The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 34

NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN and The Nashville American, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1312. PEDESTRIANS BLAMED FOB ACCIDENTS In a Buick Every Road's a Boulevard who ovm cue ,7 Wisconsin Authority Says They Are Careless Efficient Warning Device Necessary. The New Powerful 1912 X0S1ALZZ Is Without An Equal In Its Class 'iljiii Back the is the most Two more car loads of Buicks will be received this coming week. That means that two more car loads will be bought within the next few days. 1912 Buicks are bought after one demonstration.

The man who knows motor cars prefers the Buick. Its power, stability, endurance and reliability is known throughout the motor world. The BUICK for 1912 is without an equal in its class. Its refinement is visible at a glance. Its lines and general appearances, combined with the recognized superior mechanism, makes it the biggest automobile buy of the season.

James H. Proncht. of Mlhvaukf p. author of the Wisconsin automobile law, believes thf pe.detriana are more often to blame than motorists for ihu Increasing automobile accidents of the iny. "If 'the large number of pcnVstrinns," Bays he, "exercised one-half the care shown every day by the average automobile, driver, there would be far fewer accidents.

"I base this statement upon my motoring experience a long one; I have covered over fifty thousand miles at the wheel of a motor car. "It is my observation and belief that dozens of people are Injured daily by automobiles for two reasons, first because they do not use most ordinary care, and secondly because tlvy do not get a proper warning of the car's approach. "Occasionally an irresponsible driver Is altogether to blame, but not so often as people think. Most often It is the. signal.

It in too weak to be heard: or it la: used too late. "I have little patience with those anti-noise crusaders who nlm to suppress noise at any cost. In the case of the automobile signal the cost is human life. Kvery person of experience and every person who will use reason, must realize that a warning signal must bo loud enough to he always heard, and harsh enough to mean danger. Whether pleasant or not it is vital and necessary.

Now you may regulate the use of this kind of signal, but the signal you must have for the safety of life. "The time has come to be fair to the automobile. It Is, everywhere In tho world. It is one of the greatest civilizing forces. It has already left an Indelible Imprint upon civilization and yet its work has scarcely begun.

"Let's have progi esslve automobile legislation, bused upon liberality and good sense. You can't stop the automobile: but you can regulate it wlse-1 oi i ran do away with Its danger signals, but you can regulato them. Progressive legislation should include greater freedom of speed, more stringent penalties for reckless driving and more perfect methods of identification. And in all this, the non-motoring public can and must do Its share. expert and the most comprehensive service in the world To meet any requirement of the fourteen thousand Packard cars on the road, more than one million dollars worth of extra parts is carried in stock at the Packard factory and in dealers' establishments We can supply any part for any Packard car ever sold.

Complete service shops, separate from the main factory, make extra parts for all models Each dealer co-operates closely with the Packard Motor Car Company in providing repair service and free technical attention. The work is carried on by experts trained in the Packard factory HIS LAIRDSHIP BUYS A Model "35" equipped with Top, Duster, Wind Shield and Pres-to-Lite Gas Tank. $1,095 MITCHELL? There are "lords" and "lairds." Spell It either way you choose, but it is no guarantee that they really possess the "long green." Nor In cither case do you have any real reason to believe them more honest than ordinary mortals. And we, who have become wis by the "experience route," must have either the coin of the realm, or Its equivalent, in one mitt before we let go of real value with the other in making a swap. At any rate, it was this hard-headed business policy that landed in Bow street Jail, of London, on Douglas Gray.

aUns MacCullom and popularly known as "Th; Motoring Laird." It appears that his "Inlrdship." while sojourning in Paris, becamo Inexpressibly smitten with the line? and F. O. B. NASHVILLE CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION The Nashville Motor Car Co. power of a Mitchell Six demonstrating car nt the Mitchell garage, He murt have that car, that particular ear.

right then and there- To be sure would cripple the Paris agencv for a lVfain 1875 Church and Ninth Ave. day or two until another could ho THE DOMINANT "SIX" The Packard "Six" has the fastest getaway 60 miles an hour in 30 seconds from a standing start The Packard "Six" will travel a thousand miles or a hundred thousand miles on any road in less time than any other car The smoothest running motor and the easiest riding car, even at speeds from 60 to 70 miles an hour The safest car to drive at high speed and the easiest to drive in traffic. The touring car, with a wheel-base of 133 inches, will turn around in a street 44 feet wide The best hill climber. The greatest pulling power at all speeds brought from London. It might even loso a few sales.

But these inconveniences and rival profits could be easily compensated for by a wealth young Scot in Paris on pleasure bent. Hiq check was quickly tendered to cover all this, "for Ms soul's unrest would be unbearable without that car and he must possess It on the spot." Thi manager looked sad for the car was not his to sMI. Could the, "laird" wait until he could wire the owner? Forthwith the messenger boy and The cable to London. But to Henry Plow, the Mitchell European director, the real coin was more seductive and the banker said his "lairdship's dream might be golden hut his amount was not. The "Motoring Laird" Is now in Bow street Jail.

DEMONSTRATION ON ANY KIND OF A ROAD 32-page catalog on request LTD. 1518 BROADWAY Hemlock 201 TRUCK TAX TEST An Interesting case which will hold the attention of automobilists all over the country will soon come up in court at Bellevue. Ky. The whole story hingea on the taxing of automobile trucks in one city after a tax has born collected on them in another. Recently the Bellevuo authorities decided to rnako the owner of each truck using tho streets pay $4.00 per Con.

The Cincinnati Automobile Club, immediately dug into the matter, and from what was learned were of an opinion decidedly in contrast to what the Bellevue council set. forth. Deciding to test the validity of the law, the Cincinnati Automobile Club seaured a large four-ton truck and sent It over to Bellevue with the Instructions tor the driver to rido over the streets until some one tried to stop him. The Bellevue authorities were evidently next to what the Cincinnati Automobile Club had decided to do, and probably fearing that they wore not strong enough to enforce what they had made a law. did not arrest the driver until a few days after.

Tn Cincinnati the tax of the four-ton truck la $5. Bellevue wants $14 a year. The Cincinnati Automobile Club has secured the best of legal talent, and has decided to light tho case to a finish. The important matters hav been delved Into, and from what io learned, Bellevue's law, taxing Buch an enormous amount on trucks, is unconstitutional. Tho secretary of tho state has given his views on tho matter to the Cincinnati Automobile Club, and that alone Is strong enough to make one believe that the club is right In Its contention.

Several years ago one of the over-the-river cities tried to impose a tax on local motorists, but it developed into nothing. Cincinnati Automobile Club Journal. THE WHITE GASOLINE-CAR IS SUPREME IN QUALITY AND DESIGN WHAT IS THE COST OF YOUR AUTOMOBILE? ONE TO SIX WHITE MUNICIPAL VEHICLES IN EVERY CITY IN THE SOUTH Did it ever occur to you that the cost of your automobile is not the initial cost? In the last analysis the cost is something else. The cost of your automobile is the operating and maintenance expense, plus the depreciation, plus the interest on your money invested. Let us see if this is not correct.

Illustration No. 1 Suppose you buy an automobile for 1,000.00, drive it 10,000 miles in ohe year at an expense of 10c per mile, and then sell it for the ultimate cost is then as follows: $1,000.00 at 6 per cent one year 60.00 Interest. 10,000 miles at 10c per mile 1,000.00 Operating anil Maintenance. $1,000.00 less $500.00 500.00 Depreciation. Total Your riding has cost you 1 5.6 cents per mile.

Illustration No. 2: Suppose you buy an automobile for $2,500.00, drive it 30,000 miles in three years at an expense of 5c per mile, and then sell it for the ultimate cost is then as follows: $2,500.00 at 6 per cent for three years 450.00 Interest. 30,000 miles at 5c per mile 1,500.00 Operating and Maintenance. $2,500.00 less $1.000.00 1,500.00 Depreciation. Total $3,450.00 Your riding has cost you 11.6 cents per In other words, you have saved four cents a mile, or over a distance of 30,000 miles, you have saved $1,200.00.

This is the business-like way to view the cost of your automobile. You see that first cost is not really the important consideration. We believe the above figures to be practically the difference in operating cost between a WHITE 30 horsepower five-passenger car and the ordinary cheap car. There is, however, another item that further increases this difference in favor of the car of supreme quality. We refer to the value of dependable, continuous service, to the value of peace of mind and of worry over breakdowns and repair bills.

DEMONSTRATIONS BY REQUEST. S. L. GIBSON "This one thing I do" that's the spirit that has made the Ford the universal car. All Fords are alike in essentials.

Only the bodies are different. We make but the one car seventy-five thousand of them this year. Therefore the low cost and high excellence. THERE IS NO OTHER CAR LIKE THE FOrtD MODEL T. HARTSFIELD AUTO COMPANY yet no trees of any kind grow within many miles of the-lake as the cntir country Ik a rolling- prairie.

In a great arose and the ice on tho lake broke down the wells, flooding the in the vicinity, ns the wat'-r is twenty-six feet deep and necesal-tating repairs to the wall. The anil at the bottom of the lake Is and the waiter clear and cold and no one knows where it comes rrom or goes and yet it is always fresh and clear. Thus has another of tho many hundreds of America's curiosities no history or explanation." JACKSON SALES The Volunteer State Motor Car Company, local Jackson npents, report the sale of three Jneksons this wei-k. One to J. A.

G. Ploan, a model 22; R. A. Roberts, a model -15, ami D. D.

Canfleld. of the Model Laundry, a Jackson roadster. Two carloadH of Jacksuns are expected Monday, with a promise from the factory for a carload a week. These three sales make a total of twenty-one Jackson automobiles that have been placed by the local agency since April the time they started to do business. AMERICAN MYSTERIES "The United States contains more and older curiosities than the whole of Europe and Asia combined and one of the wonders seen on the in.OOO-mile trip of the Abbott-Detroit 'Bui! Dog" said Dr.

Charles- G. Percival, "is the 'walled lake' about 100 miles west of Dubuque, la. This lake occupies about 2,800 acres and in about three feet higher than the earth's surface and around it is a wall about ten foot high and fifteen fee wide at the base and five at the top and the stones that compose it weigh from 100 pounds to three tons and yet there are no stonos in the neighborhood of the lake for five or ten mlloa. No one has any Idea how those stones cou Id have been brought to the place or who constructed the lake. Around the entire lake Is a heavy growth of oak which must have been planted when the wall waa built, hait mile In depth ana MAIN 931.

631 BROADWAY. 1913 PEERLESS TO COME The Ilager-ElUott Engineering Company, the local distributors for th Peer-legs and Velle earn are looking forward to 1913 Peerless, which la scheduled to arrive within the next ten day. A VIi limousine to be delivered to Mrs- Bun- PLANNING TOUR Jno. C. Cartwrlg-ht is anticipating MITCHELL SALES Fletcher Thaxton, of this city, bought a four-passenger Mitchell touring car from the Imperial Motor Car Company this week.

Another machine of the same type was aent to Fayettevllla for citizen that tow service given by the Cadillac dealers at every point Is remarkable, and a Cadillac owner always feel at home when he Visits Cadi Hurt innnv anri Mo iiip In short time for an extended trip through the east. He will first visit Chicago where ho will spend Borne time on business. Mr. Cartwright has had some ex- quite an enjoyable trip In his now Cadil lao oar. expect to leave In a very fcrlence in touring and state that the always looked aften pa, tou city, exneoioa au i.