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—SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1912.
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AUTOMOBILE SECTION
BIG FIELD FOR LOW-
PRICED CARS .ABROAD
Mr. J. R. Drake, treasurer of the
Hupp Motor Car Co., is making his
second tour of the world In a Hup-
iuobile, and just before stepping
aboard the Lusitania he gave out the
following on the motor car export
trade. "I wish once for all," said Mr.
Drake, “to quell this bugaboo about a
slump in the export trade. There's
nothing in it. I have read lately a
great many articles in magazines,
newspapers, etc., regarding the com-
bine of certain European manufac-
turers to place on the market a low-
priced car to -supplant the American
cars which have such a strong hold
on the foreign motor buyers.
"If they do it, 1 will be greatly sur-
prised for they will have to show far
more business ability than they have
previously displayed. In the fall of
1910 I made a trip around the world
in a Hupmobile touring car. The
business side of the trip was to inves-
tigate automobile selling conditions in
foreign countries, particularly in ref-
erence to low-priced cars and, to form
an estimate of the possibility of an
international selling campaign for our
product.
"The results of this trip firmly con-
vinced me that there is, and will be
for years to come, a tremendous field
for the exploitation of American low-
priced cars in every country abroad
where automobiles are used.
“The failure of practically all for-
eign motor car builders to adopt mod-
ern methods leaves them far in the
rear of their American rivals and I
really think it is now too late for
them to overtake competition.
“The American cars have a strong
foothold on the European market and,
as we do not make any particular ef-
fort to reach foreign buyers—that is,
not on that elaborate scale which we
employ here in the United States—it
is a sugnificant tribute to American
success that the Hupmobile export
business increased last year nearly
400 per cent."
EVOLUTION OE GAS ENGINE.
Wonderful Growth of Gas Engine In-
dustry Since First Machine Built.
When the first horseless wagon was
driven along the streets of Manhattan,
it, w as Considered one of the most mar-
velous inventions of the age and much
curiosity was evinced over the means
adopted to propel the vehicle. Now,
with thousands of automobiles form-
ing a large proportion of New York
street traffic, it is no longer a mat-
ter of conjecture as to the why and
liow of the motive power employed.
The general public has long grasped
the rudimentary principles of the au-
tomobile’s motive power and know
that the motion is internal.
The evolution of the gas engine Is
Meet me at
CHARLEY CRAIG’S
BAR
TRUST BUILDING.
Entrance on Stanton Street.
CARS FOR HIRE
Limousine and Chalmers Six
Seven Passenger Cars.
CALL PHONE 712.
one of the romances of the century.
The process of evolving the gas engine
as known at the present day is not a
matter of the last thirty or forty years,
when the first patent on gas engines
was taken out by Dr. Otto, the Nestor
of gas engine builders, but of 160
years' ceaseless experiment.
The commercial history of the gas
engine dates from 1876, but long be-
fore that inventors had been at work
attempting to use gas for producing
motive power and it is known that ex-
periments were conducted in the years
before 1794, when the first patent was
taken out, when an explosion engine
was suggested. In ims patent of
Streets, the inventor, the explosion
was caused by vaporizing spirits of
turpentine on a heated metal surface,
mixing the vapor with air in a cylin-
der, firing the mixture and driving a
piston by the explosion produced.
The majority of the earlier gas en-
gines were products based on the idea
that a mixture of inflammable gas
and air gave an explosion when ig-
nited, thereby producing pressure
which could be applied in a cylinder
to propel a piston.
The earliest internal combustion en-
gine was produced in the year 1820,
when an Englishman constructed an
engine to operate on the explosion
vacuum method, using hydrogen gas
as a base of his explosive mixture,
mixing it with air. This engine was
successful and ran with great regu-
larity at sixty revolutions per minute.
It was not found to be of practical
use, owing to the enormous amount of
noise made by the explosions- In the
same year, a Professor Parish intro-
duced an engine run by the explosions
of gunpowder in a cylinder and these
two are the earliest practicable en-
gines that were used in the world.
The first of the internal combustion
engines which was really put to prac-
tical use was invented by Samuel
Brown. His idea was based on the
condensing engine invented by Watts
and was used to propel a road carriage
and to drive a boat on the river
Thames in England. Several attempts
were made between the years 1838 and
I860 to produce commercial gas en-
gines, but they w-ere all more or less
failures until W. Drake of New York
found a means of firing a gaseous
mixture with a piece of metal raised
to incandescence. Using Drake’s idea
of ignition, Lenoir, a Frenchman, in-
vented the first gas engine that found
a commercial use, at the same time
using valves which at certain turns
of the flywheel drew in a charge and
closed the cylinder during the firing.
About 600 of these engines were in
actual operation, hut the gas consump-
tion was excessive, preventing their
general adoption. No real commercial
success was obtained by the gas en-
gines, chiefly owing to their not being
found economical units as compared
w-ith the steam engine, until Dr. Otto
and Langen exhibited their free piston
engine at the Paris exposition. This
engine was the first four cycle, or as
then known, Otto cycle, and is the
base of practically all internal com-
bustion engines constructed today.
With Otto perfecting his engine,
other inventors were busy w-ith a two
cycle type of engine, and soon patents
were brought out by Clerk, Robson
and Atkinson. The difference between
the two kinds of engines is that in the
four cycle type the explosion occurs
once in every four revolutions of the
flywheel, and in the two cycle typo
fires once in every two revolutions.
With the lapse of the Otto patents, in-
ventors turned their genius to perfect-
ing the four cycle type of engine. With
the discovery of petrol or gasoline a
mode was found for vaporizing the
fluid and igniting it by electricity and
finally Its anniication to road vehicles.
In the meantime gas engfnes were
largely used in pow-er plants, and In
places where natural gas exists it has
usurped steam entirely for all prac-
tical purposes-
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QUICK RUN TO FIRE.
The city of Saltna, Kansas, tested
a new KlsselKar Truck in the service
of its fire department the other day
with remarkably gratifying results.
According to the Salina Daily Jour-
nal, the alarm answered was record-
ed at 8:59 1-2 a. m.
“At 9:02 a. m.,” says the Journal,
"one hundre4 and fifty secondB later,
the machine had covered the dis-
tance, more than a mile, one hundred
feet of hose had been laid, the water
turned on and a stream was playing
on the pavement."
Salina now has a complete motor
fire truck equipment, and has discard-
ed every horse in Its service.
MANY OWN AUTOS.
One Person Out of Every 30 In Cali-
fornia Has a Car.
To every thirty Californians there
is one owner of an automobile. This
to many will seem almost incredible,
but it is official. The population of
California at the last government cen-
sus in 1910 was 2,377,649 and the
number of licenses issued for automo-
biles from January 1st to June 20th
In this year of 1912 was 75,675. "The
Kissel Motor Car Company has 32
agencies in the States of California
and every one of them does a pros-
perous business," says Geo. A. Kissel,
president of that company, "and I be-
lieve it is correct that California is
second only to New York in the num-
ber of auto owners.”
New York at the 1910 census had a
population of 9,1 13.279 and a short
time ago reported passing the 76,000
mark in the number of automobile li-
censes issued.
•leered his KlsselKar over a ten foot
embankment to avoid a collision with
a horse driven by a woman.
Mr. Walker encountered this adven-
ture while driving in East Texas, and
his friends are congratulating him on
the remarkable fact that both hts an-
atomy and his car are intact.
It seems that the horse had been
turned to allow Mr. Walker to pass,
when without warning, he shied di-
rectly In the path of the machine.
There was no time to argue. It was
either a collision or into the ditch
for. Mr. Walker- He chose the lat-
ter and the car did what would not
happen once in fifty times, namely
landed squarely on all four wheels.
AUTO AS “FARM HAND.”
When a ranchman finds a motor
truck that will draw his plow over
three acres, pull up stumps and
cltmb a mountain road to an altitude
of 600 ft., all within a period of three
days, it must be admitted that he is
getting some service.
There is such a ranchman, and his
name is Orlando Moore of Visalia, Cab
Mr Moore, who owns a three-ton Kls-
Mr- Moore, who owns a three-to Kis-
show that he has done with his ma-
chine, the things enumerated, besides
putting it to such moderate duty as
covering 316 miles in thirty-one run-
ning hours over "horrible roads" as
he describes them, and with a load of
7420 pounds of grapes and three pas-
sengers.
FOOTBALL RESULTS
'Yill
Oregon 3; -Aggies 0.
A*«orbited i Pispatch.
Albany, Ore., Nov. 23.—University
of Oregon S; Oregon Aggies 0.
Wisconsin 28; low* 10.
Associated press I Hr patch
Iowa City, Nov. 23.—Wisconsin
continued Its winning course hero
this afternoon defeating Iowa 28 to
10. The Badgers secured two touch-
downs in the first quarter, were held
scoreless in the second and added a
touchdown in both the third and
fourth periods.
Montana 18; Gonzaga 7.
Assuruitnt Press Dispatch.
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 23—The Uni-
versity of Montana defeated Gonzaga.
18 to 7 today in a game in which
there was little open football and fe,W
trick plays. The ball was in Gonza-
ga territory most of the time and
only McKevitt’s consistent punting
kept down the score.
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HARVARD THK WINNER.
Takes Inter-Collegiate Cross Country
Cup from Cornell.
Anttociatt'd Press Itinpotch.
Ithaca, N. Y.p Nov. 2 3.—Cornell re-
linquished the inter-collegiate « ross
country cup today to Harvard after
winning it twelve time** out of the
last fourteen, although Captain John
Paul Jones, of the Cornell team was
the first man to cross the tape. Jones
won by 150 yards in 82:29 1-4. He
has taken individual honors for the
last three years. Harvard’s score was
32 points. Cornell was second with
48; Dartmouth third with 87 and the
other colleges as follows:
Brown 117; Pennsylvania 154; Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology
156; Syracuse 174; Princeton 198;
Yale 209; College of the City of New
York 312.
AUTO BREV ITIES.
Joseph Roseborough, of Peming,
haf> purchased a Hudson, Model ‘‘32.'
The car will bo delivered to New Mex-
ico overland.
K. 15., Burdick, of Doming, has
bought a five-passenger Hupmobile,
which he drove to his home.
Messrs. Crawford & Pringle, well
known contractors of this city, pur-
chased a five-passenger Hudson re-
cently.
Nick Depeder and Robert Sheahan
returned yes.erday from Doming and
Silver City, N. M.t in their ilupmo-
l»ilo “32.”
THINGS IN THR SHOPS
WORTH KNOWING UtOt T.
Arc you thinking <»f buying a u* w
bed? If so visit the LI Paso House ;
hold Furnishing Company, corner j
Stanton and Mills, and see the lute j
shipment of handsome hniss hetls
Army 23; Syracuse 7.
.4rsneiated Pmi Disputed.
West Point, N. V . Nov. 23.—The
army defeated Syracuse here today
23 to 7. The soldiers played the best
football they have yet shown and but
for Lanphier's muff of Castle's .long
punt in the last minute of play, Sy-
racus ewould not have scored.
Purdue 31; Indianu 7.
Associated Pie.* Dispatch.
La Fayette. Ind . Nov. 23.- Indi-
ana's hopes of winning the annual
game from Purdue lu re today were
not realized for after the close of the
flrstperiod the visitors had not a
chance and were completely outclass-
ed by the husky local team. It was
Purdue's game practically all the way-
through. The final score was Purdue
34; Indiana 7
Navy 39; New York 0.
Associated 1‘rcss IHsp. :
Annapolis, Mil.. Nov. 23.—Navy
piled up a score of 39 to (I on New
York university here this afternoon
and at the same time kept the visitors
from ;it any time endangering the
blue and gold goal lines.
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Billy liltirf.
The late "Larry" McCormick. Phil-
A Car For Every Purpose,
Every Emergency
MARATHON
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heavy Mission patterns mid «»tli*r mas ! fuLdphtn's lending h«»t«*I man was
ri^ndVh?"r\^ U' “ "'..ortcr about hotel
?Kalu°t.&0 "onVu/nixT week a[ L ",Th" he said, "rarely
a npeclal discount.
A ( OMKDIAN WHO KMW
THE KI\<s OF ENGLAND
A. W. Bascomb, the English comedi-
an who made an Important hit as tho
New Warder in the Shubert produc-
tion of “The Merry Countess” at the | coat.
“Tin' hotel heat," he said,
fools a desk clerk of experience. Ills
milllomirie bluff Is easily seen
through. It’s usually as silly as the
actor's bluff.
"An out-of-work actor, you know,
appeared one August afternoon, when
the thermometer registered 9 7 de-
grees, in all the pomp of a fur over-
25 Horsepower Touring Car
Not a sensational car, but a car built tor service.
In workmanship, material, design and comfort the
equal of the MARATHON is found only among high
priced Automobiles.
MARATHON 25 h. p. five-passenger is a runner, and
gives satisfaction; is a giant on hills, and always has
plenty of power in reserve. Three sizes of Marathon
chassis, ten body styles. Every Marathon fully
equipped.
FIFTY NEW MARATHONS COMING TO THE
EL PASO DEALER.
MANHOT MAKES MONEY.
New OrluiDM Boxer Pile* t p Nice Hum
In Nine Month*.
Thiengo, Nov. 23.—A neat sum of $25,000,
Joe Mandot'K winnings in the Inst nine
months, shows that boxing must be a
lucrative business. The New Orleans boxer
started lils money-making with Pal Moore
nine months ago, und finished it up by his
recent bout with Champion Ad Wolgast.
During this time Up has fought Jack
Redmond, Owen Moran, Jake Abel, Young
Saylor, Harry Trendal, Ray Temple, Wil-
lie Ritchie, Temple again, Joe Rivers and
then Wolgast. Mandot never received less
than $750 and his biggest house was with
Rivers in Los Angeles, when lo» pulled
down $5000 for his end. He received a
trifle over $4800 for his battle with Wol-
gast.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Self-sacrificing gallantry was prop-
erly rewarded one day last week
when T. L. Walter of Houston, Texas,
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With Each Tire
For 3500 Miles.
Notice
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With Each Tire
For 3500 Miles.
Mr. Automobile Owner
We offer the new Guaranteed IMPERIAL TIRES and heavy red Pure Gum
Tubes at the following unheard of prices:
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
Plain
Smooih Clincher
Pure Gum
Sizes—
or Dunlop
Red Tubes
2 8x3
J 11.00
$3.20
30x3
1 2.60
3.95
32x3
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18.50
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32x3%
20.10
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21.75
5.60
36x3%
22.75
5.75
30x4
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31x4
26.00
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32x4
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Casino, is a man whose social con-
nections abroad arc of an unusual and j
influential nature. Mr. Bancomb's '
father, the late W. A. Bascob, wan j
for some twenty years chief clerk to
King Edward VII. both while that
monarch was Prince of Wales and
during the early part of his actual
reign. It most be understood that the
king, in addition to his private sec-
retary, maintains a regular clerical
force for handling the disbursements
of the privy purse, for arranging the
details of all social functions and f- r
attending to other matters positive-
ly Innumerable. As the chief of this
clerical force and ns the man who
made arrangements for the various
"command performances” of theatri-
cal celebrities, Mr. Bnscomh, Sr., be-
came a genuinely noted character In
London, When the chief clerk re-
tired he was granted a pension and
after his recent death that pension,
by special grant of King Georg*1, was
transferred to his wife, mother of
the comedian. His father's wide ac-
quaintance with theatrical stars was
in no small degree responsible for
young Mr. Basc*»ml»‘s determination
to enter the profession.
Into His Own Trap.
In a suit lately tried the plaintiff
testified that his financial position
had always been a good one. The
j opposing counsid took him in hand
for cross-examination and undertook
to break down ills testimony upon
this point.
"Have you ever been bankrupt."’
asked the counsel.
"I have not.''
"Now, be careful,” admonished the
lawyer with raised finger. "Did you
ever stop payment?"
"Yes."
"Ah' 1 thought we should get at
the truth." observed the counsel, with
an unpleasant smile. "When did ibis
suspension of payment occur?"
“When 1 paid ull 1 owed."
A (.Mwiint Comment.
Hose Pastor Stokes was talking in
New York about the untold good that
had been accomplished during the
j summer by the various country week
associations.
"And how quaint," she said, "were
tho comments of all those little slum
urchins before the wonders of the
country!
“I once led •« little East Side girl
into a peach orchard and picking up
a glorious p* a« h from the grass I
handed it to h» r.
" ‘Flat it,' l said. ‘You’ll find It
delieous.’
"But she frowned and shook her
head.
“ 'No.' she s
1 never tom h
ned.’ ”
What on earth are you sporting
that for?’ a brother actor asked.
‘So as t«'» show the resort house I
managers,‘ was the reply, 'that they j
can t hire rue on any of your summer !
terms.’ “
Genuine Mexican hand drawn work !
tcarloth with six d illb s, $3.50 n set.
at Klirm's Curio Shop. Little plaza.
What has become of the old-fash-
ioned baby which could have a tea-
cup put over its head?
PAUL LISSO, Agt.
400 TEXAS ST.
d haughtil> ‘Oh. no.
'em till they’re can-
Non-Skid
Imperial Tires
are absolutely guaranteed for 3500 miles. We will posi-
tively make all adjustments (here in El Paso) promnth
on all tires and tubes that do not come up to this mileage A complete stock of
all sizes on hand.
Compare our prices with prices you have been paying and mail us your order.
Our goods are always fresh.
Prompt attention paid to mail orders. Goods shipped the same day we receive
the order.
Reference; Any Commercial Agency or Bank.
TERMS—STRICTLY CASH.
Address all orders to:
International Auto Co.
Toltec Bldg.
Accessory and Supply Department
Telephone 1921.
El Paso, Texas.
Thought il Worth a Nicked.
Several drum men* stopped ai a
hotel in a small town In Illinois for
dinner. Among the diner* that day
were al.no a number of country peo-
ple, The drummer* did not rcltah the
meal. The country people did. Tho
landlord charged tho country people
25 cents, but demanded 50 cent* <>f
the traveling men. Now. the drum-
| men? don’t mind paying 50 rent* for
dinner, but th<> want everybody else
! to pay the name.
j One of the drummers laid down a
J half-rollar with a nickel on top The
I landlord pushed the nickel hack. "My
j dinner coat* 50 cent*.” he said stern -
I ,y-
"I know that, smiled the drummer.
| "but 1 wanted you to make 50 cents
clear on thin dinner."
And the other drummer* laughed
heartily, but. the landlord failed to
»ee the joke.
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A special r* «4u< tion sale of men’*
r*adv to wear Milt* will take place
at George A Mansfield K- Company
tn the Mi!** building aii of thla week.
Thirty dollar «uit* will be sold for
twenty five dollars. Twenty five dol-
la r suit* for twenty dollar*. and
twenty two fifty suit* for eighteen
ninety-five
Probably you think you cent argne
with the s* rub who •post* statist lew like
au adding machine. But that shouldn't
be counted a disadvantage.
5-Passenger Touring Car, Fully Equipped,
Delivered in El Paso, $2115.00
Our long ‘stroke motor, long wheel base. platform springs, electric self-starter
and man)' other features make this car the lieu ot its class in the market.
We make seven hodv t \ pcs—-Tonring, I orpe<l<>, hour I'assengcr, Seven Pas-
senger, Roadster, Coupe and Limousine—all superior cars in their respective
class.
Explanations and Demonstrations anytime and
anywhere. Call, write or phone.
CHESTER P. HENRY, Manager.
E. P. & S. W. Building
Telephone 5105
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