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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25, 19 W.
NASH TO COME TO
UTTTAMADTTr CUAW
Head of Great Factory Inter
esting Figure in Mamonth
Industry.
BUILDS ON A HUGE SCALE
One feature of the Automobile
Show of particular interest both to
the public and those connected with
the motor car industry, is the intro
duction of' a new, powerful factor in
automobile affairs, The Nash Motors
company, headed by Charles VV.
Nash.
Since Mr. Nash, until recently
president of the General Motors com
pany, purchased the great plant at
Kenosha, which manufactures JcrTcry
atitomobilcs ami trucks, interest in
the progress of this new corporation
has been general.
It is realized by both the trade ami
the public that the combination o.
C. V. Nash, recognized as one of the
foremost automobile manufacturer;
in the United States, and the giganti'
plant at Kenosha, is certain to resul
in developments of great importance
to the motor car world.
The policy of Mr. Nash, as demon
strated in Jits active guidance of the
General Motors company to a year!)
earning totaling $28,812,281.96, is tin
manufacture of automobiles ami twicli
on a huge scale.
It is his conviction thai only a t rr
mendous output with its o'lvinus a;'
vantages in cost of malerial am
manufacturing, makes po-silile tin
building of an automobile or a true
which represents superior value: that
a tremendous-' advantage accures to
the manufacturer who can buy ma
terials in large quantities, and whose
f'lant if actually equipped to manu
acture these materials into finished,
product. . ...
Morrell Takes Agency V.'..
For Maxfer Truck Maker
The Maxfer truck maker, which i-ia
been having big success in Chicago
and eastern markets, will be handled
in. Omaha and surrounding territory
by H. B. Morrell & Co. of thi.i city.
A record in the sale of trucks was
made by the Maxfer people at the
New York Auto show, when $963,500
worth were sold in seven days. This
speaks volumes for the adaptability
and sturdy mechanical construction
of the sMaxfer, .when such a quantity)
was sold to expert auto men in tile,
face of keen competition. .Merchants
and farmers w ho have a hauling prob
lem to serve are looking more and
more to a medium-priced truck that
will trr the work at the least ntittav
and expense, of upkeep., The Maxfer
has solved the problem for tome of
the biggest firms of Chicago and east
ern cities and farmers arc now adopt
ing it as I money saver throughout
the middle west. The Maxfer will be
n displa in the Scott Omaha Tent
nd Awning company show rooms,
directly opposite the Auditorium en-
trance, during Auto show week, i
Victor Roos Now Has a
tJIMM,FifAMU a! tl i n UnmA
rnuiiuyi d(ju ui ni ivdinc
Victor Roos, wll known Omaha
motorcycle dealer, has accented the
exclusive agency in this territory for
t new phonograph which has just
'ecently been invented and placed on
T7n Social Necessity"
M w)
CLARKE 0. TOWELL
Secretary and Manager.
GEORGE F., REIM,
" Director. '
the market. Mr.'Roos-is selling the
instrument undet! his own br.apd, call
ing it the Victor' Roos' phonograph.
Mr. Roos is holding a big motor
cycle exhibit at his salesroom during
auto show week and is giving away
one of these new phonographs to the
winner of a contest he is staging at
th display.
AMAZING SPEED OF BULLETS.
Missiles from Modern Rifles Distance
the Speed of '
Sound.
In ill Armor liti. it ha h..n nntired
! often that bullets traveling at high
speed Yrduce two sounds. A man
fired at from about 400 yards hears
first a vicious crash. That is the bullet
passing. A little later the report of
the rifle conies along.
The speed of sound has, in fact,
been beaten by the speed of rifle bul
lets. Modern military rifle bullets.
rn
Arrived for the
Automobile
Show
Thousands of visitors now arriving will
view the Rauch & Lang Electric Exhibit
this week. i , ! :. . ' ;
"Remember to note the safety and pleasure
of relief from mechanical obtrusion ands,
confusion, especially enhanced for women. ' In very
appearance, these richest creations of 64 year' .
leadership In fashionable coach building dominate. '
Equipage confidence is based also on the knowledge
that the Rauch 4 Lang Electric represent th
highest type in vehicles of any agey
Cordial Invitation Is Extended
to Vtsit Our Exhibit in the
Auditorium, Space No. 20
Electric Garage Co.
C E. DOUGLAS, Mgr.
40th aael Faraam. Heraa 304 .
' Auto Exposition Directors
J. T. STEWART, 2D,
President.
Director.
when fired, travel at from 2,000 to
3,000 feet in one second. Sound can
travel along only at 1,100 feet a sec
onds ...,',
So it happens that when a man
who is fired at hears the report of a
rifle he knows he is safe at least
from that particular shot..
It is naturally at long ranges that
the two distinct sounds are most no
ticeable. At a range of 1,000 yards
a bullet arrives at least a second, and
sometimes more, in advance of the re
port. The sound of the flying bullet is
caused by a vacuum at its rear. The
air thrown fiercely back from the nose
of the projectile travels round and
rushes to the rear, as water to the
stern of a fast moving boat.
Thus a crash is produced, or, in cer
tain cases a kind of whining snarl,
like no other sound on earth. Lon
don Answers. -
L;ilSmifT;iriaf'iiMiiiiiwiwl j
Hern frtore
Zeeffvf
Director.
RIDE OP PAULINE REVERE
It Differed From That of Ancestor
and Alarmed Her
Guardian.
This is a story of the midnight ride
of Miss Revere. It was l'auline in
stead of Paul his great-grandaugh-ter
from Dana' Hall who caused the
alarms in several Middlesex valleys
and farms. v
Pauline, the great-granddaughter of
Paul, had left Pine Manor, post-graduate
school of Dana Hall school, to
spend the holidays at the home of her
guardian, Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer of
Lancaster.
Well, it seems that hours went by
and Pauline didn't appear. Mrs.
Thayer usurped part of the Paul
Revere program and started spread
ing the alarm herself.
Meanwhile, famine was attending
scrupulously to the rest of her an
cestral duties. She was having the.
ride.
v Miss Rayere toot: -a couple of her
classmates along with her to Charles-
town and the historic spot whence her
celebrated ' great-grandfather, the
original designer ot Mew fcngland s
most famous tourist toured ride
started, out.
There she and her friends piled into
the fur robes of a specially chartered
sleigh and set out to do Paul Revere's
ride le luxe as it should be done.
It was a great ride the girlsa had,
while the telephone company, several
telegraph, operators and two railroads
were joining forces with Mrs. Thayer
and theDana Hall school authorities
in a frantic search. The alarm ended
only when Pauline drove into Lan
caster. Boston Post.
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NEW BUILDING FOR
HDPP AND M'SHANE
Two-Story Brick and Concrete
Structure Being Built - On
West Farnam.
HAS LARGE SALESROOM
One of the most modern "automo
bile establishments in the middle
.vest is now being completed by E.
H. Scott for the Hupmobile company
if Nebraska at 2523-25 Farnam street.
The Hupmobile Company of Ne-k
oraska is a wnoiesaie aisrriDuiing
point for the factory for the terri
tory adjacent to Omaha. It was es
tablished about ayear ago and so
great has been the increase of busi
ness in this terirtory that the Hupmo
bile people found it imperative to
build their own building much larger
and more complete than their present
location. ' V "
The new building' is twb stories
high. It is fifty-five-foot front and
132 feet deep, of brick and concrete
construction. The sales room on the
first floor will be 55x70, and ft con
tains but one upright post, with thel
result that it will be one of the best
show rooms in Omaha. It will be
occupied jointly by the Hupmobile
wholesale distributing company and
the McShane Motor company, local
agents for this car. Commodious of
fices for both companies will be in the
rear of the sales room and in the very
rear of the lower floor will be the
parts stock roonv where a large and
complete stock ot parts for all Hup
mobile models will be kept. .
The second floor will be given over
to the service department. Entrance
to this floor will be directly off the
alley in the rear, so that cars can be
driven directly onto the service floor.
The basement will afford facilities
for storage of about forty cars.
WHERE EGGS ARE 112.50 EACH
However, It Take Four Pesos to
Make One Cent in Poor
Old Mexico. .
It is a weird tale of finance and food
costs which has been brought to St.
Louis by Henry Herschkowitz, for
merly translator at the United States
embassy, City of Mexico. Herschko
witz said he was forced to leave Mex
ico by H. C L
Articles of food in the Mexican
capital have different prices, 'accord
ing to the kind of money paid for
them. An egg, for example, only
costs 10 cents in silver money. But
in Mexican paper money the same
egg will cost 25 pesos. The peso for
many years has been considered
worth 50 cents in United States
money, thus bringing the egg price
to $12.50. But the money changers
declare the value of the peso has de
preciated to one-quarter of a cent.
It is the same with butter. A pound
of medium quality butter can be pur
chased in the City of Mexico for on!
$t.25 United States money. It wiltl
cost $2.50 in Mexican silver and 625
pesos in paper money.
Even in United States coin the price
SIXTEEN VALVE FOUR CYLINDER
, motor ':v
The sixteen valve four has the unique distinction
pf being the most far-reaching improvement in
engine design in recent years and still the most
conservative. There has been no departure from
the basic simplicity of the four cylinder motor.
High Power and flexibility have been attained by
the most direct means increasing valve1 capacity
without the roundabout method of -multiplying
cylinders to secure the same end.
By having two sefs oi intake and exhaust valves in
each of the four cylinders afull flow of explosive
gas is secured at any engine speed, thus main
taining full power at high engine speed and a
degree of flexibility at low car speed unobtainable
in any other type of motor. v c ;
i THfe NEBRASKA WHITE COMPANY
, FRED C ROGERS, Mgr. V
2417 Farnam Street, Omaha, '
Arid at the Palm Room, OMAHA AUTOMOBILE SHOW
MANAGES OF HENRY & CO.,
TRUCE DEALERS.
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HXYM PHOTO
F. M. Henry, manager of Henry &
Co., is delighted with the prospects
for the truck business this season.
"The truck field," states Mr. Henry,
"has not yet been scratched in the
process of development. Our investi
gations show to us that there is going
to be a most wonderful demand, es
pecially among the prosperous farm
ers of this territory. We have placed
large contracts for the coming year
and feel sure that our judgment of the
situation and conditions will be vindi
cated before the season is well on its
way." ,
Henry & Co. will specialize on
Smith Form-a-Trucks, a unit which is
used in connection with Fords and
Maxwells in the construction of effi
cient light trucks. Headquarters for
the organization during the show will
be at the Rome hotel and a big exhibit
is in place at the auto show..
of shoes has doubled, while corn is
150 per cent higher than in 1913, and
charcoal is 250 per cent higher. Char
coal is universally used for cooking.
According to Herschkowitz, there Is
no police protection in the City of
Mexico. Instead, martial law pre
vails, but it does not prevent the bold
er thieves from plying their trade, al
though detection means not a trial,
but immediate execution. St. Louis
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MblMdlmt.
The unfortunate man h&d been Induced
ttr relate a portion of hla life hlatorr.
"X have seen, changee," he Bald.' "Once
I was a doctor wh a. large practice, but
owing to one little lilp my ' patlento be
gan to leave me, and now I am just living
from hand to mouth."
"What waa the sHpr" was the natural
queitlon. ; '
"It waa a slip of the pen," he said, "In
filling In a death oerttfteate for a patient
who had died I abeentmlndodly signed my
name In the epaoe, . 'Cauae of death.' "
Philadelphia Ledger. .
THOREAU BEAT H. C. OF L.
Author Lived Two Year in the
Woods and Spent Only
$8.74 For Food.
Henry David Thoreau, apostle of
thrift and the simple life in America,
was the son of a well-to-do Concord,
Mass.. man, university trained and en
dowed with more than ordinary tal
ent. He might have chosen a pro
fession or business and amassed a
considerable fortune. This was what
everybody expected him to do.- His
classmates in Harvard lost no time
in "getting their start" after gradua
tion. And Thoreau, one of the bright
est., of the lot, what would he do?
Here is what he did:
Borrowing an ax, he went Into the
woods near Concord, and at the edge
of Walden Pond took up a squatter's
claim, built a long cabin of the trees
he felled with his own hands and lived
therein for more than two years, al
most wholly independent of outside
aid. He kept an itemized account of
the food he bought during the first
eight months of his experiment. It
totaled $8.74. Of course, food was
much cheaper then than now. In 1916
even without butter and eggs (and be
boycotted both) it might amount to
as much as $25. He says:
"Yes, I did eat $8.74 all told; but
I should not thus unblushingly pub
lished my guilt, if I did not know that
most of my readers were equally
guilty with myself, and that their
deeds would look no better in print."
His diet from the end of the first
eight months until the completion ofi
his sojourn at Walden, nearly two
year9, consisted only of rye and Indian'
meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a
very little salt and pork, molasses
and salt. Flour, sugar, lard, apples,
dried apples, sweet potatoes, pump
kins, watermelon and salt all are.
enumerated as experiments which
failed in the first eight months' time,
although he seems to have retained
salt in his diet, adding that should,
be obtained from the sea father than
purchased from the shopkeeper.,
Other expenses incurred on his ex-,
tended camping out expedition were:1
Houee IJ.H4
Farm one year K.TSi
Clothing eight months 8-40
Oil eight month! a. 00
a total of $53.25 his food bill for
the period of eight months making
it $61.99. To meet this he had from
farm produce he raised with his own
hands, $23.44 and from day labor
$13.34, a total of $36.78, "which," he
says, "subtracted from the sum of
outgoes, leave a balance of $252$i
on the one side this being very near-'
ly the means with which I started,,
and the measure of expenses to be in
curredand, on the other, beside the
leisure and independence and health
thus secured, a comfortable house for,'
me as long as I choose to occupy it."
Kansas City Times.y
Brwve aed Brainy.
She looked at him doubtfully after the
proposal.
"The man I marry," she said, "must be
both brave and brainy."
-"Well," he declared, "I think I can lay
just claim to being both."
"I admit you are brave," she responded,
"for yon saved my life when our boat up-!
set the other day; but that wasn't brainy,,
was It?"
"It certainly waj," he retored. "T upset
the boat on purpose. Pittsburgh Dlspatoh.
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