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IV cV JWTT ft lW fJ li ft vP If SAN FRANCISCO ft It chronicled Sunday 5j if ii ov ECJEMBEB 14 1913 Officials of Howard Autbi Com party Make Round Trip to Fresno BuickCar ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION Veteran Drivers Travel Over State Highway and Jake Photographs i A drive ot 100 miles oetween lunoh and dinner Urn li generally considered rather strenuous by ven the raoit en thuslastlo speed burnr The State high ways whn oomplsted wills make half day trip of this length not only entirely feasible but the oooupanta of the tar will not bo any mora fatigued than they are trow drlvlag half the all tanoeoven ordinary roadi at the preei at Umaj says Claud Moot of the Howard Automobiles Company Bulok die trlbutari who drove down tot Fresno last Saturday wltv Fred Oroia alio of Um Howard Automobile Company in on ot th new 1914 is pi Bulok tour lac oari Acoordtng to tht two rtran drivers there Is Just twenty nine mllai of road between Oakland and Fresno that la yet to ba put In shape This twnty i nine mllea dlvldad Into three no Uona tba 9rt of whloh la enoountored at tba northern boundary of Stanislaus ounty and sxtend south la tba dlreo Uon of Modesto tor flva mllaa Tht next break Jn the highway Is thrse mllaa long and enoountered two mllaa north of Atwatert Tha third and lait cap baclna two and a half miles north of Meroed and axtanda south twenty on miles to tha llttla town of Falrmesd Construction work la in procraaa on both tha lone stretohes and thay will Crow ihortar from waak to week Dublin boulavard la alao completed with tha exception of about a quarter ot a mll at tha foot of Bulmar Hill Thla abort plao of road la gradad and haa a temporary dressing on It and ahould give no troubla axoapt during or Just attar a vary heavy rain tha bridge aoross tba San Joaquin river at Bridgetown baa alao bean repaired and la again1 In commission Speaking of tha trip McQee aaya There la itlll a great amount ot work tobe dona on allt of the Statei highway over whloh we traveled before It will ba absolutely oompleted aa there has bean very little work other than grading don on each aide of tha oonoreta strip whloh forma the main roadway Thla doaa not interfere In any way with theuse of tha road however On tha down trips theravwa no effort made at speed and plenty ot time waa taken toeeoure aoourate road data and alio to make photoi of some ot the more Interesting porttoniof both the Improved and unimproved roadway On the return trip we decided that we would teat tha llttla Bulok out Just to aae how It would perform on a long run where tha maximum ipeed whloh the new State law will allow waa maintained and the apeedometer Hand wai held juit at thirty miles per hour for almost the entire dlatanca of 13 mllaa At one time on a particularly straight and level piece of highway the throttle waa opened wide In a short dlstanoe the speedometer showed fifty five miles per hour We daolded that that was as fast aa any oxie oould aek a fully equipped touring oar to run so slowed down again to the thirty mllaa per hour mark In spite of this oontlnuad high speed not the slightest trouble was experienced with tha little Bulok not even a drop ot water being put In the mmmlMMm in mime to raisin city i mm mm mmm i mm frtd CrouofJht Hovari Aulomohdt Company btnJ3uid Six enjopinga trip over tht Stett Highway in the San JoaqulnalUr i i I 1 I i ii ill 1 i iV IMHslMfP it1 llwfFnnHvT i TUT dBfcii WJMMmwk HHiiiiiiiiHiHHBsfiaiflHUiaiiiSIi iaHKiaStHsatiiBBBiM liWiML wKn HiiBiLilililiHkiallalilililililililSKflMHHsaMHai I mL WMLWLWBKKkWLWL ItWm WKBlWMIlW WfmWmWIKItlB Wl Wl PVWBiiii laaSnaiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiii IfflBgBBfStgW xSHssSisataliliaiHRHkLaiinBiiKloaaaaSl til mmmTlmml CARE NEEDED IN I 1111 IIP ASCENDS PIKES BUYING nnfft ii 1HU wwm kwwwwwwwwwwwwwm 1 WWWWWA 1m Bal jlWW IHB TsaisiiiUsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH Cochran UocaCHaynes Agent Says Business Ideas Necessary Tba motor oar li not essentially for pleasure has been proven without ques thetlon In asmmarolallsad Amerloa oommented Cochran preelldent of the Hoynea Auto Sales Company Evry business man appreolates tha advantage of the motor oar aa a time Haver A salssman can call on mora oustomersmor qulokly and more economically In an automobile than by any other means We have racorda of soores of Waynes owners to Justify thU statement So Important a part has tha motor car become In tha oommeralal world that sales managers and business men keep posted on the automobile realising th wonderful possibilities and in order to help them decide whloh ma ohlne they can beat use A man needs a rather definite Idea of what he Intends to buy likewise the ability to stlok toe that idea when he goes ouv Into that wide and varied market of automobiles Know what you want and you have accomplished a great deal says Cochran One way of obtaining this knowledge Is to buy tha wrong oar Tha point to be Impressed upon the buyer Is dearly set torth in The Complete Motorist by Elwood Haynes That when you ehoose an automobile you ahould ohoose It as you would employ any person who Is expected to render to you servloe ot the highest efficiency 0i4nimfMMiMtmO radiator on the entire trip of 400 miles The sams set of Ooodyear no rlm out tires was used on this run that were used on the llttla Bulok roadster when It lowered tha oad record more than seventeen hours between here and Portland last September and the only trouble experienced with them was one puncture whloh was oaused by a nal we picked up on one of the new bridges Charles KelUy talti manager of the StmplexMercer agency GOVERNMENT1 LETS TIRyONTRACT Goodrich Tires and Supplies Now In Service From the White House Down The purchasing agent for tha Post office Department has contracted with the Goodrich Company to supply Ooodrloh Pneumatlo Tires and other rubber aeoessorles during the next fls oal year for the motor trucks whloh are being used In the postal servloe The method of supplying the different postofflces with the necessary milTiment Is sura to save thePojtofflca Department a lot of time and money as poatmaaters are to get tneir equipment direct from the Ooodrloh servloe Station In their respective cities Instead of aendlng their order to Washington where it would have to go through a lot ot red tape whloh oausas considerable delay Every postmaster will be given a JiBr Latham general manager of tht Sunplex Merctr agency list whloh shows the prlaes the Government is to pay for the tires and sundries and whan replacement or repairs are needed Instead of running tha truok into the garage where it would have to stay until the order was filled from Washington the truok will COIL un In front of a Ooodrloh service station and gat the necessary supplies 111 lUIUIC btlllV The Goodrich ooMraot covers the equipment ot thirty flva trucks In use In the postal servloe Tbt rtUnere Branch Office of the Chronicle Is lootM it ITU minor meet Dr Pott N0KM0R ST0P PJ1IN AUTO Model Forcj Makes Record Tlmein ClimbvUp High Mountain A Ford model has established a new record tor the ascent of Pikes Peak On September 3d tha car driven by Oliver Hall of Denver started from tha Cascade Postofllee at tha foot of the famous mountain The start was made at II A ML and the Summit Houss was reached at IS or rather the telegraph office for It was tha official oheoklng point Tha elevation Is 1411 fset above the sea but many miles were ooverad In reaomng the top The road was in a very bad shape as It has never bean repaired since the old stag ooaolv days In places the grade exceeds tt per oent and in some spots It was neoea ary to Jump the oar six to ten feet at a time The descent was made in a pouring rain whloh Increased tha difficulties of the down trip In establish ng the new reoord tha Ford beat the best previous reoord for tha feat by forty six minutes The former reoord was i made by a far mors powerful oar than tha Ford A PEDAGOGIC FAMILY Levi I Frltoh ot Mertitown Pa has six daughters all teaohlng sohool TEST FOR SIX wii iaii eilV Mitchell Car Travels 2563 Miles Over Pittsburg Streets and Immediate Vjclnlty 11 Traveralng itit miles of tha streets and hlghwaysvof Pittsburg Pa and the hilly surrounding oountryfor a radius ot several soore miles In a non motor stop Sealed Bonnet reliability test a 1114 Mitchell Six oar has set an enviable reoord cays 0 MoFarland of the Osen MoFarland At tba same time thla slx oyllnder machine answered the query of automobile men of two hemispheres who doubted the ability ot a six to successfully negotiate a long non motor stop run i a The engine was going every seoond from tha time the start waa made And when the promoters of the run finally checked in and the motor was officially stopped the Pittsburg dlreotor ot pub 11a safety exolalmedl Its a ehame to stop that motor for Jt oould go on to the lOOO mlle mark Tha machinei that triumphed was a detnftnstrator in the service of the Wll Uama Haaley Motor Car Company Fiitseurg distributers ot the Mitchell Lewis Motor Car Company With an immense throng gathered before the Public Safety building and Dlreotor of Publlo Safety John Dailey holding the only key to tha stale that ha had placed on both sides of the Mitchell Sixs hood as well as on the eleotrlo self starting apparatus and ine starting oranki Hasley climbed into the seat of the machine and announced to rspresentatlve newspaper ment who naa volunteered to act aa observer that he waa ready to give the six cylinder motor the severest test ever undertakea Forty seven hours after the start the oar had completed its flret 1000 miles and with no more attention than waa required for putting in gas and oil So unerringly did the cylinders accomplish their work hour after hour the engine hitting on six as If It were running on a block that two days later tha second 1000 post was passed A remarkable feature of the demonstration was that no water was added to the oooling system the car having shown no tendenoy to heat showing conclusively that proper radiation oan be provided to etand the grueling grind In a six as well as In a tour cylinder motor Tha run waa conoluded after a run ot 111 hours and It minutes when the motor was stopped by Director of Publlo Safety Dailey by throwing off the ignition awltoh in order that drivers and observers oould take part la the banquet held to celebrate the event i BIUKBSLEES NEW SEDAff Officials at Washington ara admiring the new Studebaker Sedan recently delivered to Fourth Assistant Post maatar Oaneral James I Blakeslee MJ yi Circtimstancesoian Ad Alter Conditions EL Polletier of fht Maxwell Motor Company Sayi Truth It Not Always AdriiaWe There ara times when you dont dara to tell the whole truth In anadV said ffi Le Boy Pollster advertising eoun sel for the Maxwell Mo tor Company hn il I ia tVM nth AAHHAr when preparing the big double truok aa last weexv You will recall If yom read tha ad that we said Bismarck waa six faat tour and In another place we safd that the tire and gasoline consumption Increased as the square Of the weight1 In the case of a heavy car aa compared with the light one Now neither statement waa literally true but Instead ot being exaggerated they were wbat one might term Inverted exasperations undsr state Imentsi And that brings us bacx to my orig In at atatement eometlmes you cant tell the whole truth You may only state facts as big as the average reader will grasp and credit Just aa soon you make an assertion that gets be yond his ksn and appeala to him aa an overstatement yoti lose his confidence i Thats why we regularly avail ourselves ot the poets lloensa and tell white iliei Inversely Here are Jha faots In tha two easas above oltedi Bismarck was a giant ha was fix tttt five When wrote the oopy anA made the Napoleon and Bismarck comparison said speaking from memory that Bismarck was six feet two Flanders In reading my oopy asked Are you sure Bismarck was six feet twor I was stumped Sure Wasnt her I aeked It he wasnt Gael HI have to rewrite this Introduction wont ir I was flustered for a mo ment I How to find out then Oh flnel Call up an editor of the Abend Post DU Saved But wait Too big Dont dara use such a figure If any doubted Id lose the confidence of the reader right at the beginning So I out an Inch off Blsmarak to hold my audience Some surgery that As for the othefstattment It waa worse It was only half true Mlohelln who la perhaps tha great est authority on the subject In the world states that tire consumption increases by the cube not the square aa the weight Increases In other words the annual tire ooat ln a 1000 pound car la only one eighth what it would be In a 8200 pound car That also was too big a statement tor the average digestion so I out It In two Even at that It will oome as a startling fact to moat folk Some day Pm going to elucidate the fact in a little book Guess Ill call It One Elastic Item In the Cost ot High Living HowU that do for a tttur TRAILER OH MOTORCYCLE Will Braught an ingenious mall carrier of Whlttler CaL has devised a trailer for his motorcycle in which he carries paroel post packages lit T7TV ET LIT 1 Tha tht KWJV fJrera Raifl cmerl rSwea Tien tRf wSSCy the Snftafv Firct fitrmhol They down through mud slush and ooze thev 1 ll lA 1 11 cicua aou gnp me roaa xncy siop xaa una oetorc starts They frire yoa lower cost mileaGe becsase of thextr thickness of robber tb point of contact Goodrich IrilS Tires Best in tha Long Ran Best in the Short Stop Dont eupeiimcMU Dont talus charms eJc th frro ban ad the croM tto when vw eboosw Doo akld tin Bead the rednoed prloe below Better still tear exit thit prion list and hand It to roar dealer Dont pT mora than tha price named her for the accepted ttandard nonldd tires 30x3 30x3tt 32x3tt 33x4 34x4 SasMdiTree Prices 1170 157S 1675 2355 2435 Safety TreaJ Prises 1265 1700 1810 2525 2605 34x4tt 35x4 36x4H 37x5 38x5 SamtkTrewl Prises 3300 3400 3500 4195 5400 SeMrTn Prteee tnti 3500 3605 3710 4445 5730 Thtrt notMng in Coodrtch Adctrtiting that itnt in Cooarieh Good lAlfrRAJVCIICO BRA en I fluloa a4 Frenm4 frreta Ala Vaa Neaa aad Ooldeat Gate Area Factories AkronOhlo ranch ea tn Ail Prteolpal OrJe ummAW Am A9 m9kW aw kWW AW AW JsWmWSW kW aaBBL AllIll If i iifgiiiiiiiiiiifflli lisssr ie Si you will choose for the best of all good reasons llllllllllllllllllllltlilsssr because no other six in the world offers you as much for Hm tlllllllllllllliisislw because its a Studebaker but buy it also because Hllllllllll IIbbsW li 1S a wanufacure Six a Six electrically lighted and HjU I IllllllllllisasasW started and a seven passenger Six at a price lower than Hl I liisssT ncc anV Six in existence a price made pos Hllllil IlllllilesaV se on le V8cnes3 Studebaker production and I STUDEBAKER 0ORP0EATI0N MATHEWS ON MOTOR CO I 1216 Van Ness Avenue Between Sutter and Oakland aH It I II I I Ibb nrotn LeaiseJUMdtw 1KM SEC Ludis Koedau 1SS0 wtmttm BHbHL SsWsw HHarn lllll PA SOr SWa wso Sb I I HM llllfllllll 1.