The Washington times., 1907-11-24
HAPPENINGS
Of WEEK IN
AUTO WORLD
"Show for Washington
Slogan of Visitors to
Baltimore.
More New Cars Ar
riVe-Touring Grows
Slack.

OldCK.
Royce Hough. Elliot Hough and Les
ter Moore visited the Baltimore Auto
Show last Tuesday evening.
Elliot Hough was favorably impressed
with the exhibition and sees no reason
why such a show should not be given
by the Washington dealers. while Il
was not Of course, in the same class
with the New York shows" said Mr..
Hough, 1t afforded an equally good
opportunity TO inspect those cars which
were shown. About fourteen Baltimore
firms are represented and the affair,
understand. was a financial success in
the number OF sales reported
The lesson drawn by most Of the other
Washington agents who went TO the
Baltimore show was that Washington
could support an equally pretentiOus
affair and that such an exhibition was
the best advertisement that the auto
trade could have.
Nothing new has been done this
week toward the arrangements for the
local show which has been postponed
until March. The postponement seems
10 meet with general approval for two
reasons, one that many OF the dealers
would be put to great expense and
trouble in getting cars at this time, IL
they could be gotten at all, and also
that spring show would be more pro-
ductive in the matter Of sales as that
is the purchasing season for auto buy
eTs.
\ meeting viii probably be called
shortly 10 arrange a date and place
for the affair Convention Hall seems
To meet with the most favor and il
possible the promoters viii sign the
hall as soon as a date is agreed upon.
c. A Lindsay purchased a Pope-Wav-
erly Stanhope electric car from the Pope
agency last week.
Timothy Sullivan, of New York, was
here last week to attend the Benning
races in his 4O-hOTsepOWer Panhard. He
stopped at the New Willard and stored
his machine at the Central Garage.
big" Tim, as he is popularity known,
Is an enthusiastic autoist and has coy
cred several thousand miles this sum
mer in his Panhard
Walter T. Hit, OF New YosI, z-as In
Washington last week In a 6O-hcrsepower
Westinghouse machine, one Of the hand
soonest and strongest cars on the mar
ket. Il was stored at the Central Gar
age and attracted a great deal Of atten-
ton. judging from the number OF visit
OTIS who inspected the car.
George Reed and Elkton Reed, of the
Washington Garage Company, spent
several days in Baltimore attending the
show last week.
T. N Mudd, jr., announces the sale Of
a Reading-standard, 1908 model. TO C. L.
Jones, of 81 street southeast last
week. Seven of this years machines
are now being shown by AIr Mudd az
MS New York avenue agency. Z
T. N. Mudd, jr.. and A. GiovannettI
drove two Reading-Standard motor
cycles to Great Fails last Sunday. No
trouble with the machine was experi-
enced. but. according TO Mr.. Audd more
scary horses were encountered than
usual. and in one instance a runaway
was narrowly averted.
The 2O-borse power Renault balancing
TO Christian Hauge, the Norwegian
minister, was brought to Washington
last week by the driver from New York.
where il was Overhauled and put in
shape for the winters use. As the owner
was called to Europe on diplomatic
business, the car was put in storage at
the Central Garage until his return in
February.
The auto is steadily growing in favor
with the Diplomatic Corps, and the sea
son in which the foreign representatives
are out Of town Is quite profitable for
those garages which make a speciality
Of storage.
R. G. Gagan, OF Boston. arrived last
week IN this city in a 1908 six-cylinder
fO-horsepower Pierce-Arrow. from Bos-
ton
The machine is the largest type and
most powerful turned out by the Pierce
Arrow manufacturers. A stop of two
days was made here, after which Mr.
Gagan drove his car to PHILADELPHIA.
where he will stop over week before
returning 10 Boston.
owing to the fact that P. Troop. who
was booked to race George Donovan in
a motorcycle match between this city
anu BdAlllllDEt last sunday, was una Ole
10 make the run, r. lie Bonita served as
his substitute. au1 after a nip-and-tuck
race, in which the riders met with falls
and passed each other on the road. Don
ovan finished IN a squirt about two
, squares ahead of his rival at the CoIum-
bia Avenue Bridge. on the outskirts Of
the Monumental City.
The time made by the winner was
exsctly ninety minutes. The pair left
Fifteenth and Il streets at 9:15 o'clock
and the winner crossed the bridge at
10.45 and lie Bonita about half a minute
later.
The match was exciting and close
from the start Donovan assumed the
lead shortly after leaving washington,
and had pulled away ahead OF his com
Detitor when, about three miles on the
far side of Laurel, he fell. and was un-
able tC push on for ten minutes In
this space lie Bonita overlook and
passed him, and il was not until within
three miles of their destination that