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Mrs. Howard Gould Writes Con
cerning Motoring in the
Southern States.
MRS. HOWARD GOULD. ‘
Evidently this Is a great winter|
meason for the South. The restric
tions on travel to Burope, the Far|
East, Cuba and the British West In
dies have sent thousands motoring m\
the Florida and other American r'nld‘
weather resorts. Another strong fac
tor has heen the steady improvement |
of the roads. Automobile owners and
drivers are no longer ploneers, vens
turing fearfully upon unknown paths
and dangers. Thelr roads are marked
out and prepared for them, step by
step
Both the Dixie and the interna- |
tional highways have been gone n\'(‘ri
carefully. The official report is that |
there are not twenty-five miles of |
bad road on the maln line of either, |
and no road through which an ordi
nary machine under its own power
need be haflled, even after the freezes
and thaws, snows and rains of win
ter have done thelr worst,
One thing, however, 1 would critl
clze about the South., it does not ad
vertise its chief attractions. Places
of intensg historic and scenic Inter
est literally dot the South, apd yet
it 18 a most difficult thing for the mo
torist to find the maljority of them.
For dozens of delightful and inter
esting side trips 1 had to turn to the
new volume 6 of the Automaoblle Blue
Book. Thias volume gives detalled and
reliable touring data covering all the
Southern roads. But one of its chietf
benefits is in its descriptions and di
rections covering enjoyvable side trips
to places of beauty and legend, which
the people in the towns around have
failed to appraise at their real value.
No small part of the difficulties
travel on the D'xle Highway now of
fers is due to the construction work
which was begun. and delayed by ex
cessive wet weather, Emphatic warn
ing 18 given to avoid that unimproved
rough stretch of the Dixle Highway
between Nashville and Chattanooga,
which is the direct route. It is bet
ter to detour through Huntsvlille, Ala.,
although 1t 1s 97 miles farther. The
Dixig Highway via Macon, Fitzgerald
and Waycross does not affard the
best way of entrance into Florida
The best way of entering 18 via Au
gusta, Savannah and Brunswick,
The bit of swamp between Wash
ington and IFredericksburg, Va,
which used to be a terror always and
an insurmountable obstacle gome
times, has heen put in passable shape
and all but ‘five miles of it really is
®oood road. The other bad place be
tween Fredericksburg and Richmond
has been put permanently in excel-
Jent condition. The fearful stretch
gouth of Brunswick, Ga, has been re
built and made & source of pride in
stead of a disgrace to the country.
This year the big thing in the
South 1s the interest in the dozens of
huge army camps Uncle Sam's boys
have brought many thousands of dol
lars to the Southern States, not only
in their own pockets, but in the pock
ets of the contractors who bullt the
camps and the hordes of relatives,
friends and pleasure seekers who
hawve flocked to the camps by motor
car.
So far" as the main highways are
congerned, automobile travelers have
nothing to fear and will find occasicn '
for joyous approval and encourage
ment. Florida is crowded with new
attractions. Palm Beach, while love
1y as ever, has lost some of {ts pre
eminence because of the great train
ing cantonment eight miles out of
Jacksonville. The 35,000 soldier boys
do not lack friends, and the opportu
nity to see what actual preparation
for war is like has drawn crowds of
the curious and the patriotic.
Duval County, Florida, is putting
down six miles of vitrified brick road
fifteen feet wide. Between St. Au
gwno and Jacksonville there are
rty miles of this vitrifled brick
totj. which will last practically for
ever, as it is well dralned and the
nfofl)ldu use of it except by auto
fles and vehicles with specified
width of tire. *
It is a pity the South is not ready
to reap the full benefits that might
gmto it from present conditions,
; e dull, backward, stupid or Indif
ferent sections do thelr worst to spoil
the prospect for all. It {8 nothing to
the motor ¢ar owner that he can go
200 miles toward his destination com
fortably and safely if he {s bogged
iopelessly or forced to smash his ma
chine bfi the neglect or incompetence
~ of one Board of County Commission
ers or the ignorance, inertia and
mossback blindness of the voters of
one township. ‘
- The “tripper” tourist who used to
“do” Europe in a hurry, following th&‘
beaten and worn paths and hitting
only the high places, was a tradi
tional object of derision. Yet the peo
. %ot gome parts of all the Southern
& es are driving visitors to the same |
- absurd and improfitable system of
~ “doing” the South. Many of the bat
~ tleflelds of the Civil and Revolution
ary Wars are beyond reach except
._.4,‘? foot or ;\m‘sebafik or by the use
~of crazy and uncomfortable logal ve
v&m.
- Perhaps a worse vice than failure
~to make decent roads is that of mak
”g: them at vast expense, advertis
-2 tl em with much flourish of trum
;f:\l and then permitting them to fall
- dnto ruin for lack of the few dollars
fi? :gmi;mal anervlnn needed to
em in regpair. Virginia is espe
~ cially untortufite in this respect.
~~_ Fastern Virginia, at least, is better
~ than most parts of the South in the
:!‘l“‘r of signposts. Wherever the
tf} pfluence of the Richmond automobile
- dealers and owners extends the roads
. are carefully marfed. In many other
~ mections of the Boutheastern States it
8¢ to be assumed that nobody un
g&ar with the neighborhood will
~ use the roads. :
~ Alcng the northern and western
< Gs the South the good roads
- spirit has asserted itself and is in
~ evidence everywhere. The drive
~ across the Cumberland Mountains to
E.fld from Untontown, Pa., Hagers
. town and Frederick, Md., to Balti
. and Washington in one direc
~ tion, and Staunton, Va. in the other,
?é’f the brightest of the automobilist's
~ dreams come literally and brilliantly
.ty ds hard, smooth, broad and
- safe and the scenery wonderful.
. Im Virginia the “Valley Pike,” one
~ of the oldest good roads in America
g maintained by frequent toligates
=3 this road the Gettysburg battle
m is reached easily and quickly.
: “Valley Pike” is identified with
~ the most famous of Stonewall Jack
~ mon's campaigns and goes directly by
. some of the country’s most notable
tural wonders, the Luray Caverns
s Cave and Natural Bridge
General Washington in his
K climbed higher up the preci
than any man before or since.
roads to and around Hot Springs
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A shipment of these handsome four-passenger sport models are now en‘route to the J. R. Hol
land Auto Company, and should arrive in a few days.
Batavia Tires Now
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The Crumley-Sharpe Harlware Com
pany, of Atlanta, has been appointed
State distributors for the Batavia au
tomobile tire, and is now making con
tracts with dealers In all sections of the
State.
The Batavia tire is well and favorably
known in many sections of the country,
but is a comparative stranger in Geor
gla. When the Crumley-Sharpe com
pany decided to go into the tire busi
ness they naturally wanted a tire thas
they could recommend to their trade
and after a very careful personal in
vestigation decided upon the Batavia.
It has been something more than
four months since they sold their first
car of these tires, and, although they
are sold upon a positive guarantee, not
one complaint has been recelved. The
Batavig is sold upon a guarantee that
it will/run 4,000 miles, which is 600 miles
more than is guaranteed for other tires
selling at the same price. ‘
All adjustments are. made by the
Crumley-Sharpe Hardware Company
without consulting the factory. Deal
ers will find this very much more sat
isfactory than deallng with small fac
tory branches that may be discontin
ued at any time, leaving the deaier to
settle with the factory some thousands
of mliles away.
and the far-known Wite Sulphur are
excellent,
Around by this route there is fairly
comfortable access to Roanoke ex
cept where the once fine road ap
proaching the city has been allowed
to deteriorate. South of Roanoke the
road through the mountains into
North Carolina is so infamous that
enjoyment of the very fine scenery is
Imposstble, and I advise everybody
to avold it, The same unpleasant re
marck may be made of the road from
Richmond to Roanoke via Lynchburg.
Through most of Virginis# and North
Carolina the historic places are neg
lected so far as giving strangers ac
cess to them is concerned.
South Carolina offers a shining
contrast to this neglect of history and
tradition by people who are supposed
to subsist chiefly on both, Mr. E.
J. Watson, State Commissioner of
Agriculture, has published a large
map showing the highway system of
the State, with the names of all his
torie points and the dates on which
fame was earned for them in red ink.
Mr. Watson, whose office is at Co
lumbia, will be glad to Bend the map
free to all prospective visitors, that
they may pause at the battlefleld of
King's Mouatain, which is just over
the line in North Carolina; the Cow
pens, IButaw Springs, Fort Moultrie,
Fort Motte—where Mrs. Rebecca
Motte showed the American General
Marion how to use blazing arrows to
fira her own mansion because the
British were standing a siege behind
its stout walls and the Americans had
no artillery, \ |
In North Carolina, thanks partly to
the United States Government, the
scene of the important Revolutionary
battles of Guilford Courthouse and
Kings Mountain, the same road that
carries us from the old but now mod
ern and lively city of Charlotte goes
on to war, as it is. It is the high
way to Spartanburg, where New York
troops are in cantonment, and to
Greenville, thirty-six miles' farther
south, where there is another great
cantonment, ‘
Another word of practical advice,
if you think of visiting either of these
cit'es—arrange in advance for rooms
at the hotels, and get rates, Ido not
know about Greenville, but personal
experience teaches that Spartanburg
is densely crowded and that New
York City rates are exacted for Spar
tanburg accommodations.
' The road from Salisbury, N. C.,
over the mountains to Asheville is
perfect, and a road from Spartanburg
to Asheville is being rebuilt and prob
ably will be in fine condition within
the next few weeks. Both these roads
pass magnificent mountain scenery
and give access to Saluda, Hender
sonville and other resorts. Asheville
people insist that they haye the finest
hotels in the South, and their claim
Is well founded. There are plenty of
golf and tennis and other outdoor
amusement, in addition to the moun
tain climbing.
Ore of the side trips offering in
ducements and attractions is that to
Wi ston-Salem, N. C, the home and
headquarters of the Moravians. A
few miles away is the hamlet of
Clemmons, the last relic of a once
flourishing colony of Quakers that
came from Pennsylvania about 1770
Those who go to Winston-Salem
should take the road from Charlotte
or Raleigh.
Reports agree that the direct con
nection from Jacksonville to Talla
hass»e is a hard road to travel and
well to avoid. Tallahassee, however,
{s In the midst of a good road section
and it may be reached with comfort
by driving from points south of Jack
sonville and St. Augustine through
Deland, Eustis, Leeshurg, Ocala
Gainesville, Lake \City, Live Oak
Madison and Monticello, or from
Tampa and points south due north tq
Brooksville, Ocala, etc.
This is the vear of all years for
the spreading of the good roads gos
pel and crusade in the South., Un
questionably the chstacle thus far has
been the farmer. This year, however,
he is rolling in wealth. Now or never
must he respond to the appeals of
the people of the c¥ies, and realize
that hard, smooth and weil-kept roads
will Increase the value of his lands
and open the world to him, und his
country to the world,
HEARST’S SUNDAY TRICAN .
S SUNDAY AMERICAN . A Newsvavner for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918,
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W. D. ALEXANDER.
Willlam R. Alexander has been ap
pointed manager of the Southeastern
department for the White Company,
succeeding Robert W. Woodruff, who
is now a captain of ordnance, U, S. A,
All of those acquainted with the auto
mobile trade {n this section know that
Mr. Alexander is an old-timer in the
game, having been marketing cars
and trucks in this territory for the
past ten years. He has been identi
fled with the White Company for the
past elght years as manager for At
lanta local and corporation sales. In
this capacity he has been the chief
factor in establishing White trucks in
this section. As a result of his keen
initiatlve and discriminating work,
the White has been adopted as the
standard motor equipment by hun
dreds of indlvidual firms as well as
Ey many prominent national buyers
in the South, including:
Southern Bell Telephone Company.
Southern Express Company.
Atlantic lece and Coal Corporation.
Red Rock Company.
Coca-Cola Company.
‘Western Electric Company.
City of Atlanta,
County of Fulton.
Standard oOil Company.
The teritory under management of
the Southeastern department includes
the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Eastern Tennessee, all under ex
perienced district managers.
The Carolinas will be under direc
tion of J. D. Allen, with sales and
service depot at Charlotte, N. C.;
Georgia and East Tennessee under W,
Henry White, with headquarters at
% Atlanta branch; Florida under L.
I.\ Bissell, with sales and service de
pot at Jacksonville; Alabama under
To the Public:
Automobile dealers and automobile
accessory dealers, members of the At
lanta Automobile Association, will re
main closed all tomorrow, Monday,
January 28th.
It is our purpose to co-operate with
and help the Government in every
way possible, and our members take
pleasure in complying with the order
as issued by Dr. Garfield.
ATLANTA AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION,
VMIODEL
l Another Big Drive
‘ ““Through out Charlotte branch we
are able to give our dealers the de
tafls of the last factory drive-away to
this section before bad weather sets
in,"" stated Mr. Martin, of the South
ern Oakland Company.
‘“T. J. Johnson, manager of the Ford
Auto Company, Wilmington, N. C.,
Oakland dealers, got together a party
and went up to Pontiac the first part
of December and drove. out flve tour
ings and three roadsters. . Raln and
heavy fce were encountered at the start,
causing very rough traveling. A thaw
set in as they moved southward, mak
ing the roads muddy and slow. How
ever, In spite of these drawbacks, they
report very little low-gear work.
“Outside a loose ignition wire and
lamp socket, four dirty spark plugs, a
few punctures and a dented fender, no
trouble worth mentioning was encoun
tered. This is a remarkable feat when
you consider the nature of the coun
try the gnrty traveled over and the
time of the year.
‘“Mr. Johnson reports careful attention
was given to gasoline consumgtlon.
each driver being closely checked up,
and as a result A record was estab
lished that is a credit to the car and
the I(brlver. J. N. Highsmith, of Cur
rie, N. C., made the best record, using
only b4} gallons of gasollue on the en
tire trip. This is a‘lr average of 21.4
miles to the gallon. he distance cov
ered was 1,170 miles. Mr, Johnson made
the next best record, averaging 20.7 for
the trl'),
“Dealers in the Carolinas who are in
terested as to the route chosen and
other detalls of this drive-away will do
well to get in touch with Mr. Johnson.
as his experlence in conduc(lnT such a
successful trls: will be valuable to all
;vho contemplate making one in the
uture,’’
Tire Prices Likely
- In a recent letter for Ed. C. xrfl’flth.
president of the Automobile Tir¢ Com
pany, Inc., of No. 16256 Broadway, New
\ank. he_ writes their manager of the
Atlanta “branch store that “befilnning
with January, 1915, and continuing up
to the present time, there has been an
average increase of about b per cent
monthly in the prices of fabrics for the
manufacture of tires.”
A total of over 130 per cent since Jan
vary, 1915, %0 per cent o;l this increase
occurred in the year 1%16, while the
increase in the price of tires to the
consumer durln% that year was only
about 10 per cent. In fact, the increase
in the cost of fabric since 1910 has been
150 per cent, and yet today manufac
turers are sehlnf better tires than were
made :\t that time for 25 per cent less
than the{' were sold for in 1910,
Mr. Griffith also states that the very
material increase in the cost of labor,
coupled with that of all ingredients en
{ering Into the manufacture of tires, has
kept the cost of production on a rising
scale. Crude rubber has not advanced
in proportion to other ingredients and
that fact In conjunction with reduced
factory costs, brought about by Im?rov
ed machinery, is accountable in a large
degree for the small increase in selling
price ps compared with the increase in
the cost of materials, labor, coal, ete.
War conditions of ever nature, com
bined with a scarcity and high prices
of fabrics and other materials, will
robably cause a considerable advance
rn tire prices in the very near future.
C. B. Cowan, with sales and-service
depot at Birmingham.
~ The personnel of the organization
‘remalins practically the same as it has
‘been for the past two years and there
is every assurance that sales of White
‘trucks will reach the utmost limit of
\war-!lme production.
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Meeting Wonderful Success in
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Reclaiming Old Worn |
Tires.
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Only a few weeks ago the Interna
tional Rubber,Company established an
agency here l‘:der the management of
D. B. Donaldson, and auto owners be
gan to rub their eyes and wake up to
the fact that it was no longer neces
sary to buy new tires at a dollar a
pound or junk an old one for 4 cents,
as Gates halfsole tires, made of the
very best rubber, can be applied, se
curing from 10,000 to 15,000 additional
miles, not-to speak of their beauty or
comfort,
Gates halfsole tires prove that when
you fill a real need in commerce you
can not keep business from your door.
Mr. Donaldson states that it is only
necessary to show the goeds. Every
man buys and becomes a circulating
salesman, eager to tell his friends.
There is another element that en
ters into the rapid success of Gates
halfsole tires at the present time,
however, and that is the conomy and
saving idea that prevalils throughout
the c«»mtry. Gates tires only cost
about one-third the price of a new
tire of equal quality.
They reclaim worn-out tires that
the auto owner has heretofore sold for
junk at a few cents per pound. The
Gates halfsole gives the old tire the
same appearance as a new one, as a
new nonskid halfsole is put on, and
none of the old tire is left visible.
Each tire covered carries a guarantee
of 3,500 miles without a puncture, and
many users are getting as much as
five, six and eight thousand miles.
The Gates company stands equarely
behind its guarantee against punc
tures, . g
Some of the most prominent motor- |
ists in Atlanta have the Gates half
soles on their tires, and so pleased
have they been with the results they
have written enthusiastic letters to
Mr. Donaldson regarding their merit.
It 1s safe to say that the tire junk
dealer is going to suffer a rcal,;lum?
in business as soon as motor car own
ers learn of the great saving they can
effect through the use of Gates half
soles.
THE EVIDENCE
SUPERIOR TRUCK CO. Is An Atlanta Institution
Local Industry Rapidly Gaining
Reputation Throughout the
| United States.
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~ The progress of Atlanta as an im
portant industrial center of the South
‘is emphasized this year by the ap
\pomtm?nt‘bf numerous State repre
sentatives throughout the country to
handle products of the Doss Rubber
and Tube Company to be manufac
tured, beginning next spring, at a
|!arge factory being built opposite
Fort McPherson. -
Indications are that this new local
industry soor will become one of the
Ilmding manufacturing plants of
Georgia. Dr. N, C. Dpss, president
lof the company, and inventor of the
patented puncture-proof inner tube,
has appointed representatives for the
following States:
Georgia, North and South Carolina,
Tennessee, Florida, Alahama, Kan
sas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Min
nescta, North and South Dakota, Mis
souri, Louisiana, Arkansas and Ken
tucky.
Agents will be appointed by these
men for various counties, cities and
towns in their respective States, and
it is expected that large quantities of
tubes will be on sale in nearly every
State in the country by next sum
mer.
According to the plans of directors
of the company, the new factory will
be completed by next May. The con
struction work has been retarded
during the winter as a result of un
favorable weather conditions.
~ Dr. Doss says he attributes the in
creased mileage obtained by a casing
equipped with his tube to two impor
tant factors: First, to maintalning a
constant air pressure because of the
absence of seepage and punctures,
and, second, to a greater resiliency,
lessening the shock and wear when
striking rocks and other obstructions.
After his product had attained its
preseit perfection, Dr. Doss ordered
many tubes manufactured, under his
direction by other rubber companies,
and lin each instance these tubes
withstood the severe tests applied by
experts, with excellent results. |
LEE HAGAN, Pres GUS T. DODD, Vice Pres. JOHN HAGAN, Supt.
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Jan. 9th, 1918
Superior Motor Truck Co.,
City,
Gentlemen: -
About one year ago we purchased a One Ton
Superilor Truck from you, which we have used con
stantly in the delivering of our goods and found
same very satisfactory.
We are in need of two more trucks and will
thank you to enter our order for two more of the
same size as the one previously bought from you and
rush the order thru and let us have them as quick
as possible.
3 Yours very truly
THE RED ROCK CO, -
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Stored for Winter
“It is only about five years ago that,
at the beginning of freezing weather,
owners of automobiles arranged to store
them for the winter,” said F'. H. Ren
gers, sales manager of the Moon Motor
Car Company. “The cars were then put
into storage and lifted on tire saving
‘jacka and not taken out until the fol
owing April, so that their use was
eliminated between November and April.
“Nowadays even the touring car can
be run all winter in comfort to passen-
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You Don’t Throw Your Shoes Away
~When the first sole wears thin—certainly not! You have them half
soled—because the upper parts of the shoes are just as good as
they ever were—and by half-soling them you have, at much less
cost, practically a new pair of shoes.
Exactly the same thing applies to your worn tires. W
Not only are Gates Half-Sole Tires made just like a new tire—
they WEAR just like a new tire and are GUARANTEED just the
same, plus these added advantages:
They are 99 per cent puncture proof.
They are protection against blow-outs.
They give you the advantage of over-size tires.
They cost approximately one-third the price of a corresponding
size of tire of the same quality.
You can test the resiliency and extreme toughness of the rub
ber yourself, as we have sections here for that very purpose—we
want you to see why and how they can be slipped on over your
worn tires and enable you to get 3,000 to 10,000 miles more service
—guaranteed without a puncture.
{Come in and see them or phone us and we’ll come and see you.
I ional Rubber Saies C
nternational Rubber daies Co.
345 Peachtree—lvy 656
gers, while the closed car is much more
pleasing as a vehicle than the ordinary
street car. With the use of proper anti
freeze compounds, the radiator does not
freeze and new devices make the car
easy to start. The winter no longer {s
a terror for the motorist or danger for
the motor car."” \
A Porto Rico illustrated journal in
dicates that the queen of dancers, Anna
Pavlowa, recently visited San Juan,
and created a stir among the dance
loving Porto Ricans with her inecom
parable pirouettes. The automobile
which she used during her stay on
the island was equipped with Good
year tires,
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