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Good Country Roads Are a Joy Forever in All Climes
Because They Make for Man's Pleasure in All Things that Have to Do With Social Communication
NEBRASKA PROUD
OF GOOD ROADS
lony Years of Preparation Makei
Highway! Which Stand Test of
Eecent Heary Eaint.
GREAT BOON TO THE AUTOIST
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TIFR OMAHA SUNDAY HEE: AUGUST 1, 1915.
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Little Trick that Does the Work Roads Before and After Treatment
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With Inches and Inches of rain
falling almost every nay for a stretch
of months, Nebraska's roads hare at
last received the teat of their lives.
lie it said to their credit, and to the
credit of those who have devoted
themselves unflinchingly to the de
velopment of good roads for a decade,
that the Nebraska roads have stood
the test
Now that at last a period of
twenty-four hours ,has been found
with no rain storm, the roads are re
ported good. That Is the supreme
test. When roads pop up dry and
hard twenty-four hours after the first
let-up In rain for three months, then
they are real roads.
"The roads In Iowa snd Nebraska, gen
erally speaking, are fairly good," was
th report given out at the office of the
Omaha Automobile club yesterday morn
ing. 'The Omsha. Uncoln and Denver would be expected
rtmd la good. The road from Omaha to
Kansas City la In fair condition. The road
from Omaha to Sioux City Is readily
passable."
- (ha a a la Short Time. (
v. itinx iiivi in tourists that bad
mad Omaha, were loading their auto-jego Issued a proclamation making- July
mobiles In freight cars and shipping tnem ana v: go-a roaos oay in jsebraska.
rtteaa and Denver, depending on On thoae two days farmers all over the
which war their were bound. Today they state got on the roada with their sorsp
re traveling by auto aa though nothing era and drags. It happened that In moat
had happened. Parts of the state the rains had pretty
rte AM.ru there are soots in the bot- well settled by that time, so that the
toms that are flooded. The Elkhorn has work then done on the road waa par
i . . vll and Waterloo for ora tleularly In drying them off and retting
time, and naturally to thoe bottom strips them Into payable shape. In the various
on will not expect to find the neat or uiino..n- uuo,
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KINO KPUT-IXXl DRAG. EASILY MADIC. WHICH I USED BT NE3BRAHKA FARMERS.
to at this time of
year.
Out the Nebraaka road have stood the
test, and the persistent boosters for good
roads are beginning to feel repaid.
As a kind of climax to the eerie of
rain. Governor Morehead several day
roads, but wherevr the roads are not
sctuaJly submerger, wherever the sun
kas had an opportunity at them, they
have come vp hard and firm.
Roads that will do that, nd stand the
teat that this long rainy spell has given
them, are not mad In a 'day. They ar
the result of an Id. Aa Rom thought
war and mllltarlem for generation, so
Nebraska boater have been thinking.
draaminc. talking and 'working" good
road day and night for a decade, yes
for two decades, whn one considers the
first preliminary work.
Have Kept Bar.
When the Nebraska men finally made
ud their mlnda they must have bettor
roads In the state, there was a definite
committal to action. That committal re
sulted In Immediate action, and that ac
tum haa been kept up,
The famous King dra wma brought
inii. niv It la aim Die and cheap; Be
cause It 1 elmpl. cheap and easily made,
every farmer could make ene wttn a
few materials always on hand on any
l.rm. Bo here and there all about every
tountv In the state are scattered Kin
dm on the farms. After a rain. when.
the
oommerclal club and other booster or
ganisations alao took advantage of these
two daya to aend out teams with scrapers
and drags to go Into the country and
work the roads whorever they needed It
most
The Omaha Auto club, for example.
hired ten teams to go out and work roads
In various parts of Douglas county dur
ing- those two days. Oreat results were
thus achieved toward putting the Ne
braska roads In the best shape possible
so soon after the big wet spell.
Big Demand in West
for Motor. Cars is
No ws Unprecedented
Experts in Charge
Of Sales of the New
Willys-Knight Cars
The Willys-Knight division of the
Wlllya-Overland company, has been fur
ther strengthened by the addition of two
men widely known throughout the auto
mobile trade.
Of theee two men. John T. Toole, will
look after the Willy a-KnUrht Interests
throughout the south, making his head
quarters In Atlanta. Mr. Toole la thor
oughly posted In Knight motor construc
tion, having gained his knowledge
through his long lonnectlon with the F.
B. Htearna company. He resigned the
position of Atlanta branch manager of
the Locomobile company to take up his
new duties with the Willy s-K night.
The other recent addition to the Wlllys-
Knlght force Is A. W. Barber, one of
the veterans cf the automobile industry.
Mr. Barber, who Is widely known, was
for years prominently identified with the
ftoVena-Durye company, and at the
time of the dissolution of that organisa
tion was th San Francisco branch man-
ea-or.
He now represents the Wlllys-Knlght
In the east, with headquarter In New
Tork City.
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The demand coming from the west for
motor osrs, as Indicated by inquiries, will
this year be unprecedented, according to
leading manufacturers. This Is ascribed
to the bumper crop that will be har
vested this season. The more enthustastio
reports assert that the west will be
literally rolling In wealth,' and as every
American era of prosperity ha sprung
un comes out and there is not muon I from the soil. It Is certain to benefit praa
to do on the farm for a few hours, be- I tlcally all lines of trade. The automobile
cause the corn Is too wet to plow, the I being no longer merely a thing of pleas-
farmer harnesses to bis dims ana gew i ure, but a thing or actual prom that la
busy on the road that bonds his farm. At I being used to great advantage In almost
the intersection be meets hie neighbor I every avenue of business, the Industry
l. Hrunul th road bounding ms win naturally oenent largely rrom
farm, and thus In uoceaaioa eeoh farmer Improved financial conditions.
is on th Job with his eeotioa I nujnway
until th whole road to the nearest town.
In put In good shape.
Srlradfle Horn A BalldJns;.
Then. luo. some years ao, road build
ing began to receive more scleutlflo et
tuntion. A study of roads was made
with a view to leamlnaT what style
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,.t mad would resist the action 01
storm and rain the best. It
found first of all that a road must have
'crown." To orown a road Is to
work It with scraper and draw that the
center Is higher than either side, or s
that tho road bowl down gently on
itlif r side from the central ridge or
"crown." Thus a watersbea is xormea.
Jut aa the pointed roof of a barn turns
the rain to either side to run off the
shingles, su the crown of a road, though
not o sharp, turns ths rain and allows
it to drstn away before It baa an op
portunity to saturate the mala roadbed.
' i4 Koad Take Ttaae.
Building- a road In this way la net lxn-
mcd'ately effective. That Is, a road that
has never been worked before cannot be
crowned and mad to turn rain effect
ively In a day, a wk. or a month. No,
it i a .process of gradual development.
It Is a process, that to be effective must
rover a period of years. - First the road
must be so crowned, and then used for
month. Then a the wagons, cars and
other xehtcles cut in and tear up the dirt
and ruin the first crown, it must b built
up again. Axuln it will be packed down.
torn down, and nattered, and again It
must be built up. Eexh time, however,
the dirt I booming more and more
packed In the center of tba road, until
finally th crown is lea and ls aUy
destroyed by th action of wheals and
torma. After a road baa been thus
treated for a series o years, the crown
bocouw- as bard a asphalt and betn I
to realr th tearing action of the
wheels, aa wtll a th destructive action
of the rains.
Road Kept GmI
It la thl condition that Nebraska road
have beta rapUlty reaching in th laat
decade, it Is this lomlltiun at its best
tlaat soinu particular stretches of Ne-
traaka roads have already reached and
nmtntalntd for s period of jaars.
It is till condition that moat of the
Lincoln Highway throughout Nebraska
has attained. It is this condition that
many of th other standard highways
In the slate have reached, generally
Ieaking, throughout the length of their
couise. And it is this con Jit ton that
thousands of stripe of section Unas of
t- n miles or more in lentth have reached
i.r.i.' j.ao auy one of hundieda.of the
I. u1ii- country towns In the slate.
iio now tnat they have reached this
u.e, th long rain spell of this spring
nil tfuuiiiwr, lik given them pcrhais the
fust vu(reni trL Often there has been
snow, frie.h and winter rains, but fre
quently under tbcM conditions the frost
Is not yet out of the gro-und SJid th
STEARNS KNIGHT HAS MANY
INQUIRIES ON THE NEW CAR
"Evidently there were a great many
dealers waiting to see what the Stearns
would announce." ald Mr. Molntlr of
the Mclntlre Auto company. Since making
my announcement In the newspaper last
Sunday, I have received an unlooked for
number of Inquiries regarding contracts
for th Btcarns Knight, together with in
quiries from prospective buyer. It I very
gratifying to realise that the buying pub
llo has taken a keen Interest in the car
I have chosen to back and I am sure
the Steams Knight will hold Its end
In building Omaha as a great distribut
ing center for automobile."
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The Best Buy in Town
Chalmers Six-48
Seven Passenger $1925 Touring Car at
$1550
A big luxurious, powerful car
that hasn't been skimped a
particle
Ten thousand of them are giving
complete satisfaction throughout the
United States. $1925 was the first
price. For $375 less we can deliver a
car with all of the proven quality
advantages plus the 1916 refinements.
Increased production at a smaller net
profit per car that is the reason for
the reduction.
Shrewd buyers will at least see this car
and take a ride in it before deciding on
any car priced up to $2000.
Stewart-Toozer Motor Co.,
1048-61 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 138.
We are doling our territory now, and waut good, Ure;
ajtrnts. Wrile us for particulars.
CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, U.S.A.
Immense Order for
Mitchells is Placed
By New York Firm
The first part of this month was placed
what la said to be the largest single
motor car order ever placed for delivery
In the ITnlted States.
The Carl II. rage Motors company of
New Tork City placed their order for
l,200,OOD worth of Mitchell cars to be
delivered within six weeks.
When the Csrl II. Pane Motors com
pany was orsanlzed to dlxtrlbute Mitchell
cars In the New York metropolitan dis
trict, It anticipated the delivery of ap
proximately 11,000.000 worth of cars In
one year, but business prospects were so
promising and the whole tone of the
automobile market presaged such an In
creased demand that this amount 1 aotnf
to be exceeded threefold.
Boston, Washington, Buffalo, Pitts
burgh and Cleveland cannot get enough
cars to fill all their orders, and Chicago,
Detroit, Minneapolis; Omaha, Pes Moines,
Bt. laouts and Denver keep up a rapid
fire of orders, while orders from Seattle,
Portland, Ban Francisco and Los An
geles Indicate the largest automobile
business the coast has ever known.
ftlve All m Chance.
The Portland club ha tried out thirty
two men so far this season and still
waiter McCredie la not satisfied.
ArbossM Fired Aarala.
Beaumont signed Catcher Fred Dllgei,
released by Galventon, and let Arbogast
go to make room for him.
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TWO VIEWS OF THE SAME NEBRASKA ROADS. AFTER RECENT RA1N8.
Sealed Auto Driven
to Baltimore from
Detroit-Hand Sealed
Edward Bcampton of the Baltimore
Studebaker agency accomplished a feat
remarkably successful In demonstrating
what little attention the new Studebaker
motors require, once properly tuned, by
driving a model Six from the Detroit
facfoiiea to his home city with a locked
hood. The lock was sealed before the
start, the key being sent to Mayor Pres
ton, who opened the hood for the first
time since the start of the trip when the
car reached Baltimore Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Scampton left Detroit on th pre
ceding Thursday evening. A large crowd
was attracted to the Baltimore city hall
when the unsealing ceremonies took
place, and the Interest shown In the ac
complishment prompted Frank B. Dono
van, the Baltimore dealer to wire the
factory, asking that his order of cars
be rushed forward.
An auxiliary pipe for oiling was so ar
ranged that It would not be necessary to
open the hood for lubrication purpose.
A measage by wire waa received from
Baltimore, stating that the car had per
formed wonderfully on the trip, and at
the conclusion had made every hill In the
vicinity of the Oriole City with ease on
high gear.
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S30,000 Concrete
On Lincoln Highway
In Illinois County
STERLING, 111. Approximately $30,00
will be spent In the building of concrete
roads on the Lincoln highway In White
side county this year. Most of the work
will be In Hopkins, Mount Pleasant and
Union Orove townships. Whiteside county
has appropriated about $12,000 for ex
clusively concrete construction. The
state will spend an equal sum, while the
Lincoln Highway association has allotted
Whiteside county 2,000 barrels of cement.
The farmers of Hopkins township have
agreed to donate $1,000 worth of work
and the road commissioners have appro
priated an additional $1,000. County En
gineer Taggett Is now working on esti
mates and plans for this Improvement.
About four miles of perfect concrete road
built to Lincoln highway specifications
will result this season.
ELDREDGE GOES WITH THE
NEW DETR0ITER COMPANY
Alfred O. Dunk, president of the . De
trolter Motor Car company, successor to
the "Brlggs-Detrolter". company, Detroit,
Mich., announces the appointment of
Frank M. Eld red e as advertising, man
ager for his company. Mr. Eldredge has
had a wide and varied experience as an
advertising and publicity promoter and
will Inaugurate at once a national adver
tising campaign for the "Detrolter" cars.
FORD OPENS BRANCH
IN COUNCIL BLUFFS
The Ford Motor company has opened
a sales room and servloe station In the
building formerly occupied by their
agent, the Marlon Auto company, at .GU
Main street. Council Bluffs.
A complete stock of parts will be car-,
rled at this branch, and It Is the Inten
tion of the Ford people to furnish the
same service to their Council Bluffs
owners aa Is furnished by their larger
branches.
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Do You Know How
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Get
Good
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Therms One Way Which Always
Proves Successful
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Every time you find a chance to show your
enthusiasm about the GOOD ROADS move
ment, do it. It will convince others that
the idea is right
The T. G. Norlhwall Co. Francis-Cullis Auto Co. Apperson Motor Co.
Haynes Auto Sales Co. Noyes-Killy Motor Co Akron-Marathon Rubber Co.
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