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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, AUGUST’S, ISIS.
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Monster Alco Motor Truck Attracts Crowd
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Many Queer Antics Explained byM. Nabors
AutomobHe Owners-Attsntion
No more worry about punctures.
PUNCTURE BEAL. solves the
tr pUNCTURE SEAL, injected into
your tubes will seal aTIy puncture
up to a 20-penny nail, will pre
serve and lengthen the life of your
tubes and lessen blow-outs by
eliminating rim cuts. It will not
stick the tubes to the casing, will
not gum, become hard or evapo
rate, is not affected by heat or
cold weather, does not interfere
with the removal of tubes or with
vulcanizing. _. . ..
PUNCTURE SEAL pays for it
self many times a season by pre
venting Punctures and r m cut*
We charge less for Pi NCTLKE.
SEAL, than any of our imitators.
Good territory open to agents who
write at once. We are in business
t0 SAVE TEMPER, TROUBLE,
TIME AND TIRES BY USING
PUNCTURE SEAL.
Motorcycles ... •• ♦ 4i>u
Automobiles, 30 by 3,
30 by 4 $7 per car
Other sizes in proportion.
Atlanta, Ga., July 17, 1913.
Puncture Seal Company,
Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen:
I have examined your prepa-
ration for the stoppage of punc-
tures in rubber. PI NCTLRE
SEAL,” and have found that it
contains no substance injurious
to rubber. It has a decided ad
vantage in that it may be used
in the coldest weather without
freezing.
Yours very truly,
<Slg EDGAR EVERHART.
Chemist.
Home Office
Pusscture Seal Co.
407 Edgewood Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
NEW MAXWELL‘25’
Republic Manager Traces Growth
of Tire Business in Atlanta.
Rubber to Remain High.
By Q. A. SOHL.
Manager Repubiio Tire Company,
Atlanta Branch.
It was only a few years back when
the purchase of an automobile tire
was an evsnt of anxiety Instead of a
common occurrence. In those days
there were only four or five brands
known In this section, and they were
all about the same price. The car
owner had little choice^ and If he did
atop using one brand, It was only a
short time before he came back and
bought again. Many Interesting deals
are recalled now when conversation
drifts back to that period.
Car owners knew little about tires,
and apparently cared less. They did
not seem to know how essential It is
to keep “pumped up” and to have
glass cuts and ordinary bruises re
paired promptly. It was always up
to the tire company t.i make good,
and their car “never had gone over a
thousand mllea."
Car Traek Driving Common.
Tou see, speedometers were uncom
mon and they really did not know
how a little evening ride cou:d
stretch Into 60 or 60 miles. Then,
again, we didn’t have the good roa.ls
we have now and car track driving
was In vogue. This practice Is hard
on tires and It cost some owners
money to find It out.
It puzzled a great many auto own
ers when a tire blew out on a perfect
ly level road. This blow-out is pri
marily caused by a previous bump or
bruise which has weakened the fabric,
even though no mark Is visible on the
tread of the casing. And how they
used to "pinch” their tubes, or "in-
ners” as we called them! The old
style clincher rim was sure "cussed
out.” How different now! The rub
ber companies have campaigned edu
cationally until now almost every
one, auto owner or not, knows some
thing about tires.
There used to be several varieties
of rims and tires, which were not
standardized or Interchangeable as
now. This brought out many ludi
crous situations. One in particular
was a certain iocal clubman who was
absolutely crazy about his automobile.
He was In It all the time—couldn't
leave It long enough to get a tire
fixed, and It was said he had his
house servants wash the car after he
retired at night. On one occasion he
drove to one of the tire stores here,
tooting his horn until an attendant
ran out to the street to see what was
wanted.
A Bad Customer,
Mr. Clubman wanted the manager,
and when the affable manager came
out, a storm of abuse and cussing
was handed him, calculated to scare
half his life. The ding-busted blank-
dash tire was no account, never was
any account, was a roll of junk and
the tire company' was a blank-daso
, robber, and so was everybody con
nected with it, ending up with he d
croak before he would buy any more
tires.
"All right,” replied the manager, "if
that's the way you feel about It, I
don’t reokon I can satisfy you any
how. Good-bye.”
He went away, but he came hack.
, No other concern in town had a tire
to fit his rims, and he wanted to ride.
The poor fellow was too chagrined to
apologize.
Just recently we had a man come in
here with a tube in his hand, bawling
us out. He was a hard man. and his
line of talk was harder. When ,ve
had a chance to get in a word, we told
him the tube wasn't of our manufac
ture—the name was right before him
all the time. He hushed, then apolo
gized and bought from us.
Veterans in Game.
It seems that once in the business
the fascination keeps us in It at any
cost. Nevertheless, we have some old-
timers still with us. Take George
Hanson, Daddy McCall, Frank Stein,
hauer, John M. Smith, C. H. Johnson,
Charles I- Flyea and a score of others
who have been in the field almost
from the first. You couldn’t disen
gage them
Men who visit all sections of the
United States comment strongly on
one thing about Atlanta. That is the
absolute friendly spirit among the
trade in this good old town. Before
It got so large we would meet and
see each other much oftener, and
even now our association meetings
are fairly well attended. There can
be no monotony In this field. Some
thing new turns up almost dally. Sur
prise is superseded by amazement
when one hears of one stunt after
another. Now we have auto polo.
What next?
Atlanta folk who by accident, habit
or necessity lingered or wended their
way upon Peachtree, Whitehall or
any of the principal by-streets Sat
urday were astounded over the sight
of a great big powerful automobile
truck whose body raised itself from
its natural position upon the frame
and gradually climbed to a position
of almost 90 degrees, sliding gently
into a position to land its load.
Teamsters and small boys called
wildly to the driver that something
was amiss. It looked as though a
great catastrophe was soon to hap
pen to that truck, but the driver paid
no heed, so intent was he upon suc
cessfully steering his car through
the traffic.
Then the body, with the same
graceful movement, started upon the
return journey and finally slipped
quietly into place upon the chassis
and remained there for a few min
utes, only to repeat the performance
shortly.
When the astonished crowds real
ized that there was nothing wrong
they became curious to know what
caused the body to act so queerly.
Suddenly a street car blocked the
traffic and the truck stopped. The
body at that time was at an angle
of 45 degrees and remained poised
upon its arm in a graceful pose until
the journey of the car was resumed.
Then it continued upon Its course to
the dumping position and back again.
Yes, It was an Alco truck! The
Alco drew up to a curb and the spec
tators gathered around.
"What on earth Is this?” asked a
bystander.
"Why,” said M. Nabors, of the lo
cal Alco agency, "this is one of the
two latest Alco automatic dumping
models, recently sold to Fulton Coun
ty for work upon the roads.”
“How In the name of peace does it
work?”
“It's very simple,” said Mr. Nabors.
“You see this new Alco automatic
dump body is operated by the driver
from his seat by simply pulling back
this lever on the right-hand side.
“The principle is as follows: The
counter shaft of the transmission Is
extended through the transmission
case, to the end of which is attach
ed a train of gears.
Body Lowers Self,
“These gears are thrown In mesh
by the operation of the lever describ
ed above. The body then automatical
ly lowers itself by means of a re
volving arm upon a rotary shaft upon
which it travels. When this arm is
halfway around the body has slid
Into the full dumping position and
immediately begins Its return jour
ney as the arm completes the circle.
“The body can be stopped at any
angle by simply throwing out the
speed clutch, as was the case when
I had to stop in order to let the street
car pass.
“The simplicity of the arrangement
and the rugged manner in which the
Alco goods are built will Insure the
Fulton County Commissioners trucks
of long life with trouble and expense
at a minimum.”
The new Maxwell ”25,” the 1914
sensation of the reorganized United
States Motors, Is In Atlanta. There
will be a great jubilee at the local
branch, No. 380 Peachtree street, all,
day Monday, when the car Is put on
exhibition. Sales Manager Redden
and Charles Booth, district manager
in the South, will be the hosts. In
quiries from all over the territory
have been pouring In and a record-
breaking attendance is expected.
New Car Solves Problem.
"Not since the first announcement
of the old E-M-F has any car excited
the Interest that the new Maxwell
has at 3760,” says Mr. Booth. "We
feel that we have at last supplied the
car to meet the demand between the
$500 and the $1,000 class,
“The Maxwell ’25’ la a big little
car, seats five large people comforta
bly upon cushions of deep upholstery,
wheel-base 103 Inches, center control,
Simms high-tension magneto, inclosed
valves, left-hand drive, cone clutch,
32-inch springs In front and 40-Inch In
roar, quick detachable rims and 30
by 3 1-2 tires. A feature of the new
Maxwell Is that the entire weight of
the car rests upon the rear axle hous
ing.
Success Is Predicted.
“There is no question of the little
car proving a big success, and it Is
my prediction that In less than six:
months Its popularity will be assured. I
“The car will remain in Atlanta I
during Monday and will then be
driven all over the Southern terri
tory to enable those who did not have
the opportunity of visiting the local
showroom to view our new product
at close range.”
New Model Machines
Are Eagerly Sought
“It is beginning to look as though
we would either have to advance the
date of our yearly announcement or
make more cars annually,” said G. W.
Bennett, vice president of the Willvs-
Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio, in dis
cussing trade conditions with a party of
friends recently.
“While our 1914 announcement will not
be ready until the middle of August, we
are being besieged by dealers and dis
tributors who have about closed out
their 1913 allotment and are anxious
to get started on the new cars. From
our Chicago distributor we recently re
ceived a telegram stating that he had
but five of the 1913 cars left, and asking
If he could not be favored with an extra
early shipment of the 1914 models.”
QUADRUPLES EFFICIENCY.
Harry W. Wood, district representa
tive of Enoch Morgan’s Sons, with
Ulevoland as headquarters, says that
any traveling salesman who covers the
grocery trade can Increase his scope
fourfold by traveling in an automo
bile. Mr. Wood makes this statement
as the result of hir own experience in
handling Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
Illinois in a Studebaker touring car.
Ample Provision
For People Who Go
To Savannah Races
SAVANNAH, GA., August 2.—Indi
cative of the large crowds that will
visit Savannah In November for the
Grand Prize and Vanderbilt Automo
bile races, many inquiries are being
received by the hotels from persons
all over the country who wish to make
reservations.
Among those who have already
booked guests for the week of the
races are the Hotel Savannah. th6
De Soto and the Pulaski House. The
Collins Hotel has als«o received re
quests to reserve rooms and suites,
but it is the policy of that hostelry
not to make reservations so far ahead
except for its regular patrons.
Still other hotels have had inquiries
and requests from prospective guests,
and are making reservations for
them.
While it is probable that the hotels
will be crowded their capacities,
the various managements are confi
dent that combined they will be able
to accommodate comfortably the
time give the best of service.
National Machine
In 10,000-Mile Tour
A five-passenger National car has
Just completed a remarkable tour of
more than 10,000 miles for the pur
pose of testing tires.
While the test, observed and re
corded by the testing laboratory offi
cial of the Automobile Club of Amer
ica, was primarily for tires, it is also
an unusual demonstration for the
National car.
During the tour 495 hours were
spent in actual running during the 96
touring days.
The total mileage was 10,017 miles,
with an average speed of 20.2 miles
per hour. The maximum speed at
tained was 60 miles an hour.
There was no effort made for speed,
but rather a consistent steady grind.
ORDERS BY THE MILLION.
On two small order blanks Pur
chasing Agent C. J. Reynolds recent
ly let the contract for 16,000,000 pieces
of material for use In building the
first run of Studebaker cars in the
fiscal year that opens September 1.
The order represented cotter pins and
nuts in quantity sufficient to last un
til about January 1, 1914.
It’s Here
The Maxwell “25”
$
On Tuesday last 50 cars of the Maxwell “25”
Model were shipped to fifty important points in
the U. S. We will receive one of these cars to-day.
Come and see it.
OUR RESPECTS to oxrr esteemed competitors who have been wasting so much
sympathy on us while telling us this car would nover appear.
WE CORDIALLY INVITE them—one and all—as well as the public gener
ally—to come in and see this real automobile.
WE HAVE A SURPRISE in store for them. Instead of a “dinky tin car”
such as they have been telling you this would be if it ever did happen
they’ll find an automobile that classes with the best in the thousand-dollar
group—but selling for 25 per cent less.
IT’S AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH—you’ll say so when yon have examined
it carefully. And so will they—under their breaths, however, for, of
course, they can’t afford to say so out loud.
“CLEVER—WONDERFULLY CLEVER” exclaimed one of the foremost auto
mobile engineers after he had examined the various features. And he is
connected with a rival concern, too.
AND IT IS CLEVER—You will be lost in admiration of the way Designer
Benner has done some things. You will not find a really new nor a
freakish feature in it. But you will stop and try to' figure out just how he
has arrived at some things—by a shorter and at the same time a vastly
better route.
WE’D LIKE TO TELL YOU in detail about this great Maxwell achievement,
because we are enthusiastic to the bursting point. But space forbids and we
refrain. You will be'the more delightfully surprised and pleased when
you see with your own eyes and ride in it yourself.
IT WILL BE HERE—this first car—for only a day or two, then we are going to
drive it around our territory to let the various other dealers and their friends
see it. So you will have to hurry—come in to-day—if you want to see this
car about which the entire automobile trade has been talking for several
months past.
UNITED MOTOR ATLANTA CO.
380 Peachtree St.
Southern Speed Men
Taking Long Tours
On Fast Motorcycles
Th© Joys and pleasures of cross
country touring on th© motorcycle
are becoming more manifest In the
South every day. Several local riders
have made long tours this summer
and returned brimful of enthusiasm
over the roads.
On Friday last three members Df
the Savannah Motorcycle Club passed
through Atlanta en route to Chatla-
nooga. They were A. A. Rainey, J. S.
Valmor and J. C. Carroway, the lat
ter being president of the club.
They are riding Ilarley-Davldsons,
equipped with chain tread, non-skid
United States tires. They rode from
Suvannah to Tallulah Falls and back
to Atlanta, and are now en route to
Chattanooga. From Chattanooga they
will return through Atlanta and go
back to Savannah.
These boys carry camping outfits
on their machines, which enable them
to stop whenever they desire, eat
lunch, pitch camp, fish, swim and en
joy a!! of the advantages of country
life.
The party Is loud In praise of
United States tires. They state that
with the exception of one puncture
they have experienced no rubber trout
ble upon the entire trip.
BLOOMINGTON'S WILD WEST.
A. L. Baldridge, of Normal, I1U has
received hla new Studebaker ”26,’*
which he recently ordered. He was
busy to-day getting his car tamed
down. Bert Reynolds also Is driving
a new Studebaker.
Savannah Official
Opposes Auto Tax
SAVANNAH, GA n August 2.—
‘First, last and all the time I am
opposed to a special tax on auto
mobiles,” said Frank C. Battey, for
mer president of the Savannah Auto
mobile Club, when asked his opinion
regarding the recommendation of the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House that the registration tax on
automobiles be Increased. .
“I think it unwise, unreasonable and
unjust,” he continued. “The auto
mobile owners of the State pay Just
as much property tax as anybody else,
and there is no reason why any ene-
clal vehicle they may choose to ride
in should have an extra tax laid upon
it simply because it is an automo
bile. It Is class legislation, and T
don’t believe the courts would uphold
such a law. Automobiles do not wear
on the roads near so much as the
steel-tire vehicles, and yet the latter
are not taxed.”
Z Of Interest (o Merchants Z
Z and Manufacturers Z
A Motor Truck Is No Stronger Than the
Organization That Builds It
W ITniN a few years Alco tracks hare risen to a commanding position. They hare be
hind them a company with a capital of 550,000,000—a company with seventy-seven
years of accumulative experience In transportation.
They are built In the most completely equipped motor truck shops In America. It !a
but natural, therefore, that 62 per cent of the Alco trucks now In use were purchased on
repeat orders, the dollars and cents expression «f the satisfied owners.
We sell Alco trucks on a scientific basis. We are not so much Interested In the Im
mediate future as In the ultimate business, therefore three years ago we established the
transportation cost bureau.
This bureau will determine for yon Just how much your horses are actually costing
you; will blueprint your horse delivery system, estimate If you can employ motor trucks to
advantage, determine how many you need, the size, the type of body and so on. This service
Is rendered without charge to you. .
Write or call for the new 112-page catalogue about the Ales.
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY
BUILDERS OF ALCO CARS AND ALCO TRUCKS
ALCO MOTOR COMPANY, Distributors
227 Peachtree ATLANTA Phone Ivy 2000
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These braided wires, which we control,
gave us rulership of tiredom.
The Goodyear Secret
The No-Rim-Out tire is a
Goodyear invention, and we
still control it.
An essential feature is these
braided wires, which no one
else can make.
This tire can’t rim-cut—
that we guarantee. This fact
has saved motorists many
millions of dollars.
It has also made Goodyears
the world’s favorite tires. They
now outsell any other.
Ruins Almost 1 in 3
Time and again we have gathered sta
tistics to show what rim-cuts cost. This
year we employed certified public account
ants, so the figures could not be disputed.
They examined thousands of ruined
clincher tires, taking them as they came.
The old-type hooked-base tires. And they
found that 31.8 per cent had been discard
ed for rim-cutting only.
That's almost one tire In three.
That conveys some Idea of the saving
accomplished by this Goodyear No-Rlm-
Cut tire.
How We Did It
Ws did this by making a hookless tire-
one that does not hook to the rim.
Thus your removable rim flanges can be
set to curve outward—not Inward as with
clincher tires.
Then the tire, when wholly or partly
deflated, rests on a rounded edge. There
is no curved-In rim flange to dig Into the
tire. Thus rlm-cuttlng Is made Impossible.
These tires fit any standard rim.
This hookless tire makes tt essential to
have an unstretchable tire base. It must
be held on, under every strain, so that
nothing can stretch the tire over the rim
flanga
We get this by vulcanizing Into the dr*
base six flat bands -of 126 braided wires.
See picture at the top.
This tire can't be forced off. But when
you unlock and remove a flange It easily
slips off. There are no hooks on the base
to "freeze” Into the rim flange, oe with
old-type Urea
Controlled by Secrecy
These braided wires are made under
lock and key—made by secret machinery.
They can not be Imitated. And It seem*
that a faultless tiro of this type can not
be made without them.
Makers have tried It again and again,
but thousands of the tires came back for
replacement.
So the wish to end rim-cuttlng has
foroed tire users to Goodyear No-Rlm-Cut
tires. Hundreds of thousands of men have
adopted them. And this fire In
after eight years of tests, the lee ding til*
of the world.
How We Combat
Two Other Ruinations
If ext to rim-cuttlng, the ooetlleet Items
In Ure upkeep are due to blow, outs and
treed eeparstiona
To Minimise blow-outs we use the -On-
Air Cura' The tins* are final-vulcanised
on -aerie atr «=*ead - an Iron
oore.
This prevents the tatvto from bucking
and wrinkling. It equalises strains Thus
we avoid the cause of countless blow-outs.
This “On-Air Cure,” used l»y ua alone,
adds to our cost $1,500 dally.
YEAR
4KRON, OHIO
No-Rim-Cut Tires
With or Without
Non-Skid Treads
Tread separation, when tt occurs, comae
near the breaker strip. This Is the fabric
strip which comes between the tread and
carcass tn a well-made tire.
For this strip we use a patent -if vet
fabric.” This permits ue to run, from
the tread to the carcass, hundreds of
large rivets of rubber. Then the tire le
vulcanized en masse.
We have exclusive use of this patent.
No other tire can thus prevent the ruin of
loose treada
No-Rim-Cut tires, with these costly fea
tures, used to cost one-fifth more than
clinchers. Now they cost no extra price.
This is due to our multiplied output.
Our dealers are everywhere.
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO
This Company has no connection wnatever with any other rubber concern whl ch uses the Goodyear name.
Atlanta Branch, 223 Peachtree Street, Phone Bell Ivy 915-16, Atlanta 797.