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M M W I -1 Bos The Se!f-Startine Everitt .-'W at $1,850. The 5f36" at $1,500. and The "30" at $1,250. furnish the , Remarhable Automobile Values f ver Off ered These are the cars that the whole trade has been talking about, ever since their announcement, early last summer. It is generally conceded that such exceptional values have never been seen before Think of a splendid "Six' equal to the best you know a big car of 127 inch wheel base, 36 by 4 inch wheels and tires, demountable rims, self-starting, and fully equipped for $1,850! The new "36" is practically a duplicate design of the four-cylinder type, on a J 15 inch wheel base; this "30" a standard $1,500 car, for $1,250. ; , " IN Mi -Si 11 THe new Everitt cars are built from the finest chromenickel steel obtainable. They have every mechanical and practical advantage. Their construction is by the latest automatic machinery, every part being' made in one factory. Their-design includes -such features as a bloc-type, long-stroke motor; genuine cellular honey-comb radia- tor; double-drop frame; self-starter;- straight-line fore-doored bodies and complete equipment at list price. There is nothing on the market which compares with-these The Everitt "Four-36' '--$1,500, Fully Equipped. 115 in. wheel base; 4x4-in. wheels an dtires; demount able rims;, en-bloc, long-stroke motor; 36 h. p.; enclosed j valvec; self-starter; dual ignition; straight-line, fore- ' doored bodies;; top, wind-shield, prestolite tank, speed ometer, extra demountable rim, carrier ,robe and foot rails, 5 black-enamelled lamps, horn, tools and repair kit included. Two, four and five-passenger bodies. cars, in efficiency arid value, at anywKere near the prices named. These are tHecsra it would pay you to sell. They are cars you can stand back of, , and guarantee to vour customers ,for they will make good under all conditions. The line is complete from the splendid "Six" at $1,850, to the standard "30" at $150 Every; Everitt car will show an extreme of service and durability, possible only to a per feet piece of machinery. Write today for our agency proposition. The Everitt "Thirty," $1,250, Fully Equipped llb-tn. wheel base; 34x3 1-2-in. wheels and tires; quicE detachable rims; en-bloc, long-stroke imotorj 80 h. p.$ dual ignition; straight-line, fore-doored bodies; top, wind-shield, generator, 5 black-enameled lanips, robe and foot rails, horn, tools and repair kat included. Five-passenger and roadster bodies. I '.TOE AIVBERB'CA-W M(Q)1 :ZM: SOW BostrOQi)ELiittrs m 203 5 s. church st Charlotte. N. C. 'V J - - : - - - - - Will Exhibit at Auditorium Feb. 26-27-23 jfj MOTOR TRUCKS FOR FIRE DE-PABMITS Apropose of Charlotte purchasing a ire auto truck, it will interest the city Executive board, as well as the Char lotte Auto Dealers Association, to know that not only in New York, but In other large cities, including Boston, London and Berlin, fire motors prom ise soon to displace completely all fire vehicles drawn by horses. By the 1st of - March, 1912, New York City ex pects to have installed 150 motor-driven vehicles, costing $750,000. These machines will include all kinds of fire apparatus pumping .engines, hose wagons, hook and ladder trucks, ten ders and general utility vehicles. The present type of steam pumping engine .will be gradually eliminated and motor-driven machines will take its place in all districts where, because ofthe absence of high-pressure water service, pumping is necessary. - By the 1st of September New York, notes the Dallas (Tex.) News, already had twenty-nine motor-driven vehicles In her fire department. Of these nine teen were merely cars for the use of employes of . the department; the otb. era were - fire vehicles proper and in clude four hose wagons, a steam en gine, water tower, and four general Utility trucks. Fourteen other, vehicles ha been contracted for. On Oct. 2 the existing equipment of the city was Assembled for' public exhibition in front of the City Hall in the Mayor's presence A writer in the New York Evening Post describes the cars in rermillion and the apparatus in nickel and cream, as making "an interesting and imposing spectacle," giving "an Inkling of a new day, and hose wag ons will travel by gasoline, and the time-honored fire horse will be known only in books." The mayor made a personal inspection of the apparatus. The writer gives as follows a pleas ing account of some of the incidents of the occasion: "The passing regime was represent ed, however, by the two veterans of the department. The Abbot and Brentwood, two chestnut horses, who, though they have served twenty-five and eighteen years, respectively, in the department, still arch their necks and prick up their ears at the sound of the gong. The Abbot does service now on a fuel wagon, while Brentwood is still one of a steamer Lhitch. They appeared today with gar lands hung about their necks, and while their presence might have been twisted about in some way to prove the mechanical order of things was better, it could not have impressed the romancer that way. For, as every body knows, the handsome horses in the'fire department have been one of Its distinguishing features fora half century of more. Mayor Gaynor. stop ped to pat the horses. He rubbed their noses as earnestly as if he had been at a country fair. As he turned away a photographer asked him to repeat the nose rubbing. ( The mayor went back and placed a hand on Brentwood's mane. ' "Chief Kenlon had his back turned, or what happened just then never would have happened. Seventy-two firemen, who had been standing at at tention during the inspection, ' "sprang to their positions . on the apparatus and got into action, eighteen engines began thrashing, and some of the driv erns sounded their sirens. The Ab bot and Brentwood began careering around like small ' boats in a high wind, and the mayor in his high hat executed some quick steps out of the way He went- up a step higher on the city hall plaza and held up' his hand as a signal to turn off their noise. When this had been done the nose was rubbed for ten seconds while the motion-picture man turned his crank." BOgton, Too. In Boston a complete substitution of motor-for-horse-drawn apparatus has been recommended; eventually horse drawn apparatus will . be eliminated. The city now has two horseless fire engines. It is proposed to add nearly fifty other pieces of motor apparatus fifteen motor runabouts, three motor-driven combination wagons, twenty-three hose wagons, six ladder trucks. The Fire Commissioner be lieves that the proposed expenditure of $165,000 "would be justified by the large gains in efficiency." The chief gain will be in the greater dis tance covered more than twice as much in the same time. The saving in maintenance "would be at the rate of $50 for one-horse apparatus and $100 for two-horse apparatus, and probably more." But against this saving there would be "the largest capital charge distributed over the use of the life of such apparatus, which costs con siderably more than horse-drawn appa ratus." The total annual increase, however, in the opinion of the Com missioner, would not exceed $20,000. Other American towns are rapidly adopting motor apparatus. One of these is Springfield, Mass., another is Savannah, Ga., which, after trying an auto engine for about a year, has re cently placed an order for twelve mo tor vehicles. DOC SELLS F R 1CHII FIRST LA GRIPPE, THEN BRON . CHITIS. Such was the case with Mrs. W. S. Bailey, McCreary, Ky. "My wife was taken down "with a severe attack of la grippe, which run into bronchitis. She coughed as though she had consump i tion and could not sleep at night. The doctor's medicine gave her no relief , and I was advised to try Foley's Hon . ey and Tar Compound. The first bot- tie gave her so much relief that she continued using it and three bottles effected a permanent cure." Mr. W. S; -Bailey says he is .prepared to an swer all inquiries promptly. Bowen's Drug Store. , The Los Angeles branch of the Ford Motor Company has the distinction of making ; a sale of one of their runa bouts through a. dog, says an exchange. Dean Mosher of the Mosher Rubber Company has- a small black water span iel, that answers to the name of "Ke no." Some time ago Dean owned anoth er make Of car and Keno was in the machine from morning until night; la tter the car was sold and while the. '.faithful Keno yielded from the temp- tation of accompanying the jnachine, yet it seems he was never the same. With the view of purchasing a car i Dean strolled over on Olive street one !day last week with Keno at his heels; after looking over . several makes of cars- he walked by the local home of the Ford. A new , shipment of these cars had just been received, and as Dean was about to Dass a runabout J Keno Jumped up into the front seat ! and no amount of persuasion, threaten ing or coercion on the part of his mas 'ter could Induce the dog to leave the jcar. Finally Dean called a salesman, ! a demonstration followed, a few points were explained. Mo&her wrote the cnecis uu ne anu iveniy iuue to, his place of business in their new Ford, both happy, in the thought that they could discriminate between a good and a bad motor car. Manager Graves 1 of the Ford branch has placed an j order for a 'handsome collar for Keno, jthat-will.be tendered him as soon as it is made. On it will be an inscription cjom shown by Keno when he persuad ed his- master to buy a car of this make. - . . If Marguerite wants a letter,, can can. . , I . . miitirll fd 3 C r e Perpetual Building & Loan Association ON SATURDAY, the 2ND DAY- OF MARCH, Will be the beginning of the A ft -yT3- ''.'-O'- r-'",:- Of the largest and most progressive association in the State, naving over 30 nn0 shares on its honks anrt nvpr $1,250,000 in assets Come nnft and all help make this the largest series in its history. R. E. COCHRANE, Sec.&TreasV ' J. H. WEARN, Pres. 5.9 KING GEORGE USES A FORD FDR HUNTING A King does not go hunting like Teddy in a khaki suit and with a string of dusky porters to tote the camp outfit. He must retain the gor- geousness and the pomp of his high position; even in the jungle, for the natives must never suspect that the potentate ever relaxes the dignity of his office. There was- a fine illustration of this when King George went up into Ne paul to shoot tigers, after the great Durbar in Delhi. His advance was like the advance of a conquerer. Car loads of provisions and equipment preceded him as far as the railroad reached into the wilds. And where the rails ended, the loads were disembarked and re loadednot on the elephants of his toric fame, but on automobiles. Thus they were trans-ported into the hinter land to the mighty camp that was to receive the king. It was cruel traveling over the rough paths of the jungle country. The deep ruts of the -rainy season had baked to stone-lik hardness,' and in many places between the camp and. the end of the railroad the roadway had to be slashed out with knives and axes through the creepers that obstructed it. In places there were no roads at all, and the machines had to be their own pathfinders not only ' the first automobiles that had crossed these wilds, but even the first wheeled vehi cles of any sort tQ tempt the jungle fastnesses. - The cars that ousted the elephants from their time-honored task were con glomerates. Long before the king set out for India in his . yacht Medina work began on them. The Russia Engi neering Works (Limited), of Calcut ta, received the contract. They ' took the Ford chassis and built upon it special bodies-, long and narrow, that could get through the crowded defiles and that had no jutting corners to catch upon the tropical creepers'. Each car carried a full equipment of spare tires for the chief danger lay in punc tures from thorns in the way. Native Indians were employed as drivers. Dressed in. the traditional garb of the Mahout hey rode their new mounts as full of pride as though they were guiding "My Lord Two Tails-." Exchange. FLYING MEN FALL victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles just like other people, with like resultt in loss of appetite, back ache, nervousness, headache and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there's no need of leeling like that as T. D. Peebles, Henry, Tenn., proves. "Six bottles of Electric Bitters" he writes, "did more to give me new strength and good appetite, than all, other ; stomach remedies I used. "So they help every body. Its folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first dose; Try it. Only 50 cents at W. L. Hand & Co.'sj . Auto Factories ;a ) And Trade Secrets Despite the freedom with which most automobile manufacturers wel come visitors to their plants, it is well known to the more intimate clr cles of tho trade, that each factory organization has its tfrade secrets. Thousands of persons are piloted each year through the mazes of the big plants of the Studebaker Corpora tion, in Detroit. In fact, a refusal has never been given to anyone who has shown a genuine desire to see them. Kivsl manufacturers, even, have always-been welcome, and many ot them have availed themselves of the chance, spending several days in a thorough inspection. Studebaker deal ers by the thousand have made the rounds In all probability, few of the visi tors noted, however, that there was one Studebaker factory toward which the guides never led them. That was the former home of the Ford Company, now known in the Studebaker organization as plant 1(J; No outsider, no employe of the other Studebaker plants, even unless he has a pass from the chief engi neer ever sees the interior of this building, back of the offices. Every door is protected with an iron grat ing and guarded by a Cerberus who lends an unsympathetic ear to those who vainly try to get in without the necessary credentials. Plant M0 is the Studebakers labora tory, and its entire space is given up to the three departments of that la boratory chemical, physical and ex perimental. The Studebaker engineer ing, force is quartered on one floor. The immense drafting room is a prominent feature. Metallurgists and specialists of national fame are grouped in the long row of private offices. , ; - The machine shops house the pick of ,the workmen of , the Stude baker plants. Attached to it are famousN drivers who now and then pilot an experimental car, embodying some new principle of engineering, out of the gate for a test on some rough, country " road. And the dis cerning eye neadily notes that even the hoods of these cars ' are pad locked against possible scrutiny by the curious. The wohle establishment' is the re sult of a manufacturing policy . that decided,' early in the history of the firm, to accept the word of no steel manufacturer, regarding the qualities of his output. . -." , -- Every shipment of bar' steel de signed for use in the E-M-F "30" anu Flandes "20" is sampled and put to a searching chemical vtest, the appar atus available for which would arouse the envy of any university professor. The slightest variation will twist it until it breaks. T& third will vibrate it in a way that multiplies many times the strain of use on the hardest road. Tbe ! limit of flexibility is determined by another machine. All of them register automatically the amount of misuse the steel will stand up to the break ing point. It is a commonly known fact among steel makers that, when Studebaker gets through testing a piece of metal, its engineers know more about it than the men who made it. , In the records of this department are tests of hundreds of kinds of alloys. These tests have shown be yond a question what sort of steel is best for , each different part of a motor car. Alloys of chromium, vana dium, silicon, nickel and manganese are used in the manufacture of each 1 TT- -MT.V "9n an A TTlnnflprs "20." EECtt is prepared according to rigid tor mula. To the motorist, the experimental department of the laboratory would probably be the most interesting. Here is a complete automohile factory in miniature, which makes cars lor the use of the Studebaker Corpora tion only. In these cars are incorpo rated Innovations and inventions which 'have appealed to the Studebaker engineers as wor thy of trial in actual service. Hun dreds of these have been tried ana found wanting. A few have heen, from time to time,, added to the regular Studebaker models, after surviving tests which proved their value. Cars that will not be seen in f market for years to come are nere being built, tested and altered. Of course, secrets like these are jealously guarded from business n vals. The Studebaker laboratory working solely for Studebaker inter est. News of any of its achievement is given first to Its dealers wften some important change in the m is to result, and then the general lie hears about it through the au vertising department. IfiSIFICEKf ' :;; iTOJIEi s "Undoubtedly it is the most magni ficent pageant that has ever tun out in the Southwest," said George Baker, chairman of the automobile committee, as with glistening w he'-looked -backward over the than a' thousand machines that wer in line during the viaduct parade las Thursday, says the Dallas- News. "And," he continued, "not only is :i : Af oo-oQTit. that haS from the established formula causes I ine must ma5UUtc"1 t batit the immediate rejection of the whole ever been seen in the Soutnwesi, The physical laboratory is proba- that have ever been congregated ai bly the most interesting to the lay--time south of St. Louis. Assummn - TT X J x. a . . J. Vil rt Q II aVcl"" man. nerevBi.anus a great Dattery ot mese auiuuiuunes w"- u" ndi)' powerful , machines, especially design ed, for testing steels against V the strains of twisting, pulling, rubbing and vibration. Silently and without apparent effort,' one of these ma chines will take a bar of steel and pull it apart in the middle. Another . son. T. jr. of 1,200 each, the turn-out here tou represents in cash not less than 200,000." ' ,. Born to Mr. and Mrs. T. W-ft ritr -vr on? Mr.rtvi fimham street 1
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