Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — SHOWED THAT HIS JUDGMENT WAS RIGHT [ARTICLE]

SHOWED THAT HIS JUDGMENT WAS RIGHT

Pete McDaniels Gives a Demonstration That Was a Surprise Even to Himself. This is not a paid advertisement, which is not saying that it should not be paid for, however. You all know Pete McDaniels. He is a thrifty old soul. In fact his thrift is whht has made him the owner of one of the best 100-acre farms in Wheatfield township. So a few days ago when he got a circular describing the “Speedier,” a device riiich when attached to an automobile, is guaranteed to slave from 20 to 40 per cent of gasoline and which they agreed to send on 33 days’ trial,.with the privilege of returning if not as represented, Pete filled out the card and in due time the “Speedier” came along and he had it attached to his Maxwell. He thought after trying it a few days that it was a gas saver, but was not altogether certain, but was so well satisfied with it that he secured the agency for the sale of the “Speedier.”

In order to fully satisfy himself and other skeptics, at the latters’ suggestion,’ today he arranged a test that would demonstrate one way or another whether the device had any merits. He drained his.gasoline tank at the Central Garage and then placed in the tank a gallon of gasoline, taking along another gallon to put in the tank when the first gallon was used. Taking as passengers the writer, Harry Parker and A. D. Gilson, of the Central Garage, he connected the “Speedier" and started on the Monon road, intending to go as far as the gallon of gasoline would carry the car. At the Monon school building the speedometer registered 20 miles and the car was still going. Keeping straight ahead the car proceeded eastward until it crossed the Big Monon river, when the road turned north towards Buffalo and the car was still going on that gallon of gasoline. After proceeding about a halfmile further thd car stopped, the gasoline having become exhausted. The speedometer showed that the car had traveled 23.9 miles on the single gallon of gasoline. The car was then turned around by hand and another gallon of gasoline put in the tank for the return journey home over the same route. The

“Speedier” was then detached and the car started under normal .conditions. As on the first trip the car was run at an average speed of about 20 miles an hour. The miles were clipped off with the motor running smoothly and Pete gob shaky in the legs as milts after mile was reeled off and the car began getting nearer home, Pete being afraid that the car would pass right through Rensselaer on the Second gallon. But suddenly it came to a stop, and investigation showed that not a drop of gas remained in the tank. The speedometer showed that on the second gallon a distance of only 15.8 miles had been traveled, or 8.1 miles less on the second gallon than on the first. Pete then broke into a smile, for his judgment was vindicated. He had never before been aJble to get much more than 15 miles to a gallon of gasoline, and here with an investment of $5 he had been able to increase his mileage about 50 per cent. Pete is now going ahead and will sell these little “Speedelrs” to» ail who want them, for he feels he has found a good thing that will help solve the gasoline problem. They sell for $5 under a 30 day trial and fully guaranteed, with no money down until they have ben tried and if not satisfactory they can be returned.