Show GOSSIP OF THE GARAGES By Gordon H H. Place By GORDON CORDON H. H PLACE The Tho average automobile user does not know I suppose that it takes about ten times as long to paint an un automobile automo automo- bile as it does to paint an ordinary house That is the tho way it is done inthe i in tho the Oakland facto factory at least says Harry Nightingale local bakland Oakland agent T Tho ho painters in the Oakland factories are arc not hurried with their work Painting an automobile body is tedious work It takes about th thirty thirty- rt five live days to complete the tho painting of ot ofa ota ofa a car Eighteen coats in all are applied and rubbed in and it is a most exacting exact exact- in ing job but it is satisfactory in the Ion long run for it gives tho the cars a well groomed roomed appearance that is hard to bea beat eat t. t William Armour of the Premier Motor Manufacturing 1 company In Indianapolis is in the city on his way east from the northern coast states His headquarters head head- headquarters quarters aro are at at the tho Campbell Automo Automo- bile company's compans establishment on Auto Auto- mobile row low mid and he is registered at the 1 Hotel Utah lie He will leave tomorrow for tho completion of f his tour The Tho interests havo have begun gull work on a now o garage garge at West Temple and Fourth South streets carrying alQ Automobile row to Vest West Temple street The garage arn e will be bo one of the most complete te of its kind kina in the city and will be DO a occupied by b the Alkire- Alkire Smith Automobile compa company The quarters quarters quarters now occupied by bf the tho Smith he company compan will bo ho taken over by a new nev agency to handle a a popular low priced car The rhe buil building in will will be completed aud and the changes will be bo made about January 1 1 William WilHam Hilton Biton Malcolm Keysor Keyser Ke or and tho the Pacific Laud add aM Water company hays have each cach received a Chalmers six from tb the Cheesman Automobile company during tho the we week k k General Manager A A. A B. B of the Haynes Havnes Automobile Ko- Ko company Kokomo o- o komo Ind Iud is on on a atour tour of the tho west which will ill include this city an and d is expected ex ox- peeled hero within the tha next week I ex-I or I ten daR dayL Other cities ho lie will visit sit arc are I St St. LOll Louis s Kansas City and Denver andall and amI andall all tho the cities along tho the coast The Tho laynes company has bas as recently established Ji strong distributing agencies in tho the majority H of these cities lIe lie He will be aWl away from tho tha factory for six SIX weeks or Y t two months A splendid Pierce brougham ordered recently b by br Mr Mrs Mrs Edwin i F. Holmes will be delivered to her earl early next week by the Automobile company local local local lo lo- cal cal Pierce Arrow agents The brougham is is bein being shipped direct from the factory at Buffalo in 10 a special car This brou brougham hal J which is one of ot the most luxuriously appointed cars carR in the west has bas five five ordinary seats for passengers pas sen stingers ers and two emergency scats seats which when when not in use are invisible The windows are of beveled plate glass without sashes but running in velvet grooves The doors arc are arched arche above abo e a new and distinctive feature and tf the window indo strips are of rosewood with roll ron curtains and draperies Light is supplied to the interior from a dome light lit and suspended from the ceiling arc are silk cord parcel nets tion with the tIlO chauffeur is not b by bl speak in inK ing g tube but Lut by bv telephone The rhe 1 ho car its lf is is of lit deep hl blue o finish of tho the shade known as blue ro royal al an and tho the in in tenor is upholstered in gray whipcords whip whip- cord cords cordI with all interior har hardware warn of oxidized silver While not infrequently the battery manufacturers manufacturer's instructions that storage stor story age coils cells bo be replenished with distilled water are neglected an and ordinary raw water employed it is is' isa a risky proceeding proceed proceed- in ing as ns water is apt to contain chemical constituents that are aro deleterious to the plates and in time more moro or less trouble may follow such JUZ lazy methods A leaky spark plug g gasket asket ma may y caul cause misfiring by admitting lD air around the tho points and and weakening the tho mixture to the mi missing sing point Misfiring duo to this cause causo is more likely to occur to-occur occur at atlow atlow atlow low than at t hi high h speeds When putting on nuts and bolts it itis itis itis is an e excellent preventive of f rust to ruton rubon rubon rub rut on thom them a little graphite When this is done you have taken out an insurance policy against sticking nuts |