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SAN ANTONIO fcXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL
1913.
C
RECORD CROWD DUE AT TRACK
FOR FINAL DAY OF AUTO CARD;
AUTO S1IOW TO CLOSE TONIGHT
Extra Events Added
to Race Card Today
E
Great Drivers Will Be Seen in Nine Instead
of Seven Trials and Contests at
Fair Grounds,
ALl, WHO HAVE EXHIBITS A(,KEK
THAT AFFAIR IS BIG
SUCCESS.
SPECIAL Ptffli TWIT
That the automobile show will be an
annual feature of the J'leBta Is practic-
ally assured. The exhibitors are more
than pleased with the results and many
who visited the show have said In com-
menting upon the attractive features of
the exhibit, "It's wonderful."
As an added attraction to the last day,
the management has arranged for some
special music this afternoon and evening,
special flower decorations and a vaude-
ville act from the Plaza Theater. Prep-
arations have been made for entertain-
ing a large crowd after the auto races
this afternoon.
Here are some statements made by ex-
hibitors at the show:
H. G, Campbell of the Oakland Motor
Company—One IiuwIIiik success. We had
fine crowds and the show would do credit
to New Vork and Chicago even if it was
arranged on a smaller scale.
II. I.. KnlglH of tho Knight Motor Com-
pany—It's been a splendid show. Judging
from the number of people who visited
my booths and showed an interest In my
cars, It is the best thing I have ever gone
Into as a business proposition. 1 will b''
one of the first to make reservations at
tho next show.
U. R. Webb, manager Bulck Motor Car
Company—It was the best show ever hold
In Texfi- 1 have been connected with
four others held In different cities of
tlie State, and am In a position to know.
It was an added attraction to the Fiesta.
ti. A, C. Halff, president of the Alamo
Auto Sales Company- It was the beat
thing ever brought before the public,
botli from tho people's and from a deal-
er's standpoint We must have another
next year
Frank A. Wlnerleh, president of the
Woodward Carriage Company—I was very
much pleased with the attendance of the
show throughout the week and can truth-
fully say that It was a groat surprise to
me. I believe that on annual automo-
bile show will be a feature of the Fiesta
Ban Jacinto.
W. O. Powers, manager of the I,ozler
Motor Car Company—The show was an
absolute success. Although we did not
reap tho full benefit this year, we ex-
perl. to be well represented next year.
W. C. Lemon, district manager of the
, ('use Motor Company—This was tho best
* show J have ever visited west of Chi-
cago. The decorations and general ar-
rangement give one the Impression of be-
ing in a summer garden.
C. H. Dean, manager of the Mitchell
Motor Car Company—We have been very
much pleased with the sales made during
the show, ,'inct have closed much terri-
tory heretofore unrepresented. It was a
good advertiser for San Antonio among
out-of-town people.
.1. F. Alexander, manager of the Citi-
zens Auto Company—This show would do
credit to a city of 60(1,000 population, it
is the best thing ever put before South
Texas motordom.
II. G. Staacke of the Staacke Auto
Company—We have Interested more peo-
ple by this show than we could have
dona by any other means. I believe this
show has been essentially an Intimate one
between dealers and visitors.
\j. F. Blrdsong, manager of the Frank-
lin Motor Car Company—The show lias
been even a greater success than we
ever hoped for. It has been a means of
interesting many people.
J. W. Collins, president of the Collins
Auto Company—The show has been (if
vast importance as an educational prop-
osition, as well as from a strict business
Standpoint. 1 am very well pleased with
the week's exhibition.
Also Payigin, manager of the Velio
Auto Sales Company-1 have attended al-
most all of the automobile shows within
the past lew years, and without doubt
this has been the most successful and
instructive auto show held west of the
Mississippi River.
Alex Fraser, manager of the Fraser
Auto Supply Company—The show has
been one of the greatest successes of
Fiesta week. The harmony and good
feeling between dealers has been remark-
able. We will have a bigger show next
year.
Clifton Jones, manager of the Ford
halcB Company—Tho show marks a new
ipoch In ths automublle Industry of
Bout Invest Texas. This show has nlven
the business a great Impulse.
I'-. B. Schulz, manager of the Staver
Auto Company—This show absolutely
proves the possibility of organising auto-
mobile exhibits that will compare favor-
ably with the big shows of the North
and East We are well satisfied with the
results.
George H. King, agent of the Midland
Company—The first successful automo-
tlle show ever held In Texas. It will bo
u'^er next year.
PREPARE FOR TIRE RUSH.
Enormous Strain Will Be Put on Man-
ufacturers.
Tire manufacturers tbls year are
brought face to face with tile stirring
problem of tuklng cure of the biggest de-
miiud for tires of all descriptions that
ever hns been known lu the history of the
Industry.
Something like 6,(100,(100 pneumatics will
iii needed to shoe America's automobiles,
and In addition there are about fiO.UHl
, motor trucks to be tuken care of and a
fleck of motor cycles approximating 250,-
000 in number. TUla means that In or-
der to keep all of tlieae vehicles running,
tire factories will be pushed to their ut-
most capacity.
"Although tho spring season has barely
started, there is every Indication that the
volume of tire business this year will ex-
ceed by a great margin anything ever
before known," says J. D. Anderson, gen-
f ernl sales manager of a big tire company,
"Months ago we anticipated this demand
and our four big factories have been run-
ning uninterruptedly, night and day. We
nlso have mude extensions and installed
new equipment, which has brought our
output up to a point where we are in
PMUtion to meet every demand mtidc upon
Us. Gratifying progress is noticeable In
Pefrolt In the transformation of that
Plant into what Is certain lo be the larg-
est tire factory In the world UuNdlnga
are going up, one after aftother and as
fast as one Is completed, modern inachlii
ery Is installed, the wheels begin to bust,
and the addition swings into our rait gen-
eral scheme of tire production.
"In order to keep pace with the marvel-
ous growth of the automobile and Its hi-
lied Industries, tire makers mint he strict-
f» l.v on I he Job, so |o speak. The produc-
tion facilities of even a year ago are
wholly Imidciimtte today and s pollry of
anticipating the country's tire require-
ments Is the only one thnt ensbles s man-
ufacturer to deliver Ills guods when liiey
ire wauled."
KING GASOI.IN10 will usurp the atten-
tion of the Fiesta crowds again to-
day when the most successful week of
splendor, Joy and amusement San Antonio
has ever known will be brought to a fit-
ting close with the second day of the auto
races, under the auspices of the San
Antonio Automobile Club, on the Fair
Grounds track. With two events post-
poned from Wednesday and seven events
on the regular program, the entertain-
ment today will probably be the most
elaborate In respect to number of con-
tests that has ever been staged on the
Fair Grounds automobile track.
(tne of tho big features of the speed-
fest will be the world's time trials. Louis
Disbrow, the dirt track racing king who
holds eight out of ten world's records and
lms the fastest dirt track competition ear
In existence, lias promised to give the
spectators a new thrill In the time trials.
(Jn Wednesday lie lowered the existing
record for five miles over six seconds,
und says he can beat all the marks he
goes alter today.
Disbrow and liis little red Simplex,
however, will attract no more attention
in Hie time trials than this same Disbrow
and his big 290-h. p. Jay-Eye-See will
attract in the sensational exhibitions he
has promised the club he will stage toda.i
with this dreadnaught of the gasoline
world.
The Jay-Eye-See has been inspected by
more than mi,000 people this week, und all
the claims made for It that It is the
largest piece of racing mechanism in
■the world today Is conceded. It has an
engine of more than nine Inches bore mul
seven Inches stroke and turns over faster
than any other big racing car ever built.
In ':hc exhibitions Wednesday Disbrow
drove- the Jay-Eye-See two laps In one
minute and twenty und one-fifth seconds,
which Is faster time llian Barney Old-
field made with his "Old Betsy" Benz,
and with one exception the fastest time
ever made on a track of three-fourth
mile distance.
TO GET TWO CHANCES.
Disbrow will be allowed two chances at
(he track records with both his Simplex
Zip and the big ISO-horsepower monster.
However, in the official time trials only
will the Simplex lake part.
Wild Bill Endlcott and Claude New-
house will also take part In the time
trialTheir machines were not entered
lu the time events the other day. so the
outcome of their work cannot be pre-
dicted. However, Endlcott is conceded to
have the fastest 450-cublu inch displace-
ment car In tho world, and he should give
Disbrow a good run for the prize money
hung up In the time events.
Joe Nlkrent, who turned over Wednes-
day, was expected to figure in the time
trials, as his car has shown more speed
than any new 1313 speed creation yet
tested out In tho North. But Joe will do
well to wltnees the races from a touring
oar. His head still resembles a sieve as a
result of his head-first dive Wednesday,
and his arms are still useless; but in a
few days he will be able to take the
wheel of his own car, which has been all
overhauled and la. ready for competition
again except for a steering wheel, which
was one of the things badly smashed up
in Wednesday's wreck.
Jo.' Brings lias had his Buick over-
hauled and equipped with new wheels,
and in ulI the races he Is expected to
figure more conspicuously today.
Kilpatrick, L'lbricht, Newhouse and
norey have been hard at work since
Wednesday overhauling their machines.
They say that today's events will find
them accustomed to the track and their
cars in belter shape.
CLUB GETS BUSY.
Since Wednesday the San Antonio
Automobile Club lias put in some telling
llckt on the track, and It Is in better
shape than It was when Disbrow lowered
the world's three-fourth mile track record.
The oil which lay on top of the track
and made last time near the pole danger-
ous has been absorbed and the surface
of the course is much better.
One of tlie benefits of Wednesday's
races was the trouble that was experi-
enced In handling the rush at the gate?.
Today the ticket forces will be trebled,
and two automobile gates will be worked
instead of one.
From all Indications, the crowd will he
much larger this afternoon than on Wed-
nesday and there will he many more
people from distant points, as the iall
roads have put hi a special rate for the
dav. The gateB will he opened an hour
earlier tind because of the long program
arranged the racing will have to start
promptly at S:90 o'clock.
Forty Years Building
a Greati Factory *
1
C. F. 1)WYER, HEAD OF BIG LO-
CAL BRANCH, BRINGS FORTH
REASONS.
"Few men ever stopped to think that
ultimately the tire business will be the
big end of the automobile industry, '
says C. F. Dwyer, local manager for
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com-
pel y.
"There are now perhaps l,000.0fx> cars
In use in the United States. This year
possibly 400,00) new cars will lie in use,
discounting this number by those which
go out of service. Gradually the rallu
between the number of cars in use
and the number of cars being soli is
Iikreaslng Ultimately the opportunity
for the sale of new cars will be much
smaller than the opportunity for sale
of service In connection with 'the cars
In use. Alter a while the big end of
tie- automobile industry will be the sale
of tires and other parts necessary to
keep the car runnnlng.
"As the tire Is the most important
accessory of the car, and the access try
which needs to be renewed most fre-
quently, it follows that the tire business
in time will become the big end of the
automobile Industry."
WILL INCREASE PLANT.
Big Motor Car Company Working in
; General Expansion.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April U6— The
future production figures for the Cole will
double, a *150,000 addition to the present
plant on Kasl Washington Street will he
built, and the organization generally en-
larged. as the result of plana promulgated
by President J. J. Cole of the Cole Motor
Car Company, following his lour through
the Southwest, the Pacific Coast anil the
Canadian Northwest.
Declaring that I lie automobile Industry
has only scraped tho surface of the pos-
sibilities for the Industry in the country
west of the Mississippi and that the fu-
ture for the motor car In that section of
the country Is only In Its Infancy, Mr.
Cole with Ida customary progi'essiveueas
declares that he Is going to make his or-
ganization large enough to meet the fie
maud that will be made upon his factory
for ears.
Mr. Cole la wonderfully enthusiastic
over tile fulure. He declares that his cars
are selling in the Southwest with no sales-
manship to push the product, but that the
dealers are taking all the automobllus that
his factory can give thetn. He sa.va that
the prospects are so bright on the Pacific
Coast and In the Canadian Northwest that,
action for the enlarging of his plant anil
more cars Is the Cole Motor Car Com-
pany's way of answering public demands.
Herbert 1,. Rass la the architect that
Mr. Cole has engaged to get u four-story
building started by May 1 to be com-
pleted October 1.
"It certainly was one wonderful trip,"
Mr. Cole declaroa. "I thought when I
started I would gel a chance to have aome
pleasures, but I was kept real busy, I met
and talked automobiles with agents anil
owners. I wanted to get the real fuels. | !
wanted lo go lo the seat of niitomoblledom
—the automobile user himself.
"In summing up my talks with auto-
mobile owners I arrived at the conclu-
sion that the Cole Motor Car Company's
policy of bulidlug a Standardized car
properly balanced as to weight, with suf-
ficient horsepower lo carry that weight
and nn axle to suetulii li was right. 1
found the owners talking economy of
tires and motor car operation. Weight
lms much to do with this. The Cole pol-
icy will not change lu its method of mo-
tor cur construction, hill greater stress
will be laid ou the standardized car, that
is, « car with the highest grad* of stand
• rd parts and built along tho lines of
close adherence to weight and horsepower
coordination.
"I feel sure that If the Cole Motor Car ;
Company today could see 2,ft0n more Colo
automobiles In sight It would be casv to
more them. I want, lo say that lanl sea-
son we built I#00 automobiles This sea-
son we have struck out for the .1,(100 mark,
double production figures, and.lt has
been, twice as easy, yea, three then in'
easy, to market I lie larger nuut^i j
EM
W. M. SIMPSON HAS SPRING DE-
VICE THAT IS PRONOUNCED
A SUCCESS.
A new automobile wheel and puncture-
proof tire has been Invented by a San
Antonian. The wheel and tire consist
of a set of coll springs four Inches In
height and three Inches 1n width, shared
narrow at (lie bottom and broRdcr at
the top, so as to give tlicm free move-
ment. They rest on the rim of the
w heel and are held In place by sh it't
lui.'s. A flal spring rim encircles the
coll springs, thus apportioning nil shocks
and Jars equally among the coil springs.
A Sty-Inch solid rubber tire fits over the
flat spring rim. The springs are encas-d
between two ateel plates which extend
above tho springs and clasp the tlr«,
holding it in place These plates are
fastened together by U-shaped oolta
which fit over the spokes, thus holding
them perfectly rigid. Between the spoil -s
the plates are cut away, giving the
wheel the appearance of a beautiful
r< sette, maklg It more attractive th.ui
the ordinary automobile wheel.
A special grade of rubber Is used In
tho tires, which it is confidently expected
will give an average of better than
oon miles to each set, according to the
weight of the car. To renew the w1i i«l
tho owner will have to replace the old
set of tires with new. at a cost consid-
erably below the cost of new casings.
Practical automobile men who have
examined It consider it a verv practical
and valuable Invention It is claimed as
the greatest device yet Invented lookins
to the elimination of the expensive and
bothersome tire troubles. Its cost will
approximate that of the present type
wheel equipped with pneumatic tires.
The Inventor is having a full aet of
wheels made In Chicago and was v;y
anxious to have them here In time to
exhibit at the auto show, but baptise
of the special formula called for In the
manufacture of the rubber tiro It wis
found impossible lo finish them In time.
As soon as they come they will be put to
every possible working test. Plans .or
manufacturing and selling are already
well under way and should quickly de-
velop Into one of the city's leading in-
dustrial enterprises.
W. M. Simpson of 1410 Grayson Street
Is the Inventor. Mr. Simpson came to
San Antonio from Kankakee, III., five
years ago. He has secured patents on
several other Inventions, mostly of a me-
chanical nature. Some of them he has
FOR AUTO TIRES
hHURON INSIDE SIOfrH
The best inside shoe on
earth for blowouts, glass
cuts and punctures.
Eliminate buying extra tins
by carrying one in your
tool box.
Our shoes are not made merely to
■ell, but are constructed of five ply
of best quality heavy tire fabric
with same strength of new tin ana
are made to fit any style or make
of tire.
AKRON
TIM ft VULCANIZINQ CO.
tit>111 Jstkssa IM,
little room on South
Water Street, Chicago,
where the Jeffery business
started before the great
lire of 1871.
Motor Cars
IN a little one-room shop on South Water
Street, Chicago, before the big Chicago fire
• of 1871, Thomas B. Jeffery, with two help-
ers, a man and a boy, laid the foundation for
the great organization behind the Cross Coun-
try car.
, In forty years from this modest beginning,
twenty-one of which were devoted to building
^ up the bicycle industry, this organization has
grown, until today five million dollars are in-
- vested in the Jeffery factory equipment alone,
and every dollar's worth of it is paid for.'j
i
The Jeffery work* at Keno.sha, Wisconsin, where
96 per cent of all Cross Country purls are made.
VERY intelligent man and woman in
America surely recalls the fact that the
Rambler bicycle was the most popular
bicycle of its type during the days of bicycle
progress.
Fifteen employes of this company have been
in the organization for twenty years and over;
fifteen from fifteen to twenty years; twenty-one
from ten to fifteen years, and three hundred
and thirty-three from one to five years.
THE factory ground area today is one'
hundred and four acres and the - floor
area twenty-five acres.
Ask your banker what the name of Jeffery stands for in
the motor car industry and consider well before you
choose a car the standing and experience of the maker.'
> 4
A beautiful four-color reproduction of the Cross
Country, from an oil painting by R. Philip Brain-
ard, is ready for mailing. See the Cross Country
by all means, at any Jeffery branch or dealer's
display room, but send for the picture anyway.
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company
Main Office and Works,„ Kenosha, Wisconsin
Rraaches; Boiton. Ckica|e, Uilwauket, Nit Ysik, Philadelphia. 6ftl Vrtlclieo 4
Frank A. winerich, Pjres.
213-217 St. Mary's Street
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
PHONKK: CROCKETT 2(121 NEW J6t.
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sold outright, while others are being
manufactured under * royalty agree-
ment.
IRISH POLOISTS BUSY
Ciet a Team Together to Go After Big
Trophy.
NEW YORK, April 26,-Polltlcs and
athletics don't often get mixed up on the
sporting Checker-board tlieae day», but,
according lo J. J. Dwyer, Ihe opening of
a local parliament In Dublin la going to
meen the Invasion of America by an
Irish polo team. England Is not t" have
Ihe sole honor of Invading llie United
States. The winning combination in Ihe
coming internationals will he challenged
by the Irish home rule team, and If the
cup doesn't take a trip acroas the ocean
as a result, Mr. Sawyer, who ii the
owner of n large slable at I,al<ewood,
says he v.Ul be willing to sell out and
work as a chauffeur—this. In the opinion
of Ihe horseman, being the lowesi form
of earning a living known to civiliza-
tion.
Dwyer said that lie has received advices
fiom Ireland which make It certain that
an Irish polo leam will challenge the
winning team In the coming matches, and
that Ihe horaemen from the Emerald Isle
are so confident of their coming to this
ennntry that they are already making
thrlr plans The Irish players evidently
tl Ink that the United States Is destined
t(i wlp against England for they have au-
thorized Dwyer to act for t h"in In mak-
ing arrangements.
"I hope lo see the team come here a
year from this spring," said Dwyer to-
dey. 'The proposed combination will in-
clude the best players In Ireland, and
there nre a lot of us who think the visi-
tors will show the best polo which haa
been seen in this country since Captain
Watson won back the cup for Great
Britain In Ihe late 'S0«. Vou know Wat-
son was an Irishman, and most of tho
men on the last successful team from
Great Britain were born on Ihe little
green Island.
According to Dwyer, Richard Burke of
County Tlpperary, town 0' Grove, haa
agreed to back the trip of the Irlah team,
and money will have no consideration In
th» outfitting of the expedition. There
will be ponies a-pjenly and the Irish will
arrive In llils country a month before
the time to begin play That, of course,
Is provld'ng Ihe challenge from Ihe Em-
erald Isla la accepted. It will be re-
membered that an Irish team ehalleoged
a couple of years ago, and their request
for a game was not acceded to by tho
Polo Association.
"But there won't be any reason for
turning down the Irish hallenge when
It Is made In June of this year," eald
Dwyer. "By 1814 Ireland will have homo
rule and will be entitled to have her own
polo representatives. In my safe I have
letters and papers from Mr. Burks
wlilch I am Instructed to hand over to the
captain of the winning team in the com-
ing International matches."
Horace H. Rhelton, attorney. Money to
loan. 708 Hunter Building. (Ait.)
Dr. Obarlotta Strum baa returned ao4
resumed practice. Moore Bldg.
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