The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-05
GASOLINE BUBBLES

The chaste plaster goddess who presided
over the last automobile show in Madison
Square Garden, Manhattan, has lost her
Job. She and her attendant nyniphs, who
peered impertinently at show patrons from
the many pillars of the Swiss garden
scene, which was the setting for the show,
have been turned adrift by the committee
in charge of the eighth national show, to
be held in he Garden, November 2 to 8,
and an entirely new scheme of decoration
is in favor. This, it is said, will be less
ornate, involving no troupe of plaster
goddesses and no chorus of nymphs, but,
on the whole, more rich and elegant, and
more In keeping with the exhibit. In
token of this, a new show girl, duly
licensed under the Selden patent, and more
up-to-date In costume than the goddess of
the last show, has been chosen as the
tutelar deity of the forthcoming exhibit
ton. 1t is the same automobile show girl
who appears on the Garden posters, and
the story is that she is not a mere crea-
ton of the poster artist, but a near-por-
trait, the original of which is a young
woman of social prominence, who Is an
M enthusiast and whose loyalty
to licensed American cars has been notable
for years. On the poster this new goddess
of the show appears as a sparkling bru-
nette in trim automobile garb. She wears
a long capecoat OF cardinal hue, from
beneath the edges of which peep a fawn-
oolored skirt and substantial feet, shod In
1 high-healed patent feathers. One end of
her ~voluminous veil trails with the breeze,
and she holds a pair of goggles In her
hand while she averts her face from the
background scene, This background pre-
SCENTS, in vague outline, a racing car
pitching over an Indefinite, roadiess land
scape, beneath a sky the luridness of
which suggests that 1t may be the fame
and vapor from all the exhaush pipes of
the Inferno. The goddess'of the show has
her head above the clouds, however, and
wears a complacent expression. The ideIA
tity of this show deity and poster figure
is the theme of some lively discussion in
automobile circles.
r. q. Graham, sales manager and vice.
president of the Acme Motor Car Com
pany of Reading, Pa, who recently dis
covered that ell the cars made by the
company were still in service, says he de-
sires to amend his statement. Mr.. Graham
r states thai he received a letter from a man
in Tennessee who explained that he
' bought a two-cylinder runabout six years
ago, and. after driving 1t over the noun
tain road for a year, placed it under the
GuBe u d 6htu II a OCAb " tAiC
I hy-wheel. using the engine to run the
machinery of a saw mill. Along in the
winter Of 1903 there was a snowslide from
the roof of the shed, which carried away
e a brick chimney. TIL bricks crashed down
5 into the machine, breaking the rear axle
9 and putting the transmission and driving
mechanism out of action. The saw mill
owner adds that he has kept the engine in
use ever since as a power plant, but has
not been able to get any use of the car
as a method of transportation. In the
z interests of truth. Mr.. Graham cites this
exception to his general statement.
John D. Rockefeller displays the same
~unerring business Judgment when purchas'
y ing an automobile as he does in the larger
: commercial transactions in which he is sc
conspicuous a figure. In the autumn OF
: 1905 he purchased a White Steamer
Il Limousine, and a daily ride in this car dur
ing the last two years has been an inn
X portant part of the quiet life which he is
> leading. Recently he intimated that he
: was in the market for another car of thu
: same make. Despite his familiarity witt
the White and his prejudice in its favor
Z he piled the salesman whit called to SCI
9 him with questions relating to every detail
y of the machine. Next he Examined every
part of the car, inside and out, had {
thirty-mile demonstration and then turnet
4 in his order. One Of the first 1908 Mode
X White limousines will, therefore, b
:, delivered to Mr.. Rockefeller.
! Cranking a six-cylinder is hard labor
One dealer in Chicago declares he hal
lost a dozen sales this summer because
his car had no seif-starting equipment
and very naturally he was enthusiastic
: in his praise of thu Winton Extremists
, which starts on compressed air by sim
ply opening a valve on the dash. IN
Win.on mechanism has only one MOVING
part, a distributor valve, which is timet
so that, when the dash valve is openeI
air pressure lows into that cylinder whicl
Is ready to fire and forces the piston pas
the firing point. thus starting the moto
in its work. This action is less violen
N than starting on the spark and is surer
In more than a thousand trials on tn
Winton show trip, the self-sthrter faile'
but three times. a. remarkable record o
reliability. With s~ix-cylinder cars com
. ing from Stearns, Lozier, Winton. Peer
e. less. Stevens, Franklin, Thomas, Pierce
Odds and several, other factories, 1903 ca
= hardly avoid being a six-cylinder year
On No manufacturer willingly makes a prod
n Z uct that the public does not demand, an
o it IS unauestionably the fact that tn
forthcoming product of skies is in re
n Spouse to a strong call for a car of create
Il. mechanical excellence than the four. Th
h. Wilton Company has gone farther tina
lls its contemporaries and will produce sixe
g exclusively. being the only company in til
world ENJOYING that distinction. MY frs
It. ride in our six-Teen-six. : says Alexande
Winton, Convinced me that the six
q the only car to manufacture for hig
grade buyers. The four was a necessar
y step IN progress; TIE six is f~nality, eS
re c~ellence. Ny advice to everybody WI
ne fen,t afreedy a .x anfhiisfast is to fak
~ " one critical ride In a six-cylinder cal
Ut that one ride will be worth more h
~ bushel of logic Al distinct inaoyatio
y that will appeal to motor bussss Is az
hounced by the Winton Company. In tn