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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
NEW ENGINE
FOUR-CYCLE
VALVELESS
CHICAGO INVENTOR BRINGS
OUT NEW GAS MOTOR
DAIMLER AND OTHER MANUFAc-
TuRERs INTERESTED
Reliability and Silence Are Two Points
Claimed for the Knight Motor,
Whlch Is Said to Be Abso-
Iuteiy FooI-Proof

II reports are true the Chicago man
named Charles Y. Knight, who not
long ago invented a valveless engine,
has done something that is likely to
add more TO automobiling than any in
vention for several years The we'll
known Daimler company of England,
after year of experimenting in its
own shops and laboratories, has put
the great machinery Of its plant of $500
employees into operation to produce the
valveless, silent and flexible Chicago
engine for thousands of cars and taxi
cabs. There are contracts calling for
20Oo of the latter alone on the Daimler
books
But the good fortune of the Chicago
Engineering amateur" as the experts
of Great Britain are calling him, did
not stop with interesting the Daimler
people, Mr.. Knight demonstrated the
merit of his motor in such an obvious
manner that other big interests decided
TO abandon the poppet valve motor and
adopt the radical sleeve of the Knight
motor.
The Daimlel,s have the exclusive
right for Great Britain and they will
pay a huge sum in royalty each year
fixed on horsepower and terms ac-
cepted without bubble when the year
of experimenting at Coventry factory
was ended
The Panhard ct Levasseur company
of France has paid a large sum for
the privilege of exclusive exploitation
of the valveless engine in France.
The makers OF the Mercedes cars IN
Germany are about to close the con-
tracts for the exclusive use of the en-
CINE in Germany and Austria; the De
Luca-Darmler establishment has taken
the rights for italy; the Minerva firm
has taken the rights for Belgium. and
three big United States makers are
abroad trying to close for the right for
this country.
Mr.. Knight sa,ys he scarcely feels
equal to the task of figuring what the
interests might become when the field
of stationary engine motors was
worked. In an probability the Knight
engine, as improved and turned out by
the Daimler company, will be found in
the 1910 model
I'VE have demonstrated absolute ST.
lence,'' was one point made by Mr..
Knight and he distinguished the
silence of the motor from the so-called
poppet valve type. Smoothness of OPP
Grafton was another point exploited be-
fore the club.
Greater Fleotih'iIity Is Claimed
Grea ter fiexiblity than the other mo-
tors is another claim he set forth-flex-
Utility approaching so closely that of
steam as to leave nothing to be de-
sired Reliability IN that the motor is
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
ADVOCATES LOW
TENSION CURRENT
MAKE AND BREAK SYSTEM MOST
ACCURATE
High Speed Motors Susceptible to
Inaccurate Firing When Single
Vibrating Coil Is
Used

1t is sometimes instructive to listen
to experts whose business it is to pre-
sent one side of a problem only, even
though the advantages of the other
side are omitted. In discussing the
ignition problem, for illustration, a rep
resentative of the Premier car says:
1.-THE most practical system is UNI
questionably the one which is simplest
and at the same time produces the
best results and can be most depended
upon. =,
Continuous high speed, where all
parts are worked to their maximum
and under a high tension, is calculated
to develop quickly any possible at
tending shortcomings. A glance over
the list of cars which have from year
to year taken part in the international
endurance and speed contests will show
that the winners, with few exceptions,
were cars equipped with low tension
make and break using magnetic for cur
rent supply, in spite of the fact that in
many instances two systems are regu-
larly supplied, the second being high
tension.
1.-THE magnetic used with the low ten
sion system is the simplest possible
electric generator known, requiring no
attention except occasional oiling. The
small amount of wiring required, and
the very low potential of a low tension
system, tend to make it practically i'm
mune from short circuits, due to pos
sible contact with dust, oil or water,
which have practically no unfavorable
effect upon the igniter mechanism or
wiring.
Granting that the make and break
parts are properly located-preferably
in the valve-cap over the intake valve
it is possible with this system to
properly fire variable gas mixtures
nlx -tnIaf
rare charge can be fired better than
would be possible with any kind of
jump spark.
"The up-to-date multi-cylinder motor
requires sparkling mechanism, which,
first of all, should be very accurate in
it's timing. The moving parts should be
of such design as to maintain this ac-
curacy, irrespective of motor speed. In
using the low tension system, each
cylinder being equipped with its own
spark-producing parts, the question of
number of cylinders need not be con-
sidered, as the relative velocity of these
parts remains the same whether one,
four or six cylinders are used.
"In a high tension system, using the
present day magnetic, one oscillator arm
or spring performs the duty for all the
cylinders of a motor, and the greater
the number of cylinders the higher the
velocity of the moving parts. In firing
a .six-cylinder motor running at nor
NAL speed of 1000 revolutions per min
ute 1t would require the oscillator arm
to make 5000 contacts per minute. In
order to time the spark accurately at
this motor speed it has been found
difficult problem to prevent overtravel
of parts, and time the spark in each
individual cylinder accurately. Since
this single oscillating arm makes the
contacts for all the cylinders it is to be
supposed that the contact points would
wear and get out of adjustment pro-
portionately sooner than they would on
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
MOTORING WORLD

The bishop of Worcester and the bishop
of Newcastle have been given automobiles
by their British friends.
The British Society of Motor Manufactur-
ers and Traders will show its appreciation
OF the Automobile associations work by
giving 1t a large stand at the annual show
while shutting out all other organizations.
with greater liberty allowed motorists in
Rochester than In almost any other city,
the board of governors of the Automobile
club has been obliged to caution every driver
TO use more care lest some of the liberty be
curtailed.
One of the vehicles entered for the COM
mercial competition in England under the
auspices of the Commercial Motor Users as
ISOLATION that OF the Westminster city
council, which had covered 10000 miles and
keeping 1t company two others belong
ing to the same corporation that had trav-
eled $4,000 and $4,000 miles.
There are signs in England of the near
approach of a complete reorganization of
the principal motoring clubs with view to
greater efficiency In behalf of the ordinary
user of the automobile.
Thirty-one vehicles were entered for the
annual competition of tho Commercial Motor
Users association in London, sixteen prizes
being awarded for various work done during
the year well as for appearance.
John A. Bright, one of the best known
members Of the British parliament. recently
had an unfortunate accident When motor
ing, his car running down and killing a
cyclist who was the wrong side Of the
road
King Alfonso, while in Paris recently. took
a boyish delight in outwitting the news
papermen who tried to follow his automo-
bile and being king was not forced to
respect speed laws In getting away from
his pursuers
An auto hook and ladder truck is to be
purchased by Fort Worth, Tex. with the
understanding that the whole department
shall be placed on a motor basis in time
The first car driven through the Indian
reservation in northeastern Wisconsin was
piloted by Eugene Zundel, most of the In
dams fleeing at the sight of the big tour
ing car blowing through the virgin forest.
AUTOS SUNDAY
Find a use for a want ada task for it.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
LIGHT TENSION DESIRABLE

A light tension between the platinum
points is desirable. as a stiff tension
not only renders the coil less respon-
sive, but will exhaust the batteries
quicker and often causes the contact
points to become pitted.
The only secret of keeping coil in
the best condition is to fool with 1t as
little as possible and to keep the vibra-
tor points clean and smooth, and to ad-
lust these POINTS neither too tight nor
loose, but at medium tension. The
vibrator spring should be fairly HEX
ible and buzz at moderately hlsn
once properly adjusted, the coil
should require very little attention;
once a week the vibrator and coll
plates should be cleaned with small
camers hair brush.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20

the low tension system, where each
cylinder is equipped with its own ig-
inter points.
1.-THE low tension make and break
ignition characterizes the greater num-
Der of representative European cars
and many of the well regarded makes
of America, and the use of low tension
system is notably on the increase, new
converts being added to this system
every season."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20

of the little cottage was a group OF
people that had gathered on that van
tage point to watch the car as it came
from afar and vanished into the dis
lance. 1t was early morning when
Smith went through the little town out
on the edge of the desert, and no bet
ter evidence of the interest that the
country took in the race can be had
than the remarkable photograph show
ing the group perched high on the
housetop on an early Sunday morning
while most other folks lay abed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20

Flyers belonging to the Fairmont hotel,
According to the captain of the Mon
golia, the royal Chinese gentleman was
very much interested in the Thomas
Flyer which won the New York to
Paris race, and Immediately upon his
arrival in San Francisco he asked to
be taken out in a car like the machine
that won the New York to Paris race.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20

WI HILE Andy Smith was rolling
w along his way on the race to
" Phoenix he was kodaked as he
passed through Indio.
Not a thing of it did Smith know
until he received a beautiful print from
the amateur who made the photograph.
As the car swung around a corner
past a little house the dust raised in
smothering clouds, and as the shutter
clicked there was imprinted on the SEN
sitive plate a most attractive vision.
Perched high on the peak of the roof
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
SCION OF CHINESE NOBILITY
PARTIAL TO THOMAS FLYEl

During the stay in san Francisco of
his royal highness. Prince Tsai Flu of
China, he was out every day seeing the
sights of the city in one of the Thomas
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
StulpendOuS Reductions
in Ladies Shirt Waists

A beautiful line of white lawn shirt waists with
lovely designs of insertion and cmbroid-
to Observation-Disclosures, - 'lYo '',''' D,iE ''''. @''c S19
Several handsome designs OF lace and embroidery
shirt waists with lace collar, tualIy 81 m
worth SD, reduced during this sale to-. al,J0
A very fine mercerzad ongeIic waist of striped
design long sleeves stock collar and bow, with mum
d d"ced S d"rng this s %S |orn foO S2S8
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25

With thud and crash go the prices in every
department in this, Bluefelds Biggest and Best
Store. Such phenomenal reductions coming so early
in the season indeed unprecedented. Our reason
for this SENSATIONAL PRICE CUTTING can be
told In word--OVERSTOCKED. Nor do we in
tend to wait until the is over before taking
the proper means of reducing this mammoth stock
We must dispose of $4,000 worth of merchandise
in the next ten days and to do this we have made
reductions that will astonish the most skeptical buv-
er, and draw the cash to Golfers much as mag
net attracts piece OF steel Come prepared to see
the greatest bargains offered in Bluefield on
new and dependable merchandise We promise
you'll not be disappointed.
SALE STARTS FRIDAY. April, "a
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
Spring Most Cap
tivating Styles of
w ON e S Outer
Garments Tremen-
dously Reduced

a lovely suit made Of nice
Panama cloth in blue and
black, half-ftted coat. skirt
full plated with folds,
worth $500, re-
% SaIc to curing inns $685.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
COrSetS

We are sole agents for the MEMO eETFp
DUCING CoRsETs, the only Corsets in the world
that will reduce the figure ''all around" and do
comfortably. The only Corscts that viii rive tbc
stout woman the "new figure" with fiat back and
slender hips anu
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
For &22.5 so

Best possible tailored, finest Serge, Worstcd and
Velour Suits. These garments are made by -
Kuppcnhcimcr Co.. who have dcscrycdly earned
the reputation Of "MaI<ing the Best Clothes in
America" Here are fabrics that are the finest.
Here are models that show styles from the most
extreme to The most conservative. Here are suits
whose superior qualitcs make them unsurpassed
values at $50 co.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
L0dieS' Hose

Our spring and summer styles of Ladies Hosiery
would delight the most fastdous They embrace
all the very newest Of imported and domestic de-
signs Gauze, LsIcs, and Silks are here i'm q prof,l-
sion OF handsome designs. All materials reduced
for this sale
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
For $3.50

Very handsome designs Of Wolstcd, in the very
newest shades Of Brown Olive and Grey also Blue
Serge Suits in single and doubIc-brcastcd beautiful
ly tailored, values $25 CO.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
Ladies' Skirts

We have no hesitancy in saying that our line of
ladies' skirts compares favolabIy in point Of beauty
and extent OF variety with those Of any Of the larger
metropolitan stores We showing only the new
est and most popular styles in this department. Ma
terals consist Of Panamas, Noiles, Scilims, Silks
and wash goods Prices range from 81 80 to
$25 90, reduced during this sale follows:
s 80 Wash Skirts reduced to.... 90
800 Cloth Skirts reduced to .... So so
$50 Wolfe Skirts reduced to..... 500
80 Panama Skirts reduced to-. 6 SO
80 Panama Skirts reduced to-. 8. co
II. 90 Sicilian Skirts reduced to... 9 90
800 Wolfe Skirts reduced to-. IL SO
90 Wolfe Skirts reduced to- 10 so
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25

a grand Panama cloth suit in brown, black, and
blue; military coat trimmed with braid and satin
lined; skirt full pleated with folds; worth Tin nc
$1,000, reduced during this sale to. ....... 9lL.SJ
fine quality Panama cloth suit in brown, blue,
and black jacket strictly tailored and trimmed with
moire bands and braid; skirt full pcatcd with folds
OF moire and braid; genuine bargain ON ne
at $500, reduced during this sale to-. alO.Jj
. An extremely handsome suit made OF chiffon
Panama in the very newest style in brown and Co
penhagen shadow stripe, taffeta silk
lined; worth 1920, reduced during this pnt m
sale to Observation-Disclosures. 9Ll10
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25

One hundred Genuine Panama and
ed for this sale VI GOU
Decisive reductions Split Soft and Stiff Hats
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-25
For $I3. so

EXccllcntly tailored silk mixture Worstcd Suits,
also very smart Chcyiot and Velour Suits that are
real bargains at $500
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31
GIRL DRENCIIES YOUTH
AND VICTIM SEEKS $4,000

Chlcago.-Because a girl could not
throw a bucket of water straight. her
father is being sued for $4,000 dam
ages. The youth who wants this sum
because "ducked" with the water is
Asa Eisenberg, Is years DID, who asks
the amount from Morris Cohen, Max
well and Union streets, the keeper of
delicatessen shop.
On the last day of August Eisen-
berg was walking past Cohen's store
when he saw a crowd collected at the
door. The assemblage was composed
of boys and young men who were jeer-
ing the delicatessen proprietor. Eisen-
berg stopped and watched the pro-
ceedings from the outskirts of the
crowd.
Cohen ordered the throng away.
he turned to his daughter and told
her to go to the upper story and throw
a bucket of water over the heads Of
the disturbers.
Certainly, papa" said Miss Cohen,
or words to that effect
She duly went up stairs and got the
bucket of water. The crowd in the
meantime howled and hooted more
loudly than ever. Miss Cohen reach
ed the front window with the bucket,
poised 1t there for a moment, took aim
at the ringleaders of the crowd and
finally tossed out the water
Unluckily however, she lived up TO
the proverbal reputation of women.
Chicago Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31
First NJ. T.. Church.

Webb and Johnson streets, T. b.
Ford, pastor. Residence SOS John
son street. Sunday services:-10 a,
M. Sunday school, A. j. owen super
intendent; II, public service and SER
mon by the pastor, followed by class
meeting. j. NJ Gilliland, leader; p.
m, Junior League. Mrs. Rowland,
superintendent; $50 p. m. Ep-
worth League devotional meeting, the
pastor leads; 1880 p. m, evening serv-
ice, a prelude on "The Responsibility
of the American Voter" by the pas
tor, followed by discourse on "An
Ancient Picture and Its Message for
Today" the first in series of sun
day evening discourses on "Some Old
Tragedies Re-enacted." Good music
by the choir, Mrs. Landers, director
Mrs. Owens, organist,. The ladies'
quartet will sing. Gentlemanly ush-
ers. A cordial welcome to all.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31
+" IA 'NTS" WILL
STALK STREETS
PRANK PLAYING PERSONS
PREPARE TO PARTICIPATE
Harmless Jokes and Pretty Parties
Will Mark Celebration of Annual
Event In Pendleton-Red Dresses
and Red Paint VIII Scare Witches
Away-Cclcbration VIII BE Uni
ycrsal.

THE goblins viii get you II you
don't watch out" 1t Is their time
tonight, and those who have the
slightest fear of ghosts and things
had better keep close in the sanctity
OF their own homes, for the word has
gone abroad and all the "ha'nts' will
be stalking the streets of Pendleton
in ghostly regalia.
The "ha'nts" will not be alone in
stalking the streets. There will be
others-lots of others-boys and
girls who are out for fun. There
will be many harmless pranks played
perhaps some not so harmless, and
the feast of Halloween which will
be celebrated tonight, will also be
the occasion of numerous pretty par
ties in Pendleton.
one well known ghost will receive
special attention, and be specially
honored. That is the ghost of hard
times which will be prominent
guest at the republican meeting to-
night at the opera house when the
final rally of that party is held.
The other ghosts will be no less
conventional, but will confine their
efforts to administering frights of
less conventional nature.
Halloween used to be strenuous in
Pendleton a few years ago, but the
young folks of the city nowadays
center their attention on more HARM
less amusements and the social fea-
lures have most rapidly come TO the
front. In days gone by Halloween
was the time for tearing up walks.
tearing down gates and fences, over
turning small buildings, putting wa
CONS and buggies In out of the way
places, etc, but now 1t Is rather
considered the day par excellence on
which to entertain, forget the past.
But-forget the pranks forget all
save that Saturday night will be full
Of spooks, sprites, goblins, brownies,
witches and every form of ghosts
from the uncanny regions. The only
way to avoid them Is to dress in red,
decorate the tables in red, paint your
noses red, well you might as well
paint the town red, for IL you don't
the goblins will.
when the stars shoot,
And the owls hoot
And bats fly in and out,
When the fire burns blue,
And the candle, too.
Witches are about"
November is, and has been, for
centuries celebrated in many places
and ways as All Saints day. conse
auently the night before Is All Saints
eve or Halloween. The custom orig
mated with the ancient Celts as a re-
ligions festival To us, however, the
meaning is only secular, Going back
TO the root of things, Halloween Is |
probably the survival of the harvest
home festivals, when primitive man
gave thanks to his gods, usually the |
sun, and this orb's understudy in the
form of fire, for a good harvest. The
custom as we still have It, of using
nuts and apples in various ways bears
this out 1t Is claimed that long be-
fore the Wise Men of the east pro-
claimed the birth of Christ great
feast was held on the eve of Novem-
Der 1 by the Druid priests, for the
purpose of worship. Huge bonfires
proclaimed that sacred rites were
season Of great rejoicing. These fires
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31
sues for sIo.O5o Damages.

Oregon City, Ore.-Mary A. Paulus,
who formerly conducted a restaurant
in Portland on East Morrison street,
has filed a suit against the Pacific
Velephone & Telegraph company for
$10.O5O damages, which she IS said to
have sustained May 20, 1907, when
workmen of the company permitted a
ladder to fall through her window,
and she was cut on the head and face
by the glass and became a nervous
wreck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31

H. j. Latourelle, where her many
friends had gathered with mysterious
looking packages, all concealing dain-
ty bits of china TO bestow on the
bride-elect, who was compelled to
guess from whom it came by quota
tons written upon each package. AT
the close of the evening light refresh
pointed table in the dining room,
The ladies Of Pendleton Circle, Wo-
men of Woodcraft, were hostesses
last evening at Eagles hall at pret-
ty masked ball In honor Of Hal
loween. The affair was attended by
hundreds Of people and was finan-
cially as well as socially huge sue
cess.
J hneoa's orchestra furnished mu-
sic for the dancers, and the floor was
taxed to its utmost capacity, so
crowded that the greater portion of
the crowd simply abandoned itself to
merriment without the dancing. Many
of the costumes were grotesque in
the extreme, and some Of them were
quite pretty.
Mrs Charles Miller, representing
colored NANNY" was awarded a
prize for the best sustained female
character. and f. r. Peterson as
farmer, was given the honors among
the gentlemen.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31

in some mysterious way drove out the
evil spirits and enticed the holy ones.
The modern celebrations are uni
versal. but are no more striking than
IN Scotland. as may be understood
from reading the following bit of
Robert Burns verse. descriptive of
Halloween:
"Wi' merry songs, an friendly cracks,
| wat they did ma weary:
An, unco tales, an funny jokes,
Their sports were cheap an CHEEKY;
Till buttered sous, wi fragrant lunt,
Set a their CABS a-steerin,'
Syne, wi social glass O. stunt,
They parted off careerin.
Fu' blithe the night"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31

for those who cannot partake Of the
sacrament. The young peoples So
city will hold conservation meeting
at $3.50 p. m. The theme of the eve
ming worship at 1880 will be "The
Great Rebellion in the Kingdom OF
Mans Soul-An Application Of the
Story of Absolom," 49,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-31
Christian Science.

Christian Science services are held
al the Congregational church, corner
Of Webb and Johnson streets. Serv-
les at II o'clock on Sunday morning.
Subject, Everlasting Punishment.
Sunday school at 10 o'clock. Wednes-
day meeting at 7:45 p. m. All are
welcome.