Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-11
END OF MOTOR SHOW
Closed Last Night With Singing
of Gasoline"
MOST SUCCESSFUL EXHIBIT
Attendance During the Week Was
Fully 10000 Persons.
SALES BY ALL THE EXHIBITORS
Evidences Of General Prosperity
Demonstrations to Be Given Later
-Wind-Up Gossip.
MOST SUCCESSFUL EXHIBIT
SALES BY ALL THE EXHIBITORS

With fully half the crowd singing Case
line" and the other half applauding vocif-
erously Washington's sixth annual motor
car show ended last night. Some inspired
auto enthusiast on the floor suggested the
song to Prof. Haley and the latter led his
orchestra in spirited rendition of the tune
of "Tammany." Some of those assembled
knew the words of the parody. and others
thought they did which amounted to prac-
ticalIy the same thing, and the musical
finale went with a vim. Altogether it was
a fitting climax to what pronounced
by all, visitors and participants alike, as
the most successful automobile show ever
held here.
Exact figures could not be given by the
management last night, but it was estf-
mated that fully 10000 persons visited the
hall to see the latest models OF motor cars
during the week, and, even aside from the
increased number of sales and prospective
sales, it was declared that the receipts for
the week would be far In excess of any of
the preceding five exhibits. High-water
mark in this respect was passed before y
o'clock last evening, and, as one of the
management expressed it, all the rest was
velvet"
Demonstrations Were Impossible.
On account of the bad weather during a
portion of the week many demonstrations
companies represented on the floor main
tanned lists of prospective customers at
whose convenience next week, week after.
or later in the spring the various ma
chimes will be put through their PAGES. one
dealer claimed as many as forty sales, and
from that the evidences OF general pros
perity We're scaled not in the armory
failing to secure its quota of prospective
owners. The statement was made last
night that every machine exhibited would
be claimed by buyer as soon as the show
ended.
At the Headquarters of the Automobile
Club of Washington, which has been main
tained at the show all week. auto talk was
at its height last night, and so many new
members were enlisted on the rolls that 1t
was predicted that the organization will
soon be one of the largest in the city.
Much interest was manifested among CLUB
members in discussing the. proposed Sims
bill, entitled "A bill to regulate the speed
of automobiles in the District of Columbia
and it was promised that there will be a
large attendance at the hearing before the
District Commissioners Wednesday next
when owners and operators of motor cars
will be given an opportunity to state their
views preliminary to the preparation OF
the Commissioners report on the proposed
measure.
AS automobile history runs, it seems a
long time to bark back to 1902, when the
first Jackson car was placed on the mar
ket by the automobile company bearing that
show make the assertion that all work
automobiles generally before that date was
largely of an experimental nature. Schaum
& -Senseney of the Willard Automobile
Company, 404 14th street, local agents for
the Jackson" were disappointed In not
receiving the 1906 model from the factory
until yesterday afternoon, so that all of
their demonstrating for possible customers
had to be done in a 1905 car. The new one
on the floor last night had many admirers.
neSaruac TIE Nopoa
a story was going the rounds of the show
last night that ocular demonstration of
the possibilities of speed with a Thomas
Flyer was given for privileged few Fri
day, and 1t was intimated that the big ma
chine showed in no uncertain manner that
it deserves its name. The management of
the National Automobile Company DECLARED
themselves more than satisfied with the
Thomas.
Many delighted society folk were seen
about the stand of the Washington Electric
Vehicle Company, in the center of the floor.
last night, and not q few climbed in and
out of the Columbia electric brougham TO
test its comfort for themselves.
There were several White cars lined up
along the curb outside the hall last night,
and inside the big building the quarters OF
the Cook & Stoddard Co. was the center
round which their owners reyolVed. All
profeSsed themselves as proud to testify
their satisfaction with the machine but
they looked with longing eyes at the inn
provements the makers have found IL pos
sible to incorporate into the 1905 models
From Washington, now that the show is
ended, most of the exhibitors are turning
their eyes toward Baltimore and Philadei-
phia, where the next automobile exhibits
are to be held. Both are to occur consider
ably later in the spring, and several of the
exhibitors last night declared that many
out-of-town people, among them not few
Baltimoreans, had been in the show here
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