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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1911)
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 24, 1911. Where to Go in Your. Auto rtg J jf ,,v'f j tiwccm j I o (. SHtKANDOAtf BEAUTIFUT, DRIVES APOUT OMAHA RKCKNTIW ROUTED BY THE PROPRIETORS Or THK INDUSTRIAL, OAR AOE, WHO HAVE HAD TliK MAP PRINTED UPON CARDS AND DISTRIBUTED TO THE MOTOR OWNERS OF THE CITY. AUTOMOBILE EXPORT TRADE Busine&i of United States Makers with Foreign Buyers. TWENTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Canada the Lnraest Market, bat All the World is Dayln Aatos or ' Aato Part In the I'lilted State.. WASHINGTON, Eept. 23 Automobiles and parts thereof exported from the United States during 1911 will aggregate approximately 120,000,000 In value. Figures of the bureau of statistics. Department of Commerce and Labor, show already for the seven months of the year for which export statistics are available, over 15.000,000 worth of automobiles exported, 12,000,000 worth of parts thereof other than tires, and $1,600,000 worth of tires, making the aggregate for the seven months $12,600,000. Should the export eon. tlnue at the same rate during the five remaining months of the year, the total would cross the (20,000,000 line. Even this does not Include the automobiles sent to Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska, which, -with the parts thereof, aggregated over $1,600,000 value during the last fiscal year. The Increase in the exportation of this article of American manufacture has been almost as rapid as the growth In thefc use In the United States. The total value of automobiles and parts thereof exported In 1901, only a decade ago, was less than $1,000,000; In 1902 it passed the $1,000,000. line; In IKS It was more than $1,600,000; In 1906, $2,500,000; In 1904, $4,500,000; In 1907. $5,760,000; In 1906, $7,760,000; In 1910, $13,000,000, and In IMt seems likely to be for automobiles alone about $14,000,000; for parts thereof, except tires, about $3,600,000. and for tires, about $2,500,000. These figures are all fer calendar years. ' Even this Increase In value does not fully represent the Increase In the num ber of machines exported, since the ex port price has fallen In the meantime. The average export price of automobiles ex ' ported In 190$ was In round terms, $2,000; tn 1909, $1,600; In 1010, a little over $1,300, and In the seven months of the year 1911 for which figures are now available, a little over $1,009 each, the export price paving thus fallen practically one-half since 1908, these figures of average export prices being obtained by dividing the stated number of automobiles exported Into the stated value thereof for each of the years In question. Canada Is by far the largest market for automobile exported from the United States. Of the practically 9.000 machines exported in the seven months ending with July S, 724 went to Canada; 1,875 to the United Kingdom; 938 to British Ooeanla (chiefly Australia and New Zealand); 477 to Asia and Oceania other than British ; 444 to South America; 273 to France; 175 to West Indies and Bermuda; 147 to Mexico; 137 to Italy and seventy-three to Germany. These figures do not inolude the shipments to noncontiguous territory Of the United States, the number sent to Hawaii in the seven months In ques tion being 202; to Porto Rico, 164, and to Alaska two. Uncle Sam Asked to Help Autoists Build Good Roads Speaker Champ Clark and Many of Congress in Favor of Aiding , Farmer and Automobiliits. which they accomplish in obliterating state lines will prove more effective than any other means In cementing this nation Into a solidified whole, for where men meet and exchange views there ha been a broadening of the viewpoint and a more thorough understanding of the wants of one another. "With the time saving and distance, decreasing vehicle at our disposal, It fol lows as a natural sequence that we must supply the right kind of road and retain and maintain It properly In order to se cure and retain the benefits that have been brought about by the ccmlng of the automobile a thing more valuable to the farmer than to the urban resident,' a fact which is becoming more apparent to the man In the country." Exceptionally good confirmation of th statement of Chairman Dlehl that the man In the country Is realizing that the motor-driven vehicle Is more for him than for the man In the city, comes from Kansas. Thomas McKay is a farmer who lives fourteen files from Oberlln, where the local farmers' institute held a session. Thereat Farmer McKay spoke as follows: "Some of us farmers are standing In our own light. We argue that we should not build good roads for motor cars to travel over. I have no motor car, but It seems to me that a road that Is good for a motor car Is good for a farmer to haul a big load of wheat over, or for me to drive my surrey to take my family to town. We are too afraid that we will do something which will benefit some one else, and, In fact, we are the loser by our own acts. I have already graded a mile of road along my farm on Prairie Dog Creek. Just to show you people the south part of the country where I live, to Oberlln, I will agree to take my boy and my team. If necessary, and grade another mile of that fourteen miles if the rest of you business men and farm ers' living along the road' will do your share." Some of the farmers In attendance wanted to know the cost and then agreed to do their share If McKay would super intend the Job. McKay would not be bluffed and his fellow farmers supplied their share of the money, and the fourteen-mile Improved dirt road was soon placed in travelable condition. Hott Did They Manage? Adam did his gardening without a seed catalogue. Noah had no storm warning from the United States Weather bureau. Columbus hadn't any tennis court on his trip across. Napoleon crossed the Alps without gas olene. Washington could not shout, "I cannot tell a lie!" into a phonograph. Judge. JESSE FROEHLICH TO DRIYE He Signs with Speed King Burman to Compete for Grand Prize.' BZNZ TEAM WILL BE STRONG Ileniery, Foremost Among the Con tiuent Road Drivers, Will Sit at Wheel of Another of German- Importations, NEW YORK, Sept. 23 Bob Burman, the world's "speed king." recently made ar rangements with Jesse Froehllch of the Bens Auto Import company to drive In the grand prize race to be held this fall In Savannah. His two teammates were also nominated. The Ben team will be the strongest In dividual team In the race. In addition to Burman will be the great Hemery. Hem ery is Europe's foremost road driver and will sit at the wheel of another of the German Importations. The third Bens will be driven by Billy Knipper, who teamed with Burman at Indianapolis. It was at first intended that the team would be Burman, Hemery and De Palma, but E. A. Morose prevailed upon Froehllch and the Bens company to make it Bur man, Knipper and Hemery. Tho former manager of Oldfleld, the former director of contests of tho Indian spoils motor speedway and present man ager of Burman, will have charge of the two American drivers at Savannah- They will be properly handled, as Moross Is familiar with eevry angle of automobile racing. By entering the grand prise race Burman is giving another proof of his willingness to meet In open competition the best In the world at all times In speed duels or contest. Barman to Have Choice. Burman will have his choice of the car driven by Bruce-Brawn last year or of a new 120-horse power racer which is now being built. The two new Bens cars with Victor Hemery in charge will reach the United States the latter part of this month and the Bens team will at once be or ganised. Burman's car will be equipped with American accessories. He will use Firestone tires and a Remy magneto. Burman insisted upon this equipment be fore ha would agree to enter . the race For practice on the Savannah course Bur man will use the 110-horse power Bens that Willie Haupt drove. This will be Knlpper's first appearance at the wheel of a big car. Knipper has won several light car races. He won the THE, Omaha bees DIREGTORV Of Automobiles and Accessories 1 . r i Tledeman trophy at Savannah, the light car race at Lowell, the Pocky mountain road race at Denver and the Csndier trophy at Atlanta. Burman's most wonderful road perform ances have been at Lowell and his was the first American car to finish In the grand prize last year after unusually hnrd luck on tires. He also holds a big string of speedwsy victories, which Includes the Prest-o-llte trophy, Atlanta speedway trophy and a string of world's speed rec ords which have earned for him his pres ent title of speed king. Victor Hemery has most of the road wins that are worthy of notice on the other side, as well as a long string of speedway records made over the F.rook- lanrts track. With the world's foremost speed pilot and Europe's best road driver and a driver of unknown quality with big cars It seems as though the Bens team has every quality that will show a winner. Mr. Froehllch of the Bens Auto Import company said: "Last year at Savannah we finished first and second. I consider that this year's team Is much stronger In every respect. I am not out for first and second, but for first, second and third." . A Shooting- Scrape with both parties wounded, demands Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Heals wounds, sores, burns or Injuries. 25c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. MOTORING AT SMALL COST Flanrea from the Last Dnnh of Man Who Rnna Car for rieasnre and rrnflt. Your recent writer upon "Motoring for People of Moderate Means." begins upon too expensive a basis, as it seems to me, when he starts out with a $;.Oi0 automobile. There are p'enty of cars running from $W0 to $1,200 In cunt which carry five passengers, and give per fectly satisfactory service. I have a ?CQ one the second of the e.ime make, operated by me for over four years. It has ample power to climb all the hills In the county on high Rear, and on the level will go faster than I ever dare drive it. I runs about twenty miles to the gallon of gasoline, and 100 miles to the quart of oil; mileage say, seventy miles a month, and for ten months of the year January and February being too cold for enjoyable riding in this lati tude. The ordinary expense for gaso line, oil. taxes, and odds and ends, will not exceed $10 per month, or a total for the first year of $100; one new set of tires, say $S0; depreciation, 29 per cent $180 this I have found to be ample, by selling my first car after nearly four years of use. for one-third Its first cost. I carry fire Insurance, Included in first Item, at small cost. I have handled the car for over four years without In juring myself or any other person, and feel that I can afford to carry my own liability Insurance. I have no charge for garage rent because I have my own shelter for the car at home; nor for house boy." for all the family Is fond of the "May Bird." and finds the few minutes' work a day necessary to keep H clean a rleasant task I attend to the mechanical adjustment and oiling. Btirt Means" should expect to do, and find It run It myself, as ths "Man of Moderate a 1 a pleasure. Here. then, is a total cost of $.W0 a year for about 7,000 miles' travel; but I have an offset which must be considered. I live outside the metropolis, twelve miles from my place of business. Every time I drive in alone I have SC cents car fare; when others ride with me this amount may be doubled. Altogether the cash so saved must amount to W to $100 a year ca:l It $90. Still further, the time spent on pleasure trips on Saturday and Sun day afternoons and holidays would gen erally be replaced by seme more expen sive form of amusement If the car were not available. Thus we enjoy a healthful, useful and pleasant recreation 7.000 miles of It at a net cost (barring accident) of about $2iC for the first year, and a little more there after about what It costs in my vicinity to kep a modi-rate hors; sn.l surrey. which would not yild one-fourth the amount of service. Is there any way In which the "man of moderate means" ould spend the same amount of money to greater al anlSEe? James K. Hems in New York Independent. Mi Pine inn.) hnrk.l.nrk think 111 Often flag that fatal first drink one, client performance Is north a mil Ion emotional promises. Hand iin an.l hnniltiB t.srk anil the thing will work Its own way out. tf there were pocl.ets in some folks shroud the same old holes would be burnt In them. No matter how hard the rules may be they're as fair for tis as for the rest of the gang. When we get down we wonder how It hsnnend. hut w hen we win we accept It as perfectly natural. There are cures for the dope end rum addictions, but the self-kldiler never gets l out or Ills system. times we refue to accept his terms be- ure ine OHni-e orpine. It's human nature, but bad medicine, o buck about the walk uphill after we've Moved a Rood long slide down. New ork World. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Hig Returns. 4 mm CARS FREELMD AUTO CO., II1M4 Farnm Street Nebraska Buick Auto. Company , Waoola rano, 13th and nts-M. B. fX?UW, Oenl Mgr. Buick and Welsh Cars. WASHINGTON. Sept. il-Federal aid In road uuild'ng may become an actuality within the next twelve roontha From all over the country accumulates positive evidence of the pronounced belief that tho national government should give atten tion to better Interstate communication by road, and men prominent In affairs of state are declaring themselves, one after another, as being in accord with this progressive policy. Of the nation's leaders none is ' more emphatic than Speaker Champ Clark, who, In a com munication to President Robert P. Hooper of the American Automobile association, expresses this opinion: "I believe ths time hss come for the general government to actively and powerfully co-operate with the states In building a great system of public high ways. I believe the building of the Lin coln highway would be the entering wedge for the creation of a splendid sys tem of roads that would bring its benefits to every eltlssn In the country.': Congressman Borland of Missouri, who Is putting forward the Lincoln highway bill In the house of representatives, sum marises the matter vtry briefly: "What we need Is a monument that will bo of some use to the people now living on earth. If we could have the views on the subject of the great commoner. Abra ham Lincoln, himself, I am satisfied he would be in favor of such a tribute. There Is no monument so enduring as a high way." In commenting upon the proposed route. Chairman Oeorge C Dlehl of the national good roads, . board ; concisely puts forth thee wori-V At "A gooJv ' bioad highway, connecting historic Gettysburg with the capital of the nation, will be traveled by thousand here now tho route l followed by lain drods. owing to its serving as a road In (smite only. 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In their mind a car at less than that must be a little, insignificant, low-powered machine. They picture everything that has heretofore been offered around the one thousand dollar mark, and they see exactly what the country has been flooded with a nice lot of little toy cars. Bat here Is new step. Here you find big fine tour ing car and it coats only $900, a car with ample room for five passenger. It has a powerful 30 horsepower motor giving you more speed and power than you will ever care to use, for it can be driven between 40 and 50 miles an hour. It has the selective transmission fitted with F. & S. annular bearings the finest made. A staunch pressed steel frame. A big wheel base center control and the fashion able fore doors. Good leather upholstering stuffed with fine hair. Handsome and striking body design with graceful lines. And the body work is beautiful. Twenty -two paint ing operations are made on each individual body. This car could be made more elaborately but it could not be made better or finer. It still seems difficult for some people to understand why we can manufacture and sell cars for less money than any other manufacturer in the business. Yet if your busi ness is shirts, and your plant produces 1000 dozen a day of a certain grade, you know that your production costs are less than the factory turning out but 100 dozen a day. Or, if you manufacture bath tubs, or deal in apples, or cigars, you know that either of these handled in enormous quanti ties cost less per a certain unit than if handled in much smaller lots. This condition does not vary a particle in the production of automobiles. So we have published a very thorough and interesting book that shows you the difference in automobile plants. And it clearly proves the ability of the plant producing 20,000 cars to make and sell its product at prices from 20 to 40 lower than any similar line of cars on the market. This book takes you through the entire Willys-Overland plant 80 acres of it. You can sit in your own .living room and go through the greatest automobile plant in the world It gives you a clear idea of the economical manufacturing strength of the Overland organization. It shows you why the factory making 20,000 cars can make them better and at less cost than the factory making but 5000 cars. It shows you where you can get the most for your money. It shows you how we receive the raw materials and gradually convert them into the finished car. It shows you every step every move. It takes you through the four months' process ot making each single car. And it shows you exactly where and how we can manufacture more economically than a smaller plant and how you get the benefit of this. It shows you exactly how our cars are made how our great auto matic mechanical equipment does the work more rapidly and at less cost than the hand labor found in smaller plants. It shows you shops and departments not found in other plants, such as our great drop forge plant and aluminum casting shop. It is written in a readable style, not technical or dry, but clear, concise and interesting. It is the most thorough book of its kind ever published. To read it is an education. It is free and we want everyone to have a copy. This, better than anything (outside of a trip to the fac tory itself) will give you a good idea of the real worth of this $900 car. Take a stroll down automobile row in your city. Look over all the popular priced cars. See if you can find the equal of this $900 car for less than $1250. The book re ferred to above can be had from our dealer (address below) or direct from the factory. Write or phone him, or us, and you will get one by return mail. This also shows you our complete 1912 line, with prices, specifications and com plete descriptions as well as handsomely , colored plates of each modeL Better get a copy at once. 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