Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-14
PATHFINDER CAR
PRIME FAYORITE
Automobile Becomes as Docile in
Hands Of Woman as When
Driven by Sterner Sex.
EVOLUTION IN THE AUTOMOBILE

''Woman's suffrage has come to stay In /
the motor car business" states w. r.
Foshior Of the Foshier-Enger company.
distributors for the Pathfinder company.
Indianapolis. Ind, manufacturers Of the
Pathfinder six and twin-six cars.
There IL a vast difference. however.
between womsn's suffrage IN politics and
on automobile row. In politics all
women ask for is equal rights with men.
On motor row. when II comes to buying
there II not a man alive who can hope 20
win one-half the influence of the average
woman. Woman rules when u comes 60
selecting the car. This was not so true
before the days OF the electric starter
ana the other improvements which have
made the motor car more docile in the
hands Of the gentler sex. Now that
there Is no particular trick TO drive a
gasoline car women have come 70 almost
generally demand them and this means
that they have a way Of saying q great
deal when the subject Of a new car is
up for discussion within the family
circle.
People. II seems 10 me. have come TO
regard the electric starter a. the one
thing which has made Il possible for a
woman 20 operate q car with practically
no Inconvenience. should cay that the
electric starter IL one-half Of the reason
why women are dominating the continu-
Gus cavalcsde of motor cars which
move up ana down the streets Of our
cities and across every country road.
Difficulties Are Eliminated.
There were two things which used TO
make Il hard for a woman to operate q
car. One was the difficulty OF starting
the motor. The other was the difficulty
Of shifting gears and the danger arising
from choking the motor.
When the six-oylinder car came along
women began to drive with greater ease
and less traffic anxiety. Six cylinders
did not choke 20 easily and alleviRted a
great deal Of gear shifting.
"a new influence recently has been
arguing in favor Of feminine operation of
motor cars. namely. the advent OF the
multiple cylinder motor.
do you realize that the coming of the
vnlve-in-head cylinder motor spells the
death knell OF gear shifting?
1T has been shown beyond shadow Of
doubt that one can drive a twelve-cylin-
der motor car practically all day without
IouCHluk Ino AtNtH
THE Pathfinder company recently made
some very exhaustive experiments with
Pathfinder the Great our new twelve.
We took the car with It's full quota of
seven passengers over the worst hills In
Brown county, Indiana The initial trip
consumed the greater part Of the day.
During that day we encountered mud al
most hub deep; we took hills that last
year would have called for the lowest
gears on the average good car. We even
came TO a dead stop on one particularly
bad hill just about half way up, and then
accelerated from this standing start on
high At the top we were 'showine bet
ter than thirty miles an hour.
In Crowded Streets.
" Pathfinder the Great has gone
through the crowded Chicago loop at the
o'clock hour and the gears were never
once shifted out OF high. Everywhere
one OF these cars has done similar stunts,
and have been pulled off successfully.
Coupled with absolute dependabllity of
the present electric starter the gasoline
car has become quite as much q woman's
as the most obedient electric, and Il Il
great deal safer. because II can ac-
ceierate out Of dangers way a great deal
more nimbly.
THE Pathfinder company OF Indianap-
oils viii during the early spring months
send Pathfinder the Great stock car
from New York to San Francisco In high
gear. The car will be strfpped Of ali Ita