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The Marierta Journal
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The Marietta Courier
Consolidated Sept. 3, 1909,
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% THE AUTO TOURIST !}:
Idlehurst, Marietta, Ga., Jan. Ist.
Editor Journal and Courier:
Recently I have noticed in your
valuable paper a disposition on the
part of some of the progressive citi
zens’ of Marietta, to ‘‘go after’” that
“pig game” and fruitful source of
profit—tane auto tourist—who con
stantly ebb and flow within and
with-out the gates of the city in
such vast numbers like great flocks
of migratory birds seeking the sun
lit planes of a warmer clime. But‘
what profits us if we sit idly inert
or only passively gtnterested when‘
we hear W’t‘amiliar “Honk! ‘
Honk!”, agfthey speed onward. We
will derf\"a no more benefit than
would the huntsman who levels
his gun as the ‘‘flying squadon’ of
duck, geese, or twittering black
bird, yet sent no powder and lead
into the downy, whirring wings.
We must find a weapon as effective;
but made especially for the auto
tourist game. Other states have
found it, and are using it to their
own great profit and the pleasure
of the auto tourist—and that wea
pon is in its first and last analysis
—*Attractiveness!'”’ The auto |
tourist is a pleasure seeker. First
of all he must be interested and en
tertained in the manner peculiarly
his own. He seeks new perspec
tfves; new experinced peculiar to
the mood and mode that accompany
an anto tourist. The whole per
spective of the city dweller .as
changed the moment he enters his
car, seeking new evironments. In
the e¢ity ‘Comfort’ is his watch
word.
Not so with the auto tourist. He
has elected for the nonce the rugged
high road that leads back to Na
ture. Nature in ail her primary
grandeur such as the “Cave-Dwel
lers’’ knew. For him the gold of
the sunsets; tha royal purple of the
mountains veilea in their silver
mists: the music of the hidden cat
aract; the winds lullaby in soft or
strident tones. To sleep like his
fore-bears—in a fur robe unyder the
quiet stars; broil game over the rud
dy glow of a camp fire. All of these
the auto tourist seeks—and more!
He likes a broad, smooth, and open
road; a cheerful welcome and a
helping hand. The fresh air and
“speeding’ tarill has gotten in his
blood; has whettad his appetite
and restored strength, and the prim-
Itive instinct of muscle building.
For rest and refreshing, he seeks
the attractive road side Inn or Tour
ist Hotel that caters especially to
his well being, interest and com-
TOrE; that ‘‘spaed the devarting
guest’’ on his way rejoicing—in him
self, in the goodness of his fellow
man and the watchful care of a kind
Providence that directed his ma
chine over such a perfect ‘‘High
way’’ of beauty and smoothness: to
helpful fellowship of congenial
friendliness ‘“‘to the wayfarer and
stranger’’-—and the best place for
mutton chops and homemade pies!
For the auto tourist is gregarious
also, and true to tne spirit of mi
gration, will follow his leader in
any {flight that promises the best
sunlit planes of joy, diversion, beau
ty in Nature, homemade pies, or
. what mot—if others hkave found
what he secks. And for taose who
can give what he is looking for—
he scatters in return his gold with
a lavish hand. It is estimated that
in Canada alone last year, witn her
abundant garvest of wheat, bring
ing to the country, yields way up
in billions of dollars; yet her ‘“‘tour
ist yield” surpassed those figuross.
- Canada and the West have been a
live for some time to this great
and growing interest, and the won
derfully productive harvests being
reaped, through a sane and system
atic ‘“‘go after tnefn’ 2ffort.
Frederic J. Haskin, in a recent
Atlanta Journal, has this to say.
“The city of Pueblo, Col., has spared
ne pains to make these new gyp
sies (auto tourists) welcome and
comfortable, The park nas be>3n
rigged up as a camping ground with
as much apparatus as can be ad
mitted without spoiling the atmos
phere of wild life which the auto
travelers seek. A big stone fire
place has been built, over which a
dozxn different parties can cook at
once, each on its separate compart
ment. The city furnishes free fire
wood, and delivers it at the camp.
Water has been piped to the park
for tne special benefit of the auto
tourists. If there is anything :lse
the city can do for them it would
like to know it.
This town - is only one of
scores that are doing the same taing
on a larger or smaller scale; and
what the city is doing the county
and state are doing, not only in
Colorado, but in most of the moun
tain states. Colorado has carried
the program further tonan any of th 2
rest of theri, but they are all work
ing for the same end. They ara
out to get the auto tourist, whose
tribe is increasing with amazing ra
pidity.
The auto tourist is the newest
‘source of revenue in the rockies. In
Colorado h 2 classes ahead of the
cantaloupe and gives the sugar beet
?a aard run. For these new gyp
‘sies, unlike the old-fortune telling
breed, scatter gold instead of gath
ering it. To be specific, every au
tomobile that tours Colorado ieaves
in the state, an average of $350.
Then ne goes on to state how both
city, town, country and state work
together for tne comfort and pleas
ure of the auto tourist. State
lands are leased for the express pur
pose of setting aside tracts where
the campers may be undisturbed;
and no tourist is allowed to leave
the state dissatisfied if they can
prevent it, The people of the state
are being educated to realize the
value of tne tourist, and treat him
accordingly. He is welcomed by
land owner, city and state. Maps
are furnished him; weather and
road reports covering every section
of the state are gathered daily by
long distance telephone and put at
nis disposal. If the roads are be-
Ing worked or torn up, he lis in
formed, and is told how much ad
dittonal time .ae will need to go an
other way and where it will land
him at nightfall.
He is also instructed how to
drive over mountainous roads; and
some cities employ instructors just
to teacn the lowland motorist how
to drive the mountain roads. Thay
maintain regular instruction |
‘L’;I‘()Ulllls to show them how to c¢limb
without burning out their brake
I]ining‘s. and routes dre recommend
' ed according to the experiences of
the motorist. The wnole effort of
the state, official and unofficial, is
to see that the tourist gets through
his vacation without getting into
trouble; “that he enjoys all the
wild life compatible with comfort,
that he carries away a good impres
sion to make him come back next
year and bring his friends.”’
“But the biggest thing that the
Rockie Mountains region is doing
for the tourist and incidentally that
the tourist is doing for the RocKies,
is the great development that has
come in road building since his ad
vent,” says tnis writer. “Whole
counties are being transformed and
opened up by new highways. Funds
appropriated for roads are recog
nized as an investment that will
come back ten fold. Besides state
appropriations running into the
millions, counties are appropriating
on their own account. The county
of Pueblo has averaged $84,000 a
yYear for the last five years.” Now
whih Florida the mecca for tae
Northern tourist, and so many of
the multi-millionares hava their
ihmno in that state, who must neces
is;n-il_\' pass tnru Marietta on the
il\'atiu:ml Highway to reach them:
!\\'hy shouldn’'t Mariettg Rget ready.
j;:‘.m’. “bag’” some or all of the ‘“‘big
| game” ‘as it passes thru? Atlanta
Eis bidding high for it, and nas ba
| Bun a systematic campaign-flooding
%tho Florida hotels with booklets,
~ But for ner Golf Courses and bat
itlm‘ivhl sites, Atlanta cannot fur
inish the wild beauty and historie
iinn-z'c\'( that Marietta has in such
{an abundance in her Ko onnesaw
| Mountains, old Confederate forts and
| cannon pits made of grani.e rock:
| with scenic views from aer moun
jt;n’ns that Switzerland could hard
| ly surpass. I. who have watched
[ these mountains, clothed in the ver
‘!:EN garb of spring or decked in tne
{ roval robes of Autumn; sun kissed
and drenched in rain: know how
Eh»;mtit'ul they are, and worthy cof
our deepest reverence and undying
' remembrance. Sometimes when the
clouds gather and wrap them in
f'f_'!m)m. and they ecall to each otner
iin the thunders roar, and flashes
im light smites the darkness, I scem
;m See again that mighty struggle
}«)f “friend against friend., and bro
ther against brotaer.” I hear again
the cannons roar and the scream of
the piercing shell; the lightnings
jpl:l.\' is the light from a thousand
Buns. Digging among my roses [
have found shattered bombs, broken
and unexploded shells, and even a
cavalry spur! Was it fancy or trus
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
that when my crimson rose opened
its velvet petals to the sun, and I
bent and kidsed it, its fragrant
breath whispered to me of one who
had died for my Southland, and
whose life blood gave a richer glow
to my velvet rose than I had ever
seen? And does Marietta fully ap
preciate her wonderful heritage in
those beautiful Mountains and won
derful old Forts? And what a mec
ca it could be made for the auto
tourist going South and for even
those city dwellers in Atlanta, wao
could go and return in the after
noon, or camp for a day or two, ex-‘
ploring those wonderful forts that‘(
a good many people in Marietta do
not know exist—and breathing the
ozone from the moantains”
1 verily believe if the Norta or
West had those Forts and those
Mountains, they could pave the way
to them and arcund the mountains
with the tourists saining gold. If
I could, do you know what I would
do? I would have the city take
over that beautiful wooded grove
in front of Idlzhurst, convert it into
a Tourist Camping Ground, put in
water (a bold sprinz runs at the
foot of this gnoll, whicy faces the
mountaing and gives a splendid
view of the beautiful valley, thru
which Sherman came with his
hosts) build a big stone fireplace,
sucn as Pueblo did, a barbecuing
pit, a Golf and Tennis Course
(charge so much a game as they
do in Atlanta, which would soon
pay for thz building). Then build
a splendid Sand-Concrete road such
as they are using in Florida __just
half tne cost of asphalt, and they
claim much better—around ‘the
mountaing. Get some one to run a
jitney line on this road or extend
the interurban; advertise the Camp
Ground Park, the Forts, and make
mountain climbing popular—then
watch the tourists come! My! the
town couldn’t hokd them. Listen
again to what Mr. Haskin said of
Pueblo:
“One autumn evening a few weeks
ago the city park presented a curi
ous appearance to the visitor. 1t
looked like the old ‘Pike Peak Or
Bust’ days had come back witn a
difference. Instead of the six horse
prairie schooners, ths park was
crowded with automobiles. There
were forty-four of them on ¢that
particular evening, representing a
score of different shapes, makes and
sizes, and as many different states
of tne wunion. Their ownars were
encamped by the side of them, their
tents pitched, their evening fires
lignted, the beefsteak sizzling in
the frying pan.”
Now, what Pueblo has done Mari
etta can do, with a little work and
hearty co-operation in town and
country. llf cthe city will take care
of the camp and the roads, I will
see that Idlehurst furnishes; .'t'he
“‘road side Inn’’ for the rest and re
freshment—with /plenty of “mut
ton chops, friend chicken and home
made pies,” and a hearty welcome,
Not only would the Tourist Camp
and Confederate Forts, well adver
tised, prove a great attraction to
the passing tourist and the pleasure
seekers from Ana'nta. and inciden
tally their ‘“harvest of gold”, but
Maridtta and the whole county
would benefit in better roads, so
cial intercourse, new interests, and
in better health in getting back to
Nature; and a highar appreciation
of what Nature has given in her
beautitul Mountains, A ‘"home
tourist’” has this to say of “A Camp
fire Sunset”—“lf you want to have
a real time one of these fine after
noon, put on an old sweater and get
a little outfit ready for a hike out
of town and a hot steak in the open
;in the afterglow of one of those gor
g2ous sunsets. A toaster, a knife,
tin cups and a coffee pot are big
gest part of tne paraphernalia. Take
steak a half inch thick—don’t have
them too thick.. Take a 'loaf of
bread or rolls, some picklas, i
coffee and cream.
Fasten the toaster to a long ti.ick
branch and put the steak i doe
toaster and over the hot coals of
a wood fire. Place the steak be
tween the bread as soon as it is
{ taken from the coals, season and
Iv;u. Sit around the fire a littie
| while afterwards; then go aome
]night's sleep as you haven't enjoved
iin a long time. * Maybe you don’t
11(11(»\\' the wonder of the air and
gsnnsvt and tae smell of burning
'\\'uu‘i'.’ Maybe you don’'t know how
the wonder of an open fire in the
;m::ht aind millions of stars over
{ head ?
i Maybe you thought vou had to wait
]l‘3l‘ that long vacation trip you
Ih:n'o ba2en planning in tae future,
| when you wonld be free to live in
lthe open a while. This sort of
ithingx is waiting for you just out
| of town.
{ ADA T. RALLS-WALDRIP,
l COOK—CARNES.
| Miss Nell Cook and Mr. George
Carnes were married Friday evening
at the home of Judge Greer who
officiated. At present they are
‘Evisiting in Woodstock .
Interesting Letter About Big Overland
Automobile Plant From Mr. J. E. Delk
The following lettzr is from Mr.
James E. Delk, who is tae Over
land dealer in this city, who is
one of the 5,000 dealers visiting the
great Toledo plant in connection
with the immens:z convention now‘
in progress, recounts his experi
ences in this entertaining letter to
the editor:
Dear Jee*
Some action!
Nothing was ever so impressive
as our toup of the great plant that
turns out Willys-Overland cars.
Our pullmans all parked in the
company yards. There was room
enough, for there are seven and
three-quarter miles of track within
the plant.
Each man got a card’ containing
a picture of Mr. Willys and an au
tographed message of wezlcome from‘
him. Next thing I knew we were
lined up on the steps of the stun—i
ning new adminstration building
getting photographed. |
Elevators shot us to the com
pany’s own restaurant on the sixth
floor. There we had a corking
breakfast. At each plate was a copy
of the live mnew Willys-Overland
house organ ‘“'The Starter’”. It
mapped our day’s program.
Then started qur tour of the
plant.
Our guides were carefully picked
men. They knew the plant from
end to end, and the parties were
small so that each member of the
party could have his questions an
swered.
Nobody ought to try to sell Wil
lys-Overland product without know
ing this plant. You cant grip the
immensity of the proposition till
you do.
It is no piker business,
$25,000,000 are tied up in land,
buildings and machinery not to say
a word about the stock of parts and
raw material.
From the roof of the wonderful ad
ministration building which stands
out like a state capitol, you get a
panorama of the planf. You can then
readily believe that it occupies 103
acres, 4,486,680 square feet of floor
space in daily use and a production
capacity of 1000 cars per day.
You can appreciate the growth
from 250 employes in 1908 to 17,
200 in 19186.
1,000 persons, more than the en
tire force of many a company, work
in the administration building a
lone. This structure, 375 feet long,
has every facility for rapid work,
including dictaphones, its own tele
graph and telephone system, and a
mail handling department that does
about everything but write the let
ters.
388 persons can be fed in the
restaurant at one time.
But this is nothing to what hits
when you cross into the shops. It
is a whirl of action, yet all is sys
tem.
Parts by the untold thousands are
here with a value into the millions
of dollars. There ara lines of motors
I never saw so many crank shafts
together. Our guide said 6,000 —
I'd have believed 60,000.
~ There is a stock in bins, stock
in yards, stock along the walls, con
‘necting rods, frames, fenders, mud
iguards, hoods, rims, springs, axles,
torsion tubes, transmission gears,
shafts, brake parts, steering rods,
ipodals——it, is an unending proces
sion.
| Every 30 days sees an avarage of
1000 tons of steel come in. It is
“handled by a magnetic crane that
;enubles two men to do a work that
formerly required thirty.
~ There ar2 amazing machines,
1 The toggle press, for example,
held us all. This monster, with its
iprossm'o of 1000 tons, shapes cold
}stvol like cardbbard. A piece of
' metal fed to it come out as a side
frame. It can make 2000 ¢f these
in an eight hour day.
‘ Other mighty machines stamp
i(ml radiatphr shalls, fienders, cowl
' dashes and doors.
} You take off your hat to the
~drop forging machines. Down comes
!tho hammer and the fiery piece of
}imn is beaten into shape. The
complete drop forging of the front
;;xxle can be accomplished with one
heat, ¢
| Every kind of part requiring
strength was drop forged while we
looked on, axles, crank shafts, brake
assembly rods, brake and control
rods, spring shackles, gear blanks
and brake rod sectors.
We saw the company's accurate
system of die making. It calls for
a special workman on each detail.
One works on the shaper, another
on the planer and a third on dia
sinking.
The multiple spindle drill in one
operation drills all the holes in the
front axle. This is a guarantee
that each will be in right relation
to the other.
It was hard to drag us away from
the automatic turrat lathe that sur
faces and finishes fly wheels. It
works as though somewhere within
its metal vitals a brain was con
cealed. The workman has only
to put on the rough fly wheel, adjust
the first st of tools, push the lever
and let thz machine do the rest.
The cast iron is peeled off as read
ily as wax. Sometimes four or five
operations are performed at once.
When one set of cutting is done,
the machine stops automatieally,
and the next set of tools comes au
tomatically into places. Twenty
operations are performed in four
teen minutes. 26 pounds of metal
are removed from the wheel. One
man can watch three of these ma
chines.
The vertical cuttzp of gears on
fly wheels almost matches the tur
ret lathe in interest.
Moving up and down, the cutter
at the same time slowly revolves,
the fly wheel turning in the oppo
site diraction. By the time a com
plete revolution of the fly wheel
has been accomplished, all the gearsl
are cut.
We all fell for the aluminum
foundry and for the machines that
finish the aluminum parts.
The multiple spindle drill bores
81 holes in the crank cas2 in one
operation. This is a proof of the
superiority of machine processes,
for the holes must be in:the right
relation to each other.
Another machine smooths the
surfaces of the crank cases, finish
ing seven in nine minutes.
Diamonds, rsal diamonds, are
consumed with apparently reckless
indifference in the wet grind room.
Placed in small tools they are used
to true the emory wheels on which
are ground the bearing surfaces of
the crank shafts.
They are bought in $15,000 lots.
We looked on while whole forests
of lumber were being turned into
bodies in the wood work depart
ment. This lumber comes in by
car loads. As 214 feet of wood is
raquired on a small touring car, we
could readliy see why so much was
required.
You make this round and you can
understand this company’s immense
consumption of material 18,000,000
ipounds of solder annually, 2,500,-
000 pounds of tin and lead for
smoldering, 10,000,000 pounds o.f'
brass and copper, 12,000,000 feet
of steel tubing and 125,000 tons of
steel.
But what impressed me mora than
all was the department in which
materials are tested. They have
to know a thing is right before it
goes into a Willys-Overland car.
That’s how they safeguard the pub
lic.
Tests: in the physical and
chemical laboratories are made
in two ways. Com;‘eted steel
parts are subjected to terri
fic ' tests. Axels are twisted like
rolls of taffy candy. Small bits
of steel, six inches long, cut from
completed axles are attached at
both ends, and literally pulled a
part. The registering machine
shows 200,000 pounds to the square
i inch necessary to accomplish this,
whereas a resistance up to 125,000
pounds would be proof of ample
tensile strength. Springs are tried
for their resistance.
Steel articles are also put through
both heat and chemical tests. The
former determines the amount of
carbon, an important factor; the
other determines the chemical com
position of the stzel.
Naturally every operation in the
plants tends finally toward the ad
sembly conveyor tracks. There are
i four of them, each 645 feet long.
1 We followed the whole operation.
| We began at one 2nd where the
| frames and rear systems are put
| in place. By the time the otler
'end of the conveyor is reached the
| frame has grown into the finishad
car.
. From overhead parts are lowered
by chains. Along the way men are
attaching the parts. The frame is
'not in motion all the time, but can
be instantly connectad with the
links of an endless chain and sent
on its way whenever desired.
Top quality of workmanship is
| assured by having each man do
'work on which he is an expert, it
it be only to tighten a bolt,
| Lines of motors, already tested,
wait on both sides of the conveyor.
‘These are put into place, cantilever
springs are put on, steering me
chanism and lighting and starting
systems are adjusted. Gradually the
car takes form.
Instrad of painging the chassis
with a brush a sprayer is use. 1t
does the work more rapidly, more
uniformly and at a lower cost.
The tracks of the assembly lead
directly through ovens in which
the paint is baked. Fenders and
running boards come into their%
places. ‘
Wheels with the tires on are
brought along on a runway. First%
comes a front wheel, than a rear,
Friday Morning, January sth, 1917.
wheel. You ought to see them put
on the tires. It is lightning. By
a special device, invented by one
of the men in the department, the
tire can be put on a wheel in three
seconds.
From overhead bodies are dropped
down on to the chassis and soon
made fast.
The car is now ready for its
tests. Rapidly revolving wheels in
the floor engage the wheels of the
car, and send them at high speed
to make sure that they are operat
ing freely. This is not a tast un
der the power of the car.
Gasoline and water are then put
into the car. It is pushed off the
track into another room, till its
wheels are in contact with wheels
in the floor.
With the use of the self-starter,
the machine gets its first chance
to prove the success of its con
struction.
It surprised me the way the mo
tors started. They were off with
a rush. There was no hitch or de
lay. All the work had been done
right. In a few minutes the motor
means of solving the dye problem,
was working apparently almost as
smoothly as if it had been a year
on the road.
- We saw how the cars were shipp
2d. The export department has
the big feature in this line. The
finished car undergoes preparation
by having its wheels taken off and
fastened on the under side of the
frame which forms the top covering
for the car.
~ The top is covered with tar paper
as a protection against thz elements
‘and all is securely boxed.
Along comes a big crane running
in an overhead groove 'a quarter
of a mile long. The operator sits
in a small cab not unlike that of
a rpilroad engineer. Chains 'grab
the box containing the car, and
within forty-five seconds have car
riead it outside the building and
placed it on the flat freight car.
It ts processes like these, all that
I have described, that explain why
every car in the Willys-Overland
line is what it is at so low a cost.
Making so many is the answer,
making them to go all over the
world and having profited by tha
experiences of users everywhere.
Quantity production, immense and
costly machines, skilled designing,
careful inspection, accurate tests
of material, efficient factory meth
ods, rapid assembly and advanced
methods of handling, all these we
saw; all these tell why tha Willys-
Overland Company lives up to its
ideals of a car for every need or
taste, .price, class and service right.
We saw the line. It is quality
from the lowest pricad to the head
liner. It will be the marvel of the
automobile shows.
This sightseeing tour is only one
angle of this convention. Tonight
we will hear policy defined by th:
various officials.
The two-day’s program includes
a rollicking beefsteak dinner, a
more formal banquet, a minstrel
show, a concert by the famous Over
land Band and a concert by the
Glze Club.
Finally there will be a speech by
the moving genius of it all, Mr.
Willys himself.
You will agree with me that this
is some project to have been put
over all within one plant and by
the people of the organization.
Yours truly,
SJIM DELK.
FROM OUR CUBAN CORRESPON
DENT.
Bahia Honda, Cuba,
Dec 25th, 1916.
Hello Marietta!
Christmas here and thermometers
90 in the shade, nobody wearing
much clothes, Palm Beach suits too
‘heavy, no collars nor neckties to
‘worry a fellow. No lawyers, doe
tors or preachers but ‘plenty of
horses, pretty women, game cocks,
oranges, tangerines, grape fruit,
bananas, pineapples;: ete. On this
ranch alone there are 28,000 trees
iand I am assistant to the adminis
trator and have my own horse and
‘man. ’
| Happy New Year to all!
C. H, FREYER.
On tne other side of the large
card on which this letter was writ
ten is a picture of El Templete, the
Havana Chapel which is a memorial
to Christopher Columbus erected
on tne spot where the first mass was
celebrated in 1519 and where the
body ,of Columbus rested before it
was sent to Spain to rest in the
cathedral.
$5.00 REWARD.
LOST—BETWEEN 106 WRIGHT
STREET AND THE RAILROAD
CROSSING ON WHITLOCK AVEN
UE, A SMALL GOLD PIN WITH
LEILA BOND PLANT ENGRAVED
ON THE BACK. REWARD OF
$5.00 FOR ITS RETURN TO MRS.
FRANK FENN, 106 WRIGHT
STREET. Jl2
