The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-28

HUDSON '.33'' COSTS
LESS THAN RAIL-
ROAD MILEAGE
Remarkable 5000 Mile Tour Of West.
Middle-West and East Shows an
Expense Account Of Only
SITES for Upkeep.

The automobile as an economical
means OF transportation Is coming into
its own by leaps and bounds.
Each month and each year show
new upkeep records. until today the
meteor car has smashed another long
distance upkeep record, this time
bringing mileasc~cost down below the
passenger rates OF railroads.
News of the latest notable perform
ance reached MIR. Albright, the HCn-
son dealer, today. with the intelh>
gence that $l1.3a was the total upkeep
cost of 6e>5 mile trip through the
west, middle-west and east by MIR and
Mrs. Edward McDermott OF Kansas
City in a HUDSON 80" The tour oc'
cupied four months. Previous to
starting on the trip Mr.. McDermo1t
had taken but three lessons in driving
and before that had never occupied
the seat of an automobile.
The party crossed the state OF Mis-
souri, on very poor dirt roads and
crossed Illinois to rerre Haute, Ind,
on the so-called National road.
From Terre Haute they went to Ind
| annapolis and north from there to
Traverse City and Petoskey to Macki-
nav City( Michigan. Thence via Che
boygan and Harbor Beach to Detroit.
Michigan From Detroit the route ex-
tended around Lake Erie. via Toledo.
! Cleveland and Buffalo to Niagara Falls
where week was spent.
| From Niagara Falls they went via
Rochester to Albany and north from
! Albany thru the Adirondack Noun
tains to Lake Champlain which was
crossed on a ferry and came south
thru the Green Mountains to Spring
| field, Mass. where they again turned
north through the White Mountains OF
n. II. to the Profile Mount. which was
climbed via the three mile hill. Says
Mr.. McDermott: I'm venture to say
there are not many cars get up that
mountain from that side where the
same elevation was reached in 13
miles instead OF ; miles. We again
went south and east reaching Ports
mouth, N. H., and York. Maine. where
we turned back for Kansas City (which
we reached after having been travel
ing four months and two days"
I'VE kept careful account Of ex-
penses."
Our repairs on the auto proper
will itemize as we always had had the
impression that the engine repairs
would be more than a farmer could
stand"
/ SIS repair on Klaxton electric horn.
$3.50 leaky radiator caused by rough
Missouri roads. SIS to tighten a
loose valve. $275 for broken rear
spring, broken at Dundee. Mich. on
road that was being repaired and
forced onto a route to get around.
S 25 for broken spark plug. $3.50 for
set Of dry cells (6). They "shorted"
and l bought another set for $3.50
which set still have. $50 for new
spark plug. $50 repair on rear fend-
err $125 repair on speedometer.
$11.25 total.
I'VE bought in all 331 gallons of gas
oline at a cost OF 1864 We made one
. run on New York roads Of III miles on
5 gallons of gasoline and whenever we
were not climbing mountains or plow-
ing through hot, dry sand in Michigan
, we felt confident and did run from 100
to 40 miles on each 5 gallons Of gas
oline We paid out $12.S2 for crank
case oil at an average price Of IS
cents per quart. We paid 310.55 for
grease. which included cup grease,
transmission and gear grease.
; We paid for garage storage at
nights, $3.50"
|. See the New Car at the Auto Inn aft.
err January 1st.