Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01

that the coming race at Savan-
nah is going to be so much
classier than the little affair on
Long Island known as the Van
derbilt cup race that there Will be no COM
parison. There will be real cars in the
Savannah race-and that statement is
made because several of the cars that
raced around the Jericho pike have been
seen at all sorts of contests and shows
for four years. Honest. Why. there was a
locomoble in that race that was being
towed around Washington by rope two
years ago Who said so? Why, the chap
who sat in the machine and steered it
while it was being lowed.
And when that race comes off down
there there will be redhot bunch of
Neutrality-suspicious. rah-ra hing from their
private car. The auto special club car is
rapidly filling UP. Eighteen can go. Four
teen have signed up.
c. Royce Hough told this one. 1t only
shows that 1t is better to tell the truth,
after all. A gentleman entered Mr..
Houghs office a few weeks ago and asked
about storage batteries
I'VE sell tie ," Mr.. Hough ex-
planned
How many VoltS?'
Two and a fraction" George Washing
ton Hough replied, speaking the absolute
truth.
"Humph," The customer replied. THE
other fellows all tell me that their bat
teries are good for three volts and more.
Cant help it. sir. / know that the bat
teries l sell will develop just little over
two volts | don't see how the other bat
teries give more than that. 1t Is not ac-
cording to my electrical education.
Then they examined the batteries and
the stranger asked some very close ques-
tons concerning them. Finally he said:
well. order me one.
Mr. Hough asked him for what he want
ed the battery.
WHY. l don't mean battery l mean
an electric runabout.'
He had not said word about automo-
biles He simply asked about batteries.
When he gave his name it was that OF
man who has forgotten forty thousand
times as much about electric batteries as
the .three-volt battery" statesmen ever
knew.
The Luttreil Company has it's big glass
front salesroom looking neat as pin
and as clean as if 1t had just had bath.
MIR. Muehleisen, manager says that the
1909 Bucks are going to be in soon; that
the two dead trees in front of his place
OF business are going 10 De cut uOWH, tAdt
business is going to be fine, and that he
always feels happy.
Harry Norment returned from New
York recently in his 1909 Packard landau
let. He saw the Vanderbilt race while
there.
Mr.. Mead, sales manager for the Buick
Motor Car Company, was in Washington
for two days last week.
The Pope Manufacturing Company has
in a Waveriy Victoria and a Waverly
runabout, 1900 models. They are brand
new and shine like twin stars. This COM
pany expects the 1909 Pope Hartford car
tomorrow-that is. the factory promised it,
and 1t would not be surprising if the car
should come within the next forty-eight
hours The Pope people from now on will
concentrate on the single Hartford car,
having sold their other factories.
Lester Moore's new quarters at 80 l4th
street are beginning to shape into the
are on the way. and he Is all smiles. He
says there is going to be lots Of business
after election.
With seventeen entries in hand. the Of
fetal closing for the light car race, which
will be held at Savannah the day preced-
ing the grand prize, will occur after the
delivery of the morning mail tomorrow.
Full teams of four cars each will repre-
sent both the Buick and the Maxwell.
There will be three Odds cars and two
Chalmers-Detroit cars, while Europe will
be represented by the Lancia and the
baby Isotta-Fraschini The latter Is the
smallest car so far entered. 1t has little
four-cylinder motor Of 4-1O-inch bore
and s-lO-inch stroke. Its weight is 1850
pounds and 1t has the distinction of hav-
ing finished eighth in the Voiturette race
at Dieppe. being the first fOur-cylinder car
20 finish. The Isotta will be driven by
Lyttle, who finished second in the Van
derbilt race A newcomer in the field of
racing Is the American Aristocrat, built
by K. r. Manville. This car has a three
cycle engine of 3.65-inch bore. and its per-
Torrance will be closely watched, as 1t
will be the first instance where two
cycle engine has competed in a race.
It was necessary to maintain an aver
age of fifty miles an hour for the Sizaire
naudin to win the Voiturette race in
aged forty-slx miles an hour in the recent
Parkway sweepstakes. Meanwhile the
drivers and cars that will compete in the
big race are arriving. Cagno and Plan
enZa OF the italia team have already ar
rived. while Henri Fourier will land on
Tuesday.
Hautvast and Rigal. the drivers of the
Bayard Clement, with Duray of the Lor-
racer. arrived Saturday on the French
liner La Lorraine.
Hemery. Harriet. Erie, with the winning
Benz cars, sailed OF the La Touraine from
Havre Thursday, and will report to the
Automobile Club of America on arrival.
Alexandra Cagno and Vincenzo Pia-
cenza- two of the famous European
drivers that are TO pilot cars in the
Grand Prize race of the Automobile Club
Of America at Savannah Thanksgiving
day, arrived in New York Tuesday. They
are To drive italia racers. of which three
have been entered for the race through
the Automobile Club of Italy. the other
nier. The latter is well known. as he
made the first mile ever driven under
one minute in this country, covering a
mile in II As seconds over q straight
away stretch OF the Coney Island Bou!e-
ward In 1901 Cagno drove an ITALIA i'm
the 1906 Vanderbilt cup race.
Feitce NaZZaro and Louis Wagner the
two great drivers who have been named
as pilots OF two of the three Fiat racers
entered for the Grand Prize event. have
arrived in this country. They will remain
in New York until next Tuesday morning
when they will sail for Savannah. ac-
companied by Ralph DePalma. the young
American who is To pilot the third Fiat
In the Savannah race. Twelve mechanics
from the Fiat factory at Turin will go
To Savannah with the drivers.
The three racing cars of the Fiat team
have arrived in America. as we'll as a
practice machine and twenty-one cases
of racing supplies. The cars are the
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