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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25, 1917.
CHALMERS'-OUTLOOK
FOR YElRIS BRIGHT
Is One of Largest Plants in the
Country, with Large Out
put Schedule.
DEALERS' RIGHTS FIRST
In speaking of the Outlook for 1917,
with particular reference to the
Chalmers outlook, E. V. Abbott of
the Western Motor Car company has
summed the thing up in a manner
.somewhat similar to this:
"With one of the largest manufac
turing plants in the country and a
manufacturing schedule of 30,000 cars
for 1917, it is hard to realize that the
Chalmers factory just. nine years ago
consisted of one building in thirty
acres of Michigan prairie.
"For the last eight years there has
scarcely been a month when some
new addition to the Chalmers plant
has not been in the course of con
struction. During the first fiscal year
of the company 3,000 of the famous
old four-cylinder Chalmers 30s were
turned out Today those Jsame 1909
can are still piling up the mileage.
Many of them have over 200,000 miles
to their credit "Old Reliable," the
first Chalmers 30 built, has passed
the 300,000 milestone and is still go
ing. "The Chalmers people confidently
look forward to the greatest year in
their history and are preparing for it
on a larger scale fhan ever before.
Chalmers dealer representation has
been increased greatly and competi
tion for desirable territory is rapidly
closing the few remaining points now
open.,
"In regard to our own policies we
have taken on a considerable slice of
territory and have contracted for a
surprising number of cars. It is our
plan to operate on a very targe scale
and to work along lines of broadest
construction. We will maintain a
rigid respect for our dealers and their
rights as well as the owner and serv
ice due them.
"Tlie personnel of our company
consists of Charles R. Hannan, jr.;
Walter S. Johnson and myself. We
will maintain a branch at Hastings,
Lincoln and Hooper. '
Washington Pays Out
Big Sum for Roadways
It has cost the state of Washington
$16,344.47 to obtain right-of-way for
the state highways during the last two
years. The usual practice is to nego
tiate with the owners. In most in
stances the property needed has been
secured free of charge, the benefits of
the road construction being more than
sufficient to offset the loss of the land
to the owner. Condemnation suits
have been brought when the land has
been held at what are considered ex
orbitant figures. ,
Pennsylvania Asking
$21,000,000 for Roads
The Pennsylvania state highway
department will 'ask the legislature
to appropriate $21,000,000 for the con
struction ot new roaas, repairing' ana
maintenance of old ones and purchase
of toll roads during the next two
years, according to the budget read
at a conference in Harrisburg, Fa.
Members of the state highway depart
ment, State Motor , federation and
State grange were present The
money will be asked for in install-
tnents 010,500,000 each,
PRESIDENT HUDSON MOTOR
OAR COMPANY.
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Submarines Use Same
Kind of Batteries as Austos
R. C. Smith, manager Delco Exide
Service station, gives an Mea of sub
marine and automobile batteries., lie
says: "The European war has brought
forcibly to the attention of the public
the use of submarine boats and their
destructiveness. Although the inven
tion of the submarine boat dates back
many years to the experiments of
John Holland, near Long Island
sound, it is only in the present war
that they have been widely and suc
cessfully used.
'The submarine should be of par
ticular Interest to the owner of an
automobile, since the same type of
storage. battery that is so widely used
for automobile starting and lighting
and also for electric vehicle propul
sion is used (or the operation of a
submarine when submerged. A gas
engine is used for propelling the boat
while running on the surface, but
when submerged the engine is stop
ped and electric motors which de
rive their current from an enormous
storage battery are used for propul
sion. The storage fcattery of a sub
marine can be said to be tn automo
bile battery on a very large scale.
"The 'Exide' battery, manufactured
by the Electric Storage Battery com
pany of Philadelphia, which has been
so widely used tor automobile start
ing and lighting, is also used in a ma
jority of the submarines in the United
States navy.
"The dependability that must be
placed upon a battrry for submarine
service indicates the reliability that
can be placed upon 'Exide' batteries
by users of either gas or electric
cars." .
New Invention Signals
Speed of Moving Motor
J. E. Benson, Gatesburg, III., has
patented a device which, attached to
the gear of a car, indicates the exact
spj at which the car is moving.
The numbers change in accordance
with the speed, thus enabling persons
gn the sidewalks or traveling behind
to note the speed. The device is
designed to protect car owners who
might be unjustly charged with mov
ing at an unlawful rate of speed.
Truck-Maker Hits
Motor Car Industry
Like a Tidal Wave
"If anv nrnnf is needed to convince
fthe average man that the truck-maker
business is coming like a tidal wave,
it can be best accorded by the general
stampede of automobile salesmen
everywhere to get into the truck
maker business." This statement was
made by C. F. Redden, president of
the Redden Motor Truck company,
manufacturers of the Redden Truck-Maker.-
A daily convention was held
during the week of the Chicago Auto
mobile show at Redden headquarters.
1442 South Michigan avenue, which
hundreds of dealers attended.
Mr. Redden slates that he has been
snowed under with applications for
positions from automobile salesmen,
traveling salesmen and district man
agers. Two applications 'have actu
ally come to Mr. Redden from men
who now are sales manaxcrs for im
portant automobile manufacturers.
One lias come from a man who is
vice president in charge of produc
tion. """
Commenting on the wonderful
progress made by the Redden Truck
Maker and the bright future for the
Redden Motor Truck company, Mr.
Redden said:
"To anyone in the business of man
ufacturing truck-makers it has been
very apparent that the magnitude of
the'htisincss and its tremendous possi
bilities arc limited only by the re
sources and facilities of the people
"There have been a few in the auto
mobile industry who have not been
quick to grasp these facts, and the
general stampede during the last ten
days of automobile salesmen, branch
managers and district managers from
all sections of the country to get into
the truck-maker band wagon has
offered us an eloquent demonstration
of the frame of mind of the automo
bile agents throughout the country,
because the traveling salesman is the
best barometer in the world."
Clement Anticipates Big Year
For Scripps-Booth Motors
In speaking of the Omaha Auto
mobile show in particular, and the
prospects for the sale of Scripps
Booth cars, W. M. Clement of the
W. M. Clement Motors company,
feels quite enthusiastic. "The Scripps
Booth is rather a departure in de
sign from any models heretofore sold
in Omaha, and the appointment and
lines are so distinctive as to cause a
considerable amount of comment,"
he said.
That the new car has favorably im
pressed the Nebraskans seems to be
evidenced by the fact that the Cle
ment Motors company has recently
moved into new quarters at 2514 Far
nam street.
At the Automobile show there will
be exhibited four different models
the eight-cylinder, four-passenger;
the four-cylinder coupe, the four-cylinder,
three-passenger roadster and
a very handsome uniquely designed
eight-cylinder town car. Mr. Cle
ment expects the Scripps-Booth dis
play will attract a considerable
amount of attention at the show and
anticipates making a great addition
to the present circle of Scripps-Booth
admirers.
Mtllm to Rum.
Th Minneapolis Millers have panaed up
Hickman, Ky., aa training camp. Paraona,
Kan., will be th arena ot their practice
work thta sprint-.
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Lincoln Highway, Main Street of
The Nation, Shows Great Progress
By" A. F. BEMENT, Secretary
The Lincoln Highway Association.
Today the Lincoln Highway has an
undisputed right to the name, "The
Main Street of the Nation." Though,
but three years old, the route has a
history of intense human interest to
all America. The story of the Lincoln
Highway is an epic in road building,
a tremendous human narrative of the
conception of a great idea and the
methods employed to place a gigantic
plan before the practical American
public.
A drama of public service, sacrifice,
patriotism, public spirit and great
achievement could be written around
the development of the Lincoln High
way from an abstract idea to an ac
complished fact. It would be in
spiring, at times pathetic, again hu
morous, but always intensely inter
esting for the development of the
Lincoln Highway has meant constant
and continuous appeal to every type
of individual and organization from
every possible angle. Its success has
been and is being built upon the un
ceasing effort of thousands of indi
viduals in every part of the United
States. The culminated results of
their tremendous co-operative en
deavor has placed the Lincoln. High-J
way definitely and forever upon the
map of the country and in the minds
of the people in three short years.
The Lincoln Highway is a vast
conception in the interest of national
progress.
Visualize a great, throbbing artery
of traffic, crossing a continent
through eleven of its greatest states,
bearing the burdens of their com
merce, carrying the products of their
soil to market, aiding in the distribu
tion of their manufactured products,
linking together their farms and their
cities, opening up the pathway to
learning for their rural children and
the road to af freer social intercom
munication and closer understanding
to their citizens; a road forming the
backbone of a national system and
which, with its innumerable feeder
routes and interconnecting links,
leads from the greatest centers of our
population to thcmost remote out
posts of our civilization.
Great Accomplishments of Last Year.
Results in the actual forwarding
of this great scheme are being real
ized at a rate no one dared to proph
esy at the time the project was
launched. The progress made in
1916 sets a precedent in unified effort
of this character in this country.
The standardized marking of the
Lincoln Highway is a phase of im
provement worthy of note. Definite
established, continuous, well-understood
markers along a route give it a
"personality." They identify the road
and through increasing its traffic lead
towards its improvement. With the
co-operation of the communities and
patriotic organizations along the
route the Lincoln Highway associa
tion completed this work during the
last season from New York City as
far west as North Platte, Neb., a
distance of over 1,700 miles.
The Lincoln Highway plan is work
ing out. The men behind the Lincoln
Highway association feel that their
little organization is accomplishing
big results, not only in actual -road
construction, but in the education
of the American public to the proper
viewpoint on the subject of roads
roads as a national consideration.
The Bankhcad-Sliackleford bill,
which became an act of congress in
July providing $75,000,000 from the
federal treasury for aid to the states
in constructing their main highways,
is a step in the right direction and
shows the trend of the times. With
out a doubt the passage of this act
was a reflection of the kind of public
sentiment which the Lincoln Highway
association and kindred organizations
are creating. ,
It is becoming of greater and great
er interest to the people of the crowd
ed east that the trans-state road in
Nebraska, in Wyoming and in Neva
da be improved. The far west would
cease to exist if we had a broad, hard
surfaced highway drawing the west
nearer to the east and the east clos
er to the west, which could be trav
eled by motor vehicles in wet weath
er. The millions of dollars which
would be brought to the west from
the great east and spread all through
the wonderful playground of America
cannot be computed, if only this
broad, hard-surfaced, travelable-in-wet-weather,
main arterial backbone
highway the Lincoln Highway
were completed on a broad, efficient
scale.
It is coming. One of the largest
and most successful manufacturers in
the United States wrote the associa
tion recently that his salesmen, com
prising a nation-wide organization,
were endeavoring to more efficiently
cover their territories by motor car,
but were running into almost insur
mountable difficulties in almost every
section of the country due to the road
conditions. He wanted to know what
he could do to aid toward an effiicient
national highway system.
Invent Device Cutting
Out the Gear Shifting
W. I. Wheeler, Scottsville, 111., has
obtained a patent which consists of a
transmission which does away with
the shifting of gears in motor cars.
Smith Form-a-Truck
People Plan Vast
Trade Campaign
A Smith Form-a-Truck is being
placed today in the lobby of the
Rome hotel, where it will be on exhi
bition all during the automobile
show. This marks the first move of
the Smith Motor Truck corporation
in the biggest trade campaign ever
attempted in Nebraska. Henry &
Co., local distributors, are in charge
and they say from present indica
tions all records will be broken for
advance sales.
The Form-a-Truck, with only three
years of life behind it, fills a great
big want in the automobile indus
try. The constantly growing number
of out-of-date cars good as to power
plant, were a constant problem to
both the'dealer and user. By the ad
dition of a Form-a-Truck at small
expense all problems are solved and
the owner of an old pleasure car to
day can have a brand new truck.
Dealers will be intensely interested
in the fiery red chemical wagon suit
able for fire repayments, which' will
be whizzing around Omaha day and
night. This is a Form-a-Truck with
attached power plant. The price puts
it within reach of almost the small
est community. Headquarters of the
Nebraska trade delegation is at the
Rome hotel, where a banquet for
state dealers is to be held Thursday
night.
Travel Increases.
As a natural result of its popularity
with the motor traveling public, the
Lincoln Highway seems destined to
carry a tremendous volume of traffic
in 1917. The increase of through
travel on the highway through Omaha
in the last two years has been more
than 600 per cent.
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