Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-11
BEST IN THE WORLD"
Claim Made for Columbia,
lOzier and Detroit.
AMONG LEADING AUTOS
Have Proved Their Worth in Numer-
Gus Summer Tests.
ROADSTERS OF HIGH TYPE
Dupont Garage Exploits Three Ma
chimes Which It Declares Are
Up to Date.
AMONG LEADING AUTOS
ROADSTERS OF HIGH TYPE

The Dupont garage this season will
nnve on hand three of the best motor
cars in the world. They are the Column
bia. the IoZier and the Detroit Electric
These three cars will cover range of
automobilng possibilities that will GER
tainly satisfy any one. The LoZier and
the Columbia are up-to-the-minute road
sters that have already proved their
worth in endurance tests, road and track
racing and hill climbing.
OF the Detroit Electric little need be
said except that it is the highest develop
ment of the clean, reliable and easily
handled city vehicle. which any woman
or child could drive, and which would
suit the taste of the most eXacting owner
of motor cars. But 1t is more than this,
for the machine this season proved itself
a roadster of the highest type, making
the run of LOO miles from Detroit TO At
lantic City without an accident and with
out part being replaced.
Back to Gasoline.
Getting back to the gasoline rigs. the
Lozier this year is coming out with a
shaft drive. The company satisfied
that the chain drive was the thing for
several years. Then there were expert
ments made by a number of makers. and
it was proved that the shaft drive was a
good thing. if it could be perfected. A
number Of companies experimental with 1t
and sold machines at the same time.
The Lozier people were converted to
the shaft drive in theory but they spent
three years in private experiment before
they were satisfied TO put one of them
on the market. This year all of their
machines are shaft driven, and the makers
state BADLY that they do not believe in
the next few years a first-clasS chain
drive machine will be turned out.
The new drive is made of chrome-nichel
steel. which is the toughest and strongest
material that can be obtained. All the
parts of the shaft that can be made in
one piece are made that way, obviating
the necessity of putting anything together
with fastenings that may not prove SO
strong as the solid material. Every part
is tested far above any breaking strain
1t will ever have to stand in practice, and
the best recommendation for the work
chimes put out last year by the company
for practical use there was not one with
a broken axle, "a broken gear wheel or
even a worn gear tooth that needed re-
placing.
Regarded as Attractive.
The machine itself is declared to be one
of the most attractive looking cars that
has ever been put on the market, and
the makers say that they are willing to
stake their reputation on it's ease Of
management and ease Of running, as well
as economy of operation.
The Columbia machines. which are also
one of the features of the Dupont sales
rooms, are made this year with a shaft
drive that is said to be the acme Of per-
fection. The company is putting out two
cars that represent about the latest stage
of auto building. They are the four
cylinder thirty gasoline car and the
well known electric victoria.
Both these cars are improvements on
the previous years models, but there is
no radical departure in them. the older
cars having SO effectively proved their
worth that there was no temptat iOn to go
lar af1eld In seeking new models.
In the gasoline car attention has been
paid to small details. such as increased
size of the intake and exhaust valves i'm
proving the fabrication system, which was
already good as was made last year, and
furnishing a better double-jet carburetor
that Is competent to meet any calls that
can be made on 1t.
The electric vehicle is not generally
looked upon as touring machine but the
Detroit Electric Company, whose car the
Dupont garage is handling this year has
made record for itself on the Detroit to
Atlantic City run that could not be sur
passed by any car and that could be
equaled by few touring cars now on the
market.
Eleven-Hundred-Mi Run.
The run Of about LOO miles was made
most of the way through rain and wind
storms that would have put an ordinary
express wagon into the repair shop, and
over roads whose vileness even photo
graphs. OF which many were taken on
the trip. fail to do justice. But the run
was made without a hitch. Every grade
that was met was negotiated with ease.
and runs as high as 1O6 miles were made
between charging stations
Some of the roads run over were such
as no electric vehicle in the world but
Detroit Electric could have negotiated
Yet there was but one puncture on the
whole trip, and the car finished the re-
markable journey in condition to turn
around and go back without visiting a re-
pair shop.
No effort was made at speeding, for the
car stopped in a number of cities to es-
tablish agencies. which 1t easily did on
its record and the fact that the trip was
made by an electric vehicle at all is re-