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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-13

moments we did not dare hope, ourselves,
that we could attain such a magnificent
measure of value.
The picture was made direct from pho
tograph.
Now try and conceive a car almost as
silent as the photograph itself-a car
vibrant with pent-up power under finger
tip CONTROL a car that will glide noiselessly
up alongside the aristocracy OF motordom
and lack nothing that the latter possesses
except higher price-and you will have
formed fair mental picture OF the revela-
ton that awaits you.
Dismiss from your mind the idea that you
have ever seen a low-priced car which was
in the same class as this $1,000 four-cylinder
3o-horsepower Cadillac.
Where you have seen little cars at a low
price, you will now see big car at a low
price.
Where you have hitherto seen spidery
outlines and bandbox proportions you will
now see size and strength and dignity.
Where you have seen Indifferent material
skimped and saved to make possible low
price, you will now see car built of the
finest steels money can buy, used in full and
generous measure-and the same painstak-
ing, conscientious system of construction,
down to the last nut and bolt that has been
typical of the Cadillac plant from the first
year of its history
Where you have seen cars whose vital
plants were bought ready-made-ill- lifting,
loose and out of gauge-from half dozen
factories, and then assembled" for a brief
and inglorious career-you will now see a
car whose low price is made possible only
by the fact that it is manufactured in every
item of its makeup under one roof which
covers the most scientific automobile equip
ment in the world.
The mere announcement of our plans let
loose an avalanche of inquiries 1t shook
the industry from centre to circumference.
Then came the inevitable prediction that
our ideas were too colossal-that we could
not carry them out.
Well, the car is here-and by August 1st,
1908, more than one-half of the output had
been sold.
Hundreds of visitors and dealers have rid
den in the car; have seen it perform under
every possible conditietl-and without a
single dissenting voice they have de-
clared in effect that they have seen no car
at double the price which can equal the four
cylinder, 3o-horsepower, fve-passenger Ca
dillac
There is every indication that the output
of these cars, enormous as it will be, will
not be nearly sufficient to meet the de-
mands. We therefore urge upon you the
importance of placing a reservation with
your dealer at once.
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SPECIFICATIONS


wHEELs-Wood, artillery type, fitted with
quick detachable rims. Special large hub fanges
and special strength wide spokes
WHEEL BAsE-1O6 inches.
TIREs-on Touring Car Roadster and Tour
about 80 in. 80 in.
TREAD-56 inches. Option 81 inches
sPRINGs-Front, semielliptical SO in long
2 in. wide. Rear, q platform; sides, AZ in. long
2 in. wide; rear, 80 in. long in wide.
CoNTRoL-spark and Throttle levers at steer
ing wheel. Steering wheel 16 in. diameter. Clutch
operated by foot pedal. Service brake (externaD
operated by foot lever Emergency brake operated
by hand lever. Speed changes by hand lever oper-
ating in ''H'' plate. Throttle acceerator by foot
lever.
SPEED to so miles per hour on high gear
GASOLINE CAPAcITY-About u gallons.
OIL CAPACITY-6 pints
BoDIEs-Touring Car, wood with metal DOORS
fvepassenger capacity. Tourabout, aluminized
sheet steel and wood, fourpassenger capacity. Road
ster, aluminized sheet steel and wood with rumble
seat, three passenger capacity.
UPHoLSTERING-Han buffed black leather
genuine curled hair and deep coil steel springs
FINIsH-Royal Blue Body and Chassis, striped
EQUIPMENT-One pair side oil lamps and tail
lamp, one hornCand set of tools, including pump and
repair kit for tires.
GENERAL CoNsTRUCT1oN-Th general con-
structon of the Thirty is the highest grade in
every particular. In not single instance have
efficiency stability been sacrificed for the sake
of saving expense
Every individual piece of material that enters
into the construction of Cadillac car down to the
last nut and bolt, must pass number of trained
inspectors. Every is thoroughly tested out and
carefully adjusted before permit it to leave our
factory
INTERCHANGEABILITY = Interchangeability
of parts is feature which most makers claim for
their ears, yet few of them really possess it in its
true sense. Interchangeability means that every
part of is exactly like every other part of its
kind, 1t does not mean almost or nearly like it,
but exactly So in many cases to the one-thousandth
part of inch. It that when any part
must be replaced, a one may be ordered from
the factory and that it will fit without alteration
in the slightest degree True interchangeability is
possible only in factories possessing the most
plete equipment of machinery and tools capable of
producing accurate work and where these are kept
in the most perfect condition at all times
True interchangeability is impossible where the
car is composed of the product of a number of diff
ferent parts makers where the motors are made
place, transmissions in another steering gears
in another, axles, etc, in another. It is possible
only where cars are MANUFACTURED 1t is not
possible where they assembled from parts OBJ
tanned promiscuously
PRICE - TOURING CAR, ToURABoUT AND
ROADSTER, $14Oo, F. o. B. FACTORY.
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~ JUNE rst, 1908, we promised
the automobile world car which
~ would annihilate all previous pre-
cedents, and compel complete readjust-
ment of automobile values.
What then seemed the daring dream of
the designer and the draughtsman-and
what actually was the long-cherished ambi-
ton of colossal plant, slowly taking con-
crete shape-has now become magnificent
and impressive Fact.
The first of the ten thousand high-pow-
cred, solid steel Cadillac cars, which are to
establish an entirely new price standard in
America, has been running on the streets
and roads of Detroit and vicinity since June
18th
Before we proceed to descriptive details,
let us stop for moment and impress upon
your mind one vitality important point:
This wonderful car, which Says to every
higher priced automobile in the World,
"You must prove that you are better than
am, or you cannot command one cent
more than $14oo," has been in preparation
for FIVE years, awaiting the time when this
plant could be brought to the point of capac-
ity and perfection which would make it pos
sible at such price.
In other words, there is not one ounce of
uncertainty or experiment in this marvellous
car at SI4oo because it derives its being
from twenty thousand other Cadillac cars
which have preceded it. 1t springs inn
mediately into full-fedged competition with
the best other cars at twice and thrice the
price, because it is the outcome and evolu-
ton of factory equipment, and factory
experience that has cost millions in the MAX
ing.
With this thought in mind, turn now, and
look at the picture of the 3o-horsepower
four-cylinder Cadillac which you are to buy
at $14oo.
With all the good will in the world to-
ward the Cadillac Company; with full faith
in our ability to make good the sensational
premise OF few weeks ago. with your
hopes and expectations pushed up to the
highest notch-did you ever dream for a
moment that we could produce such a
superb car as even the picture shows, to sell
for, SI4oo?
You couldn't have expected it, for two
reasons: First. Because no plant in the
world with lesser equipment than Gus, and
especially no plant which assemblies its
parts instead of manufacturing them could
have possibly produced it; and
Secondly. Because in our enthusiastic
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attempt whatsoever to conceal their
trade. They had the black flag flying
to the fore. and when we wigwagged
them TO heave to they replied by plug
ging one of our smokestacks with a
40 pound cannon ball. This interested
US all very much. for here was chance
to see what a surgeon admiral would
do when it came to show down In
battle. Old Squills' eyes sparkied like
fire when he realized that his oppor-
tunity had come. Load the larboard
syringe with chloroform, Captain Wig
ellsworth said he
SYRINGE" / asked.
YES" laughed Wigglesworth. "The
old man was very consistent. He called
his guns syringes. Well, obeyed the
order at once and awaited further or
ders. We will demand the enemy S
surrender once more, said Squills. and
If he does not yield to that treatment
we WI let him have it, A second de-
nland was made upon the pirates, who
responded with satirical insolence by
discharging cannon at US loaded with
several hundred copies of hymn books
which they had stolen from one Of the
English missionary ships they had cap
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$50 capsules charged with morphine
and eight tons of plain soda. These
were fred by our most expert marks
men directly into the mouth of the
crater. and inside OF 20 minutes she
was sleeping like a child, and up to
row has shown no signs of reawaken-
ing"
And we never heard of it here I
calculated. Why, man, that was q
most marvellous achievement
Yes" said Billie: ''5ut Squills is a
modest old chap and to prevent the
story getting out he put on a diving
helmet himself and dived down under
the water and put tourniquet on the
cable, so that If anybody attempted to
send the story home it couldn't get
by The cable company doesn't know
even yet where the trouble is. old
Squills made such a nice job of it. But
the most marvellous ching he did was
an operation he performed on "a gang
of pirates we captured in the South
Sea islands. They were the toughest
gang you ever saw. We sighted 'em
just after we had left Mosquabito and
we knew at once that they were graft
ers of the sea. because they made no
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tific man. End he gave notice that any
member of the ships company who sue
cunbed to IL would be taken to the
little operating room adjoining his
cabin. etherized and for the benefit OF
his country have his innards removed
to be kept under microscopic observa-
tion for 10 days. when of course they
would be- restored to the original
owner"
"Geer 1 ejsculated. That was
heroic treatment. What was the result
of the observation %
Why said Billie. strange to say,
in all that crew OF land lubbers there
wasn't 2 case of seasickness during the
whole cruise, Oh. tell you, Jenkins.
there never was man like old Squifls
for emergenciesi And after all, that's
what a sailors life amounts to in the
end, just q never ending series of emer-
genices. Why, do you remember that
last earthuaFe Of last summer. How
every blooming seismograph in the
world wobbled about like the shot in
a baby's rattle?"
yes, 1 said. TT was never ac-
counted for. although some people
thought it mad something to do with
Secretary Taft's trip around the world.
We thought here he had probably
slipped up on banana peel somewhere
in the antipodes."
Weil, II wasn't that- said Billie. 1t
was a genuine earthquake down in the
Pango Pango islands Old Mount
Maeterlinck had been quiet as an aban-
doned farm in Vermont for 5000 years
and then all of sudden. without any
warning to anybody, she began to
quiver and quake like Jersey man In
spring. The Appendix had just arrived
off Point Popakalilstum, al the mouth
Of the port of Pango Pango, when the
old crater began to get in her fine
work Church steeples were falling in
every direction. Seven story office
buildings were going down with
crash lflxe tenpins before an exuert
bowler. and the Pango Pangoites were
panic stricken. They literally swarmed
around the Appendix begging to be
taken OF board. but Squills said no:
this was a case for cure. not relief.
The trouble is. said be. that you peo-
pie have let Mount Maeterlinck stay
out In the night air too much, and this
is the natural result. III is only a bad
case of chills and fever With that
he ordered the guns loaded with hun
dred boxes of 1000 grain quinine pills,
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tested and their daily rate ascertained
through the winter by comparing them
with the standard chronometer.
With the return OF light in the
spring the final observations for time
are made while the party is preparing
to leave for the frozen sea- No mat
ter how well the watch or pocket chro-
nometer is constructed. 1t is very apt
to change it's rate when carried in the
field. The jolting, the changes OF
temperature. the varying positions. all
have their effect on the mechanism.
and the rate is liable to change sud-
denly. becoming either too fast Of too
slow. As result the observations OF
the explorers are faulty and place him
either too TAR west or east of his des-
tinations serious matter. particularly
on the homeward trip. when provi-
sfons are low and the small point OF
his base must be reached to prevent
starvation Thus 1t happened that both
Dr.. Nansen and Captain Gasni were
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l1nighthood whose warriors with mailed
ships crush the barriers of the Frost
King in an endeavor to reach the hub
OF the earth. 1t is worth noting that it
Is there, at the center. that man takes
a day to turn around 1t once. while his
brother at the equator must travel at
the rate of a thousand miles an hour
to do the same thing.
The magnetic north pole should not
be confounded with the earth's axis.
The former was believed to be dis
covered June 1, 1881, by Captain Ross,
who located II on the frozen shore Of
Boothia, north of King Williams Land
In British North America, latitude 70
deg min. north. longitude SO deg.
ze min. As sec. west or about 1875
miles south Of the geographical pole.
While the discoverer of the magnetic
pole could prove his position By the
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tured a month before. You may operate
when ready. Captain wiGs-.SSuorth.
said Squills with a grim smile as the
hymn books fell all over the deck. I'M
mediately I discharged so quarts of
chloroSorm upon the unsuspecting pi-
rates, and FIVE minutes later, when we
boarded their vessel, every lmanjack Of
them lay upon deck in a slumber so
profound that it did not seem there
could ever be any awakening. prize
crew sailed the captured vessel into
Mosquaoito and the Appendix made at
once to a desolate island 60 miles to the
northwest. where the pirates were ma
rooned, As OF them"
by Jove" I cried. Perfectly Won
derful,"
eyes, said Billie. But wait until
fore narooning those daI1ers the au-
miral called a clinic of the whole crew,
and after making the statement that
crime could be eradicated from the
human system by an operation on the
brain of the criminal he trepanned the
heads OF the whole bunch, eliminated
the cranial bump where the crime germ
turks. and bound them all up again be-
fore setting them on shore; and would
you believe it. two months later. when
we returned to Mosquabito for our
prize crew. as we approached the
pirates island we heard them singing
Rock OF Ages, and on going ashore
found that they had organized them
selves into missionary societv- con-
verted the natives. who had hitherto
been considered absolutely beyond the
reach of Christian effort. and as we
came upon them were actually conduct
ing a revival meeting and taking up a
collection for foreign missions. How
is that for a civilizing inf1uenee7'
asked Billie, as he concluded his ex-
traordinary story.
Tt sounds almost Incredible I an
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THE NORTH POLE

uncertain Of their positions on return
inS to land from their record breaking
trips. DR.. Nansen had so far lost de-
pendence upon his watches that he did
not know whether he had landed on
Franz Josef Land or an island OF the
Spitzbergen group Captain Cagni
worried continually about his time
while approaching Rudolf island. and.
as IL happened. MS apprehension was
justified His party missed the land.
were carried too far west. and had to
fight against the drift to reach camp.
During this period they were obliged
to eat some OF their dogs. and when
at last they made their objective they
were In a starving condition
1t would seem that wireless telegra-
ply should prove invaluable as q means
OF sending time signals to an absent
sledge party. 1t would save miles OF
useless travel and would give tina
leader q confidence In hls ebssrva-
tfonA
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Ir9rEDIATELI D15cHARSET FIFTY QUARAJ 9f
cs4LCROFORM UPON TIE UNe5U5PEcTING PIRNTES

4 HAPPENED TO be q guest OF the
Pharmacy and Navy Club the other
night when my old friend Billie
Wigglesworth. who used to fill my
prescriptions for me at the drug store
on the corner and of whom I had lost
sight for several years. rolled in
''Shiver my mortar bowl. IL it isn't my
old pal Jenkins." he cried as he caught
sight OF me.
Why. Billie" I rejoined with equal
enthusiasm. Where have you been
keeping yourself all these years?'
'On on q cruise he answered I'm
executive officer on the United States
bsttleship Appendix. Surgeon Admiral
Squius' flagship. Unknown to the gem
ersl public we have been experimenting
with q medical squadron in various
parts Of the world. and / tell you
what ii is, old man. IL won't be long
before there will be a complete revo-
luton in naval affairs in this country.
The administration has for a long
time been convinced that the old line
officers were getting too confoundedly
set In their ways 10 be open to new
lines OF thought in naval growth, and
rather than create ali sorts Of diff
cuities trying TO win the old seadogs
over TO the new thought the president
has decided that the best way 10 re-
form things is 10 start in with an en-
tirely new set of men,"
ON the ground that you can't teach
an old dog new tricks 1 suggested.
Exactly" said Wigglesworth. with
that idea IN mind little over two
years ago a medical squadron under
Surgeon Admiral S0uiils. assisted by
Chiropodist Commander Sawbones and
myself. with crew OF recent graduate
from the college OF physicians and
surgeons. was put into commission.
and we have been of on a secret prac-
tice cruise ever since. Surgeon Admiral
Squtlls. Immediately upon our return
started TO Washington to make his
report TO the president, and Sawbones
and / are alternately taking shore
leave for the first time since the
cruise began"
Has the scheme worked out well?y
I asked.
$50 very WELL" replied Wigglesworth,
that may tell you in confidence that
by next fall the bureau of navigation
viii be superseded by the medical stan.
the navy department VIII be trans
formed into the department OF thera-
peutics with secretary Of pharmacy
at fits head; Annapolis will be reor-
Ranized into the United States academy
Of medicine. and in order to clinch the
idea IN the public mind all the most
popular ships now in commission will
be reohristened. each one being named
after some well known disorder. so that
in place OF the New York. the Con-
necticut, the Oregon and the Maine. we
shall have the Malaria, the influenza.
the Lagrippe and the HeartfaiIya''
Strange idea that" said 1 with a
dubious nod Of the head. for TO tell the
truth / did not at all like it.
Yes. but think how effective" said
Billie. ~As the president himself is said
70 have said in confidence to a COM
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witch time. The captain makes OBJ
servations of the sun or stars for the
purpose OF securing local or ship time.
the difference between that hour and
the time at Greenwich at the same in
slant being the difference in distance
or longitude.
The explorer Of tho northern ice
desert is isolated from all time OBJ
servatories and is obliged to erect one
himself IL near land or use his ship
as station for the observing of the
heavenly bodies to secure accurate
time whereby to rate his chronometers.
When he leaves civilization he takes
telegraphic time signal at the last
port. Thenceforward through the long
winter he must depend upon q large
theodolite or astronomical transit In
observing the stars of time. The chro-
nometer IL too delicate an instrument
to carry on tho sledge trip. so the ex-
plorer has to content himself with =
number OF good watcher. These are
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mittee OF clergymen from Texas, VINO
came to request him TO have a soda
water fountain erected on the White
House grounds as memorial TO the
Hayes administration, everybody is
afraid OF the malaria. lagrippe and
the influenza, and many an enemy who
would not think OF running away from
the Missouri would turn his back on
the Pneumonia and hike away for
safety the minute she hove in sight"
'I see." said I. There is some truth
in what you say. But tell ne some Of
the results Of your cruise, Billie
"Oh. it was great said Wiggles-
worth enthusiastically. You don't
know how safe you feel on the briny
with q surgeon in command. ] remem-
Der one night in the Sargasso sea
there was a frightful gale blowing. and
most of US who had never been much
closer to sea water than soda foun-
tain thought our last hour had come.
As executive officer l was on duty. and
I tell you. Jenkins. ] wished l was
back in little old Eighth avenue selling
postage stamps ard collecting tele-
phone charges from our customers. The
Appendix was behaving outrageousiy,
and cussed myself for 9z kinds of n
patent medicine for not having cut her
out. Finally things got so had that L
telephoned TO Surgeon Admiral SquilIs.
advising him to order out his gig and
prepare for a hurry call from the land,
provided. OF course. there was any land
anywhere around TO be called to. The
response was instantaneous. He came
to the bridge, diagnosed the weather
in an instant wrote ont n prescription
and told me To ring him up again in
the morning ii things hadn't quieted
down. Then he went to bed"
1,.f l. 7 -,
Not at ALL" retorted Billie. His pre-
scription worked to a charm. The gale
he attributed to the fact that nature
had little too much wind on her tum-
my, and we cured II at once by thirty
pounds Of peppermint capsules, fired
from our starboard guns
Marvelousr / cried.
And as for the waves" continued
Wigglesworth. 40 gallons of cod liver
oil poured upon them Gained them
down so effectually that in the midst
of that raging sea the good ship Ap-
pendix rode as quietly as If she were
at anchor in the Croton reservoir We
stayed there until the storm had en-
tirely subsided and then resumed our
cruise ="
How about seasickness?' I asked.
4 guess that's where your surgeon ad-
miral fell down a little bM, eh?"
''On the contrary" said Billie Nd
miral Sauills nipped it in the bud the
first day out
Il had always understood that sea
sickness was one of the things that
had completely baf1ed science, medical
or otherwise, said /.
1T didn't battle Admiral SquilIs,' re-
piled Billie. The first day cut he sum
moned the whole crew on deck and
made q short speech on the subject.
He told them what Won have ;ust CO IA
that seasickness had for ali time batfied
scientists. but ne thought the time had
conae when an opportunity to study il
with some prospect of finding out it's
precise causes and cure was for the
first time within the grasp OF a scien-
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noon hour is marked by its most south
ern limit. At o'clock in the morning
1t Is east and at the same hour in the
evening or (1S o'clock 1t IL west. So
twice in "a hours the sun is on the
meridian and observations for latitude
can be taken at midnight as well AZ at
noon.
The operation ct finding latitude IS
. simple one, and there is not much
danger of great errors, but securing
longitude is more difficult. The mod
ern mariner. with his two or three
almost perfect chronometers safe in
his cabin. need not worry about errors
Of longitude. In almost every port he
can get time signal by telegraph and
thus verify tho rating OF his time
pieces The position of ship at sea
as to east and west Is merely a ques-
tion OF time from . given meridian,
say Greenwioh, England. or Washing
ton, u. 8. A On board ship the chro-
nometess are kept running at Green