11 B
Light Weight Most
Essentia in an.
All-the-Year Car
would seem to be a great' deal of
truth in this statement, judging from
the way the automobile show reflects
the tendency. " '
There are very few people to whom
the enclosed car does not appeal for
winter use, yet any car they own must
be summer car also. Outside of the
question of suitable ventilation for
hot weather conditions, which has ap
parently been worked out to the sat
isfaction of enclosed car users, the
thing on which general use really
hinges is the obility to make enclosed
cars suitable for open road driving.
On manufacturer, the Franklii
company, has done much in year,
past through the development, of its
sedan type to bring out the advan
tages of light weight in enclosed car
construction.
NM BMngs of dhe Old People's Home
It is predicted by a great many ex
perienced motorists that the use of
enclosed cars will mark one of the
greatest developments in the industry
within the next few years. There
&Un.gr Jack Barry ot ta chmpl6n B4
Sox la worklns out at a.eond and tahtw
oar of tha Job in Ma uaual brilliant form.
THE -OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 18. 1917.
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HUDSON SUPER-SIX',
. 8H0WSREALSPEED
Beats Railroad Train in Spite
of fifteen-Minute Handicap
and Bad Road.
CLOCKLiKE REGULARITY
A Florida East Coast passenger
train had fifteen minutes start on
George S. Reid and his Hudson
Super-Six - between Miami and Little
River, Fla., a short time ago, but
the latter won the race.
Mr. Reid drove some friends to
the railroad station in Miami. Just
before the train started it was discov
ered that they had forgotten their
luggage. It was too late to go after
the grips and get back before the
train was scheduled to start. The
party hesitated a few minutes and
the train pulled away. The travelers
were so disconsolate over - missing
their train and connections north
that Mr.- Reid said, "if that's the
way you feel about it, we'll get your
grips and catch the train. They
caught it at Little River. "We had to
let it out. some," said Mr. Reid.
"Sometimes the speed indicator
pointed at sixty-five miles an hour,
The train ported was dazed wnen ne
saw ' Us. He recognized us as the
party left behind at- Miami. He
couldn't figure out how we managed
to get there. He was not familiar
with the' Hudson Super-Six.
' Seta Record in For.
George E. Bender of Kane,, Pa.,
gave the Super-Six a remarkable try
out not long ago. Using a regular
touring car and carrying three pas
sengers, he drove from Kane to De
troit, 431 miles, in thirteen hour and
fifteen minutes, an average of 32.52
miles per hour, "The roads were ex
tremely rough in Pennsylvania after
hard rain," said Mr. Bender on reach
ing Detroit, . "The fog was so thick
in the valleys thatwe could not see
far ahead until we reached Cleveland.
Roads and weather conditions ne
cessitated over eleven detours. We
had no mechanical .. trouble of any
description. ' It wa a perfect run":
Installs New Battery ,
Rebuilding Plant Here
In connection with. the . factory
service center which was recently
established ., Wifh ' the local .Harley
Davidson distributor for the purpose
of giving practically factory service
' .ro other dealer within a radius ,of
'200 miles of Omaha, a battery re
building plant has also been added.
Nearly all motorcycles told for the
last two years have been equipped
with electric generators and storage
batteries, and to take care of these
instead of sending them to the factory
for attention Victor Roos, the local
Harley-Davidson man, added the bat
tery rebuilding plant, which is in
charge of Mr. Otto Ramar, Who spent
considerable time at the factory Re
cently in looking, over the battery
plant there:1" : yv -' v$
Bank Clearings Score One
More Forty Per Cent Gain
While shattering no records, Omalia
' bank clearings for tlie-weektontinued
to maintain the pace established;, by
the new year, and one more:week was.
put down in the 40 per cerit-gain-column.
Bank clearings for the week
were $36,028,727.40 and for the corre
sponding week last year $45,213,837.17,
a gain of over $10,000,000, or about 40
. per cent. ' I
Thinkof
Tires-
Gasoline And you
Depreciation? won't choose
Reliability a heavy car.
Comfort
WE SAY this because we've put these same things
up to the experienced motorist time and time again.
And we quoted the weight of the Scientific-Light-Weight
Franklin. Such figures mean tometkint to the
man who knows heavyweight cars.
, : ,. - .' v - : ;. ':'";'''"'".' :"';
We gave him the latest averages established by Franklin
cars all over the country, showing well over 10,000 miles to
the set of tires.
Gasoline mileage invariably around 20 miles to the
gallon. - v
Depreciation see for yourself at any used car salesroom.
If you Jo see a Franklin, try to buy it in proportion to what
the other cars are bringing. You'll always pay more.
And comfort no bumping, no hammering, easy and svfe
driving over all sorts of roads, anywhere and everywhe:
And we never neglect to show how Franklin Direct Air
Cooling does away with the weight and trouble of 177 com-'
plicated water-cooling parts, as well as the water itself.
, Here's Scientific Light Weight
expressed in figures: '
Not one of the Franklin open
ears weighs over 2280 pounds.
Enclosed cars are lighter than
any fine touring car not one
weighing over 2620 pounds.
Be sure and look for v$ltht
figures just as carefully as you
look for prict figures. . , '
FRANKLIN MOTOR CAR CO.
220S Farnam Street Phone Douglas 1712.
, R-U-2-B-l.of.60 ' ,
The handsome new building for the
Old People's home is now nearly com
plete on its pretty site at Bedford
avenue and Fontenelle boulevard.
It will cost, complete, $80,000, and
this sum is in hand excepting $6,000.
A committee of women headed by
Mrs. E. R. Hume is working hard to
get this money. -. It will save them
great deal of work if contributors
will send checks to Mrs. Hume, chair
man of the building committee, 909
North Forty-ninth street, or to Edgar
M. Morsman, jr., treasurer, 628 Kee
line building. -
The present location of the Old
MOTOR REPLACES
CIRCUS HORSES
Road Show Expects to Save
$1,200, Daily by Using Au
tos for Transportation. '
-UPKEEP AT A j MINIMUM
'Twelve hundred dollars is the
amount of money the new motorized
circus expects to save every day in
railroad transportation charges. This,
estimate is based upon the daily aver
art cost of hauline to all bie circuses
minus the estimated motor upkeep for
the new enterprise.
As a result of this statement, issued
at the headquarters of the United
States Circus corporation, at 140 West
Forty-second street, New York, mo
tor truck manufacturers, are watch
ing the project with a great deal of
interest, . r ; :
"The success of this enterprise
irfeans that the motor truck has be
come a real competitor of the rail
roads and electric lines on short
hauls," said one manufacturer In dis
cussing: the motorized circus. "When
it can be proven that 100 motor trucks
with 100 trailers can. save $1,200 each
day in overland hauls of from thirty
to fifty miles, as this circus claims
it win, then a new held has opened
for the motor truck."
Thelipkeep cost ef the 'caravan i
, expected to be kept at minimum..
Only skilled mechanicians will be cm.
ployed as drivers." The tire; equip-'
ment consists of Firestone Giants
throughout, while the Kelly-Springfield
Motor Truck company supplies
the trucks and the Troy Wagon works
the trailers. '
. You're die one who has got to
know what the car will gH you
and what the cost of the service
will be.
And remember, we are offer
' ini facts backed by actual experienet,
that are results of Franklin Scien
tific Light Weight
Get these facts and we will
leave the verdict to you.
I People's home is at 2214 Wirt street,
where it has been tor years in inade
quate quarters.
"The newt building," said Mrs,
Hume, "will house seventy-five people
when the third floor, which will be
finished later, is completed. Most of
the rooms are single rooms. It is the
oldest charity in the city, organized
thirty-three years ago, and is most
deserving.
Furnishings for the building will
cost about $12,000. Checks toward
this may be sent to Mrs. C C Belden,
4909 California street-
Rev. C W. Savidge, who operates
the House of Hope for old people,
writes the following letter in behalf
ot the Old People's Home:
"To the Editor of The Bee: I read
with much pleasure the paper of
Father John Williams, printed in one
of our papers, in behalf of the Old
People's Home. That was a beauti
ful letter and worthy to be read and
heeded by all our people. Father
John pays me and the House of Hope
a high tribute in this article. I am
much pleased to say that he knows a
good man when he sees him coming
down the road. I think that when mv
automobile is plowing through the
B. T. Stoewell ! back with the
C AV. Francis Auto, company. .
The Omaha-Savage Sales company
is anxiously awaiting the arrival of
4 carload of Savage tires which left
San Diego early, this week. It is
hoped that the railroad strike will
not hold this shipment up, as Wilson,
local manager, declares they need this
ear badly in order to fill orders al
ready signed. ' ' ;' '
Lou J. Traynor, Cole and Interstate
distributor, spent the early part of
the week at the Cole factory at In
dianapolis and the Interstate factory
afc-Muncie, Jnd. - Traynor reports an
excellent outlook for 1917 season" and
a'' good start off at the auto show.
Traynor has just delivered the fifth
car sold either at the show or as a
result of the show. ;
' "Regardless of road and weather
conditions," asserts J. H. De Jong,
Gossip '
Along the .
- AutomoDiie xtow j
mud on low, some fellow ought to
step out and hand me a flower amid
the shower ot stones, and rather
John has done this,
"I very much desire to advise and
encourage all our people to heed the
appeal that this aged and honored
minister has made to you A body of
women who have worked with the
devotion that this board has for more
than thirty years and erred for the
aged and helpless people as they have,
deserve the encouragement and as
sistance of a multitude of people.
Hear this. They ought not to have
to hunt us up. Those who have the
means ought to hunt up and give them
this money that they are asking. It
is a humiliation to pass the hat for
ever, and these women are too noble
to have to do that,
"Mrs. Edward Johnson, telephone
Harney 2463, is the president of the
board of trustees, and she has been an
earnest worker for this board for sev
enteen years. Mrs. E. R. Hume, Wal
nut 330, is the chairman of the build
ing committee. '. . .
T'May God bless this board of trus
tees of the Old People's Home and
give them the desires of their hearts,
is my prayer."
distributor of Appersoh- and Grant
automobiles, "the buying keeps ahead
of deliveries. '
"W can't get enough ears to sup
ply the demand now and In view of
the Dendinar railroad strike it tnntr.
as if we would be forced to drive cart
from the factory,. The automible men
have accomplished harder things than
driving cars across country from the
factories, so I don't anticipate tfie
cessation of the industry on account
of a railroad tieup,-
Connell Admits Being Czar,
But Refuses to Abdicate
, Arthur C Smith, Tyler Belt and
H.aUh rMnmiiiM... f M
wuiuicii en
tered Mayor Dahlman'a office at the
ciar of Omaha," facetiously remarked
jr. onmn in presenting ut. Connell
to Mr. Belt
"Pleased to meet you, czar," was the
acknowledgment .in? fr R.tt -mM-
ingly. '...-
. Well, you may say for the that I
hv nnt ahHiVafA - - .... fi
rejoined the, health commissioner.
TRUCKS
ii
There's No
Construction In Them
on commercial cars.
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If you are about to buy trucks for the
first time, replace one that has done
service, or add to your .fleet do what
has proved to be the logical thing tell
us of your truck requirements.
Nebraska Buick Auto Co.
LINCOLN
H. E. SIDLES. Caaaral Manafar.
OMAHA SIOUX CITY
LEE HUFF, Mgr. ' S. C. DOUGLAS, Mgr.
OMAHA, SOUTH OMAHA. COUNCIL BLUFFS.
HENRY V CO, Distributors.
HE
in
cessful
record
Pleasure Car
T
Motor Trucks must stand hard
service to be profitable, to their
owners. To stand the hard usage
that a4ruck will get from month to
month and year after year, it must be
designed and constructed for such serv
ice.! CMC Trucks are built for business
..requirements by a factory specializing
: There's a GMC
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remarkable success of the KING, now
its third year of eight-cylinder leader
ship, after a long period of buildiniz suc
"Fours," will this year far
of previous years.
The eight-cylinder KING offers nothing
"medium" but its price. In mechanical
superiority, riding luxury, coach design
and world-wide prestige, it is distinctly a
"salon" car. 1. ' ; -, ,
Seven-passenger Touring Car, four-passenger
Foursome, three-passenger Roadster,
$1585; seven-passenger, Sedan, $2150. Prices '
f. o. b. Detroit. Wire wheels $100 extra.
W cannot guarantta the pricaa will not changt
NOYES-KILLY MOTOR CO.,
2068-68 Farnam St. ' Omaha Distributors,
jlin Motor Cu Co.
Detroit, Ulck,
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Will the
get
craei
in time fC
A. Fire being &iter than footwork, I
. houldtay,4NoHl ; . .
Q. Won't hie motor run? '
A. Motor's O. IC the trouble is with
hie '"tiree. , Two punctures to e
many blocks leave him flat He
thould use proper equipment.
Q. What do you mean by proper equip
ment? ' t
A. Pshaw, Lee Puncture Proof Tires
the tires with the belt of steel armor
back of the tread make the only
I reliable tot equipment for such work.
Q. Lee Tires absolutely prevent punc
. tares?
A. All thetimenothinecanget through
, that armor belt of steel discs. And
what is more they have a heavy
Zlg-Zag tread that always gives the
driver a confident feeling against
skidding. You can get complete
information on the, full line of Lee
' Tires from ,
POWELL
UWtV COMMMV ,.
i OMAHA
Themt, Draflat HI,
tadk nplaeTlrwIn Phone toji
Persistence is the cardinal virtue in
advertising; no matter how good ad
vertising may be in other respects,
it must be run frequently and con
stantly to be really successful.
exceed the
m
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n
Lee
Standard Tires
Hvt mora tire comfort
and mileage than aver
bafort claimed for any
standard make of tire.
"' Lee Tubes
Arpraysiandara of far
thlckneta and rujjad
ntaa. They arantnma
lf supple, tough, raail
iant and long wearing.
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