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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 8. 1917. 5 b STEARNS SETS MARK IN MOUNTAIN CLIMB Goes Up Slope on High Gear Fully Thirty Yards Further Than Any Previous Record. UNIQUE PATRIOTIC SHOW ROOM DISPLAY W. M. Clement, Omaha distributor for the Liberty car, caused tome thing of a furore along automobile row byhis Independence day thow room display. ay cnmoing up Mount Diablo in high gear fully thirty yards further than the best record established since the Mount Diablo gear trophy was offered an eight-cylinder Stearns Knight car, driven by "Pat" Gleason of the P. B. Anspacher Co., Oakland, Cal Stearns Knight dealer, won the cup and also set a mark for high-gear achievement on this mountain that will in all probability stand for some ' time to come against the onslaughts of contenders for this significant trophy. By its remarkable performance the Stearns Knight eight has brought the Mount Diablo cup contest practi cally, to a close and has eliminated all chances - for its ever changing hands except among the most power ful cars of the industry. This contest is without doubt the hardest high gear test possible for an automobile, and again proves the supremacy of the Stearns Knight motor and the Stearns chassis. Is Telling Grind. While it is a delightful trip for the average motorist who can take ad vantage of his second gear and some times his low in various places, yet it is a telling grind for the car that is compelled to stay in high every inch of the way from the toll gate to the summit by an observer ever ready to disqualify the driver who so much as touches the gear lever. Ten miles of this kind of grind ing for the motor forced to climb the steep pitches on high gear and then without a chance to get up momen tum again, pitched against another climb even steeper and after that is conquered the same kind of work is to be done all over again, getting a little steeper each time, with the altitude getting rarer all the while and no chance for even a second's respite for. the motor. Then comes the hair pin turn near the summit. Just how to make that in high cannot be ex plained in cold type. That takes power and then a whole lot more power with skillful driving. When that is done the rest of the crimb is brought on for the motor to conquer and when grade after grade, with tor tuous turns and steep pitches, are conquered there comes that last steep pitch the ' final argument, the su preme test. It is right there at the end of the hardest grind ever given an automobile and the motor is pitted against it without having a chance to recuperate from the beating it has just gone through.. Com Has Twice Purchasing Power of One Year Ago Last year to build a silo, it would cost a farmer the price of 800 bushels of corn, according to some . figuring done by an Omaha contractor. Now he can build the same kind of silo for the price of 40O bushels of corn. Last year a mile of permanent high way would cost a community the price of 16,000 bushels of wheat;, today a mile of permanent highway can- be built for 8,000- bushels of wheat. . This seems to be a pretty good argument for the continuance of public con struction during the year. Construc tion prices are "high," basing . them upon the number of dollars required; construction prices are not at all ex cessive when compared with the value of commodities sold in the markets of the world. tWfWl( a v yv. - w litter v m -"ill iVw IWTf' w-i ' iiltfnil l III l li mm l lV iim mm ill Tt ' i 'I f Hi mini li mm him iiiiiiiiiim mi n d initial . j Real Estate Men Expect Many Sales After Harvest June with many real estate agents was a good month. Real estate men handling farm lands report constant inquiry on the part of those who are looking for bargains after harvest. Not many large sales of city prop erty were made, but the transfers kept up unusually well for a summer month. Bellevue did well. Several BUILDING ACTIVE IN THE MIDDLE TOT Material Men Report Good De mand, Indicating Steady Growth in City and Country. Building is active in Nebraska and the adjoining states. Construction pa pers, paying particular attention to the building trades and to the building material company activities, note a steady line of building in progress all over the agricultural section of the west and central west. Building material men have noticed the demand for material which is ex ceptionally good. It indicates a steady growth or the building industry, lumber ,of certain grades hard to get, wholesalers are having a hard time to fill some of the orders. , Good Demand for Paint. The paint salesmen have practically all left the road for their summer vacations, and still the orders are pouring in by mail. At the same time the desks in the wholesale paint houses in Omaha are still piled high with orders the salesmen sent in be fore they left the road. One . clerk in. a wholesale paint house a few days ago grabbed a handful of orders, glanced through them, and. said: "Now. here in this hand I find at random orders from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska Wyoming and South Dakota, They are all good big orders. In spite of the advance in the price of paint t!;cy are still buying it and buying lots of it. Last year when July came and the sales men dropped off the road for" their summer vacations, we in the office had little to do until the' salesmen got on the road again. Now it is dif ferent. We have enough orders ahead of us to keep us going for some weeks." - of the purchasers contemplating im provements. The adjustment of labor troubles and the settlement of the prices on materials may be followed by an un usual amount of house building. The building of a number of houses cost ing from $6,000 to $20,000 has been deferred because of the unsettled con ditions in labor circles. " D. A. R. PLANS FOR PATRIOTIC WORK Omaha Chapter of Daughters of American Revolution Outlines Summer Serv ice for Red Cross. The Omaha Country club was the setting for a very interesting gather ing of members of the Omaha chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution , Friday afternoon, when definite plans were made for patriotic service during the summer months. Mrs. Joseph M. Cudahy of Chicago, who was in Omaha for the day as the guest of Mrs. C T. Kountze, and is one of the nine members of the advis ory board of the American Red Cross and an ardent worker on the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense, proved the inspiration of the affair. She told of the work of the Red Cross and particularly what is done in Chicago. . Because of the great nee J for knit ted garments on the battleship Ne braska, the Omaha chapter will hold emergency meetings every Friday at one of the country clubs. The first three will be held at the Country club, with Mrs. C T. Kountze as hostess. The next three will be at the Field club, when Mrs. Philip Potter will be hostess, and the last three at the Happy Hollow club, when Mrs. W. L. Selby will act as hostess. The regu lar meetings of the Daughters of the American Revolution., at the Army building will continue. On the aver age of twenty-five workers are pres ent every day to make Red Cross hos pital supplies. To Rais Money. Several schemei for raising money for the Red Cross will be launched during the summer. One plan which was started at the meeting is the mile of dimes. Strips of cardboard, a mile in length, are given to the members, who fill them with the dimes. The chapter decided to give an American flag to the Boy Scouts. - This chapter has shown its patriot ism in more ways than one. They have adopted a French war orphan and purchased $400 worth of Liberty bonds. Mrs. C. H. Aull is chairman of the U4 JLfl It LflU. See that double strength axle! , Little Giant Con-vert-a-Car (Ford truck unit) has an axle 2 5-16 in. x2 5-16 in. Solid forged high-grade carbon steel. That's example of its inbuilt carrying strength. The result of engineered excess capacity. Heart and soul it is devoted to cutting delivery costs. Not a brute for an enormous load. But an unrivalled performer when you want a ton or under delivered with speed. Plus certainty. Economy. Every day of its long life, Convert-a-Car demonstrates and lives up to its real reason for being. Deliver ing efficiently. And for less than horse-drawn haulage. There is a Little Giant truck for every use 1-Ton, 27T011, 32 Ton, and Convert-a-Car. Trucks with the habit of heavy performance.' Made that way by the $14,000,000 Chicago Pneu matic Tool Company. : v COUNTY DEALERS If the demondrated success of Little Giant trucks means any thing to you, write today. Some great territory we control is yet open. But it won't be open long. Ask us to prove the unlimited sales opportunity our proposition offers. You'll be f lad you accepted our invitation to bigger, better, faster bui nets. But hurry I Write or telegraph TODAY. eCftBe.(icJivE , At jiioU a Wixtismamd Haarmann-Locke Motors Co. Nebraska and Western Iowa Distributors Little Giant Trucks. 2429 Farnara Street. Phone Douglas 7940. eUxonicimcusi, amdcjivU: TTfottmilk war relief committee of the chapter. Although no formal programs are planned for the meetings, there will probably be one Red Cross speaker at each meeting and refreshments will be "dutch treat." Bee Want Ads produce results. GRANT SIX SETS ENDURANCE MARK Light Stock Car Battles for Sixty Days to Pinal Victory Across Sierra Mountains. Over the historic emigrant trail across the Sierra mountains a stock Grant Six battled for sixty days to a final victory that sets a new record in endurance tests for a light six. "The feat has made the car the talk of the Pacific coast," says J. H. Dc Jong, distributor of the Grant Six. "Fifty years agodhe emigrant trail was the route over which the famous bullion trains came plunging down from Virginia City. Here were laid the scenes of Bret Harte's immortal stories of hard men of high courage and nimble trigger fingers. "In those days the trail was con sidered impassable in winter. More than once disaster overtook parties that attempted to pass over the moun tains in winter. The ill-fated Donner party that perished in 1846-7 was one of these. Many Narrow Escapes. "Yet over this same trail a Grant Six with four passengers and 800 pounds of baggage has just won a victory over the worst snowstorms in twenty-five years, and. after almost unbelievable escape from death, finally made its way from Sacramento, Cal., to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, without harm. "The car itself, though badly bat tered and scarred, came through with out a single repair, replacement or adjustment. Not even a spring-Wf was broken, and, by the way, trie springs were not taped as is usual when cars undertake such difficult going. "The trip over the mountains had been made before, but never so early in the spring. It must not be forgot ten that in the mountains snow and water linger on into April and May, and that at high altitudes snow does not melt until summer; No car ever made so early a trip as the Grant Six and no car of its weight and size ever made the trip at all. It was a supreme test of Grant Six endurance and will not soon be forgotten." Ten-Year-Old Lad Struck by Auto Truck; Driver is Held Eda Wyostka, 10-year-old boy, liv ing at 945 North Twenty-seventh street, was struck by an auto truck at Twenty-fourth and Cuming this morning. E. Lieberman, driver of the truck, was held by the police for in vestigation, as his car had no license on it. The boy was bruised, but not dangerously hurt. Lieberman lives at 2608 Franklin street. German Crown Prince Employs U. S. Jockey Copenhagen, July 7. Despite all unfriendly utterances from the Ger man government regarding the United States, the German crown prince does not disdain to employ an Amer ican. He left two recently purchased race horses in the hands of the form er American jockey, Fred Taral, for a number of ears, one of the most successful trainers on the German turf. English Farmer Fined For Refusing to Sell Wool (Correapondtne of AMOdatsd PrM. London, July 4. The war office is sues a statement that a farmer in the north of England has been fined $375 for refusing to sell and deliver his wool in accordance with the official wool purchasing order. English Coroners' Juries Have Less Than Twelve Men (Correspondent: of The Auoclated Preu.) London, July 4. Coroners' juries are now sitting with less than twelve jurors for the first time for 1,000 years, according to the statement made by the Westminster coroner last week. , Persistent Advertising is the Road to Success. PACK MULE LOSES CASTE IN THE ARMY Is Being Pushed 'from Its Stronghold by Motor Tracks Capable of Hauling; Heav ier Loads. The army mule has lost caste in its greatest stronghold. Even the Grand Army of the Republic veteran, who recalls that in '61 the pack mule was the last word in army transporta tion, has transferred his allegiance to the more modern motor truck, since witnessing a Jeffery Quad climb up a 275 per cent grade at a special demon stration held during the Wisconsin state encampment last week in Kenosha. A pile of heavy lumber fifteen feet square by five and one-half feet high was erected. On one side of the pile two 12x4 uprights IV feet long were nailed securely to the top of the pile with the bottom ends resting on the ground. These two uprights formed an angle of 70 degrees. Climb to Top. A stock Quad two-ton truck loaded with 4,000 pounds of pig iron and piloted by O. A. Eskuche of the Nash truck engineering department was then driven up to the lumber pile motor the Quad crept to the top of the pile. On reaching the top the truck was locked by the brakes, which apply their power to all four wheels. Many regular army officers .who witnessed the demonstration declared it to be one of the most spectacular performances they had ever seen. Mr. Escuche, who has probably seen more actual warfare than any other truck engineer in the country, having spent several months in France, Russia and England, supervisiug the installation of Quad trucks tttrnished these gov ernments for military purposes, mere ly smiled and said that this was noth ing when compared with some of the problems this truck has solved suc cessfully on European battle fronts. I 2& :' " " v.trtWTOTOm. v m A Particularly Smart Car At A Popular Price The attractiveness of this car is irresistible. ' Its economy breaks all records for a Four of such style, comfort and conven ience. No wonder it is America's most desirable sport model because such a combina tion of smartness, economy and utility has never been known before Commodious room for four passengers divided front seats are adjustable forward and backward. Its original design is strik ingly superior A clever color scheme is achieved without sacrificing good taste The perfect balance and distribution of weight; four inch tires and cantilever rear springs make it easy rtdaig and easy to handle The powerful motor which is more than adequate for all occasionsis excep tionally economical with fuel Come in and have a grjod long satisfying look at this beautiful car the only smart utility sport model on wheels. WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC., OMAHA BRANCH SALESROOMS 2047-48 Farnam St. Phone Douglas 3292 SERVICE STATION 20th and Harney Streets Phone Douglas 3290 The factory will issue a new price Usi effecting certain models possibly during July and certainly not later than August firsi OMAHA. eg lE.OC tflafl laffixnxrtti lap SB 3D WIl 2d
