Show - AUTOMOBILES GOOD ROADS motoring section " CirrUTAH SALTLAKE - ’ r EDITED BY HARRY I E‘ M'PHERSON - MOTOR TRUCES MOTORCYCLES !S£-- l SUNDAY OOTOBER21 1917 the Motoris t UTAH INTERESTED PARKING CARS TO 4 ZONES ISOLATED n -- 4 Jv- - 4 IN ROAD SESSION 4" ' 0 BE HELD PLAN OF POUC 8 heart just fifteen minutes away from the ERE are two autumn glimpses of City Creek canyon and its automobile-roarone ' Below the at colorful a vista mountain-backe- d is ’road bend 'beside the 'swirling canyon stream and near a rustic bridge the new latest each Nash six the product or picture is boulevards which join to form the canyon highway proper The motor car in tory and one of the newest arrivals in local motordom In the car ate Mrs C J Simpson and small son d Sergeant Would Have Vacant Uptown Spots Leased and Rented Traffic Scenic Highway Now Glory Mass in Hues of Fall Elimination of Congestion Nuisance on Main Street Is Desired Nature Lavish With Paint in 4-Tinting Trees Along LIMITATION of the parking conE gestion on Main and other upWinding Boulevard town business thoroughfares is aimed at in a plan of the city police traffic department to have restricted parking districts leased and formally set aside tor use of auto owners A city ordinance similar to that ef- fective in Denver and other cities sjiecifying the time which cars may be left on the streets limiting the present long and unnoticed time for parking and fixing night and day standing hours for cars is suggested by Traffic Sergeant J II Warden The present scheme of the department for obviating the parkins difficulty differs from that spruns several months aso by Serst Lester Wire in one important respect At that time Wire urged that the city lease the around and set it aside for parkins purposes Warden’s suggestion is that some private person or corporation be given a parkins ground franchise bS the city commission with risht to auto owners a nominal sum for regularly used parkins space Sergeant Warden points out that there are many available spots the principal ones being the Auerbach field the lot back of the Kearns build-in- s and a space on Postoffice place together with numerous other smaller localities Whether or not the scheme will be successful depends of course on the way autoists take to it the working oat of a feasible basis for financlns the proposition and the attitude of the commission But in view of the city fact that the motorists themselves are mostly opposed to street side permanent It is believed that parkins can be overcome and the opposition plan back-input across if the risht sort of private s for the enterprise can be obtained to with the city re-ceiv- the yellow and fading green trees o the right or left flecks of snowy clouds skimming the sky blue Just over yonder mountain top dark green hills in the forepurinto by ground being dipped ple hills in the rear which in turn are backed by filmy azure outlines a smooth and winding road of umber hue leading on and up and luring the motorist behind the wheel of a scurrying liis powerful car water troustream of alongn bling Its hastening way downbrown-greethe roadside beneath— the bush tangle City Creek canyon Nature is ever lavish with her gets ready each fall paint when she to tint the leaves of the canyon trees In the vicinity of Salt Lake This year she has done her usual task well The result is a riot of surprise splendor which calls forth from even those who make canyon trips in the autumn an annual pilgrimageCreek canyon being the City most accessible and having a smooth end perfect boulevard Is the favorite with Salt Lake motorists these happy snappy autymn days Armed with cameras to srap the varied bits of unsurpassed acenery of the mountain vent hundreds of autoists are daily turning the noses of their najliiues into the to canyon mouth and lai'iiuj along the canyon head rnd hack drinking In the clear fall air and the scenic tieats which pt-- at turn Among those' wno took occasion to go canyoning last week was C J Simpson manager of tl:e intr mountain branch of the Pacific Nash Motors company Mr £inp-so- n is a - newcomer to ' Sal Liike formerly having live I in Kansas by Mrgi City Mo- - “Accompanied Simpson ahd their Hitle r bey I he Nash dealer drove hls Nash six up the canyon and bark one brisk day last week They didn’t forget to take some picture rro some of which are shown herewith “Wonderful” Mr Simpson said “I had no Idea there was so much natural scenic beauty in a canyon so close to the city And the road We certainly enjoyed Is superb the Jaunt” SHOW PROVING TRADE MERCURY That the car showireek in progress at the Intermountain Motcy company salesrooms is proving a fine trade barometer is the opinion of Manager W H White “It is easy to see that the interests of the people have been quickened by today’s necessity for economysand efficiency in both business and home life’’ he said “Therefore it is not Just an automobile that visitors come to see at our display but rather an auxiliary or silent partner to their personal and business routine They appreciate that the more highly developed a motor car is the better able It is to meet their requirements Consequently when they see how one dollar can do the work of two the utility and completeness through of the car it opens up to them unall-ye- all-ye- ar ar usual motoring possibilities never before dreamed of “Of the different car models it would be hard to say which is the most popular because every Kissel model is designed to meet a definite demand of all classes of people To business and professional men and women who do their own driving the Gibraltar roadster body which is easily changed into a coupe proves particularly interesting The average family man is naturally interested In the touring car which is quickly changed Into an Sedan For the purchaser who wants something very stunning and exclusive the Victoria body on which the town car is mounted fully answers hls demands “Of course the new Sedanlet and staggered door Sedan in which the top Is not only entirely removable but in which all side windows may be lowered or raised prove of unusual Interest This latest top literally gives Owners three cars in one because in addition to its being an open roofless car in summer and a closed coach In winter It can be turned Into a car for moderate weather through the lowering of all windowa “For those purchasers who desire open touring models In the Hundred-PoiSix touring or roadster body are many distinctive and Individual features that make these cars stand out In their class “In addition to the body design and construction features of the top visitors find a great many points Six of interest In the Hundred-Poion which the car la mounted This Is the car of a hundred quality features that created a stampede among critical 'car buyers forty-eighours after It was announced TOP BRAKES BIXDIX& After adjusting brakes be sure to pin the wheels to make sure that brakes do not bind It Is extremely important to have brakes release otherwise they bind and proerly loss of power results BASEBALL AT COST The baseball season Just ended at the athletic field of Eeibcrliig park the Gooayear Tire & Rubber companyrs Akron O saw mors than 150000 in attendance at the various games Tht cost to the fane was less than 1 cent per head all-ye- ar conference The meetings will be held tn tbs Elks clubrooms at Lewiston and the first will be called to order at 11 November 7 Sped ml entertainment It In announced tn the Invitations will consist of auto rides over some of the Idaho scenic boulevards Accompanying the invitations wsusan Interesting synopsis of the remits and decisions reached by the recent an path-findi- trip to Evergreen highway The report says this: lrepoaed Road Ron tew The route to be recommended for adoption after Grossing the state of Washington will be from Lewiston across Gamas Prairie to Orangeville thence with the Salmon Little Salmon and Welser rivers to Welser thence to Boise and with the Snake river to Pocatello thence ' with the Portnouf river through the Cache valley and with the Bear river to Ogden and Salt 'Lake thence following the Jordan river the shore of Utah lake Salt creak the Pan Pitch Sevier and PahrlaJt rivers to a crossing of the Colorado at Lee's Ferry Into Arizona up the Little Colorado with a westward Jog to and along tho rim of the Grand canyon thence following ail available watercourses passing through Phoenix via Roosevelt dam to Olote Tucson and Blsbee to Douglas where the route turns east to El Paso An alternate midsummer route will run from the Grand canyon through Flagstaff and Winslow Into San Juan county New Mexico (within a few miles and of Mesa Verde national park) thence across the state with the San Juan Chama Rio Orande and Pecos rivers ficials ev-sr- y ng An ROAD BUILDING UNIT FOR ARMY IS BEING FORMED IN MARYLAND Every class of experienced road builders laborers quarrymen and foremen as well as engineers Is now being recruited for the ranks of the Twenty-thir- d regiment of engineers of the national army with headquarters at Camp Meade Annapolis Junction Md Information regarding the regiment can be obtained from Major J E Bloom U S A recruiting officer Washington D C No man drawn In the draft Is allowed to volunteer and married men will not be definitely enrolled until they have the approval of the regimental commander The main recruiting office is at 268 Market street Newark N J' ever-changi- ng OF BATTERIES INJURES THEM That a storage battery Is no exception to the general rule that as long as a piece of machinery or anything else goes ahead and does Is Its work no the opinion of thought Is given to It C M McDonald manager of the service stations maintained by the Intermountain Electric company And that Is the reason according to Mr McDonald that In the fall of the year a lot of automobile owners are wondering what Is the er ar matter with their batteries DverfIlllng your battery with water is as had as not filling It at all" said “When the Mr McDonald yesterday cells are too full rough riding or rapid which comer charging of the battery from long sustained or rppld riding forces the electrolyte to overflow and run Into the bottom of the battery box And It Is only a short time before the add electrolyte has eaten out the bottom of the box “The motorist should keep in mind the fact that although It Is pure distilled water that he puts into the cells It Is not water but diluted add that overflows and this add corrodes either a wooden or a steel battery box "In filling the battery cover tho top Inch of the plates with about one-ha- lf of water More than this Is unnecesthis depth of water allows sary And for ths movement of electrolyte caused or by rapid charging by rough driving Motorists are slowly learning that batteries must have occasional attention If they are to give the fullest service Mr McDonald says and In the past few months there has been a large Increase In the number of car owners who are availing themselTes of the free service rendered by the Willard storage maintained by battery service station thamterrnountain Electric compass ble nt all-ye- ar nt all-ye- ar ht speu-tato- v Road OVERFLOWING four-passeng- er semi-converti- ar all-ye- ar er all-ye- All-ye- In abort the definite location will be worked out In accord with the theory that the road of greatest utility and destined to attract the greatest volume of travel must be first of all an road a watergrade road one devoid of derert stretches and one offering to the soul and senses of the trav-of eler an kaleidoscope Infinite forms and hues of verdure The prospect of early Improvement will also be taken Into consideration Exclusive of construction work In British Columbia and Washington the immediate prospect Is that within the next twelve months the combined proceeds of stats sad federal aid and county and district funds to be expended In along tbs permanent Improvements of the Mexican border route' this side 940000001 will amount to all-ye- ar five-passeng- ng of- four-passeng- er five-passeng- ed Bo-ean- se ed deep-breathi- ar other state officials yesterday invitations to attend a joint meeting’ of the Interstate Highway association and the Idaho Evergreen Highway association to be held at Lewiston Ida November 7 and 8 of the interest which is felt hen in this latest of interstate routed highways to pass through Salt Lake it is more than Jikely that a delegation of Utahns will participate in the in- - 1 R Governor Invited to Attend Evergreen Highway Meeting at Lewiston QOV SIMON BAMBERGER ami - ALL-YEARCA- fac- All-Ye- —a n Nasu MONTH IN IDAHO Promotion of New Interstate Road Is Object of Gathering tumbled RIOTOUSof inredcolo and orange and foam-fleck- t Above is a e t ree NEXT V'"- - u V V ' U r v j - : 3 - - - - Sf ri r |