The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-09

| So far as the local management is con-
cerned the automobile show. which will be
held at Convention Hall all of next week,
| beginning tomorrow, and each day from
to IL o'clock p. M, is ready for visitors.
Washington is at last promised novelty.
! and the managers who have the affair in
| hand deserve vote of thanks for their
enterprise. From present indications the
show promises in many particulars to
equal last months affair at Madison
Square. There will be nearly as many
exhibitors of an endless variety of vehicles
as upon that gala occasion, and the dec
! orators, who have been at work all the
week, promise that the booths and general
color effect Of drapery and decorations
will be novel and strikingly handsome.
The show will present tomorrow night
a parade of all the vehicles on exhibition,
and later in the week, Thursday night,
there will be a parade of vehicles florally
decorated. Col Henry May, who has
taken quite an interest in this part OF the
show, has enlisted the cooperation OF a
number of leading society people who are
enthusiastic over the parade and promise
to compete for the handsome prizes Of
fered for the best decorated vehicle OF the
horseless kind.
Among those who have promised to COM
pete are: Countess Cassini the Baroness
Hengelmuller, Count Quadt OF the German
Embassy, General Miles son, Col. Henry
May, Minister WI Ting-fang Miss Porter,
Miss French. Miss Heilbrun, Mrs. a. L.
Barber, DIR. Wylie, Mr.. NOrment. Mr. W.
B. Hibbs DR.. Vail, DR.. Sprigg, Mr.. Clar-
ence Moore Mr.. C. S. Wilson, Mr.. T. P.
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ley's band will be present every after
noon and night Of the week.
The DeDion Bouton Company and Over
man Auto Company have started electric
and steaic road-wagons respectively from
New York to make a test of time and wear
with the show as the destination, and they
will be placed on exhibition just as they
come off the road after their long trip
through mud and sand.
The Electric Vehicle Company. of Hart
ford, will have ten vehicles on exhibition,
including tricycle. with jaunting car. a
victoria with hood, rear boot victoria,
and delivery wagons The Washington
Electric Vehicle and Transportation Com
pany will have twenty-five carriages as
its exhibit, and the Locomobile Company
of America will have its full exhibition
and decorated booths just as they were 1t
Madison Square Garden. The American
Bicycle Company will show steam. gaso
line, several motor cycles. the latest bid
der for popular use, for pleasure, busi-
ness, and racing.
Col. Henry May has had built in Paris
a six-horse power gasoline automobile.
which is said to be wonder in the way
of speed and construction. 1t has ar
rived in this country, and the owner ex-
poets il to be here in time to be exhibited
at this show.
The show will give intending purchas
ers Il chance to see every known style OF
vehicle in operation, and by comparison
make q choice. The general public Will
be given some idea of the extent OF this
new industry and OF the stability of the
new conveyance and the new means of
propulsion, which is destined to displace
nearly all others.
Among the prominent exhibitor, who
will help make the big show success and
who will, as usual, distribute souvenirs.
are Riker Electric Vehicle Company:
Overman Auto Company; Electric Vehicle |
Company of Hartford: Locomobile Com |
pany OF America: DeDion Bouton Com
pany: Cleveland Cycle Company; Woods |
Electric Vehicle Company; Mobile Com !
pany of America; American Bicycle Com !
pany; Baltimore Mobile and Manufactur- |
ing Company; Hartford Carriage Com |
pany; jenkins Steam Carriage Company;
Knox Automobile Company; New York |
Belt and Packing Company; Washington |
Vehicle and Transportation Company; |
American Bicycle Company; The Automo- |
bile: Chandle Railroad Signal Company; |
Leese & Walsh: Y. d. Blackiston: d. n. |
Walford: Rose Manufacturing Company; |
]. c. Rau; w. 4 Tappan; The Hub; |
American Automobile; Joseph Auerbach, |
and Monarch Fire Appliance Company.