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THE EVENING JOURNAL THURSDAY. MARCH 4. 1915 I Tire and Accessory News Facts Gleaned Along Automobile Row 0 The "Journal's" Automobile Page 0P1E1 II i LOCOMOBILES BUILT FOR PAST FIFTEEN YEARS CADILLAC SALES AT SHOW BREAK RECORDS i ill i GRANII JIRY DISCHARGED. Having completed its work for this term the grand jury was discharged with thanks in the Court of General Sessions yesterday afternoon by Judge Boyce. During the afternoon five indictments were returned against John Boyd for using milk bottles owned by another dealer.

TO I'M FOLD COLLECTION PLAN. It is expected that City Council Chambers ill bo crowded this evening when a plan whereby the city will be able to collect $40,000 back taxes in, the Northern district for the years 1902 to 1907 inclusive, will be made public by Councilman Stover, chairman of tlie finance committee. This subject was brought up last week by Councilman Stover who said he would discuss the same question at tonight's meeting. LOZIER PLANT ACAIN TURICOIIT AUTOS Quantity production is again under way at the big Detroit plant of the Lozier Motor and carload shipments of Lozier Fours and Sixes are being made dally to different sections of the country, according to Samuel Frank, general manager of the company. "Orders on hand for Lozier cars call for a full working schedule at the Detroit factory for months ahead," said Mr.

Frank. "While a big force of men is employed at the present time, additional help is being taken on to Increase the production and we expect to be working at full capacity within a short time. Under the new arrangement the old Plattsburg, N. Y. factory has been discontinued, in order to concentrate all activities at the Detroit plant.

Financial matters of the Lozier Motor Company, following the recent reorganization, have been looked after by Leo Oppenhelmer, member of Thomas ft Oppenhelmer, New York attorneys for the company. Mr. Oppenhelmer has interested both eastern and western capital in the Lozier company, and has been in Detroit for the past few weeks directing the company's finances. Auto Tire Retreading Casings and Inner-Tubes Repaired Why send your tires away when the work can be done in the most satisfactory manner and at reasonable rates at home? Philadelphia, towns in Pennsylvania arid other States ship tires to us for retreading. If our work was not of the best they would not do this.

Atlantic Mfg. The Paige Fours and Sixes Have Done III Created a new standard ol super-quality lor the Automobile Dollar in Wilmington. II signed orders are convincing, we have the proof. Diamond State Automobile Co. Phone 2860.

617 Shipley Street. After April 1, Delaware Ave. and Tatnall Street. $75.00 Fur Sets now $35.00, at A. L.

JENNY, 834 Market St. Co. 3d Orange Sts. 6-CYLINDER $2975 si i-js: -qr avF Automobiles Have Become Rival of the Street Cars In Many Cities OVERLAND CO. HEAD TELLS OF ADVANCES "The tremendous influences exerted by the electric street railway interests may succeed for a chert per-iod In retarding the sudden and treat development of the "jltnoy bus" hut it will never be able to suppress that new and popular means of transportation." declared John X.

Willys, president of the Willys-Overland Company in the course of an Interview on the "Jitney" situation at his winter home in Pasadena, Cal. Since arriving in California, Mr. "Willys has made a study of the "jitney bus" in the cities where its remarkable rise to popularity started. "The public in this country is Just awakening to the possibilities and advantages of motor transportation," continued Mr. Willys, as he scanned a report from the Overland factory at Toledo advising him of a record-breaking production.

"In London, the electric lines, known over there as trains, are owned and operated by the London County Council. This body Is extremely ly Jealous of Us abilities and has branched out into numerous paternalistic schemes. As soon as the motor bus became a factor in transportation, nine or ten years ago, the council began exerting every effort within Its great power to suppress motor busses In the interest of the huge investments in which that body had Involved the -taxpayers In the construction of electric street railways. "The public, however, rallied to the defense of the newer and more popular moans of transportation and today, notwithstanding the fact that the council's pet street railways are facing certain bankruptcy as a result of motor competition, the people stand by the motor busses and refuse to 800 them unjustly dealt with." Mr. Willys believes that the world la Just upon the eve of most Btartllng developments along thig line.

"Why," continues the head of the automobile concern which stands second only In the world's production of motor cars, "In England the jit ney business is no longer confined to thecitles. There have been dozens of bus services established between smaller towns. Out of London lines run in all directions carrying passengers into the country to points which have never before been available to the rank and file. "It Is true that a great protest has gone up from the exclusive element which heretofore has practically mo-'nopolized these rural districts but the authorities have been true to the motto, 'the greatest good for the greatest number." "At the beginning of the war a tremendous movement was on foot to nationalize motor bus transportation, and compete more and more with steam railways, which in their suburban passenger traffic already are being hard hit by bus competition. In historic old Oxford the trams have entirely disappeared from the streets." Here Mr.

Willys discussed the conditions which ho believes are bound 1o bring about a complete revolution In traffic In American cities. Previous retail sales records were shattered at the 1915 New York automobile show, so far as the Cadillac Motor Car Company is concerned. The Cadillac Eight was on exhibition and was one of the main attractions for the show crowds as well as buyers. "Cadillac dealers have always done a big business at the shows." remarked Sales Manager Howard, "but this one has been the most successful of all. This is especially true of the closed car types, limousines, sedans and coupes.

"Of course, the factory has not pretended to do any business, as our tire product of the new eight-cylinder cars for the coming year was covered by contracts from dealers some months ago. "However, our dealers in New York, Jersey City, Brooklyn, Newark and other nearby cities, as well as those from the East generally, all report closing more retail sales than ever before. In fact, there are a few dealers who have taken retail orders covering their entire allotments and are making strenuous efforts to get more cars." MOTORCYCLE SOTES. F. A.

M. sanction has been issued for the annual international 300-mile motorcycle race to be held at Dodge City, Kansas, on July 3. Reports show that the motorcycles used last year by the police of Newark, N. averaged about 12,000 miles each. Seven additional machines have been ordered for use of the police department there.

The F. A. M. has just paid its twenty-fourth reward for the recovery of a "stolen motorcycle. The Motorcycle Club of Philadelphia has Just become affiliated with the F.

A. M. The Augusta, (Ga.) Motorcycle Club will hold a big race meet on April 22. F. A.

M. sanction has been received for the event Motorcyclists of Houston, have arranged for an endurance run to Sabine Pass on April 21. Ten motorcycles, forty-one motor ambulances and five motor trucks have been presented to King George by the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior. Col- Frank Wood is endeavoring to organize a corps of motorcycle scouts in Quincy, 111. Already nine riders have agreed to become members.

The Wheeling, (W. Va.) Motorcycle Club will hold its annual 300-mile endurance run on June 19, 20 and 21. Motorcycle riders of the east end of Long Island have organized the Hampton Motorcycle Club. Plans are under way for the merging of the West Duluth Motorcycle Club with the Superior Motorcycle Club of Duluth, SHOW HARRIS ENGINE. The Harris Engine Company, Front and Orange streets, builders of the well known Harris marine engine, has a beautiful display of marine engines in the duPont Building, Mar ket street entrance opposite the Court i House.

The exhibition is attracting i much attention. There arc many people in Wilmington who are ignor- ant of the size and extent of the bust-1 ness of the Harris Engine Company.) To get the general public more ae- (iuainted with the kind of work turn-! ed out by this firm the exhibit in i the duPont Building was opened. In the display arc Harris engines as follows: 65-75 h. 4 cylinder; h. 4 cylinder; 14-15 h.

double cylinder; 10-12 h. double cylinder; 8-10 h. double cylinder, and a 7-8 h. single cylinder. The Harris Engine Company also is having a large sign erected on the meadows at Atlantic City advertising this; marine engine.

The sign is iu the shape of a full sized yacht, 121 feet long, and makes a striking appearance. Fifteen years ago last summer, Samuel T. Darts, then' vice-president and general manager, supervised the design and construction of the first "horseless vehicle' fcuilt'by the Locomobile Company of America. The machine was built at the factory's plant in Newton, near Boston. It was steam-propelled, as were most of the "Horseless carriages" of the early days.

Besides the modern automobile, the Locomobile Company's first product might appear today as a rather uncertain substitute for the faithful, plodding old horse, which its designers intended it to replace. But the first Locomobile did one great big thing: It proved the practicability of the "horseless carriage" and paved the way for the luxurious cars of 1915. Today, Mr. Davis, who is president and still general manager of the Locomobile Company, is supervising the Locomotive business and guiding the development of the Locomobile a car conceded to be in the foremost rank of the industry today. The Wilmington Automobile Com pany is the local representative for this car.

New News of Yesterday What a Multimillionaire Learned As a Boy Holland. The late Norman B. Ream, who died recently in New York city, had been for years esteemed one of the most influential of the men of capital of the United States. He accumulated a fortune the amount of which may not be known for a long time, but it is certainly great enough for his namo to appear In the list of Americans who had made $50,000,000 or more. He was also to be listed with Americans who began with nothing, whose early life was upon a farm, whose first business training was in the country stoic, and who afterward realized what the great progress of the United States was to be and how greatly the construction of the material interests of the country after the civil war would open opportunities to young men whose only fortune was health, industry, good habits and excellent mental endowment.

Mr. Ream once told me that he often thought that he owed such success as he had gained to his adoption since early manhood of certain principles of business philosophy which in a crude and amateurish way he had worked out for himself. I was chatting with Mr. Ream in the summer of 1914 at a time when he was disposed to speak remlnis-cently of his early experiences. He said: "I think it was the unconscious habit of observation which was characteristic of me in my boyhood and early manhood days which furnished mc with many of the ideas which I afterward adopted when I was entering upon an important business proposition, I recall that at the time of the organization of what has now become the great baking industry of the United States.

1 remembered having seen my mother bake bread when I was a boy. Sometimes her bread was splendid, sometimes it was heavy. I used to wonder why that was so, and at last made up my mind that she did not every lime bake her bread the name way. 1 thought bread ought always to be mado exactly in the same way and always should be baked in the same way to make the best, bread possible. However, 1 never thought of that until it came to the reorganization of the baking company, and, then, remembering my early observation.

I Insisted that perfect baking on a large scale depended upon standardizing the material and the baking processes. "I think one of the best of my experiences, so far as teaching me a lesson that would be of value iu the future, occurred when I was a boy and wanted to make a sled. I hud my own idea about the way to make a sled that, would go faster than any other boy's sled and 1 started out to make one. I found, however, that I could not bore a hole with an atisrer or eimlet straieht and that I rnnld ed, but I had no money to pay him Then it occurred to me that I could set my traps, catch some fur-tearing animals, remove the pelts and sell the skins That was the kind of I was very expert and I knew just work I could do. In setting traps where to go to sell skins and to get the highest price for them.

So I set my traps, got my pelts, sold them for the highest pries ar.d in that way got money enough to pav the young man for making the sled for me exactly as I wanted It made. When finished, it was a better sled than any other boy in town had. So it occurred to mc even while I was a boy that the Walter C. White Says Active Buying Reveals Encouraging Trade Review MANY CONCERNS TAKE TO MOTOR DELIVERY Heavy motor truck Investments are now accentuating the optimistic spirit which prevails in many important lines of business, according to Walter C. White, vice-president and sales manager of the White Company.

Mr- White said that tho persistence with which trucks are now bought by big concerns must be regarded as an expression of conlldence iu general business conditions. "The activity of the motor, industry is looked upon as a mirror of trade conditions," said Mr. White. "By their readiness to make heavy Investments In motor trucks, many representative concerns have shown that they are preparing for a big Improvement In business very soon. At the same time they have recognized the motor truck as a big economic factor in business.

The concerns that are most active In buying at the present time, according to Mr. White, are invariably concerns of high standing and commercial The volume and character of the buying are shown in the following list of firms whose current purchases aggregate 249 trucks: Adams Express Company, B. Alt-man ft Company, Armour Company, Atherton Furniture Company, Atlan tic Refining Company, Bell Tele phone Company of Pennsylvania, Ball ft Sons, Boggs Buhl. James Butler, Clearing House Parcel Delivery Company, Cudahy racking Company, Diamond Spring Brcwlug Company, B. F- Goodrich Company, The Good Roads Company, Great Northern Paper Company, Joseph Home Company, Kaufmann Brothers, Montgomery, Ward National Cash Register Company, New York Board of Fire Underwriters, Peninsula Rapid Transit Com pany, People's Gas Light ft Coke Company, Pabst Brewing Company, The Rosenbaum Company, tho Red Rock Company, the Standard Oil Companies of Indiana, New York, Nebraska and Kentucky, tho Sherwin-Williams Company, Simmons Hardware Company.

Southern Express Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Sheffield Farms-Slauson-Decker Company, Franklin Simon ft Company, James Thompson Son, the United Slates Postoflice. The Sumnierfleld Company, Holland-American Plantation Company, John D. Rockefeller, Atlanta Milling Company, The Gramophone Company, American Sewer Pipe Company, Lansburgh ft Brother, the Halle Brothers Company, Supplec Alder- ney Dairies, Commercial Brewing Company, Hahne-Ktagg Supreme Baking Company, Friary Brewing Company, the Bailey Company, Fortune Brothers Brewing Company, Dominion Natural Gas Company, Cleveland Milling Company and Gulf Kenning Company. CARS OF QUALITY AT REASONABLE COST "It may be said that all manufacturers are conscientiously striving to give tho public and dealers cars which combine high quality and reasonable cost," declares an official of the Olds Company; "but It is evident," he says, "that scarcely any two manufacturers have interpreted the demands of the public the same way, In view of the fact that tars are now In the market priced all tho way from about $275 to $7,000." J. V.

Hall, sales manager analyzes the manufacturers difficulties in deciding the price and quality questions as follows: "Ever so often Mi. Auto Dealer comes to Mr. Auto Manufacturer with the question, 'Why don't you put more quality in your car, or 'Why don't you add a few refinements to give your car more Meanwhile both dealers and consumers are urging low prices, light weight and economy in all directions. With the price demand and the quality demand simultaneously confronting him, what can tho manufacturer doT In their Model 42 the Olds Com pany has united the price appeal with the quality appeal. Their car has all the refinements of the de luxe car, yet is built at a price which is sat isfactory to the average man.

ROYS FIXED AS TRESPASSERS. nocco Marrone, or rtica, N. a student at Staunton Military Academy, and Leonard Spost, alsD of Utlea, employed at Staunton, who were ar 4lYllDER $1285 WANT to YORK CONVICTS TO WORK ON HIGHWAYS "We are working out plans at Sing Sing Prison whereby the prisoners may be assigned to work' for which they are suited," said K. Stagg Whit-ih. Chairman of the Employment Committee, recently organized by the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor.

"Last summer many prisoners were sent to the road camps in New York State totally unfit for that type of labor; they had to be returned to the prison and the State Highway Department claims did much to hinder tho success of the work, causing delay and unnecessary expense. The labor unions are with us in this movement, several of the leaders having visited Sing Sing in January and recommended the changes necessary to bring the shops up to date. Tho unions have also offered to help establish uii apprentice system, whereby the prisoner can bo thoroughly trained in his trade, and have promised that men so trained will bo eligible for membership In the unions when they leave the prison, and given equal standing with the other members." CITY PLUMBERS WANT NEW COVERNINC BOARD City Council, as a committee of tho whole last evening, considered a proposed bill pertaining to the plumbing trade here which the journeymen plumbers have asked Council to en dorse. The bill provides for a board of examiners, the licensing and retr- strring of all journeymen plumbers, and also specified that permits which under its provisions all plumbers would have to have, should be Issued by the Board of Health. It was ex plained that the act is an old law which has been In effect with one or two amendments.

Tho Councilnun appeared to think that as this measure had nothing to no witn tne city government, it was not necessary for them to take any action in approving or disapproving the plumbers' bill, so it was decided to refer it back to the senders, with the suggestion that it be sent to the proper city department, which the members thought is the Street and Sewer Department. CENTURY CLUB PLANS EDUCATIONAL DAY A poetic rental entitled "The Musical Millennium," was given at tlx: New Century Club yesterday afternoon by Mrs. C. W. Robinson, of Chiynmnt, chairman of the music committee of the.

Mate federation of women's Clubs. Mrs. Robinson's recital was illustrated I i a W5f THE CAR OF QUALITY lii'e in sn Olilsmobilc and then rido in a tar of other makes. Drive sin Old-mobile mid then drive any oilier cur. We art? willing to leave to your iuilment which in the better car.

HARRY R. LOOSE K' PANAMA EXPOSITION The automobile show held in connection with the Panama-Pacific reposition promises to be at least as Important to tho trade as the national shows at New York and Chicago. Nearly every prominent ear is represented and some of the exhibits are unusually complete and attractive. The KfsselKar, which Is represented on the coast by the Pacific KisselKar Branch, a $500,000 corporation, has one of the most strik-, Jng booths in the Transportation Huildlng. It features a handsome KisselKar 42-six chassis and the popular all-year car.

by a number of selection which added! not whittle straight. Tools were be-much color and beauty to her lecture. yond me. For a time I was very On Tuesday evening, March lrt, the, much disappointed- I knew a young third of the scries of lectures on man who was wonderful with tools "World's Current Kventf," by Miss Janetj and I knew that he could make me E. Richards, of Washington, D.

will exactly the kind of sled that I want- "The Best Built Car in America" It is with real pleasure that we that we have accepted the agency for the Locomobile in this city. We can offer to the public in this car just what the manufacturer's claim for it, "The Best Built Car in America." Product of i5 Years Development The 1915 Locomobile is the Jesuit of more than fifteen years development in motor car building under practically the same or ganization, every part ofawhich worked toward the same end, The building of a perfect Locomobile. To produce cars of the highest quality in limited numbers has been the aim of this company from the outset and four cars a day is the factory output, but each car represents the concentrated nnvvor nnrl Avnon'onro nf llin rmtiro r.rrmrhilp nrrranivnti'nn rested last night while stealing a ride tor8 of tne Young Men's Hebrew Asso-on a Baltimore Ohio freight train, elation last night, the following direc- thejt wtot mnzl done ou Wagon Repairing and Painting Carriage and wagon painting. Repairing of all kinds proinj attended to. Walther S.

S. Market Street Bridge. Crew Levick High-Grade Oils Lubricants Highest Test Gasoline 12c a Gallon Ideal Motor Oil For Autos and Boats 35c Gallon We deliver to any part of the city or county. W. HRyan, Agent GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

Thirteenth and French Sis. 1). A. Phone 5254 W. be given the drawing room of the, New Century Club.

Wednesday, March 17, will be Educational Day at the New Century Club, and at o'clock in the afternoon Dean' Winifred J. Robinson, of the Delaware College for Women; Superintendent of1 Schools Clifford J. Scott and Dr. Charles I A. Wagner, commissioner of will deliver addresses on "The Future of Our Institutions" CHAIRMEN JiAMED.

At a meeting of the board ot direc- bamuel Relseman, library and en inese cnairmen, together wlm William Topkis, chairman of tho 1 board and the association, constitute 'lne executive committee, which will I'lguuizu ai me next, meeting. A reorganization of the junior organization was decided on, and it will be divided in two sections: Junior3, which will Include all those under 14 years of age, and Junior Actlvc3, all those ranging in age from 14 to IS years. The board is greatly in favor of the recent move of the members in chal I were fined Jl and costs by Magistrate Lewis. Marrone, who the son of Vincenzo Marrone, a merchant of Utlca. had tertainment; Nathan Miller, house and! been student at Staunton flve.nnance; Jacob Rosenblatt, athletic months.

Spost had been employed intand physical, and Louts Rosenblatt, canf do them yourself, is to find the imnn nhinh i you to hire some one to do th'ngs as you want to have them done. That has been my policy all my life. If I could not do a thing myself 1 looked for the man who could do it, and I usually found him." (Copyright. 1915. by E.

J. Edwards. All rights reserved Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell of "An Early Advocate of Transcontinental Railroads." IN SEW POSITION. David R.

Branch, formerly a Max- me town ror a snorter time. Spoat Induced Marrone to run away from the academy and try to reach Utlca. The boys said they were trying to get to their homes when they were ar- rested. PE.H0CIUTS AT PIG E0AST. The Democratic League will give a smoker and pig roast tonight.

An orchestra will furnish music. $65.00 Fur Coats now $39.00, at A. L. JENNY, 834 Market St. uv-uuiv in aim uumjii, -L-Uiuiuii aiivi caat in lining, convenience in every detail, quality all are found in the superlative degree in the Locomobile.

Wilmington Automobile 221-223 West Tenth Street starting the membership campaign of 0 ang which they will act as judges. The Btvects, who are 'agents for the fol-Red team is now ahead of the Blue owin? cars: MetZ) KisselKar and with the latter team gaining every Cartercar. Mr. Brauch has entered day. The contest will close March HI.

upon his new duties..