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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1910)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 18, 1910. (fJutttt''c ft ' 9 tin 1 1tfn titrti ifn ft ft tf- a. a w RACERS LOOK TO THEWEil Bere Expect to Find New Fields of Conquest BEST CABS OF ENTIRE WORLD ! Cars rapabl. ol Ran-lasT Ar LtM Tfcaa Se-.ntr Mll-s as Hoar Need Apply at In. dlaaapolla Meet. NEW TURK, Kept. 17. The went has bad several course of the real thing In automobile racing, and now It wants a complete banquet. With the openln of the Indianapolis and Ixs Angeles speed ways tha game received a decided boom la that aectlon. Easterner commenced to i tiar of records falling wholesale before tha flights of cars on western circuits. i Then tha drivers got busy at Atlantic and Jjaytona Beach, evening matters up. Last month Ralph Mulford won a road race at Elgin In remarkably good time. True, It was not as fast as Louis Wagner s Grand Prise card at Savannah, or George H. Robertsons 190S Vanderbllt Cup victory, but It was worthy of mora than passing notice. In faot. It waa so superior to tha Cobe Cup race of 1IW9. that eastern motor folk commenced to look up. And now comas a most ambitious pro ject from tha Indianapolis motordrome. If It be carried out, next year will see what appears to be a blend of the Vanderbllt and Grand Prise events. . That Is, the best drivers and cars In tha world will com pete at tha Indianapolis track In a special contest. Tentative plans have been made. They provide for 60O-mile race and ttO.000 In cash prises. Only ears that have averaged seventy mile an hour In soma form of competition will be eligible to compete. If the project is carried out It would be the greatest event known to tha auto mobile racing game. It would be re sult In extra-powerful cars being built, as the distance, too miles. Is long. Tha (30,000 cash prises would make a lura that would attract every high class wheelman. Such purses are not often obtainable even In these prosperous daya of seeking the limit of apeed. ' With the race barred to cars capable of averaging seventy miles an hour, records would be strewn by tha track side. Fac tories would vie with one another to pro due a masterpiece capable of being a con tender In such competition. A line of "Blltsena" would roar away from the start ing Hne. The times would see strange fig ure for circular track marks. But If the cars would be high class, what of tha driven? The jingle of that 130,000 purs would be heard In Europe aa well aa In thla country. The foreign speed legion, headed by Felice Nasarro, whom many Italians really believe greater than tha king, would be pitted against this country' best With Nasarro would come Victor H emery, Louis Wagner, Ren Han riot. Salsa, Jenatiy, Edge and Smith. Op- rsed to them would be George H. Robert n, Barney Oldfleld, Ralph Mulford, Ray ' Harroun, Cyrus Fatschke. Al Poole, Louis Chevrolet, Dawson, Bush, Kerscher and a host ef others. Many of the aforementioned drivers will have mounts in tha chase for the Vanderbllt and Grand Prise cup on Long Island, October 1 and 15. respectively. Then local motor folk will be able to get pom Idea of what the Indianapolis project means. While the 200-mlle struggle waa bringing the September two-day program and a sea son of successful motor speed competition to an end at Indianapolis, Carl FUher, Jamea Allison. Frank Wheeler and A. C. Newby were planning the big rac for the coming year. Aocording to present ar rangements the speedway will offer be tween mono and 135,000 In cash to ba dis tributed. The basis will be probably about IHOOO, 16.000. 13,000 and 12,000, or according to that proportion. Th tire, magneto, oil, carburetor and general accessories people ST expected to Increase th rewards by an mount that will range from $8,000 to $10,000. This sum of money 1 without equal in th annals of tha mtor speed game. It Is cer tain that th European factories will noml nat man and cars. Th management de alres to bring Flat. laotta, Mercedes, Kapler, Bens, Renault and; Hotchklsa teams as well as to secure a of America' leading drivers. CUSTOM OF KILLING UMPIRE Tm VaUld Mhmu for Perpetra't las; Moled Hot Air Crime. , According to bleacher law, ther ar thre particularly Justifiable motive for doing way with umpires. An uirplr may be killed, first, If he sees fit to adhere to the rulea and make a decision agaJnst th home team at oioe point In-tho game. Sec ondly, an umpire may be killed if he sends member of th horn team to th bench when th player In question has don abso lutely nothing but call th umpire name and attempt to bite his ear off an umpire has no business to be touchy. Thirdly (and this Is a perfect defence against th charge f murder), an umpire may b killed It he call any batter on th home team out on Strike when th player ha not even truok at th balls pitched. That th ball go straight o-r th plat has nothing to do with th cam. Thr is ampla proof at band to show that kllnng-tho-umpir Is distinctively American sport. Other countries) hav tried baa ball, but they hav not tried killing-the-umplre. That is probably th reason why they hav not waxed enthusiastic over base ball. For base ball without umpire killing la ilk foot ball without girl In th grandstand. It simply oao't be don. That . foreign countries know nothing about our king of outdoor sports was Indicated forcibly when. In th fall of 1MB, th Detroit team made trip to Cuba under th management Of Outfielder Melntyr. In th entire erie of tweiv game with th Havana ad Alamendara nine, not on single ob jection waa mad by either th Cuban player or th alienf Cuban spectators to decision of tha umpire Th American did not know what to think of It until they ountod up th gat receipts at th end of th series. Than they realised that, la their own country. It la th delight la kllllng-the-umplr rather than th pleasure to watching th gam that draws th tre mendous crowd through th turnstile. Harper's weekly. A Bloody Affair la lung hmorTha. 8ton It and cure -r- lungs, coughs and colds with Dr. King's jxew inerovery. Mo and 1 00. For sals by Glvt Drug Co. ' '.TV. i -,v' . ; .... S.CBUB1IKGIK siOOTSOTT. GM. OTIS it one of th moat extensive real estate and farm agents In the west, having large Interests near frequent visitor to Omaha, where he meets his force of salesmen. This picture was taken last week, when Otis' salesmen were In Omaba at the same time. Mr. Otis is, a firm believer in farm lands as a safe investment and such a success. AUTO LABOR ON JOY. RIDE Huge Army of Skilled Workmen in the Factories. MILLIONS UT WEEKLY WAGE BILL Well Paid Labor Diligently Employe t the Head of the Golden Stream Facts that Ar Worth Considering. It's 'quit th fashion nowadays speci ally on th part of non-motoring folks to characterise tlh automobile aa the visi ble sign of th maddest, most extravagant eras of th last century aa well as th present one thus far. But la Itf Let us se who benefit most by this expensive adjunct to our complex life. Let's b hon est, and while acknowledging that tha now gam demand dollars, suppose we see how those dollars are distributed. Let us form some idea, unpleasant though it may be, of what would be the result if that golden stream were dammed up, or diminished In any considerable degree. This is a question so tremendous, and th welfare of th entire nation 1 so bound im in it. that it is almost beyond compre hension that th ablest economists of our time hav not . given It th attention It rightfully deserves. Ara you Incredulous at that reference to the welfare of tha entire nation? You eauiiMl liv looked into this matter very carefully If that Is your attitude. Here are some leading fact that ar easily veri fied. And there ar some byways leading from th main thoroughfare of this story with mor tact strewn aaong mem ui m.an countless millions of money, though they cannot be tabulated In cold figures. But every merchant, oanaer uu fanturer who reads thee line is in touch with at least on of th aid lines that shall b mentioned, and with that knowl edge as a yardstick he can shrewdly esti mate the broad cop and enormous total of th business which 1 absolutely de pendent upon this mighty Industry. Michigan during this present year will turn out over 60 per cent, approximately, of the motor oar In a completed form which win make uo the United States output for 1D10, which has been estimated at 200,000 cars and can b vry conserva tively nlaeed at 140.000 machines. Michi gan employ directly In this Industry 60,000 person who ar classed by tn manuiao turars under th head of productive labor. Thla will glv us, by adding h number required to build th other 40 per cent oi car mad In th United Bta.t this yar, an army of 76,000 at th least. Well Paid Vmhor. And this la well paid labor. It begins to draw from 1.76 to i per day from lu first Induction into th factory raw, un taught, but willing. Af th othr end of th scale ar men making 15 or more, and th averag dally wag In Detroit factories is SIM. Tht accounts, therefore, for an nual wages to th tun of l&t.OOO.OOO. Again th figure la conservative. An estimate from a leading maker put th wekly wag bill for Detroit alon at $1,000,000. Workmen must b directed, their product handled commercially., and this necessitates a great corps of well paid office help. The ml eems to be that on offlc man or wo man (Including company officers actively employed la needed for every eight work men. Their average salary Is very modestly estimated at $1,000 per year, which swells our distribution of wages to the rather im pressive total of $64,000,000. Her is omethlng to ponder over: The automobile and lta allied Industrie have don more to solve th age-old problem of th unemployed than anything that has happened since th first railroad waa built. Thus far w hav merely aooounted for a beggarly $4,0UO.OO0 paid out to labor in th automobile factorle alon which hap pen to be twio the entire appropriation mad by congress for legislative, judicial and executive purpose In the United Slate last year. W hav taken no ac count of th cost of material, either raw or in a finished state, which la moodlsd in our U10 car. But before reaching that factor and It's a tremendous one hear this from a Mich igan automobll manufacturer: "W ar putting enormous sums Into betterment, becaus we hav an abiding palth In th future of th automobile. This is an era of building for the automobile rather than one of automobile building. 1 believe that tor very man who Is working In an automo bile factory this year ther Is a busy work man In some on of th building trades, and UuU th aggrcgat wag paid out fur - ) . , ties building operations for 1910 will dupli cate th wages paid for our own workman. Hoataare to Fortune. Here, then, is a hostage to fortune of sixty-odd million mor a fair-sized wager that the business will not only be good, but better next year and the next and th next. But In any event the men in the building trades are getting their good dollars. In hand paid, ever Saturday night. That money is safely launched upon its journey through the tills of the butcher, the baker, th provision dealer and th outfitter through th jobber and the wholesaler out to th workers of raw material, creating new products of every sort, touching in It travels th uttermost corners of this big country. Detroit already has seen Invested in her automobil factor! by th twenty- three companies operating ther, $10,000,000. Many dollar will come back to buy auto mobiles, by tha way, of this money which one went to buy other automobiles. Doe that sound Ilk raising a country per capita' by th boot-strap paradox? It Isn't, in th least. Every . blow that is struck with a hammer In an automobil factory, every shoverful of dirt that I thrown out to per mit a foundation stone to go In, add to the real wealth, to th actual value that are dally being created by this Industry, just aa truly as though ther were suddenly added to Uncle Sam's great farm a new empire of fruitful crops whose sale would pour into hi coffer more than half a bil lion of dollar a year, , Mora, that is, than half th amount needed for the entir an nual running expenses of this nation, In cluding the sum to be spent In th next twelve month on tha Panama canal. But, you may say, this 1 all very well for Detroit, and Michigan as well. How about th rest of the country T Is It (imply paying tribute to our Wolverine neigh bors T Many Stat Interested. By no manner of means. Automobiles are' built in Indiana, in Minnesota, In Ohio, in Tennessee, In Kentucky, In Illi nois, In Missouri, In Kansas; to name only a few of th western states. Thsy ar doing well, also, la those tin old manufactur ing strongholds. New York, Mains, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Mas sachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware, to say nothing of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other state In the east There ar 196 automobil factories In this country, 160 of them in operation In July of this year. Th principal trad paper of th auto mobil and allied Industries list In Its Buyer's Index 2M business classifications, exclusive of completed automobiles, of th parts, equipment, and tools required by automobile owner and builders. These thina-s ranee through a long list, from acetylene and aluminum to voltmetres, wind-shields, and wrenches. Twemty-fiv state contribute to trds Hat. and while Oregon. Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Txa manufactur er ara listed in this advertising matter, u is rfniihtiona true that ther ar many concerns of prominence along tba Pacific states which do not, for obvious reason, patronls a trad paper published on th Atlantio tidewater. for th making of thes vsrious articles that are advertised, Including oomplt care. New York how 17S establishments to Michigan elghty-thre. Ohio has sv-enty-ftve, Pennsylvania sixty-four, Indiana forty-nln.' Massachusetts forty-four, and New Jersey thlrty-ntne, to speak only of those states that ar in th forefront of the procession. Th mere cataloguing of these , various concerns weuld extend this paper beyond lu allotted length, and a summary of th more Important ones must be deferred. But you hav seen that th magnitude of this mighty Industry, th normous sum It Is distributing, th lnordlbla numbr of dinner pall that It Is filling, is already plainly foreshadowed. Like a mighty forest oak, lu great trunk and vast shad first appeal to th y. But a business like an oak. grow only by xtending th young and tender tip of it branches. And Its Increas ing foktag typifies not only greater mag nitude of trade, but greater distribution of wealth to those who furnish the bon and sinew. A frost which would check the growth of a tree at lu uttermot Up would find IU counterpart In a chilling of com mercial eondluona. and those dependant upon aa Industry who ar least able to withstand ths raw blasU would naturally be th firs to uffr. Harper Weekly. ttnlek froflt. "How many cow hav you nowf In quired th visitor. taght." replied Fanner Coratososl. dis contentedly; "all co ruin' bom reg'lar every night to make work for somebody." "i understand two of your neighbors' cows got hit by railway trains last week." "Yep. An" he got cash for 'em, too. I don't see how that feller trains his cattle not to by at a loouuuiUve." Washington 8 tar. BURN DEAD YUMA'S MONEY Two Theasaad Dollar Stake Foneml Pyre by th Grave of Good. Indian. Jo Escalate, a Yuma Indian, died a lew day ago, and th members of his tribe, In accord with an old custom, burned, with him all his belongings, including $2,000 in cash. "It I on of th religious bellsfs of th Yuma, this burning of all a man's pos sessions when h dies," said Chief Super visor B. P. Holcomb of th Indian bureau. "We hav mad efforts to atop it, even appealing to federal attorney kn some case for assistance. Injunction against th praetic hav been sought, but with what suocess I don't know. Certainly something should be don to atop It or th whole trlb will becom pauper In time. Th destruction of all a man' property at hi death 1 too great an Inheritance tax' for a people to stand up under. "1 don't know th origin of th custom, but th idea prevails that they bellev th dead can enjoy their belonging after death. I have read somewhere: "'What pleased' him most in life may still give pleasure In the grave.' "Opposed to this sentiment, however, is Ml Clialmers In announcing and offering for delivery the 1911 Chal mers "30" there is not much to be said that has not always been said of the Chalmers. We present to the buying public a car that is second to none at the price and better than many makes of greater price. When in 1908 we first offered this machine for inspec tion, we came in touch with many people who said that a high class car could not be built to sell for $1,500. They have since found that this car "made good" from the very start so much so in fact that no radical changes have been made in its construction. Not on one single point of con struction has the Chalmers Motor Co. been called upon to confess error in design. Every feature that makes the Chal mers the most desirable offering for 1911 were included in the first Chalmers "30" that came on the market. Every feature that contributed to early Chalmers success has been retained for 1911. We, therefore, do not offer the 1911 Chalmers "30" with the claim that it will redeem past faults and errors, but rather with the claim that it is the same satisfactory, substantial, smooth-running, easy-riding car that has pleased beyond expectation hundreds of local users. With its increased beauty and greater refinement it will satisfy you thoroughly every minute of every day you own it. May we give you a demonstration t Write for catalogue. M. E. Eredriehson ! A.ot OBX-Oblle Co., B Pierco-Arrow, Thomaa Flyer. Chalmers-Detroit, Hudson B 2044-46-48 FARNAM ST. ' Pioneer Automobile Dealers of Nebraska 1 bis home town. Blunt, S. D. He Is a it so happened that a dozen of Mr. this it is which makes his business the description of her grandfather's death by Sarah Wlnnemucca Hopkins, an Indian girl who wrote 'Life' Among the Flutes.' 0h says: 'Everything he had was put into th grv with him. Hi body was put Into blanket when it was ready for burial, and after he waa burled six of his horses, were killed. Now, do not think that we do these thing because th dead us what w destroy. It Is simply the last respect w pay th dead.' "But to return to the Yuma. Whatever th reason for their destruction of prop erty, cremation of tha dead 1 th chief of their religious beliefs. Their whole life centers around IV, until they live seemingly only to be cremated. Old Chief Miguel sent bl sons to tha best Indian schools. On of them, slow returned, la a wrIUr in Loa Angeles. He refuses, I hav heard, to llv with hi people. Last winter he fell ill and hi father waa much concerned. Th boy wrot Miguel not to worry, that he had arranged in case of death to hav his body sent horn for cremation. Th old man's fear entirely disappeared on receipt of the letter. "At a Yuma funeral last, winter seven teen new blanketf were bought and burned on on funeral pyre." Denver Times. Persistent advertising in The Be I th road to Big Returns. 80" SPECIAL TRICKS IN 1010 AL'TOMOIULK TIRES and TUBES ALL IiHANDS AM) STYLES IN ALL SIZES LOWEST FIGURES EVER OFFERED For the purpose advertising, expanding and widening tl scop of sales of tires and tube of our own make, we duclded to reiiute our price to low, attractive figured, so that everyone who uses tires and tubes will taae advan tage ut tbia temporary sale and thereby get in the nablt of using our tires and lube. Our lire nd tubes are of the best type and quality. itemember we replac blow-outs In our tires and tubes with new 1110 good. 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