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Columbia records give you the only true, full, actually living reproductions of some of the greatest voices in the world. Ybu hear L&z&ro, Fremstad, Garden, Con­ stantino, Slezak, Zenatelio, Seagle, Graveure and scores of other great singers, themselves, in their Columbia DS"e* Records Listen to some o£ these records on a Columbia Grafonola in our store or else let lis send a set to your home on approval. McHENRT FTi A TNDEAT/TCIt. McHElfRT ^ " s v " pS? la & ,\~ - • ̂ • «* Claus at Work hJi'M SGl?v«tw« shf»k us to the company's: 0^8 restaurant on the sixth floor. | There we had a corking breakfast. At each plate was a copy of the live, new Willys-Overland house organ, ' "The Starter.". It mapped our day's N. A.. HUEMANN, WEST McHENRY T H E U N I V E R S A L C A R The new Ford prices have brought the pleasure and profit of motoring within the reach of added thousands, while the new features, large radiator and enclosed fnn, hood with streamline pffect, crown fenders both front and rear, entire black tlnish ami nickel trimming's, place the Ford in appearance right in the frouf rank of smart looking cars. It is a mighty handsome car with all the built-in merits, which keep mor»j than 1.500,000 Ford care in active daily service, accentuated in the car today. The same un- oqualled Ford qualities for work or pleasure. Better buy your Hord at once. Touring Car, Runabout, *345; Coupelet. *505: Town Car, *595; Sedan. $645- f. o. b. Detroit. On sale bv JOHN R. KNOX McHenry, III. STAR GARAGE Tel. 30 American Steel PfencePost00R TWf 10 T0LED0'0810 ForPoultry Yards WILBUR LUMBER CO. WEST McHENRY. ILL. PHONE 5 Piaindeaier ada bring result*. TTr"" Bead Plfcindealer ada. LOCAL MEN VISIT WILLYS- OVERLAND PLANT I Overton ^Co^en, McHenry A{eaU, Describe Their "T rip to Toledo J Convention Overton & Gowen, Willys-Overland (dealers of this village, who were ! among the 5,000 dealers that visited the great Toledo plant :n connection with the .Jnunense convention held in that city last week, recounts their experiences in this entertaining let­ ter to the editor: . Some action! Nothing was ever so impressive as our tour of the great- plant that turns out Willys-Overland cars. f i Our Pullmans all parked in the com­ pany yards. There was room enough, for there are seven and'three-quarter miles o£ track within the plant. Each man got a card containing a picture of Mr. Willys and an auto­ graphed message of welcome from him. Next thing we knew we were lined up on the steps of the stunning new administration building getting photographed. Then started our tdur of the plant. ! Chit- guides were carefully picked men. They knew the plant from end to end 4nd the parties were small so that each member of the party could have his questions answered. Nobody ought to try" to sell Willys- Overland product without knowing this plant. You can't grip the im­ mensity of the proposition till you do. It is no piker business. $25,000,000 are tied up in land, buildings and machinery, not to say a word about the stock of parts ahd raw material. From the roof of the wonderful ad­ ministration building, which stands owt like a state capital, you get a great panorama of the plant. - You can then readily believe that 'it oc­ cupies 103 acres, with 4,486,680 square feet of floor space in daily use and a production capacity of 1000 cars per You can appreciate the growth from 250 employes in 1906 to 17,300 in 1916. 1,000 pfersons, more than the entire factory force of many a com­ pany, work in the administration building alone. This structure, 375 feet long, has every facility for rapid work, including dictaphones, its own telegraph and telephone systems and • mail handling department that does about everything but write the let­ ters. 388 persons can be fed in the restaurant at one time. But this is nothing to what hits %h{6n you cross into the shops. It is A whirl of action, yet all is system. Parts by the untold thousands are here, with a value into the millions of dollars. There are lines of motors. We never saw so many crank shafts! together. Our guide said 6,000--we'd have believed 60,000. There is stock in bins, stock in yards, stock along the walls, connect-' ing rods, frames, fenders, mud guards, hoods, rims, springs, axles, torsion tabes, transmission gears, shafts, brake parts, steering rods, pedals--it was an unending procession. Every thirty days sees an average of 1000 tons of steel come in. It is handled by a magnetic crane that enables two men to do a work that formerly required thirty. There are amazing machines. The toggle press, for example, held us all. This monster, with its pres­ sure of, 1000 tons, shapes cold steel like cardboard. A piece of metal fed to it comes out as a side frame. It can make 2000 of these in an eight hour day. Other mighty machines stamp out radiator shell, fenders, cowl dashes and doors. You can take off your hat to the drop forging machines. Down comes the hammer and the fiery piece of iron is beaten into shape. The complete drop forging of the front axle can be accomplished with one heat. ' Every kind of part requiring strength was drop forged while we looked on, axles, crank shafts, brake assembly rods, brake and control rods, spring shackles, gear blanlra and brake rod sectors. We saw the company's accurate sys­ tem of die making. It calls for a special workman on each detait. One works on the shaper, another on the planer and a third on die sinking. The multiple spindle drill in one operation drills all the holes in the front axle. This is a guarantee that each will be in right relation to the other. It was hard to drag us away from the automatic turret lathe that sur­ faces and finishes fly wheels. It works as tho somewhere within its metal vitals a brain was concealed. Th6 workman has only to put on the I rough fly wheel, adjust the first set j of tools, push the lever and let the j machine do the rest. i The cast iron is peeled off as read- ! ily as wax. Sometimes four of five | operations are performed at once. \ When one set-of cuttings isfdone, the i machine stops automatically, and the next set of tools comes automatically into place. Twenty operations are performed in fourteen minutes. Twen- ty-six pounds of metal are removed from the wheel. One man can watch three of these machines. . The vertical cutter of gears on fly wheels almost matches the turret lathe in interest. Moving up and down, the cutter at the same time slowly revolves, the fly wheel turning in the opposite direc­ tion. By the time a complete revolu­ tion of the fly wheel has been accom­ plished all the gears are cut We all fell for the aluminum foun­ dry and for the machines that finish the aluminum parts. The multiple spindle "drill bores 81 holes in the crank case in one opera­ tion. This is a proof of the super­ iority of machine processes, for the holes must be in the right relation to each other. Another machine smooths the surfaces of the crank leases, finishing seven in nine minutes, j Diamonds, real diamonds, are con- jsumed with apparently reckless indif­ ference in the wet grind room. Placed I in small tools they are used to true ; the emery wheels on which are ground | the bearing surfaces of the crank shafts. They are bought in $15,0000 lots. „ We looked on while whole forests of lumber were being turned into 'bodies in the wood work department. jThis lumber comes in by carloads. •As 214 feet of wood is required on a j small touring car, we could readily ' see why so much was required. ) You make this round and you can j understand this company's immense ' f * consumption of material--18.000,000 pounds of solder annually, 2,500,000 pounds of tin and lead for smoldering, 10,000.<>00 pounds of grafts and copper, 12,000.000 feet of sfeel tubing and 125,00(1 tons of ste£l. IJut what impressed us more than all was the department in which ma­ terials are tested. They have to know a thing is right before it goes into a Willys-Overland car. That's how^they safeguard the publii-. Tests in the physical and chemical laboratories are made in two ways. Completed steet parts are subjected to terrific tests. Axles are twisted like rolls of taffy candy. Small bits of steel, six inches long, cut from completed axles, are attached at both ends and literally pulled apart The registering machine shows 200,000 pounds to the square inch necessary to accomplish this, whereas a resis­ tance up to 125,000 pounds would be pvoof of ample tensile strength. Springs are tried for their resistance. Steel articles are also put thru both heat and chemical test*. The former determines the amount of carbon, an important factor; the other deter­ mines the chemical composition of the steel. \ < Naturally every operation in all the plants tends finally toward the as­ sembly conveyor tracks. There are four of th'em, each .645 feet long, We followed the; whole operation. We began at one end where the frames and rear systems are put in place. By the time the other end of he convenor is reached the frame has grown into the finished car. From overhead parts are lowered by chains. Along the way men are attaching the parts. The frame is not in motion all the time, but can be instantly con­ nected with the. links of an endless chain and sent on its way whenever' desired. Top quality of workmanship is as­ sured by having each man do work on which he is an exptfri, if it be only to tighten a bolt. Lines of motors, already tested, wait on both sides of the conveyor. These are put • into place cantilever springs are put on, steering mechan­ ism and lighting and starting sys­ tems are adjusted Gradually the car takes form. Instead of painting the chassis with a brush, a sprayer is used. It does the work more rapidly, more uniformly and at a lower cost The tracks of the assembly lead di­ rectly thru ovens in which the paint is baked. Fenders and running boards come into their places. Wheels with the tires onvare brought along on a runaway. First comes a front wheel, then a rear wheel. You ought to see them put on the tires. It is lightning. By a special device, invented by one of the men in the department, the tire can be put on a wheel In three sec­ onds. From overhead bodies are d/opped down pn to the chassis and soon made fast. The car is now ready for its tests. Rapidly revolving wheels in the floor engage the wheels of the car and send them at high speed to make sure that they are operating freely. This is not a test under the power of the car. Gasoline and water are then put into the car. It is pushed off the track into another room till its wheels are in contact with wheels in the floor. With the use of the self start­ er, the machine gets its first chance to prove the success of its construc­ tion. It surprised us the way the motors started. They were off with a rush. There *was no hitch or delay. All the work had been done right. In a few minutes the motor was working ap­ parently'almost as smoothly as if it had been a year on the road. We saw how the cars were shipped. The export department has the big feature in this line. The finished car undergoes preparation by having its wheels taken off and fastened on the under side of the frame, which forms the top covering for the car. The top is covered with tar paper as a protection against the elements, an<[ .all is securely boxed. Along comes a big crane running in an overhead groove a quarter of mile long. The operator sits in a small cabin not unlike that of a rail­ road engineer. Chains grab the box ; containing the car and within forty- five seconds have carried it outside j the building and placed it on the flat freight car, v. . . i It is processes like these, all that i we have described, that explains why j every car in the Willys-Overland line! is vichat it is at so low a cost. Mak- j ing so many is the answer, making j them to go all over the world and having profited by the experiences of users everywhere. Quantity produc­ tion, immense and costly machines, skilled designing, careful inspection, accurate tests of material, efficient factory methods, rapid assembly and advanced methods of handling, all these we saw; all these tell why the Willys-Overland company lives up to its ideals of a car for every need or taste, price, class and service right We saw the line. It is Quality from the lowest priced to the headliner. It wiir.be the marvel of the automobile shows. The two days', program included a rollicking beefsteak dinner, a more formal banquet, a minstrel show, a concert by the famous Overland band and a concert by the glee elub; finally a speech by the moving genius of it all, Mr. Willys himself. You will agree with us that this is some project to have been put over all within one plant and by the people of the organization. Give us your next order for en­ graved calling cards and see what a neat job we put out for you. PLAINDEALER ADS PAY •SJ At Vycital's NOVELTY STORE ~ This is the place to buy your Gifts. We have a better attt larger display then ever before of the following goods: Jewelry, Etc. j Miscellaneous Kings Bracelets Tio Clasps Watch Fobs Watch Chains Necklaces brooches Scarf Pins Tuff Links Gold plated Knives ) ewelry Bokes fountain Pe$s Clocks Cameras Collar Boxes Burnt Boxes Toilet Sets Manicure Sets Sewing S4ts Shaving Sets Smoking Sets Pipes Pocket Books Purses Cut Glass "Fancy China Glassware Crockery Dry Goods Pictures Books Tree Ornaments Post Cards Tags and Seals Toys,' Etc* V Dolls ' * Teddy Bears Horses * Trains Drums * ,nJ Erectors & Tinker Toys V Horse and wagons J Banks ^ Buggies > V iM Trunks Rocking Horses • ;,Jf Rocking ChaifS /1 Kitchen Cabinet* Wagons I t'iauos Also many other useful Gifts FRANCES VYCITAL How About That Break Lining? Are you taking chances every time you drive your car of not being able to stop it at the critical moment^' Don't do it. bemuse you'll lose in tibe long run SURE. Ifyouroreaks don't grip iustautlv --bring your car W> ue. * Maybe they finiy need tightening sno we'iiiio ui*c ror yw> in a jiffy. Even if they relining, It's only a limpi* and inexpensive job. bur it must be done RIGHT (0|{t* you absolute confidence. Let un look your car over. We'll I,#*11 you what you need anil ONTA what you need. Stilling's Garage (ico. A. Stilling, Proprietor McHenry, Illinois F .cW] PHILIP JAEGER (iBNtKAL COMMISSION lUhKCttANl SFKIJIAL ATTWtlOM OIVCN TO TB* SMdtflf ' Dressed Beef, Hutton, Hog*, Veal, PMltry, HI<le», Htu., Butter and Eggs This i# the «Me«t ho*** on the *tr«et. Tags Mid price favaleked «• Application. COLD STOKAC1H FREE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Stall i * 3. St. Wkoliitl* NirlM. ^Mi =*at* Read Plaindealer Ads m . m "• f - -1 . A. J , _ j f.X ' LSSi ^ 4 i f i V t i