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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1920)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 15, 1920. 4 U DEMAND FOR GARS HERE IS GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY Automobile Dealers Deny Ru mors That Industry Here : is Now at aStand- still. " 7 Girl Rider Champion Of Equestrian Host The automobile business is hold- ino- its own. according to Clarke -G. ) Powell, secretary of the Omaha Au tomobile Dealers' association. - " "Rumors to .the effect that.the au tomobile business is at a standstill and that many firms are closing be cause people have no money to buy are unfounded and false," said Mr. Powell. .. - Automobiles are beinij. made of bet ter material now. The poor parts used during the war, when the gov ernment cornered , the market on everything, are being replaced . 8y much better parts now. - .' , ' Mr. Powell helped organize an au tomobile" dealers' association in' York, "Neb.,-where he has been for the last few days. . . Business is Excellent. "At a banquet of 70 dealers and garage owners," he said, "everyone! declared that business was excellent. Sales are at the highest point they have been for-some time. "Even here in Omaha dealers say that business is better than for some time past. The amount of automo biles being sold is larger than ever. i-'eople have the money and they are willing to buy the cars It is not only the pleasure cars that are selling fast, according - lcP Mr. Powell, but also the auto trucks. It is difficult, and in some cases im possible, 'to get the more populat brand of cars without waiting two months or more, althaugh the ; de mand is increasing steadily. According to reports on auto row, Omaha dealers have representatives stationed at the factories to hurry the cars to Omaha. M.hc reiircsenta 0 tives remain at the factories at the dealers' expense. They geMhe cars as soon as they are made. Their job is also to ship the cars to . their respective cities. N . Heavy Demand for Cars. The need of cars is so serious now that some Detroit manufacturers are sending machines by boat to Chi cago, from whence they are loaded on freight cars going west. Recently a number of automobiles were sent half-way across the coun try ontop of loaded coal (pars. Many fleets of cars have been driven fpr thousands of miles to their owners. "The rumors circulated are. not only false," said Mr. Powell, "but they are comical to us. In Omaha we are trying to get more and more cars, while some foolish people cir culate rumors that we i can't sell them." . - V 6 '- Storage Batteries Easily Overheated On Hot August Days "Be -very carefuf to prevent over- .neaimg your cattery tnese days, is ibi advice given by Elmer Rosen- gren of the Nebraska Storage Bat tery company. I "Here's an example of what hap pens: If your car is equipped with a VU-ampere-hour battery a ther monieter test will register the tern perature these warm August days at about 95 degrees Fahrenheit, . Your generator output under normal con ditions will be' about 14 amperes If you were to drive for one hour end IS minutes continually under these conditions you would succeed in1 raising the temperature of yur battery to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, which is a danger line and a point where battery trouble usuatly be gins, "Turn on the lights while driving; this will reduce your generator out put to about nine Wmpcrcs and -allow you to drive three hour in place q one hour and IS minutes. If yotl intend to make a long drive that wilt reauire a day. it is a izood plan to burn your lights for a few hours while your car is standing L idle preceding the trip, as a partly discharged battery will not heat as readily as one that is fully charged." Inner Tubes Easily Damaged; Should Be Handled Carefully ,&:.. 1 DE LISSER SEES PROSPERITY FOR REAL BUILDERS iJ Ajax Rubber Company Presi- . aeni uecnes unsis iaix ; And Advises Full Speed Ahead. All parts of the world have con tributed talent to the gigantic pro pram of the Ringling Brothers and Baruum-& Bailey Shows Combined. The arenic sfars come from every qliarter of 'the globe.- There is May Wirth, Australia's royal rider, and everywhere hailed as the greatest woman rider that ever lived. There ;e Bird Millman, the most famous of all wire walkers; Ernest Clark, the marvelous somersaulting aerialist; the Wirth family with Philip St. Leon, whose feats of comedy eques trianism have never been equalled in a circus ring; the,; Sicgrist-Silbon trouoe of mid-air "oerformcrs; Sig nor Baghonghi, the ludicrous dwarf equestrian; Katie Sandwina, the world's strongest woman; the dav enports m iritrvcate , riding feats; Hillary Long, the famous upside down" performer, and no end of other stars of equal fame and dar ing. These are but a few of the wonders that will be exhibited when Ringling Brothers and ' Barnarh & Bailey Combined Shows come here Tuesday, August 31, at Twentieth and Paul streets. Adv. r-rfS" 1 Digest "Box worn" means about the same thing in auto inner tubes as "shop worn" means in clothes. Beth are damaged goods. , When an inner tube leaves a rub ber factory it is ordinarily packed in waxed paper and placethin a box to keepr it f in perfect condition from factory to customer. But this waxed ' paper packing which is so essential to insure its resiliency and elasticity in other, words, its hvi quality is not intended to be the packing which will protect ' the tube care lessly thrown in the tool box of a car. . i New Pierce-Arrow Dual Valve Trucks Mark Advance Announcement of ait'expaudcd line of motor trucks, powered by dual valve engines, is made by the Pierce-Arrow Motor Co. of Buffalo, N. Y. The hew line includes five- - toii, three and ons-half-ton and two ton trucks and a tractor unit, each . equipped with double ignition and electric lights. '?' dual-valve power plants, which distinquish the advanced - design, are declared to effect as great a for ward stride in motor performance as did the introduction of the worm gear, pioneered by Pierce-Arrow'in 110. i Each Cadillac Gets . 72 Hours of Inspection Mbre than 72 hours are spent in the inspection of ' each .' individual ; Cadillac car, according to statistics recently made public by the Cadillac Motor Car company. In other words, it would require . the work of one man eight days of nine hours each to inspect all the 'com plete part that make up the Cadil- pinada is facing a shortage of gasoline. , Farmers are considered the best fcuyers of motor trucks. Of the 400 rural routes in Italy, 350. are used by motor vehicles. Women motorists are numerous and increasing in number in India. Hunting gazelles from automo biles is becoming a popular sport in Morocco. ' Chicago is considering a project to build tubes..under the main streets for heavy traffic.' ' ' The average license fee per car for. motor vehicles in the United States for 1919 was $8.54. , Of the 31,349 automobiles'-stolen in 19 cities of the United Spates in 1919, 23,332 wore recovered... In Lynchburg, Va., more money has been slpent sinc January) for garages than for residences. An automobile traveling at twen ty miles an hour covers twenty-nine feet and four inches a second. In New" York state a registration of 600,000 motor vehicles is predict ed within the next few months. The latest development of the German automobile industry is in dicted by a strong financial hacking. Transportation of horses to race tracksin Ohio and Michigan is the latest function of the versatile motor HIGHWAY MILEAGE ' LEADS RAILWAYS BY BIG MARGIN Ten Times as Many Miles of Ordinary Roads, Figures Show. Interesting observations : and re flections on business conditions the day are contained in a statenicnt recently issued by Horace DeLisser, oresident. of , the Ajax" Rubber com pany, Inc. Mr. DeLisser, as head of one ol the great automobile tire manufactories, is Jcnpwn as a keen "observer, a thorough analyst and a conservative forecaster. Hence his views and predictions are of more than common importance. "There, seems to be an almost uni versal tendency," Mr. DeLisser as serts, "for the helmsman in business to worry to cast ominous glances skyward and wonder from which quarter the wind, if any, is coming next. "Carrying out the yachting meta phor, isn't it better to head into what ever wind there is with all sales, set I'll answer my own question an4 decidedly in the affirmative. ' "The-manufacturer of a quality product, be it automobile tires, whirl-i-gigs or whatnots, has .little to wor ry about so long as ne maintains me quality standad on which his suc cess in the past has been hunt. ordan Factory Man And Western Dealers , Visiting In Omaha "Public faith," R. W. Peterson of Peterson Motor company declares, "is what the entire Jordan organiza tion from the factory down is r tiin rt frf an1 nftw tllot fhia mt. , 3ui,ui 1 VJI a r " ... ...w w.. ot haence has been gained, nothing is beine spared to keep it. According to W. W. Surrell, rep- reschnz lord.in ; Motor Car com- I pany, who spentf the latter part of the yeek in umana, tne joraan is adding a. very select class of motor ists to its already long list of friends. Folks who want speed, lasting qualities and appearance, find tnese Qualities combined in the Jor- doii, and the perfect balance of the car adds an element of safety which is becoming more uopuiar every day. Sutherland of Tulsa, Ukl., N. D general manager, and J rieht. manager of the City branch of the W. H. Cronk- Oklahoma C. Norris Motor. Sales Jbinnany, Jordfia deal ers are accompanying Mr. S'irrell cn his western ttio. Both these men are highly pleased with the feeling of satisfaction which is' evident among all Jordan owners THE ALL V? TP PURPOSE CAR! EE5 Z5 $1700 F.0B. TPIU'TIEISL OMAHA Durability LightWeight Speed W. R. Nichols Motor Co. - DISTRIBUTORS 2420 Farnam Street. OMAHA, NEB. truck. . ' ' ' An average of 100,000.000' people in the United States will travel no less than 1,000 miles each day this year by automobile. The average automobile buyer is over 35 years of age, ha an income of $275 per month, buys a $1,044 car, paying ,44 per cent cash. No, less than .3,000 bills affecting the use of motor vehicles will be presented to forty or more state leg islatures during the next yoar. . , In France, gasoline distributing stations are to be established along the boulevards of Paris under the direction of municipal authorities. Money returns on all motor ve hicles ot3 in 1919 surpassed the amount paid for all the-coal, hard and soff mined in ; America last year.?.' r" .- , ' . x French automobile manufacturers are -investigating conditions of' the United States as a-market for their new production cf motor cars and trucks. .' . V , Oliver Lippincott and E. Russe! of Los Angeles", Cal., were the first to ride into the Yosemite valley in a" motor vehicle. This' was twenty years ago. "'.' ' In 1919 there were 1,974,016 auto mobiles produced, which amount ex ceeds the number of babies born in the United States during the 'same time by 620,224. . The Pennsylvania state nighway department .is erecting standard scales at various points' along the main- highways for testing over weight trucks. , . - . Every indication points toward a total motor - registration in- the United States by 1925 of double the present figures or 15,000,000 pas senger cars and ;trucks. : ; i - New York statewas allotted 1,021 arpiy motor trucks distributed by the war department for building and repairing of highways. New Jer seys received 245 and Connecticut 124. v . , In Austria, forhe first time in six years, motorists can drive on the streets and highways without a per mit arid without danger of having their.:motor commandeered by the government or stolen bjbanditj. Highway mileage exceeds railway mileage in the United States by a ratio of 10 to h Figures compiled by the travel and transport bureau of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber com pany show that the nation possesses 2.478,552 miles ofhighway and 253, 626 miles of railway. Texas, which leads all the -states in area, is first in both highway and railway with 128,960 and 15,932 miles, respectively. The next states in highway mileage, ranking in the order named, are: "Kansas, Oklaho ma, Iwa, South Dakota and Mis souri. The next five highest to Texas in railway mileage are: Illi nois," Pennsylvania, . Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. Rhode Island runs true to its smallest area , with the least mileage 2,170 miles of high way and 206 miles' of railway. ,1'he statistics point out that al most the entire railroad mileage of the' country .could, be laid On the highway right-of-way of two states -t-Texas and Kansas. A tabulation closely analyzed dis-' closes valuable pointers for the va rious agencies engaged in working out a practical plan of transporta tion co-ordination. Goodrich ex perts declare that an overdevelop ment of either rail or highway trans portation in relation to the other, is uneconomical. To italicize this viewpoint, the increased production which invariably follows good toads construction adds to the traffic of the rail lines. On the other hand, an exceptional' railroad development causes an economic loss because the producing areas are not furnishing sufficient - tonnage over ' the high ways to warrant the maintenance of th; increased rail facilities. I Ui Keep Your Battery Young The only tonic any , battery needs is a little , charging now and then. Square treatment and a annie 01 water once a week go a long way toward keeping it in tip top shape. ' You can be sure your battery is new when you get it if it has Threaded Rubber Insulation ' the kind selected by 136 manufacturers of passen ger cars and motortrucks. WW I ' Nebraska Storage Battery Co. - V 20th and Harney Streets LWiUardJ MR. TRUCK PROSPECT You Can Buy for a Limited Time PATRIOT-MOl FOUR POPULAR SIZES 1 l-li2-2.3-Ton On PAYMENTS Omaha Patriot Motors Co. 2010 FARNAM STREET. TYLER 4950. 0' rn nn UVJUVJ Uvl LI I Crank Cases Welded Cylinders Rebored Scored Cylinders Re paired Wheels Repaired New Wheels Built Wheels Cut Down on Trucks for Pneu matic Tires Firestone Rims . . We have opened a Parts-Depot at 2574 Harney street, Omaha, Ne-, braska, where we will- carry a com- ,pletb line of Repair Parts for all ; CONTINENTAL (WOTORS This isihe only Authorized Con tinental partsdepeft in Nebraska and Iowa. All orders for parts will be ship- vped the samex day the order is re ceived either for fcruck orpassenger ' -cars. ' .. ' w ' , PRICES Our prices will be the same to all dealers and will be lower than you can buy Continen tal Parts elsewhere because we are the direct representatives of the Continental Motors Corporation, builders of Americans Most High Grade Motor. HOW TO ORDER PARTS Always . give Name of, the Car, the Model and 'Year m which it was built; also Number of Motor and Type, such as "Type N; T.-W," or whatever it may be. You will always find the Motor Type Number on the' brass iplate attached to the crank case. Complete in formation will enable us to . serve you without delay. OHIAUfi MOTOR PARTS DEPOT N 2574 Harney Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA ' L. L. Scfieibel, Mgr. Douglas 74S4 -Eg on ' The Society Automotive JZtgneer ream . mends the hot shot manifold (Stephens was tht x first engine of this type) as the most simple and effective means of solving or at least aiding in the solution the fvl combustion problem. , . , , The economy of the Stephens is a demonstrated feet by the following official tests . x . ,i : . ' 1918 Wqii the Loa Angeles 'Yosemitt Economy Run, . ' - . ' A A. A. Sanction, Class B cars; 38a miles, with an average " : of ai.y miles per gallon of gasoline. Also won over all cart 1 entered for economy of gasoline, oil and water. v - ' .. 119 Again won the Los Angeles'Yo6emite Economy, : I - - Run with an average of ai.4 miks per gallon of gasoline. -. -Vv'V 1900 Won the Rim of the World Economy Run, Class B ... ' , ' ; , .. $ cars, with an average of 24 miles per gallon of gasoline. j " : 1 ; 1900 Won the SacramantO'Lake Tahoe EconomyReU' V' , ability Run, over severest mountain roads, with an average - of 19.3 miles per fallon of gasoline. . Also made a per' ' feet reliability scoe for the a6i mile run. These records were made with stock cars, proving that ' Stephens cars will give the same economy in actual use , Stephens owners report from 16 to 22 miles of eervice for ,; ' ; , each gallon of gasoline. : "'o' . Although the Stephens is Salient in economy, it is also ; Salient. in power beauty and, comfort and all the other V factors that make for comolete motor car satisfaction. . . ."' 1 MID-CITY MOTOR AND SUPPLY CO. DISTRIBUTORS J: Telephone Tyler 2462 y 2216-18 Farnam St Omaha ' STEPHENS MOTOR WORKS OF MOLINE PLOW CO." s TEPHBN Salient Six j 4 1 v
