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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, BUN HAY MUILNLNU, JUNE Henry 'Forii Recalls Days of His Racing Machines I Barney Oldfield, Then Daredevil Bicycle Rider, Secured From Salt Lake City to Pilot 999 to Fame and Fortune. i Mr. Ford ssld they were elaborate. His fltst comanything but Model A. sold for. $850. It mercial car, motor with eight had a wheel a horsepower and a seventy-two-inc- h Tit early day of tit automobile only twenty year ago are recalled by Henry, In Herd, writing In the Jane Mcaure collaboration with Samuel Crowther, continuation of My Ufa and Work, The disay the New Tor 1c Herald. carded ideas of the motor car maker of those days, his otrn fight against the Licensed association over the 8elden patent (a conflict Into which. Mr. Ford manages to inject the spirit of David Goliath), the reasons that led swatting him to concentrate all of hia building upon one model, his discovery of the value of vanadium steel for lightness gfiatid strength, all are told In definite and ' assertive style. Mr. Fdrd starts wlth a story abotrtf In Oldfield, the demon driver. Barney 1903 there was a general Idea among first-clamotor car builders that a really car should be a racer, and most of the experimenting was done with racing car. As the others were doing it. Ford thought he had to also. So, with Tom Cooper, he built two cars solely for speed. One was named 999 and the other Arrow. ss Speed Desired. j "If an automobile were going to be known for. speed," writes &fir. Ford, then was I going to make an automobile that manufacture, ia 18, lUirJ. . ri 5&j6&iSS22 The Master of the Highway -- Jtias Earned the Respect of its Owners er base, supposed to be long for those day The fuel capacity was five gallon Finally four models were being turned out. Then one day, and suddenly. Ford decided to This concentrate on one model only. was in 1909. He served notice that the chassis would be exactly the earns for and that any customer can all car hav n car painted any color that he wants so long it la black." There were predictions on all sides. Mr. Ford write that he could not"posibly succeed with uch a restricted production, end the When question wae everywhere asked; The contrary, of will Ford blow up? and course, occurred,' and'productlotr bounds profits increased by leapt and demand as the plant expanded and grew for the standardised car Ford had created. Production Gain Great. ' We were almost overnight. It seems, in great production," Mr. Ford write How did It come about? Simply through the application of an inevitable Intelliof the application by principle, gently directed power and machinery. In a little dark shop on a side street an old man had labored for years making ax handles. Out of seasoned hickory he fashioned them, with the help of a drawshave, a chisel and a supply of sandpaper. Carefully was each handle weighed and balanced. No two of them The curve muet exactly fit were alike. the hand and conform to the grain of the wood. From dawn until dark the old man labored. Hi average product was e.ght handles a week, for which he received a dollar and a half each. And often some of these were unsalable because the balance was not true. Today made yon can buy a better ax handle, And by machinery, for a few cents. vou need not worry about the balance. one is They are all alike and every Modern methods applied in a perfect. big way have not only brought the coat of ax handles down to a fraction of their former cost, but they have immensely improved the product. It was the application of these same methods to the making, of the Ford car that at the very start lowered the price We just and heightened the quality. developed an Idea, and that Idea was of nucleus The developed by men. business may be an Idea. would be known wherever speed was known. These were: I put In four great big cylinders giving 89 horsepower, which up to that time had been unheard of. The roar of those cylinders alone was enough to half kill a man. There was only one seat. One life was enough. I tried out the cars. Cooper tried out the car. We let them out at full speed. I cannot quite describe the sensation. Going over Niagara Falls would have been but a pastime after a ride In one of them. I did not want to take the responsibility of racing the 999,' which we put up first; neither did Cooper. Cooper said he knew a man who lived on speed, that nothing could go too fast for him. He wired to Balt Lake City and on came a professional rider named Barney Oldfield. He had never driven a motor car, but he liked the Idea of trying it. It took us only a weOk to teach him how to drive. All that he had to learn was how to control the monster. Controlling the fastest car of today la nothing compared with controlling that car. The steering wheel had not yet been thought of. All the previous cars that I Vanadium Steel Used. had built simply had tillers On this one I put a tiller, for holding the eteel In onto vanadium Ford car in line required all the strength of a 1905 at got A French car Palm Beach. man. was smashed in a race and he picked strong up a piece of the metal. It was very i Car Kept Secret. He gave tile light and very strong. The race for which we were working valve strip stem to his assistant and to out all directed find the assistant was at three miles on the Grosse Polnte the metal, saying it was the kind track. We kept our car as a dark horse. about material that ought to be in Ford We left the predictions to the othera of The expert found that there wae The tracks then were not scientifically cars vanadium steel, and Ford was banked. It not known how much sent to In the French for a man who knew speed a motor oar could develop. No how to England vanadium make steel commer one knew better than Oldfield a hat the After many experiments and turns meant, and as he took his seat, dally. he wanted, failures Ford what got while I was cranking the car for the pounds tensile strength with start, he remarked cheerily Well, this 170,000 great lightness, and that disposed of chariot may kill me, but ttfty will say much the weight problem, something afterward that I was going like hell when which of has always bothered Henry Ford, she took me over the bank. And he did to whom weight in transportation is the well, like he said. He never go like of evil dared to look around. He did not shut greatest His road to prosperity was blocked off on the curves. He simply let that a time by the famous Selden patent, car go and go it did. He was about half for a patent applied for in 179 by one a mils ahead of the next man at the George B. Selden. The Licensed end of the race. under which other motor car The 999' did what It was Intended ciation, were operating and payto do. It advertised the fact that I manufacturers ing royalties, tried to force Ford Into could build a fast motor car. A week line. He balked, saying that his ideas after the race I formed the Ford Motor of motor car construction were new company. I was vice president, designer, and that the Selden patent was made up master mechanic, superintendent and of half a dozen more or less old Idea general manager. The capitalization of Then came the big lawsuit with $70, the company was 3100.900, and of this 000,000 of resources on one side and I owned 2514 Per cent. The total amount about $35,000 on the other, Ford's. Insubscribed In cash was about $28,000, stead of being a hardship the suit was which Is the only money the company a great blessing, for It advertised the has ever received for the capital fund Ford car aa nothing elae coOld have from other than operations. done. Ford was made to appear the under dog In the public eye, and lots of Control Obtained. people bought his car out of sympathy fellow In the fight. EvenIn the beginning I thought that It was for the little won the litigation and broke tually Ford possible, notwithstanding mv former free of any restraint by the Licensed to go forward with a company association. which I owned less than a controlling Prosecuting that suit was probably I very shortly found that I had d acts that have control, and therefore In 1906, one of the most any group of American business men with funds that I had earned In the comhas ever combined to commit," Ford pany, I bought enough stock to bring my writes. holdings up to 51 per cent and a little later bought enough more to give me WARNED AGAINST KUKLUX. 58 per cent. The new equipment and the progress of the company has alBRIDGEPORT, Conn , June 17. Frank ways been financed out of earnings. In L. Wilder, grand master of tbs Connecti1919 my son Edsel purchifted the remaincut Grand Lodge, A F. and A. M., has ing 41 2 per cent becauae certain of written to district deputies cautioning the minority stockholders disagreed with Masons against relations with the Klan. The letter is similar to one my policies. For these shares he paid t the rate of $12,500 for each $100 par, written to Masker Masons by Arthur D. end in all paid about $75,000,000. Prince, grand master of the MassachuGoing on to describe the beginning of setts Grand Lodge. ' " v two-hand- i jCS short-sighte- Ku-kl- MADSEN-FARRE- MOTOR CO., R 55 Wert Fourth South Street, BALT rnri cm. t J i .4 j .the 'most Beautiful CAR. IH AMERICA I A j 3. this time It has given to the world these I 1 lie improvements In transportation tmnsntlenilc hln II The steam engine and with It wean steamers and railroads 111 hiectrlcitv and with it the tele.ir.iph, ocean cable, telephone, vlrelees, IV Th" internal combustion engine and with 't ihi r itomoiule, aeroplane. and. In the fullncu-- s of time, me motor truck ctrh-rallwav. Advance Rapid. your judgment in. tire buying. USE tire that does not show strength and a springy resistance when flexed underhand pressure will not grre adequate endurance under road wear. Fisk Cord Tires are remarkably resllient. g Also they are big, tires with a deep-cbutton tread which offers security on wet roads and pavements. good-lookin- ut IWi a Fisk Tire of extra value in every siaa. or car, truck or speed waton TlmetoRatlnt (Bur risk) . mm sm 4 fr ; h fas. . Andes; up out of the valleys of ancient Mexico, pack trains freighted with the gold and slher of the Asterpick their wav around perilous mountain trails on their way up to the marble halls of ancient Chepultepec; stately galleys manned by Numldian slaves bring the wealth end commerce of the world to the docks of Tyre; the winds of the seven seas tug at the sails of a thousand vessels in or out of ancient Phoenicia, carrying- in their bottoms the commerce of antiquity and bringing golden treasure Into the coffers of the merchants of that earlv day. - Prosperity Linked. Speak of the glory of industrial prosperity of any nation, and you draw attention to the fact that this prosperity is linked with some form or method of transportation. and it is significant in an historical survey of national evolution that the heyday of prosperity in any one country- was coincident with the development of some new method or means of transportation, or the improvement of the method of transportation already existent Our globe Is Inhabited by fire race the Caucasian Malaysians, Mongolian five colors white, Indians and African brown, yeilow. red and black named in of their respective development. the'order It is significant to note that at the top at the bottom stands the white race and the black race. The whit- - race has grown in 400 years from 8,000,000 to 400.000 000 people, multiplied fifty times In four cena rustles surging people, possessed turies, 1 - -- olrt of progress snd travel. During Africa is populate by a race as old as any other, but darkest Africa" has been a byword for ars, the significance of which Is not appreciated until we pause to consider that the black race has never developed any kind of transportation It la significant to note that the development of the steam engine in Amer.cn made possible the raj id dt velooment of our civilization, ac.-- lpllshmg in a few score years that whicneln any other period of the world would Juive taeon ten tune. To attain. TlessThan 100 yearsTigo locomotive running on rails naile distant places fn our land neighbors, the applicatm vess.ds tion of tne steim engine bridged the ocean and hastened the dawn of tne present era kraiuvim iruughi me divine spark from out the clouds, and soon Morse was transporting human thought across great spaces. Next came Alexander Graham- Bell with the telephone, and the human voite was transported countless miles. Then came Marconi annihilating space and eliminating wires and cable and thoight ouM be transported around the globe In a twinkling. Spirit Builds Nation. Thus do. we see the Spirit of Transportation weaving together the fabric of civi.lzatlon, , Next came the Internal combustion enR the automobile with its gine and wl'h speed of Mercury, and in Its wake the vVnaht brothers, and lo! we had aerial transportation, and now ws have that giant of modern transportation the motor trurk to perform its part and function in and lengthening life, so that enlarging now distances between hopie and business, between cities and between rural communities are no longer measured hy miles As these modern methods hut hv tl 11 transportation nave tended to bridge so also thev time and annihilate spac have tended to enlarge and lengthen outlives Todav the motor car. motor tru-- k and motor bus are revolutionizing the life and habits of our people, twinging the prosperity of the world to the doors of all our people. Truly the automotive industry has as developed a system of impoitant to our nation as our railroad and steamship s stems. of wav ghthonses a considerable number will be In Balt Lake city and countv. In the cltv proper there w be danger slgna s for the street rallwav crossing where traffic from the north, crossing Second West towards First West, must cross the street car .tracks. Railroad crossing signals will aiso be tnsta led where the Park City branch of the Denver A Rio Grande Western raileoad crosea State street and Highland Dr ve. Lighthouses will a'no be Installed where State s.reet end H gh'and Drive InterSouth street. sect Thirty-thir- d There will be one or two et curves or rabroad crossings north of the cltv In Sa't Lake county, and several on State street and the read to Magna, south of the city. 1 11 Preceding Pm.1 Beaver, Cedar and 8t. George. No. from Xephi towards Grand canyon, way of Manil. Rlchf eld. Panguitch Kanab, is 247 7 miles long. No. 11, WORK 'DONATED. Trfbuee. Tfc 10, by snd the d.and Trail route from Sprtngville to Grand Junction, by way of Prlte. Green River, Thompson hnd M'eat water, is 227.$ miles. No. 12. from Valley City to No 11 o, bv Moab. Is 84 4 miles. a Is the route. 109.1 miles, through Castle Dale and Emery. No 14 runstfrom Salt Lake to Vtendover. 131.$ route of mkes So. IS Is the, Mills-El- y 121.5 milee long the Lincoln highway-In addit on to the route number, each tower carries on Its side, though not illuminated. the information of the ordinary highway s gn, giving the mileage to the principal points on the route, with an arrow to show the direction. The .de of the tower opposite the blghwar Is b.ank. snd Is made up of the door through which the fepparatus le replaced twice year 'ssteftsttnn of slxfv high- Of th- M Mon-ttc- Automotive Equipment Distributor Wanted Dhlo manufacturer has developed and perfected baric improvements in e replacement part, now used extensively on Ford cars. These Improvements are such that a substantia part of the present established volume of business can be secured. . This has been proven beyond question. PrefA distributor for the Salt Lake City territory Is wsnted. erence will be given those with ap established business where ac- -. trade. and This is sold to dealer not the ceseory Items are esHent.a, however. Efficient representation le the thing most desired. We have no State or County rights to sell nor will we ask you to load up with a big stock to secure a territory. Exclusive selling rights will be granted upon proof of effective representation. This proposition offers possibilities of a substantial and hlrhly profitable buslnesi. If intereated. write immediately, stating Item now bandied. If any, and territory desired. Address Mr. C. Kloo Sale Mgr., 40 W. (th St., Cincinnati. Ohio. An old established el Price-Salln- flt WET OR DRV. . The sunshine maker In this world s, too Are all few, sighed Piper Cobb. 1 hi "Don't fret, old cout! neighbor -i Jibed, JoblV on their maker With moonshine From Judge. M GOING, GOING. GONRI Young Sprigg Mr. Bldquick, I art SPANISH PORK, June 17 More than worth $70,000. and I love your daughter, Sold. 100 days work In repairing and putHblqulck (retired auctioneer) ... ting l traveling condttloatbs- - road -- to Exchange j wrl.l be donated th by Strawberry valley Gasoline sleighs are replacing dog aleda members of the Spanish Fork Klwents In , Alaska. clui. according to reports from the com j te Rfeclal iCeattnned f -- o mittee In charge received at the regui-la- r meeting last n ght at the high schodl building The men expect tp go to the Little Diamond Fork next Tuesday, where Thep they wilt commence their labors. will cooperate with the forest service and the U. S. reclamation service. The road Is at present In a bad condition and closet one of the great pleasure ground of Utah. N |