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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1916)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 17. 1916, 13 A K t CHALMERS DEALERS ON A SPECIAL TRAIN Salesmen from Oklahoma Ter ritory to Go in Style to the Chicago Auto Show. TO STOP IN ST. LOUIS Filled to overflowing with automo bile dealers of the southwest, a spe cial train will leave Oklahoma City, January 27, to attend the National Automobile show in Chicago. The ex cursion of dealers is under the aus oices of several Oklahoma City news papers, and from the reservation al ready taken, promises to be tne nig eest single delegation attending the show. A stop over will be made in St. Louis, where the dealers will be Euests of the Business Men's league and the St, Louis Automobile Manu facturers4 association over Sunday. Monday morning the dealers and distributors will be guests of the Ok lahoma Farmer-Stockman at a break fast given in one of the Chicago ho tels. Hugh Chalmers will address the dealers on the future of the automo bile industry. Some indication of the interest taken in the coming excursion can be obtained from the fact that the Okla homa Chalmers Sales company, Chal mers distributors m Oklahoma City. have reserved two entire Pullmans for their sub-dealers. Other big firms of Oklahoma City are also reserving Pullmans, and the train may possibly Jje run in several sections when ready to leave Oklahoma City. Kubber Tires Put To Many Uses Numerous accounts of the perfor mances of Goodyear tires are brought to the notice of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, Akron, O. These recitals of Goodyear tire service ren dered in multitudinous ways embrace 'a large field, a portion of which they were never intended to enter. For instance, a Mexican peon was recently found wearing a pair of san dals, which he had fashioned from some pieces of Goodyear tires, which had survived an engagement between it detachment of Carranza soldiers and a band of raiders who had stolen an automobile. Recently a newspaper in Galveston, whose power plant had been flooded after a severe storm, inaugurated (thc expedient of transmitting power to their big presses by applying a belt o the rear uoodyear tire of their de livery truck. This emergency meas ure enables them to continue their Tegular schedule. Last summer a party of bathers at one of the northern resorts was dis covered employing a Goodyear tube as a catpult to hurl themselves into ,the water, which allowed them to drop into the water much farther out ,than they could dive from the diving i plank. New Mechanical Device Will Save Gasoline Announcement has just been made by Mr. Page of the Auto Accessory Sales company, 894 Brandeis building, that he has taken on the agency for the Myle-Mayker, a mechanical de vice designed for carburetors on Ford cars, which, it is claimed, will make a considerable saving in gasoline con sumption. The Myle-Mayker, unlike many gasoline savers, is not put upon the manifold, but instead it is put upon the carburetor proper and by the use of a metal hinge or "flutter" the .air supply is adjusted by the suction of the engine. As the engine speeds the air supply is increased thereby, mak ing a thin mixture. The device can be put on in a few minuter; without making any change to the carburetor, engine, manifold or any pther part. Mobile Starts to Clean House, Cavet First to Go The Mobile Southern league club .announces the sale of Pitcher Tiller (Pug) Cavet to the Nashville club. Cavet formerly pitched for the De troit Tigers. His sale is part of the Mobile club's plan for a general house cleaning. Francis Gets Cars By Personal Visit To Maxwell Factory The importance of the exchange of ideas with the distributors of auto mobiles is evidenced by a recent con ference called for by Walter E. Flan ders, head of the Maxwell Motor cor poration, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Flanders recently requested all the distributors from the larger cities to come to Detroit to discuss condi tions of the coming season. C. W. Francis of the C. W. Francis Auto company and C. J. Brokaw. district manager under the factory, went as delegates from Omaha. While in Detroit the distributors were shown through the three new buildings recently constructed by the Maxwell Motor company. One of the buildings is nearly twelve blocks long, and. according to Francis, one can walk many miles up and down the different aisles inspecting the work. The new buildings will greatly facili tate production. Francis succeeded in getting a large shipments of Sedans while in Detroit and they will come through immedi ately. In all probability they will reach here by Sunday. Allen Making Own Closed Car Bodies The manufacturers of automobiles today, because of such varying mar ket conditions, is confronted in a large measure with the necessity of making in his own factories as many of the component parts of his machines as can be practically and economically produced by him. In keeping with this tendency, the Allen Motor com pany is now producing the bodies for its closed models in its body plant at Fostoria, O. The company contem plates the manufacture of bodies for its open models also in the near future. Since its organization, the Allen Motor company has operated its own motor and transmission works in a model factory at Bucyrus, O. It has also manufactured all of its auto tops. All body finishing has been done at Fostoria, the excellence of this work being best attested by the popularity of the special color combinations of fered in the classic cars, which are finished in the classic brown, gray or blue. The taking over of the production of its closed car bodies means an added link in the chain of efficiency recognized by the Allen Motor com pany as so essential, in the manu facture of. automobiles to meet the exacting requirements of present-day purchasers. Studebaker Officials Deny the Story In reply to an inqury, the officials of the Studebaker corporation of South Bend, Ind., deny any connec tion whatever with the International India Rubber company. This latter company, it is asserted, is a corpora tion organized to manufacture and sell automobile tires, with its headquar ters in South Bend, Ind., and is en tirely independent of any association with the automobile manufacturers. The Studebaker corporation is not and has not been interested at any time in the manufacture of tires, it is said. The officials state that no Stude bakers connected with their company, to their knowledge, have any interest in the tire company, and are not in terested in any way in the promotion of that company. As near as can be learned, the officials of the tire com pany are composed of men either resi dents or former residents of South Bend, including Peter E. Studebaker, who resides in Cincinnati and is not connected in. any way with the Stude baker corporation. The Studebaker corporation, it is as serted, is well knowi. throughout the country as manufacturer of automo biles and wagons, and does not want the public to become confused in re ceiving the impressiot. that it is con nected in any way with the tire com pany. Norwegian Champ. Oscar Mathlrseu, the Norwegian who holds the world's Ico skating champion ship, la to tour this country mooting all comers In speed contests. Mathlesen re cently entered the professional ranks after making all his world's records as an amateur. Ili feggt-. f N i' "jS f : t ,1 I"" ' feS' u if J I How About Your Storage Battery Will It Freeze? We will store your battery this winter and have it in good condition next spring Better Be Safe Than Sorry Free Battery Inspection Delco Exide Service Station 2024 Famam St, Omaha. Ph. D. 3697. ADVANTAGES OF THE STORAGEBATTERIES Power Carried in Reserve to Be Turned Loose and Ap plied When Most Needed. SOMETHING ON EFFICIENCY R. C. Smith, manager, Delco Exide Service station, states that power can j be stored in a number of ways. It can be stored :n a steel spring.! in a compressed air tank or in a stor-' age battery. In the storing of power for future use, we consider several thing9. We want this power easily and quickly available when needed, and we want to be able to use the power that we store for as many different purposes as possible. The amount of power or energy we can store in a given space is also very important. Power stored in a steel spring can be used to operate a clock, while power stored in a compressed air tank can be used for operating a water system. Hut the range of work for power stored in either of these two ways is very limited. The same power stored in a storage battery as electric energy, gives us power that we can use at will in almost any way desired. The electric storage battery has been adopted by the engineering world as the best known method for storing power. If giant steel springs or flywheels could be successfully and cheaply used to store power and this power could be converted, people would do so. Some small idea of the efficiency and power of the Exide storage bat tery is shown by comparison to a steel spring. It would take a steel spring, weigh ing sixty-eight tons to store as much power as is stored in an eighty-ampere hour battery when it is charged. It would take a steel spring, weigh ing more than any automobile ever built, to take the place of the modern electric starter, which depends abso lutely on the storage battery for power. New Mitchell Six Shatters Record Thursday, October 19 S. J. Murphy and Hal M. Harris, sales manager of the Cameron-Barkley company of Jacksonville, Fla., started out in one of John V. Hate's Mitchell Juniors to break a record to Tampa that had stood unbroken for over a year. The sand stretch of something over 170 miles without a break is what has held off every high speed motor for a long time. Leaving Jacksonville in a brand new stock car just delivered and with no preliminary tuning up the trip was made via Acala in exactly ten hours and forty-five minutes. The best previous record over Ihis roue between these two points was made in, eleven hours and fifty-eight minutes, the distance being 273 miles. Plays Better All tha Time. It Is said that Krancla Oulmet Is playing some wonderful golf these days, which shows that ancls Is one hard luck golfer. The better he plays Um harder It will be to convince the powara that he Is not a pro. Jfjf M Hectric . f- Milburn Light Electrics Meet With Approval The first shipment of Milburn "Light Electrics" reached Omaha last week, and, according to G. E. Doug las, they are meeting with approval among electric car fans, in spite of the fact that the car made its Omaha debut only a few days ago. The new model is unite striking in appearance. The wheel base is three inches longer than that of any other electric. This, together with the low hung body, gives it a smart racy ap pearance. Among the new features is a twenty-five-cell, sevcntecn-plate Philadel- frhia battery which is credited with urnishing as much nower as the forty-cell, tlirilcen-plate battery usu ally used in electrics. Douglas says the car hasn't a com petitor on the hills and that after a thorough investigation, both here and at the factory, he is satisfied that it is all the factory claims for it. Play KihlblUon (lames. The Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Americans will play a series of exhibition game during the training aeaaon next aprlng. The Franklin Enclosed Cars 1 Brougham 1685 . a. b. Tetado An Unqualified Success That la 4i wiiTi.'! im-AmA A. 1 purchaser of the new Milburn Brouiham-- I i i , , . a vj nanw eiw uasi WTCT lUCKO lU IL It la a success in that it combine beauty V with efficiency aaftty with power comfort with economy. No other Untile can five yon anything more worth while at any price, yet the Mi bora Brougham coats only $1685. It is the llMwct nrWH l 1-Iw Ik - Li Let us prove to you why it if the greatest. ELECTRIC GARAGE CO. E 40th and Farnam Sts G. E. Dcragiaa Milburn Waai H.rnny 304 f JUli Tha Milburn Waror. Company U1A E-aarfUI-di.. Tnl.aa.OM. P fcw Aotoa.otaIl.Dhi.io "tttlu,. lla!' FraaaJia loafka. Waxttat, 2S raaaaa. EACH year, enclosed cars represent a bigger and bigger proportion of all Franklin Cars sold. The owner's investment ia aa and o ted ear is not materially greater than ia aa open oar. Tha running oast is lirus, H any, more. Franklin Enclosed Cars mesa , twelve-mooths-in-tho-yesr ser vice, in oily or country. Dismiss from yoor mind the fact that the average enclosed oar is essentially a winter car. Sea bow perfectly the ventilating' system of the Franklin Enclosed Cart, their seJeatifio light weight, flexibility, easy handlinl, safety and economy, adapt these cere for summer driving aad tonria. Whether or not yon are think iaf ol a new ear any time soon, by sll mesas get aoqusintod with the utility of Franklin Enclosed Cars. FRANKLIN MOTOR CAR CO. Omaha R.U-2-B-1 of 60 2205 Farnam St. Phone D 1712. The Most Suitable Gift Possible Would be That New Reo the Fifth She Has Wished (or So Long FOR SEVERAL REASONS this will be not only the ideal Christmas gift, but this is the ideal time to buy a Reo. FOR ONE THING though you need not let on to her! you will derive just as much pleasure from it as she will. Not more that would be impossible. ANOTHER REASON IS that you have been premising for a long time to sell the "old boat" and get her a new car one that will be more in keeping with her social position, her needs and her tastes. AND YOU KNOW that of all the ears that are made, she prefers Reo the Fifth for she can drive it herself. Many of her women friends drive Reos and they've told her, of course, of its wonderful simplicity of control "just like an electric," and of its dependability. THAT ABSOLUTE FREEDOM from the "pesky little troubles" that vex most motorists, and which are so distasteful so unthinkable to a woman driver, makes Reo the Fifth first choice of the most discriminating buyer, THE THIRD REASON has to do with the second that ia, the selling of the "old boat," to advantage. DOUBTLESS YOU'VE LEARNED that you can get more for your old used car yourself than a dealer can so it's really folly to "trade it in." THE IDEAL TIME to sell a used car is in January or February just when the big spring rush is setting in when all good, desirable makes of cars are so hopelessly over-sold it is impossible to get immediate delivery for "love or money" and when a "trade in" is almost out of the question. THEN'S THE TIME to advertise your used car. SELL IT FOR CASH, and realise more for It than you can possibly do by trading. OH, OF .COURSE YOU MIGHT get what looked like a liberal allowance for it in trade for some un known "assembled" or "orphan" car. But experience haa proven to you that that's just one way of short changing yourself. SUCH A CAR is dear at any price if you could make an even trade still you'd get the worst of it as you'd find when the upkeep and repair bills came in. IF THE OLD CAR IS A REO of course you'll get a larger percentage of its original price in a trade but in any case, you'll get more by selling it direct yourself. SO THE THING TO DO is to buy her that new Reo now let us drive it over and leave it in front of the house next Monday morning, so the first thing her eyes will light on as she looks out at the Christmas day will be the thing she has most desired a brand new, shining, spick-and-span Reo the Fifth. THEN NEXT MONTH, or a little later as soon as the spring sun peeks out sell the old car at the "spring" price. AND MEANTIME you'll have the use of the new car and an enclosed Reo the Fifth is especially luxurious at this season. WHAT SAY? Shall we polish up her Reo and drive it over Christmas morning? We will if you'll drop in today and pick it out. THERE ARE FOUR TYPES of bodies obtainable on Reo the Fifth chassis. The "Incomparable" rive-passenger touring car; the classy, graceful, three-passenger roadster; and the new all-season touring car and roadster. Prices are $875, $875, $1025 and $1025, respectively, f. o. b. factory. P. S.OF COURSE, IF TOO MANY doting huibande or father or brother act on thie euggettion, we may not be able to deliver all the Reae Chrittmai morn ing "in the tteeh." In that case, a certificate of acceptance of your order will tuit her almott at welland better than anything elte. And we'll tell her pre cisely when the may expect her Reo freight terviee alone excepted. For. you know what that it molt uncertain. However, if you art one of the Hrtt, we will fill the order promptly. Reo Motor Car Co., Lansing, Michigan Jones-Opper Co., Omaha, Nebraska Distributors Eastern and Northern Nebraska and Western Iowa. A. H. Jones Hastings, Nebraska Distributors Sooth am and Western Nebraska aad Northwestern Kansas. Athletes Change Names, Cobb is the New Monicker An amateur base ball player in Cleveland was burdened with the name of kopaliuski. It was too long to got in the box scores in full and Kop also said his teammates made fun of the name, so he petitioned the court to change his name. Consent was given and he took the name of Cobb. It's a grand name in base ball and all that, but why should any American boy be ashamed of the name . Kopaliuski? Slmbert Attends Firestone Meeting December 1J, l.i ami 14 marked the dales of the Firestone Office Mana gers' convention at Akron, O. This convention is the first of its kind held by the Firestone people for office managers exclusively. II. V. Shuhert, recently appointed office manager of the Omaha branch, went as the Omaha delegate. H Greatest value low-priced car Strictly tpcaldng Saxon Roadster Is the great est value low-priced car on the market. It is absolutely unequalled in the number and quality of the equipment and conveniences it carries. Note them carefully best two unit starting and lighting system built; new style body, big, roomy and comfortable; demountable rims with 30-inch by 3-inch tires; new style top with Grecian rear bow; electric hom; tire carrier; speedometer; new design carburetor that gives greater efficiency and easier starting; three speed transmission; Timken axles; Hyatt quiet bearings; Saxon high-speed motor of unusual power, speed, smoothness, flexibility and coolness; ventilat ing windshield; and twenty further refine ments. Saxon Roadster $495 f. o. b. Detroit. Noyes-Killy Motor Company 2066-68 Farnam Street Omaha Distributors t,l,jMsisiiHsiiMM I r; w -tj, a u. m at a a l I a Weather or No Starring and lighting a motor car is hard work for a battery, especially when your motor is cold and stiff. Whatever your driving conditions, now's the time to be more careful than ever. Pure water, regular in- spectiori, and a knowledge of your! electrical system are necessities in any climate. Expert Willard Service is a winter worry preventive. We'll tell you how to keep your battery in proper con dition and give you a booklet on winter care. Nebraska Storage Battery Co. 2203 Farnam St, Omaha. Phone Doug. 5102. We'll be glad to tut jroar battery at any tima WtOard Stanfe BaOma art for mi by car iolm, rarafsa, aaW afl WiUeH Strain Slaaisar aaW Fattmr) Bramiim. Says Little Ampere: Your storage battery doesn't need a for ara coat if yon take the advice ofaWu'lasil-traancdexjnt. nE5 "i n r vz n TO fl STORAGE O BATTERY airdl H II