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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
BOTTLE-FED AUTO
 BRINGS THEM HOME
Grade So Steep That Tank Would No Longer Feed Cas- to the
 CarburetOr

Bringing up an automobile on a bot tie is the feat recently performed by City Trustee A. H. Cross of Corona, Cal. who returned a short time ago from trip into the interior of the Golden State" in his Stakeholder "30." The bring ing up process was not called into effect because of the absence of conventional feeding methods but was made neces- sary by the peculiar characteristics of the highway which. at one point away off the regular lines of travel, went over a mountain so steep that the gable roof of house is pronounced level in com parison.
 The steepness of the gradient did not stop Cross and the Stakeholder until the flow of gasoline from the tank, under the seat, no longer reached the carburetor. The motor coughed intermittently and then stopped.
 The drivers first impulse was to turn around and back up the hill but the highway was narrow for long distance back that this idea was shelved.
 An empty bottle was discovered. This was filled with gasoline and attached to the end of the feed line by an ex tenn pore stopped and a foot of tape. With this apparatus second attempt was made at the hill. The fuel, however, re- fused to flow from the bottle, due to the absence of an air inlet.
 With great care Mir. Cross managed to break a hole in the upper end of the bottle. This permitted a flow of fuel to the carburetor. With a passen- ger holding the bottle high in air, the car tackled the hill again and went over the top without further difficulty, al- though the grade was pronounced to be approximately 40 degrees in steepness.
 The experience gave MT. Cross an ex- cellent illustration of the advisability of the cowl location for the gasoline tank Had his car been one of the more recent Studebaker models he would have been able to make without interruption any grade on which his wheels could secure traction, as the degree of fall in the fuel line is much greater than the tank ir the old location.
 Another advantage of the cowl tank Mir Cross friends point out, Is the fact that 1t relieves a motorist from the need
 of explaining the presence of empty bot ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
YOU CAN DEPEND
 ON THE FORD CARS

Touring S600 miles in Texas without once going into a garage, and at a totai cost of s45 for gasoline, oil and one extra casing. is the achievement of c. l.. Green of Prescott, Ark, in a Ford touring car. And during the entire trip neither 8 spark plug nor the carburetor were touched.
 MT. Green reports also that after this tour with the exception of a few scratches on the body and the tarnished brass the Ford car was in as good con dition as 1t was when he started. MT. Green closes his voluntary report to the Ford Motor company with this state- ment: .'I believe I can start out with my Ford against any fellow in any high priced car on the market and make bet ter time through mud and sand hills and rocks, and then come out with a better car; with half the expense that the other fellow pays"
 MT. Green, in a postscript, offers in a very substantial way to make good his claims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
THE NEW DODGE CAR ARRIVES IN TOWN TODAY
 DON'T LET YOUR CUSTOMER SELL YOU A CAR
By RALPH R. SILVER MOTORISTS NOW
 ENJOY TWO CARS

Almost every motorist,' said F. l. Mooney, sales manager of the Hupp Mo- tor Car company, realizes that an au- tomobile is more of necessity during the winter and stormy weather than in the summer months The duties that the motorist has to perform during the months of the year when the streets are covered with snow and ice, are just as important as the daily routine at that time of the year when touring is more of a pleasure.
 For the doctors and professional men who are daily out-of-doors for the so- cial duties of the ladies and their ship ping tours, the motor car in winter is an indispensable adjunct. But 1t oft times happens that the motor car owner is not inclined to afford the expense and upkeep of two distinct cars-an enclosed car for winter and an open car for sum mer. This has been the main reason why the Hupp Motor Car company has hit upon the happy idea of building removable tops for converting the touring car and roadster into sedan and coupe enclosed cars.
 ''This winter Hupmobile cars are be- coming very popular all over the coun- try. With the attachment of the re- movable tops. the Hupmobilist enjoys all the luxuries of the most expensive enclosed cars, at a very reasonable cost. The tops are sound-proof, absolutely noiseless. and have very pleasing in- terior appearance. as they are lined with very high quality fawn colored head lin
 ing. There is an electric dome light; the windows are ventilating: and in fact the sedan and coupe Hupmobiles have all the appointments of luxury
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20

One of the noticeable points of diff
 ference between the civilized man and the savage is that civilized man makes use of artificial lighting. Indeed, ar tifcial illumination and progress seem
 to move hand In hand. Settlements be- come towns and gas illumination or electric lights are installed and these towns become cities. Homes, places of business and all vehicles which move about the streets make use of arEi-
 ficial lights. Progress never stops. It may move by impulses faster or slow
 CT, but it continues to move, and so in lightning there has been progress.
 At the fifteenth annual national au- tomobile show in Grand Central Pal ace, January 2-9. there will be noted some decided progress in the matter Of lighting systems for motor cars. The development of these features of the automobile industry has been truly startling during the past feN seasons. The kerosene light of little more than dozen years ago was reliable and seryiceable. But it was more or less mussy and never gave sufficiently brilliant road illumination. The en- trance of acetylene gas as lighting agent, following the commercial pro- duction and distribution of calcium car bide, gave the lighting problem a new phase. Night driving became a pleas ure because the road ahead could be made almost as light as day. Five lamps were furnished as car eauip- ment, two of these being acetylene headlights and the balance oil lamps. Then came illumination by storage bat tery current for side lamps and tail lamps It was about 1s96 that the first American automobile was fitted with an electric headlamp driven by the ig-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Progress In Lighting to Be
 Noted At 1915 Auto Show
By CHARLES 10. DURYEA Pioneer Automobile Builder and Car Expert

milton generator, system Whlch De- came modified and improved upon to point where nowadays no manufac- turer would attempt to market automo- piles without an electric lighting sys- tenn with current supplied either by storage battery or by motor orive1 generator and the majority provide for lighting supplied by power driven generator
 Especially in the enclosed vehicles to be exhibited at the show will the lighting feature be noted as an at traetive one. They are more beautiful ly illuminated inside than railway car. Overhead lights for general light ing, corner lights for reading or map study, step lights that turn on as the place his foot without stumbling, trouble bulbs on the end of a portable cord or operated by a separate battery; single lights which indicate to other street users which way the car will turn. gauge lights and last but largest. beautiful and powerful searchiights-- all these will be seen on the new cars.
 With a view to making motoring more safe and at the same time in creasing automobile courtesy, num- Der of makers are providing systems which make possible the dimming of ones headlights upon approaching a vehicle coming in the opposite direc- tion on an unlighted country road. It is not only unpleasant but dangerous to pass car whose headlamps are SO bright that they blind the drivers eyes. The day is coming when dim ming ones headlights will be consid
 cred an act of ordinary courtesy. just as today a motorist tries to avoid pud dies SO as not to splash vehicles and pedestrians whom he happens to be passing. Most of these headlight dim ming devices are really simple in con struction and add very little compli- cation to the. cars mechanism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
LOWERS
 ANOTHER RECORD

The latest word of victory comes from Billy Carlson, one of the Max well racing team, who took stock 1915 Maxwell and drove it up Mount Wilson in just 29 minutes 1 second A wonderful performance when it is con sidered tha the worlds record for this famous climb was AZ minutes.
 . Mount Wilson is known the world over for a steep one. Sharp turns, nar- row road, always snow and ice, slush. rocks, etc, make it dangerous. The elevation is 5000 feet and the road covers a distance of just nine miles. This is an elevation of 666 feet per mile.
 Over these nine miles through the snow, slush and ice. Billy Carlson forced his sturdy Maxwell, always up, making an average of a mile every three minutes and IS seconds.
 The government observatory on Mount Wilson Kept the official score of the race against time and the Max we'll and her driver brought down the fastest record ever made at this place, the previous record being made by a Stutz and the time AZ minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
SPARK PLUG PARAGRAPHS

gasoline and electric pleasure cars and light commercial cars equipped with pneumatic tires. Approximately 205,000 will start their careers on Goodyear tires-close to a million tires being re- quired for this phase of the company's business alone"
 "It is far better to keep the automo- bile in service throughout the entire winter than it is to put 1t in storage. The cars now built are constructed so as to be equally as serviceable during cold weather as during the warm sum mer months, states Charles w. Tway of the Haynes Auto company, distrib- utter in this territory. "When a stor- age battery is allowed to stand for any length of time it gradually becomes discharged even when no current is being used. When an automobile is stored through the winter the oil and grease has a tendency to gum up and become solid, especially at points where it is spread out in thin films. ~orrosion takes place at many points and there is a general deterioration. It is not safe to put any car into serv- | ice again in the spring after 1t has been stored unless it Is given 8 com plete overhauling and this Is an eX- pensive proposition.
 "The leading designers take into ac count the fact that an automobile should properly be an all-year car by providing suitable protection for win ter use. The electric cranking motor will start a cold engine that would re- fuse to start if cranl;ed by hand. A cold engine has lost the terror 1t once
 had for the man who formerly had tc 1 crank by hand. Also, from the eco. | nomical side. it is better to keep the | machine in service where it is pro.
 ducing results, than it Is to allow i
 to lose its service by allowing it t'
 stand idle for several months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Don't Let Your Customer
 Sell You An Automobile


 before he gets a chance to sell you his old car. If you let him get started sell ing you his secondhand car you will never get a chance to sell your new car. And if you finally do business with him you will probably pay considerably more than his used car Is worth to you.
 "On the other hand. if you do a good job on your part--if you sell him q Chalmers car before he has a chance to sell you his old car-you can turn around and buy his car for the right price.
 Trading used cars Is much like the gun fighting in the old days in the wild and woolly west. If man gets a drop on you he will wind up by selling you his old car-not by buying Chalmers.
 What you want to do Is get the drop--sell him a Chalmers car first and then buy his old car for what 1t iS worth" r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20

The following little bit of advice re- gently appeared in the Chalmers Monogram" publication put out In the
 interest of the salesmen of that car.
 its application is so apparent to any
 automobile salesman, however, that it
 is reproduced:
 Pretty nearly every man who has
 a used car to trade starts out to sell his old car. He shops around from deal CT to dealer and in nine cases out of ten he proves himself as good or better salesman than the dealer he talks with. Usually he sells his old car to the highest bidder and takes a new car in exchange.
 This is not the right way to do business.
 You are an automobile dealer. You are in business to sell motor cars. It's up to I you to sell your customer an automo- | bile. Do not let him sell one to you. | When a man comes into your store | with secondhand car and starts right i in to sell 1t to you--to tell you what
 a good car it is, to tell you all about l it's fine points and to try and get from you a greater allowance than the car l Is really worth-its up to you to stop him.
 l Sell your customer a Chalmers car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Dodge Car Will Arrive Today And Will Be On Display Tomorro7u
 At Saunders Motor Car Company

Announcement made last night by Bun Roberts of the Saunders Motor Car company that the long heraded Dodge automoe which the Saunders company will act sales agents in this territory will arrive in town this afternoon and will be exhibition to the public beginning Monday ing.
 telegram received from the Dodge Brothers Manufac turing company yesterday stating that demonstration had left the factory Friday bound for Birmingham The will be unloadcd here this afternoon immediately upon it's al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Another Honor of War
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Terrible times, thesei
 The other day an innocent-eyed young lady, whose demeanor has always been sweet and gentle, went to a bookstore and returned with three volumes under her arm.
 What have you there?" she was asked by a male friend. Of course he expected for an answer the titles of three fluffy novels full of moonlight and love.
 Instead the gentle young thing rattled off glibly:
 "Oh, I've just bought Armies and Navies in the World War, The Begin nings of the Great European Struggle and Battles of the War on Land and Sea-"
 "Ye Gods." gasped the man. and then under his breath Sherman was right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20

Bradley J. Saunders is now in Detroit negotiating with both the Dodge people and the Hudson factory for shipments of both kinds of cars at once for the 1915 trade. It is expected that shipments of the Dodges in carload lots will ar rive in the near future.
 The Dodge car has been expected in Birmingham for the past six weeks or more. It is manufactured by Dodge Brothers, which heretofore have been probably the largest manufacturers of automobile parts in the country. The Dodge people decided, however, to quit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Ford Cars Going Lively

In August, September and October of 1913 the Ford Motor company sold 2S.S21 cars. In the same months of 1914 Ford sales were 59,507 cars. This is an in- crease of approximately 100 per cent. No- vember Ford sales promise to exceed even this proportionate increase. These fig- ures are impressive enough. However, still more significant and encouraging feature is the fact that this increase of Ford sales in 1914 over 1913 is general, the length and breadth of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20

manufacturing parts for other companies to assemble and to put out car in their own name.
 The new car is claimed to be one of the best low priced automobiles ever manufactured. Tests of the demonstra- ton cars, according to reports, have proven all the claims of the manufac- turers. Many inquiries have been re- ceived by the Saunders company from people interested in the car and 1t is probable large crowds will visit the show rooms tomorrow to see the new car in reality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20

Bradley Saunders of the Saunders Motor Car company has gone to Detroit to se- cure a shipment of Dodge and Hudson automobiles for the 1915 trade. Much in- terest has been aroused in the arrival of the new Dodge car in this city, and there fore word from Mir. Saunders as to when the cars will be here is awaited by many people.
 The new Dodge car has been expected in Birmingham for the past month or six weeks A telegram received last week by MT. Saunders stated that one of the cars might arrive last Tuesday. The new ma chine still has not arrived, however, and for that reason MT. Saunders has gone to Detroit
 Bun Roberts of the Saunders company states that man from Cullman last week sent the company a letter with check for S150 inclosed and stating that he want ed to receive the first Dodge car sent out of town, although he had never seen the machine.
 Henry B. Joy, president of the Packard Motor Car company, and director of the federal reserve bank, Chicago district, is convalescing in Roosevelt hospital New York. after having undergone 2 minor operation.
 Every third car manufactured in the United States for 1915 will be equipped with Goodyear tires. This announce ment is made by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company after careful analysis of the situation. More new cars will be equipped with Goodyears in 191J than with any other make.
 Manufacturers estimate that about 625,000 cars will be produced within the next year," says Sales Manager J M Stadelman. "This number includes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Something SaIable

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 T am trying to invent a safetly ap- pliance to prevent railroad collisionsi'
 And the chances are that if you got it you couldn't sell 1t. Why don't you invent something that people must have; say, for instance. like new dance step?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Paris Prices

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 "Your prices are higher than those of others"
 eve dress our own beef. num- said the butcher by way of explanation.
 "Dress your own beef. eh? Well. you must think you're the Redfern of the trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-20
Puzzling

From the Philadelphia Press. N#
 Isn't it strange that so few men dis cover the secret of success in life?"
 'Yes, but it's stranger still that tho secret is still secret. Surely some of the men who discovered 1t must have told it to their wives" s.8
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
Does Atlanta Understand the
Value of This New Plant?

doubtful Atlanta itself fully realizes the commercial
value Of its latest business acquisition.
The that the great Automobile Company
coming to Atlanta establish great plant in this city
Of the significant that have recently demonstrated the
power and Importance Of this Southern capital
The Ford Automobile Company is of the most
vsous gt Of modern times The bank
Of this comparatively company in Detroit large
the banks themselves hesitate take them dreadng sudden
withdrawal Of such large amounts The young lawyer who
block Of stock for his early fee rolls in
$4,000 year.
Twenty-Five thousand labor cheerfully in great
works Detroit and each Of them above years
$500 day tho minimum wage xed by the arbitrary
nsvoence Of his employers and So upon
the to be divided during tho coming year among
Ford employees.
The fact that this eminent manufacturing company
fixed Atlanta the site for its Southern branch
only pregnant with suggestion of profit and value
prolific Of promise for other great manufacturing enterprises
for the future
More and the great this country are
following their eyes discover that the central and
focal point Of distribution in all this mighty developing section
known as the New South of commerce and industry
This the city that known among people the repub
lie These the people whose spirit buided
it This the climate that makes and enterprise es
ssntial
And these three facts longer disputed everywhere
asstsd make the triple base upon which surely build
the astonishing growth and prosperity of which this
splendid people have always dreamed while they fought
What Atlanta needs Is tonnage. And the new Ford Fac
tory will supply addition the shipping tonnage of the
South great capital
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
A Half
Battle"
BY Rev. T, 3. Gregory
" HE destruction of Port Royal
was consummated 2o% years

TIME destruction of Port Royal
was consummated 2o% years
The famous Cistercian Abbey was
founded. in 1904. by Matilda, wife of
Montmorenci-M arli. Failing into
decay. 1t was refunded in 1908 by
Jacqueline Marie Arnauld. and in
1858 II became the 5torm-centre OF
n battle that kept all France a-shak-
ing for half century.
The tempest began with Bishop
Jansen's book on Grace and Free
WILL" in which he took the ground
Gin the name of the great Augus-
tino) that 1t was the Grace of God,
rather than the human will. that
counted in the work of salvation.
The Jesuits, who held the whip hand
in the Church at the time, declared
war on "Jansenism," and the big
men OF Port Royal. led by Arnauld
and Nicole. stood forth a. Janssn's
champions.
The fray soon became universal
Every learned society in France be-
came involved.
1t was the Gentlemen Of Port
Royal against the field. and. of
course, the gentlemen OF Port Royal
were finally beaten.
But the greater thing about the
Port Royal fight was a little book by
Blaise Pascal. which is known to i'm
mortality as the Provincial Letters
Pascal was one of the greatest mon
-, a..
incial Letters' will always stand as
one OF the worlds most remarkable
books. Never did book so COM
pletely accomplish the purpose for
| which Il was written. Pascal with
out feeling any particular interest In
! the famous Five Propositions"
undertook to say something TO the
| Jesuits. and he said II in a way that
will charm the world to the end Of
time
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13

- skull found IN the low strata
at Piltdown, In England7"
A.-Unknown. but estimates Of
biologists have been made ranging
from 100000 to 100000 years, mono
less than 100000. Here's the 40
count given by the London News:
Skull at Piltdown, Sussex. Eng
land, discovered by c. Dawson
Eoanthropus Dawsonii. though a
man of comparatively low in
intelligence, was still far more
gifted In the matter of brain than
any ape yet discovered yet the
capacity of his brain was far less
than that OF the famous fossil man
of Spy and La Chapelle-Aux-
Saints. who. It is to be noted, had a
brain-case larger than that of the
average modern civilized man,
showing that during the last
100000 years or so we have d.
minished rather than increased in
brain power; and the signs OF the
times seem to indicate that we are
still on the down grade"
But this primitive man Of France
may not have been the possessor of
a trained brain, a brain cultured so
that 1t can think consecutively with
out break on one abstruse subject for
from one to forty hours. This Is
what the master minds of the
modern mathematical world are now
doing.
I have recently read a most i'm
pressive article in a magazine, but
forgot to note the name Of the
author. which stated that low races
of man, such as aborigines, pygrnies,
etc. are fallen and degraded rem
nants of once great races Of man;
dying out now from prehistoric ex-
cesses. There is no scientific proof
but the article was fascinating and
thoughtful