The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-12

> Mr.. B. M. Thornton acted as toast
master and conducted the entire pro
ing the evening n telegram from Henry
Ford was received, reading: BEST
wishes for good dinner anu pros
porous season In Great Britain" II. Is.
White. European branch manager'
whose headquarters are at Paris re =
sponded to the toast proposed TO the
Ford Motor Company, and reelted a
story of che growth or the company
and the rapid Increase In the European
business.
Mr.. @. A. Alexander. of Edinburgh.
Scotland, was the first TO respond 10
"A gents" He related how the first
Ford car he sold was in 1904 to mil
lionaire. and this same man has ordsred
the flrst model IT. TO be delivered IN
Scotland. Mr.. Rowland Winn, OF LEEDS,
classed as 'the most sought-after deaier
in Yorkshire" in responding attrib-
uted part OF his Ford success 70 having
covered $4,000 miles in g months In hts
own Ford car--with this same car
winning the Saltbum speed test twice
and the gold medal once. Mr.. VIM
felt happy. having nat afternoon made
Altogether the occasion was most
enjoyable one, and the concensus OF
opinion was that the dealers would
deliver to them. and that Great britain
alone wanted 1000 Ford cars during
1903.
The well-known Packard motor car
slogan, Ask the man who owns one,
Is an international affair. .rnterrogez
l'homme qui en- possede' Is the way the
Frenchmen say II around the American
garage OF l., Bousquet. o. Avenue Mon ,
taigne, Paris II Is greatly relished
by the Frenchman on account OF the
fact that there have been more PACK
ards In Europe during the past summer
! than any other make of car brought
over by American tourists. Mr.; II. ID,
Wilson. who Is an charge or the PACKARD
Office In Paris. established by the Pack
ard Motor Car company Tor tne con
venience and accommodation or rack
ard owners who tour Europe In their
| cars, writes TO the effect that over 10
American parties have toured Europe
in Packards dufing the past season.
There is no repair shop at his ONCE. u
! Boulevard Pereire, where the Amcfi-
can tourists generally register at some
| item during their European stay' Con
seouentIy, Monsieur Bousquet. pro-
| prietor OF the Amerlcane garage, ar
| ranged to handle especially repair work
on Packards I'm Europe. Now he com
has not been highly profitable on ac-
count OF insufficient happenings which
demand the service OF his repair shop.
The extent to which the automobile
Is being recognized as a necessity on
the farms OF the west Is Indicated by
the fact that in central Kansas alone
more than 600 motor ears are owned by
farmers. A dozen years ago the FARMER
In this region VINO owned an extra team
and a spring wagon hsd the standing
OF man Of means ia his community.
Now those who then looked coyetously
upon the spring wagon are driving
about In automobiles.
orders for at least loo OF the gasoline
vehicles for spring delivery have been
placed in Kansas CITY and Topeka, II
Il estimated, and the tendency or the
buyers IL TO favor an air-ccoled car,
such as tho Franklin. for the reason
that the alkali In the water available
acts as a destructive agent upon the
metal with which IL comes In contact
In n water cooled engine.
So keenly is the automobile felt TO
bee an agricultural essential that agi-
tatlon has been started both In Kansas
and Missouri TO have instruction given
at the state agricultural colleges in tho
general uses and sdaptabilities OF the
motor car The agricultural school OF
Iowa at Ames has already decided TO
have short winter course or instruc-
tlon OF this sort.
Drops OF thousands OF feet over
precipices was the peril that huns on
the slightest turn OF the steering wheel.
when Henry J. Lamar. Jr., and Or. w.
O. Lee went over the Cumberland
mountains In trip from Macon. Ga.
TO Lansing. Mich. In Df. Lees olds-
mobile.
The trip OF 1850 miles has just been
completed. $50 miles in 20 hours. includ-
ing all stops and tho replacing Of tires.
The two mou,tcft Macon on Wednesday
and were I'm Lansing Sunday morning.
The trip was through Atlanta, Chatta-
nooga. Nashville. Louisville. Cincinnati,
Dayton Lima, Toledo and Jackson.
Mr.. Lamar. who handles the DldsmObile
Iline at Macon. drove.
we went up 90 Mt. Eagle" said Or.
Lee. where the grade IL two miles