San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 220, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 8, 1915 Page: 55 of 66
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5AN ANTONIO FXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1915.
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SAN ANTONIO MOTORISTS NOW, MORE THAN EVER, ARE ENJOYING THE THRILLS
TO BE OBTAINED FROM TOURING FAR AND WIDE IN THEIR OWN AUTOMOBILES
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BET1ER CM ALSO
INCREASED PRODUCTION PER-
MITS THIS COMPANY TO
TAKE SENSATNONAL STEPS.
—two inches longer than on the original
Jeffrey Four—giving an ease of riding at
high speeds over country roads not tounci
elsewhere except in the highest priced
cars.
It Is said that the new Four Is even
smoother, quieter and more powerful than
the original car. Those who have ridden
in it are enthusiastic over its freedom
from vibration at hlgn speeds, and its
ability to hold the road and maintain high
average mileage on cross-country trips.
In building the new Four it has been
the aim of engineers to produce a car
which would even exeell the original
Four In tire and gasoline economy—at
the same time offering the public an auto-
mobile of standard seven-passenger capac-
ity, so that the average owner who in-
sists on quality and who frequently wants
to take out more than five passengers,
could satisfy these needs without pnj'lng
a high price to start with, and without
footing big gasoline and tire bills each
season. . ..
I Figures gathered from owners on tire
mileage, gasoline consumption, repairs
and replacements covering a period of,
years come as a revelation to the aver-
age ' automobile owner, whether he has
been driving a low priced or a high priced
car. For example, on the Jeffrey tour
the average owner's cost for Darts In the
nast two and a half years has been but
$5.09. t ,
One of the chief reasons why such excel-
lent results have been attained la said by
official^ to be the fact that the car is 93
per cent built in the Jeffrey plant. J*rac"
ticallv every operation is under ihe direct
control of Jeffrey inspection. Standards
are Insisted on throughout. The company
The spectacular feature of the 1916 plan?
announced today by the Thomas P
Jeffrey Company of this city is the new
Jeffrey Four, with enlarged seven-passen-
ger capacity body. The price is reduced
It is handled here by the Standard Motor
Sales Company.
-The Jeffrey Company also announces the
Jeffrey Six, with the same specifications
as the Jeffrey Chesterfield *Ux, which
sold in large volume during the past
year. The silent worm drive, Lanchester
cantilever springs and other rotable fea^
tures which have made the Chesterfield
a leader among lighj sixes will be con
tinued in the new Six in addition to cer
tain refinements, making for even smooth
he'chief "emp'h a sis, however, of the Jef- f^^^^Tenb u7oVparts^muierl" Snd
tre.v Company will be placed on the new directly respotfelble to the public for
Four. In discussing the Jeffrey plans. Quality of its automobiles.
for the coming year, E. S. Jordan, genera' t The bod'v of the new Four Is of the
sales manager and secretary of the conv , tlnct(ve ' Chesterfield type—combining
pany, said: "In offering the Jeffrey Four . of llne wlth comfort and roominess,
to the American public It is not the pur- f- an individuality which appeals to
'people looking for a car that wll. stand
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Already Monster Concern Finds It
Necessary to Expand Farther to
Meet Demands.
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pose • of the Jeffrey Company to meet
temporary price conditions nor to compro-
mise with au imagined desire on the part
of dealers and public for cheapness. On
the contrary, it Is the aim anil deter
ruination of the Jeffrey Company to es
tablish the Jeffrey Four as r» standard
:ar at a standard price.
"The new price Is the direct result of
the continued popularity and constantly
Increasing demand for the Jeffrey tour
This has brought about large stale pro-
duction with its consequent economies. >\e
have reduced selling expense and
'"^ead. We have cut the margin of profit
We have introduced certain advanced
methods of construction which save monej
and we are now able to give the publie
more car than has heretofore lc-en pos-
slble to give at the original pvlce.
"We have refused to g£> below the $l,ouu
price because we have found it impossible
to produce a quality car at less than
SI,000. We are not charging more because
we have perfected a car which in quality,
ease, comfort, efficiency and economy will
satisfy the most critical buyer, not onlj
al the time of purchase, hut after he has
driven the car for a number of seasons.
"One of the most important things
which we have accomplished is the solu
tion of the depreciation problem. Auto-
mobile owners can now buy this car and
drive It for a number of seasons without
suffering the marked depreciation which
has been such an unfortunate feature or
the automobile business. The p,-ice is a
standard price—the car is a standard car
We offer the Jeffrey Four this year
as the standard American automobile at
a standard price." .
The new car, it is further stated at the
Jeffrey factory, is not a compromise in
'any sense of the word. It has been built
to maintain and increase the reputation
of the original Jeffrey Four. '1 his was
the car, it will be remembered, which in-
troduced the high speed type of motor in
this country. Its remarkable road per-
formance in the hands of the thousands
of owners during the past two and one-
half years has given it un enviable place
among the high grade Fours.
It will be seen from this that there Is
nothing experimental about the new Jef-
frey Four. The only mechanical changes
are* matters of simplification, making for
less weight and greater accessibility. The
new car weighs but 2,i.>0 pounds—20(1
pounds lighter than last year. The motor
Is essentiallv the same, but develops more
power on the hills than last year. The
unit power plant makes for greater sim-
plicity and accessibility.
The starting and lighting system is the
famous liijor, the same as used by Pack-
ard The Stromberg Model Kl'.J carbu-
retor has proved out u wonderfully eco-
nomical gas user and a great developer
of power and speed. The clutch is of the
dry disc tvpe. The rear axle is Jeffrey-
built, of the same type used by Plerce-
Arrow. The rear springs are extra length
out from the ordinary.
With these two automobiles, the Jour
and Six, combined with the famous Jeffrey
Quad, the truck that drives, brakes and
steers on all four wheels, the ccwpany is
looking forward to a year of unexampled
prosperity.
Sam Crawford Is Long
Hitter; Others Hit Hard
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Hugh Jennings
says Crawford is tbe hardest hitting bats-
man of any time. Crawford leads in long
hits, which goes a good way toward
proving Jennings' assertion. The matter,
however, has its ramifications.
There are or have been batters who
drove the hall away from the bat with as
much velocity as Crawford imparts, but
who didn't make as many long hits because
they didn't give as much loop to the drive.
Tbe ball went straighter and hadn't the
Crawford lift to carry loug distances; that
is, tbe lift and the impetus-combined, the
compound force which Crawford excels in
bestowing. Delehanty, Lajoie and Anson
are three who probably landed as bard as
Crawford, but sent the ball away on u
line oftener. As a hard straightaway bat-
ter Anson never had a superior. Zimmer-
man and Saler are two of the best of the
present at driving the leather with clean,
swift velocity—it seems to jump like a
swift pitch—and Wagner In his heydey
could hit it through an infield so fast
tbe only way to locate it was by Its whis-
tle. Keep your eye on Jacques Fournier
of the White Sox as a savage hitter. When
he does land good there Isn't anybody can
make the ball spring off the wood with
better applied power or deafer speed.
"Hanlon," said Jennings, "won the pen-
nant in 1894 with fourteen men. lie had
seven fielders, two ditchers ami 41 ve pitch-
ers. He had no extra outfielder and no
extra inflelder. Keeler piayed a couple of
weeks with a felon on his finger. Men
didn't want to get out of the game in those
days. Five pitchers are better than nine.
Knowing about these extra men the fan
nowadays veils 'Take him out,' when It
would be better for that particular pitcher
and the whole staff for him to stay in and
work out his own salvation. Then he'd
learn to pitch."
Large additions more than equaling th«
size of the average American uutomobile
plant are being started at the Overland
factory in Toledo.
According to officials of the company,
the additions to the factory alone will be
equivalent to almost twenty-three acrei
of floor space. In addition to the fac-
tory extenstons, there will be a new of-
fice building (53x373 feet.
One of tne new factory structures will
contain twenty acres of floor space and
will be nearly three times the size of tb«
original Pope plant, when taken over by
John N. Willys, president of the Willys-
Overland Company. This building will be
five stories high, 400 feet wide and 400
feet deep. It will be used for final test-
ing. body assembling and finishing and
will contain 800,000 square feet of floor
space.
This building will contain even more
floor space than the one recently com-
pleted for the Overland, which was 1,000
feet long. 2(<- feet wide and three stories
high, and said to be the largest single
factory building in the world. The new
assembling and finishing building will,
upon its completion, give the Toledo plant
the distinction of having two of the larg-
est single factory buildings ever con-
structed.
The enameling department will hare «n
extension put on it containing 3,500 square
feet of floor space. This shop, without
the new addition. Is said to be one of
the largest and best equipped in the in-
dustry. The sixteen large, electrically
heated ovens have a capacity for turning
out 140 tons of enameled product every
ten hours. It is declared by electrical
engineers that the power consumed by
these monster furnaces Is fully as great
as the power required for lighting a city
larger than Toledo.
The pattern shop will be enlarged by a
tliree-story, fireproof addition, eighty-
three feet wide and 100 feet long. Tills
new building will add 25,000 square feet of
floor space to the department. The dry
kiln building will be Increased In size
bv a two-storv fireproof extension, 145
feet by 107 feet, containing 31,000 square
feet oi floor space. . ,
The original Pope buildings, facing ( en
tral Avenue, will be rebuilt and enlarged
bv 53,000 square feet of floor space. They
will be made fireproof throughout.
In addition to the enlargements of the
factory proper, the demand for more of-
fice room has been such as to require
new office quarters and the old wooden
buildings will give way to a new admin-
istration building. The plans call for a
seven-storv fireproof structure, made of
steel and tile throughout. The new office
quarters, when completed, will contain
165,000 square feet or practically four
acres of floor space. .
It is declared that this greater produc-
tion space has been made Imperative by
the tremendous demand for the two new
cars just announced by the Willys-Over-
land Company. Although a big sale of
these cars was predicted, the volume of
orders received has been greatly In excess
of anything that could be foreseen. Al-
though the production of the Overland
Company is larger than ever before In Its
history, and is steadily Increasing, the
factory finds it impossible to gain oil
the orders that keep pouring In from all
sections of the country.
A COLLEGE COURSE BY REELS
The Movie Men Will Be Our Educa-
tors, Says an Enthusiast.
Samuel L. Rothepfel, at a dinner given
recently at the Hotel Astor, predicted that
the future college student's schedule will
look something like this: Economics, four
reels h week; English, six reels; Latin and
(Ireek, one reel each; French, three reels;
history, ten reels.
In case this seems a bit out of the or-
dinary academic procedure it may be ex-
plained that Mr. Rotliepfel believes that
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Whetlbaw; 35" Ttreti'
Cantilever Spring!.
That's about the first thing you will notice wfien
you ride in the Saxon "Six"—power, continuous,1,
irresistible fluid power. Power that pulls—for
fast driving, or steady hill climbing, or heavy
going in sand and mud
For your touring car you ought to have a "Six."
Nothing less than a six-cylinder motor can give you
the same flexibility, comfort and ease in driving.
Why try to be satisfied with any other type of motor when
you can have a " Six" for $785—the Saxon' 'Six'' touring car.
The Saxon "Six" is a really new and up-to-date car—
beautiful in design, elegant in appointments, reliable in
mechanical features. It is by far the fastest selling
low-priced "Six." See it and be convinced.
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E. H. LABADIE AUTOMOBILE CO.
Main Office and Salesrooms 232 Avenue C
Phone Crockett 7807
REMEMBER—We give you coupons for free service—they pay the bill.
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the constant Improvements In motion pic-
tures will lead to their introduction In the
curricula of schools and colleges.
"Pass your history exams?" the college
youth of will query.
When you have TIRE TROUBLE, don't "Get Out and Get Under
JUST SAY CROCKETT 515 IN A TELE HONE
Call our little red service cars—they're free.
?<bor?onN„r^ p- * QUICK TIRE SERVICE
H. L. WiUiford, Secretary. « (INCORPORATED)
"Naw, I couldn't remember what Von
Mackensen did In the third reel Just after
he entered Lemberg," his classmate wtt
reply.—New York Tribune.
ONE THOUSAND MILES ON LOW GEAR
WITHOUT STOPPING MOTOR
WESTERN UNION
NiaHT LETTER
THEO. N. VAIL, President.
RECEIVED AT 671
B 18 BA CS 63 NL
Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 4, 191o.i
BIRDS0NG & P0TCHERNICK 671 „
124 Ave. D, San Antonio, lex.
McCormach in Franklin finished approximately
I 000 miles run low gear at San Francisco 5:50
P M tonight. Left Walla Wall, Wash., morning
August 1st, 6:10, engine ran continuously, per-
fect performance, route via iJkiah, Mount Virnon,
Bums, Harvey Desert, Lakeview, Reading, Winters.
High and second gears removed and transmission
sealed. Car officially inspected and affidavit
made at finish by representative observers of ^
San Francisco. FRANKLIN AUTO CO. .
3 A. M.
This wonderful record made with that most wonderful of all cars
THE FRANKLIN AIR-COOLED CAW
average of 12 milts
Saturday.
Tim* 3 days, 11 hours, 41 mlnutas ©r S3 JJSU
per hour. Our lint shipment of the Riew series should •nrlve
COME IN AND SEE THEM.
BIRDSONG & POTCHERNICK
124-128 AVENUE D
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