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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Without Gasoline
Auto Makes Cheap
And Long Journey

The second automobile to attempt
to cross the continent without gaso-
line reached Omaha Wednesday and
left early Thursday morning over the
Lincoln highway on the third leg Of
a strenuous journey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo A. Calhoun of Salt Lake are max
ing the overland tour from their Utah
home to New York City on distillate,
a crude oil that costs but 10 cents
a gallon and runs more miles than
gasoline. When they reached Oma-
ha "Wednesday they had but four gal
ons of the oil in the tanks, but were
supplied from Rockefeller's limitless
watts. While in Omaha Mr.. and Mrs.
Calhoun were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs, Fred Dellone.
THE use of distillatc in automobiles
promises to give the industry new
impetus" said Mr.. Calhoun. at
costs less than gasoline and produces
more miles. On the desert roads east
of Salt Lake where gallon of gaso-
line will run ten miles this cheap
distillate covers nineteen. We have
had not particle of difficulty thus
far during the trip. A sufficinet sup
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Jeffrey Six Proves Its
MettIe in Severe Tests

One OF the severest automobile
hill-climbing tests ever recorded ins
Illinois was staged few days ago
by A. M. Robbins, president of the
Centaur Motor company, distributors
OF Jeffrey motor cars and trucks. The
scene, Palos Park hill, thirty miles
south Of Chicago; the star of the cast,
the new Jeffrey six. b
Accompanied by five or six news
paper men and few photographers,
Robbins struck the bottom OF the hill
at speed of eighteen miles an hour
Besides himself there were six pasg
sengers, all more than the average
avoirdupois. The big Jeffrey scram;
bled up the steep grade without the
slightest difficulty, pulling over the
top at a speed of fifteen miles all
hour-all on high gear. y
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01

students in highway subjects. Only
four have special highway engineering
courses leading up to degrees or GER
tificates in this particular branch.
The committee is endeavoring, first,
to create a demand by students for
such specialized instruction and, sec
ond, to encourage the colleges and
universities to provide it.
Following the enactment of the
federal good roads bill last spring,
the work OF apportioning and award
ing the different states the first S.
100000 to be distributed this year is
now progressing at the Department
of iculture. There is an evident
disposition on the part of the state
highway commissioners to have this
money expended upon the main inter-
state roads.
The traffic committees report In
Dictated continued prosperity in the
automobile industry, the carload ship
ments for July being 1909 carloads.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Cole Eight Makes
Hit With Bathers
On Pacific Beaches

When Old Sol cast his hot rays
on Southern California, the thoughts
OF the vast army OF automobile own
ers turned to the shores of the Pa
cific ocean, where cooling breezes and
dip in the surf offered welcome
relief from the hot traffic-laden
streets and stuffy offices of the city.
In order to find some OF the out.
of-the-way beauty spots where the
motorist could go and be refreshed
by new scenes, James l.. Irving, Cole
dealer at Los Angeles, cooperating
with one of the Los Angeles news
papers, made out loop of 1853 miles
around Los Angeles that combined
delightful valley and beach resorts.
The distance permits of easy travel
with ample time for visits at L.aguna,
Seal and Long Beaches.
Laguna beach is noted for its bath
ing and when the big Cole Eight
trail-maker rolled to stop at that
point grand stampede was made by
the bathers there to get in and on the
car for a ride up and down the sand.
Persistent Advertising is the Road
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
COURSES IN ROAD
ENGINEER STUDY
National Automobile Chamber
Of Commerce to Encourage
Specialized Education.
BUSINESS IN AUTO LINE

At the directors meeting OF the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, held in New York last week,
R. D. Chaplin, chairman of the good
roads committee, announced that a
movement has been started to en-
courage the universities and colleges
OF the country to provide specialized
courses in highway engineering with
. view to meeting the growing de-
mand for trained road engineers. This
action is considered particularly time.
ly because of the increasing miles o.
good roads that are being built and
the recognition of the necessity for
better roads as indicated by the re-
cent laws passed by congress and
signed by President Wilson providing
for improving the roads of the coun-
try.
As result of inquiries addressed
to the various highway commissions
it was found that there is decided
lack OF sufficient men with technical
training and practical experience in
road work to meet the requirements.
Eighteen out of twenty-four state
commissions responding to the in
quiries mention this fact and say that
preference would be given to grad
yates of university and college engi-,
neering courses when making ap-
pointments. 1t is the consensus
among them that the number of road
engineers employed will be double, at
least, in the next five years, as a re-
suit OF the growth of the good roads
movement.
The type Of roads required to meet
present and future traffic conditions
calls for high degree OF engineering
skill, the foundation for which must
be laid in civil engineering educa-
tional institutions and supplemented
by actual experience in road and
bridge designing and construction.
Out of seventy-five universities and
colleges heard from, which provide
civil engineering courses, less than
halt provide for any specialization by
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01

ply Of distillate is carried to tide us
over from one supply center to the
next.
The installation OF an attachment
between the carbureter and the en-
gine, the wonder valve, is necessary
in the use OF the crude oil. The saw
ing in the cost of automobile oper-
ating is remarkable"
Mr.. Calhoun will take charge Of the
New York state field when he ar
rives in his Studebaker Six.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01

dash over the worlds highest noun
tain highway was 2S:42.
1t is interesting to note that this
annual event, which is recognized as
the worlds classic hill-eating contest,
is non-stock car performance. The
entries included most of the famous
makes OF American cars handled by
experienced racing drivers, while the
Grant six was essentially stock car
entered in the race by the local
dealers, tuned up by them without
the aid of any expert factory me-
chanic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
r-Cylinder Challenge
S, Fights, and Twelves

bile on the famous Tam-o' -Shanter Hill in Fair.
mount Park.
On the word Of former Hupmobile dealer who
now sells a famous six-cyinder car. the Hupmo-
bile out-points all the multi-cyindeI cars in tho
deep ball-bearing sand around Jacksonville, Fla.
On Hospital Hill in Kansas City and in Des
Moines on Coon Hollow Hill. Seattle; on the
Pasadena ltadena climb out Of Los Angeles:
on Lookout Mountain in Colorado--everywher
the going is hard and cars fail-the Hupmobils
il supreme in performance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Grant Six Wins Hill
Climb Up Pixies Peak

By winning the Pixies Peak hill
climb over all competitors in class
e." Heinie Jones in his Grant six,
with its piston displacement of slight
ly more than 1870 cubic inches, created
a sensation at the famous Pixies Peak
classic hill climb. The victor's time
for the twelve and four-teuths-mile
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Hupn1obils Showing
Remarkable Superiority

But even this 10 a. nothing as compared with the
remarkable demonstration of the superiority of
the Hupmobile Perfected Tour over all other
forms of motor car construction.
The Hupp Motor Car Corporation is chiefly con-
ceHned in carrying out its purpose of cementing
the relations between the people Of the forty
eight Statea and giving renewed impetus to tho
good roads movement.
But as business man cannot blind myself to the
practical side of the performance.
cannot put aside the proof positive which it
offers that Hupmobile performance is not equalled
by any car Of any price or any number Of cylin-
ders.
realize that this is a strong statement.
purposely make it so because am prepared.
whenever called upon, to furnish local proof.
In my own experience, have had proof in plenty.
1t is offered now land repeat it herewith) in all
parts Of the country.
The United America Hupmobile is adding to tho
burden Of evidence. every day Of the tour.
am glad that this car is coming here 80 that can
make its visit the OCCASION Of diving home some
astonishing facts which every car owner and every
possible buyer ought to know.
MesHANE MOTOR CO.,
Local Distributors
2054 Farnam St. Omaha, Nsb.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
An Invitation To
"A Comparative Test

l know that these startling statements amount to
an open invitation to you to find multi-cylinder
car-of any make or price-which can compare
with the Hupmobile Perfected Four; or which 10
willing to compete with it in performance
That is exactly the meaning want you to take.
And present the invitation herewith in the form
Of challenge, Of which sincerely hope you will
take advantage.
Please understand that this 10 no mere show Of
opposition to multi-cynder cara
have prejudice whatever against the multi
cylinder principle.
! do not question the excellence or efficiency Of
good multi-cylinder cam.
! am simply laying before you the facts which
demonstrate that in every essential OF motto, car
performance they are not the equals OF the Hup-
mobile Perfected Four.
And would very much appreciate your request
for me to prove those facts with the Hupmo0ils
against any other car or cars you care to name.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
Why More Cylinders
When Four Thus Excel?

Frequently am asked why the Hupp Motor Car
Corporation builds only four-cylinder cars.
answer now that the reason the Hupp Motor Car
Corporation does not manufacture Six. or an
Eight. or Twelve. is that the Hupmobile Per-
fected Four surpasses these types in year round
performance. .
In Boston. for example. not single mult-cylnder
demonstration will compete with the Hupmobile
on Corey Hill. On the hardest grade Of this
double hill. the Hupmobie goes from standing
start at the bottom to more than IS miles an hour
at the top-all the way on hish-gear.
The manufacturer of well known Six has given
so much publicity to hill in New York that it 10
known as His Hill. But the Hupmobile beats
that same Six on that same hill
Mult-cylinder cars in Philadelphia have not dupli
Gated the hgh-gear performance Of the Hapmo-
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

law must have its due; If innocent,
she should be INDICATED. So one day
he called at the inn with small pack
age in his hand. The good wife was
overwhelmed with pleasure and pride.
She took him into the best room, and
while her back was turned he opened
his parcel and placed the skull upon
a table. When she turned around she
saw it and her face became CHASTITY.
Its q curious SKULL" said Donne'
taking it up; "see how q huge nail has
been driven into it." And he looked
into her eyes as though he would read
her soul. She sank to a seat weeping
and moaning. and then, while the
gentle pastor held her hands she told
how she slew her husband.
She was convicted and sentenced to
death, and during the brief interval
between her trial and execution the
man who had been her Nemesis proved
her comforter and consider. He was
with her almost constantly through
those trying hours, and to such good
effect that she went out OF the wofio
honefully. with a smile on her lips.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

Himalayas in their majestic height,
the Grand canyon remains the first
natural wonder of the world.
Natures Titanic Struggle.
While we may say that the Grand
canyon is truly canyon, it is rather
an Intricate system of canyons, each
subordinate to the river channel in the
midst. The river channel, lying more
than 5000 feet below the vision, SEEM
ingly is a rather insignificant trench,
attracting the eye more by reason of
its s0mber tone and mysterious sug-
gestion than by any appreciable char
acteristic of the chasm. 1t IS perhaps
five miles distant in a straight line,
and its uppermost rims nearly 1900
feet beneath the observer, whose
measuring capacity is entirely made
uuate to the demand made by such
magnitudes. Here some great battles
Of nature once took place, which has
left it's effect strikingly visible, yet of
which we know nothing. The sur
rounding country looks for all the
wcrld like the mouths Of thousand
still volcanoes. while the coating over
the surface Of the peculiarly shaped
deprcssions is like volcanic ash in tex
ture.
The Grand Canyon district lies in
northwestern Arizona and comedies
with a local uplift, or structural swell,
in the Colorado plateau. It's area Is
about 10000 square miles. Oyer prac-
tically oil of this. nearly level expanse
one geologic feimation, the Kaibab
limestone, is suffice rock. Along the
eastern border Of the district sharp
downward bend, known as q mono
cline, carries the beds to lower level,
where they resume their nearly hori-
zontal attitude and continue eastward
beneath the higher strata OF the pla-
teau. The upward edges Of these
higher faces are known as Echo
cliffs.
On the north the district Is walled
In By another line of cliffs and tar,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

eyes at the handsome wife, but they
had to keep their distance. Then one
morning Mrs. Armstrong calmly in
formed the neighbOrs that her hus-
band had died during the night. He
had drunk himself into stupor before
retiring, she said, and died from the
effects Of his debauch. That seemed
strange to some Of the neighbors, for
Armstrong was known as an unusually
temperate man. There doubtless was
some malicious gossip, but the husband
was buried in the crowded churchyard.
Before he had been there, among the
rude forefathers of the hamlet, for "a
hours, the widow had married q young
man named Maxwell. Then there was
more talk-enough to fasten the events
in the memories of the inhabitants, for
future use.
Sarah and her new husband conduct
ed the inn for many years. Sarah be-
came the mother of several admirable
children, and was in every way an ex-
cellent matron. As she waxed older
she became deyout and was free with
precept and admonition. Every Sun
day she might have been seen in the
church, and the eloquence of the new
preacher often moved her to tears. His
eyes often were upon her as he talked,
for good listener is a great help to
clergyman, and this motherly woman
seemed so intelligent and appreciative
that it was a pleasure to talk to her.
The new preacher was DR., John
Dome, one Of the truly great men of
his time. He had accepted q living
in Huntinsdonshire and occasionally
preached there. although most of his
time was spent in London. He was q
great preacher, and the most beautiful
man in England. Beautiful is the
word; the old writer's say he had the
face of an angel. Izaak Walton wrote
an enthusiastic tribute to him sayin:
that "he carried his hearers to heave,
il q holy. rapture; he pictured vice 81
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22
that we hated it, and virtue 50 that we

! that we hated it. and virtue 50 that We
loved II"
As poet he was equally great. and
| many learned men of the period held
that he was without peer. Ben jon
! son said he was the first poet in the
world in some things, but he will per
| ish for not being understo0d,' which
prophecy has come true. Dryden said
he was the greatest wit of the nation.
He was an impulsive man, full of fan
tastic moods and fancies, Some of
his poetry was as light as thistledown,
and some was profound Now it was
voIuptuous. and again morbid.
He wrote much about the mystery
of death. and that subject Interested
him to such q degree that he haunted
graveyards. One day he stood in the
graveyard surrounding his church and
watched the weary sexton at work. It
was an old, old cemetery, and every
time a grave was dug bones were
thrown up. Poor people buried there
could not count upon undiSturbnd re-
pose. In a few years at most they
would have to make way fer others.
Presently, as the sexton welded his
shovel, he threw out a shull, and the
preacher picked it up. and doubtless
mOralized upon the vanity of human
life. AS he turned It around in his
hands, his fingers encountered a pro-
lection. 1t was the head of 4 nail.
Examination showed that the nail had
been driven through the skull, and il
still protruded into the inner cavity
two Or three inches.
The reverend doctor realized at once
that hOrrid crime had been commit
ted. He questioned the sexton as to
whose grave had been disturbed but
the sexton didn't know. He had Off
ciated only few years. Perhaps his
predecessor might remember The
predecessor was white and wintry
gaffer who lived at some distance.
Dome hunted him up, and took him
to the graveyard. The old mans wits
were feeble, but his memory for all
things connected with dead mems
bones was accurate. He at once an.
nounced that the grave had been occu-
pied BY Armstrong, the innkeeper.
Doctor Dome inquired about the vii
lage concerning the death of Arm
strong, and the oldest inhabitants re-
called the wife's queer story, and her
remarkable haste to get married again.
There was reason for suspicion, at
least; but the good doctor found 1t
almost impossible to believe that the
fine, devout woman who listened to his
sermons 50 closely could be guilty Of
an atrocious crime. If ever a calm.
untroubled face spoke Of a clear con.
science, the face belonged to that
woman.
But he felt it his duty to set his
doubts at rest. If she was guilty, the
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

karet and Sivwits plateaus IL the
Grand canyon proper. This Ia about
220 miles long, and averages q mile
in depth and abouttten miles in width
from rim to rim. The Kaibab and
kanab divisions are each about 50
miles in length, while the Uinkaret
is 70 miles, and the Sivwitz Is miles.
Home Of Old Cliff Dw.lIers,
Evidences Of former human Occupa.
ton are found everywhere in the
Grand Canyon region, but as. few of
these ruins are we'll preserved there IN
nothing especially spectacular about
them, save as of historic import. Here
at one time abounded crude stone
houses. Some Of these ruins arc
perched high under oyerhanging lodges
which still show the blackenins of tho
smoke from their fires: other. liz
among huge blocks of debris that have
fallen from the cliffs; still others
stand in the open, away from anv M.
tural shelter. The only we.l-pre.
served shelter are the old storehouses
built high up among the creyices in
tho canyon walls.
AMI into the depths of this yopder.
iahd plunges Bright Angel trail
named by Major Powell. It il ono of
the few trails that permit human no.
'hes TO enter the land of splendor
Almost everywhere huge walls o; rock
DAT entrance to this cliff-protected
chaSIh' where natures God has
wrought such inarvels, which no man
could equal.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22
Ceiiutoid,

Celluloid is made from cellulose'
which IS the chief ingredient in the
solid part of many common plants in
ending the cotton plant. The con-
vorsion of cellulose into cellulold In
wolves a series of chemical processes
which could not conveniently be de-
scribed here. When finished ceIiuioid
is tough, r;valing ivory in elasticity,
ond can be easily nodded or carved
INTO various shapes. Every stage OF
tho process requires technical kno"i-
eara and skill. Celluloid was hrst
mode more than 20 years ago by al
english chemist named Parks, ana
WAS called parkisine. Then 1t was
called xylonite, but both OF these ,
names have been supplaa.ed BY celIa'
loid.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

os winning east and west along tit'
,ortbern border Of Utah. These nave
hcen carved by erosion out OF TIE n'sn
o- strata Of the plateau and rise III.
huge steps uorthward to elevations u
II 900 feet or more. The souiherh ooi
dor of this district is marked pS ah
abrupt descent to lower county
ol,nr = series of cliffs carved from the
plateau strata.
The northern portion Of the Grahu
CANYON district is divided into n'e
minor platforms or plateau blocks By
areat lines of fracture or heAuFe'
which trend north and south ana are
roughly parallcled.
Lond Series of Canyons.
The Colorado river crosses the pa
+c,u prov;nce from northeast to South
west. 1t has carved series OF can
yous whose total lCnGth exceeds o"
miles. All these canyons are clear
cut. deep gashes in nearly level plat
forms and their step-like walls de
Scend abruptly by alterations Of bold
cIt;rs and narrow lodges. The river
az The bottom carries the drainage
from the whole western front OF the
Rocky mountains in Colorado and
southwestern Wyoming. Because OF
the general impassability and inhospi-
table character of the bordering deS-
erts. these canyons form barrier to
human travel more effective than the
Rocky mountains. The Colorado river
is unabridged for 700 miles, distance
about equal to the distance between
New York and Chicago.
In the high-blocked platcaus of the
Grand Canyon district the canyons
reach their elimination in size and
grandeur. The pathway Of the river
across these plateaus is the most re-
markable valley in the world. The
section that travcrses the marble plat
form is known as the Marble canyon.
being GO miles in length. The part
Gu; through the Kaibab. Kanab, Vim
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

up Bright Anger ti"ii 'i'
&c. scramble again. Part OF the
way their saddles were empty, where
the trail clincs so closely 70 the pre-
cipitous wall Of the Grand canyon OF
th, Colorado that there is no room Tor
a rider TO stick on. Winding its tor
tuous way upward, twisting about
rocks, clUtchins the mountalnSlde by
inches, the trail gradually climbs the
steep ascent from the river bed Of the
rushing Colorado to the heights above,
coo feet above, a mile straight up III
the blue from the dark depths OF
earth's most wonderful treasure
cha$m Of beauty.
You have not seen America until you
have descended Bright Angel Trail in
Arizona. writes Earl William Gage in
The Utica Saturday Globe.
Nowhere else on earth exists such
fl depression into the surface of the
earth. from 1000 10 5000 feet deep.
The canyon Of the Yellowstone is til
fling in comparison with the Grand
canyon OF the Colorado river in Ari-
iona The great gorge is 2l7 miles
long, varying from . to Is miles in
width, the maximum depth being g.
600 feet. Here the tourist stands at
the top. Of the mountain peak at the
start and to gain the victory land
must descend 5000 feet Of sheer rock.
Elsewhere. we stand at the foot Of the
mountains and must ascend. At
Grand canyon the rules that regulate
tourists are reversed in everything.
''Thc Grand Canyon of the Colorado
is the greatest thing In the world"
says one writer. 1t is absolutely I'M
paralIeIed and its beauties and grand
eur are far beyond the grasp OF the
writer or the artist. More command
Ing than Yosemite or Yellowstone,
more beautiful than majestic Niagara,
more mysterious in it's depth than the
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-09-22

fisheries
the Chesapeake bay
region making the the decline the crab
fishery studying crab life
from angle
Generally speaking the chief of the decreased
fishing which carried within
the last few been made
nrepa by artificial propagation
other valuable the
uninterrupted the hard
hd crab: such persistent Grabbing could be without the effect
which it is beginning to show
months crowded with fishermen
and crnhs. provides field the study the industry
np to the differences depths of the bay at different places
w., hsnrvo different methods followed by crab fishers
indeed Wansonans the sportsman who spends
ST. hoob and handne aed with meat ences the
negligible
crohs being considered good days catch Net so Is the luck Of
TWO ~ ebemn for crabs and not for pleasure His
Ie ad to bring greater less