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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1913.
MISS PRESCOTT S Wear and Tear of Roads
NOT TO APPEAR Considered by Experts
Build Highways to Suit Traffic, and then Scien
tifically Distribute Weight on
Tires, Is Remedy.
Rumor Absolutely Without Foun
dation, Declare Officials of
Indianapolis Speedway.
ONLY LICENSED DRIVERS
Rules Bar Women, According to
Charles W. Sedgwick, Who
Brands Report “Silly.”
INDIANAPOLIS, I NT)., April 26.—
That Miss Vivian Prescott, of Phil
adelphia, or any other woman for
fhat matter, will drive a ear In tho
third annual BOO-mlle race at the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway, May 30,
9a a rumor which is absolutely with
out foundation. It Is utterly untrue
that Miss Prescott has received per
mission from the Speedway manage
ment to enter the race, and there is
absolutely no chance that such per
mission will be given. A story which
has been current in the daily newspa
pers of the country to the effect that
such permission has been given is
denied most emphatically by the
Speedway management, It is declared
That such permission was not even
aaltod by the woman who is alleged
to have received it.
"The story is too silly for us to
tske seriously,” says Charles W. Sedg
wick, manager of tho Speedway. “In
the first place, the races stagod at
nnr track are run in accordance with
the rules of the American Automo
bile Association, and this body will
jiot recognlzo a woman driver. In the
second place, the rules of tho Indian
apolis Motor Speedway make it im
possible for a woman to be present
on the track st any time, even in a
touring car. While there Is no deny
ing the fast that the presence of a
woman as the pilot of a big racing
car would furnish novelty enough, we
will adhere rigidly to the policy laid
down by the A. A. A. and our own
rules, and only licensed drivers will
ever be permitted to drive on the
track."
Bump! Went Car in
Wild Night Ride
John Mulpeter ‘Joined the Birds’ in
Exploring Perilous Heights at
Port Townsend.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, April
£6.—As every visitor will readily re
call, the residence part of Port Town
send is on the heights 200 feet above
the business part.' Pedestrians climb
200 feet by means of steps; automo-
btiists use a zig-zag, abrupt enough
Bt that. The other night John Mul
peter, "chaufflng” his new Stude-
baker, started from uptown to down
town but forgot about the zig-zag and
kept straight on, parallel to the "An
gel's Flight.” The grade is terraced,
but slopes 60 degrees between the ter
races.
Mulpeter clearly recalls touching
something three times. The first time
the glass disappeared from his wind
shield in a million pieces. The second
time a guy wire removed the top and
narrowly missed cutting off Mulpe-
ter's head. The third time his trusty
brakes got in their work and he stop
ped on the final terrace. "Whew!”
remarked Mulpeter. There he was,
still 00 feet too high. He couldn't turn
round and go up, so ho carefully to
bogganed the rest of the way and
drove oft in high feather. Mulpeter
promises to make a round trip over
his course during the Jerome County
Fair.
By MORRIS R. MACHAL.
The people who are responsible for
Ihe maintenance of the roads 1n
Georgia have a very definite and dif
ficult problem to solve. Of recent
years the expense of keeping the
roads In gopd repair has been increas
ing, and something has to be done be ?
causa of the continuously increasing
cost that cannot he met for the rea
son that the funds to pay the bills
will not bn forthcoming If the bills
continue to increase. Therefore, the
people who are building the roads or
keeping them in repair are up against
a problem of cutting down the coats.
Thero are several considerations In
volved.
The first is to find the kind of a
road that will best meet the condi
tions of traffic. Second is to deter
mine whether any particular class of
traffio is especially damaging or In
jurious to the road.
Freaks of Traffic.
Now, taking the first condition, It
does not follow that what would he
best for one section of one street
would also be best for some other
street, the reason being that traffic
varies considerably. For Instance, the
kind of road that will give best wear
on Peachtree Road where traffic ts al
most entirely touring cars and pleas
ure automobiles, might be entirely
different from what would be hi st
on Marietta Street, where the traf
fic Is mostly heavy trucking. One very
exact way of finding out definitely
what would be the best kind of road
for any definite street would be to
lay on one or two or perhaps three
blocks of this street different kinds
of road.
The writer believes that ir the city
would take several blocks in different
parts of the city and with different
traffic conditions and lny in these
parts different kinds of paving in
stretches of perhaps twe-.ty feet, in
a short time they would be able to
tell definitely what was the right kind
of pavement to uso for any specific
stretch and for any particular condi
tion of traffic.
Harmful Vehicles.
Now the question of whnt kind of
vehicles are harmful to the pave
ments Is the next one under discus
sion, and the present trend of the so-
called anti-automobile legislation has
simply been toward the limiting of
weight of the vehicles. This the
writer does not believe Is correct. We
believe that there should be no arbi
trary limit of weight. If the width
of the wheels Is sufficient there Is
no weight that oould not sofely be
carried on the streets.
There are several conditions that
would have a definite and decided
effect upon the best weight per inch
of width of tire. It is a well-known
fact that large diameter wheels will
not damage the pavemknt as much as
one of smaller diameter, providing
both wheels have the same width of
tire, and both wheels are carrying
the same weight. The reason for
this is very simple. If a wheel is
very small In diameter the weight
rests on a very small portion of the
pavement, whereas, if the wheel is
very large, there is a larger portion
of the pavement supporting the
weight. This enn most easily be
understood if it wore illustrated by
going to extremes. Suppose that
there was an arbitrary weight of
one ton to be supported, and it was
resting on a wheel 2 Inches wide.
Suppose that in one case the wheel
was 12 inches in diameter. The
weight would cause the wheel to sink
Into the pavement until there was
sufficient part of the circumference
of Ihe wheel in contact with the
pavement to support the load and
the depth that this wheel would sink
into the pavement might be consid
erable.
What Should Weight Be?
Now with the same' width of tire
and with the same load if the wheel
was 11 feet in diameter it would sink
into the pavement a very small dis
tance before It would have the same
area in contact with the pavement,
and for this reason a load of one
ton per wheel carried on tires 2 inches
wide would do much less harm to
the pavement If the wheels were 6
feet In diameter than it would do if
the wheel w r as only one foot.
We believe that it is very possi
ble that a touring car weighing 2,000
to 3,000 poufids running at fifty or
sixty miles an hour will do a road
bed a great deal more damage than a
twenty-ton truck running at six miles
an hour, providing that the tires
on the twenty-ton truck were suffi
ciently wide to support the load. We
beileve that the legislation should
be on a basis of limiting weight per
inch of tire width, and that this limit
ing weight should be variable and
dependent on the diameter of the
wheel and the speed of the vehicle.
Glenn Curtiss Buys
Auto as Substitute
for Flying Machine
To
Skim
Six,
Over Roads In
Instead of in
Aeroplane.
Mitchell
TIRE PRICES AND
COSE OF UPKEEP
Recent Reduction of Diamond
Tires Is a Great Help
to Owners,
Locomobile’s Home
Open to Public
On Site of Col. W. L. Peel’s Former
Home—F. W. Robartes Is
Branch Manager.
TRUCK TIRE PRICES
ARE AGAIN REDUCED
"There will be another 1ft per cent
reduction 1n truck tire prices,” nays
C. W. Martin, manager of the motor
truck tire department of tho Good
year Tire and Rubber Company, Ak
ron. Ohio. "This cut will take place
Immediately, and is the second cul
■which has occurred since the first ot
tlie year. This reduction is made
possible not only by reason of our in
creased manufacturing facilities, but
also by the recent drop in tho price of
crude rubber”
Firm in his determination to no
longer tempt fate by flying, Avlalor
Glenn H. Curtiss, whose exploits in
a biplane have given him Internation
al fame, has compromised on an auto
mobile that will "sltlm over the roads
like a bird.”
Known in two hemispheres as the
decade, Mr. Curtiss has planned to
remain near his aeroplane factory at
Hammondsport, N. Y., from April 25
until next fall, when he will go to
San Diego, Cal,, for several months
to direct experiments with hydro
aeroplanes.
In order to escape the almost Irre
sistible Impulse to start a motor on
his aeroplane and take an air Jaunt
to some neighboring city at an al
titude of several thousand feet, Mr.
Curtiss has arranged to have a seven-
passenger, six-clyinder Mitcherr au
tomobile delivered from the factory
at Racine to his summer home at
Hammondsport, and will put in his
spare time touring.
The cost of upkeep Is a live ques
tion with any owner of an automo
bile.
Manufacturers of automobiles and
the builders of tires rave realized
this for a long time. Changes in
construction have been made. Every
effort has been put forth to give bet
ter service and value for the money.
“Th reduced prices which we have
Ju#t announced,” said H. M. Bacon,
sales manager of Diamond Tires,
“will effect a saving for every mo
torist who uses Diamond Tires. It Is
another step toward assisting auto
mobile owners to keep their upkeep
down.'
"Motorists generally have shown a
keen Interest in our announcement
of the lowering of the price of Dia
mond Tires. Naturally W’e expected
other tire makers to follow our lead,
—other tire manufacturers are begin
ning to advertise the fact that they
too have lowered their prices.
“Users of tires, too, have expressed
themselves very favorably toward
Diamond Tires because of the fact
that our company decided to give the
advantage we had gained in effi
ciency and the lower price of crude
rubber. It is certainly a good idea
to have the public with you in build
ing up the immense volume of busi
ness we have now in Diamond
Tires.”
In reply to a question, Mr. Bacon
was very emphatic in his statement
that the well-known Diamond stand
ard of quality would be maintained.
He called particular attention to the
fact that the autoist could now buy
at a reduction their famous No-
Clinch vitalized rubber tires with the
perfect three-point rim contact; also
the No-Pinch safety ilap for inner
tube protection.
Mr. Bacon further said: "Increased
volume of production, the installation
of modern time and labor-saving ma
chinery and the knowledge gained
from sixteen years of compounding
rubber and tire building have result
ed in our being able to offer the user
to-tiny a really better tire for less
money.
In the past we have been able to
give tire-users many 'more mileage’
advantages at no extra cost, and to
day, principally on account of our in
creased efficiency in tire making and
our tremendously increased volume,
we are able to reduce our prices to
the user, and we certainly know that
tire-users appreciate that fact, be
cause of the wonderful response in
increased sales and orders.”
The new home of the local branch
of the Locomobile company, north
east corner of Peachtree and Mer-
rltts Avenue, Is at last open to the
public. A large crowd of Locomobile
adherents gathered by invitation Fri
day, and the affair was an auspicious
one. The large display rooms were
tastefully decorated In flowers and
bunting, and many beautiful cars
were shown.
The Locomobile home is on the site
of Colonel W. L. Peel’s former home
and the number of the place Is 469
Peachtree. F. W. Robartes, formerly
resident manager of the Washington
branch of the Locomobile company of
America, has recently been appointed
manager of the local branch, having
under his supervision practically the
entire South.
E. B. McLean, of Washington
Post and Cincinnati Enquirer,
Bests Express Train.
Eight Motorcycles
For County Police
L. S. Crane, Local Agent for Pope-
Hartford Automobiles, Fills
Good Order.
The Fulton County police have been
furnished with eight new model L
Pope Twin motorcycles by L. S.
Crane, the local Pope-Hartford agent.
These machines are fitted out with
three-inch United States tires, Stew-
art-Warner speedometers and muf
fler cutouts. Painted on them will be
the words “County Police.”
The county police are expert driv
ers of motorcycles and they have been
out for some days trying the new
machines.
F. W. Robartes, formerly of Wash
ington and now manager of the Lo
comobile branch in Atlanta, is telling
his friends of a record trip which a
Locomobile car made between Wash
ington and Atlantic City, beating a
fast Atlantic City express.
This car, a canary yellow roadster,
was sold by Mr. Robartes to E. B.
McLean, owner of The Washington
Post and The Cincinnati Inquirer.
Mr. McLean started on the trip at
10 o’clock in the morning, being ac
companied only by his driver, who
was acting as mechanician, Mr. Mc
Lean driving the car.
Most of the way lay over roads hub
deep in mud as the result of the
spring thaw. The average speed
under adverse driving conditions was
approximately 28 miles per hour.
The race between the Locomobile
and the express train took place in
the early evening, shortly after 6
o’clock. Mr. McLean and the driver
had reached Whitings, well on toward
Atlantic City, and at the station was
the fast Atlantic City Express which
leaves Philadelphia late in the after
noon.
For the 25 miles between Whitings
and Beach Haven, the road is practi
cally parallel with the railroad tracks,
and as the engine pulled out of Whit
ings Mr. McLean opened up the cut
out on his roadster, and drove up
alongside of the train.
Printer’s ink won’t make the
car go. There’s only one
reason why 200,000 new
Fords can’t possibly satisfy
this season’s demand. The
car itself is right with a right
ness that is unmatched any
where at any reasonableprice.
Our great factory has produced nearly
a quarter of a million Model T’s. Prices:
Runabout, $525; Touring Car, $600;
Town Car, $800—f. o. b. Detroit with
all equipment. For particulars get “Ford
Times”—an interesting automobile mag
azine. It’s free—from Detroit factory.
Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St.,
Atlanta.
CADILLAC
STEINHAUER & WIGHT
228-230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233
“30” Touring Car > ~
“40” Touring Cnr-Ivvo sizes
“O Q” Touring Cor-six cylinder
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120-23 Marietta,St.
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NOTICE!!
Automobile Owners: Watch for our let
ter the latter part of this week. We are
quoting most attractive prices ever offered
on tires.
AUTOMOBILE TIRE CO.,
234 Peachtree. Ivy 4580. Atlanta, Ga.
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pay for your tire
experiments. Increase
your car’s efficiency, and
reduce the upkeep ex
pense by equipping with
NON-SKID TIRES
Car owners of experience
have proved the car-protect
ing resiliency, the mileage
and security value of the
Firestone tough, pliable tread.
H. S. Firestone's book, “What's
What In Tires” tells how and why.
Flrsitone Tim & Rubber Co..
"Aaierloa'i L*rg««t Exclusive Tim and
Rim Makers.”
238*256 Peachtree St.. ATLANTA.
Heme Oflloe and Faotor>, Ak*on, 0.
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"THE CAR WITH A CONSCIENCE”
a t i n g ,J Power
S OME Motor Cars “eat” up power before it
reaches the place where it is needed—the
rear wheels. Rated horsepower and actual
horsepower are two separate things. A motor
might develop forty horsepower and deliver
about thirty-three to thedrivingwheels
because of poor construction and plan of
design employed.
In Oakland construction we deliver the maxi
mum horsepower to the rear wheels because
we have eliminated friction and the use of
extra universal joints by the adoption of the
unit power plant. When you transmit power
from one unit to anotheryou waste aiittle of
it through every reduction. In the Oakland,
the motor, clutch and transmission shaft bea-
ings are perfectly aligned on one shaft and the
power waste is very slight, if there is any at all.
OAKLAND MOTOR COMPANY
Direct Factory Branch, Atlanta, Ga.
Sales Room, 26 James Street. Phone Ivy 2102
Sub Branches, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans
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