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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1910)
TTTR OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: MATtCII .27, 1010. 0 8, tie Average toiiduMMst AUTOMM COJUFORT H The answer is ooo 8 . ; . y--'" J 1.1 -"J-J I - J , . KTTQCBIU' .''luiili'iii.iiii . i n i. n " !i r," "ii ,"15 .in -.. . ir, V.i;waia y Stall As It Hay All FRANK Nor does th avenge man know the sensation of flying: in an areoplane, and he never will unless he tries it. In the same way the automobilist does not know oomfort until he uses a really comfortable automobile. He judges easy riding by what he ia used to and may permit himself to be satis fied with an standard far below what he might enjoy. . . ' MODEL G TOURING OAH $1,860. (TOP EXTRA.) MODEL D TOURING OAR $2,800. (TOP EXTRA.) Not to have full comfort U to miss the best part What ono will get In comfort, not what he thinks or be lieves, is what the automobile buyer wants to know. Only In this way can he ret the proper standard of com fort. Find Out If you think the ordinary automobile Is as comfort able as a Franklin the thing to do la to make a com parative test. If you think the rigid steel frame and seml-elliptlo spring construction commonly used In any way equals the Franklin full-elliptic spring and wood-frame flexible construction an investigation will be a revelation. If you think a certain amount of jarring and Jolt ing must be endured your understanding of what you are entitled to is wrong. Jars, Jolts and vibrations from road shocks are no more necessary in an automobile than in a fine carriage. Our Idea of Comfort The Franklin idea of comfort is not how fast you can drive and not throw the passengers out; but how far and how fast you can drive with, perfect ease and en joyment. Built on this idea, the Franklin is always com fortable. It makes the best time; the passengers do not suffer fatigue. The automobile Itself is not racked. And comfort is more than easy riding. If an auto mobile is comfortable It is proof that It is a good auto mobile. If it is comfortable It does not pound itself; . it does not deteriorate and rattle. It Is easy On Itself -and on the tires. Oomfort and Readability An easy riding automobile has the most readability. Power alone does not give readability. Unless you can drive along smoothly and consistently you are not get ting the full advantage of the power. That the Franklin has the most roadablUty and the greatest endurance is evidenced in many ways, and es pecially by the fact that its Ban Francisco-New York and Chicago-New York records have stood for years unbroken. Although the roads across the country have been Im mensely Improved other automobiles have not been able to even approach our records, which is very significant. Advanced Design Comfort, light weight, simplicity these are the features you want. They are the hall marks of advanced design. Comfort, the great thing to be sure of, means .everything; simplicity means lack of trouble; light weight means economy and safety. On the basts of ability and staying Qualities the Franklin Is the lightest aatomoblie made. Air Cooling That Will Not Overheat The Franklin new cooling system Is the one great sucoess of the year. The cooling system is the engine Itself, there being no auxiliary mechanism something never before accomplished. You really do not know that you have a cooling system for it requires no atten tion and gives no trouble. It will not overheat nor freeze. Wrong on the Tire Question The tire question,' "problem" it is called, is another subject that is not understood. The standard usually accepted Is wrong. The carrying of extra tires and sub mitting to delay and trouble are thought to be "part of the game," and so they are with the average automobile. But Investigation an effort to find out instead of ac cepting the common belief will give you the proper standard. There Is no tire problem with the Franklin. Bo reliable Is the tire equipment that extra tires are cot carried. The tires will not blow out. They give service for four times the mileage of the ordinary tire equipment. You can ask the tire manufacturers. It is simple enough. Being light and flexible, the Franklin is easy' on its tires. We do not stop there, but equip our automobiles with extra large tires so that the tires are not overloaded nor put under stress by fast driving. Proof 1810 Franklins are not provided with tire carrying irons. At first purchasers were .loath to accept them without such irons and without providing extra Urea, but they do now experience has proved our claims. We have a long list of reports from owners showing almost unbelievable mileage without evea a puncture. ' Model O, $1,850, a Challenge Wihlle we take off our hat to the many manufactur ers producing splendid automobiles of medium size at low price, there has not yet been one produced that equals Franklin Model O. We brought this model oat in 1906. Its tremendous success has spurred manufacturers every where to an effort to meet Its competition. But none has succeeded. Model O is the only touring oar of low price that has enduring quality. Bo good Is it, like any -Franklin, that we would match it in a transcontinental contest agsnst any automobile made, no matter what its lie or price. Bix-oylinder Model H, $3,750 No Franklin ever had less than four cylinders. In 1906 we brought out Model II other manufacturers, who had just begun making four cylinders and who had been building one, two and three cylinders while we bad for years been making four cylinders, said the six was absurd! But we went right ahead, and today. Franklin Model H Is supreme in the six-cylinder class. Its Increase In power Is thirty per cent greater than the lnoreate in weight No other manufacturer has done this. Its upkeep is very much less than the upkeep of a four-cylinder of equal power. This is because it is lighter and because it has' a very light fly wheel and Is easy on' all Its parts and on its tires. For high power It is safer construction. A' high-powered four-cylinder motor requires a heavy fly wheel, and a heavy fly wheel require heavy construction throughout. A heavy fly wheel is hard .on the mechanism and on the Urea and la In Itself an element of danger. To be ideal an automobile engine would not require a fly wheel. In the present development, however, the fly wheel Is an undesirable necessity, but In a six It Is less of a necessity than in a four. Model D, $2,800 Model D has long been the leader In the medium class. It Is the best automobile for the average user. It Is so well proportioned that it is large enough for touring and at the flame time small enough for city work. MODEL H TOURING OAR $3,750. (TOP EXTRA.) , 1 Perhaps you wonder why other manufacturers are so slow to employ Franklin construction light weight, full-elliptio spring all around, wood chassis frame, large wheels, large tires and air cooling. But when you consider that in all the affairs of the world's history it is the one who stands apart from the crowd that turns out to be the leader you know the answer. . . i She rraaklta oatalogna, the clearest, ' frankest expression oa the automobile subject ererr pablUheO, will be ml fee en rqus. 1 GUY SMITH, 2205-2207 Farnam St., .Omaha, Neb Phone Douglas 1970 JHAUFFEOR'A PAID DRIVER Pennsylvania Defines the Meaning of Term at Law in a Decision. , IS THE OWNER A CHAUFFEUR! Judge staake Hands Don a Least y Decision, Which Rreraea Some j Holloas aond Throws Some Light. PHILADELPHIA. March M. Through the erforta of the Quaker City Motor club, acting for the Pennsylvania Motor federa tion, a judicial opinion wa. obtained last week regarding- automobile licensing In this state. Judge Staake, sitting In Quar ter Sessions court, decided that It la not ' a violation of tha automobile act of 1909, now In effect, for an unlicensed parson, not a paid operator, to take out and run a motor vehicle with tha consent of the owner. This opinion is In contradlotlon of the Interpretation of tha law given by Deputy Attorney . General Hartgest, and put Into force by the state highway de partment. Section 5 of the law reads as follows: "Every person desiring to operate a motor vehicle as a chauffeur,, or paid operator, hall first obtain a drtrer'e lloense." This carries with It the necessity of wearing tha chauffeur's badge In a conspicuous place while driving. It was the general opinion that tha law required only those who drove for hire to take eut a license and wear the badge. But upon Inquiry at Harrlaburg, the law waa Interpreted by the deputy attorney general to mean that everyone who drove a car, save tha actual owner, must fulfill tha license requirements. Upon this, O. Douglas Bartlatt, counsel tor tha Quaker City Motor club, planned a test case. On January 2 Stanley Cooper, a member of the club, was arrested for driving his sister's car without a driver's license. He was fined by Magistrate Scott $10 and costs, amounting to $150. ' Cooper refused to pay the fine, declaring that tha Inter pretation of tha law was unconstitu tional. An appeal waa taken. Nearly a month later, tha decision In the appeal was handed down by Judge Staake, who reversed the Judgment of the magis trate and Incidentally promulgated tha first legal definition of tha term "chauffeur ever given In thla state. The woid Is de fined to mean a paid operator of a motor vehicle. Tha following parugrapba from the lengthy opinion may be cited aa of in tervst to automoblHsts: "The contention of tha commonwealth U that the word 'chauffeur,' aa used in sec tion 5 of the act of April J7, 190 (p. L. roS), means any driver of an automobile or one who drlvea or operates an automo bile, and that the word Includes not only prolecglonul or paid operators or persons who operate automobiles as employes, but all operators or other persons, whether Itiry do or do not receive compensation directly or Indirectly, for their services In ppiH'tlng. Such a definition 'of tha term 'chauffeur' would appear to bo a strained iiiChiiims, and one contrary to the one klvcn to It In general uee and to the ac cepted meaning of tha word as used In the various motor vehicle statutes enacted and In force throughout tha United States. wlthrut as wa are persuaded from a care ful inspection of the statutes single ex crptlon. In the thirty-eight states In which motor vehicle laws have bean enacted, there Is ai en Instance where tha law has either defined tha word "chauffeur" to mean any thing other than a paid ' operator, or em ploye, and where It fas not been defined It has not been construed to mean any thing else or anything mora. Protect th Pnbllo. The commonwealth contends that the purpose of tha aot was to protect the pub lic It would, however, appear that If, aa tha commonwealth admits,, the owner of a motor vehicle "by reason of his registra tion and without any further license, may operate," the publlo la not as well pro tected tinder the act of 1909 aa under tha aot of 1906. Wa may ask If the publlo la necessarily protected by a licensed badged driver of a motor vehicle? No qualification Is re quired of the person making applloatlon for a driver's license other than that ha sign a blank and swear to It, setting forth hla own qualifications, of which he la made the Judge. The registration of a motor vehicle by tha owner protecta the publlo to tha extent that the responsible owner of the vehicle la known and ha la responsible for tha acts of those driving It. Any person violating the apeed or other provisions of the act can be pun ished, whether ha ba chauffeur, paid op erator, owner or some other third person. Tha power of th State Highway commis sion to revoke the registration of the motor vehicle upon reasonable ground, for Improper conduct in Its operation, where tha punishment under tha provisions of tha act la not adequate, la an additional pro tection to the public. This penalty can be Imposed for the misconduct of a son. brother or ether relative of aa owner and, besides, the relative of the owner can be panlshed by a summary oonvlotlon for his Infraction of th law. The commonwealth also contends that the sense la which the legislature used tha word 'chauffeur Is the eenae In which it Is defined by the laxloographers, and quote the Century Dictionary's definition, 'the driver of an automobile,' and the Standard's, 'one who drlvea or operates an automobile,' but admits that It 'may be that It la now coming to mean tha paid operator of a motor carriage by whatever means propelled.' When w oonsult Web ster's latest dictionary, w find 'chauffeur' defined te be 'a professional export In the operation of automobiles.' A professional expert I always paid and Is usually paid well for his professional services. Brook haus (German) gives tha same definition. 'Chauffeur la a Frenoh word, and It Is not unreasonable to assume that this word being used in th act Is followed by its English equivalent, 'as a paid operator.' What th Reeord Shows. "Still, when th lexicographer disagree, we are more warranted In accepting th legislative definitions In other common wealths, and the accepted understanding of the meaning of th word among motorists, namely, that a 'chauffeur la tha aervant o' tha owner of a motor vehicle, hired to drive and attend to th ear. If the brother of tha owner of a motor vehicle becomes a chauffeur by bis driving It with th own er's consent, then why should not tha driver of a earring or other vehicle under like conditions become a ooaohmanT Own era of motor vehlolea are not pron to hire or loan them to Inexperienced, reck lesa persona. Th value of tha motor vehicle itself and the responsibility of the registered owner, aa wa have shown. Is a ncoessaxy deterrent "Affidavits filed In this cas of men who are familiar with th operation of auto mobiles and have an extensive knowledge and experience with motor clubs alt define a 'chauffeur aa a man who drives an automobile for hire. This Is undoubtedly th common acceptation of th word. The effort to secure uniformity of legislation In such an Important matter la on of com mon knowledge. Inquiry satisfies the court that as far ae tha automobile Industry and the. users of motor vehicles are concerned. It would only be by a strained and un natural Construction and foreign to the acoepted usage that the term 'chauffeur oeuld be mad to Inolud operators other than employes for hire. "The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers and tha American Automo bile association use the word 'chauffeur to mean an operator for hire, and it is the opinion of the court that th word, aa we believe w have ahown, has always been used In that sense In dealing with motor vehicle legislation. Believing this to be a fair Interpretation of th,e language of the set, the Judgment of tha committing mag istrate Is reversed and tha appeal la sua-talnad." MEHTEAPOLIS CLUB IS ACTIVE Has Been Making; Blar Boost In Mem bership List. One of the moat active cluba in tha cen tral western states during the last year has been the Minneapolis Automobile club, which Is in a better condition, financially and otherwise, than ever before. During the last yaar the club has Increased its membership by 100, the present total being 876 Among the more recent ' lnoldents showing tha activity of tha club la the offer of a $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of automobile thieves. Perhaps the moat affective atep taken to stop fas; driving la the maintenance of a vlgllanco committee, the members of whloh are known only to the president. They report all eases ef fast or reckless driving which coma to their notice to President Lowry. and violators In each Instance are notified that the club is aware that they are speed ing their cars. Better reads for Hennepin county ia another project whloh haa been fathered by th club. Th promoters be lieve it will result in giving -a further im petus to motoring, as wall as work toward the Interest of property owners and othera who us th thoroughfare. Means have been devised whereby tha expenditure of funds for this purpose will be dons to tha best advantage. CAUSE OF MUCH LOST P0WES Brake Are Often Oat ef Ad J net meat and Need Attention. Among th occasional causes of lost power may be numbered a certain derange ment of th rear brakes which is not read ily Identified, and haa recently befallen a New Tork automobilist. Without any warn ing, his car evlnoed a sad falling away In power, first apeed being required for quite Insignificant gradients. Nothing amlaa was discovered in a brief survey of tha most likely details, and at last, by a stroke of luck, the car was one day pushed out into the yard for cleaning. Instead of being driven out. Th car proved to be immov able with brake lever in th "off position but could easily b pushed with tha the brake three notches "on." This waa the explanation of the lost power. Many rear brakes are operated by a shaped cam working In an oval spac between th loose ends of two shoes. A rather Inaccessible adjustment on th brake couplings had worked . looe and lengthened tha connec tions, so that the brakes were "on" with tha lever at either extremity of Its quad rant, and "off" with th lever In the center of Its quadrant. r -- - i When, you want wnat you want whan you want It. aay so thjrourb. The Bee Want Ad columns. Benefits of Flag to Flag Auto Contest F. Ed Spooner, Who Went with Path finder Car, Tells of Condi tions of Baoe. A score of entries are confidently pre dicted by the management of the flag to flag endurance and reliability contest, un der Amateur Automobile association sanc tion and rules, which starts for the City of Mexico from Denver on Monday, May For this event Q. A. Wahlgreen of Den ver offers a massive trophy of symbolic design. No one could be better acquainted with the condition to be Incurred and the value of this contest than F. Ed Spooner, the manager of the pathfinder trip. Concerning this event Mr., Spooner has the following to say: 'After having made the Flag te Flag pathfinder trip from Denver to the City of Mexico I am perhaps better posted with regard to tha value of this contest to the trade than any other man. We found in our travels that practically nine-tenths of the motorists from Colo rado Springs all the way to the City of Mexico, about 1,500 miles, were home bodies. They never dared risk using their ma chines in the country at large. Through large territories we found that our recep tion committees were In strange territory themselves and oftentimes afraid to risk going any further away from home. 'The flag to flag contest will carry on tha good work which we started by the pathfinder trip, and will lncreaae the num ber of users of automobiles. These users at tha present time are satisfied to drive their cars within a restricted area near home; as a result of tha tour they will start traveling over large and unopened territory. This will naturally create pur chasers. "The tour aa outlined covera a territory where money is now being made. This ap plies to the dry farming country, as well as to the Irrigated territory. Irrigation is being introduced over the large territories, and the application of water to the desert brings wealth In great chunks. Tha coun-1 try blossoms like a roee under water, and irrigation Is being Introduced, not only through the lands covered In the United States, but also In Mexico. "The Mexican, find that It Is possible to reach water by artesian wells. At Alameda wa found an artesian well flowing a stroam eight Inches In diameter and flooding the surrounding country. The people did not know what to do with the water. We were Informed that thla will coat only $4,600. It served aa an object lesson to other portions of tha country and 'we found many wells being dug. "These wells bring wealth, and wealth mtans motor cars. We found through a large territory that motoring Interest was created throughout our trip and th tour It self will arous Mexico as nothing else could do. Since th completion of our trip I have heard from friends throughout tha republic who state sine we went through tbe motorists have been, going out more Into th country. "I was Informed that tha Republic of Mexico haa 1, 000,000 popl who have auf flolent wealth to purchase automobiles, and that barely 1,600 machine are today owned In the republic. "Th value of th tour to th Amerlcai, maker is vary great and is bound to bring business to tha American manufacturers. It must be evident that the American maker will in the near future be serving new fields to conquer, and Mexico, ou. sis ter republic, - is right at our doors. The flag toflag contest will ba the wedge that will bring big sales to the American mak ers of 1911." GLLDDEN TOUR OF KENTUCKY Root Laid Ont Throngrh Country Overflow-In, with History. When the Olidden tourists hit th Ken tucky trail next June they will enter a section rich in hlatorlo data. Nelson county, Kentucky, Is famed the world over for Its whisky, and Bardstown is the county seat It is a safe gamble that of the 80,000,000 persons In the United States, few outside of Kentucky, know that here lies the body of Lieutenant John Fitch of the New Jer sey Volunteers in the continental army. That does not signify much, but when you add that Fitch had a steamboat plying the waters of the Delaware river, seventeen years before Fulton started up the Hudson In the Clalrmont, on takes notice. It was In a little pool, near the present bridge over the creek which separates Bardstown from . Federal Hill, that Fitch tried the model of his steam engine. The one and a half-storied brick house, where he lived, a stone's throw from the pool. Is still standing and occupied by a negro family. His grave is unkept in a cemetery where the pigs and cattle roam, in the rear of the Hotel Newman, which was built 117 yeara ago. About a year ago the Daughters of the Confederacy placed a simple marker at the head of tha grave. They are now trying to raise money for a suitable monument. The grave of Fltoh waa dlaoovered in a peculiar manner. Some individual was delving through the old records of the court house and found a transfer of Fitch's realty to the landlord of the hotel In consideration of his keep for tha bal ance of hla life, a pint of corn liquor a day and a burial lot, whloh was specified as so many feet from the Jail north and south from the cornerstone. The Jail, by the way, is still In use. Federal Hill was In the hsnds of a care taker when the Mitchell Ranger party, which Is taking a preliminary spin over the GUdden route, drove up the broad roadway to the old colonial door, where the Rowan family for over a century and a quarter have welcomed their guests. White-haired old negro came forward, doffing his hat and asking "How can I serve th youngy massa?" The house Is a huge affair of red brick, two-storied and basement, with the huge flat-topped chimneys one only finds In, the south and New England. It stands on a knoll, commanding a superb sweep of the valley, and its driveway is flanked with rows of noble oaks. It waa here that Stephen Collins Foster, who was visiting the Rowan In 1867, wrote the score of words of "My Old Kentucky Horn," which brought him Immortal fame, and whloh has become the cradle aong of that great state. It la a rather touching thing that a statue of Foster has been placed In the new capital at Frankfort, which was paid for almost wholly by the school children of Kentucky In sums ranging from a penny to a dollar. " The guide, Jim, who "was raised on Massa Jim Wilson's place, a ah, SO years ago," lad th Mitchell Ranger party to th family graveyard in tha security of a life well spent for God, country, family and friends. It Is in one corner of th park and th Inscrlptiona on th headntonoa and monuments show how much country and state owe this distinguished Kentucky family. : ' . ' As the party returned to the house, old Jim waved hie arm toward the woods, a mile to the west, saying: "You gemraen all see that wood lot? Well, sah, when I was a boy befo' the wan, Massa Jack an' me, we all sued to fight . game chickens there all day long. Now the fool law come to spoil a gemmen's pleasure. 'Deed it does, eah. Why o'er yonder, In that there barn, you all can aee, Tee got aome of the fines' game birds'' The old darky shook hla head sadly, then breathed, "Tea, aah, time la dona changed a heap alnoa the wah." -i , But the glories of Bardstown are not yet ended. In 1796, the then Louie Philippe, later to become Louis XX of France, spent a day in Bardstown. He wanted to aee the west, and George Washington mapped out his Itinerary for him. The future king of France, being a devout Catholic, attended mass and waa amaxed to see Indiana tak ing part In the aervlc. When he returned to Ehirope to marry the daughter of Francis I the first king of the two Sicilies, he told hla prospective father-in-law of the work of the church in the wilderness of the new republic This so Impressed Francis that he sent the struggling chapel, now St. Joseph'a cathed ral, some priceless works of art,. There Is the Crucifixion, by Van Bree. over the altar. In the chancel are two Van Dykes, one of St. Peter, the other of St. Mark. Next the former painting Is the Coronation by Murlllo, on the opposite wall hang tha Maryrdom of St Bartholomew, by Rubens. There are other great works e( the mas ters in thla white wooded cathedral nestling In the Kentucky hills, but those mentioned are the best When Louis PhlUlppe became king of France aa Louis XX. he remembered tha work of the good fathers, and sent a huge cathedral clock which te thla day still murks the flight of time in the taU white spire. It is only a short run to Lexington, where are located aqme of the greatest breeding farms In the world, August Belmont's Bella Mead,' and that of Madden, the wliard. K may ba that, the Gllddenltes will make Louisville, via Lexington on thla account. Both tbe Lexington and Louisville plkee are fine macadam affairs, well kept up. The toll gatea are frequent, and the bar la always down. The oountry Is rolling, and the valleys ahould delight the eye, for the panorama la shifting constantly. disclosing new beauties. Philadelphia Ledger. Antoa for Florida Moil Delivery. Residents of the west coast section, of Florida may have their moil delivered by automobiles in the near future. kepro sentatlvee of the Tampa postofric ajidtiie general poBtofflce In Washington recently investigated the roads between Tampa and west coast point for the purpose of estab lishing a double dally automobile eervicA which would eave several hours over tin present system of delivery. 155 ThcYiiiiiiiiiiiij&ii&ii:-;;; Hndlipflillit V BEAUTY IS MORE THAN PAINT DEEP Bring an expert with you to Inspect the HUDSON. It speaks for itself, but If you are going to invest your money In a motor car, you owe It to yourself to go deeper than looks and that is why when we Invite you, when making an examination of tbe HUDSON, to have with you some one who is well posted on motor car construction The French Renault type of mo tor has i been 'found satisfactory wherever used. The selective slid ing gear type of transmission has been adopted on practically all high grade cars. The Hudson is refined by that we mean that more attention has been paid to things, little In themselves, but contributing ma terially to the owner's comfort and satisfaction than In any other car at that price. See the HUDSON on our show room floor, and learn for youfself Just what we mean when we say that "BEAUTY W MOHB XfiAN PAINT DEEP," H. E, FREDRICKS0N AUTOMOBILE CO. HUDSON CHALMERS PIERCE-ARROVV THOMAS Licensed under Seidell Patent. 2044-0- FARNAM ST. OMAHA, NEK. r 1 - ft i -A I