THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 4, 1920.
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EUROPEANS ARE
LOUD IN PRAISE
OF YANKEE CARS
British Critic Cays New
LaFayette Is Superior
To Any Model He
Has Seen.
, Because leading European motor
car manufacturers are preparing to
enter the American market in a
more substantial way, domestic de
signers are considering the possible
effects of this competition.
As additional news of the Euro
pean cars' pending invasion reaches
our shores, many American manu
facturers, while claiming equal and
superior virtues, arc rapidly emulat
ing the qualities which commend
foreign-made cars to American buy
ers. .
The always conservative Briton
hesitates to praise anything Ameri
can, and is quick tt contradict the
Yankee assertion that "We can do
anything they do in Europe and do
it better." For this reason, the favor
able criticism of Lieutenant Victor
Eeveridge, British automobile au
thority, who "covered" the New
York show for a leading motoring
publication of the British Isles, is
especially valued by the LaFayette
Motors company of Mars Hill, at
Indianapolis. Copies of the issue in
which his "story" of the Gotham
show appeared have just come to
the attention of American motorists,
and contain this paragraph:
"The infinite variety of smart
looking bodies now offered on the
American chassis is the direction in
which greatest advance has been
made. In the hall of the Hotel Com
modore I saw on a LaFayette
chassis the most dignified carriage
body I have ever seen on a self-propelled
vehicle."
Nash Factory Forced .
To Expand to Handle
Increase Production
Increasing demand for products
of the Nash Motors company is re
flected in substantial additions to
the great plant at Kenosha during
the last year. It is in this factory
that Nash six-cylinder cars and Nash
trucks are built, the new plant in
Milwaukee now under construction
being planned for the exclusive pro
duction of the Nash four.
In addition to new buildings that
have been added to the Kenosha
plant in the last 12 months, thou
sands of dollars' worth of additional
machinery also has been installed.
As a result the factory of the Nash
Motors company is regarded as one
of the largest and most thoroughly
equipped plants in the automotive
industry.
Ford Expects to Make
More Than a Million
Cars Per Year Soon
When the first six months of the
Ford Motor company fiscal year
ended, January 31, more than 250,000
of the sturdy little Fords had left
the factory to join their 3,500,000
brothers and sisters on the world's
highways. And Ford officials ex
press confidence in their ability to
turn loose the other half of the-million
by July 31, when their year
ends.
However, they say that 1,000,000
a year is far from the ultimate in
motor car manufacturing, and that
with the completion of the blast
furnaces and body plaints which
Henry Ford is now building in De
troit, the yearly output capacity is
bound to assume larger dimensions.
The present capacity is 1,200,000.
New Insurance Building
To be Started About May 1
3M IS SB E5 k ea K
Construction of the proposed 16
story,, $1,100,000 building on the
southwest corner of Seventeenth
and Dodge streets, which will be
occupied exclusively by fire and life
insurance men of the city, will be
started by May 1, it was announced
yesterday.
H. O. Wilhelm, president of the
H. O. Wilhelm Co., agents for the
Northwestern National Life Insur
ance Co., has been unanimously
elected president of the Insurance
Exchange Co., organized by Omaha
insurance men to erect the building.
Mr. Wilhelm is president of the Om
aha Underwriters' association and
chairman of the insurance commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce.
Directors and permanent officers
in the building company are as fol
lows: H. O. Wilhelm, president;
John W. .Madden, vice president;
Harry O. Steele, vice president;
Charles Eyre, vice president; Ed
ward E. Litz, secretary; Robert T.
Burns, treasurer; William, A. Schall,
Thomas F. Quinlan and L. W.
Schiebel, directors.
The new building will be directly
opposite the 16-story medical arts
building, now under construction,
and is another step in the rapid de
velopment of the West Dodge dis
trict. The construction of the
building will command national at
tention to Omaha as ail insurance
center in the opinion of President
Wilhelm.
Plans for the structure are being
prepared by John Latenser & Sons,
architects.
Omaha insurance men first real
ized the actual benefits from a build
ing of this character when the in
surance men of Chicago erected
Head of Insurance Men's
Building Committee
JiXmmmm i mrirnniwwii innj
their own office building. The build'
ing erected, although large, has been
very inadequate to meet all the rt-
quirements and there is. a waiting
list of insurance firms anxious to
contract for any floor space that be
comes available.
Pierce-Arrow Truck Sales
Manager Impressed by City
Robert O. Patten, manager otf
i-nrtr calpc fnr tVi Pierre-Arrow
Motor company, Buffalo, N. Y., was
the guest of J. T. Stewart of the
Stewart Motor company, last week.
This is Mr. Patten's first visit to
Omaha since the early days of the
Glidden Tours and it goes without
saying that he was very mucn im
pressed with the growth of this
middle western metropolis and the
possibilities which this section of
EDITORIAL
How to
Economize
on Tire
Buying
Rebuilding tira
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quires knowledge of
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nd the material
onestly selected,
he result is a work
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ave trebled our
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years. The
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rppers we use for
einforcement are
arefully selected,
carefully fitted,
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ted into a perfect
xnion. When this
trocess is used,
iouble fabric tires
ast as permanently
md give mileage
. tqual to tires cost
,ng nearly four
times as, much. The
idvance in cost of
ires gives car own
isa chill when they
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t you will, keep this
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Chicago, Illinois
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The following
price for this
month i
SIZE TIRE TUBE
30x3 .S5S0..J2.00
30x3 . 6.50.. 2.10
32x3 . 750.. 2-20
31x4 . 850.. 2.40
32x4 . 8.75.. 2.45
33x4 . 900.. 2.50
34x4 . 9.25.. 2.60
34x4 yt . 10.75.. 2.80
35x4 14 . 11.00.. 2.90
36x4tf . 11.50.. 3.00
35xS . 12.2S.. 3.20
37x5 . 13.00.. 3.50
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Send $2 00 deposit for
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lor tube; balanceC.O. D.
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If you srnd full amount
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the country offers to the motor
transportation manufacturers.
Mr. Patten feels that a good many
of the manufacturers will be serious
ly handicapped during the coming
few months owing to the labor and
material situation and unless the
situation is remedied very soon,
there is no immediate hope for a
change in the material situation for
months to come.
With the growing popularity of
motor vehicles, street car tares have
been increased in 460 cities through
out the country.
Travel
Transport
Topics
Conducted by Goodrich
Automobile
Digest
Koad conditions for Omaha and
vicinity:
Plattsmouth road: Moist, but
passable.
O. L. D. from Omaha to Lin
coln: Rough, but dry to Ashland;
Ashland to Lincoln, first class con
dition.
Road to Red Oak, la.: Rough,
but passable.
To Oakland, la.: Wet, Dut pass
able.
From Oakland, la., west: Very
soft.
Lincoln Highway to' Fremont:
Fair condition, wet in olaces: Mili
tary Highway better.
Thi first nnctimatif! automobile
tire ever built in the United States
had a two-fold distinction, it was
U. heat- tire ever hnilt. and at the
same time, it was the poorest. It
was constructed witn great care py
export workmen and had 16 plies
of fabric and a tread an inch and
a quarter thick. The only trouble
with it was tnat it wouian t wear
it was worn out before it had gone
500 miles. Friction and heat quick
ly made it worthless. Since then
tire manufacturers have learned that
the ideal tire is the one which has
the fewest possible number of plies
of fabric and a tread just tnicK
enough to last as long as the fabric.
San Francisco will be an un
healthy place for motorists during
next August. Traffic officers from
all sections of the country will be
congregated there to attend the an
nual meeting of the National Traf
fic Officers' association and motor
ists will have slim chances of
breaking a traffic rule and getting
away unfined.
Motorists who are growling about
the high price of gasoline should
remember that there are some
places where it is higher. In Nyas
saland, East Africa, it costs $2 a
gallon, and it is hard to get at any
price.
Rosengren Tells How to
Treat Storage Battery
A good many car owners have
commented on the way a storage
battery stays on" the job right up to
the last minute.' Endurance seems
to be one of their strong points.
"Every once in a while a battery
is brought in because the owner
found it suddenly dead on his
hands," said Elmer Rosengren of
the Nebraska Storage Battery com
pany. "Most of these failures are due
to dain ordinary neglect and we al
ways explain to the owner that the
battery had been slowly wearing ouc
for a long time through under
charge or overwork, lack of water
or some other cause of battery pre
mature death."
It is folly to expect that any bat
tery is going to last forever, but
there is plenty of proof to show that
the right kind of care will extend
its life for a long time.
Always put in water regultrly,
and when your service station deal
er tells jou reinsulation is necessary
have it done at once. Practically
every battery except those protected
by threaded rubber insulation needs
reinsulation at least once in the
course of its life.
The automobile industry is sec
ond largest among the users of
steel and iron.
Announcement:
We have taken over the contract for the
distribution of Stutz motor cars for Nebraska
and the western part of Iowa.
We are temporarily located at the Black
stone Garage, 36th and Farnam, until such
time as we can arrange for more commodious
quarters.
In coming to Omaha with this dealership,
we, of course, will have to earn a place for
ourselves. The car has already earned its
reputation.
We will have a competent force of Stutz
mechanics, and are thoroughly imbued with
the fact that "the sale only begins when you
pay your money" in other words, we will
furnish a service station that will be a "home"
for your car.
Pleased to see old Stutz owners and any
one contemplating the purchase of a car of
this type.
Yours for Morservice,
Morse-Stutz Motor Car Company
Temporary Location Blackstone No. 3,
36th and Farnam Sts.
There are no motor speed laws in
Havana, Cuba.
In the district of Glasgow, Scot
land, there is a registration of 21,307
motor vehicles.
Automobiles and motorcycles are
registered only once in New Zea
land, and not every year.
Registrations of motor vehicles
for the first two months of 1920 in
Pennsylvania were 323,473.
The United States surpasses all
other countries as a source of auto
mobile imports into Spain.
On a $1,000 American-made auto
mobile, Canadians pay an additional
sum of $638.75 for tariff, tax, etc.
The minimum wage for male em
ployes in the largest rubber tire
company in Akron. O., is $6 a day.
The heaviest buyers of motor
trucks are coal dealers, groceries,
lumber men, milk dealers and cream
eries. No less than 17 different Ameri
can' makes of motor vehicles are
seen throughout South Africa.
Gasoline in England is measured
by the "imperial gallon" which is
one-fifth larger than the American
gallon.
Two motor trucks of American
make are now used by the Chinese
administration in , the Shantung
province.
Loads on motor trucks in excess
of 24,000 pounds are not permitted
to operate over the streets of Mil
waukee, Wis.
The American forces in Germany,
consisting of about 13,000 troops' is
completely motorized, including the
artillery.
Highways leading out of Detroit
are guarded by troops of the Michi
gan state constabulary for the pur
pose of apprehending automobile
thieves and recovering stolen motor
cars.
American motor cars, trucks and
tractors will btf included in the ex
position to be held at San Juan,
Porto Rico, in June.
Nearly 40 per cent of the automo
bile tires manufactured arc junked
before they deliver the maximum
mileage built into them.
In mauy of the prominent cities
iu Japan all automobiles must be
equipped with "splash fenders" on
muddy days. '
Officers of the law have the au
thority to seize on sight all auto
mobiles having defaced or changed
engine numbers in Pennsylvania. -
The kins: of Siam, devotee of rac
ing and other sports, was sponsor
for the first automobile races re
cently held in Bangkok. '.
Motorcycles .left for salvage by
the American army in France have
been rebuilt and are now doing
service as taxis in Paris.
Although only 11 years old, Hon
ore Griffin of La Canada, Cal., is
successfully operating a motor trac
tpr on his father's farm.
With the advance of from 4 to 9
cents a -gallon before the end of
Himmer, it is predicted that gaso
line may go to 40 cents by the end
of 1920.
Motor trucks . have 'been widely
employed in European countries for
industrial, commercial and agricul
tural purposes since the signing of
the armistice.
Women automobile drivers in the
Argentine ate practically unknown
on account of the severe examina
tion they are subjected to before a
license is issued.
Canada purchased 8,822 passen
ger automobiles and 2,164 motor
trucks in the United States last
year. This record of sales exceeds
that of any other country.
In Connecticut, the rule for both
city and county is that the driver
on the right has the right of way
no matter whether coining from a
side street or boulevard.
To inform parents of defects in
their children, and to suggest to
communities the need of constant
supervision of growing children, Dr.
Frances. S. Bradley of children's
bureau, United States Department of
Labor, is touring the country in ber
"Child Welfare Special" motor
truck! The interior of the "special"
is fitted up for educational demon
t
nenct
T UXURY and Economy have
been combined in the Chev
rolet "Four-Ninety" Sedan.
It has plenty of power; riding
comfort and complete equipment
makes it one of the appealing
cars of the year.
CHEVROLET MOTOR CO.
OF NEBRASKA
RETAIL STORE 2215 FARNAM ST.
Chtvreltt "Feur-Ninrty- StU, 12U, ... flint. Uick.
UTHB CMO&T BEAUTIFUL, CCXt I JY" A5WER,I C.
The Ideal Five-Passenger Car
Whether the Paige Glenbrook is chosen solely because of its beauty or !l ' " 11
rather because of its mechanical excellence, full measure of satisfaction
is assured to its owner in either case.
For it is well known that, in Paige cars, beauty and efficiency go hand
in hand.
The same skill in car building which is responsible for making the
Glenbrook a vehicle of exceptional grace is likewise responsible for
making it an exceptional car from the mechanical standpoint.
In body, power plant and chassis, it is distinctly a Paige product
setting standards of comfort, economy and dependability such as hav
never before been present in a car of moderate price.
Although it has been before the public no more than four months,
it is destined, we believe, to revolutionize the Light Six field.
Its new s&ylinder motor designed and built in our own shops s ; :
a feature which, in itself) entitles the new Paige Glenbrook to a place U ' ''
at the head of America's finest five-passenger motor cars. ,
When you see this latest Paige model and ride in it, you will agree
with us, we believe, that, from a mechanical as well as an artistic
point of view, there is no finer five-passenger car on the market today.
ThatTthis is now quite the general opinion among motorists is indicated
by the number who have already made arrangements for Spring deliveries.
.i ,
Let us suggest that you give early consideration to the question of
placing your order with our dealer while it is still possible for him to
take care of your requirements.
PAIGE 'DETROIT MOTOR CAR COMPANY,! DETROIT
IJlanU- t.i crs of Motor Cars and Motor Tmcfci ."--J
Nebraska Paige Company
19th and Douglas Streets OMAHA, NEB. Phone Douglas 3660