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THi2 OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 9, 1919.
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Cars to Satisfy Desires of
All Are to Be Exhibited at
Omaha's Automobile Show
Gate City to Keep Open House For the Week to Motor
dom of the West; 221 Autos to Be On Display at
Auditorium For the Coming Week.
By JOHN E. KENNEBECK.
Automobile is king this week. All hail the king!
4 As a forerunner of the Fourteenth Annual Omaha Auto
mobile show to be held in the Auditorium beginning to
morrow under the auspices of the Omaha, Automobile asso
ciation, a proclamation has been issued to car dealers, de
claring an exhibition of models of all motor cars. To Omaha
'vill be revealed all the examples of beauty, comfort, service,
luxury and satisfaction desired in automobiles. No expense
has been spared to make this year's exhibition the grandest
in the middle west.
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Against a background of royalty
in the way of interior decorations,
221 cars, denoting types of cars
from the bobcat speedster to the
luxurious laundalet. will be in full
dress for the scrutiny and envy of
the motorist Thousands of lights,
set in Pompeian lamps, light the
scene and illuminate strips of alter
nate purple, yellow, green and red
rising from the balcony railing to
the quaintly decorated canopy ceil-
cars, together with equipment of
every convenience from electric
cigar lighters to re-enforced steel
guards over the rear gasoline tank
and rear tires.
T Secret Compartments.
Close observation of the speedy
type of motors and heavy construc
tion of bodies might convince the
prospective buyer that some cars
are built for bootleggers. Secret
compartments, small but serving the
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purposes, are located in nearly
every part of the body but the
spokes.) The double sheeting of
steel over the rear tank and the
possible extension of one-inch mud
guards to protect the rear tires from
bullets of nervous boozehounds are
features and practical improvements
of the few types of speed demons
launched by the manufacturers,
However, automobile dealers don't
expect the government authorities
to interfere in the restriction of
these specially designed compart
ments used for drivers gloves, tire
chains and knick-knacks.
Music of volume and variety, fur
nished by Oleson's orchestra, will
assist in keeping the crowds in a
cheery mood. The show will be
open every afternoon and night to
accommodate the thousands that are
expected to attend the exhibition.
The price of admission is 40 cents,
which absorba the required war
tax;
03 Shortage Forced
German Militarists to
Ask Sudden Peace
Oil experts of the United States
have come to the conclusion that one
of the chief reasons for Germany's
complete and sudden acceptance of
peace terms was her stringent insuf
ficiency of petroleum products. This
was evidenced by the sporadic efforts
of her submarines, which could not
operate uniformly and in accordance
with the admiralty program. In ad
dition, the lack of activity of Ger
man airplanes and the fact that she
could not operate tanks, except on a
limited scale, seemed to prove con
clusively that oil was unobtainable.
Gasoline and the larger supply ot
her oil came from Roumania
Galicia, and in small part from Ger
man crude. Another source was
from retorting coal, lignite, peat, and
shale, products of coal and other
volatile fields were undoubtedly
utilized for motor fuel, while the
cracking process and synthetic proc
ess of passing ,hydrogen over hot
carbon were likewise employed to
meet the enormous demand when the
country found her oil supplies waning.
The effect of the armistice with
Austria meant a complete cutting off
of oil supplies, with the result that
Germany signed the surrender that
halted hostilities.
India Lifts Restrictions
on Automobile Imports
Automobiles, traction engines, and
chassis, together with parts and ac
cessories, may be imported into
Straits Settlements and the Feder
ated Mayal States, , India. The
proclamation of May 16, 1917, pro
hibiting such commerce, has been
revoked, according to the American
consul general at Singapore.
Statistics for Omaha's 14th
Annual' Auto Show
.Date March 10 to 15, 1919, inclusive.
Place Auditorium and Annex south of Auditorium.
. Auspices Omaha Automobile Trade association.
Manager Clarke G. Powell.
Opens 2 p. m., Monday, March 10.
Closes 10:30 p m., Saturdty, March 15.
Hours (After Monday) 9:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Music Afternoon and evening by Oleson's Orchestra.
Admission 40c. (This price absorbs the war tax.)
Number of Exhibitors Sixty. '
Makes of Gasoline Cars Eighty-one.
Cars on Display Two hundred and twenty-one.
Lowest priced Car $555. ' , ,
Highest Priced Car $7,000.
Value of Exhibits Approximately $1,000,000
Public Entrance Fifteenth Street between Howard
and Jackson.
Exits All sides of building.
due (ion, large markets are required,
and these are readily available
through the greatly increased; buying
power at home and the pressing
need for American products abroad
"With our company these condi
tions are already being felt. Even
though our productive effort has
been especially vigorous, the demand
exceeds the supply by a large mar
gin, and the pressure is increasing
every day."
Chicago Automobile Club
to Bar German Products
As far as members of the Chicago
Automobile club are concerned
there will be no such thing as a
German product on the market for
the next seven years. The decision
of completely ignoring such arti
cles was reached at a luncheon re
cently following the appeal of Capt.
Edward Tupper, national organizer
ot" the British Seamen's union, who
declared that 11,000.000 British sea
men had taken a similar pledge.
One of the largest steel presses in
the world is used for producing side
rails for Willv's-Overland cars.' It
weighs 325 tons, stands 21 feet
high, is 20 feet wide and is embed
ded in IS feet of concrete. It ex
erts a pressure of 2,000 tons.
Passing of Old John
Barleycorn Is Boon
to Motor Industry
Says one motpr car builder, who
is also a bit of a philosopher:
Old John Barleycorn is getting
ready to take the count. By next
July he'll be groggy and by January
1, 1920, the average citizen will not
be able to fill a thimble. What will
this mean for the automobile in
dustry? A great deal, viz:
1. There will be few motor car
accidents, because rum has been at
the bottom of most disasters.
2. There will be fewer arrests
for spreading, because it is rum that
makes the auto go.
3. The pest of the roadhouses
and their bars will be removed,
thereby enhancing touring for
those who don't care for barroom
loitering and the pursuits thereof.
4. Billions of dollars spent for
booze will be available for other
purchases. The motor car industry
will beneht by this.
5. There will be more alcohol
to out into anti-freeze mixtures
notifor the human system, but the
automobile system.
Few Autos in Japan.
There are 4,000 autos in Japan, ac
cording to Y. Bryan Yamashita,
business man and banker of that
country, now here on business. The
small number of machines is attrib
uted to the fact that the country has
no good roads.
Ackerman Predicts
Prosperous Year for
. Automobile Industry
A good idea of American business
men's attitude toward the future
might be found in the experience
of S. E. Ackerman, sales manager
for the Franklin Automobile com
pany of Syracuse, N. Y. In she in
terests of the company, Mr. Acker
man has, within the past few
months, held sales conferences with
Farnklin dealers in practically all
sections of the United States. As a
consequence, his analysis of business
conditions is national, reflecting the
spirit of the country as a whole, and
not influenced by any particular lo
cal condition.
The result of this widespread in
vestigation can be viewed almost as
a complete assurance that, despite
the short time since the United
States was in the midst of war, 1919
will prove the most prosperous year
this country ever saw.
"Steel and coal production and
farm crops are the barometers by
which the clouds of depression or
the sunshine of business prosperity
must be measured," says Mr. Acker
man, "and certainly the readings are
clear enough at this time." Facili
ties for the production of steel have
increased tremendously during the
past year, as also the production of
coal. And in practically all the ag
ricultural regions the outlook is
most reassuring.
"With this greatly increased pro
log. Tin stage has been transform
ed into a marquee, and tastily de
signed booths have been set up
thereon for showy models of cars
of the royalty class.
Exhibits Worth a Million.
Approximately $1,000,000 is the
value of the exhibits. In the ver
nacular, many a single car has the
l appearance of a millon dollars. Even
the smaller-priced car will have its
prominence at the show. The me
dium price car has gained the great
er amount of floor space and is be
ing shown in many models of beau
tiful design. Luxury and comfort
in interior designs, together with
. power and speed in motors, com-
bine to make the high-class car one
of kingly attainment. Nor will auto
trucks take a back seat, for the en
tire basement of the Auditorium has
been decorated and divided into com
partments for attractive exhibition
and demonstrative purposes.
, Peace Brings a Show.
With the sudden return to peace
ful conditions, Omaha automobile
' dealers felt that they were justified
in embarking upon the show venture.
"Omaha will see the grandest ex
; hibition of motor cars that has ever
. been held, even surpassing the t a
; tional show in New York and Chi
; cago, because of the latest output
' . of new ear designs which Omaha
dealers have been fortunate in re
" ceivin for the exhibition," Clarke
G. Powell, manager of the show de
clared. "The occasion is to be a
; real show of interest and value to
the car owner."
' The manufacturers, nothwith
; standing the great disruption of
". nearly all of the plants, due to mak
; ing munitions of war, have contrib
' uted gratuitously in making the ex
, position success. The new things
; in motordom will be chiefly in de
tails, but it is improvements of this
i character both in neatness of design
- and greater reliability of motor and
machine construction that make the
' strongest appeal to the individual
owner who is his own mechanic
, either by choice or necessity. The
war has had the effect of making
' thousands of motorists fairly ex
pert mechanics and their knowledge
of cars is destined to exert consider-
i able influence upon designers in
- making the motors, gears, brakes
and other parts available for re
pairs outside of the service station.
No Price Reduction.
The prices, of cars exhibited this
year, which have shown a slight
tendency to reduction since the sign
; ing of the armistice, are not yet on
s a level with pre-war, but it is a pre
vailing impression that manufactur
1 ers will lessen prices somewhat
Taking the full value of reliable cars
in consideration, the prices are about
as cheap as it is possible to list
This week's show will demonstrate
that owners are getting a machine of
hi.eher quality and better workman
ship than was possible four or five
years ago.
t With all indications pointing to
ie coming season as the greatest
.Automobile touring year since the
advevit of the motor vehicle, car
manufacturers and dealers have
stimulated a real interest in showing
nearly evry design of car possible
j to be madv The lowest price car
being shown t the Omaha show is
listed at $550. Other cars built more
for service and economy, than for
luxury and comfor range in price
j? to $2,000. The richest price car
costs $7,000. There is completely
equipped car or at leasta specially
designed pew for mother, father,
daughter, or son, on exhibition. The
lawyer, statesman, banker oV doctor
1 will find his choice car in either a
serviceable and economical tVipe of
' .medium price or in the highly fin
ished product of maximum price.
Fishnrate unholsterv in various hints
.is a new feature of the higher clasVj
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MOTOR CARS
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As the Miles
Better
Roll Up
A CAR is ordinarily considered to be at its best the day it leaves the factory.
Thereafter it steadily deteriorates.
It is an actual fact that the exact opposite is true of the Stearns.
Its best days are two, three, even four years in the future.
The farther it goes, the better its, performance becomes.
Its remarkable flexibility increases as the miles increase.
Its Stearns-built Knight engine runs with still greater smoothness.
These outstanding traits of the Knight have been intensified by Stearns.
Never has the Knight engine had as fine a setting as in the Stearns.
For six years the process of refinement has gone on.
Now the Knight principle is blended perfectly with Stearns practice.
Stearns owners are essentially fine-car owners.
They appreciate the unique advantage of performance that continually improves.
They set high value on the longer life built into the car by Stearns manufacturing
methods. '
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STEARNS FOUR
FIVE-PASSENGER
Touring Car for Sevan, $1,725 Clover-leaf Roadatar, $1,885;
Coup, $2,150; Limousine, $3,000; Landaulet, $3100; Lan
daulet Brougham $3,200.
STEARNS EIGHT , .
Touring Car for Seven, $2,378; Clover-leaf Roadster, $2,378;
Coupe, $3,075; Coupe-Landaulet, $3,073; Limousine, $3,685
Landaulet. $3,788; Landaulet Brougham, $3,785.
Hayward-Cameron Motor Co.:
Distributors
2043-45 Farnam St., Omaha. Phone Doug. 2406
Space No, Omaha Auto Show
THE F. B. STEARNS COMPANY,
CLEVELAND, OHIO
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Is Your Car Built
or Just Put Together?
There's a lot of difference in results between the two
methods. A car that is put together from the products
of a score or more of parts-makers represents just that
many standards of construction, no two. of which are
likely to be exactly the same.
Briscoe cars are 99 built in Briscoe plants. Briscoe
engineers not only design the car, but they stand guard
over every process of manufacture, and see that it is up
to Briscoe requirements.
- That is why Briscoe cars set tmmatchable standardi
of operating economy, of consistent performance, of
all-around satisfaction. That' is why, too, when you
need a spare part you get it with a minimum of delay
and at a moderate expense.
C. J. Dutton Automobile Co.
2056-58 Farnam St Omaha, Neb.
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The Car with a
Longer Life
As the crowd flows through the Auto
Show, it's only about twice in an hour that
the different sort oj buyer comes along. He is
the man who makes more than surface dis
criminations. He is very positive as to what
he wants in a motor car and his exa ni
natioh ofthecaritself reveals definitely
whether those values are there.
That man, when he read this advertisement, seizes
upon the claim that Westcott is the car with a longer
life; and he makes this mental note: "Too important
to pats by rti iet thi Wtstnttl If it's got the stuff in
h, I'll know and if in addition it has lines and comfort,
it goes straight to the head of my list"
If you're either a buyer or a dealer who thinks along
that line, we'll be mighty glad to see you at the West
cott display.
Standard Motor Co.
CARL CHANGSTROM, President.
2020 Farnam St Omaha.
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