Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1925 — Page 18

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MOTOR LIVERY SERVICE CHAIN BRANCH OPENS Drivurself System Offers Use of High Class Automobiles. Announcement is made by the Hertz Drivurself System, Chicago, that the Drivurself Indianapolis Company, which will be located in the Plaza Garage, 80 W. Vermont St., has been licensed to opperate according to the methods of the Hertz system in this city, where complete facilities will be maintained for the convenient rental of high grade automobiles for personal business use. The franchise extended to the Drivurself Indianapolis Company is but one link in a coast chain of similar branches, all operating under the Hertz Driveurself System license and constituting a public convenience equivalent to a “gasoline livery stable,’’ where miles may be purchased on the same basis of econemy as groceries are bought by the housewife in the self-service grocery stores. In Local Hands Ownership is entirely in local hands. The officers and owners of the company are Willis Adams, president and treasurer; F. P. Chandler, vice president and general manager; George L. Denny, secretary. Alex R. Holliday and James S. Watson are also stockholders. However, the type of equipment and operating practices are standardized and controlled by application of the Drivurself franchise. The last includes a universal identification credential, that is issued to 16,000 business firms employing more than 60,000 travelling salesmen; an insurance plan whereby the customer participates in personal injury and property damage insurance on payment of a nominal sum. Reduced to its simplest terms, the Hertz Drivurself System squeezes the extravagance out of automobile transportation. There is no more economlo necessity for every family to own an automobile than to own a cow. The privatedly-owned c?r has it’s place, \lust as the motor coach, but .in between is a field of service that has so far remained undeveloped. It’s nearest prototype is the old-fashioned livery stable which, at one time, was a prosperous and essential institution in every city. Economical Service While in the past Indianapolis has been very efficiently served by the Plaza Garage livery service, the advent of the Hartz car and operation under the Drivurself franchise indicates that Chandler is alert to the idea of giving his patrons the most economical and best service to be found anywhere in the country. Fifteen years experience in operating taxicabs has taught the Hertz Yellow Cab interests that the operating of a revenue-producing vehicle Is an absolute science, fractions of a cent spelling the difference between success and failure. They have learned how to handle the human equation too —the drivers — which had always absorbed at least a thirl a* their gross revenue. The Hertz System is a business without the human equatipn, the customers acts as his own chauffeur, and is thus enabled to keep onethird in his pocket. The problem of risk in renting to irresponsible persons, cheap insurance and systematized business < management have all been completely and thoroughly worked out. The Hertz car, the operating “tool’’ of the local enterprise is a five passenger six cylinder sedan, luxuriously appointed and finished in dark blue so that the most discriminating cannot detect it from any high grade private car, the only identifying mark being, the usual makers nameplate on the radiator shell. DISCOVER RADIO PIRATE Bu United Press LONDON, May 18.—A "superradio" pirate has been discovered here. He has been niaking talking machine records from the voices of famous singers as they came over the radio and selling them. $1 FINE GIVEN Charles Solomon, 3617 E. Michigan St., was fined $1 and costs on an assault and battery charge today in city court. Solomon’s automobile Saturday, struck and injured, Joseph Franklin, 11, of 1433 Cornell Ave., ■while the boy was riding a bicycle.

Rapid building development is taking place in The Times Square district on Maryland St., west of Capitol Ave. The new bus terminal, the biggest oi its kind in the world, will be dedicated Tuesday.

Grade Crossings Increase Report of Interstate Commerce Commission Out.

There are 258,786 grade crossings In the United States, of which less than one-fifth are protected in any manner, says a recent report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In the past two years 8,114 new grade crossings were brought into existence and as only 1,839 crossings were eliminated, there remains a net yearly increase of more than 3,000 crossings. At the recent national conference on street and highway safety, held in Washington, I). C., under the direction of Secretary Herbert Hoover, the following item on grade crossings was approved: “The elimination and protection of grade crossings are of such importance and involve to such an extent tlie public safety as to require that priority be granted to them in the allocation of capital funds by the railroads, and of public moneys for highway building over expenditures for other safety measures designed to protect the public.” FUNNEL IISED AS CURE Bu United Press PARIS, May 18. —Old records reveal that centuries ago a decree directed "that a funnel shall be placed In the mouth of any man or woman selling watered milk, and that the said miik shall be poured down said funnel, until declare the culprit incapable of swallowing any more without danger of death.” Sfsters 14 and 15 Are Brides PONCA CITY, Okla., May 18 All records here for youthful marriages were broken when Mrs. Joseph Lowry was notified from Augusta. Kan., of the elopement and marriage there of her two daughters, Nettie, 14 and Edith, 16, to Doley Blair and Charles Hoskins of Ponca City. The mother says she would take no action to have the marriages annulled.

ROOFING AND SHEET METAL WORK on the LARGEST BUS TERMINAL IN THE WORLD Done by SMITHER Roofing and Sheet Metal Cos. 430-436 S. Meridian St. Main 0937

Decorations . For the New Bus Terminal Furnished by The American Tent & Awning Cos.

The picture shows the wrecking of three old buildings immediately east of The Times Building. Ttyey will be replaced by u modern office and store buildii^g. Plans also are under way for erection of anew building immediately west of The Times.

NEW PLAZA OIL STATION OPENS IN CITY TODAY Cars to Be Drained and Filled at Structure on Maryland St. Almost everything of importance is the result of an idea. The new Plaza Oil Company's service station on Maryland St. between Delaware and Pennsylvania Sts. is a splendid outgrowth of a commercial idea. Norman E. Carter, president and general manager of the company during the past few has erected several large and beautiful service stations of similar types throughout Indiana, but withheld building in Indianapolis until he could obtain a plot of ground of suitable size. Obtaining this he called in architects and contractors and told them to spare neither time nor money in building the largest and finest service station for draining, cleaning and filling crank cases in America. Workmen were busy last night clea *iig away the last evidences of several months activities in all branches of the building trade. Promptly at 8 a. m. today the station was open. Built of terracotta, the principal building in which crank cases are filled with 100% pure Pennsylvania and general lubrication of the entire car is made, serves eighteen machines at one time. Ornate in design, this building is architecturally a masterpiece in service station buildings. The other building on the lot houses the general offices of the company, cashier cage and ladies’ rest room ar c l , is surrounded by rows of gasoline pumps—fourteen in all. Carter, in picking the personnel of his organization, has secured the services of competent, dependable men who know the oil business. In the rear of the great service station and gasoline pumps there is ample parking space, an aggregate of 16,000 square feet, on which can be

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stored upward of 150 cars. This space is surrounded by a brick wall. Entrances and exits are through gates attended by checkers who will give every owner a receipt for his car and when the car is driven out will take up the receipt. This makes it almost thiefproof. A nominal fee for parking cars for the day is charged. The new company handles Peerless, Royal and Boycite gasoline.

LOCAL MEN IN MUNCIE COURT Two Indianapolis men, giving their names as Rowland Nichols, 128 W. Twenty-First St., and Henry Whiting, will be tried in Muncle at 1:30 p. m. Friday on charge of violating the liquor law. They were arrested Sunday night on a downtown street with James O’Brien, Muncie, who v hr fined S4O on a plea of guilty to a charge of intoxication today. The two others pleaded not guilty and their bond was set at SI,OOO. Muncie police said Nichols told them he was an assistant deputy prosecutor at Indianapolis. and Whiting said he was a stock buyer for the Indianapolis Stock Yards, and lived at R. R. 3, Box 66. Deputy Prosecutor Vandiver of Indianapolis city court said Nichols is not an authorized deputy, but recently assisted in prosecution of cases in city court.

THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE ENTRANCE HOLDS OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW NIGHT

OHE dedication of the World’s Greatest Bus Terminal is an event of supreme significance to the people of Indianapolis. It marks a definite step forward in the city’s progress; the advent of organized, modern, efficient transportation. , Now, with huge, luxurious motor buses gliding out to all points of the compass, thousands of people who were formerly partially isolated from this city come here with regularity to do much of their buying. The trade territory of Indianapolis has expanded—and intensified.

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“All hail the great Bus Terminal, a pioneer in its field anew landmark in the growth of Indianapolis. Come down tomorrow and help celebrate the dedication of the new building—and all that it stands for. ,, —Says A. K. Diamond.l i HILE attending the Bus Terminal m . r \\ Celebration, make it a point to visit It IJ Dome Diamonds. The JJ store will be open tomorrow eveO ning for your convenience. We tender our hearty congratulation to those responsible for the organization of this great carrier service, culminating in the official opening of the world’s greatest Bus Terminal. • With this fast, efficient, modern means of transportation, distance from Indianapolis can be measured in a different way. Those who lived twenty miles from Indianapolis yesterday are merely forty-five minutes from the Capitol City today. Thus the trade zone has expanded and Indianapolis will grow and grow—in keeping with motor bus traffic. * j

Naturally, THE IDEAL FURNITURE COMPANY is keeping pace with this step in the city’s progress. The fact is, we’re ahead of it. Constantly there is a thought of tomorrow in everything we do today. This is evidenced by the huge stock of highcharacter furniture assembled for your inspection; the low prices made possible by chain-store quantity buying, coupled with the most generous terms you’ve ever been offerd. Most of all, it is evidenced by the sturdy growth of our business. Tuesday night we’re haying Open House. Nothing will be sold, but you will be interested in taking a tour through “The Big Store With the Little Entrance.” Come in and see the displays of handsome new furniture. We will be mighty glad to have you as our guests.