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Arkansas Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 17

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Arkansas Democrati
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1923 AUTO TIRES WILL PURCHASE OF FORMER CAPITOL Ia a good bualneea man. Where It hat pot been established he will fail." ALL GAR PRODUCTION One of the verv lancet hnatlnail BY STATE, AS RELIC, IS URGED a certainty that tire prices will advaaee, and at once. "Another factor In the possibility of" higher prices la the advance I the prise of cotton, which, In the opinion el many, baa not yet reached Ita peak." ADVANCE, LOCAL DEALER SAYS Rumors of an early advance in the facturing centers, hare reached Ml tie Rock, according to Jtoy U. Wood, of 13S0 Tire Service Company. Mr.

Wood "New that the big rubber war Is over and the price ot crude rubbor has advanced to more than 113 cents, from Its low mark of IS cents, together with the fact that aome governments are baeking rubber Importers, it is almost shipments to leave Detroit automobile pianta arrived lu Duluth Inst week, when the steamer North Star 81 Buicks. The shipment was in charge of R. Stephens, sales manager ot the Pence Automobile Company of Minneapolis, and waa composed en price ot automobile tires, which hare Banner Year' for Auto Indus READ THE WANT ADS been circulating for aeveral weeks round the larger cities and tire manu try la in SijhV tion of the flat rata plan of service i charges In all factory branches, wit ettensloa to every Overland and Willys-Knight service station in the country. The Toledo organisation Is the latest of several of the chief factories to endorse the flat rata ot charges for ape-cific operations. Aa Mr.

Willys poUta out, "very few ot us would have our houses repaired or repainted or oar furniture upholstered without an estimate from the carpenter or the painter. The fiat rata system applies the same reasoning to motor ear repairs." W. Puraat announced this' week that the contract baa been let for the construction of another factory ia Hint, square feet at floor space, for the inanufecthre of the saw Hue ear. Thia was Flint's firat in Makers Say. tirely ot cioeed models.

It waa the fourth boatload of Biiirka that has been delivered at Duluth during the past Are weeks. At Dulntk the boat waa met br Bulck dealer of the Minneapolis territory. ue cara were apportioned and driven to destination. Before the end ot the week they were in the aanda of ewnera, Mr. Stephana said, every one already aold.

Detroit, Nov. 4. Total production of ears an trucks for the year 1933 will excel the total figures for 1921, and firomlses to aurpau the record estab-iahtd In 1920, banner year of the au-' tomottve Industry. This fact Assured despite anything that may occur to curtail production during the fourth quarter of the enrnat year. All monthly records were shattered in September, both in aalea and production.

Fif-urea for October promise to surpass all marks set by any previous October. In 1020 total of 2,276,000 ears and tracks was produced, of which were turned out in the firat sine months, the depression which affeeted Ill timation that it bad been selected at the site for another of the Durant enter- 8 rises. Keoentljr Mr. Durant began ia construction there of a- plant for Wlhrvmmf' mm fi? PI? '(itlsT- i LINE OF CLEVELAND CMS the nienuraciore or tat mar, ear, wbkb is to be th product of the new Flint Ifotor Oomoanv. a gubsidiare of no- New 1923 Models Are Easy to Motors, Iao.

Mr. Durant ears that the present Star plants at Lansing, Blkabetb, N. and Long Island are Inadequate to supply the de all lines of business seriously curtailing if i a liiiip Look at, Ruf White Declares. the output (or the final quarter, la 102t total production was 1,668,560. For the first nine months of the current rear 1.873.000 vehicles have been mand for the Star.

When the saw Star and Flint nlanta are eomoleted Iti Cleveland Six ia going to be a faetor in the Arkansas automobile next May, -the two will employ 8,000 men. turned out In order to equal the 1920 'production record, 403,000 cars and trucks must be manufactured la the world "from now oh," according to C. M. Faulhaber, ot the Faulhaber Motor Oo distributors of the Cleveland in the atate, and Jack J. Martin, genial representative ot the Cleveland Aulo The next eighteen montha of the motor ear Industry were divided into threw nailed by Edward 8.

Jordan, nreaidait of the Jordan Motor Oar next three months. This is less than 60,000 under the total of the third quarter of 1920, when the industry was undergoing its most severe setback, and only 6S.000 more than for the third la in Utile Bock and voicing a etroag second to Mr. Faulhaber. Company of Cleveland, In his addreaa A ahlpment containing all models of the new 1923 Clevelanda are in the this week to the rurcnaving Agents' Association of Detroit He declared that the recular semi-annual stirrer of quarter of last year, which was. an ordinary period.

There is little doubt but that tbla experience, stood and Is still standing at the northwest corner ot Cumberland and Mnlherrv i Third i streets. When showroom at 218 Louisiana atreet and the entire atate is to be shown Just what the new Cleveland really is, dur the motor car industry made by his figure will be reached anif that 1922 will be another 2,000,000 year. Ford, whioh reduced its total in September through company bag already partially answered the Query concerning how many I first knew this old house, now 02 ing toe next weeaa. Mr. Faulhaber accomnanied bv Mr.

dealers will survive a period ot keen the' closing of its blunt, is back in its years old. it was a two-story log building. This old house waa built and stride with a daily production of 0,000 Martin will leava early during the coming Week for spin around the prin com petition. In outlining his three periods, Mr. owned hv one Jesaa Henderliter.

a Oer mani who kent a small grocery store In cipal cities and at every point wnere the Cleveland ia not represented, will the west end, occupying the balance as a family residence. The property afterward Darned into the possession ot Jordan baa put aa first the time ot easy buslnees for all manufacturers who have already organised their inclosed body production the second period the put on an automobile snow, cars, with the majority of the other plants working on high production schedules. Parts makers report that orders are being placed well in advance, Indicating the purpose of the car manufacturers to maintain output at a high mark. These manufacturers, however, are ready to start the tapering off pro Thomas Thorn, who was one of the con time ot Keen competition wun price re. ductiona on dosed cars, due to the ef tractors for building the new state-house, as it waa afterward called, and gained notoriety aa having been the forts of the manufacturers to attain closed car outout and third, this period cess in operations aa soon as a decline place ot meeting ot ue lasi territorial of rapidly rising labor coata, and labor legislature." In sales Is felt.

Interest has been sustained until the Industry has atarted on its pre-show Under what circumstances the build ditncuiuea aue to an approacung secondary inflation brought about by the disinclination of labor to accept wages season, when scattered closed car ex ing waa chosen aa the meeting place for the assemblv Is shrouded In obscur- that are oiierea The Cleveland Six is produced In four models which include the touring, roadster, coupe and sedan. The sedan is made la two typee. One, a two-door model, sella for 1,295, f. o. b.

Cleveland, and is said to be the lowest priced dosed car built on a alx cylinder chassis. The four-door sedan ia priced at $1,495, at the factory, and according to Mr. Martin, ia the last thing in that type and price. The touring car, at $905, factory. Is considered one of the unusual values and is priced at less than many of the four-cylinder cara on the market.

Another type of touring car Is the de luxe, which sells for S1.005, factory, while the sport touring is priced at $1,260. T. White, former Cleveland dealer, is associated with the Faulhaber Motor hibits are proving an impetus to sales. The nroblem of securinc an adeanate tiy, but the probability ia that it waa "If any man would lfka to find out one ot tne largest ana no aounc ine most suitable quarters available at the Car main tain Stucxebaker ideals of quality and performance, with added features that make it even a greater value than before. It is known for ita striking beauty just aa it is for its thorough dependability.

Luxurious comfort is assured by the nine-inch seat cushions of genuine leather and the long; semi-elliptic springs, front and rear. Power, flexibility and ease of handling are combined to -make the Special-Six the most highly regarded five-passenger car on the market. By mamufactnring complete motors, transmissions, bodies, tops, castings, forging and stampings, middlemen's profits on such items are eliminated and one profit only is included in Studebaker prices. Highest standards of workmanship are maintained and materials are the finest the market "affordsr In the Special-Six Touring Car you will find such value and satisfaction as only Studebaker can offer. The name Studebaker is your assurance of satisfaction.

what dealers will survive in too lnuue-try," said Mr. Jordan, "it ia only neceesarv for him to discover those who time. have actually been able to handle what steel supply is about the only fly in the ointment of the industry just now. This situation is being met by the employment of motor trucks "between the Pittsburgh district and Detroit with 'excellent results. Aided by the fine weather, materials are reaching here with only Blight interruption, not great enough to prove a serious handicap.

Work on the new statehouse (now the War Memorial building) had been under way for two years when the ia rapidly Decerning a ume-paymeni business. Eighty per cent of the cars sold at retail are sold on a time basis and practically every sale involves a trade. This means a close connection hAfwnan th. hanlr end the HmW. EQUIPMENT legislative session was held in the Henderliter home, and the following year, With Its venerable rafters gradually lagging to the point that threatens collapse and its moldy timbers being eaten through with rot, -the eld Htaderlitec place at Third and Cumberland etreeta, irobably the most Interesting and rich-y tradition-colored relic of the territorial days, still standi neglected and ignored, a reproach to the supposedly patriotic and public-spirited cltisens of Arkansas, who are placidly permitting its destruction under the ravages of Visitors to whom the old building hag been pointed out at the place where the last territorial legislature of Ark-ansaa held ita closing session in October, 1835, just before Arkansas graduated into atatehood, have expressed amaatment at the apparent lack of veneration for the "ancient and holy" thinga of the past which haa permitted the old landmark to alnk into a atate of dilapidation.

The cost of restoring the old house and preserving it for future generations to reverence, they have remarked, would be so small that it could not reasonably stand in the way, and the neglect it haa auffered can only be ascribed to Indifference. -If the Henderliter place, with its historic significance, belonged to Boatou or Philadelphia, or any of the older cities where a deep reverence for rellea harking back to the dim and misty paat is felt, it would be regarded as a shrine, so to speak, with ita history engraved on a bronxe tablet for all to read, ita precious boards painted and repaired and the interior converted into a museum with a caretaker in charge. But Little Rock's splendid old relic ia treated like any other tumbled-dkwn shack, with no heed given it and few of the residents of the city aware of its historic Importance. The east end ia occupied by a little grocery store, and the remainder of the old building made into living quarters made unattractive by the crude nature of the interior, which probably appears today very much aa it did when it waa built 90 year agorough boards whitewashed and re-whitewashed, their surface blackened soot and yellowed with time. The house ia now rented to F.

Parham, who runs the grocery atom and occupies the east end with his family, and aub-renting the remainder, with the exception ot two small rooms in the west end, which Were originally used by the German immigrant, Henderliter, 'as a Company aa sales haa a thor Hear. Willvs of the Whenever the connection has been President Joan N. 1886, the central part of the building bad been sufficiently completed to permit the frist atate legislature to occupy it, although the structure was not eamoleted until 1840; when it was re view salrree. Aataeaetle wtndthlcld wlawr. Raia- WiHvs-Overlnnd announces the adop- tabltabed the dealer will survive it ne ough knowledge ot Cleveland cars.

Having sold hundreds of them in Arkansas during the several years the Arcade Motor Co. handled the line. Mr. White will be clad to meet his old friends in HkttU. garded as one of the most pretentious his new location.

capitol Duuaings in tne country. -Suggests State Buy Place. CeartBants. Cowl iiiilfeHii. Massive sea laaasa.

Teamen VsM with hog eaaaaslaa card. Blst4ajr cteafc. Thief-SMaflieasMlasliislniali Teel inilliuauit ia left frail aar.Osaakeaastiaeaaeear hasanee, The UNIVERSAL Car BUY Benton Tunnah, former chairman of the capitol commission, which had charge of the building of the present state capitni nuuuing, naa muit tn ua-gestion that the atate buy the old Henderliter place and preserve it aa a historic relic, the Pioneer Association to he made custodian and hold its meet VKtcmxM amp rnicas-. a. occoraw uaarr-aix I snciAbarx I suo-anc gaaanrir.a.

twgrw.u. Teaekeg ST Tearing lt7t Teertag SHIS sTimfcaM Roadster Speedier RSiar ttst 1SKKfL.m coSSteyzzfEi Sea IMS Seaaa M0 Sedan (Special) MM We carry a 'complete stock of parts ings there. During the last meeting of President Ads to Protect Salmon Industry in Alaska. tne fioneer Aseocisuun, tnv viu-uuwib, coming from various parts oi tne state, shrived a keen interest in the old build Nov. 4.

President jrea-OUa Cora Tint, front tut Xeer, aiaaaevet tfelesiMl ing and many of them visited the place, which they had known of old, recalling Harding today issued an executive or der, establishing a government fisheries reservation in Alaskan waters, to protect the salmon induatry from imme diate ruin by uncontrolled tiening eon- cessions. incidents ot the past ana renecung on the never ceasing changes of time. "It is time that the Pioneer -Association, or some other organisation with a becoming veneration for the past, tskes some action toward preserving this old landmark," aaid Mr. Tunnah, "before It becomes a hopeless Win, too far gone to be restored. The coming veneration will appreciate this old rel CAPITAL AUTOMOBILE CO.

1108 Main St Phone 5071 THIS I 8 A ST EBAKER YEAR The president's order will protect the salmon industry until Congress acta to put definite restrictive bars against those in the fishinar industry whose operations were fast depleting the sal mon supply, it protects an lnousiry grocery store before Arkaesaa baa been taken into the- Union -aa a atate. The ic, possibly, even if the present generation doesn't." tnat yields an annual supply oi fou, 000.000 worth of salmon. property la owned by the Keith estate. The house waa originally a two-story log structure built from timbers nrob- 3 Where Service Counts With an unbroken record of ten years in the sale and servicing of Ford cars and trucks, we long ago realized that it is the SERVICE WHICH COUNTS. Our big organization, built up under that policy, has been perfected to a point where we are able; to give MAXIMUM SERVICE at a MINIMUM OF COST.

Thousands of Ford owners to whom we have sold, cars '--can- attest that, for they'tome back ''wr service and new Ford Cars ami Trucks at Lowest Price in 1 History The Ford Motor is two months behind with its orders, approximately cars, and The recent price reduction of $50 on i 'each car and truck has so stimulated the demand for Ford products that production, is not expected to catch up during the winter. If you want a Ford car or truck, get your- order afr at once. We are making deliveries as the orders are reached in their priority. Don't delay. The president's action waa taken upon recommendations of Secretary Hoover and Commissioner CMalley of the Bureau of.

Fisheries. The executive order establishes a fisheries reservation iii Bristol Bay, Cook's Inlet and the ably hewn near where it stands, but the addition of weather boarding, which waa put on aome years later, gives tt the appearance of a frame building. Through the gape made by the warping waters adjacent to noaisg ana Aiognax Islands in Alaska. The aalmon fishing industry waa in dativer twWMinM nn reatrictinna Were im oc ue ooaroa, tne eia logs may oe seen, and are visible at a number ot placea inside, the Interior surface being cover -St ed with rough pine boards. Some of the logs have nearly rotted through in posed upon fishermen.

Bestrictive legislation was bitterly opposed by the fish spots, permitting ue noose to sag delected lv. ing industry lor many years. "TICK TAX" HAS There are several old fireplaces on the ground floor opening into wide brick chimneys, but all. are boarded up for fear their use would create fire has- RUN ITS COURSE The "tick tax" authoriised by acts of the legislature since 1809 haa run its count and ia no mote, according to ard. It Historic Interest.

Two types of closed cars sell under 7' One features its fancy body with fittings of clock, vanity cases, cigar lighters, trunk, eta In open models such a car sells at about $1,000. James Guy Tucker, atate auditor, who la notifying counties uua year mat we tune tor the collection or. ue ibx as-nlred and it ia not to be collected. The enuntfea affected br the notice of The historic interest, of the old place is not based alone on the- fact Uiat the last territorial legislature held ita session there. Further interest is added by reason of the fact that it was used as the place 'of temporary confinement under guard of John Wilson, speaker of the House of Bepresentatlves, after he had.

stabbed to death J. Anthenn. the auditor are Aahley. Bradley, Cal houn, Clark, Dallas. Garland, urant Hot Springs, Little mver, x-arry, oa- linn mwl nnrta rvf Desha.

'-Mi ta iolt 'fiat veer' Authorized lbrd Dealers 601 W. Markham Phone 4-5471 "Where Service Counts" Lot the quorum courts or tne counties, F'i k.i MtJ. nnmnrktlimi tn mu niireawuit vu lu. www wuivu baptised the new etstehouse with blood In 1887. the veer after it waa ooened.

carry on the tick eradication won. TA CTAD mAl According to the present tenant of the building, President Grant waa entertained In the Henderliter place dur HUDSON se SPECULATION ing ma visit to iutie jiocx tne TU'a, bet the Democrat haa been unable to verify this statement Washington, nov. e. jtotobh anthracite coal have been requested by eaerai a uet vuiriuuKi kfuwv ket their coal only through legitimate J. -Cl.

I Aaaaa -k A4im4naifah le- The late Judge Wlllism T. Pope, In his "Early Days ia Arkansas," written nearly 80 years ago aa he waa nearlng hia eightieth birthday, aaid of the Henderliter place: "Another old house limutj CUHUUIiR 111 VIUM ser- termdiate tpeculaticm, which hat tend- a aVkan avaawifaaa A Kalvarl coci in aoffif mwni vs. wumu. which has withstood the march of improvement, and which haa bad a varied It waa announcva loqay Super-Six Coach Official tests mark it one of the truly great More than 120,000 Super-Sixes are In service. With its new improved motor1, it aa a smoothness unknown to earlier models.

And yon will like the Coach. It has a sturdy simplicity with all essential comforts. A transcontinental tour or a shopping trip can be made with equal confidence and security. Higher Quality Always Means Lower Cost! 1625 5 and GAY WorldngtothelghPackard standard of quality, but on a basis of costs now analyzed and budgeted to the penny, Packard is embodying in the Single-Six a degree of value hitherto not attained in the field of tine cars. Rowe Woolf oik Auto Co.

Capitol Are. at Spring St Gas and Oils COST no in ore than any other. PACKARD Little Rock Motor Car Co. Sill 618 Louisiana St Phone 4-0700.

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