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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1919)
V THE OMAHA" SUNDAY BEE : , JANUARY 19, 1919. 9-R GOOD ROADS (1017 IS PROBLEM AUTO MBI flSJ MEET f.:cny states Falling in-Una - Mapping Oifl, Program for ' i the Making of Better ' :7 . Highways.;:' ' : Iowa - is 'meeting) with exception ally fa vorabl results in its: exten sion of motortruck lines.-Duliuquq just the other day sw the- forma tion of a $1QQ,0(X?. corporation whid is operating a fleet of trucks over 12 routes, visiting 65 towns and cities, Sioux City is operating nine routes, serving 53 towns. Mason City now has a fleet of trucks run ning over nine routes, from 90 to 150 miles in length. . , ... . A trucking company, capitalized at $10,000 has been organized , at Klin wood, Net?., to run trucks from Elmwood and Nebraska City to Omaa. A difference- of opinion seems to exist as to just what roads should be paved to so serve the majority of highway volume. Statistics have shown for years that the main high ways, the roads touching county seat to county seat and the larger cities accommodate nearly 85 per sent of the volume. To market pro duce, the farmer must travel a main highway. To start permanent road work on any but highways used by the majority of vehicles is to get the cart before the horse. Pennsylvania is trying again, to pass a law providing for lights on all vehicles. This bill was defeated last legislature. Lights are neces sary on horse-drawn as well as on automobiles. Kearney Commercial club will make road Improvement their big work for the coming year. . . .w . , Six miles of the Lincoln highway, three on each side of Sidney, will be graveled this year. It is claimed an excellent gravel pit is available.; The second meeting held in fhe Sixth congressional district, by the Nebraska Good Roads association, was held at Sidney on January 15, with a. splendid attendance of dele gate from surrounding towns. Road . improvement .received a big boost and actual results will i be netted; ; " ,' ',',.',. Iowa- seems oil" the .eve of a hard road ' building era, if advocates of hard roads can put through bills now drafted. Two years ago Gov ernor ' Harding was against hard road building. Today-he is a strong supporter of permanent- road work. The legislature seems favorable to a progressive prop-am. Graveling will; be 'done on the road from Grand, 'Island' to St. Paul. Roiite of the Lincoln, highway wilj he changed from Grand Island to Chapman, the new route taking what is called the Highline road, on whiclufederal aid is to be had. Motorists shipping to California can lower the rate by getting in touch -.with the Auto club. New Home of the Nebraska Biiick Auto Company Ready for Firm -. . . ' - i j - i . P'-1 'U-r': - ' ' I J'" r'.'. l-h ? Ih - i I 1 1 I "i "-I . . - - Ihe" Nebraska iJuick Automobile company will move into its mag nificent home at Nineteenth and Howard streets this week. Removal from the present Buick headquarters to the new building will begin Monday or Tuesday. A formal opening and reception will be arranged soon. The building, of four stories and basement, is considered the acme of perfection as an automobile home. It stands as a glowing tribute to the development and strength of the automobile business generally in Omaha and territory, and also as a tribute to the success of the Buick concern, of which Lee Huff is man ager. , The building's size is 88 feet on Nineteenth street by 136 feet On Howard street. .The architecture is of classic design with a modern French tone. The struct'i'e is of pink granite base, with rich cream terra cotta and with ornamental panels of colored terra cotta. It is a building of delicate beauty, yet it is of the most durable construction possible, being of the flat slab type of reinforc-eel concrete and is abso lutely fireproof, . ' '.; '.. ; . Rich Tapestry. ; Rich tapestry adorns - the huge display windows covering the whole of the : Nineteenth and Howard street sides. , The offices, on Jhe Howard street side, and the woodwork, are in mahogany-finish." Off -the show room are comfortable rest rooms for women and men. Beautiful light ing fixtures of bronze and glass, de signed in -conformity with the gen eral tone of, the building, 4hang five feet from the ceiling,'- The floors are of vitreous gray granite tiles. In the main display room on the seven-foot wainscoating of gray granite tiles, with a multi colored border. There is an ivory enamel finish on the celings and walls put there with an idea of perfect lighting. The first floor is to be the show room for Buick passenger cars, and the general offices. There are 10,000 square feet of display space on the first floor. Stock Room in Rear. . To the rear of the show room is a stock room. Running from this stock room to .every floor is a dumb waiter. ,A concrete driveway leads from the Nineteenth avenue entrance to the second floor, which will be the truck and tractor display room. The third floor will be the stor age room, and the fourth will house the Buick shops. Every labor-saving device is being installed there. The shops have a 19-foot ceiling, with roof ventilators.' Nothing has been left undone to provide -for the efficiency and comfort of the em ployes. Standing 6Ut among the features of the building is the enor mous amount of natural daylight ob tained by the use of steel windows and special glass. Showers For Workers. On the fourth floor are showers for the workers. A particular fea ture of the building is a mammoth elevator, 28 feet long, with a lifting capacity of 12,000 pounds. It was installed by the Otis Elevator com pany and is the only one of its kind west of Chicago, according to the builders. ... ' There is also a passenger elevator In the building, and two stairways. Paul V. Hyland of Omaha and Chicago, designed the structure, and J. G. McArthur has been the su pervising architect. The Stiles Con struction company were general con tractors, and the constrution was done under the direction of J. P. Fraser. I Shows Growth of Firm. The new building shows" the" wonderful growth of the Nebraska ;l Buick AutomoDiie company ; in- iv years.- ""- - , . When Mr. Huff .opened his first. office, ne iad desk room with, the Defiance Starch company, then lo cated in the Bachelors' hotel at 2020 Farnam street. He used as bus storage room E, P.. Peck's barn at Eighteenth and Davenport streets. The firm moved into the building which it now occupies years ago. This has been one of the most wonderful automobile organizations in the history of the automobile business. The company originally was incorporated in 1908 with a paid-up capital of $50,000. H. E. Sidles and Charles Stuart of Lin coln; R. H. Collins of Kansas City and Lee Huff were its principal stock holders. The company now has a paid-up capital of $1,000,000 and is considered as among the strongest automobile sales organiza tions in the United States. University Tells How to Start Car in Cold Weaker The agricultural engineering de partment of the LTniversity of Ne braska gives the following sugges tions about starting an automobile in cold weather. , Be sure the spark plugs are clean and firing properly. Considerable difficulty may be avoid ed if one is sure the butterfly valve in the carbueretor intake will close, when the choker is drawn clear out to insure a charge p gasoline drawn into the cylinder as the starter ro tates the engine.' There are small primers on the market, which can be attached to the car. permitting one to inject either high test gaso line or ether into the intake mani fold as the starter turns the engine over, which is a decided help in starting in cold weather. Use a lighter -lubricating oil in winter than in Summer tqf permit the engine to turn.yvetm'DfeJ'Jreely, as the oil gets quite hard when cold, - (EEP HIGHWAYS CLEAR OF SHOW THROUGHOUT U.S. Chairman-Johnson of the Ne braska Highway Transport Committee Describes ' Campaign. .The need for prompt action look ing to the keeping of the highways cleared of obstruction caused "by snowfalls, that foodstuffs and other commodities necessary-to the needs of -this nation and to the saving . of life in the countries of Europe de vastated by the war, may continue to move promptly.and expeditiously gives added pertinency to the snow removal campaign being conducted by the highways transport com mittee of the Council of National Defense, according to George John son, chairman of this committee of the Nebraska State Council of De fense. Chairman Johnson, pointing to the fine results which already have been obtained along these lines, said: "Campaigns for snow removal throughout those states which are af fected annually by this character of obstruction to- traffic, instituted by the highway transport committee of the Council of National Defense, has already accomplished concrete results of the most gratifying char acter. "Individual counties acting in their unit capacity, have initiated definite plans with the result that the first fall of snow was effectively handled. In many states legislatures now are in session, and in these states in which obstructions tohighways transport caused by snowfall is an annually recurring problem, organized steps looking to the securing of appropriations for meeting it are being taken in con junction with the -various highway transport committees. , "The co-operation of the general public with tlie state and county highway transport organizations and highway engineers is anticipated, to the end that when the, legislatures in "session this year are adjourned, the statute books of their state may contain laws under which it. will be possible for the state or county highway engineer, as the case may be, to meet the snowfall problem expeditiously, and with the least economic loss to the community." Truck Business to Take the Lead, Says Johnson W. S. Johnson, of the Midwest Motor and Supply company foresees more interest in the truck than any other type of motor vehicle this year. , "Our Maxwell, truck business is going to be bigger than any of us anticipated," said Mr. Johnson. "We're getting the best start of any year we've been in business. The nice , weather may have some thing to do with it, still I'm sure truck dealers face their greatest op portunities this season." Preheating of Gas in Carburetor . Aids in Starting Gold Autos It is getting to be out of date to lay up .the car whenever the first cold day comes, since the use of the automobile has become so much a part of everyday living. Yet, cold weather, every motorist knows, has a grtat influence over the way gaso line acts, especially when the va riety of fuel available today is com pared with that obtainable only a few years ago. Gasoline is the starting point in motor car operation, and when the quality drops, efficiency has to be made up from another source. In discussing this requirement, Ralph Murphy, engineer of the Franklin Automobile company, mentions that the adaptation of present-day gaso line has called for some of the most ingenious devices that automobile design has produced; . Taking the Franklin car as an ex ample, he showed how preheating the gasoline in the carburetor by an electric coil makes the gasoline volatile even on the coldest day, so that it is really ignitable in the cyl inders. Intake yoke heaters are also com ing in for much favor. Other ele ments arriving at this same end are the preheating of the air that mixes with the gasoline, and also such an apparently inconsequental point as the shape of the Franklin intake manifold. Murphy Finds Dodge . Prospects Good for 1919 Bert Murphy of Andrew Murphy & Son, returned this week from a visit to the Dodge Brothers and Republic truck factories. "There's no question about J919 being a world-beater in the auto business," said Murphy. ' "Dodge prospects are particularly good." A. I. Phillip, general sales man ager for Dodge, will be here over Sunday for a conference with Mur phy. . ' Hayward Says Business Starting With a Jump C. A. Bartholomew and E. E Stennett, Nebraska and Iowa terri tory men for Hayward-Cameron went out this week to stir up 19 13 business for the Stearns car, "Business started off with a jump,' said Mr. Hayward, Saturday. "Big orders came in right off the bat Prospects never were more favor able." De Brown Finds Autos Are Coming Back Fast L. H. de Brown, of the Traynor concern, returned last week frojn the Cole factory at Indianapolis. "Activities and preparations for the biggest year in history took me off my feet," said Mr. de Brown. "Throughout that part of the coun try auto businessmen are driving ahead harder than ever." ' Only th pure.t Rubber and! highest (rid Fabric, tued in Sprague Tires and Tubes. 18th A Izrd Street. ! HI SI lj, ll,,..,,.....,,,. j, jj - kiuimaiu. ,. tr Fan Belt Trouble. In a case where the fan belt de velops a trick of constantly flying off or breaking, the natural suspi cion is that the pullsys are out of alignment.. Rust Preventive. An excellent method of prevent ing tools getting too rusty is to give them a little coating of vaseline, in which a little gum camphor has been mixed, after which the mixture is melted over a slow fire. The coat ing should be applied to the tools with a soft rag. Brass Springs. Soft brass can be made into snrinir brass bv hammering both sides lightly with a hammer, using a smooth solid block of some kind as an anvil This produces a slight hard film, which gives the brass the quality of a spring, but filing or grinding tvill remove this hard film instantly. This kink is useful in an emergency when a brass spring is needed and nothing but soft brass is at hand. ) Cold Weather Precaution. Whenever the car is brought into the garage in cold weather the gaso line should be shut off at the vac uum tank outlet or at the main tank, and then the engine should be run long enough to draw all the gaso line from the carbureter and supply line. This prevents moisture from accumulating'' inside the' -carbureter and supply line, where it will prob ably freeze. When- this: 'precaution is practiced the owner wMil be -sure to turn on the gasoline before skirt ing and flood the carbureter before making the start. .', , Draining the Radiator. In cases where the drain cock of the radiator is so placed that the water in making its escape strikes the axle and spatters over things in general, it is. an excellent "idea to place the edge of a funneT against the valve in such a way that it wiil direct the flow of water away from the parts of the car into a pail . Use Cold Air. Many car owners in winter adjust the shutters on the hot air tube so that hot air only is fed. In some cases this is necessary, but where the engine will assimilate a certain amount of cold air .this should be fed, because cold air gives a higher volumetric efficiency than , hot air and gives more power. It will hi found that many engines after get ting under way on hot air will run perfectly well on cold air. . The ovn: er should experiment and find out just how much cohriiir he can use and then turn on thai amount. Terminal Tongs. ' Any car owner who has struggled with a battery terminal so .set that it cannot be removed from its sock et will welcome this idea for a paii of tongs especially designed to care for this trouble. Take a pair ol wide iaced pliers" and if necessary hammer the faces flat. Next cut a' slot in one of them large enough to allow it to be placed over the cable side of the terminal, while the other face exerts pressure- against the other side No' terminal can resist this treatment. WANTED r live distributor to handle complete line of Hall Motor Trucks in Omaha . territory. For full particulars address Lewis-Hall Iron-Works MOTOR TRjUCK DIVISION . E.t.bliihed 1873 1 . Detroit " Micli. "7 1V i -; r r-( i e 'A New i Series f 7 11 f"" - H EAL EfcONOMY is part of the mental pleasure enjoyed by Allen Sedan owners. The satisfaction which accom panics the thought that they have bought a perfectly built Sedan at a price n?"cli lower than one would judge the value, puts a new meas ure of pride in the ownership of an. Allen Sedan. -" The upkeep, the gasoline bills v and unusual tire mileage, too, are points greatly in favor of an Allen Sedan. A Let us explain the Allen manu facturing policy to you. Standard Motor Car Company 2020 Fernarh St. Carl Changstrom, Pres. Omaha. Phone Dou. 17CS S: - ,6-56 Nineteen Nineteen Model The new 1919 Paterson, a car in a class by itself, is here. It is ready for your inspection. We believe the Paterson is the best six-cylinder car on the market and we want you to come and ride in it. ( Everything you desire in car construction you will find in the Paterson Continental Motor, Borg 8c Beck CIutch,vDelco Starter, 120-inch wheel base, underslung springs, full leather upholstering, new patent deep cush ions and various other specifications of national repu tation. ; , The Paterson is one o'f the easiest riding cars on the market and has as much power as any six-cylinder motor. Last year hundreds.of people who wanted Paterson cars were disappointed. This year we can furnish plenty of cars. DEALERS WANTED. Nebraska Paterson Auto Co. v 1 New Location 204S Farnam St. Phone Douglas 75S2. y 5 . - - jw, V . "f v f V!y ' , ,ytfixi.vM "Wft n rv a. pr- U S M - i, J I M 7 V ,1; j' SPEED. WAGON With 8 in 1 Farm Body For a general utility truck, the kind the farmer needs,, you can't beat this combination. . ; The Reo , Speed Vagon is Re signed especially for varied haul ing problems. The 8 in 1 farm body provides an easily adjustable body which can be arranged for all manner' of hauling cattle ' rack to . gram bodyi etc.. ' , Call and see it. Prices f. o. b. Factory, 4 Chassis $1250, With Express Body $350 Jones-Opper Co. 2558-60 Farnam St., Omaha DUtributon Eattarn -and North.rn Nabratka and Wattarn Iowa. A.H.Jones Co. Hatting, Nab. Distributor for South ant and Wattarn' t Nabratka. ' ,f u; 1 TtiJS, tiOW aTANOAllU t .i .in haB B mm tifcwm-