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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1912)
THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. FKIUiT ART 21. rs AUTO EXPORTS INCREASE Twenty Time More ia Value Than a Decade Ago. IMPOSTS SHOVTOG A DECREASE Mar Taaai Tweilr Mllll.a Dalian Warta at Aatambtlea Are Sal ar taa. I altea lUM a Farelam Caaatrtoa. WASHINGTON. Feb. U.-Ov t30.000.0n0 worth of automobiles were exported from the JJntted States in the calendar year ITU. or twenty times as much as a dec aoa aro. The exports to foreign countries last rear. Including tires and other parts, ware valued at CI.tQti.SSl and the ship ments to our own noncontiguous terri tories. Hawaii. Porto Rico and Alaska. H.MS.1S. Tea years ago the exports to foratsa countries were but Mi0S."f3 In value: by 19M they bad grown to J4.eJ6.lS. by 11 to lU.flJO.EX. and In the calendar year Just ended had risen to Cl.SMM. this Increase of t2O.000.O00 in the exports of American-made automobiles within a slat's dacada being one of the most no table achievements of our foreign com merce In recent years. Meantime Imports of automobiles Into the United States show a decreasing tend ency. From 198 to ,19W. before the In dustry had developed in'thls country. Im ports rapidly Increased, from about 150ft ON to tE.0Oa.O00. the high record In Imports of this class of vehicles. Since IKK, how ever, the Imports have steadily decreased, last year's total having been less than C MO, 000. In 1908. according to the estab lished reports of the bureau of statistics. Department of Commerce and Labor, im ports and exports of automobiles were of about equal value. Imports Into the United States In thst yesr being WJW.3 and exports therefrom. U400.1& The fol lowing year witnessed a shifting of the balanoe of trade In automobiles from the Import to the export side, since which time the excess of exporls has steadily. Increased until In 1911 It was 119.190,413. Imports In that year having been but a?,44s.2tf, and exports gn.S6.6tl, or about Bins times the value of Hie automobiles Imported In the same year. The aggregate ' value of automobiles passing through- ports of the United States during the last tea years exceeded VM,00t,tM. The approximate figures are as follows: Imports, C7.000.0W; exports to foreiga countries, 170.000,0110; shipments to Porto Rico. Hawaii and Alaska. tiOOO. 4100; a total, for this comparatively new article of commerce of (102.000 00 In ten year. Exaaiia aad Inserts. The course of our trade In Imports and exports of automobiles la illustrated by the following figures' covering quadren nial years from 1KB to MIL tibtpments to non contiguous Ex ports. territories. I i.trn m s4.t4 4.MC1SB 186,870 21,tvK.tl l.ttM.ltf Fiscal year Imports for consumption. This rapid Increase In exports of auto mobiles from the United States is in part duo to the rapid development of the do mestic Industry, In part to the growing ass of vehicles of this character through out the world. In 19M the exports of au tomobiles from Franco, the United Btaies, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, the leading manufacturers of automo biles, aggregated W6.0UMK, and In 1910, but two-years later. Bad grown to tii, 005,000. In 19(0 tbo value of automobiles manufactured In the United States was 3.090,000; T 1195. 3O,O0O,0M, and In 1909, 24t,000,lXJS. That the Increased consump tion of automobiles in this country Is be ing mora and more supplied by mschines of domestlo manufacture may be. Inferred from the feet that Imports have greatly decreased during a period In which pro duction has grown from tn,OM,000 to nearly f30.M),0D0. Franca la the chief source of automo biles Imported into the United States. The Imports from that country, however, in common with those from other countries, are decreasing. Of the $4,000,000 worth Imported In the fiscal year 1906, about 13. OuO.OOO was from France, 1371,000 from Ger many. IS3.000 from the United Kingdom, and M from Italy. Last year France was credited with less than fl, 000,010. and the other countries named with about poo, OOt each. Moat of the automobiles exported from the United States go to British territory. The value exported to Canada In 19ua was B7.CS, while In 1910 It had Increased to M .S3. 47 and In 19U to t7.180.M7, or one third the entire exports of this clsss of manufactures. To the United Kingdom, the total last year was S3, 700.096, against BJ4IS.9K In 19W and 4(71.561 In 1901 To France the exports grew from JS3.061 In IMS to tfK.ia In 111: to Germany, from 4.M a decade ago to Ml, tog Isit year; to Mexico, from 3.710 to t7MK9. and to British Oceania, chiefly Australia, from aj.w In 1908 to SU6&903 In 19U. To various other parts of the world Including South America, Asia and Oceania, the exports sf automobiles nut year were large, la some cases the largest on record. Cslen- i 4ar years, Imports. 1.. ..-.$ fcO.OnO 1901 4,910. 1910 i,717.M 1911 1,444, 2U Koran Buys First Auto Sold at. the Automobile Show Charles Koran, president of the Omaha Trunk factory, was the first to buy aa automobile at the present show, accord ing to Oeorge Helm. , Mr. Korea purchased a 1911 Cadillac through the Influence of a good many of kta friends who are owners of cars. The car was recommended to him oa account of Its high efficiency and durability of service. Ha was assured by his friends that he would receive tbo best of service from the Cadillac company of Omaha, and knowing the standardization of the car and the reputation of the Cadillac Motor Car company, Detroit, Mich, he decided upon a Cadillac car. Accord rug to the specifications which George F. Retm received from Mr. Koran, be Is having his car equipped with nearly every accessory that can be put oa an automobile m the line of special equlp smnt. His equipment cor, fists of a rear sight mirror, demountable rims, extra tire, trunk rack, electric horn, power sir pomp, electric lights by which to change tires, combination clock and speedometer, slip covers, double automatic windshield, etc. Joy Riders ta Meaty, "We'll have to give lots of free rides this week, but wo can't help It." said one of the exhibitors. "A great many people who have no Intention of buying a car pretend that they want to buy one in order to hav us take them out for a spin. Sometimes we spot these people for what they are, but one can't be too careful of questioning the motives uf a Persistent Advertising Is the Road to SH Returns. Dreams of Mr. Buyer, an Auto Show Visitor ARRIVAL OF SELF STARTED I "ZT S ia Jktf I sF 1 turvrs cn on typ of 4:r start sr. Thar ia agreement, howrer, oa this paint UuU the motorinc pubiio haa dacldad to break Ita axma and bark no kmrar erar th crank. Id otort t j used to b willing to fusa oTr thalr cars and baby them; now thr demand that their eara ahall ba ready to r at tha touch of button. Uke verythtnr tm about the motor car (And the manufacturers ar turnlnc tham tiierr is no atrrremtnt autons mantifac-. out that way. Boston Transcript. button, and mhivu turn ovor tlie motor sufn.icnt!y to start the regular power. The sprina- is mound up again by the molar. The sprlr-c aflf-starter fs of dif ferent types and can be attached to any car. There are alao lever atnl pedal starting devtces. All lave iher advo cates and their claims to superiority. NEBRASKA-BU1CK CO. BUSY SHOWIMQ THEIR BIQ LINE H. a BMloa. Xiao HoK and fhatr score of ajtusty-toiif assistants wars nearly worked to death Monday night ghowltuT tho Bulck and alsvqaatta can to tho hand reds of raterested epeot&tora. Persistent Advertising la tho Road N Hoit Rotable Feature of Thii Tear'i Automobiles. PETNCTAL YAEEETIES OF DEVICE Crank Beeoaiea I'aeleee Appeadla ea obbs Cars, Eatlrely Rraseved " from ta-ta-tke-Mlante Motors. Tho great step of the 19U production of cars hss been to bring the motor within tho reach of a great body of people who heretofore In large degree have been barred from driving because of lack of physical strength to crank tho motor. The crank now becomes a sort of useless ap pendix on most cars and on, some baa been removed altogether. The time of the self starter baa arrived, aa witness the num ber of machines so equipped in tho gar den show. The car without some method of starting from the seat is almost ex ceptional. The coming of tho self-starting era means no mors back-kicks and broken wrists, and it means that the de lights of driving are open to women, and to men who hare feared the crank. Juat why the self-starter has come with such a rush thla season Is not altogether clear some say It's natural development and other's claim It Is women's Influence. The women showed that they wanted to drive cars, without having to carry a man to crank the engine, or being obliged to get out m the mud to crank It them solves, and the manufacturers answered tho feminine demand by putting self starting devices on their machines. The self-starter li not new. A perfectly ef ficient compressed sir self-starter was shown In Madison Square Garden three or four years sgo by a prominent motor car manufacturer. It offered freedom from the travail of the crank Just as much as do the self-starters of today. But men motorists exclaimed "Oh Bosh, there's truck enough on a car to get out of order now without adding any more," and the next season this maker dropped his self-starter. The Wlnton makers led the way In the present movement towards self-starters. They put a compressed air starter on their six-cylinder several seasons ago snd they have stuck to It. Now the whole In dustry Is running at their heels equipping cars with ons style or another uf device for turning over the motor without physi cal exertion. A button to push, a little crank to turn, a pump or something of the sort appear on tho dashboards snd the manufacturers who haven't had time to Join the procession are getting In line and are offering to supply self-starters as regular or extra equipment tilth priced oar makers, who at first scoffed at the self-starter Idea, are Joining the procession. Self-starters are roughly, of four kinds the compressed sir or burned gas, the electric, the exploitive gas and the me chanical or spring. The compressed sir self-starter is exemplified In the Wlnton and the (Chalmers. The car carries a reservoir in which part of the burned gas from the molor Is compressed, the com pression being shut off automatically when It la sufficiently high. A push button on the dashboard pushed by the foot of the driver releases the com pressed burned gas to the cylinders and the piston that is ready for the down stroke Is driven down. The others fol low in turn until fresh gas lias been ucked In and Ignited and the motor runs Itself, storing away In tho first few revolutions sufficient compression to use the next time. The electric self-starter la new this season. Prominent exponents of this method are the Cadlllao and the Inter- Stale, though they employ different systems. The features of the electric self-starter are a storage baltery and an electrlo motor geared to the merhan Ism of th gas motor. A sallch directs current front tho storage battery to the electric motor, which, acting through gearing, turns over the crankshaft of the gas motor until regular explosions begin. In the Cadillac the electric motor is geared Into the flywheeel; In others tt Is geared to the half-time shaft, when the gaa motor Is running It drives the electrlo motor until the storage bsa. terles are fully charged. 'With tha elec tric self-starter go electric head, side, tall, dash and interior lamps and electrlo Ignition. A Coaasasa lystesa. The explosive gaa self-starter la the most easily attached, of low cost and simple In construction, and has been adopted aa equipment by tha larger num ber of car manufacturers. These ex plosive gas starters derive their energy from the acetylene gas tank and there are two principal types, tha Disco and tha Presto. Such cars as the Hudson, Pt-ens-Duryea, Kverltt, Simplex, Seidell, Pullman, Maroon. Speedwell bar tha ex plosive gaa self-starter and almost all the other manufacturers are prepared to sup ply It. when requested by customers. The explosive gas self-star tar constats, rough ly, of a pipe from tho aostelyno gaa tank to the distributor and piping from the dis tributor, which Is worked by a tiny crank or a pump, to tbo cylinders. In whleh the acetylene gaa la fired nntll the motor begins to run under tho regular gasoline mixture power. As the acety leno gas is very powerful only a small quantity Is needed to turn over the motor. The spring self-starter is the oldest of them all. It consists of a powerful spring which la released by pressure on a dssh 3 TUDY appeal, The Car of Practical Luxury all sides of an automobile 'its artistic its mechanical construction, the .service back of it, the men who built it. Do. this with any car before -you buy; especially do1 we i invite such careful analysis of.the.Marquette. In. the refinement of its exterior' lines and the, character of y its general appdintment, the Marquette reaches a point of elegance. These, combined with the reasonableness of its price, make the Marquette the car of Practical Luxury. And added to its supremacy in these essentials is the fact that the Marquette is produced under the immediate direction of the General Motors Company, giving it not only the ample engineering and mechanical backing of this, large insti tution, but assuring thoroughly deoendable.service. to owners These Iwndsomo cars will he ehotyn at the Omaha Auto mobile Show, of course, but tho Ral Dittpl-r t at Show Room 1912-14-16 Farnam Streot NEBRASKA BUICK ADTO CO, Ditribtefs Omaha, Lee Huff, Mgr. Lincoln, Sioux City, H. E. Sidles, Gen. Mgr. S. 0. Douglas, Mgr, Model 25 Price, $3,000. tt-in -mn issassiTrn iiisasawaawaV! The Delivery Car Now Used by 50 Omaha Firms When purchasing a commercial car it is well to consider the standing of the firm be hind the car, and tho service given car owners. These features are of the utmost ira portanc to car buyers. Delays of all kinds are costly, and wliere a concern helps a purchaser to keep his car in first-class condition, it is an advantage not to be over looked. This is what the I. H. C. service means to our customers. The International Commercial Car is the dependable car for hot and cold weather, 365 days in the year, backed by a strong guarantee by a concern that is able to make good. International Harvester Company . America Council Bluffs, Iowa.. INCORPORATED Lincoln. Neb. Omaha, Neb. LITTLE SIX An entirely new Model, and ready for demonstration. A Little Six with 60 horse power and Ten Inch Upholstrey Exhibited at the Omaha Automobile Show for the First Time February 19 to 24 A large portion of the output of this Model has already been sold without a single demonstration having been made You are invited to inspect and test this car at your pleasure Sold in this Territory by B J. J. Deright Co. 1818 Farnam Street i I