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PART FIVE
AUTOMOBILE
PAGES ONE TO TEN
PART FIVE
AUTOMOBILE
PAGES ONE TO TEN
VOL. XLVII NO. 7.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1917.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
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U.S. MOTORCARS
FIND READY SALE
IN THEFAR EAST
New Market Opens Up Fast
When Prohibitive Freiqht
Rates Stop Shipments
to Europe.
"The number of American motor
cars that are being sold in China and
Japan is plainly a remarkable feature
of this year's export automobile busi
ness," asserts C J. Corkhill, Haynes
distributor. "In the last week two
consignments of Haynes cars hae
gone to Pacific coast cities for trans
portation to China and Japan."
The seaport cities of these countries
have long been considered markets
of great potentiality.' The last two
years' trading has brought an influx
of money into the oriental business
centers and a marked stimulus in mo
tor car sales and road building has
been an evident Result. While China
has led in the number of automobiles
in the past, this year Japan is pur
chasing more motor cars than China.
The motor cars which the Japanese
and Chinese people are buying are
specially built only to a limited ex-
tent. As in the instance of practi
cally all cars which are sold outside
the borders of the United States, the
departure from the usual mode of
manufacture amounts to equipping
with a right hand drive, the use of
clincher instead of straight side tires,
and speedometers marked for kilo
meters instead of miles.
Rates High to Europe.
The evolution of a marked demand
for automobiles in the east came at
an opportune time for American man
ufacturers to supply this trade. While
European export sales are good, the
freight and insurance rates to Atlan
tic seaports abroad have advanced to
a point that makes the cost of trans
portation only a little less than the
cost of the product It costs $1,300 to
forward a $1,525 Haynes "Light Six"
from New York to Bordeaux, France.
The reconstruction of the primitive
roads in Japan and China may be said
to mark the opening of a new era of
transportation in these countries. In
past years the narrow city streets
which the natives used as sidewalks
and the unsurfaced country roads have
made motor travel difficult The mod
ernization of cities has generally
meant better streets and in Japan a
highway system is being developed
between the cities of Yokohama,
Tokio, Osake and Nagoya. ,
Hudson's Greatest Racing '
Team in Speedway History
The victory of Ira Vail's Hudson
Super-Six special in the Minneapolis
speedway championship race is the
latest feat in the sensational campaign
of the Hudson cars this year. Ralph
Mulford and Billy Taylor, driving two
other Super-Six specials took fifth
and sixth places. In the fifty mile con
solation race the three Hudsons fin
ished second, third and fourth. Vail's
Super-Six established a new track rec
ord in the main event, beating the for
mer record by more than seven miles
an hour.
In the six big races they have en
tered they have captured three Om
aha, Seattle and Minneapolis. In the
three they failed to win they took
second Cincinnati, Chicago and Un
iontown. They broke track records
for 150 fiiiles at Seattle and Omaha.
Ralph Mulford's Super-Six special es
tablished new American speedway
records for 150 and 200 miles at Chi
cago. In some of the races notably at
Seattle Hudsons practically monop
olized the leading positions, taking
first, third and fourth.
Connie Mack Calls Hornsby
and Cruise Great Players
Connie Mack, his team having an
off-day, went out to see the Cardi
nals beat the Phillies. He consented
to an. interview on his impressions, in
which he declared the Cardinal team
one of great possibilities. He picked
Hornsby and Cruise as two of the
greatest players he had ever seen and
said Meadows is one grand hurler.
Hornsby, Mack said, would in time
take Wagner's place as the greatest
shortstop in the game.
SALES MANAGER FOR THE
SANDOW MOTOR CO.
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"When they quit the brokerage
business in Chicago to go, heart and
soul, into the truck business," as
serts A. E. Kerr, "there must be a
number of indications which are fa
vorable to the truck business."
Sam Orloff who has recently taken
on the agency for the Sandow Ne
braska Motor Company has done the
very thing mentioned above and his
rating as a broker was A-l at that.
Kerr has just joined forces with
the Sandow Nebraska Motor Com
pany and will take charge of the
sales end of the business. Kerr is one
of the best known truck men in the
Omaha field having recently been with
the firm of Andrew Murphy Sons and
the C. W. Francis Truck Company.
He sees a great future for the San
dow and is very much sold on the
worm-driven truck.
For best reports of the Fremont
tractor demonstration read The Bee
from day to day.
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All things considered, Velie is maintain
ing the lowest price in America of any
car of its reputation and quality.
To support this claim with facts, we'll
admit four competitors and submit to you
the following table:
I CAR. j ENGINE. . H. P. LISTPRICET
1st Competitor j 6-Cylinder 27.5 $1265
2d Competitor j 6-Cylinder 25.4 - $1260
3d Competitor 4-Cylinder j 22.5 , $1425
4th Competitor 8-Cylinder 26.4 "$1467
VELIE 6-Cylinder 26.6 , $1185
This proves Velie $169.00 lower in price than the aver
age of four competitors.
And now then to definitely establish VelieVtop rank,
it is the only car in the five with Continental Six Cylin
der Motor and Timken Axles and Bearings.
At prevailing prices of materials a car of this quality
should list at $1500 or more.
Remember
$1185 Continental Motor-Timken Axles
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY '
(Present prices subject to change without notice)
VELIE MOTORS CORPORATION
MOLINE, ILL.
L. E. DOTY, Inc.
OMAHA, NEB.
Douglas 8554. 2027-29 Farnam Street.
Immediate DeliTerief
Less Than Dollar a Day Personal
Expense on Long Vacation Tour
Perhaps it was John Burroughs or
Rudyard Kipling, perhaps it was El
bert Hubbard, who spoke of getting
where one could "hear the heart of
nature beat" as the ideal place to
spend a vacation.
Whoever said it was a mighty wise
man. according to the most eminent
neurologists, for "getting back to na
ture" is the surest cure for a jaded
appetite and ragged nerves.
Formerly the "getting back" meant
discomfort one listened to the bab
bling brook and the malicious mos
quito at the same time and forsook
a comfortable bed for a lumpy piece
of ground where every blade of grass
was like a porcupine quill.
But now the up-to-date nature
hunter goes in his car,
E. R. Wilson, Studebaker dealer,
tells how to do it. '
"A Studebaker car," he tells us,
"can be 'made up' just like any Pull
man. "The rear seat-is forty-eight inches
wide, just a little narrower than the
regulation double bed. Lift up the
removable front seats, turn them
around so that their backs are to the
front, pull the back cushion forward
and drop it down in the tonneau and
you have an ideal bed foundation.
Then a blanket or two and pillows
are all you need to make two people
thoroughly comfortable.
"The Studebaker top with its jiffy
type storm curtains is much more
satisfactory than the average tent,
and in the car there's no danger of
a miniature flood wetting everything
and your having to dress with your
feet in a puddle of watc r. You are
also away from bugs, ants, etc., that
are apt to crawl over you if you sleep
on the gibund.
"A compact, portable cooking out
fit costs only a tew dollars and there's
plenty of room for it and the other
baggage in the big Studebaker ton
neau. "With such an outfit living ex
penses should be a matter of about
a dollar a day and if you're a fisher
man and there is a farm house near
your camping place your supplies will
cost even less."
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1916 HUDSON "SUPER-SIX"
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Harney JfjT U.ed-Car home
B40th and Farnam Street
LINCOLN OMAHA
SIOUX CITY
THEY BUILT THE QUALITY INTO THE
CHALMERS CHASSIS AND THEN ENDOW
ED IT WITH THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL
BODY CREATIONS THAT EVER BORE
THE CHALMERS NAME BUILT FOR THE
, AUTUMN AND WINTER TRADE; AND
WITH PRICES THAT STARTLE
There is a 5-passenger Chalmers that has under its bonnet a gem
of an engine.
A sporty Duplex that seats 4; a7-passenger that is just about all
any one can ask for in a touring car; a Cabriolet that is rain
proof, sun proof and stormproof; a Sedan that handles easily in
city traffic or country turnpike; a Town Car that stops one for,
the second look; a Limousine that is not only sedate but cozy; a
Town Car Landaulet that surpasses anything that ever rolled
into this town: a Limousine Landaulet that captures those who
go in for the thoroughly practical equipage; and a Roadster that
compels admiration alike from those who prefer speed or those
who prefer beauty.
But this is not meant to be a catalog. It is simply a word to you
to come and take a look, and if yon want a little ride, and should
the spirit move you we can have your monogram, or your wife's
monogram, on the doors in quick time.
At any rate just to be posted on motorcarscome and see how
close Chalmers has come to building that car you have so often
said some one some day surely would.
TOURING CAR, 5 PASSENGER $1250
TOURING CAR, 7 -PASSENGER $1350
STANDARD ROADSTER - - $1250
TOURING SEDAN $1850
CABRIOLET, 3 -PASSENGER $1.25
TOWN CAR, 7 -PASSENGER - - $2925
TOWN CAR LANDAULET $3025
LIMOUSINE, 7-PASSENGER - - $2925
LIMOUSINE LANDAULET - - $3025
RECORD SPEEDSTER $2510
DUPLEX, 4-PASSENGER - - $1475
ALL PRICES F.O.B. DETROIT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
WESTERN MOTOR CAR COMPANY
Western Distributor
Omaha, Neb.
CHAS. R. HANNAN. JR.. President.
WALTER S. JOHNSON, Secretary and Sales Manager. E. V. ABBOTT, Vice President and General Manager.
Branches Lincoln, Hooper, Hastings, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas. . .
2054 Farnam Street.
Phone Douglas 4904.