Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-25
NEW PATHFINDER
IS DISTINCTIVE
Contains Radical Style Depart
ures by Concealing Top
and Spare Wheels.
ADDS TO ITS APPEARANCE

The new twclve-cylinder sevcn-pas-
senger roadster which the Pathfinder
company exhibited for the first time
at the Grand Central Palace, New
York, proves that America is the die
tator OF motor car styles today. New
models arc annually launched by the
manufacturer in midsummer, but W.
f. Stalnaker, vice president OF the
Pathfinder company, realizing the I'M
portance OF New York's opinion and
approval, held this model for the New
York National Automobile show.
With its massive hood, sloping rear
end, and concealed top and concealed
spare wheel and tires, this new model
is a radical departure IRON the con
ventional type of motor cars 1t
strikes the observer as especially new
and different, because the rear end
OF motor cars has not undergone any
changes on five or ven-passenger
models since the rear entrance door
was abandoned years ago, practically
since the inception of the automobile
industry. Men and women of today
not only want their clothing to pro-
tect them, but they insist on style and
good looks. So does the motor car
purchaser. When automobiles were
first built they we're crude mechani-
cal contrivances, chugging along the
road with the passengers sitting high
10 in the air, exposed to the weather
without any protection whatever. As
| the art OF automobile designing ad-
vanced and fundamental mechanical
problems were solved more was done
for the passengers comfort Wind
shields were added, tops were put on,
rear and front doors were added for
the passengers convenience and pro-
lection. The very shape OF the car
suggested the long and painful proc
ess Of evolution. The conventional
top and its makeshift place at the
rear OF the car in plain view is relic
OF the dim past When the top was
added to the car as extra accessory
equipment, no place was designed for
the slowing OF the top, which was
simply reefed and covered with top
boot to catch all the dust in Chris
tendon. In the past the manutac-
turer did not sell his car with an cx-
ira spare tire, later he gave tire and
rim, but forgot to arrange a place
to carry it. Sometimes they were car
ricd on the running board, later in
the rear and it was up to the Path
finder designer to patent revolving
tire box to carry the extra spare wire
wheel, tube and tire in location
where they were out OF sight and
safe from thieves. Both the revolv-
ing tire rack, permitting disappear
ing extra wheel, and the concealed
top have many advantages outside OF
appearance, and they are considered
new practical improvements. In APP
pearance this new tWclve-cylinder
seyen-passenger touring roadster with
disappearing spare wheel and con-
cealed top, massive hood, which sug-
gests, power, wire wheels, low center
OF gravity, narrow V-shaped radiator,
slanting windshield and stream-line
body, long wheel base, high body
sides and backs, clean and smooth
outward appearance, gives the car a
massiveness and commodiousness
that spells the ultimate motor car
from the standpoint Of righteousness
and comfort. Truly this car is new
dictator of motor car styles and elc-
ganee and unquestionably will be the
most popular Pathfinder model that
has ever been produced,