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PAET THREE.
AUTOMOBILES
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PART THREE
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VOL. XLI-NO. 11.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1011.
SINGLE COVY FIVE CENTS.
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JOY RIDING WHISKS THE COIN
Magnitude of Automobile Business Up
in Billion Mark.
DJDTJSTRY SIXTH US IMPORTANCE
om IHla Flerare Prosae
tlsa, First PMt, IK a
Ala m Per Capita Cal
ealatloa. To th .roan who ha Just rll for new
tires, a, carbureter, a oouple of rprlnr".
and a new pair of lamps, th coat of suto
moblUnc aa a paetime U apparent. But It
la doubtful if. even at the moment ha vn
folda the blU and first views it In all It
magnitude, ha re line that automobilinK
ha aJreadr cost the United Btatea
than H.ono.ono.000, enough to wipe out the
national debt, or to pay twice over tor all
tha dneadnausht built or building for the
navies of the world.
Even thla figure hardly expresses the
coat which the world la paying; for Its Joy
rid is. Tha number of machln owners is
increasing at an astonishing rate. Ten
years ago there were only &&"0 cars owned
In the United States. At the end of 1
there ware EC.000; now there are 400.000. In
IMS only En.000 cars were manufactured in
this country. The following year the num
ber had Increased to 80,000. In the ten
months of 1S10 to November 1 175.000 ma
chines were produced. Automobiles were
exported to the value of Jll.130.rja Two
companies were incorporated, one with a
capital of ltJ0.00e.000, tailing In twenty sub
sidiaries, and the other with Il6,0on,0i0.
bringing; together eight or ten smaller pro
duoera. Motor Can r"M at Tlaa
Tha industry has already reached the
rank of sixth In commercial Importance.
Yet the cars so far bought have been al
most altogether for pleasure riding, the
auto truck having gained favor only re
cently. The future both for pleasure and
work machines gives promise of enormous
expenditures. The country Is automobile
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Bo great has been the erase that money
lenders have been becoming alarmed.
Farmers are reported as investing in ex
pensive cars by the thousands and are
mortgaging their farms to pay for the
machine. City men who have no homes,
no businesses, no decent clothes, even. In
some way manage to get hold of an auto
mobile they may drive, at least, for a
few months, as their own. Sara Bern
hardt, on her most recent farewell from
tha country, left aa a benediction the re
mark that to possess a car in America
appeared to ba the one absolute essential
of "class."
The publio ha been staggered from time
to time by the naval construction plans
of the great powers. A the cost of a
y man-of-war has lifted teadlly from (3,000,-
to shake their heads at the dreadful out
lay. The British Dreadnought was thought
to have been the last word In leviathan
construction wtlh its 17,900 tons displace
ment and Its ataggering cost. But now
Great Britain has fourteen ships of equal
or greater tonnago and armament in com
mission or laid down. Germany has twelve,
tha United Btatea eight. Russia four, Brasil
three, Spain three. Argentina two. Italy
two. Franc two and Japan two. Figuring
these fifty-two dreadnaugbta at a cost of
$10,000,000 each, gives a total of 20,000,000.
But thla grand total does not look large
when placed beside the total American ex
penditure for automobiles and their main
tenance during the last ten years, approx
imately tl.OSa.OOO.OOO. The American Joy
rider, bad he chosen, could have built the
entire navies of the world from battleships
to dingles.
To get another angle, it may te interest
ing to compare this joy riding bill of
$1,066,000,000 with the American national
debt. Thla debt, after subtracting the
money held in the treasury, amounts to
$1.06. MS, ISi. The Joy rider has paid for his
fun a sum that would more than have liu.1
dated the public debt.
Post Haadrcd Thoaaaad la Asaerteau
According to the beet figures obtainable,
there are now owned in the United State
a total of 400,000 cars. The average pries
of these may be placed at $1,300, because of
the large number of low-priced cars that
are being sold. These figures would give
an initial cost for the car now In public
l-ossesaton of $430,000,000.
In Europe it has been estimated that
tha value of cars there In use would reach
for Great Britain, Germany, and France
a total of Huu.0ou.uu0. The British empire
la credited with 100,000 machines and
France and Germany each with &0,0u0. The
average value of cars abroad is much
higher than In the United Slates, for there
1 not the great 'middle class" demand
and it is only within a short time that
cheap cars have been offered fur sale.
In coiibldering the cost of upkeep it Is
difficult' to arlve at a unit of expense. If
a man keep hi car In a garage, his
charges will amount to SIS a month, and
should cost him another Jli tor sup
plies and small repaira. This cost should
give him, perhaps, service of 1.000 mile a
month. This annual outlay of $360 for main
tenance mould be les In case no garage
fees were paid and more In case of cars
tess use and unusual accident. Older cars
would also entail a heavier monthly ex
pense. Abroad the expense la increased by the
higher cost of gasoline and by the fact
that paid chauffeurs or mechanicians are
mora generally used. Otherwise the foreign
upkeep would be less on account of lower
wage cost.
The $3d0 a year would not Include those
numerous special appllanoes that are so
generally In use. Chauffeur also are com
mon, especially In the cities, and, if taxi
cab chauffeurs are added, would certainly
total 40.000 in the United States The aver
age pay may be placed at $7$ a month.
The cost of upkeep in this country alone
for l'.JU Is placed at $144 OOO.OnO, and for the
hole ten years In which the automobile
has been a common means of conveyance
would not average less than $Ti0.O0O.OTO a
year. The early machines, though few In
number, were extremely expensive toys.
There are no figures extant that give a
complete showing of the number of car
that have been 'crapped" during the ten
years. A a car becomes out of date It
1 sold from the large city to the small
town and from there into the country or to
some less progressive section. But few of
the car In use during the first two or
three year of the decade are now service
able. In addition It la estimated that 25.000
car have been ruined In accidents, fires,
etc. It is probably a small figure to place
the number of car discarded during the
ten years at 60,000, with an average value
of J1.W0, making a total of $75,000,000 to be
added to the total expenditures for the
ten year.
Per Capita EisesM glT.Oa.
Giving the Illinois car an average value
of $1,300 brings a total of $4K. 000.000, with a
maintenance cost for ten year of a like
sum. With a population of U63S.&91, this
gives only one car for 140.$ persons, but
the cost up td date has been such that,
divided among all the men, women and
children In the state, the thousands who
do not have cars, there ha been a per
capita expense of $17.01 The national debt
amounts to only $11-58 per capita.
Recent figures from New York municipal
bureau give an official record of operative
cost. The city owns 100 machines. These
traveled 400,000 mile last year at a cost
for maintenance and repairs' of $39,557,44.
In making this mileage the chauffeurs drew
$64,K3.30 In wages. Storing the machine
cost $11,364. 27. These Items of expense
bring the 1910 total up to $178X70.81. Presi.
dent Steer of Brooklyn operated twelve
of these cars. His mileage was 8S.73S and
his gasoline and repair bll amounted to
$3, 442. IS. The machines cost $24.S83.
The automobile manufacturer appear to
be confident that the outlay for motor
vehicle has only begun. Within the last
two year two big motor combination have
been formed, and plants are being enlarged
everywhere. The demand for pleasure ma
chines seems to be growing constantly and
the truck business, though only In its in
fancy, has unlimited possibilities. At the
present time there is $1"75. 000.000 Invested in
the business of producing automobiles and
motor trucks. Chicago Tribune.
WILL JAG HELP TAILENDERS?
Aa Experiment with a
Saggrsts Vast
. bllltles.
Losing: Bnnrh
Posai.
"Ever heard of a big league manager
ordering, compelling, forcing his players
to get drunk?" queries big John Powell,
the veteran pitcher of St. Louis Browns.
Seems absurd to even think of. doesn't it?
And yet It happened with the St. Loula
Browns as the compulsory Jags, James
McAleer a the manager and the 1908 sea
son as the period.
"We were going strong In 1908, the best
season the- Browns had - since the Amer
ican league was formed. Good pitching
oh, yea. I was one of them strong bat
ting, and hard, gingery playing held us
well up in the race, and It looked as If
we had more than a reasonable look in
for the flag! So determined were w all.
and so faithful to our duties, that nofa
man in the' crowd tasted anything
stronger than coffee, aad tin angel were
not In it with the St. Louis Browns.
"Midsummer came and still w held
that desperate pace. We were playing
our heart out, that was the truth of it,
and suddenly we broke under the strain.
We began to go down hill. Game after
game was lost- Our pitchers were hit
all over the surface of the earth; our
fielding was shaky and miserable, and
none of us could bat. On night, after
supper in Washington, I think It was,
and Just before we war due to retire,
Jim McAleer called us all together.
"You fellows," said McAleer. "are worn
out. all In, and gone stale. You have been
playing beyond your strength, and living
like fighter ' In strict training. Every
man on this ball club will go out and get
roaring drunk. That goes for everyone.
If any man on this team comes into thla
hotel tonight sober, I will fine him $30.
"Oh, such a night, such a night. Twenty-two
ball players with the team, and
twenty-two frightful Jags came rolling back
at all hour from S to 1. McAleer himself,
oryeyed and wobbly, stood by the desk to
see that no man came back sober, and no
man did. There were drunk that night
who never drank before, and there were
drunks that had been overdue for many
a moon.
"We were on the field -next day with
twenty-two hangover Jags, 1 saw blue
moons and black roses round them while
I warmed up to pilch, and one lnfielder
unlisted that his base hod been moved to
a spot behind the water cooler. Wobbling
and staggering, went into the game and
won it bauds down. Nothing could atop
ua I pitched one of the beat games of
my life, ajjd the batting was glorious.
"On the train that night every man had
his pockets bulging. One fellow had ten
quarts of whisky hidden In hi clothe.
All the way to St. Louis we were stewed,
piped, polluted spifficated and bunned.
And when ws landed In St. Louis we won
five straight games without th slightest
difficulty. The Jag by orders had brought
back our spirit and our energies, and for
the balance of the season, sober gt'i. but
happy, we played corking good bail."
Pituburg Leader.
sist-
Tne Rani Inltft.
"lias your family been of much
ance to you in running the place?
"I should say so," replied Farmer Corn
tossel. "Food has been so high that the
summer board season would have been a
failure if it hadn t been for mother and
our son. Josh."
"They saved the expenses of help?"
"No. sir. But Josh la a right good hand
in a poker game an' the way mother picked
up bndKs was ometbln' araaxin." Wash
ington tiar.
AUTOS PUSHING A REVOLUTION
Utility a Well aa Pleasure and Ex
citement Readily Apparent
LIVELY FACTOR 15 FARM LIFE
Aa
Advance Agent et Power Motor
Applied t Ine Machinery ef
Caltlrntlnn and Har
vest Ing.
The latest statistics estimate the num
ber of automobiles in use in the United
States at nearly 400.000, while the vehicles
that are drawn by horses are reckoned at
7,000,000. In automobile plant there are
said to be invested $400,000,000, and in the
operation of these plant and correlated
trade 300,000 persons are kept busy. The
builder of these 400.000 ver,l"t pv ..
000,000 annually for constructive material,
and $25.W0. for freight charges to the
railroads. These figures are startling
mainly because they have climbed up so
rapidly.
Tbe effect of the automobile 1 not read
ily seen, because It more apparent use
seems to be for pleasure, and to gratify a
passion for excitement. In reality this
application of force has brought about, or
U bringing about, a revolution In the more
remote districts of the country. The reason
why farmer have become eager buyer is
because they are located out of reach of
the ordinary means of rapid transit. The
automobile belongs to the villages and
mailer town, where the railroads can
not reach, and from which they cannot be
easily reached for travel or for freight
purposes.
The bank, however, are uttering a united
protest against what they call tbe craze
of small investors to withdraw their In
vestment, often adding borrowed money,
to indulge In the purchase of automobile.
The farmer of the west find these car
nage fill a deep need, where long dis
tances are to be traveled. There is thi
thing to consider all the while, however,
that when the farmer ha brought hi
automobile back to the barn he cannot
hitch It up for farm work. He must also
have his horse or horses for plowing, cul
tivating and all sorts of hauling. He I
not fully equipped, aa the townsman is,
until he has both gasoline power and horse
power; and this has to be taken Into ac
count when he considers the policy of ex
pending several hundred dollars, or a pos
sible $2.0"0.
Motors for Farm Work.
What we specifically want Just now, or
what the countryman wants, who own
a few acre of land more or less, is an
easily managed gas or steam motor that
can do farm work of the sort we have
specified. This will go a long way toward
settling the economics of thi problem.
There are few farmer that can afford
to indulge In a power that cannot be ap
plied anywhere but In the 1 streets. They
might as well purchase a coach and four,
while their income 1 better adequate to a
team of mules. Tbe application of electric
power to field work, in a cheap and con
venient form, is the thing now needed:
and what 1 needed 1 bound to come. In
deed, the latest report gives ua a motor
plow operating a farm of 1.W0 acres t in
Indiana. A gang of eight plow, behind
which harrows are hitched, and all drawn
by a gasoline traction engine, work at
the rate of three to five miles per hour.
Th same motor is used for other farm
purposes, such a threshing, or hauling
the crop to market. The engine is a
four-cylinder, forty-horsepower, having a
radiator and a fan to cool the engine,
while It employ a magneto in the ignition.
An engine of thi sort can draw fourteen
plow quite as well aa half that number,
having a pulling power of 7.00ft pounds.
The report from thi Indiana farm talk
about plowing all night by searchlights,
we presume: while the work of thirty
horses and fifteen men was being accom
plished for twenty-four hours. The land
is plowed to a depth of ten Inches, and an
average day work Is thirty acre at a
cost of $: a day paid to the engineer, four
gallons of oil per day and two gallon of
gasoline for each acre plowed. It used to
be said that a motor plow could not be
operated on a farm of less than 100 acres:
but at that rate those who own adjacent
farms can work co-operatively. A single
engine and a gang of plows could run half
a dozen farms.
Will tne Horse Oof
The Motor Age, to which we are In
debted, insists that the day is not fsr
away when we shall have gasoline-driven
farm machinery of every description
needed, and when every farmer" boy will
be an adequate chauffeur. The steam en
gine has already been used for a good
deal of farm work; now comes the day of
the electric or the gasoline engine. If it
becomes, as It promise to be, a world
wide movement, the horse will be a rarity
on the farm. We shall be compelled to
withdraw our criticism of the automobile,
or for whatever take its place;, as it can
easily be made for traction or for travel,
and also for farm work. Whether th
same machine can be used In the road and
In the field la not the question, but
whether the power that is applied for
traction can also be applied for work.
Speeding along tbe highway In not the
end of this evolution or revolution of
power for which the automobile stands.
It Is probably an incipient method of ap
plying a power which has already largely
displaced steam as an industrial factor
and social organizer. We are confident
that we shall soon get by the day of mo
tor car display and speed madness, and
get down to the construction of some
thing more every day available, and re
ducible to the law of farm economics.
Even If the automobile does not pay aa
yet, we are not sure that tbe farmer Is
making a mistake in getting into alliance
with the new forces. New York Independent.
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IOJOHJT BRANCH i
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Flanders 20 wins the 800 alle St Louis to Icansas City re
liability run. Score 995 two points penalty only for loose
nut on render Pour days of heavy drlTlsg eand and nua. f landers?
worked perfectly throughout run defeating Jaraoa cadlllac. hudsoa
International Ohio tulcfc parry Mitchell and ford' Every car
defeated, toy Flanders 20 except ford was such ilgher priced car
than flanders and the ford was cocgletely disqualified P
Sealers and observers all along the line enthusiast 10
over the cars wonderful performance Following three perfect ,
road q co re a in Iowa a little Olldden Flanders 20; has won every
event In which jhe has toeen- entered the gruelling lCO Giles
Minneapolis to helesa reliability run the Worcester hill cllx$
a.
where she cut fortyseven seconds off the former record and now
the st Louis to Kansas city reliability run. in every event
ehe has defeats tsany cars of far greater, size and price., -
THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION
E-M-F Factories.
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Flanders "20"
E-M-F "50" cars
1
as well as
are sold by
inmalha
Direct Factory Branch Studcbakcr Corporation
2026 Farnam Street Phone Douglas 363
WHERE ACQUAINTANCES DO
NOT KNOW NAMES OF OTHER
In Little Old New Tors: Ctrl Partners
in F,at An Sometimes Resvllr
Strangers.
When a young man or woman has ust
come to the city to earn a living; loneliness
is what he expect and generally finds
but there is another class of worker that
is often Just as thoroughly Isolated without
really suspecting it, says the New York
Time. After several years of reasonable
success the newcomers have a circle of
friends on whom they can rely, and- they
feel very much at home until something
occurs to 'show them the difference.
Two women in New Tork had shared an
apartment for three year. One wa a
Boaton woman, the other from Philadel
phia. They had not been Intimate before
sharing the flat, and they did not become
eo afterward. They "got on" together per
fectly, met at meala, and then generally
went to their respective sitting rooms and
chatted with friend who might com In,
Each circle met th other occasionally,
and everybody was aoclal without "mixing"
to any extent.
On day a New Tork friend of the Bos
ton woman was dining at the apartment.
She told a story of a young man who had
fallen suddenly ill In his room and had
lain at th point of death for three day
before th landlady could find hi rela
tives, though they lived a few blocks away.
The two women exclaimed at the story.
"If I fall 111." said the Bostonian to her
partner, "Just notify this girl here" slgnl-
Rapid Delivery System of Progressiqe Omaha Grocers
fying the New Yorker "and ahe will let
my people in Boston know at once."
"But." said the Philadelphia!!, turning
an amazed face on the other two, "now I
think of it, I haven't tbe slightest idea
where Jessie lives." For three years they
had met occasionally and had liked each
other well enough to use Christian names.
and it had never dawned on them that
they were, in a way, as thoroughly
stranger as two people who find seats aide
by side in a street car.
Probing further into their ignorance, it
as discovered that tbe Boston girl could
not have found her partner's relative
either. After three yearof living together
he knew that her friend visited an "Aunt
Mary" who lived near the city, but she had
always referred to her aa "Aunt Mary,"
too, and had forgotten the last name, if
ever she knew it And the Philadelphia!!,
for her part, knew even lea.
Yet they say women cannot mind their
own buslneaa!
A De-voted Con.'.itnent.
"That member of conrress says you have
voted for hlro for the last fifteen years."
"That's rijjht." replied Farmer Corn
tosael. "You must think a lot of him."
"Well, I dunno. You see. fifteen yearn
ago 1 had a oouple o' hoss trades with
him. an' since then I've alius felt safer
with him spoodin' so much of his time in
Washington." Washington 8 tar.
SALE f
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THE ABOVE IS A PHOTO OK KIKTKEN INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY AUTOMOBILES THAT J M. EVANS SOIJl TO THAT MANY DIFFERENT GROCERS.
(i.VK DAY LAST WKUK THEY PAKADKD AKOI'T THE CITY AND ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION. ALTOGETHER THERE ARB NEARLY
WXTT OK THIS INTERNATIONAL LIGHT DELIVERY CARS IN I'SB IN OMAHA, ANL UK Kttii. MANAUKR OP THE LSTtKNATluNAX TUARVtaTilH
FOR
Thrca flow
Automobiles
I hare three 40 H. P. tullj
equipped touring cars that
have never turned s wheel,
that I am offering at an un
heard of price. These cart
hare unit power plants,
three point suspension, full
floating axles, etc., etc The
former price was $1,900. I
am asking only 9 1 ,2.V).
Also have several second
hand cars at equally attrac
tive price.
J. S. Robinson
2724 LAKE STREET.
Webster 3702.
Automobile Directory
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CARS
FREELANO AUTO CO., 1122-24 Farnam Street.
Buickin.
Welsh Cars...
Uannla Branch. 13th aad 9 at. X. K. rDX.ZB. Genl afar.
Omaha Breach, lia-14-19 ramaja It. LEI WVTT, sir.
Nebraska Brick Auto. Company
(fessJ&JSC MOTOR CO.,
NgT 20S2-84 Farnam St, Omaha.
Wallace Auto nobilcCo.
2203 Farnam Street
B"i. .
MOTOK CAK
M5
MOTOR CARI3
VELIE AUTOMOBILE CO., 102 Farnam Street
John Deere Plow Co., Cistributors
VanBrunt Automobile Co,
Overland mil Pope
Hartford Con&dl Blnffs la,
Omasa. Bebr.
Apperson "Jack Rabbit"
APPERSOR AUTO
COMPANY
1102 Farnam St.
laker Electric
Electric Garage
CENISE BARULOW, Prop.
221 1 Farnam Street
BRUSH RUNABOUT
A Marvel of Workmanship.
T. G. Korthwail Co.,
914 Jones St
FRfltUmn OUY lSMITHf?!lllim.Ii.
G30DND I
FOUR MODELS
Prices $1,150
$1,700. v
OUJO ELECTRICS
Marlon Auto Company.
C. W. McDOXALD, Mgr.
2101.2103 Farnam St.
PVVb S Jj ss rLss a pl
i ll, E.Fredrickson Automobile Co.
H! ao44-4s4a FAR NAM TftCKT
Thomas,
Hanson, Pieres,
Chalmers
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