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Show : FIGURES PROVE 110 leiSTEElOll Comparative Data on 1000-Mils 1000-Mils Trio Furnished by ! Pierce-Arrow Co. Followiae-tlje verv frank statement recently made by William G. McAdoo, direi'tor-eaeral of railroads for the L'nitc'l States, that it is the definite i purpose of the railroad administration to discourage Pnl'mau tiavel as far a, possible, some ei-trec!ly interesting tiiures ha- e been vcrked out by the 1-ieite-Arro- Motor Car eompany to show that th.p cost of railway travel has now cnnibed lo a point where the patenter automobile can fairly cope with t in distance driving, and in a lar e percentage of cases make an even more economical record. Frenk BotteriU of toe Botterill on'pa"v, d'Stributors for Pierce-Arrow, Hudson'" and Dcdza motor cars, received borne of these rcvovts from the P-.erce-Arrow comoajv Fridav. and they contain con-tain son-. rather remarkable revelations revela-tions on the traveling expenses of a party of five peor!e, going by motor car instead of !"- rail. The fijrures are bassd on a lPUO-nu-e trip, to be taken bv a party of five in a Fierce The comparative finales are as follows: By Automobile. Gr.soline, 111 callous at 30 ceuts$ 33. SO Oil, 23 pints .". 3.50 Tues 96.23 1 Repairs 15-CK) Fo'el charges, four nichts. at fi;.50 50.00 j Total $197.90 Ey Eailroad.4 1000 miles at o cents $ 30.00 Privile.ee tax, lOOu miles at $.005 5.00 S per cent tax on $35.00 2. SO $ 37.S0 Pullman berth, two das 10.00 Pullman tax, 30 rer teat 1.00 $ iS.iO' Multiply by number passengers 5 Total $244.00 Therefore, with all the items taken into account, it will be seen that a party of five parsons can make the lOuu-mile tour for $197.90, as' against &2-ii if they go by rail. And, of course, vith. tha motor car, e party will have an infinitely batter tiros. Mr. Botterill also calls attention to the fact that K. E. Allen, of the Knight tarings & Trust company. Provo, Utah, recently completed a 217S-mile trip from rtovo into Canada, with nine in tha -arty, including five bovs. His expenses for the trip -were 55 79. S3, or about $64 per person. Iv the party had traveled by railway, the fare, in-eluding in-eluding Pullman and war tax, alone ; would have been 559.12 per person for ! the round trip to V heatland. Mont., a ! noint about 10U miles south of the party's Canadian destination. .-The Botterill company is enioyin? the unique experience at present of receiving re-ceiving unusually heavy shipments of Hudson buDer-Sivej, despite the fact that the Hudson company has announced an-nounced that as soon as its present raw j materials are used uo it wii! 20 on a 100 per cent war work basis. The fac-i fac-i tory announced that it exrjected to es- esnst -iif raw material siipplv before January 1, after which no new Super-! Super-! Sixes -will be built until 'ea.ee is da-f da-f ciared. All distributors naturally j thought that with a very limited nani-i nani-i ber of Super-Sixes remaining to be j built, allotments would be greath- cut j down. but. 10 Mr. Botterill 'a surprise I and delight, he has received a number 1 of heavy Super-Six shipments, with the result that the Botterill eomcanv' i; j now m "-e rortunate position of being J able to make deliveries at one-; on prac-I prac-I tically every model of Hudson Supsr-j Supsr-j oix. 1 ''We can also accent orders for ira-j ira-j mediate delivery of Dodge Brothers 1 ears and Pierce-Arrows, " said rr. s0t. j terin yesterday. |