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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25, 1917,
SMITH HOLDS OWH
SDPEMX.SALOH
Hudson Distributer Has Sales
rooms Specially Decorated
in Show Colors.
FULL LINE IS ON EXHIBIT
Guy L. Smith is one Omaha auto
mobile dealer who does not confine
his show week activities to the auto
mobile exposition itself. In addition
to his exhibit at the Auditorium Smith
will hold a Hudson salon of his own
at his salesrooms at Twenty-sixth and
1'arnam streets.
It is Smith's custom to change the
decorations of his show room every
two or three months and as a result
the Hudson display room is always
one of the most attractive on the row.
But on this occasion of automobile
show week Smith and his aide de
rnmps have outdone all previous ef
forts in adding to the attractiveness
of the show room.
Automobile show colors this year
are green and white. So Smith has
followed a scheme of green and
white. Wide green and white stripes
of tissue paper have been stretched
in parallel lines all along the wans.
Roses peep out here and there to
add effulgence to the color scheme
and when the softly tinted rays from
invisible incandescents hidden under
the woodwork and paneling spread
their mellow glow over the shining
new Hudsons on the display floor
the Smith showroom is a pretty sight
indeed.
Mr. Smith has half a dozen new
Hudsons of the latest type and style
at his salesroom, which, with the cars
at the show, will make it possible for
show visitors to see the complete
super-six line.
Hauling Power of 4-Ton Truck
Equals That of Six Teams
The attractiveness of Grosse He,
the Detroit river island summer home
of many wealthy Detroitera, has been
enhanced lately by the building of a
network of good roads, says the
Power Wagon. Many of the main
arteries have been completed, Insur
ing good travel instead of mud in the
future.
All the material, broken stone in
two sizes, had to be hauled from a
quarry on the mainland by teams
and a four-ton motor truck with
dump body. The hauls varied from
3 to 7.5 miles, according to the loca
tion of the work.
It wac actually determined by Nor
man A. Pabst, owner of the machine,
that it was doing the work of six
two-horse teams, drivers and wagons.
Seven teams were working at the
same time. In ten hours they hauled
49.5 tons of stone, while the motor
truck hauled- in the same time 56.4
tons. Over a period of 105 days of
ten hours each the machine averaged
45.1 tons and 79.5 miles per day.
During the last two months of the
work, because of the approach of
winter, it became necessary to rush
the job and the machine was in actual
operation twenty-three hours each
day. The horses, of course, had to
rest nights. The motor truck during
this period averaged 98.8 tons hauled.
On Otcober 28 it hauled 114 tons and
traveled 161 miles.
Besides making some extraordinary
hauling records, the machine cut
MANAGER NASH SALES CO.
TOE THIS DISTRICT.
T. H. M'DEARMON.
T. H. McDearmon has irecentlv
moved to Omaha to take charge of
and manage the Nash Sales company,
which firm will distribute Jeffery
pleasure cars and trucks.
Mr. McDearmon has for the last
three years been associated as sales
manager of the Oakland Motor com
pany of Pontiac, Mich., with C. W.
Nash, who recently was president and
general manager of the Oakland comply-
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Prior to entering the automobile
arena Mr. McDearmon spent a num
ber of years in the implement busi
ness, the most recent implement con
nection being with the John Deere
Plow company at Kansas City as as
sistant manager.
Mr. McDearmon has been closely
associated with Mr. Nash in his
achievements in automobile manufac-turing.
down labor and tirrte 15 per cent and
with its am a mile ot roaa was nuut
in four weeks, whereas it took four
teen weeks when the horses worked
alone.
Auto Girls at the Gayety
For Week of Auto Show
In presenting "The Auto Girls" at
the Gayety theater during the week of
Omaha's big automobile show, that
house may De said to be displaying
Its customary enterprise and thought
fulness as to the fitness of things
for what musical attraction could be
more appropriate for the occasion
than this one? Iff chief chauffeurs
of fun are none other than Hd Lee
Wroth and that funny little Dutch
man with the funny little slide, Billy
W. Watson. Effervescent Estelle
Colbert will preside at the honk horn
of souorettishnesg and the chorus is
composed of a stageful of beauteous
joyriders who are listed to liven
things up at frequent intervals by
their melodious activity.
The theater itself will look not un
like a garage or auto salesroom dur
ing the week in fact, the manage
ment is announcing it as (he "Gayety
garage." No opportunity will be lost
to boost all of the exhibits on dis
play at the Auditorium, a policy that
has won the Gayety the everlasting
good will of everybody In the auto
trade.
ADTO EXPERTS ARE
READYTO GIVE AID
Society of Automobile Engi
neers Members Offer Serf -ices
to Army.
WILL BE OF ASSISTANCE
Following the tender of service
long ago made the government by the
Society of Automobile Engineers and
in pursuance of the society's co-operation
with various government bu
reaus in the formulation of military
truck, aeronautic and kindred stand
ards, many Society of Automobile En
gineers members have applied for and
some have received appointments as
officers in the reserve corps of the
War department.
The object in organising the quar
termaster reserve corps is to obtain
high-class specialists to serve accord
ing to their previous training and
knowledge anil be so prepared that in
the event of the president calling for
their services they will be capable
of rendering efficient service without
further Waining. A reserve officer is
aooointed for a period of five years;
must, so ordered, attend eacn year
an army encampment for a period of
two weeks and present himself for
active duty at the proper place in
time of actual or threatened hostil
ities. The quartermaster corps is
a large business concern; the reserv
ists would be required to handle its
increased business in war or in the
face of threatened war.
In listing suitable persons to be
commissioned in army corps in con
nection with motor transDortation tha
members of the Society of Automobile
Engineers will naturally be drawn
upon very largely. Men from this re
markable organization will have to
be depended upon as technical ad
visers of the officer grade to super
vise the operation on a large scale of
motor truck companies and the req
uisite repair shops. A considerable
number of men qualified as foremen in
and superintendents of shops are
neeiled by the army as truckmasters
with motor companies. A large num
ber of chauffeurs and mechanics must
be listed.
In general the Society of Automo
bile Engineers members will serve as
authorities in the design of engines, In
metallurgy, electrical engineering, de
velopment of starting and lighting
systems tor aeronautic worK, searcn
light signaling, adaptation of wireless
equipment to airplane use, mounting
engines in airplanes and conducting
supply depots and parts service sta
tions. Prompt movement of truck
trains, without delay caused by a sin
gle breakdown, is essential in military
transport
New Wireless 'Phone
Is Out for Motorists
It is now possible for motorists
contemplating trips far from human
habitation to journey so equipped
that they may call for help in time of
trouble, and feel reasonably certain
that their calls will be heard.
This can be accomplished by use
of a wireless telephone recently in
vented for use on automobiles, and
which can be operated while the car
is at a standstill or traveling forty or
fifty miles an hour.
MANAGER OF MOST MODERN
SERVICE STATION.
Whittier Co. Will
Exhibit the Wilmo
Manifold at Show
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When we decided to
go into the Tire Business
the question was
What Tire?
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After careful Investigation we decided that
.The Swinehart Tire company were building the
best quality tire on the market. We immediately
secured the right to act as sole distributors of
Swinehart tries in this territory.
We say without hesitancy we have the best
tire and tube made, with quality and class com
bined. We want dealers at every point.
We have the goods and an attractive dealers'
proposition. Every tire guaranteed for 5,000
miles. We want satisfied customers calling on
dealers for Swinehart Tires.
As an introduction and to assist us in securing
dealers we will DURING SHOW WEEK ONLY
give car owners wholesale prices on Swinehart
Tires and Tubes. Don't miss this opportunity to
secure the most attractive tire on the market,
utility and beauty combined.
You are cordially invited to call and examine
our stock.
Wheeler Tire Company
A. E. WHEELER. President.
DISTRIBUTORS FOR
- Swinehart Tires
Quanataaa' Flva Thouunl Milaa Pnoumatlc mi SalU Tlraa.
KM FARNAIt STREET. PHONE DOUGLAS 7844.
FREE SERVICE.' OMAHA, NEBRASKA.
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The Delco Exide Service station at
2024 Farnam is now the distributor of
the A: B. C. starting and lighting
system for Ford cars and is fully
equipped to give the same prompt
service on these starters as it has
given the Delco starter and Exide
battery users. The A. B. C starting
and lighting system is a two-unit sys
tem and its superiority has even met
with the Ford's O. K.
Seven Miles an Hour Was
Speed of Race in 1895
Twenty-two years ago a few enthu
siastic "horseless carriage" manufac
turers decided that the time was ripe
for a race. As we look, back at it now
the contest was a mechanical jest,
The vehicles started bravelv and then
stopped lamely, while their drivers
made repairs. Une inventor followed
his mechanical wonder with a team ot
horses. The winner of the race had
averaged the mad speed of seven and
one-half miles an hour. His engine,
carefully tested after the feverish con
test was over, was found to develop
an amazing four-horsepower. Wal
demar Kaempffert in Harper's Maga
zine. California Uni Star
Enters the Pro Game
Russell Thompson, first baseman of
the University of California base ball
team, has been signed by the Oak
land Coast League club for a trial in
the spring. He is a right-hander, big
and strong and from all accounts has
a lot ot class.
The Whittier company of Chicago,
manufacturers of the Wilmo mani
fold, has made arrangements to ex
hibit its product during the auto show
at the office and store room of the
United States Rubber company, 1608
Harney street.
The function of the manifold is to
accomplish a complete vaporization
of fuel and thus prevent the great
waste that is known to be present in
all motors where the gasoline goes
into the engine in liquid form. The
Wilmo manifold is one gray iron cast
ing and which although simple in ex
ternal form, easy to install, durable
on account of there being no moving
parts, materially improving the ap
pearance and accessibility of the en
gine to which it may be applied; it
is at the same time an internally
scientific casting which thoroughly
and completely vaporizes the fuel and
delivers to the cylinder- a real gas
mixture without any globular liquid.
The result is perfect combustion; no
waste of fuel; no flint carbon and a
clean engine.
The perfect combustion of the fuel
and doing away with the waste per
mits of increased power and increased
mileage. Official tests conducted by
the American Automobile association
have demonstrated that with an av
erage Ford touring car the mileage
per gallon of gasoline was raised
from 19.6 to 28 miles under indentical
conditions by the use of the Wilmo
manifold or an increase of 42 per
cent. Public tests will be made dur
ing the coming week in which auto
mobile owners will be interested be
cause of the great fuel saving prom
ised by the manufacturers.
Billy Meyer Tells Mack
He Is Ready for Battle
Billy Meyer, Connie Mack's young
catcher, who was taken ill with ap
pendicitis near the close of last sea
son, reports to his manager that he
has fully recovered his health, is get
ting a lot of outdoor exercise and will
be in fine shape for the 1917 season.
Mack expects much of him this year,
for he was showing rapid improve
ment when taken ill.
Predict Prosperous Year
For Trucks Among Farmers
Announcement was recently made
by the Lininger Implement company
people that they have taken on the
Commercial Truckmobile. This Is
an attachment which can be fitted to
serve different makes of automobiles
and from reports which have reached
Omaha regarding the truck It em
bodies several distinctive features not
to be found on other similar truck at
tachments. The company manufacturing the
Commercial Truckmobile is reputed
to be very well financed and putting
things over in a big way. They are
very much pleased with the connec
tion made in lOmaha, owing to the
completeness of the Lininger Imple
ment company's organization through
the territory.
It is believed by Mr. Head of the
Lininger Implement company, as well
as by numerous representatives, that
the rural districts will buy trucks in
great numbers and in view of the
wonderful crop which Nebraska en
joyed during the last year all manu
facturers seem to be making tracks
toward our farmers.
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von ham in crank Tour motor in
blizzard, or when your car stalk on
driving
the
crowded street them's when Ton long for an A-B-C
Starter on your Ford. And yon especially long for it when
your motor back-fire and the hanoWnnk registers a broken wrat.
We never have trouble proving that the A-B-C System
Is the best starting and lighting system for Fords. A at
th ONLY trmt, genuine tuo-anit starting and lighting
system built for Fori can. And the two-unit is the final
word in starting systems.
Has no noisy chains to break. Cranks motor in the
natural way, engaging with crankshaft direct. Does not
interfere with accessibility of the Ford motor m anyway,
and is perfectly accessible itself.
butaUation is inclnamd in thm aWee, and
"V. the work is done by trained men and done
right S9S.00 Installed.
Delco Exide Service Station.
2024 Farnam St, Omaha, Nab.
Diatrlbutoi lor Nabraaka and Waatara Iowa.
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A Brand New Jackson
The Wolverine Eight
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See It At The Show
This will Introduce the new "Wolverine Eight, " the
fastest selling car ever built by the Jackson Company.
It has the strength, the stamina, the swiftness and the
com fortabld luxury you demand. Its-dominant charac
teristics are motor smoothness, and riding ease.
Its new style tonneau-cowl body, no less than its "V
type overhead-valve, eight-cylinder motor, reflects the,
very latest ideas in motor car design.
Back of these newest Ideas is a coherent and steady stream
of experience in automobile building that spans a period of
fifteen years.
Every development in the evolution of the automobile business
has contributed its quota of knowledge and experience to the
development of the Wolverine Eight
Thus this car expresses the most modern ideas coupled with the
substantial, tried and proven elements that mean a sure foundation
for successful service. While exhibiting in full measure the ideals
of power and strength that have always distinguished the produc
tions of the Jackson Company, this new model reveals entirely
new ideas of motor smoothness and riding ease.
And because this eight-cylinder motor shows an average of 17.7
miles to the gallon of gasoline, it is establishing new records for
eight-cylinder economy.
At every point, in every detail you will find the Wolverine Eight
a remarkably complete automobile an exponent of high quality
at modest prices.
Prices advance $100 on March first
JACKSON AUTOMOBILE CO. Branch
T. J. BOLAND, Mgr.
10th Av and eth St., Council Bluffs, lawa. Spaca 31. Main Floor, Omaha Auto Show.
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