Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-30

Omaha dealers are getting in their cars
for the annual Automobile show which
will be held at the Auditorium, February
q to 81. These prize ears are not being
run over the muddy streets, but are being
i kent sphinx and clean for exhibition pur-
poses.
Many Of the Omaha dealers are preparing
10 attend the Chicago Automobile show
next week and many Omaha owners VIII
60 as well. Dealers wish to see II they
might not pick up some special part TOT
exhibition purposes and also to look after
their interests. Last year at the Chicago
show an Omaha dealer sold the highest
priced car that was sold during the show
and Il was sold TO an Omaha man.
All the space at the Auditorium is gone
and all the dealers will be represented. as
surfing visitors the best show ever held in
the west.
The records in the secretary OF state Of
flee show that 4,24O automobiles were sold
last year in Nebraska
This business represents an expenditure
for cars approximating A,OOO.Oo.
Following is the way the cars were dis
trtbuted: Buick. 517; REQ. 500: Ford, 33s;
Maxwell, 29S: Jackson, 226; Il. M. F., 1873;
Overland. 1888; International 143; Rambler,
121; Cadillac, III; Mitchell, 81; Chalmers.
s6; Veilie, 81; Oakland, 81; Brush, "a; Odds.
So; Homemade, So; Franklin, 81; White
Steamer. So: Stoddard Dayton, "a; Regal, 49,;
Interstate, 81; Auburn, %; Holsman, -;
lambert, %; Fuller. "a; Mason, %; Stanley
teamers 20; Stevens Duryea, %; winton,
21; schacht, 16; Hupmobile, Is; Sears, Roe
buck. Carter, each. 70: Victor, Il; Thomas,
Orient, each, IL; Kissel, Black. each, 10;
American and Moline, each, 8; Premier and
Hudson, s; Northern, Apperson, Pierce Ar
row. Rapid, each. z; Wayne, Z; Packard,
Queen, Pope Toledo, each, 6; Aurora, EN-
blem, Locomobile, each, 5; Auto Car,
Ricketts,, Midland, Gleason, each, 4; Nc
Intyre, Everett, K%iblinger. Eureka, Marion,
each. 4; Peerless, Jewel, S~treater, Knox,
Glide, each, 3; Bloomstrom, Sterling, Earl,
Richmond and Great Western, each, 81;
Success, A. b.. c., wisner, Economy, John
son, st. Louis, Metz, Avery. Cole, Angus,
each, 2; Rogers, Nelson, Dolson, Dragon,
Freedman, Monitor, Reeves, Cushman,
Meyers, Mattheison, owen, Chadwick,
Buckeye, Haynes, Logan, Swanson, Read
ing, Hall, Albany, Riley, Petrol, Randolph
Truck, Columbus Hewett, Scotch, each, 1.
ELECTRIC CARS.
Woods, 10; Detroit. 10; Baker. s; Column
bia, Z; Waverly, 4; Babcock, 4; Anderson, Q;
Rasch Land, 2; Dayton, l.
Taken from The Lincoln Daily Star,
January z, 1910.
The Mcintyre Automobile company ex-
poets to get in its new garage at 22OS
Farnam street about the middle Of next
month and viii have a great line of cars,
consisting of the Welch, Oaklands, Staver
So and Gleason.
Mr.. Mcintyre is in receipt of a letter
from the general manager of the Detroit
: United States Railway company, who pur.
chased one of these WEIGH cars in 1902, and
which has been in continued service eyel
since and has travelled upward of 10000
miles and is stil in daily use.
Speaking Of the White gasoline car yes
terday to William Drummond, A. E.. Crosse
Of Minneapolis said; I'VE have been usinl
the little Gar" car and have pulled off
number OF stunts, and as far as g~asolin,
cars are concerned believe it is the bes
thing in the country for the money. Witt
four in the car we drove 100 miles in fou
and one-half hours over country roads AM
through mud. and sometimes we woul'
have to resort to No, 2 gear, never goini
into No. 1. / was trying to see Just hoy
much grief the car would stand. The ca
is running just as it did when the car ar
rived and is getting the usual hammerinl
and pulling about such as the custome
would give a new car"
THE last day of December, 1909. saw
fifty-five cars manufactured in the oil
and outgrown plant of the Ford Motto
company-the first day OF 1910 saw sixt
cars shipped from the new Ford plant, a
Highland park. The change was mad
quickly and quietly, without a brass band
a ,Iaun-baLa ~ /. hall h,f navrarthalag
IL was thoroughly done, and the variou
departments are already settled down I
regular routine said Manager Gould Q
Ford Motor Car company.
The old factory on Piquette avenue wi
be used as a parts factory, tool room an
pattern shop.
The present capacity of the new par
is 800 complete automobiles per day. ]
addition to the assembly plant, a 75xSl
four-story concrete and glass building
there is a machine shop s40x140, one-story
a shop office building 75x14O, four-story
a power house and a 5000 horsepower ga
producer plant already built. A foundr
2OOx2OO is TO be started at once and a three
story lOOxSOO office building will be hui
in the spring. Other buildings bein
planned will soon cover the entire sixt
acre tract. which the Ford company owr
at Highland park.
The occupation of the new pant by III
Ford Motor company should set at REL
the rumor which has secured considerabI
circulation, to the effect that the building
were unsafe and had been condemned.
is said these stories were started by dh
gruntled contractors and cement maker
In this connection, the report OF the builS
ing Inspector, Dalton Russell Wells, a pa
OF which reads as, follows, is interestiu
copy:
'The various floor constructions WEI
tested with a thirty-two and forty-seve
one-hundredths per cent C2.47R) uniforml
distributed overload, which showed a max
mum defleeteion Of forty per cent (4OgO Z,
sab, and twenty-siX and two thirds (26As
per cent for beam OF the allowable defle
ton OF each under a load for which SUE
construction was designed.
'grh various reflections, under the ties
made. also showed a great uniformity
mass throughout the floor construction
which is a strong factor.
These resuitants prove without the lea
doubt the absolute safety OF the struetu
for the carrying OF the live loads for Will
the structure was designed