since the Westcott plant
located there. As a mark of apprecia
tion for this patronage and for the
great interest which almost every
motorist in Springfield takes in the
Westcott, the officials of the West
cott Motor Car company conceived
the idea of letting their fellow citi
zens see the Westcott New York
show exhibit previous to its shipment
east
A room approximating the space
occupied by the Westcott at the
Grand Central Palace was fitted up in
the Westcott factory and the five
beautiful cars were placed in practi
cally the same position they occupy
at the show. On Saturday afternoon,
December, 29, the people of Spring
field came in by scores to see the
new models. . .
The sensation of the exhibit was
the Westcott Sportster. This is the
new pre-season model which is sure
to be in tremendous demand with the
coming of fair weather. Low, rakish,
straight-lined, it speaks eloquently of
speed, get-away, get-there and all
round service. Every visitor was at
tracted by the unusual beauty of this
car and By its remarkable complete
ness of equipment It seems that the
Westcott designers have thought of
everything needed to make this a car
to live in as well as to ride in. Storage
compartments under lock and key,
vacuum bottle, cigar lighter, bumpers
front and rear, are but a few of the
many things which are included
without extra charge. i
Omaha Board to Discuss
Fruit and Grape Culture
The Omaha Real Estate board is
looking forward with interest to the
discussions at its next meeting of the
fruit industry, particularly giape cul
ture, and will consider the practica
bility of co-operation in growing
grapes. The board will be addressed
by N. H. Nelson, who has givtn grape
culture as much consideration from
the financial side as any one in the
city. Mr. E. A. Lewis of Benson and
E. H. Walker of Florence, both prom
inent in the development of grape cul
ture, will also be present to offer val
uable suggestions.
A prominent realtor of Omaha in
an interview expresses his ctnviction
that the fruit-growing industry, par
ticularly the growing of grapes, has
been lost sight of by the Commercial
club and other business organizations
in their effort's to secure new indus
tries. "What industry.'Vsaid he, "of
fers greater returns and surer re
turns than the grape industry in the
light of the experience of the last 25
years?" He further said that no
bonuses were required, no large capi
tal necessary, the number of employes
would equal that of any other indus
try that could be mentioned, consider
ing capital and care involved, and
that properly managed would mean
in the end manufacturing that would
give us nation-fwide publicity and an
increased commercial importance that
few shops or mills could give us. He
will probably urge at the next meet
ing of the Real Estate board that ex
traordinary effort be made to inter
est capital and business in this, as he
considers it most practical industry.
dues, over 65 per cent already remit
ting. Those rough-hewn granite blocks
that pave between the street car
tracks are cussed more by motorists
than any other source of discomfort
and car ruining. These granite
blocks are wonderfully enduring and
will probably do Omaha for the next
500 years. They can be taken up and
laid down again a trifle more un
even. They rack cars into junk and
are generally from three to six in
ches higher than the abutting pave
ment The Club Touring bureau will be
enlarged by the addition of Pulver's
Strip cards, road logs of Nebraska
and adjoining states, free to mem
bers. Why "not a national law against
auto thefts? The automobile js a
$4,000,000,000 national asset, reliev
ing traffic congestion. Why not hit
the thief an Uncle Sam wallop?
Pontiac, Mich., had decreed that the
circus train was not to spend a w inter
of rest and idleness on an isolated
side track. A resourceful traffic man
ager, unable to secure enough regular
equipment from the railroads to move
the Oakland product, leased the
gaudily painted flats, and the elephant
cars from the owner of the Wild West
show, and put them to work once
more.
Thus the circus, oldest of amuse
ments, is lending a helping hand to
the automobile industry, tone of the
youngest and richest of trades.
"The circus train has proved to be
one of the solutions to what was
once a baffling shipping problem,"
said William Mesten, general sales
manager of the Oakland company.
VWe use it in making long hauls to
distant points where driveaways are
not feasible because of road condi
tions. It already has made two trips
from Pontiac to Kansas City and
will make runs to Omafia and Minne
apolis very' soon.
"The flat cars in the circus outfit
are exceptionally long and we can
load six or seven on each of them,
while the carrying capacity of regular
flat cars is limited to two machines."
RETAIL CLOTHIERS
MEET NEXT MONTH
State Association Will Discuss
War Time Problems; Speak
ers of Prominence on
Program.
How to make up for the men who
have been taken from the clothing
stores for the war, is one of the prob
lems the Retail Clothiers' association
of Nebraska will discuss- in conven
tion at the Hotel Fontenelle, Febru
ary 12-14. Secretary C. E. Wescott of
Plattsmuoth says the program will
take on a war time nature. The in
creased production of sheep hvorder
to increase the supply of wool, is also
one of the problems.
Tht list of speakers has not yet
been definitely made up, but Ross
Hammond of Fremont is to be among
them, to speak on his observations on
the western front in France. Walter
W. Head, Omaha banker; Robert H.
Manley, commissioner of the Com
mercial club of Omaha; Prof. Klinga
man of the University of Iowa; S. II.
Keller of Cleveland, and Charles
Beno of Council Bluffs, also are listed
as speakers.
The Men's Apparel club of Omaha
will entertain the delegates at "a
smoker-luncheon, and also an Orph
eum theater party.
Discipline Is Basis of
First Class Scout troop
R. M. Brown, scoutmaster of Troop
No.i 7, declares that he has learned
that discipline is the foundation of a
successful scout troop.
"It seemed that we were not getting
anywhere, when I became impressed
with the belief that out troop needed
discipline, and so I resolved to put it
into practice," he said. "I appointed
some patrol leaders and told them
what to do, and gave them to under
stand that they would be backed up
and that any complaints against
their actions would be referred to the
committee on discipline. I gave the
boys to understand that they were
not going to be forced to observe
disciplipe, but that intended to
have discipline.
Bf making the boys understand
that discipline means unanimous ac
tion along certain approved lines,
they began to appreciate the value of
discipline. The idea is working out
and I feel that it will yield results."
The boy who gets it into his head
that he can run Troop No. 7 will
have another guess coming. Mr.
Brown believes in explaining to the
boys that the troops are being main
tained for their benefit, and that dis
cipline is essential for any well
ordered group of persons. -
Sweet Buys Back Lot
For Double Sale Price
An indication of how values have
increased on Twenty-fourth .street is
indicated by the sale of 408-410 South
Twenty-fourth street from . Jacob
Baier to Ernest Sweet, for $20,500,
which sale has just been completed;
C G. Carlberg representing the seller
and Glover & Spain the purchaser.
In December, 1905, Jacob, Baier
bought the ground, with a frontage
of 69 feet on South Twenty-fourth
street ifrom Ernest Sweet, paying for
same $.3,400. He then improved it by
a double brick flat costing approxi
mately $7,600. Ernest Sweet, in buying
it back just 12 years later, is paying
$9,500 additional for the ground and
in the meantime Mr. Baier has rented
the fiat for $100 a month and taken
out about $16,000 in rents.
Omaha real estate pays. Mr. Sweet
feels that he is getting a better bar
gain now at $20,500 than he gave Mr.
Baier when he sold the ground at
$.1400.
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MANU" USURERS
fee -
HOWARD GOULDING.
Howard Goalding was elected pVesi
dent of the Omaha Manufacturer' as
sociation at the noon meeting of the
directors at the Commercial club.
Penn P. F6lrea was elected vice
president, Ross Towle -secretary and
W. J. Monaghan treasurer.
HISTORICAL BODY
TO MEET THIS WEEK
Forty-First Annual Meeting of
State Society Will Be Held
at Lincoln; Many
Speakers.
The Nebraska State Historical so
ciety will hold its 41st annual meet
ing at Lincoln next Tuesday and
Wednesday. On the same days, the
Nebraska Territorial Pioneers' associ
ation will hold its 26th annual meet
ing, and the Nebraska Memorial asso
ciation will hold its seventh annual
meeting. These three societies are af
filiated in the work of presenting and
publishing the history of i!i state.
Each will have its usual business
meeting and an elaborate program of
addresses by leading citizens from
different parts of the stat, but most
general public interest will be cen
tered upon the program of the Ne
braska State Historical society.
Since its organization in 1878 this
society has published 18 volumes of
Nebraska history, besides a number
of pamphlets; has accumulated a mu
seum of 40,000 specimens; a library
of 52,000 books and pamphlets; and
collected 10,000 volumes of Nebraska
newspapers. It is said to have a
complete file of every newspaper ever
issued in Nebraska. Samuel C. Bas
sett of Gibbon is president. There
are now 1,200 members, and a large
attendance is expected.
N. Y. Clsaring House Reserve
Shows Increase for Week
New York, Jan. 12. The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week shows
that they hold $78,573,010 reserve in
excess of legal requirements. This is
an increase of $17,302,490 from last
week.
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Council Bluffs Board
Active and Aggressive
Byron R. Hastings addressed the
Council Bluffs Real Estate board
Wednesday noon at luncheon on
"Tendenices in Subdivision Work."
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Air. iiaMings reports ims uuaur iu i
be a live bunch, active and aggres
sive. J neir winter s program shows
a list of practical topics to be con
sidered each week, with leading real-
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tors of Council Bluffs discussing
them. In addition to Mr. Hastings,
H. A. Tukey is on the program in
March for a discussion on "Real Es
tate Business as a Profession and
License Therefor." This board has
about 25 members. The president is
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Western Distributor
Omaha, Neb.
Germans Claim U-Boat '
Campaign is to Be Developed
London, Jan. 12. Reviewing the
first year of Germany's ruthless sub
marine campaign which ends Febru
ary 1, the Tageblatt asserts that the
centrarpowers have succeeded in com
pletely upsetting the economic life
of the entente and adds thai the sub
marine campaign, which has. now be-,
come the principal factor in naval
warfare, is being expanded and de
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