Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 161, 15 May 1913 — Page 15

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY; MAY 15, 1913

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WIRE WHEELS COME INTO JAVQR AGAIN Recognition of Their Work Is Made By American Manufacturers.

Wire wheels as a part of the equipment of an automobile seem again to be coming into their own. Recognition of their worth to the manufacturer of American and foreign pleasure automobiles has resulted in their being made a part of the equipment of the cars manufactured by

these companies

Dealers of Automobiles in This City Showing Progressive Ideas

American pleasure cars are being sold In Increasing numbers by Richmond motor car dealers. Already there, are ten or more firms in this city selling automobiles, and as the worth of gasoline propelled vehicles becomes better and Detter known this list will and is increasing. Several of the firms handle several makes of cars; others specialize. Most of the best of America's pleasure cars are to be found on display in the show rooms of the Richmond auto merchants. "There is a profitable field for all good makeB of motor cars in Rich-

has been improving. Almost all of the cars handled here are of the selling type, and have made good. There has been little dissatisfaction with the cars as sold, and as the word of their successful operation is passed from mouth to mouth there is constant new demand for the motor car created."

MEDIUM PRICE CAR IS A W SELLER Local Motoring Public Buying Cars For From $1,000 to $2,500.

riuuvu, Tv'r'u., . r.rr mond," said one of the local dealers

L , v auiwl"""" l"J;?Za n " (today. "For several years the local field

tional as a part of the equipment, although they have clung In the majority of instances to the wooden artillery type of wheel. That this type is still favored by the mass of pleasure car owners seems to be the result of this attitude of the manufacturers. But that this does not constitute the basis for an argument against the wire wheels is the opinion of automobile men generally. The mere fact that

the better cars of the country are being equipped with wire wheels or that in some cases they are offered as an optional part of the equipment, they assert, is enough to cause one to reach an opposite opinion. One of the largest of American manufacturers of pleasure automobiles has announced that the machines produced by this country within the next few years "all will be equipped with wire wheels." So far none of the wire-wheeled cars have appeared upon Richmond streets. It is only in the 1913 models which have been on the market only a few months that the wire wheels have been offered, and but few of these cars sold to Richmond people which have already been delivered possess this latest thing In automobile wheels. But as the wheels come into more general use as they are sure to do, according to manufacturers the Richmond public may be prepared for their coming. Wheel's Advantage Great. That the advantage of the wire over the wooden spoked or artillery type

of automobile wheel is great is the opinion of those who have tested the relative strength of the wheejs. A blow such as a wheel would encounter in hard usage in the course of such experiments was found to burst the rim and spokes of the wooden wheel was found to have practically no effect upon the wire wheels. Another blow which dented the rim of the wooden wheel produced no noticeable effect upon the more elastic metal-rimmed and metal-spoked wire wheel. Numerous tests of similar character have proved the same theorythat the wire wheel is more durable and much less liable to breakage than the wooden wheel. ..Then, too, according to the exponent of the new wheels, the elasticity of the steel rim is such that many of the jolts taken up by the rim on the wooden wheel are evenly distributed over the entire wheel In the new type, making the tire mileage greater in every case. In addition, the wheels, they assert, are very much lighter ; than the wooden type, and give the car to which they are affixed, a better appearance.

"And the season of 1913 this spring : especially has seen a number of motor I

cars Bold. Every one who has seen the advantages of the motor car demonstrated here seems to be buying a car. The outlying suburban districts and

the surrounding districts are making a profitable field for the sale of the cars. Farmer after farmer has purchased a car. I believe .that there have been more cars sold in Richmond during this spring than ever before in the history of the local motor car industry in the same length of time. "As people buy cars their demand runs into new lines lines of cars not handled by local, dealers. When this is

the case local dealers usually buy the

car for the person, if they fail in Inducing that person to buy the car which they sell, which is not very often. If the new car proves satisfactory, there is further demand for it and the dealer establishes that line of car here. Thus another car is added to the already long list handled by local dealers."

Wsuratf -to (Beib Way mi Gntuii

ASSERTS BAD ROADS MAKE GOOD MACHINES

MANILA'S GRASS HOUSES.

8ourc of Sort of Continuous Performance Conflagration. Fires are much in fashion in the city of Manila. Conservatively estimated. 1,000 bouses are destroyed annually. Perhaps two or three times that number of people are made homeless each year. The conflagrations are not due. ns might be supposed, to lack of ade

quate protection in fire fighting equip

ment at least, not since the United States took charge. The fault lies in the style of building or, rather, in the materials used. All the business houses in old and new Manila are built of concrete, stone or hard woods, sometimes of all three. The wealthier natives and most foreigners have bouses of stone or fine hard woods, but the districts occupied by the working class are invariably built up of nlpa (a dried grass) and bamboo. Both of these materials. especially ulpa. are extremely inflammable. And, as frequent destruction of these shacks or huts means Increased business for the nipa dealers, incendiarism is rampant during the dull season. Naturally the dull season is in dry summer, when the leaves cure and when fires flourish. Tondo, an endless tenement quarter,

is composed almost solely of nipa Iiuts,

That the medium-priced automobile leads all others of whatever price in point of number bought is the great vital fact in a list of statistics compiled by a prominent motor car journal. More than 300,000 people, these figures show, have bought cars for the season of 1913. These 300,000 all are of the medium-price class. The number of medium-priced outomobiles sold far outstrips that sold of the high-priced and below one thousand dollar class. And the figures re

ferred to are expected to be eclipsed by the demand for the medium-priced car in 1914. In Richmond three-fourths

of the cars sold have been of the me

dium-priced class this year and, ihe proportion will be exceeded, according to automobile merchants, by the figures next season. ' "More than 300,000 people, according to some statistics which were recently compiled, have demanded medium-priced cars for the season of 1913," said John N. Willys, of Toledo, president of the Willys-Overland company, automobile manufacturers of that city. Not only does this astounding total give the laymen an idea of the phenomenal growth of the Industry in the short span of its life, but more especially does It Impress upon every one the conviction that the medium-priced, high-grade motor car has come into its own. It only proves what many manufacturers have long contended that the words "automobile" and "fad" or "luxury" are no longer synonymous; that they are as

far separated as the two poles of the earth. Look Askance at $1,000 Car. "Only a few years ago there was a tendency among the wealthy to look askance at the medium-priced automobile, as a cheap makeshift by which people of moderate means Imitated their neighbors who were more fortunate financially. Today there are fully as many medium-priced cars being sold to the people of wealth as to those who, because of their financial resources, have to consider carefully and to insist upon getting their money's worth before buying. No longer

is the low-priced car the distinctive vehicle of the small business man and the salaried clerk who feels that, at last, he can buy an automobile. In the garages of hundreds of wealthy citizens of the United States and other countries are to be found the-medium-powered, medium-priced American cars beside the expensive palace creations of foreign and domestic manufacture. The car selling for $1,000 or thereabouts is no longer the scorn of the rich and the joy of the moderately situated; it is the answer to the economic question: "What will give me the best return for the price invested?" Medium-priced Car Leads. That the medium-priced car leads in Richmond is the opinion of those really familiar with the motoring public of the city. There are very few cars

here selling at retail price of

Sales Manager of New Garage.

R. ALBRIGHT

Zimmerman

TURKISH STOICISM.

A Very Poor Shot and a Perfectly Good Natured Target.

An incident that occurred in the ex

perience of an English officer is told by

the London Specator to illustrate the

calmness and indifference to death and bodily danger characteristic of the Turkish soldier. The officer, accompanied by a guard of Turkish soldiers, went to the. edge of a cliff overlooking the sea to shoot at a seal that he saw disporting itself in the water below. He fired a good many times, and the last shot had gone very near the bobbing mark when one of the soldiers came to him and politely asked, "Do you not think, sir, that you have fired often enough at Sergeant Yussuf ?" The supposed seal was indeed the sergeant. Tresently the sergeant came ashore, put on his clothes and came up the cliff smilingly. The officer apologized handsomely and blamed himself freely. But Yussuf, like his companions,' did not think there was much to be concerned about. After all, the mark had been very small. It was natural to tire at it, it was unlikely that the officer would hit it, and he (Yussuf) had not minded it at all.

When You Are Weary. Are you weary? Breathe more, eat less. Active exercise will not rest you from mental work. "When you are tired with mental work," says a well known physician, "do not think you must take active exercise. That will make you more weary. All you need are rest and more air in yonr lungs. Sit down quietly and comfortably and breathe deeply twenty-five times. Rest a moment and repeat. "This air forced into the body removes the waste material which makes you wears'. "Don't eat all you want. "Food not needed for support of the system is so much extra work for the body and requires more air to dispose of it. "This regimen will diminish your grocery bill and save your shoe

over I leather." Chicago Tribune.

the $2,000 mark. The greater portion

sell between the figures of $S00 and

Age of Westminster Hall. Westminster hall is quite five centu-

where from 100 to 400 houses, accord- ! instances in which the selling price of J ries old, possibly more, for Richard II..

a single square block containing any- i $1,800. Of course there are several

ing to size. The bouses in most instances are so solidly built as to afford room only for pedestrians to pass between them. The Paco and San Nicholas districts are much the same. Engineering. .

the automobile exceeds the $2,000

mark. But these cases are exception- j al, and are not the general rule. It j is the well-to-do farmer, the business!

man, the professional man of this city who are buying the medium and even low-priced cars, being as they have

Liquids We Consume said unaDle nnanciauv to spena more According to a recent statistician i fr the original cost of the car. and who has been computing the amount wishing to do so. when they would of liquids consumed in the United ' ?et the same value received in a lower-

States in one year, we driuk enough

tea. coffee, wine and other popular

priced car.

Time was, as Mr. Willys says, when

forms of liquid refreshment In a year ' the motoring public here as elsewhere

to cover an area of land ten miles square and ten feet deep, which is a large enough lake to float a navy. And the amount of-alcoholic beverages alone which seemed to be necessary to satisfy the national thirst would fill a canal 100 miles long. 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep. Chicago Tribune.

j ' Prince Consorts. : The last century was more fertile in female sovereigns than the present. In the forties three yonng queens occupied the thrones of England. Spain and Portugal Victoria. Isabella and Maria da Gioria. Their respective consorts were Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg:, the Infant Francois d'Assise and Prince Ferdinand, another Saxe-Coburg. The last two were granted the nominal title of king, to which Prince Albert never spired. Pall Mall Gazette.

looked askance at the medium-priced

machine. This was justified in a great degree through the comparative inefficiency of the low-priced cars of several years ago. It cost a great deal of money" to the manufacturer to put out as good a car as he knew, and he was compelled to charge a comparatively high price for it. Such cars as were manufactured at a lower price were of low quality and gave low service. But the manufacturers have simplified construction, reduced the cost of materials, time and labor, and have produced a good, car for the last several seasons at a low price. And the

price seems to be dropping steadily upon the increase. j

who is credited with its building, was really little move than a repairer of "Rufus' roaring hall," as Pope described it. The hall, so intimately interwoven with the history of England, has, according to Fuller, the distinction of iMjssesstng "cobwebless beams." They were, so a popular tradition affirmed, of Irish oak, in which it was impossible for spiders to live and spin their webs. Cunningham tells us that the roof is. of chestnut and very fine, the finest of i kind in this country."

I It was the nnshes of the law, if not

spiders' webs, one mifrht have looked for here of o'd. for during long centuries Englari's courts of law were held in Westminster hall. London Chronicle.

Bigger the Steal, Smaller the Crime. The Manx law of old times had many oddities, but none, surely, quainter than to make the greater the crime

the less, because of the impossibility, within the narrow limits of the Isle ; of Man. that the bigger thief should i be successful.

"If a man steal a horse or an ox. so ran the law. "it is no felony, for the offender cannot hide them, but If he steal a capon or a pig he shall be hanged

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It is estimated that the force do

veloped by the hydroelectric compan- J The Island of Juan Fernandex. madtf ies of Japan is over two million-horse j famous by the story of Robinson Crupower soe, is to have a wireless station.

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