Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
High-Power Cars.

Representative George F. Huff of Penn
Bylvania Is the owner of twelve horse
power White steam car which cost $500.
Others in Washington who own White
steam vehicles are: Mr.. Horace Wiley.
fifteen horse power. cost $500; Mr.. G. B.
Chapman. 10 horse power. cost. $500;
Messrs. Burr Edwards Frank r. Hanna
and Commander Chaplin, twelve horse
power cars, cost 81 300 each.
Among the owners of Winton cars, twenty
horse power. which cost $500 each, are:
Col Henry May, Mrs. c. A. Mum, George
Westinghouse, Louis w. Weaver, Represen-
tative Joseph C.. Sibley of Pennsylvania,
r. w Cook, w C. Freeman, Clarence
Moore and ]. p. Kramer. Mr.. Larz An
derson is the owner of a forty horse power
Winton which cost $4,000 Senator Jonathan
p DOllfver of Iowa and Mr.. Noah Rein
hold have purchased sixteen horse power
Wintons at a cost of $1,000 EACH and Mr..
r. G. Proctor has a Winton machine of
the same horse power, but which cost him
81 800.
Miss Townsend and Mr.. Vincent Walsh
are the pOssessors of twenty-four horse
power Pope Toledo cars. which cost them
$500 each, and Mr.. Arthur Moses has a
Pope Toledo of the same horse power, which
cost him $500. Others owners of Pope
Toledos of less power are Mr.. Charles John
son, Mr.. H. G. Wagner and Mr.. J. A.
Duhey.
Baron de Tuyll is the owner of a Mercedes
and smaller Kreiger electric car, which
is scheduled at 5000.
Mr.. John Wilkins has $4,000 Columbia
Of twenty eight horse power; Mr. Harrington
Mills owns a twenty-eight horse power
Peerless for which he paid 1850, and Mr..
r. B. Caverly has a $500 Peerless of fif-
teen horse power.
Stearns cars are owned by Messrs. J. D.
Maclennan, w. S. Corby and W. S. Wallace.
They are twenty-four and thirty horse
power machines and cost 5000 and $4,000
each, respectively.
Mr. Edison Bradley has a $1,000 Mercedes
and Mr.. Butler Ames a forty horse power
"Green Goose" which cost $4,000 and is
said to be beauty.
Mr.. Francis Riggs is accomplishing good
results IL is said with his thirty horse
power Packard. which cost 81, 800, while
Mrs Slater and Mr.. Small have sixteen
horse power Knox cars, which are rated at
$500 each.
The washngtonians who own $1,000
Baker electric cars are: Baron de Tuyll.
William Corcoran Hill, Norman Gait, Miss
Louise Kaufman. Mrs. G. Taylor Wade.
Elmer E. Dover, w. A. Slater, W. H. Moses
and Charles C. Glover. Mr.. Clarence Nor
ment is also the owner of a Baker electric
which cost him $3.50.
DIR. T. Morris Murray has ordered forty
horse power locomobile. to cost 5000, and
Mr.. James Lounsberry has ordered fifteen
horse power White car, price $1,000.
According to a New York autornobilist
who was in Washington several days ago
building will soon begin on the new S5O0.OOO
home of the Automobile Club of America
on 54th street near Broadway. 1t is pro-
posed to erect a building of modern fire.
proof construction. designed to be a model
structure of the kind. In drawing the plans
the architect made features of both archi-
tectural beauty and utility, it is said. The
site selected for the club house is In the
heart of automobile row." and is but five
blocks from the entrance to Central Park.
The officers of the Federation of Ameri-
can Motor Cyclists are preparing to oppose
most strenuously the amendment to the
New Jersey automobile act which was pre-
scented in the assembly of that state by As
semblyman Harry S. Scovel. 1t increases
the registration fee from 81 to s. and
makes the license of but one years dura-
ton instead of perpetual as heretofore.
Considerable interest is being manifested
by Washington automobiles and motor
cyclists in the proposed automobile race
across the continent which is being organ
ICED il is said. by the Lewis and Clarke
exposition. 1t is proposed to have the run
start some time In June with the eastern
cars leaving from New York in the race or
endurance test from the Atlantic coast to
Portland Ore. In this connection the state
ment Is made that automobile made
the trip from New York to San Francisco
three days. The distance by the shortest
route is given as 5000 miles and enthusiast
tic local automobiles believe with the
latest improved cars the cross-continent
run can be made next June In less than a
month