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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1920)
r I m mi JfMtM THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; JANUARY 11, 1920. it ( RUN AROUND THE MONEY BELT TO BE 2,500 MILES Motor' Truck Reliability Con test to Be Monster Event Omaha Bee Is Praised. ';' 'Headquarter of the f!rt national motor truck reliability contest were at the Hotel Astor, New York, dur ing the national motor truck show. Th Chicago headquarters during the national show in that city will be at the Congress hotel. Charles ; P. Root, general manager; S. P. La Due, residential manager, and F. Ed Spooner, promotional manager, were present at New York and will be at the Chicago headquarters. This, the first great national mo tor truck reliability contest ever held in America, has attracted the atten tion of the truck makers of America as nothing in the way of a contest has ever done in the past. Omaha Bee Praised. Expressions of appreciation have , been given the Bee Publishing com pany of Omaha and commendation has been general from several score makers. All have asked to be post ed upon progress made in the pro motion and many have offered to as sist in any way possible in the work of preparation for this contest In quiries for full particulars have come from every section of America. There is now every indication that the entry list will be larger than was expected when the general plans tor the run weje discussed with Vic tor Rosewater, publisher of The Bee, who became the underwriter of the event. Sanctioned By A. A. A. , The rules and entry blanks for the motor truck contest were prepared by Charles P. Root, and submitted to the contest board of the American Automobile association, which issued sanction for the event. The route of "The Run Around the Money Belt" will be approximately 2,500 miles to be covered in 25 days of running with resting periods over three Sun days. VVhile a tentative route has been prepared, this is not thoroughjy set tled upon, and changes may be made after the trip of the pathfinder some time in, May. The great farming section of the middle west will be covered, and the value of pneumatic tires will be demonstrated, as all trucks participating must be fur nished with this tire equipment. It is in the territory that will be cov ered by the run that the greatest market for the motor truck will be found for many years to come. It was for this reason that the Omaha Bee became interested in the promo tion of this contest, offering a splendid trophy for the event. During the current 12 months $375,000,000 will be expended on road improvements and maintenance of roads in the United States. ,1 I The Alley Garage ,.: fefwAt our WrtroS IzhgMmWM ttiHT irtwHT A . lIVl H I I i--rHeitti wm jink ) mwBMlSh rMiNEO for fs Few l-A w ! ;.' -'' Douglas Motors Is First to Make Entry In Big Truck Contest i The Douglas Motors corporation of Omaha, manufacturers of Doug las motor trucks and passenger cars, made the first official entry, in the first national motor truck relia bility contest, which will start from Omaha sometime in June, 1920. This entry was made January 5 by George Christopher, president' of the Douglas Motors corporation. In speaking of this truck contest, Mr. Christopher expressed a belief that it would do more to promote the motor truck industry than any thing which has been staged up to the present time. Mr. Christopher feels also that this demonstration will be the fairest possible means of testing the performance of the vari ous trucks which will compete for the trophies. The Douglas Motors corporation feels that it has an excellent chance of winning the trophy in the divis ion which they have entered. The Douglas is a western truck, built to serve the gruelling test to which a truck is subjected in this territory. The first entry of the Douglas Motors corporation is a ton-and-one-half truck. It is quite possible that they will enter two other trucks later. Predict Big Sales Year For U. S. Rubber Company The annual sales convention of the. United States Rubber Co., Omaha branch, ended last Monday evening with their annual banquet at the Omaha Athletic club, where department managers and salesmen to the number of 70 gathered. The evening was spent in real fun for everyone present. All salesmen of the various lines who travel in all states west of the Mississippi, ex cept the three coast states, were there to tell of the year to come. This sales convention was conceded by all present to be the most suc cessful the Omaha branch has yet held from every angle, and if what these salesmen said means anything at all, their record during the com ing year will make last year's high score look small. This Man Finds His Ford Car Good Rabbit Chaser Recounting his experience with his Ford car, George Ambler, De troit, Mich., tells the following: "It was in July this year. My wife and I were over in Canada. Traveling one morning at 2 o'clock on the road between Ridgetown and Lon don, the glare from the headlights blinded two fat rabbits who re mained in the direct path of the car. I promptly picked them up and. Oh, boy! how we enjoyed our rab bit dinner." This is just one more achieve ment credited to "the universal car." Classes for the teaching of trades to provide workers with opportu nity - for educational advancement have been started in the Wheeling, VV. Va., high school. Industries are supporting the movement, which is backed by federal, state and city aid, and the classes have been indorsed by the labor leaders. STEPHENS Saliert SiiC Worthy of Its Name Salient in ValueSalient in Service The surpassing excellence of all its qualities, features, and acts of performance is proof of Stephens "Saliencj." In the Stephens Salient Six you can possess, enjoy and take pride in the beautiful, comfortable, lux urious, Stephens hand-built bodies, a Salient Value. From the powerful and economi cal Stephens engine though rated at 25.3 H. P. (S. A. E.) actually develops 57 you get a Greater Service. In addition to its salient power and econ omy, the Stephens engine is a modern "That is salient which is strikingly manifest " or which catches the attention at once." WEBSTER. low-grade fuel engine, which burns the lowest grades of gasoline with out lessened performance. That's not all; its great reserve power makes the Stephens a Salient all-around road performer. It delivers speed, endurance, flexibility, hill-climbing ability, smooth ricjing and quietness at their maximum. ( Altogether, a Salient Vatoe Sakent Service, that insures the height of motor car satisfaction. Arrarfge to see and ride .in the Stephens Salient Six. JFVaJk Cord Tin Regular Equipment on AO Hodtlm Mid-City Motor and Supply Company 2216-18 Farnam St Phone Tyler 2462 Birch, Motor Co., 327-29 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs, la. A GREATER VALUE MM A GREATER SERVICE Manufactured by Stephens Motor Works of Molint Plow Company Contracts Signed for Big Sale of Douglas Trucks In South The Douglas Motors corporation of Omaha has contracted with J. M. Alhla of Shreveport, La., to act as distributor for Douglas trucks for that state. Mr. Allala' has contract ed to sell a minimum of 150 trucks in Louisiana. It is expected that these trucks will be placed largely in the oil fieldsjof the south. A contract has also been made with Portis P. Shaw of Little Rock, Ark. The contract provides for de livery of 150 trucks in 1920 to Mr. Shaw. ' These two contracts bring the es timated business so far contracted for 1920 to nearly 1,000 Douglas trucks and it is expected that this amount will be more than doubled within the next 60 davs. The fac tory of the Douglas Motors corpora tion at Thirtieth and Sprague streets is working full time and will continue quantity production. Why It Took Three Years To Build Paige Motor The new year for the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. has been .mark ed by the the addition to its varied line of passenger cars of several new models built on a new light six chassis and equipped with a new Paige motor that has been just an nounced. Among these new mod els are the Glenbrook, a five-passenger touring car; the Lenox, a three passenger roadster; a five-passenger four-door sedan and a four-passenger coupe. Commenting on these new features of the Paige line, Pres ident Harry M. Jewett says "The war has taught American manufacturers many valuable les son sr In the past three years, for instance, we have developed an en tirely new conception of precise manufacturing in large scale produc tion. The Glenbrook, our new five passenger touring car, as well as the other models built on, our new light fix chassis, is a striking example of his practice. The scrupulously ac curate methods that were applied to delicate government mechanisms are now producing every unit of these cars. Truck Shortage Prospect Looms Up for Season of 1920 "A truck shortage in 1920 is pre eminent," asserts O. A. Wilson of j Andrew Murphy & Sons. "At the ' present time we are unable to se cure a sufficient number of two-ton trucks to supply the demand. We are 21 orders behind on two-ton trucks and if the situation does not clear up very rapidly, this number will increase with the selling sea son. It is rather unusual to be oversold on any model at this time of the year. "The Republic factory ! turning out about 300 two-ton trucks i month, which represents about one third of the demand for this mode!. No relief is yet in sight and on ac count of the material situation, there is no possibility of relief un til June. We are still able to make deliveries on the other models ow ing to the fact that we stocked them very heavily during the earlier win ter months. However, a few weeks of good selling weather will put us in bad shape so far as the other models are concerned. Roos to Open Branch In Lincoln for Motorcycles Victor H. Roos, Harley-Davidson distributor goes to Lincoln this week to open a branch retail store, having taken over that territory in a. retail way recently. The expansion of Mr. Roos' busi ness has been very marked in re cent years, additional room being added several times as well as new departments and high class sales men. Mr. Roos' latest finds are Mr. Spalding, who is to promote the new automobile tire department and Mr. Weston Cutter, who is promot ing the sale of motorcycle commer cial outfits and who has to his credit a great many Harley-Davidson com mercial car sales in the last few months. Hundreds of Thousands Unfilled Orders for Fords According to information from the home office of the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, their unfilled orders are continually increasing and have long since ceased to be reckoned by the thousands, but are now a matter of hundreds of thousands, and the present demand is not being met. Already Ford dealers in those states where winter brings a slight decline in the number of sales are advising prospective spring purchas ers to buy now. Nothing but real orders will bring cars to their ter- ritory. Southern dealers - and the foreign demand will otherwise con smp j&f. tntirs utput, ' Missouri has one motor tractor to every 40 farms. There is one motor car to each 200 persons in England. There are 2121 automobiles regis tered in ToWo, Japan. The use of spotlights on motor cars is forbidden in Canada. Ohio has a total of 552,650 motor vehicles registered for 1919. The first $1,000,000 motor truck Gasoline in several of the Euro pean countries costs as much as $1.50 a gallon. The first taxies appeared in New York City in 1898, and steam, was used as motive power. Roads for motor use in Mexico are in bad condition and little is being done to improve them. Milwaukee is experiencing an ex tensive construction of buildings for the manufacture of automobiles. The production of automobiles ranks third among the great manu facturing industries of the United States. Motor trucks distribute 12,000,000 gallons of gasoline daily to supply motor vehicles in the United States. Police authorities in Brazil keep a record of all careless automobile drivers through a sort of Bertillon system. The Ohio Automobile Trade asso ciation, with 1,300 members, is con sidered the largest of its kind in the country. Most of the automobile thefts in Indianapolis have been traced to boys between the ages of 17 and 22 years. The expenditure for highway im provements this year throughout the United States is approximately $3.09 per capita. The speed limit has been increased from 24 to 30 miles an hour by the new automobile laws in the state of Pennsylvania. For immediate delivery of seven pieces of motor apparatus, the fire department of Erie, Pa., closed a contract for $75,00(1. The king and queen of England, accompanied by Princess Mary, at tended the opening of the motor show recently held in London. Automobile races at the Tacoma, Wash., speedway during 1920 will be for a purse of $25,000. The long event will be 20 miles. The number of automobiles sweep ing over the highways through America's national parks during 1919 is 95.140 as compared with 55.926 in 1917. Three million pounds of rubber, sufficient to manufacture 330,000 average automobile tires, arrived in this country from the Island of Sumatra. Nine motor parcel post route were established during the last year by the United States government in Washington for the delivery of food stuffs. . The latest French car, which weighs no more than 1,000 pounds, shows 40 miles on gasoline, 1,000, miles more on oil and considerably over 10,000 on tires. About 10 per cent of the 80,000 miles of highway in and about New York state is improved under the state and county systems. The value of motor cars stolen throughout the state of Pennsyl vania since January 1 totals $3,83, 367, representing 5,223 vehicles. Six teen hundred and twenty-one were recovered. The largest truck ever made is now used by T. F. Cathcart of At lanta, Ga. It is 26 feet long, U'A feet high and has a loading space of 835 cubic feet. Unloaded, it weighs 11,050 pounds. With the present progress of road building it will be possible to cut 33 1-3 per cent from the cost of freight transportation in the United States through the use of automobile trucks within five years. Wood wheels are seldom found on the latest European cars. They have been replaced by the steel spoke the steel disc, or the wire wheel. All these wheels are of the detachable type" with clincher rims. A record-breaking run of an automobile was recently made from Pittsburgh to Detroit. The 376 miles of distance was made in 12 hours, which time practically equaled that of express train serv ice for the same trip. Garage dealers in Clinton, 111., have installed a nickel-in-the-slot de vice for supplying air and water to motor vehicles. For five cents a driver may, obtain enough air to in flate his tires and enough water to fill his radiator. Before the European war Great Britain, Germany and France con trolled the motor market in Latin America, but the American auto mobiles and trucks are now selling rapidly owing to their durability and attractiveness. "America's Main Street," as the Lincoln highway has been called, will soon be duplicated in Canada. Definite clans have been formulated for the organization of an associa tion along the same lines as tne Lincoln Highway association, and a pledge was made to construct a great transcontinental road from Halifax to Vancouver. Analysis of the mortality figures in the state of New York concerning automobile accidents shows 9,000 out of 10,500 were killed as a result from carelessness on the part of the pedestrian. Of these 3,000 were among persons crossing the streets from the middle of the block, and by far the greater number of the re mainder were of children playing in the streets. Tp,autu TOU)P Comfort Beauty, power, and comfort are masterfully combined in the Auburn Beauty-SIX. The Imprint of creative designing Is to be found every where in this beautiful car. Its graceful lines imbue It with Identifying individuality. Its appointments and fittings establish new standards of elegance. The Auburn power plant Is the consummate achieve ment of twenty years, successful automobile engi neering. The secret of Beauty-SIX comfort lies deeper than ample riding-rom, quality upholstery, and adequate springs it is found in perfect chassis balance, eminent roadability. , Auburn Fire-Pawengor Sedan, $2775 Auburn Four-PaMenge-r Coupe, $2775 Au burn Five-Pawenger Touring Car, $1T95 Auburn Four-Passenger Tourster, 91795s Auburn Two-Passenger Roadster, $1845. AUBURN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY AUBURN, INDIANA V Automobile Engineers far Twenty Yews PETERSON MOTOR CO. 2427 Farnam St., Omaha., Phone Douglas 4473. Aufmm BoiWjr-SIX Dehtm Cdtaloi Now Rudy DmoittMtlm lUir Enrr Tea ml Yam Conwnkiu EVERY HOUSEWIFE SHOULD BE AN EXPERT PURCHASING AGENT. SHE SHOUD KNOW HOW TO BUY AS WELL AS THE MERCHANT KNOWS HOW TO SELL. SHE MUST READ ADS. KMLJIB 71 msDw It is a simple matter to find out why the Republic is the fastest selling motor truck. You can quickly get the answer among the merchants, manufacturers and cartage companies right here in our own city. We shall be glad to show you the records of local owners, or to put you in touch with them directly. You will do well to investigate at first hand the quality of low-cost service that has established and keeps alive the preference for Republic Trucks the world over. ILJKG . Andrew Murphy & Son Distributors Omaha, Neb. Sioux City, la.