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PAGE THREE THE ABILENE MORNING REPORTER-NEWS Sunday levelopment of Automobile Marvel American Industry -w sk 3K 'am pneumatic Tires and Ball-Bearings Put the World On Wheels 'x Kjt Jf id Marie of Detroit One of the Nabon Greatest Cibes Brownwood Floral Shop Damaged by Fire BROWNWOOD Jfov Fire today did considerable damage to tha big floral establishment of Hans Schroeder In CCggln addition Tho firs originated In the holler room and If tho-wind had been from aa opposite direction it la probable that tho entire plant would have been destroyed In addition to lots to building and flowers several monkeys birds and squirrels were destroyed LUMBERMAN DIES -By The Associated -NEW YORK Nov 27 Henry Scott of Seattle Wash founder of the West Coast Lumberman's freight extension bureau and a former vice president of Montgomery Ward and company died In memorial hospital today Eastland Residence Bums EASTLAND Tex Nov 27 Firs of undetermined origin gutted tha residence of Roy Nunnally clerk of the Eleventh Court of Civil Appeals here Thursday afternoon The building and lta contents were covered by Insurance The loss le estimated at approximately $4000 BY JAMES VAUGHAN As Detroit entered upon the Twentieth Century It had a population ot about 101000 and covered twenty-eight and one-third equare Its principal businesses were thoee of foundries and machine shops tobacco factories drug slachter houses and iron and steel products In the nariy nineties of the last century this country experienced a' craze of bycycling Inflated rubber tires and baU-baarlngs put pee-pie on wheels all over the English speaking world This prepared It for the automobile To ride a bicycle was work to move and care to stay balanced The natural Impulse was to make it easy Motive power would remove the work while four wheels would balance the rider King First Builder Bargain Sale of Used -Cars I 1 1 Wc arc making special prices on our care this next week' They must sell r' 1 1926 Ford Touring Ford Touring 1 1924 Ford Touring Ford Touring 2 1925 Ford Coupes 1 1926' Chevrolet touring 2- -1926 Overland Tourings Ford ton truck 1 1925 Star touring in perfect condition 1 1 These cars are priced to Sell and sell quick They all must go Terms if desired Pslge-Detrolt makers of the Falge Jewett oars wore started Hudson which Introduced the Eases In 1122 began In 1000 The Studabaker waa organised In 1011 the' Chevrolet in 1013' The Scrlpps-Booth and Saxon which became bankrupt In 1929 were opened la 1919 In 1214 tb Dodge and tha Dort made their entrance The Lincoln came In 1919 In addition to thoee mentioned there are others Today In production the four loaders are tha Ford tho Chevrolet the Dodge and tha Essex Competition and combination has materially reduced the number at producing companies of today 10000009 Cam Today Thera la aa unmistakable buying trend tevmrd a cloeed car equipped with all-labor saving and safety devices at a reasonable 1 price the United States there are registered today over 20009000 cars About one-third of them are sold the' spring of the year- The people of the United States spent last year $1179000000 for cam and $2171000000 for oil and gas In aviation Detroit has made a practical step forward A number of companies have been formed there to'-make planes Mr Ford has started making them On an experimental basis He has also be coma interested In carrying the government's malls and hit own Ha haa bultt a mooring mast for dirigible balloons and a large flying field The eity of petrolt Is condemning a eight for a landing field Flying la new to tho public When the demand develops for planes probably Detroit will quickly respond i DIES OF BURRS ST LOUI8 Hot After saturating her night clothing with kerosene Mrs Minnie Abott 94 early today touched a match to her clothing nnd received burna from whlc hsha dlsd several hours later Her husband aaid aha had been suffering from melancholia since May 19 when her son died Frank Clark completed this auto to the dielike of their parents It appears thsit It was considered a waste of labor and material by all except the beys This car was op-erated successfully and revised The Olds Motor Vehicle company was organised in Detroit in 1807 Before Henry-Ford had organised his company MOO OUtarioblles had been made and sold Dodge Brothers built the transmissions while For petrolt Chnrlee King was the pioneer builder of automobiles He produced his first car In 1IM In his shop on Jefferson Avenue He did not even have rubber-tired wheels and had a high dashboard Mr King's ideas came from the wide publicity given a French auto race Two boys one the son of a carriage manufacturer and the other the son of a builder of stationary gasoline engines Joined forces In HU to build themselves a car that was destined to be the first If You Want the Best Send It To day In they averaged 9799 Today they are making about 009 par day working a five-day week Perhaps if they mode 10-000 a day they would work six days a week Story of Poland Henry Leland another pioneer in the automobile Industry anus born at Danville Vermont in 1949 At eighteen ho began hla active Ilfs In a government armory at Springfield Maoaachusetts during the eivll War Thla led him to making tools tor making rifles with the Colt's Firearms company at Hartford Conn' As a toolmaker came to Detroit in 1990 and opened a machine shop Later he began to make napatha launch ee and engines which' waa In line with the future growth ot the Internal combustion angina When the first Ford company lost Henry Ford Mr Leland whipped It Into shape and formed the Cadlllae Motor company In 1002 He built this company up and combined It with hla machine shop 'n 1909 This huslneea grew rapidly nd was later absorbed by the Gen eral Motorn With the proceeda of thla sals to the General Motors Mr Leland started the Lincoln Motor company The 1920 depression choked thla company in Its infancy Mr Ford come to rescue end bought the company at a bankrupt ule Since that Mr Leland has retired from the limelight and Ford la making the Lincoln a pow er in tho high-priced field Merger Some ten or fifteen years ago It waa realised that there were too many automobile companies It remained for Burant to start combining them on a large ecile Mr Durant waa born In Boston in 1901 and came to' Detroit flrat In 1870 but later removed to Flint Although of' a well-to-do family and with Influential relatives ha began hla business career at seventeen as a clerk in a drug store at three dollars per- week While -thus employed he took on night work aa bookkeper and salesman for a clgur company' Front thla ha -went to work for a lumber company Thrfce years later he sold real estate end insurance With thla experience be went Into the carriage business with Mr Dort In Flint- At thla tlma thla business was' passing so Mr Durant became Interested In the automobile In 1901 he orgud'zed tho Bulck Motor company and in 1009 the General Motors Corporation to taka over the Cadillac tho Oldamobila the Oakland and later the Nmfh-way Motors'and the Chevrolet Mr Durant organised tho Chevrolet company in 1919 Loses General Motors By 1119 he was In control of thla large corporation and built ita large office building in Detroit in 1919 This la a monument to hla energies although the depression energies although during tho depression of 1920 ha lost control of tho company Since he organised the Durant- Motors and removed to Kew York City Of the General Motors cars tho Chevrolet la lta besL seljer It ranks next to the Ford tar In the number sold today end tho demand Is growing This year it la Increasing lta capacity 1000 car per day i Thla monster company the General Motor corporation today makes the Bulck- the Cadillac tho Chevrolet the Oakland and the and The and In In Heads Poaltry Body CISCO Tex Nov Chandler of -Dallas ha sheen elected manager of tho Bankhead Poultry association- follow Ing the resignation of Harry De Lane who resigned to go back to the Terse A Pacific railroad company LOS ANGELES Calif Pole Negri has a few Ideas as to "astral" love meaagqs which a predecessor of hers Winifred ltud-nut says she bos received from Rudy Valentino namely: "Shocking profane' and commercial" Miss Dorothy Bradshaw end Charles Bradshaw who attended tha Stats te meeting- in El Faso' are exiwrird to return today i'l pilFishbuim Auto Supply Company 1120S 2nd St Phone 550 A Cleaning and Dyeing Service that is known all over Texas MB Oldamobila Ranaon Olda and Leland and Faulkner mada the engines In 1I0S after making about S000 carat a fire burned them out It wee at thla tlma that the Oldamobila company moved to Lanelng When thla company left Detroit a number of lta valuable men remained behind The Flrat Hudson Chapin born In Lansing Michigan In ISIS and Howard Coffin born In Ohio In ISIS were two of the Old men that remained In Detroit These were early believers In the Hudeon Mr Chap In waa Instrumental In the organisation of this company and Mrs Coffin became lta engineer in IMS the Eaeex car waa brought cut by thla organisation and Is a far orita with the buying publlo today Ita capacity has been Increased to care for this growing demand The Packard Motor company waa the outgrowth of a Warren Ohio company When Its type 'of a car waa aecr to be valued by the public Henry Joy Induced Mr Packard to move to Detroit Thla company Is today doing a very largo business in the higher priced field Ita flrat company was organised In 1900 but has been re organised since Henry Ford's Start While the air wee saturated with the thought of motor driven vehicles Henry Ford began hla career as a builder of cheap cars He began his first car In ISIS with a two cylinder engine and bicycle wheels It was very light and made about twenty-five miles an hour but was noisy --The only cars on the market were expensive ao Mr Ford begun to make a cheap car His flrat car organised hie first company Later he retired from this because ot a dispute over "service'' in 1001 This company waa later to be reorganised Into the ''Cadillac' Motor Car company Mr Ford began making his second car The Ford Motor company waa organised In 1901 with Mr Ford' holding one-fourth of the stock and acting as vice-president and factory manager Of the $100 000 stock only $21000 waa paid for- Of Jhesa early Incorporators the names of John Dodge Horace Dodge Senator James Cous-ens and Mr Ford are the most noteworthy Of the men that hollt up this company besides Mr Ford the names of Flanders Harold Wills and Rev Samuel- 8 Marquis must be noted first Quantity Production Mr Flanders has been called the "Father of Quantity Production" Mr Wills as chief engineer and manufacturing engineer designed all of the Ford msdili until he resigned In 1919 lie was active also in other matters Both these men later made other cars Dam Marquis rendered valued aodaloglcal service until he resigned Senator James Couzens waa a clerk Jn' a coal company's office when Mr Ford interested him in his venture Prior to this Mr Cousena had been with the Mlchl-gun Central Railway for eighteen years as clerk news-butcher and operator Ha was born in Chatham Ontario Canada in 1972 Mr Cousena enthusiastic help to Mr Ford' caused hla selection as secretary and business manager In ihls capacity he began the con tructlvs building of the Ford Motor company After thirteen years he reigned and four yean later hla stock to Mr Ford for about iiiMOOOOO Dodge Brothers' Trade ha NO QUESTION As to Our Its Better Uop4i Any garment in the wardrobe can be Dyed or Cleaned by our expert workmen WBFishburnInc i MASTER DYES A CLEANER Phone 2470 rr265 Cypress Dodge Brothers Motor Car embodying improvements that represent the accumulated effort of the past 12 months invites the closest consideration of eveiy buyer The new two-unit starting and lighting system the five-bearing crankshaft arid numerous engineering-features creating greater smoothness silence and riding comfort require personal- experience for complete judgment These cars are ready for the severest 'tests the closest comparisons Regardless of preconceived ideas of the relation of price to value examine and ride in a Dodge Brothers Special Sedan or Coupe today Get the facts that qow reveal the full measure of the power Cldsmobile cars together wi'hthe trucks named Chevrolet Mi'CH and Oldsmobile It has thlrty-rlne plants in sixteen states or countlea It has recently aviuired control of the Flsh-r Body eorpoiatlon of Detroit and controls Deloo and Frlgldaira Stwtetakrr'a Growth Tha Sti-dcbaker car wtte a natural growth The Studebaker brothers were makers of buggies and wagons at South Bend Indiana In 1 992 When tha automobile showed signs of driving the hone out iliey went into that business This company waa organized In 1011 and Is building today a widely used In taking stock In the Ford com- rpj( pany the Hdge Brothers made the lw0 ot Mr Ford's valued eart agreement that It should paid wera Horace end John Dodge These men were TJta th2C dW born In Nile Michigan In 1989 The3r and 1864 respectively where their $93500 $98500 $104503 $110000 Touring Car Coupe Sedan Special Sedan For Every Member of the Family We have just received a shipment of beautiful merchandise that is especially appropriate for Gifts and for the Holiday buying SEE OUR WINDOWS I a We especially invite Christmas shoppers to see our window display today and and let ns show you the unusually attractive odd pieces and gift suggestions in our store tomorrow transmission end clearing during tho early days At the Inception of tho automobile Industry In Detroit there were numerous pla-ta and machine hops that could make parts Others were developed Two automobile body plants grew Into largo size The largest tire plant In the world settled here A- axle plant and two motor makers made their names nationally famous for their worth and durability In the eurly days tha Ford Motor company bougnt a larga number of parts from various machine shops This proved expensive and unryable Mr Ford decided to mclij aa many of the parts as poe Ible This rnear expansion Some etockholders were afraid and balked Thla caused Mr Ford to begin to buy the stock of thoaa wishing to sell Today practically all of It Is In the name of hla family and la not Usted on tho New York Stock Exchange Ford Company of Today Today tho Ford Motor company mokes Its own heat electricity gas cement paper gloss Iron etel i coke and lead It operates its own 'telephone teli graph and radio plants It haa Its own police and fire department It operate an air mall and freight service out of Detroit besides Its lakes and oceangoing boats and railroad It has Ita own coal Iron copper lead and garnet mines has its own coat Iron copper lead and garnet mines The flrat Ford car waa built down town on tha tight of tha new kith- igan Theatre A number of plants were outgrown so Mr Ford built In low ground Its Highland Fark plant Today this plant covers over 200 acres with 121 under roof The Ford son plant contains 1200 ecre It hoe numerous small plants near Detroit It has thlrty-thre assembly plants and Irfinchet the world over In 1101 the Ford Mlotor company took a working day and a half on! an average to maks a car The next year It made iive cars a day Ten yonrs later they were making an average of 902 cars a day Just before war they made 2000 a i father had a machine shop They were first noticed ae business go-getiera when at eight they began td repair fences with the aid of hired he re workmen At the ages of eighteen- and twenty-two they came to Detroit unci began work In machine shop In 19(4 they went to Windsor Canada to make blcyoles and later formed a company to maka their nwn Tha market btlng flooded led them to seek other employment After seven years away th-y returned to Detroit ta stay and opened machine shop Dodge Sale to Ford Their original atock In the Ford Motor company waa $5000 Thatr belief in the success ths company led them to buy one of the original stockhold-ie stock Thla l-erjwn had paid $1100 for it hut tha Dodges paid $179000 to get 1L This gave them 20J0 ahorse In lilt the began to think matters over They bad an elght-ytar contract with Ford that paid them $1900 a month Suppose that Ford failed or did not renew their contract at its expiration! They knew that thcra was little possibility of a renewal became of the expansion and plans formulated by Mr Ford Thla led to the formation of the Dodge Brothers automobile company Befor tha expiration of the profitable contract for parts with he Ford Motor company tha Dodge cor had been made sold to the public and a $20000000 plant had been paid for Today thla eempany racks third In the sum kr of cars made and sold In 1919 the Dodges sold their stock in ths Ford Motor company for about 927000000 Detroit and (he AetomoUIe Of tho development of auto mollis companies in Detroit a short Lininary show the growth The 1'ackaid Motor Car company was first organised In IIV1 although it cams to Detroit later and lias ioco been reorganized In 1062 the Ford Motor company started tho movement and waa followed by the Maxwell (now Chrysler) the Reo and the Studebaker-jOarford In 1909 In the next three Shop Early For Delivery Any Day Before Christmas ALLfSON-ESTEVeNS Motor Co' I no And Walnut 5ts AaitBNTaxAS Phonb 73B We Also Sett Dependable Used Cars ROTH eras MOTOR CARS Furniture Abilene Texas 330-838 Has St Phone 32 day and In 1922 hz2 Increased years the Tbomas-Detroit the D- their papweity te cars ptrlugil-EiMbio the and thq.