Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
STRICTLY FIRST
.CLASSAUTOHOTEL
AN AUTOMOBILE HOME FOR
MACHINES
Perfect System Where the Cars Are
Checked In, Registered and As
signed to Their Rooms,
Like Guests

Many people have learned to look for
Quality in selecting d home for their
automobile, the same as they look for
1t when they select hotel. They nave
lost their patience so often that
patience no longer is a virtue. Ihey
have seen the palatial garages OF the
east, where business is conducted on
a dressed up" "high toned scale
at no greater cost to the "boarder'
than is demanded in inferior garages,
and have longed for something OF TINS
character in Los Angeles.
You may belong to that class OF own
ers that gives some thought to "ap-
pearance" and to your own personal
comfort in having your machine ready
for you when you are ready for it;
to knowing that it has been properly
groomed by washers and polishers
whose one duty it is to make the car
ready for use; to knowing that all
needed repairs are made by real me-
c-anics who do nothing else but repair
machines.
If you do belong to this class theI
White garage will appeal to you
more strongly than anything in this
city. 1t accommodates only eighty
cars, and all that number are board
ing" there already.
Beyond the question of appearance
and "qupality'' is that of convenience"
and Service" When you want your
car you want it, and want it immedi-
ately. You do not want to find it four
deep behind other cars. You want to
know that it is ready to "crank" and
to start. That its tanks are filled with
gasoline and with oil, and that any
needed repairs have been made. You
want to know that the washers anu
polishers have not been put to work
on the delicate mechanism Of the en-
MIR I,t1% baf eOb a nj
in their line-have done the work. You
want to know that your machine is
not being used while your back is
turned by some one having no right
to use it; that you may give orders to
this effect and have a report rendered
to you to prove that your orders are
being obeyed. You want to know that
if you want your car at midnight you
may get it with the same promptness
as if ta MONDAY. You want to know
that you are not going to be locked
out if you are required to remain out
late at night.
In other words, you want to know
that your car is being boarded at a
first class garage that Is making
business Of the garage business and
not using the garage business as
'sde line" to help pay the rent, with
a poorly organized mechanical and
helpers force through whom to pile up
the "eXtras."
Your car is checked in and checked
out by a lady who sits constantly in
the little garage office. You always
know who is using your car and at
what hour. There is ample space for
every car, broad avenues giving direct
access to your particular reservation.
These avenues extend completely
around and intersect every portion of
this mammoth floor space. Your car is
always in its place, Immediately access
sible, awaiting your instant pleasure.
Powerful hydraulic elevator to the left
takes your car to the machine shop, on
another floor, where all confusion and
noise Is hidden from your eyes and
ears.
When your car is checked in and de-
livered to the garage floor, a record Is
then and there made of all needed sup
plies and repairs, an itemized order be-
ing submitted to you or your driver for
signature. The car is Immediately put
in it's place and the floor assistants
polishers, washers, helpers, etc.-are
FURNISHED a copy of your order. There
are six men on the floor who do nothing
else but this one line of work, this
work being done during the dead hours
of the night, il practicable, so as to
preserve the atmosphere of cleanliness
and order during the remainder of the
Gay.
If repairs are required, the car is ele-
waited on a powerful hydraulic elevator
to the immense machine shop on the
floor above, and a separate order, also
signed by you or your driver, is deliv-
cred to the foreman of that department.
Day or night-at any hour the gar
age foreman is at his desk to receive
your orders for supplies or repairs and
to make it his business toNsee that you
get what you ordered.
There are thirty persons on the pay
roll of the White garage, each one of
whom has duty to perform. If this !
duty is not performed-promptly and
skillfully-someone is secured who will
perform it right. There is no shifting
of responsibility from office boy to
janitor, or washer to mechanic. The
superintendent of the garage does moth |
ing else than to see that all duties are |
performed. There is a system to every |
detail and the system is made to work. |
There are separate rooms for chauf
fers and owners, for whom every con-
Venience has been provided, including |
lockers, etc. Separate cages for cars |
may be had, if the owner SO desires.
When your car is Checked out" a
record of the exact hour is made, so
thai you may always know when your
car is out of the garage.
A foreman of the garage floor does
nothing else but attend to your COM
fort and convenience.
All gasoline and oil is sold through |
self-measuring tanks, so that you al
ways know that you are getting just |
what you pay for.
The garage is never closed and |
complete force of men is always on
hand.
A complete report of each department |
is made to the accounting room each |
day and an itemized record is kept of |
every transaction, always subject TO
your inspection.
e Stock parts are kept for both gaso-
line and steam cars.
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