'iff " j - . ' THE OMAHA SUMUAE Bilili;: JEBKUAKI ZV, IVZV. t ' ' . ' - .
YEAR SEES VAST
AMOUNT OF WORK
ON LINCOLN ROAD
Great Highway Is Rapidly As
suming Form as the Back
bone of a National
1 System.
All America .is interested in the
Lincoln Highway. , This great road,
laid out and proclaimed as a memor
ial to Lincoln by the Lincoln High
way association in 1913 as the first
great highway of national impor
tance, has come to be looked upon as
America's "object lesson road."
has come to be, through the com
manding importance of its stragetio
location, the main line or backbone
of a gradually developing national
svMcm. of highways.
"Every American interested in tht
great constructive accomplishments
of the nation will be interested to
learn that the year 1919, following
so-closely upon the heels of war,
witnessed the greatest constructive
development on the Lincoln High
way ever accomplished in a single
year.
As the United States office of pub
Mic roads has announced, every or
ganization in the country having any
p?rt in highway 'improvement can
feel a large measure of satisfaction
in the fact that road building was
the one big public activity which got.
-Jtr wav promptly following the
"nr. which opened a large field for
v tmemployed labor and which offered
a market for construction material.
, War Booms Road Building.
. J le war gave a tremendous impe
tus to highway construction, as its
lessons had a highly beneficial effect
upon public opinion, with the result
that there was almost a universal
, demand" for proper permanent high
way improvement in every part of
the Country as soon as the war
ended. 1 . . .
Moreover, during 1917 highway
construction in every part of the
couvtrv was greatly curtailed and
catne almost to a stop in 1918, with
This - Tire Engin'e , Girl" Knows Her Job
She Can Sell Her Apparatus And.Fix It
a result that road conditions had be
Out of Overalls, She's
Dashing Debutante
' Of Society.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 28."Tell it
to 'em straight and simple; let 'em
have the facts without the frills and
you'll put your deal across.
That, epitomized, . is the selling
creed of Helen Courtney, '24-year-old
girl, who is one of the. most
successful tire apparatus salesmen
on the Pacific coast.
It is the selling advice of a young
woman who, herself, is "frilly" when
it comes to dress. For Miss Court-
a iuii uiai iuau vuiraiiiuiu v i , , , . .
come very bad even on the roost im-iiiey knows the latest the very lat-
portant main highways in every sec
tion or the country, wnie nignway
funds had continued to pile up in
the treasuries of the various counties
and states and were available for
the undertaking of great construc
tion protects early in 1919. In many
states large bond issues for high
way construction had been passed
during the war with the provision
that the bonds should be sold and
the work started after the war.
' Greater Plans for 1920.
As a result of all conditions 1919
w ill doubtless be looked upon as the
real start of what- will later probably
be considered as the era of American
thighway building. While it cannot
be said that 1919 marked the climapt
of Lincoln Hichwav activity, tn view
of the fact that plans for 1920 indi
cate even greater accomplishments,
nevertheless the year's developments
nlonar the Lincoln way are an excel
lent barometer of the highway sit-x-uatioH
in this country generally.
The actual improvement accom
plished on the Lincoln Highway in
1919 bids fair to equal the combined
work of the previous five years, duf
ing 'which the Lincoln Highway as
sociation was actively promoting the
construction of the routte. f
The Lincoln Highway associa
tion's headquarters has completed a
careful compilation of expenditures
vpon its Improvement during the
last year by the various states and
counties through which the highway
passes. In. the majority of states
federal aid has largely augmented
the state and county funds, the route
having been established as a federal
aid road to be improved directly tinder-the
inspection of the govern
ment for more than three-quarters
of its total distance between New
York and San Francisco.
$22,362,472 hi Six Yean.
Yearly expenditures on the Lin
coln Highway have been as follows:
W4 l,OM0.9
1H5 , 2,IS0,280.00
, 4, 165.00
1I7 (wtr)...i i,ou,i.
im (war) . 307.77
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CourtnT AT j
0 ANN o . Y
Mt rut of frocks from Paris and
Vnrk. When she isn't dressed
in her "mechanic's" overalls, crawk-.
1 . . U M mini.., fir. nrrin tfr
adjust its mechanism she is the
budding debutante in an evening
gown. . " .
Knows Her Goods. .
The latest thing Miss Courtney
has accomolished is the sale of some
$70,0QQ worth of fire-fighting ma
chinery to the City 01 seattie soiu
asrainst the keenest of competition
by other manufacturers and requir
ing not so mucn saiesmansnip as a
thorough knowledge of her "goods,"
Two 1,000-gallon c o m b i nation
pumping' engines and hose cars, two
800-gallon engines ofthe same type
and 'an aerial ladder truck, com
posed the equipment
"Once I can get an audience with
officials of a municipality I can talk
my subject just as any man, Miss
Courtney said. "But the hardest
thing I have to encounter is the
opening whimsical smile of firemen
when I approach them for the first
time. From then on 1 am treated as
any man would be treated, for if
RATIO OF WEIGHT
TO HORSEPOWER
IS HARD PROBLEM
Maibohm Engine Develops
1 Horsepower to Every
51 Pounds in
- The -Car. '
rv
the tires of the Maibobm phaeton
of working three or four hours a
day in the shipping department.
There, she explains, she could bet
ter learn the various parts of a fire
engine. Each time an order came in
for shipment she &ersonally got it
from its storeroom, examined it and
packed it. And if by chance she
didn't know just how it fitted in the
main engine she took down her ref
erence book and learned its purpose.
Large cities are not buying fire
fighting machinery every day, so be
tween the big orders she packs her
grip and goes on the road.' Smaller
cities of the northwest are beginning
to know the "fire-engine 'girl," and
more than one fire chief writes in
sometimes to ask her a technical
question.
She works hand in hand with fire
insurance companies for fire preven
tiqn. She will devote -much of her
time to spreading fire-preventic-n
propaganda and she knows the de
tails of fighting, fire.
She has yet to don the fireman's
uniform and actually fight a fire.
"But, you never can tell," she says.
"I may do that, too for it would be
mighty interesting and exciting."
the Maibohm engine dvelops one
horse-power. These figues, along
with many others, were recently
given by John M. Robbins of the
Robbins Motor company, Maibohm
distributors here. v
"This ratio of, weight to horse
power," he points out, "forms one
of the biggest problems which au
tomotive engineers must face. They
find themselves making an eternal
compromise between lightness and
strength, speed and roadability,
bpring suspension and weight bal
ance, reserve power and economy.
Some automobile users lean strongly
to one side. Just' as many lean
strongly to the other.
"Maibohm, since the first car was
rolled out of the factory, has sought
to strike a balance between, these
two extremes. That they have suc
ceeded is amply testified to by' the
numerous orders coming in from
all over the country from men who
have been devotees of both types
of extreme automobile design.
"Twenty-three' hundred and fifty
pounds, the weight to which the
Maibohm has been trimmed, demon
strates how effective this engineer
ing policy has-been carried out Of
tVts 'weight the six-cylinder engine
accounts for 425 pounds.
"Yet, in spite of this relative light
ness the motor develops 46 horse
power. Road and dynomometer
tests are "being conducted contin
uously at the Maibohm factory in
Sandusky, O., wfih a view to carry
ing out still further these engineer
ing principles." f
Japs Like Closed Cars,
' That Guard Women's Hair
Closed passenger automobiles are
preferred in Japan, especially for
private use, on account of the dust
.in the streets and also because the
Japanese women do not wear hats,
and their carefully arranged coif
fures suffer considerably in . open
cars.
ANTICIPATING THE
FUTURE BUILT UP
COLE CO. BUSINESS
"A Little Touch of Tomorrow
In All That Cole Does" Is
Truthful Slogan.
Ability' to anticipate the trend ot
the future is"3edared to be the key
note of the stkecss of the Cole Mo
tor Car company.
For ten years, officials say, it, has
devoted its energies and resources
to the production of advanced mo
tor cars. During that time its con
tributions to the science of automo
bile manufacture have been numer
ous and frequent.
"The original Cole four-Tylinder
cars established standards for speet
and economy far ahead of their
time, many of which 'still live i
world's records," says L. H. Brown,
of the De Brown Auto Sales com
pany, Nebraska Cole "distributors
later, in developing the Cole Six,
the company created a precedent by
dispatching the test models into the
Rocky mountains and there sub
mitting them to previously unheard
of trials.
"Cole was one of the first two
American manufacturer- to build
an eight-cylinder car .and to con
centrate upon this one type of chas
sis exclusively. The first Cole
Eights, introduced in 1915, em
bodied features which are just com
ing to be incorporated genfrally in
the conventional eight-cylinder cars
of the present day. 1
"They were the first eights to have
removable cylinder heads, now rec
ognized universally and incorpor
ated in practically all improved
V-tvpe engines. They were "the first
eight-cylinder carv to have counter
balanced crank shafts. , 1 . '
"Another marked stride for the ,
early Cole Eights was' the changing-: ;
of the location f the spark plugs
from over th. center of the cylinder; v
to the' upper- section of the block. , ;
This enabled the spark to occurs y
where the purest gas collected, 0.1 f
the compression stroke.
"It is Cole's , ability to create fcf.j
which is responsible for, the now'
familiar slogan: 'There's a toud,
of tomorrow in all Cole does to-1
day."' 1
New Buildings for
Franklin Co. Will
". Approximate 34 Acres
Ground has just been broken by f
the franklin Automobile company
for a new seven-story warehoiw
and manufacturing buildiim with 1 x
floor space aggregating 20().(")
square' feet, according to advices 1 -ceived
from the factory at Syracuse.
N. Y., by ii. Pelton," Omaha Fran':
lin distributor. The structure v.:i
cost $600,000 and the necessary ma
chinery and equipment will repre
sent an additional investment f
$210,000. It will be ready for oc
cupancy it is expected September 1.
The Franklin company has jiM
completed another seven-stoi v
building with a floor space of 13d.
000 square feet at a cost of $400,000.
A $100,000 addition to another man
ufacturing building is being rushed
to completion, is is a new heating
and power plant costing $200,000.
By the end of 1920 the total floor
space will aggregate more than .4
acres.
Mitor Vactors are successfully
supplanting horses in logging oper
ations in Ironwood, Mich.
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. 1 1,588,800.31
years 122,362,4714
V Something les than 1,000 miles of
VLincoln highway still remains to be
improved properly to an adequate
standard, but for long sections the
improvement has already been fi
nanced, or is about to be financed,
and the construction is only a ques
tion of the time needed to accom-
plish the work. The Lincoln high
way has become the best known
' road in the world and is becom
ing yearly a more and more ade
quate memorial to the great man
whose name it bears.
' Emulation of the association's
. tetle And orinciolea has bees an
dertftlcen bv other organisations in
every part of the country. Thousands
el miles of other main tin interstate
routes have been established and
are being rigorously promoted by
l highway organizations' modeled af-
4er the Lincoln Hiahwav association
Moreover, all these organizations
combined with the other powerful
- ffrouns such as the United States
Chamber of Commerce, the High
way .Industries, association, the Am
erica. Society of State Highway
Officials, etc., are working to mold
nublie ooinion behind a final ade
quate federal" measure now pending
before congress which strikes at the
' . root of all American highway diffi
culties and aims at presenting the
nation, not in some other generation
but in the immediate future, with an
adeauate tvstem of federally con
structed and federally maintained
main line routes to which the state
and county systems would connect
Exhaust Valve Springs
Must Be Looked After
- y If the springs of the exhaust
r valves become weak from use or
heat the pistons will draw burnt
gases into the. cylinders, past the
reives with the incoming gasoline
charge, giving an imoroper mixture.
The valve springs should be tested
TCcaaionallyto see if they are of full
ntnncth. The arena srrenrtn o:
. valve spring should ba 30 pounds.
At Ugh engine speed tht exhaust
valves nearly always permit some
leakage. 1
TbirtT-iix hundred ' commercial
. automobiles : were exported to
France last year, valued at more
there is a single class in this coun
try that are exacting in compelling
demonstrations of claims it is the
fire chiefs." v
Most Men Prefer Brevity.
Miss Courtney can discuss the
technical points of an automobile
motor as freely as the manufacturer
or engineer who designed it. She
can tell all about'the crankshaft, the
ignition system, the transmission,
the differential, the clutches, etc.
And she can hold her listener's at
tention, with this knowledge, she
has learned a secret which many
would give much to absorb. That is:
"Know when you have become
boresome and close the interview
until some other time."
.Most men, she says, prefer brev
ity. "State your facts clearly and
conceisely. Then excuse yourself
and let em think it over."
Then, again, she says, "If I didn't
have absolute confidence that the
machine! as selling was the best
on the market I wouldn't be able to
sell it."
'She appeared here before the
Board of Public Works, the city
purchasing agent and the fire chief
and delivered an address of minutes.
Tn tliat time she took them over the
combination pumping and hose caH
rrom radiator cap to tail light; trom
spark plugs to rear tires and. along
every inch of the hose that went
with, the apparatus. When she had
finished more than one man present
admitted "that girl knows her sub
ject." Miss Courtney has been selling
fire fighting machines N only since
January 1, 1918. Prior to that time
she had taken a stenographic posi
tion with the company for whom she
i$ now western agent After the third
day of her employment closing her
typist desk, she, walked 15 blocks to
a, night school for automobile me
chanics and enrolled. Then she
asked her "boss" for the "privilege"
ARJMCD OWNERS REGULARLT ftBTOST
ftSTURNS OP FROM 13 TO 2$ MILKS
FROM THE GALLON-OP GASOLINE AND
FROM S4 TO MILES ON TIRES
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THK NEW OAKLAND SENSIBLE SIX FOUk DOOR 8EDAN
OAKLAND
SN.SJ.B ,U SAX
'yiWHTLE the complete provisions that htcvt teen
made in the new Oakland Sensibje Six four door
Sedan for cold weather comfort have a most timely ap
peal, the car will give utmost satisfaction in the months
of fair weather to come. All four door windows, for
example, can be lowered by means of regulators, and
the exhatast heater is disconnected when days are warm.
Excess weight, too, has been scientifically eliminated
so that the Sedan has quite the freedom and range of
performance common to an open car. During the Auto
mobile Show this handsome, roomy Sedan,distinguished
by appointments to be found only in can of much
higher price, is oa view,' with other Oakland models.
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Model S4-C: Touring Car, $1165; Roadster, tltCS: Four boor Sedan, $1825
' 3oupe, S1825. F.O.B. Pontiae, Mich. Additional for Wire Wheel Equipment, $8i
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Oakland Motor Car Co.
i ;; t . Distributor '
2200 FrMm St. TyUr 2929
Marsh-Oakland Co.
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Douglas 825 1
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A Rare Dealer Opportunity.
We believe the Maibohm Six presents the best dealer opportunity of
v any available car on the market at the present time.
The Maibohm fits into the -most important niche in the automobile
market: It is a medium priced light six, economical in operation,
but containing all of the refinements which compel admiration of
the most expensive larger cars.
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The Maibohm has more speed than is usual and more than ordinary
power. It holds the road perfectly, even at excessive speeds.
In appearance Jt is a smaller model of those huge, costly cars, after
' which it was patterned. The line3 are low andlong. The bodies
are made and finished in the Maibohm factory, which has been fa
mous for 32 years for the excellence of its coach' work. '
We believe the Maibohm features which appealed to us will prove
interesting to you and to your customers.
As the Maibohm Franchise is much sought after, we would advise
prompt action. -
Phaeton, $1495; Sedan, $2,895; J.oA. Detroit.
John M. Robbins Motor Company
2054 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. Tel. Tyler 218
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Mdhohfls Motors Cbffipanij
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x ,Sandusky, Ohio
Booth 22, Omaha Auto Show.
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