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8 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YOKK. SUNDAY. MARCH 31. 1912.

A NOVEL BUICK FIRE CAR. CENTRAL BRANCH TAKES POCKET BILLIARD MATCH WHY THE SECOND 500-MILE SWEEPSTAKES ARE HELD FEDERAL AID POSSIBLE IN GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT In the Interbranch Y. M. C. A.

pocket had to forfeit bis game to Beatty of the Central team. The games between Farrell of West Sid? Y. M. C. A.

and L. Brown of Central proved to be a very Interesting match. They both were evenly matched, but toward the end Farrell led, the score being 9072. Brown surprised the spectators by running the twenty-eight balls needel to win the game. The final score was 100 to 90.

billiard tournament, held at the Central Branch, the West Side team went down to defeat at the hands of the home play-rrs. Friday night. Harrington of West Side, arrived after scheduled time, and Hearing Comes Up Before Rules Committee for )intment of Joint Committee to Con Appoi AUTOMOBILES. AUTOMOBILES. sider this Important Matter.

By Carl G. Fisher, President of Indianapolis Speedway. Development of the American-made motor cor is the chief reason why management of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway decided to stage tho second annual 500-mile International Sweepstakes race next May 30. Up until the time of the first race last year motor cars had never beer, given a combined high speed and endurance test in America, except for a few of the longer events held In previous years. European manufacturers had been fible to produce better cars for the reason that they could test them out over roads where a speed of 100 miles per hour was possible.

This never had been possible in America and the only opportunity the Carolina Good Roads Association. Southern Appalachian Good Roadi Association, Virginia-Peninsula Good Roads Association, Memphis to Bristol Highway Association, Ocean to Ocean Highway Association, Texas Good Roads Association and Intermountain Good Roods Bulck Car Equipped With Chemical Fire Apparatus, for Cities, Suburbs, Country Estates and Fire Chiefs, on Exhibition at Buick Salesroom, Broadway and Fifty-fifth Street, Manhattan. This Car Averaged 20 Miles Per Hour on a Bun to Boston About Three Weeks Ago, When the Roads Were in Very Bad Shape. It Can Easily Speed Up to 45 Miles Per Hour on Good Roads. Of course, the 42 State associations and 320 clubs of the A.

A. A. will be represented through its National Good Roads Board, the chairman of which, George C. Dlehl, recently in giving the logic of Federal aid said: "Interstate travel by road is a natural sequence' of the general adoption of the motor-driven vehicle. A municipality should have up-to date pave maker had was to wait until time of the race to find out what his car could do and how it would stand the strain, when the roads were cleared for the contest.

The Speedway primarily was built to give the manufacturers an opportunity to test their product at any speed they THE OVERTURNING ANGLE OF MODERN AUTOMOBILES FAVORS WIRE WHEEL FOR AUTOMOBILE USE On April 10 the hearing on the Underwood resolution, which provides for the naming of a Joint commitiee of Congress to consider Federal participation in roads huilding, comes up before the Rules Com-mlttce of the House of Representatives. The committee thus brought into existence would be "authorized and directed to report to the Congress all Information obtained from such Investigation, together with recommendations as to the advisability of the Congress granting national aid to the maintenance and building of post roads and national highways In the United States, and to make recommendations as to the proper legislation to be enacted by the Congress." Since measures emanating from the Rules Committee of the House invariably receive prompt attention, It is believed that the good roads resolution will be favored with' a report soon after the hearing. Of the eleven members of the House Committee, several are avowedly in favor of Federal participation in roads building. Mr. Campbell of Kansas is the author of a Federal aid bill; Mr.

Len-root of Wisconsin expresses himself as heartily in fnvor of Federal participation, "contingent upon Federal Mr. Pou of North Carolina be desired. Since that time American-made motor cars have developed until. Instead of being considered lightly when they compete against foreign cars, they are looked upon as formidable contenders and have proved that all they needed was an opportunity development. The first 500-mile race, I believe, was the greatest stride ever made in this di The Show-Car Tire One-third of all cars at the 55 Shows held this year were equipped with Goodyear tires.

More cars were shown on Goodyear tires than on any other two makes combined. That's on show cars, remember on cars with their best equipment. And 127 leading makers of cars have contracted for these tires for their 1912 models. Out-of-Date Tires J. C.

Austin, chief engineer of the Regal Motor Car Company has Just is II. J. Edwards of the new Edwards Company, which is being organized by himself and C. G. Stoddard, both for- ments; a prosperous county requires a comprehensive system of county roads; In like manner, the State must provide continuous routes and adequately maintain them.

Then there would remain the need of Interstate highways to provide for interstate communication by road, something which benefits the country as a whole nd aids materially In effecting a solidified nation. Therein lies the logic of Federal participation in national highways construction und maintenance." CURIOUS SIGNS NOTED ON AN EXTENDED TOUR merlv of Stoddard-Dayton Motor Car Company and lately of the United States Motor Company, returned from a flyins sued a report of actual experiments made to determine the overturning angles of both an underslung and overhung car. "With the assistance of several experienced mechanics," states Mr. Austin, "I have Just completed two practical rection, so the second should prove even greater. Makers who found defects In their cars last year have been the loudest in their demand for a second race so that they could demonstrate the im provement in their product.

No one before bad experience with a contest of such length except in endur fcugene L. DownB, manager of the visit to England on the return voyage of the steamer Olympic. Mr. Edwards went abroad to get the latest ideas regarding foreign practices and especially the very latest developments in Knight engines, before deciding definitely upon the design of the new car. In addition to the marvelous progress which has been made by the sleeve valve type of motor on the other side, Mr.

Edwards was particularly Impressod with the prospects of wire wheels and worm drive, although a little bit skeptical as to whether or not the American public Is yet sufficiently educated up to the advantages of the wire wheel to cause them to welcome the innovation upon this side. "One thing which impressed me in my investigation of the wire wheel," said Mr. Edwards, "was the fact that tho numerous accidents which we hear of on this side of broken wheels as a result of side skidding do not occur where wii'e wheels are used. In the case of the wire wheel the result Is as a rule pos tests, one to determine the overturning angle of an underslung car, and also a similar test for a car of the conventional overslung design. Previous mathematical computations had substantiated our theory that an underslung car afforded greater safety to its occupants, but It was my desire to prove this theory In a more practical way.

"In order to prove by actual test the angle at which an underslung car will overturn, we arranged a block and tackle equipment to raise two wheels of one side of a Regal roadster to such a height that the car would stand poised on the other two wheels. We found that this angle is about or to be exact, according to the measurements taken, it is 60 and 30'. "We then made a similar test of a car with overhung frame construction and found that the corresponding angle of this was 43. Both cars were equipped with top and wli.dshleld and ready for ance runs and the element of high speed for such a long distance never had been tried out, so the event largely was experimental in every respect. Many of the manufacturers who competed last year unsuccessfully have entered the second event, so they might profit by the additional experience and build cars which would meet the speed and endurance requirements of such a race.

For this reason it is highly probable that out of the thirty starters In the next race a large per cent, of them will finish hi excellent condition. It is also very probable that the speed will be increased materially. The success of the first rac was in part a reason for staging the second, for the expectations of the Speedway owners were fulfilled In every particular last year. A larger number of cars finished the race than we had anticipated, and the long contest did not work the agency department of the Simplex Automobile Company, who recently completed four-thousand-milo trip demonstrating the new 38-horsepower Simplex car to agents. Jotted In his notebook while waking a trip a few readings of the signs he passed.

In northern Pennsylvania one of the signs set at the roadside by village officials read: "Autoniobllists must be moderate." There is nothing to Indicate whether moderation in drink or speed is meant. In Maryland he was confronted by a sign saying, "Blow here." The motorist knows that this Is meant for him, but it must be a bit startling to horsemen and pedestrians. In upper New York State was one reading, "Motorists beware," while another politely said, Just because this vast army of users found what you seek in tires. Save One-Half No-Rim-Cut tires end rim-cutting forever. And statistics show that rim-cutting occurs on 23 per cent of the old type tires.

10 per cent oversize, on the average car, adds 25 per cent to the tire mileage. These two features together, tinder average cut tire bills in two. Yet No-Rim-Cut tires now cost no more than other standard tires. Ask those who know. There are many around you.

Ask their experience with No-Rim-Cut tires. lieves In reasonable Federal co-operation with the States; Mr. Stanley of Kentucky is greatly Interested. but Is prepared to say definitely just what part the Government should play;" Mr. Denver of Ohio says, "I agree most heartily that the Government should actively operate with the States in construction and maintenance of public highways." Illinois has been negligent in roads matters, and this may account for the lack of Interest manifested by Representatives Foster and Wilson.

Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania is not in favor of road-building by the Federal Government. The attitude of Chairman Henry an unknown quantity, though- it Is assured that the hearing Will be a thorough one, for it is generally reeognlied that the good roads Tires that rim-cut are distinctly out-of-date. So are tires just rated size. Too many blow-outs result from overloading.

No-Rim-Cut tires make rim-cutting impossible. They arc 10 per cent oversize. And these patent fires now cost no more than other standard tires. Any motor car owner, when he knows the facts, will adopt No-Rim-Cut tires. 1,000,000 Used Over one million Goodyear tires have been used on some 200,000 cars.

As a result these tires now outsell any other tne road, so thac the comparison is a fair one. "Apparently, there Is a difference of practically 20" between the overturning hardship upon the drivers which it was feared would occur. Practically every sibly a slight bent front axle in case of the accident being to the front wheel and even should it happen that a few man who finished the race was In good angles of a car of underslung frame con 'Please drive slowly here." Mr. Downs spokes are broken out of the wire wheel shape and could have gone farther if struction and one of the overhung type." said that the word "please" appealed not necessary. only to him, but to other motorists, and Another reason why we have decided on he slackened his speed.

GEORGE SCHLEI WINS BEFORE COMMISSION. Among the many signs noted by the Simplex man were: "Turn or "Walk your horses," "Trotting on this GoodjIyear bridge prohibited" and "It's the pace that kills." Mr. Downs said he spent it Is not necessarily put out of com-commission. However, I am fully convinced that nine-tenths of the cases where we have broken wheels would never have materialized had the spokes been of wire instead of wood and that many lives would have been saved in America from this cause alone. "Very little, if anything, Is being done in self-starters abroad.

A few concerns are figuring on them, but the fact th.it a very large percentage of cars are driven by paid chauffeurs and the fuet that climatic temperatures do not reach the extremes we have here, and also that engines are smaller upon the average, subject Is, one enlisting countrywide, interest. Among the co-operating good roads bodies fr'om'. which there will probably be representation on April 10 are the National Grange, Farmers Union, American Road Builders Association, American Automobile Association, Ohio Good Roads Federation, Alabama Good Roads Associa. tion, Florida Good Roads Association, Illinois Association for Highway Improvement, Indiana Good Roads Association, Michigan State Good Roads Association. Missouri Old Trails Association, New Santa Fe Trail Association, North tire In existence.

The demand in two years has multiplied six times over. It has trebled in the past year alone. Cincinnati, March 30. The National Baseball Commission to-day acted favorably on the request of Catcher George Schlel that the deal whereby he was transferred from tho Chicago National League Baseball Club to the Louisville soome good time, and not a little money a second 500-mile event is that it will tend to keep Indianapolis before tho motoring public as one of the great automobile centers of the world. No other city is able to offer such a contest because of the lack of a properly equipped course to do so, and as long as we have the Speedway it should be made to serve several purposes, one of them being to boost the automobile status of Indianapolis.

The other clinching argument in favor of it, however, was furnished by the spectators, from whom we have received many communications requesting us to Our 1912 Tire Book, based on 13 years of tire making, it filled with facts you thou Id know. Ask ut to mail it to you. In a town which greeted him with this No-Rim-Cut Tires With or Without Non-Skid Treads club of the American Association be re sign: "Welcome to our city." Not all the signs observed were placed by v'Hage officials, for the character of voked and that be be declared a free agent. some In Mr. Downs' notebook showed The request was granted on condition that they were the work of cranks.

has militated against any great amount that RchlAl'a rlpmnnri for n. XnflO hnnu. of pressure being put upon manuiacturcrs f0r signing with the Louisville club be stage another race of the kind so that to furnish self-starters. not compiled with within three days they might witness it again. Scores have PEERLESS TRUCK WORKS NIGHT AND DAY.

"I am Impressed very much with the THE GOODYEAR TIRE RUBBER Akron, Ohio Tbla Company has no connection whatever with nny other rubber concern which uwg tho Goodyear name. BROOKLYN BRANCH 1172 BEDFORD AVE. Telephone Bedford 7560-7561. (3S1) said that under no conditions would they progress and refinement in body design miss the opportunity of seeing it, and so and construction across the water as after the promulgation of the finding Ly the commission. If the bonus is paid th title to Schlei's services is to be vested in the Louisville club.

1 far the response that the public has given to the announcement that the race will be held has borne out the sincerity of its statements. Requests have been made from all parts of the country both for seats and for parking Bpaces, and it is our opinion that 'the second 500-mile in well- as the tendency toward luxurious finish and the elimination of all vibration from the "Business has up to the present time been very good in England as well as in the European countries, but the entire business situation at the time of my departure was greatly affected by the-coal strike, which has thrown out of ternational sweepstakes race will far outshine the first. as NEW MICHELINQ.D. TIRE SAVES TIME FOR AUTOIST work more than a million and a half in England alone, and which at the time I left England almost threatened to bring about a revolution, with no prospects of settlement in sight." AUTOS IN THE COUNTRY. "That the automobile is becoming more popular through the rural districts is evidenced from the fact that we re Tlre-flttlng is not always the easy task motorists could wish, but the Mlchelin Tire Company has minimized the difficulty with the Introduction of Its 1912 quick detachable clincher.

An important advantage of this tire la that it is very easy to put on any quick detachable rim. It eliminates the necessity for laborious fitting. It simply drops on the rim without forcing and without the use of tools. Another feature is tne elimination of the inside envelope flap or tube protector, which has usually been considered cently delivered several models of the Everltt 36 in the town of Wantagh, L. says Louis Bursteln of the Tanner Motor Car Company, distributors of the Everltt cars for Brooklyn and Long Island.

"The fact that one car is sold in a community means more sales for us in that same locality, and this must prove that we have a popular car. In my opinion the use of the popular priced models will soon become general all over necessary evil. The absence of pro- tectors simplifies the fitting of Inner I the country, and we are delighted with Massachusetts, where many cities of considerable size are not far from Fall River, has caused It to be used often for transporting interurban freight, and so largely increased the mileage it has piled up. Leaving Fall River at 6 o'clock in the morning, the truck has taken a heavy load to Lynn, and after covering 120 miles reached home at 7 o'clock in the evening. It has done as much as 200 miles in twenty-four hours.

The truck Is fitted with a special convertible body. The sides and top are removable and the top can be adjusted to allow for variable heights. This is a convenience when a piece of furniture is taller than the standard body. It Is unnecessary to take tubes, rec'iclng the danger of pinching; the reception of our new models. We us well a the labor formerly involved look forward to one of the best seasons when protectors were necessnry.

in the automobile business." THE Peerless three-ton motor truck, operated for a year by the M. Sweeney Company of Fall River, has probably bad as busy, varied and Interesting a career as any truck In the country. It has been used night and day with two shifts of men working it, and has traveled more than 9,000 miles. In the daytime it does general trucking, End moves household goods. On Sundays in the summer passenger seats are fitted on, and it takes excursionists to the ocean beaches.

In the strawberry season it has regularly carried two truck loads of Btrawberries every night from Fall to Providence. The dense population of that part of SWIMMERS GIVE EXHIBITION. The Mlchelin quick detachable clincher I is shaped full and round. The tread is broad and flat. The side wheels are properly proportioned to assure maximum durability without sacrificing resiliency.

It 1b believed by the Mlchelin company that car owners will appreciate a tire of this design that removes several There was an interesting exhibition of swimming, fancy diving, life saving, and other aquatic sports at the Fourth Avenue Baths, last week. The programme was arranged by George Whea-ton, chief attendant, and S. O. Morris, swimming instructor at the baths. bureaus and such things apart in moving them.

jot the old vexations of motoring. AUTOMOBILES. AUTOMOBILES. AUTOMOBILES. THE WHY OF THE PRICE.

We have made very special efforts to be able to give immediate deliveries on all Spring orders for Haynes cars, but we would suggest that Haynes 1912 purchasers make their decisions as to models they desire just as soon as possible. liie "Owners and prospective purchasers cX high-graiio motor cars come, with few exceptions, from the ranks of men who have achieved more than ordinary success in their particular Held of en-leavor. Shrewd, and of nice discernment, they view with suspicion any business proposition which purports to give 'something for They know that, any mercantile house which puts such a policy Into practice will soon shipwreck on the shoals of bankruptcy. N'u Institution will extend credit to any such concern. The principle involved is Just as applicable to the automobile trade as It is to any other line of business, and the astute automobile dealer recognizes the fact as well as does the retail purchaser." Thus spoke President F.

H. Humpage the Thomas Motor Car Company on a visit 'to this city tho past week. He continued: "The manufacture! who places a fictitious price on his car in order to give the dealer an unnatural discount Is cheating the public the dealer who deliberately allows $1,500 for an old car, that he knowg he must resell for $1,000, is cheating himself, and the customer, who sees his old car sold The Best Built Car in America" "Best Built" has a deeper significance than the present day mania for catchy "Best Built" was adopted by the Locomobile Company over fourteen years ago as a absolutely inflexible standard. Both policy and standard have been rigidly maintained by a conservative directorate, regardless of expense to-build or the expediency of popular clamor. The Locomobile, from that day to this, has been in fact the "Best Built Car in -America." "43" Six Cylinder $4800 to $6250 "38" Little Six $4200 to $5650 "30" Four Cylinder $3500 to $4800 a week later to his personal friend for $100, feels that he has been cheated.

I He knows the dealer cannot give away $500 in cold cash to customer number two unless he has correspondingly over- I charged customer number one. "On the other hand, the policy of those merchants who maintain published prices permits them to offer high-grade merchandise at a reasonable profit and, although some customers are I wont to demur at first at not obtaining i concession. tVy readily perceive, when the matter i presented in Its proper 1 light, that it is to their direct advnn- I tage to deal with an exclusively 'one- price' company." Product of Eighteen Years of Automobile Building has made an even greater appeal to motor car purchasers this year than ever before. The reasons are obvious. The Haynes a sturdy, powerful, dependable car for years larger and more powerful, and to its mechanical excellence we have added the utmost in grace of design and beauty of finish.

A host of Haynes owners agree with us that the Haynes represents maximum motor car efficiency at the minimum cost. Model 21, 5-passenger touring car is shown In the illustration. A handsome, roomy car, 40 h. 4 1x51 inch motor, 120 inch wheel base, 36x4 inch tires, demountable rims. Price $2100.

Other body types: 4-passenger Suburban, $2100; Colonial Coupe, $2450; Newport Limousine, $2750. Model 7-passenger, 50-60 h. 5x51 inch motor. 1271 inch wheel base, 37x5 inch tires, demountable rims. Touring Car, $3000; Newport Limousine, $3800; Berlin Limousine, $3900; also 4-passenger Suburban, $3000.

Equipment for all models includes Eisemann dual magneto, Sternberg Model Ji carburetor, Warner 60-mile speedometer, silk mohair top, automatic and ventilating windshield, Prest-O-Lite tank, 5 lamps, extra Dorian demountable rim, gasoline gauge. Come in now and choose the Haynes you want. We shall be pleased to arrange demonstrations at your convenience. JOS. D.

ROURK, 1001 Bedford Brooklyn, N. Y. Telephone Bedford 3730 HAYNES AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, 1715 Broadway, N. Y. City.

-Manager C. S. Henshaw of the Metro- I politan Thomas Pranch. in comment on this pcllcy, sad: "It Is true rriiu 1 the greatest asset any company can have is their reputation for maintenance of! prioe, effidnt service and a firm stand for the square deal. Th" matter of price should be last subject for considers- 1 tion, as that appears in the catalogue, CE which there is no debate." 1 Mr.

Humpage has been an insistent advocate of the adherence to a strictly i "one-price" policy since the very In- 1 ception. In a recent talk, using as a 1 text "The Why of the I'rice," he re- ferred, In stirring terms, to the fact the most conspicuously successful 1 'AjjtcomobiltYi The I. Remson Mfg. Company Brooklyn and Long Ii.lar.d Diflrihutors 1410 Bedford Near St. Mark's Brooklyn, N.

Y. Phone 3200 Prospect W. H. Kouwenhoven, Manager Auto Dept. ianuiacnirers had been sticklers for he observance of this principle (not a Ingle failure having been recorded) I nd he pledged the Thomas company to i ive one dollar's worth of value Jry dollar of the price askcl..