THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST U, 1912.
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BIG SHOW ALONG AUTO ROW
Dealers to Have Carnival Daring
Ak-Sar-Ben Fall Festival.
ENTIRE STREET ILLUMINATED
Aato Dealer Will Have Their 1918
Models ob Display for Benefit
of the Crowd VUitlps
la Omaha.
It is planned by the Omaha Auto Show
association to hold an automobile carnival
this fall at the time of the Ak-Sar-Ben
festivities as a supplement to the regular
exposition to be held durmc the first
months of the comlnc year. It Is thought
opportune to hold such a carnival or ex
position In advance of the general annual
auto Show which is scheduled for 1913.
This carnival will not be confined to a
single building, but rather each distribu
tor and dealer In Omaha will have within
his own warehouse and salesroom an
exposition of the 1913 models, nearly all
of which will be placed before the public
early in the fall.
Thousands of dollars will be expended
for the illumination of the Farnam street
"auto row" and dealers will make special
efforts towards presenting to the publlo
an attractive display of their work. All
salesrooms will be decorated with auto
pennants and will be in charge of sales
men all day and each evening.
The scheme will mark an innovation In
the annals of the auto trade, as it will be
the first of t(s kind ever held in the coun
try and is sure to attract wide attention.
No effort will be left unattended to at
tract attention and the fact that this af
fair will be held during the Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival season will draw added crowds
from out of the city who would otherwise
not attend the regular auto show early
in the year.
Clarke Q. Powell, manager and secre
tary of the Omaha Automobile Show asso
ciation, will have charge of the prelim
inary arrangements.
State Automobile
Association Has
Opened Its Of f ice
At meeting o the board of directors
of the Nebraska State Automobile asso
ciation O. C. Turner was elected secre
tary and field manager, with offices at
the Hotel Rome, where? an office will be
maintained for the benefit of tourists and
autolsts. , This bureau will be able to
furnish detailed Information of all roads
throughout the country, enabling the
automobillsts to travel the best route and
giving him full information regarding all
bridges, railroad crossings, garages,
hotels and points of Interest and other
matter of Importance to the tourists.
A bulletin will bo kept, showing latest
road news, giving notice of washouts,
unsafe bridges, roads undergoing repairs
or rendered impassable for any reason.
This information will be supplied by
local secretaries in Nebraska and adjoin
Ing states, supplemented by the weather
bureau of information.
An active campaign will be instituted
to interest every automobile owner in the
state In the work of the association. In
asmuch as all service of the bureau will
be free, it is very evident that each mem
ber added to ihe association, will mean
increased ability to give better service.
The bureau will be in charge-of Mrs.
Berger, a woman particularly fitted for
the position because of her experience In
similar work and In publlo service. Mr.
Turner wlll in addition, to his duties as
secretary of organisation, be in active
charge of organisation and field work,
and a rapid increase In membership is
expected.
PEERLESS TAKES PRIDE
IN ITS SILENT MOTOR
Progress in motor car construction has
produced from year to year a constantly
more quiet mechanism. You can stand
'beside the bonnet of a 1913 Peerless
"Six" without being able to tell whether
or not the motor Is running.
Years ago the belt-driven fan then in
use in Peerless motors was replaced by
lone that was gear-driven. The reason
Iglven was., that the gear drive was
'quieter. t
But as one after another the various
, slight motor noises were eliminated the
'engineers discovered that the operation
jof the fan gears was distinctly audible
lAt first this sound had been obscured
Iby other motor noises.
Experiment then led to the adoption of
fa much-improved form of the belt drive,
(which even on the modern engine seems
'to be completely silent.
BIG DEMAND FOR MOTOR
TRUCKS IS CONTINUING
That presidential uncertainties are not
jsffectlng general prosperity to any great
extent Is shown by the remarkable ; de
mand for the best grade of motor car
riages and also for commercial trucks.
The Packard Motor Car company - In
the two weeks ending July 31 shipped
2S5 cars, whole total value was S1.27S.000,
cars leaving the factory at the rate of
'twenty a day. Fifty-six trucks were
sent out In the same time, their value
being HM-000.
- Because of this urgent demand for -Ihtoles
officers of the Packard Motor Car
roompaay are convinced that the general
(situation Is sound and are providing for
iaa Increased output in the early fall.
COMPLETE OUTFIT IS
: DESIGNED FOR TOURISTS
An outfit for automobile tourists,
which includes twelve piece of luggage,
has been designed by C. J. Moore of the
Packard Motor Car company. There are
seven suitcases, a hat box, a lunch kit.
two trunks and an ice box in the set,
which is so constructed and arranged that
It does not Interfere with the normal passenger-carrying
capacity of a standard
touring oar.
Good Aato Ran.
y Clad In khaki and wearing a rich coat
ing of tan, Charlie Tate and his me
chanician, M. W. Lawrence, completed a
record run from Brooklyn to Detroit last
Wednesday afternoon. The speedomter
of their Regal showed a mileage of 804
miles and their running time for the dis
tance totaled but thirty-one hours and
fifteen minutes.
-Convicts Work Roads.
The Omaha-Denver auto road from U
mcn to Denver Is now in bad ondltlon
and Warden Tom Tynan of tne Colorado
penitentiary has agreed to put sixty con
victs st work on the bad places within
the next thirty days. The commercial
organizations of Denver have agreed to
raise the necessary funds to pay all ex
penses since the highway fund in the
state treasury is not available.
Packard Company
Announces Its New
Rakish Little Six
In response to the popular demand of
a smaller six-cylinder Packard, a rakish,
five-passenger consort to the "48" for
1913 has been produced by the Packard
Motor Car company. This car, known
as the "38,," has ' been developed step
by step with the other stx-cylinder Pack
ards, but its manufacture has been post
poned until the present season because
of the pressing market for its larger pro
totypes. The features most likely to- attract Im
mediate attention are the left drive and
control, the positive electrlo self-starter
and electrlo lighting system and the new
control board, Invented by H. B. Joy,
president of the Packard company. By
means of this last named device, starting,
ignition, lighting and carburetor controls
are on the steering column within reach
of the driver's hands. .
The slx-cyilnder motor is of the L-head
type, with a bore of four inches and a
comparatively long stroke of five and a
half inches. All valves are enclosed,
making, a notably quiet engine. Meas
ured by the A.;L. A. M. standard, the
motor .Is rated at thirty-eight, but the
brake test shows it will develop sixty
horsepower. The wheel base of the tour
ing car Is 134 Inches; of the phaeton 138;
of the runabout 115H Inches. ,
The car will turn around in a street
41 feet t Inches wide.
Among the features which have strong
est appeal to the cross-country tourist is
ease of riding, due to the sensitive three
quarter scroll elliptic springs and the un
usually deep upholstery.
The line of bodies for the "38" consists
of five-passenger touring, five-passenger
phaeton, runabout, limousine, landaulet,
Imperial limousine, brougham, coupe, im
perial coupe and a limited number of
four-passenger phaetons.
Anto Slgtas Palate.
t.i-i.9 th. onfn glens between Chey-
enne and Sherman hill has been com
pleted by a party oi gooa roauo uu
ers of Cheyenne.
WATER POWER IN AMERICA
Electrical Development and Its Re
lation to Forest Destruction.
The total developed water power of the
United States, in round numbers, is at
least 8,000, 000-horse nower. This Is but the
beginning, for a careful estimate of the
water power available in this country
shows that not less than 31,040,000-horse
power, and probably 66,146,000-horse
power, could be developed from our
rivers and streams.
The area of the earth's surface Is ap
proximately 197,000,000 square miles, the
area of the United States Is about 3.027,
000 square miles. Twenty-six per cent Of
the earth's surface is land. The evapor
ation from water surface In the United
States varies from less than twenty
Inches annually to more than 100 inches
in a few places. The average rainfall
over the United States is twenty-nine and
two-fifths inches, which is disposed of In
re-evaporation, in plant growth, In sub
surface flow and In surface flow (known
as "run off). It Is he last which 1b
available for water power developments,
and may be said to comprise roughly
one-third of the rainfall.
Forests which regulate the ; stream
flows, and which are rapidly being, ex
hausted constitute an important feature
of hydroelctric development. The forests
of the United States cover 550.000,000 acres,
or about one-fourth of the country. The
national forests comprise about 130,000,000
acres, distributed as follows:
Million
Acres.
Arizona m 9
California
Colorado 20
Idaho ., ; 20
Montana 20
Nevada 1
.New Mexico 7
Oregon ,..1!
South Dakota 1
Utah 7
Washington 12
Wyoming 9
Alaska 6
The present rate of cutting the timber
is three times the annual growth; while
the yoarly consumption is 20.000,000,000
cubic feet, valued at about $1. 250,000,000.
Wood is used every year in the following
quantities:
90,000,000 cords of fire wood.
40,000,000,000 board feet of lumber.
123,000,000 hewed ties.
1,500,000 staves.
133,000,000 sets of heading.
600,000,000 barrel hoops.
3,200.000 cords of native pulp wood.
165,000.000 cubic feet mine timber.
1,250,000 cords of wood'' for distilla
tion. -Electrical News.
WTUIIEE OF F. A. M. AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP-BOSCH TROPHY.
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JOHNNY CONSTANT.,
Novelty Camp Auto
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A special order, bound from Its very
novelty to attract considerable atten
tion, has just been turned out by the
K!s;el Motor Car company. It Is a
handsome camp wagon and was built for
Mr. A. 3. Fdyson of San Mateo, Cat
This vehicle has all the luxuries cf a
standard seml-tourlng Kissel Kar, plus
the utility afforded by a Capacious bsx
body In the rear. This box is nine fset
long by four feet In width snd Is con
structed so as to carry complete camp
ing supplies. It Is divided Into com
partments especially designed to trans
port every requirement of camp life. In
cluding food, shelter, bedding and all
the necessary paraphernalia for fishing,
hunting and Prospecting. It is built upon
a one-ton chassis, with an engine of
flfty-horse-power.
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Gossip
Along the
Automobile Row
O. M. Smith of the Updike Oraln com
pany purehaad a Franklin "Little Six"
last week from Quy L, Smith.
K. n, SVedrlckson will return from Bait
Lake Clly Monday. Kls recent sood roads
trip has been ono of the most sueoessful
In the annals of western auto touring,
A, X Frlesen of Henderson, Neb., pur
ohaatd a Big Six Mitchell at the loeal
salesrooms last week.
Tho local agenoy for the Plsrce-Arrow
ear will receive a slx-oyllnder 1918 model
of that machine this week,
W, J, Cameron of the bicycle and motor
cyolo department of the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber company was a visitor In
Omaha Thursday.
Tit Mclntyre Automobile company ex
pects a couple of 1913 model Silent Knight
Btoarni here soon.
The Huffman company delivered several
Abbott-Detrolts last week. C. K. Fred
erick, Donlson, la., visited Omaha and
took home a Hupmoblle and an Abbott
Detroit; A carload of Abburn "40s" Is expected
by the local agency soon. The new cars
will be 1918 models.
Charles R. Hannan, president of the
First National bank at Council Bluffs,
recently purchased a slx-cyllnder Silent
Knight Stearns from the Melntyre com
pany, - .,
"Lens hern" auto honkers continue td
sell rapidly at the Western A,uto Supply
company. The new horn Is fast becoming
popular on delivery trucks as well as
touring cars and runabouts.
Little Six Mitchell cars were sold last
week to H. Cameron of Herman, O. L.
Stoltenberg of Florenos and John Johnson
of Broken Bow.
A Model 1 Mitchell Six was purchased
by Ed Eppert of Sutton In Omaha the
other dav.
Herman Drelbus of the Drelbus Candy
company Is chugging about In a new
Hudson "83" touring oar which he pur.
chased from Guy L. Smith last week.
A carload of Mitchell cars was shipped
to the Forest Lumber company at AUI
ance last week.'
. Brisk sales of 1918 Chalmers models
have been reported by T. M. Bromwell,
sales manager for the Fredrlokson Auto
company.
Jack Qelbel, representative for the
Tropical Oil company, started from
Omaha last Monday on a B,000-mle auto
trip. Gelbel wU tour Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming and South Dakota and will also
visit many points of interest, Including
Tellpwstone park.
Hal M. Brady, vice president of the
Arthur Stors. Auto Supply company, will
leave tomorrow morning for an extended
trip through the west, Including the Black
Hills country, Wyoming and Colorado.
He will Introduce Federal tires and Wolf's
Head pll In that territory.
The excellent showing of the Knight
cars In the two-day Belgium grand prise
race over the Ardennes circuit gained
that car considerable prestige in the auto
world.
J. A. Shoemaker, secretary nt th
Omaha Commercial club's Good Roads
association, who necomnsnt TT m I
Fredrickson on the recent good roads trip
to Bait Lake City. Is expected to return
to Omaha with Mr. Fredrickson.
The Arthur Stors Auto Supply company
now has six salesmen on the road, who
are covering Nebraska and Iowa and
ports of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and
South Dakota. Although in business but
a little over six months the Stors com
pany has bultt up a creditable trade.
A combination of colors easily readable
to the pssslng autolst Is presented by the
new good roads signs which have been
posted along the route from Omsha to
Salt Lake City. The colors are white,
yellow and black.
An attractive supply of red and green
motorboat lamps has been received by the
Arthur Stors Auto Supply company. A
supply of life buoys has also been laid
In at the local salesrooms.
W. S. Wright of Benson has purchased
the interest of his partner. B. Prior, In
the auto business.
An auto eompany-t Hastings is menu
facturlng an auto lifter. This devloe will
be useful, especially In garages. With it
a mnchlno con be lifted essilv several
feet high so that a man can work. easily
underneath. About forty lifting devices
have been turned out to date.
Albert E. Bihler, who until recently has
been manager of the Independent garage,
has opened an auto repair shop for him
self along the Farnam street "auto row.
Mr. Bihler is an experienced mechanic
and for years has been engaged in auto
work.'
Auto speeding in Des Moines will be
punishable by heavy fines, according to
a new ordinance which has been passed
there. For the first offense fines from
$25 to 8100 will be meted out or thirty
day in Jail. For the second offense the
fine will be 860 to $100. The penalty for
violating "rules of the road" will be a
fin of from $5 to $100.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber company
Akron, Ohio, by the Installation of fifty
three fountains, through which con
tinually bubbling a supply of fresh, cool
spring water, has solved the poblera of
the summer drinking water supply for
8,000 workmen both from a sanitary
standpoint and that of efficiency.
Frank Briscoe, one of the vice presi
dents of the United State Motor Com
pany, who has charge of the design
ing department, has resigned. He will
sail for Europe late In August to make a
study of European motor car engineering.
He will probably remain abroad for a
year or more. While resigning hi offloe
in the United States Motor company,
Mr. Briscoe will continue as president of
the Briscoe Manufacturing company,
which Is one of the subsidiaries Of the
United States Motor company.
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General Qpec!fications:Motor, 32 H. P.; Cylinders, 3 3-4x
5 1-2 Cone clutch Brown-Lipe transmission double uni
versal joints floating rear axle Thermosyphon cooling system
with tubular radiator dual ignition system. Large, roomy
body of handsome foredoor design upholstered in finest No. 1
machine buffed leather. Complete with top, glass front, Presto
tank, demountable rims aud complete set of tools.
The Velie 32 fulfills the long and urgent request of Velie
friends, owners and dealers for a popular priced car embodying the
careful workmanship and better design that for years have been an
integral part of Velie 40 models. It offers more than the purchaser
has heretofore been accustomed to expect in a car. of its price, and
its advanced construction is such that it cannot be judged by the
popular priced standards of the present day. As in other Velie
models, it, is at least a year ahead of all competitive cars.
Write for Catalogue No. 20, giving complete de
scription and prices, Furnished free on request
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA
INGERS0LL AND THE DOCTORS
Progress In th Profession, Agnostto
Maintained, Dae to Sick
Heretics.
Ingersoll once asserted that "all the
advance In religion ever made was
caused by the heretics, Luther, John
Hues, Latimer and Wycllffe and others
who kicked at orthodoxy."
' What of medicine?" asked Ell Per
kins. "Well, all the advance that has been
made In the science of medicine has
been made by the recKlessness of pa
tients medical heretics," said Ingerioll.
"I can recollect when they wouldn't give
a man water In a fever not a drop. Now
and then some fellow would get so
thirsty he would say: 'Well, I'll die
anyway, so I'll drink It,' and thereupon
he would burst Into a generous perspira
tion and get well, and the next morning,
when the doctor would come to see him
they - would tell him about the man
drinking the water, and he would say.
'How muchf ,
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full.'
'"Is he aliver
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"So they would go Into the room and
the doctor would feel hi pulse and ask
him: 'Did you drink two pitchers of
waterf,
" 'Yes,' the patient would confess.
' " My God,' the doctor would exclaim,
what a constitution you have got.'"
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Powell Supply Co.,
2119 Farnam St
ALBERT E. BIHLER
Automobile Repairing
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none Song. 8395. Omaha, Keb.
Aato Polo.
The first auto polo game was played In
Wichita recently. Four stripped care,
each carrying two men, participated In
the novel game. An ordinary leather
basket ball was driven back and forth ,
in a long field, the object, as In the esse
of ths ordinary horse polo game, being t
drive the ball between the goal posts.
sixty feet apart. The game was playel
In three ten-minute periods and ended In
a tie score, 1 to 1.
Discards All Horses. ,
Saltna. Kan., Is ths only ctty In the
country of anywhere near Its slse which
can boast of a oomplete equipment of
motor trucks In Its fire department, The
last horse in the Saltna servlos was dis
carded recently for a Kissel Kar truck,
which made a record trip on Its first
run.
Like the grass it is every
where. You can't get away
from Ford service Tor Ford
owners to be found jn
practically every business
center of civilization. Ford
repairs are seldom needed
but are always at hand and
cost but little when required.
76,000 Forg can already told this season
-one-lalrd of America' product. Five
passenger tcurlng car $690 three passen
ger roadster $590 torpedo runabout $590
i delivery car $700 town car $900 f.
0. b. Detroit, complete with all equipment.
Get catalogue from Ford Motor Company.
1916 Harney St., Omaha, or direct from
the Detroit faotrry. ,
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If OSES
Federal Tires arc recog
nised by automobilists
who know as the tires of
"Extra Service." Their
exceptional endurance,
and the unusual service
they render are due to
their high quality.
Federal Tires are the tires
you should select because of
the extra service they de
liver. The additional miles
they give will materially re
duce your tire expense.
Ask to see Federal Tires
their superiority will be ap
parent. la U fjrpes, tot a fand!anf rim
Tho Arthur Slorz JUio
Supply Co.
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SGSOCa FARXAJA STEKST
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OMAHA BEE'S
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Nebraska Buick Auto. Company Welsh Canu
liaeola Braneh, lStb and tts. H. S. 833311:8, deal Ks.
ueeia -lanea, om,h tana, ISia-le-l runs gtJMa XUTT. Mr.
VanBruittAulomobileCo,
Overland and Pope-.
Hartford
Council ainft X.
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FOUR MODELS
Prices $1,150
to $1,700.
OHIO ELECTRICS
Marlon Anto Company.
a w. Mcdonald, Mgr.
2101-2103 Farnam St.
JOHN DEERE PLOW COMPANY
Salesroom -Cor. Tenth and Howard Sts.
Omaha, Nebraska.
PEERLESS G U Y L. SM ITH
HUDSON 2205-2207 Farnam Street
Vallace Automobile Go.
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