Judge — February 23, 1924 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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The waiter puts his triplets to sleep not, and as a result the car so designed, as a rule, gives but half of the efficiency that could be obtained from it and others in the hands of Mr. Average Owner in compari- son with those cars which are made to give their maximum performance almost anto- matically with but little thought or effort on the part of the driver. So, too, a wonderfully compact design with small hood and powerful engine may so fill the bonnet space that the carburetor strainer or a spark plug is difficult: of access. Such a car may be inherently more powerful and efficient than any other of its size and weight, but a few may be operated in’ sections of the country in which the gasoline is not of the best or in which weather conditions m: oil leakage and spark plug fouling unduly frequent. Therefore, the accessibility of the car- buretor and of the spark plugs may be- come a vital factor in obtaining the maxi- mum service from this car and the entire design of the engine im need to be changed in order to make these parts more easily reached. As? so you and I may exert a con- 4 -® siderable amount of influence in the design of a car which is of the type that is cared for largely by the local service stations. If a certain engine wonderful power, performance and econ- omy because of the use of a high com- pression, we may be immensely pleased with this performanee—for the first 2.000 miles. High compression, however, Means extreme sensitiveness to carbon formation and therefore such an engine must be so designed that carbon may be removed by the average garage or service station at alow cost. Such design is pos- sible, but even the simplest work of this Lind presupposes that the car should: be laid up for at least half a day, and again vou and TL decide whether we would rather have possibly slightly less power with a correspondingly increased distance which we can drive without carbon trouble. With one car the service charge be but $5 for carbon removal and Ive grinding; with another it may be for the same work. If the first car, however, requires this work to be done every 2,000 miles and the second ear can run 10,000 or 12,000 miles before such attention is needed, the second car may represent lower service station cost, even though each indivjdual operation is higher. Simplicity makes for reliability and case of upkeep. If our ear will rin day in and day out: with a minimum amount of attention required and if, when a periodic overhaul is needed, it can be done at the local service station quickly and cheaply, we will not care so much if a more powerful and more efficient car passes us ona hill or on the straight-away especially if we know that this car has Just been overhauled at a cost: two or three times the expense for similar work on our own automobile. Harotp W. Stauson WHO INVENTED | THE MODERN HOTEL? | HO replacedendlessflights | of stairs with swift eleva- tors? Who introduced telephones instead of speaking tubes and push buttons? Who speeded up the service —made it courteous instead of grudging, intelligent instead of blundering? Who took the speculative element out of dinners and luncheons? Whodecided that hotel rooms must be perfectly ventilated, neither too warm nor too cold and that a hotel bed should be as inviting and comfortable as one at home? In truth, the American Public has only itself to thank, for it was the discriminating public’s demand formoderncomfortand convenience—and its apprecia- tion after it got them—that created the modern hotel. And it was the United Hotels Company which took the mod- ern hotel —with the enthusiastic approval of the American Public —and placed it in leading busi- ness cities outside of the great metropolitan areas. BANCROPT, W TEN EYCK, Alb: Under Construction HIE ROOSEVE HI OLY tbr TIE NIAGARA! Ning Projected NDER WAMILTOS Aly BEATTY, UNITED HOTELS CO. comicbooks.com