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Gossip
Along the
Automobile Row
I'rspltn the wrt weather cf the last
'ouple wreki and the resultanC bail roads,
the illtcl'.ell Motor romranjr of Omaha
R ep; Binding out Mitchell cars. New
'mUt of the lUht six are to Mr. Brown
r Tlrii Oak, T. Herman son of Benson.
I'. T. Varker and S. P. Anderson of Flor
rti(V, . Joe Kelley of Omaha, Dr. J. Q.
Ha Won of Atlantic, la.: (i. Fish of At
lantic W. H. Kimball of Council Bluffs,
Tewis Armbuster of Stanton, Neb.: Hans
llolling of Gretna, Neb.; J. Fisher of
KilRorw, Neb.; a special six deluxe sold
. to H. L. Hcbinson of Omaha; special six
to Josrr-h KoGuIre of Benson, and a spe
cial six to Florence Auto & Taxi com
pan.", Lifeht foiirs were sold and delivered
to William Holm of Omaha, Leonard
Kverftt ef Cotincll Bluffs. H. Earl Smith
of Ulcnwood, la.; W. A. Ehattuck of
Anhr.r. Neb.; O. P. Melslnger and Phillip
Farnoff of Cedar Creek. Neb.; R. L.
Shencfelt of Oakdalc. The two Mr. Muel
lers of David City a light four each,
and a special four roadster to Nick De
Mutli of liullwood. Carload shipments of
fours went to Grant Chlnna Clark of St.
Paul, Neb., and F. II. Beebe of Beebe
town, la.
At 2061 Farnam, at the large and finely
fitted up new ralesroom of tho Mitchell
Motor company. Is a most attractive win
dow dlnpluy, showing the new Mitchell
model the "plxtcen six " Tha car shown
is the new six for 1916, nd Is given this
rrominnce to attract the public! to what
they can now purchase in a full stsed
six cylinder quality car of one of tho
most standard makes for the nominal
price of $1,200. The artist and his band
lias done to the rest and has with paints
and colors brought country name wttn
spacious grounds and Inviting roads for
a background of this handsome car.
Crowds of people, attracted by the dis
play, are viewing the new model and the
work of the artist, and It safe to assume
that the "call of the road" will appeal to
all alike. The new model and the beau
tiful window are well worth going to see.
Woman Drives Car to the Coast
Heard at the Omaha Auto Club
A pretty, clever, vivacious young
woman visited several days In Omaha
last week. Today she is gone, traveling
In the direction of the setting sun. Her
means of locomotion is a Bulck C-65. Her
came Is Mrs. Etta Free.
Mrs. Free Is now on the first leg of a
Journey which will take her from Chi
cago to San Francisco and return. She Is
to do her own driving, every mile of It.
and there Is no better aoallfled woman
In the country for this arduous task than
she. As a woman driver Chicago experts
declare she has no superior and but few,
If any, equals. Her only companions on
the long journey are a youthful son, Eu
gene IeMle Free, and a young nephew,
Harold Baskln.
Stearns Makes Pull
Through Heavy Mud
"Speaking of a car getting out and
showing lust what it Is made of," says
; Roy Benton, local salesman for the
: Stearns-Knlght, "I came in from eleven
miles northwest of Ulalr last Sunday
i with one of our "Lght 4" models. 8at
I urday night we had a terrific rain there,
and I started Sunday morning. The first
' nine mile wun thrnllirh nlUnll rnmlin
so deep that the running boards
were frequently dragging In the mud.
In this nine miles I did not go into high
gear a foot, and did not get the water
to a boiling point one minute. I really
believe that this should be a good proof
Stanley C. Wilson, secretary and treas
urer of the J. C. Wll?on company, manu
racfactufers of the Wilson one and one-hplf-ton.
truck, who was In Omaha a
week. ago. writes from Denver that ne
had canvassed the automobile sltuatloa
very thoroughly In Omaha and says that
Omaha agents are to be congratulated
on ' their progresslveness. He says the
situation in the motor 'field looks' Ve'ry
promising and that In a very short time
he wlll.-be able to make announcement
of an Omaha representative.
King Eight Motor
"Makes First Trip
- on Chicago Track
The Chicago Motor speedway la a real
ity. The big auto classic scheduled for
June 19, will be held. It is the Initial trip
made by a King eight can be taken as a
criterion, all track records will be shat
tered. The party that dedicated the oval
(n a King eight declares the race will be
l he iist thrilling In the history of auto
mobile contests.
Soon after the last spike was driven at
o'clock on June 4. C. F. Woods, prest
Jent of the King Motor Car company of
Chicago, accompanied by H. C. Bradfield
rf the King Motor Car company, De
troit, and Mark Hay, Annawan, IlL.
King, dealer, poked the nose of a new
King eight onto the board track. Soon the
party was speeding up to fifty-five miles
an hour, but had to slow down In front
of tha grandstands, on account of debris
on the track. '
A fast track, full of resiliency, two In
clines that give one the Idea of BO per cent
grades, with fine straight ways on both
the front and back stretches aro some of
the features of the course.
Th audience can see the speed kings
.every second they are on the oval, the j
way t is constructed.
The track Is built for speed. When the
workmen saw the King pull on the course
they were anxious to see how a car
would, travel on the Incline. When they
noticed the way the King eight held to
Ihe boards thev did not believe it could
tand on the top of the Incline without
llpulnx over.
Mr. Woods, however, allayed their
ft are, when he drove to the top of the
track and opened the throttle until the
var was under a forty-mile headway.
There he stopped and held this position
lor five minutes. It was one of the most
t nthuvlastlQ. lot of workmen, 1,500 in num
ber, that hailed the King, the first car
to attempt the feat.
that s. Knight motor Is there when It
comes to road work. I found several
cars stuck in 'tho road Sunday and had
to pull two of them out
"This was the hardest trip I ever made
In my "fourteen years' experience driving
cars, and I don't think 1 ever drove a
car before that could do It."
Anto Indnstrlal Community.
After considering several favorable
tooMtlonx to locate In other cities and
towns In tho automobile belt, the. Briscoe
Motor company announces the consum
mation of plans wohlch have been under
discussion for some months, by which
the company will build extensive auto
mobile factories on Wlldwood avenue,
Jackson, Mich., and enstabllsh an indus
trial community west of the city.
Club members are now enjoying tho
use of cluh tour slips and strip maps to
the following Intermediate and domina
tion points out of Omaha: Omaha to
Clinton, la., via Denlaon, Ames and Co
da r llaplda on the IJncvln ll.p.iw.iy;
Omaha to Davenport, la., via I'ndor
wood, Atlantic and De Moines on th
rivcr-to-rlver road; Omaha to Davenport
via Oakland, Atlantic, htuart and Ics
Moines on the White Polu road; Omaha
to Denver via Klkhorn, Fremont, Co
lumbus over the Uncoln Highway;
Omaha fo Denver via Uncoln. HastinK
land McCook over the O-l-D route;
Omaha to Kansas City via Nebraska
City and Hiawatha, on this aide of the
river, and via Olenwood and Shenandoah
to Kansas City and St Joseph on the
Iowa side; Omaha to Sioux City via
Blair, Tekamah on this side and via.
Missouri Valley and Onawa on the Iowa
side. Other trips will be Issued soon.
The club dally long-distance telephone
road report service Is now In full work
ing order, and the Information bureau
Is receiving reports at I o'clock every
morning from points as far west ns
Columbus, Central CUy and Grand Is
land, north to Sioux City and vicinity,
east to Atlantic, Underwood, Creston,
and south to Shenandoah, Falls City and
Hiawatha.
Our long-distance telephone road re
ports have Jumped Into popular favor
and the club telephone Is on the buss
giving accurate road conditions to the
club members.
These road reports will In a day or so
contain valuable data Covering facts as
to location of washouU, bridges down
and any particularly bad stretch of
road, which valuable Information will
save the member time and money.
On Thursday, visitors' day at Camp
Strttzlnner, Malvern, la., Omaha HWh
school encampment, tho cluh room In
tho Hotel Fontenello was thronged with
anxious mothers and sweethearts Inquir
ing about the auto road to Malvern.
Our telephone road reports from that
section assured th Inquirers of fair
roads In spite of the rains of Uie pre
vious night. A score of cars started
from tli club room. i
Telephone reports are free to club)
members and all tourists passing througn j
Omaha. j
At the meeting of the board of directors ;
Wednesday, June , an attractive Omaha j
Atitoiiioblta club electric sign six feet
long and U cost about $100 was ordered j
made and to be hung from the i:mlt
tenth street marquee of the Hotel Fon- I
tenelle. This sign will be a day and
night sign, plainly readable from both
Dca1 and Farnam streets, and he'p to
guide the tourist to the club room. A
handsome whit and gold club electrlo
globe sign, pendant on a bronte bracket,
is bring hung over the club room door
In the lobby off the Eighteenth street
entrance.
The club standing reward of $5 for the
j arrest and conviction of persons throw
iing glass on streets will be paid this
.week to Officers Turner and Wallae,
; whoso vigilance In helping us keep the
streets clean has been rewarded l-eforo
jby the club. Within the last two months
the club has paid a dosen or so re
wards, thus minimising punctures.
"I.t George do It" Is too prevalent a
feeling among local motorists who self
ishly want the best possible road con
ditions and Information concerning same
and yet hesitate to Join the club, which
with proper co-operation will be the
finest source of Information ami benellt
1o local and overland tourists. We guar
antee positive and Immediate benefits.
The following Is a partial list of over
land tourists who have registered at the
club room In the last few days: Jinny
Kennedy, New Tork to "Frisco; Wuller
Dalbey, Weehauken, N. J., to 'Frisco;
Mrs. C. P. Mbhy and Mrs. I.. U Bur
rows, Chicago to 'Frisco (Mrs. I.ihhy Is
of the firm Ubby. McNeil Ubby of
Ohl.-ago; W. H. Kellogg, Battlo Creek,
Mich., to 'Frisco (cornflake manuCn"
turer); Stanley C. Wilson, Detroit, Mich.,
to lw Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. II. Klt
rlnKcr and purty of seven from Yonkers,
N. Y., to San Francisco (they Jogged
i'long and made Omaha In fifteen days;
Oeorge Drakert, New York City, to
Frisco; C. It Rhodes. Kearney. Neb., .to
Kansas City (Mr. Rhodes reports roads
j Improved along the way); J. J. Gustln,
Murdoek. Neb., to Oakland. Cat, via the
jSanta Ke; Chnrles Olson, Ole Olson and
i Dr. D. E. Onibcr, lndlannpolls; C. M.
Witt, Neola. la , to Spokane, Wash,
(parly of three, taking In National
rark. II. C. Bennett. Dillshoro, lnd., to
, Frisco (party of three, making Omaia
In five davs, easv driving); Mlrs Kmma
Marburg. Baltimore, Md., party Of five,
to Los Angeles. 'Frisco, Seattlo and re
turn over northern route; C. H. Brodt,
Fairmont, Minn., to Han Dlgo, . Cat
j (party of five, made Omaha In " two
4laysl; K. Hart, Chicago to Omaha (by
; motorcycle, three days. (Hart Is the ad
i vance guard of a bunch of fifteen Yno
itorcycllsts coming through later from
I Washington); (1. W. Cheney. Union,
Neb., and E. It. Illckford, Greenfield, la.,
going through.
Douglas 4401
Ream
Bros.
First Class Auto Repairing and Machine Work
209-11 North 18th St . '
Coinfort of Driver
a Big Influence in
Selling Motor Car
' "Front 'seat roomineas and comfort Is
Hhje biggest Influence in the purchase of
motor cars listing at below $X,000." This
rather startling statement was made by
. K. B. tittmson. Empire distributer at
.yjuneapolH. "At first thought this may
tertn a far-fetched statement But It Is
not. The average roan buying a car at
U-s than fl.OtiO Intends to do most of the
driving himself. Before he comes Into
our store he knows pretty well what
your car has In the way of motor, axle,
equipment, etc. The purchase of a car la
rn investment for him and he has given
l the. subject a considerable amount of
thought
t
Goodyear tires are cured on alr-fliled
tubes. This Is done to prevent wrinkle
fabric a cause of blowouts; $460,000 per
year is spent to give tire users this pro
tection. No other maker employs this
method.
teller, frets Acsts Rbeamalisaa.
John H. Gronx, Winchester, N. H.,
writes: "I suffer from acute rheumatism
and bloan's Liniment always helps
quirk). All druggists. Advertise-
' mcnt
"climbs like a chamois
Some, motor cars,-like
some animals, climb hills
easily.
They have the excess of
energy" to meet continu
ously the ever increasing
burden of uphill work with-.
out faltering or injurious
strain.
The Chalmers New Six is
such a car.
Its high speed, long
stroke, valve-in-head motor
with overhead camshaft de
livers such a steady stream
of abundant power that this
car climbs hills like a
chamois.
It has the power of a loco
motive; it gets away like a
racer.
Come in and let us show
you why this car is so diff
erent in construction, ap
pearance, and performance.
Chalmers
, NEW SIX-40
vi4oo
Stewart-Toozer Motor Co.
2048-52 Farnam Street Omaha Nebraska.
Telephone Douglas 138
Let vournexe car be a Chalmers
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