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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER IB, 1917. CUMING STREET PROPERTY ACTIVE Recent Purchase by Street Car Company of Large Tract Has Tendency to. Boost Values. The recent purchase by ,the street railway company of between 400 and 500 feet on Cuming street for a new car house has set property owners in that part of the city arid especially Cuming street agog. "What wilf be the effect of putting a large industry of this nature on that street?" they ask. The general impression is that Cuming street will be much benefited in two ways. In the first place, a number of houses will be moved off the street, among them some build ings that have not been very profit able rental properties. In other words, that part of the street will be "cleaned up" and made productive. In the sec ond place, it is argued that the same development of surrounding property will follow that has followed the loca tion of these street car centers in other parts of the citv. Cuming street owners, real estate experts say, if they will arise to their opportunity, may make Cuming street what this thoroughfare ought always to have been between this new plant and'the Ford plant at Sixteenth and Cuming. A -healthy stimulus will be given also to the property west of the street car plant. Again, comparison is made between Cuming and Leavenworth streets. They are similar thoroughfares, both leading to the country, with Cuming street having much the greater ad vantages as a main avenue to the country. But Leavenworth street has always kept well ahead. Experts say that Cuming street property owners from Sixteenth to Twenty-sixth have been at fault. They say further that they now have their chance. This improvement, it is held, will also have a tendency to further de velop the plateau, which has recently received considerable attention, lying between Dodge and Cuming and from Sixteenth to Twenty-fourth. What .was at one time a pleasant and de sirable residence district, now given up to cheap rentals and rooming houses, may, in a way, come back to its original condition. Believe Old Buildings Good Real Estate Investments The removal of the buildings from the site of the new street car plant on Cuming street again starts the dis cussion of the profit in buying old buildings, whether they are to be moved or remain where they are and modernized. The feeling has rapidly grown during the summer that with the cost of building the old buildings, which have been for the past two years a drug on the market, ought to become a good investment. Already there have been several small deals where groups of buildings have been bought, put in good condition and sold out at less than a new building could be put up for. There promises to be quite a movement in this direc tion during the fall and winter.1 ' Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. The Motor Car of 1951. Push Button Control and No Steering Wheel Predicted "Let me show you the motor car of 1951. First of all, you are struck with its sheer beauty of line. There are no abrupt, ugly angles. Curve melts into curve with a grace that you associate with the form of a swan. There is no wall-like windshield; there are no ob truding fenders. By 1912 the designer of airplanes had discovered that a large, correctly designed bulk is more easily moved through the air than a mass composed of projecting wires, stays, wheels, arms and legs that each projection, however slight, rakes the air and leaves an invisible wake behind it. "His work was not lost upon the motor car designer. The streamline body, as it is called, made its appear ance about 1915. By 1951 not only will it have been generally adopted, but it will be far more refined than anything vhich we can now display. It 'will part the air as gently, as smoothly as a pike slips through the waters of a lake. "We may expect in the motor car of 1951 something akin to push but ton control. The guiding of a motor car or truck in these days of the motor crr's infancy is no mean physical performance. Arms and legs play far too important a part in motoring. , If a locomotive engineer were thus dependent on his muscles there would be no seventy-car freight trains, no twenty-hour train between New York and Chicago. Think of the physical demands now made upon you and then ask yourself if you have not the right to demand that by 1951 inventors will have tossed gear shift levers and brake pedals upon the scrap heap. "The ideal motor car of the future will have just one controlling lever and no more. See, as I pull or push the lever, I turn the power on or off. Did you notice how the engine slowed down and how the brakes were automatically applied as the car slackens in speed? ihere are no pedals to operate. The speed of the engine determines how hard the brakes shall be applied in other words, in what distance the car shall be brought to a full stop. "In a country , threaded with st perbly smooth throughfares the steer ing wheel will be abolished. With t little handle you will guide the car of 1951 to the right or to the left. No tense muscles will be called upon to avoid collisions. Steamships have lone had their steering engines to swerve rudders that weigh many tons, The steering engine is controlled by the wheel on the bridge. So in this car of 1951 the little steering handle causes a motor to turn the front wheels to the right or to the left. "We do it in 1917, but it is wrong, egngiously wrong, to drive a vehicle from the rear. Why? Because it it easier to pull than to push. The tug boat pulls its barges; the locomotive pulls its coaches; the freight handler on our wharves pulls his hand truck. Nature seemed to have discovered long ago that pulling is easier than pushing. Unlike the car of 1917, the motor car of 1951 will therefore be oulled bv its motor. "And the motor itself how differ ent from the engine of 19171 Gaso line will cease to be motor car fuel in 1930. There will not be enough oil in the world from which enough gasoline can be distilled. The alcohol and electric motor will take the place of the gasoline engine. WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT, In McClure's Magazine Stearns Announces Several New Models The F. B. Stearns company, one of the pioneer builders of motor cars, has further enhanced the beauty and distinction of its automobiles in its latest creations. The lines are original, clean-sweeping, unbroken and harmonious. The new four-passenger roadster is equipped with three doors, two fore and one rear. The rear door being on right side, admits proper entrance from curb without passing through driver's compartment. A unique feature is the Steams-designed tool kit, placed in a locked pocket in the fore door. This adds considerably to the pleasure and con venience of the driver by the acces sible position of the tools. t, ' . All the new models are equipped with the Knight sleeve valve type motor, which is free from carbon troubles. "The Stearns company." said Mr, Hayward of the Mclntyre-Hayward Motor company, was the first mana facturer in America to use the Knight motor, and from the very beginning it has met with such remarkable suc cess both here and abroad that noth ing but Knight motors have been used in the Stearns since they were adopted, which was six years ago. The new Stearns models comprise fifteen body styles. In the four-cyl inder models are the five-passenger tourir.g car, four-passenger roadster, limousine, limousine brougham, lan daulet, convertible sedan and seven- passenger touring car. In the eight-cylinder models are found the .seven-passenger -,touripg car, tour-passenger roadster, coupe, coupe landaulet, limousine, limousine Brougham, landaulet and laudaulet brougham. 3 Mew IMg'Sfe Is Ready fop You A CAR OF Distinction Endurance Econom y Com fort Priced for the Average American Family A Big, 5-Passenger Touring Car , A Distinctive 4-Passenger Roadster fnS)i F. O. B. Factory SPECIAL FEATURES-- ' , The new Elgin Six has arrived. The new motor that eliminates all vibration. . The new Elgin Is more powerful and Is finished better than ever. 'Wheel base 116 inches, pots t Beck clutch, full floating axle, forty-eight-inch full canttllver springs, double cowl body, never-les top. Jiffy curtains. Large over-sized tires, 33x4. The Elgin Six has made perfect scores and won highest economy honors in every con test it has ever entered. We are in position to make immediate delivery. Dealers! Our 1918 proposition is now ready. Territory is go ing fast. Wire, write or call for particulars quick. 2415 Farnam Street,. THE MOJOR CO. Distributors Nebraska and Western Iowa. Phone Douglas 713. Twenty Miles an Hour Saves Gas and Nerves "Back in the eood old days, when Olds was young and Ford but a youth, it was a standard no pun intended joke of how the automobilist arrested for fast driving maybe ten miles an hour offered as an excuse for his un seemly speed the necessity for it be cause his gasoline was almost gone and he was anxious to reach a supply station before it was completely ex hausted," says L. E. Doty of L. E. Doty, Incorporated. "Now comes a believer in this the ory and writes to a daily newspaper, setting forth the claim that more miles to the gallon (less quantity to the mile) can be obtained by driving a car at forty-five miles per hour than by doing the same thing at twenty five miles per hour. No one will deny that extremes in speed, either high or low, are productive of high fuel bills, but if I were called upon to decide the matter offhand 1 should say that for the ordinary car, flivver, plain and super, around twenty miles per hour would be found to be the most eco nomical rate of speed." Easterners Like the Blunt Ways of the West To the easterner taking his first transcontinental motor tour the west erner is an inexhaustible treasure house of keen wit and trenchant speech, says a writer in the current issue of American Motorist. Firm be liever in the axiom that the straight line is the shortest way between two given points, the westerner wastes neither time nor words when he goes out to let you know who you are and where you are. An example of all this was a sign in a Kansas City restau rant. The sign read: "We Pay the Waiter a Living Wage. If You Want to Buy Him an Automobile, Go to It." Our party helped the waiter to buy his automobile because he was a good scout and seemed as though he would appreciate any financial encourage ment toward motoring that anyone gave him. . Not a Grease Cup Is To Be Found in This Car "Not a grease cup on the car. is the claim made by the Westcott Mo tor Car company in announcing the Series 18 car," asserts Carl Chang Strom of the Western Motor Car company. "Oil cups have replaced all grease cups in the lubrication of the chassis, thus providing a very ef ficient and convenient form of the oiling of wearing surfaces." While the Westcott company is ap parently the first of any automobile manufacturer to use oil cup lubrica tion exclusively, a few other promi nent builders have replaced a large percentage of their grease cups with oilers with excellent results. Omaha Women Fit Selves For War Auto Drivers The National League for Woman Service members are taking great in terest in motor mechanics. Mrs. Louis S. Clark is chairman of the mo tor division and Mrs. William Archi bald Smith is furthering the interests of the third class, wh ich is now be ginning a short course to fit them selves as drivers and to learn the proper adjusting of many mechanical devices. These bright young women may either enter active service or serve the government in other local servic They are studying the "cars outline by the national s6ciety.? Ths Over land people have loaned them a cut away chassis of the newest model Sessions for the course, covering i few weeks, are beinjr held at the Ne braska Automobile school.' ' Cy G.&B-CHIND i' i El CMS People look comfortable in the new six-cylinder V National. They are comfortable. The seats are ' low, the upholstery deep, the cantilever springs long and slow-acting. The motor itself is wonder fully flexible and quiet. Handling the car is a matter of actual pleasure. CTKeSk $1995 ' TheTwelve$ 2595 . ' NATIONAL MOTOR CAR & VEHICLE CORP., INDIANAPOLIS . SrvtntttHth Sueassful Ytar The T. G. Northwall Company Omaha, Neb. LUTE MORSE, Lincoln, Nob. S. R. NELSON, Atlantic, !. DEAN BROS., York, N.b. , ; OSCAR CARLSON CO., Dinn.brof, N.b. . J fl 3 3g 1EIGHT CYLINDERI it i i i""1 iii "irti"" n.s Ths Car You May Be Looking For n 1 a UA mm v a eft SI , .. S3 5' IT is an automobile sufficiently reliable under severe official road tests to have its chassis adopted by the United States Government for armored cars, though it shares this honor with several other good makes of cars, some 01 higher price. Its four bodies were designed for unusual grace of line and elegance of finish, and one of them may appeal to you as being more beautiful than any other car .among the many attractive models now on the market The King is built by a long-established company with a reputation for good cars and fair dealing, NOYES-KILLY MOTOR CO., Factory Distributors OMAHA, NEB. ranking high among a number of worthy competitors. 1 It is a car.which may be conservatively describe ed as economical, considering 'its high power , and bigness, and one that "handles" easily, its all round road competence, especially on hills, has surprised and delighted many. In all, we believe the King Eight does offer a , quite remarkable combination of power, economy reliability, comfort and style, which, considered with the price, makes it a purchase absolutely safe for anybody and one thoroughly consistent with our slogan The Car of No Regrets." Si' v5 3 5 & ' mm ,. , f - . mm si King MoUr Car Company, Detroit, Mick 3S ' . I j I I I - St 5 fti ' ' ''' ' PRICES EXTRA EQUIPMENT ' ' ' . V . Tourlnr Car, $1650. Founom., $17.00. Sedan, $2300. Roadster, $1885 vV jf Wir. wheel $125 extra all models. Victoria or King Special Top $128 additional. F. O. B. Detroit. ' V I fat ALL PRICES QUOTED MAY BE ADVANCED AT ANY TIME. : ' . ' LH , .