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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-15

OGDEN scAvENeER CO.
Calls answered promptly. 447 25th.
Ind. 1866. A. Curtis. d1s.,
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FIVE room house and large corner lot
on Madison avenue. Price, $1,500:
part on time. Hunter & Kennedy. 211
First National. 2-14.3t
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE-We have 500 acres Of
cheap land IN Weber county. near
railroad at from so to $40 per acre;
no other agents have it. Can sell as
small as 20 acre tracts; long time if
desired. Hunter &c Kennedy, 211 First
National. 2-14-3t
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LAGOON ROUTE.

WANT ADS BRING BIG RESULTS
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PIANOS.

NJ G. Barnes, the up-to.date music
dealer. 2246 Wash. Ave.
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LADY'S GOLD WATCH, initial NJ. G..
on Adams. bet 25th and 2Sth. Re-
turn to 1884 Adams, or Standard
Office Reward. Marie Garner
2-l2-2t
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Houses for Rent April 1, 1909

SOUTHSIDE.
6 rooms, lips Florida avenue, hall, cleo
trio lights and bath, $3.50.
9 rooms, 715 21st street, gas, bath and
servants house, s42 80.
s rooms, pos 10th street. modern except
furnace, $3.50.
s rooms, 170S 18th avenue, electric lights
and BATH S45.
8 rooms, DOB Avenue I, SIS
s rooms, 1924 18th avenue, modern, $50.
rooms, 1421 14th avenue, modern, $40.
rooms, 2214 Orange avenue, modern, $50.
7 rooms, 2o16 Avenue F, electric lights
and bath, $50.
rooms. 26l3 Avenue E. $780,
6 rooms, 919 Alabama street, electric
lights, bath and servants house, $50.
rooms, 935 Alabama street, electric
lights, bath and servants house, $35.
rooms, 700 25th street. $15.
rooms, 1909 Wheeles street, electric lights
and bath, SIS.
rooms. S04 18th street $50.
6 rooms 1919 18th avenue, electric lights
and bath, SIS.
rooms, ia 10th street, gas and bath, $50
rooms, 92S 14th street, electric lights and
bath, $3.50.
9 rooms, 1731 10th avenue, electric lights
and bath, 500.
Z rooms, 2720 Avenue G, electric lights and
bath, $50.
8 rooms, 1920 Avenue B, $3.50
8 rooms, 1905 18th avenue, electric lights
and bath, $3.50.
s rooms. liza 18th avenue, electric lights
and bath, s45.
rooms, 1925 Avenue D, electric lights and
bath, S25.
8 rooms, 712 S0th street, electric lights
and bath, $40.
6 rooms, 1903 Avenue H, electric lights
bath and furnace, S25.
s rooms, 2013 Avenue G, gas, bath and SER
wants room, $50.
Z rooms, 1911 Sylvan avenue, electric lights
and bath, $780,
4 rooms, 619 nth street. s15
rooms, FOL South Goth street, $50.
9 rooms, 706 South goth, bath, gas $50.
NORTHSIDE.
rooms, 1921 18th avenue, electric lights
and bath, new, $40.
rooms. 1122 Both street. electric lights,
bath and furnace, s45.
rooms 1130 18th street, electric lights
and bath, $50.
rooms, 243O 1st avenue, $50.
rooms, Sis 22d street, s25.
rooms, 716 10Th street, newly painted
electric lights bath, S22. so.
rooms, 1914 9th avenue. gas and BATH $35
rooms, III 10th street, $21.
STORES.
1908 I'd avenue, floors, upstairs can be
used as dwelling, $50.
2ooo I'd avenue. floor, $35.
J. L, YANCEY r. E. & ms. Go
lis North 21st Street. Both Phones SOS.
See II. L. Farley, Rental Manager.
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FOR RENT-SOUTHSIDE.
rooms, S112 Avenue F, $22. 80.
rooms, SSS 10Th street, $50.
rooms, 17l8 18th avenue S35.
Z rooms, 2021 Humbolt avenue, $40
rooms, 1211 18th avenue, furnished, s65
4-room fiat, Avenue Fl and 18th street, $25.
rooms, 1900 10Th street. $S5.
rooms, 1904 10Th street, $50.
rooms, 110s Florida street, $50.
rooms, ZIG 25th street, 800
8 rooms, 79O 18th street, s25
rooms, 9111s to 9l51s 18th street, each $35
rooms, 1912 Avenue f, SIS
10 rooms, 1925 18th avenue, 800.
6 rooms, 500 10Th street, $2O
8 rooms, 1907 Avenue G, $25
rooms, 1915 st. Charles street, $50.
rooms, 301s Avenue II, $3.50.
6 rooms, 1917 Avenue l. $50.
10 rooms, 1O17 Elm street, $40.
rooms, 1900 Avenue H, s35.
6 rooms, S04 18th street, S16
rooms, $50 18th street, $40.
6 rooms, 2621 Avenue d, $40.
10 rooms, 1901 18th street, $780,
rooms, 1921 Highland avenue, s35
rooms, 2021 Humbolt avenue, so.
rooms, 22l4 Orange avenue, $50
rooms, 1011 18th street. s35
FOR RENT-NORTHSIDE
s rooms, 1880 Rush avenue SIS
rooms, 1870 Allen street, $780,
Z rooms, 927 lsth street, 81. So
rooms. zoos oath street, SIS.
6 rooms, 1921 TO 1925 Gath street. s36 TO- $40
8 rooms, 1850 7th avenue, s45.
rooms, ll2S glst street. s25
7 rooms, 72s 18th street. s35
rooms, 2218 9th avenue, $50
3 rooms, i0l1 oath street, SIS.
6 rooms, III 10Th street, $50.
5 rooms, 2027 18th avenue, new. $40.
rooms. 2Sl5 7th avenue $50.
u rooms, 2230 18th avenue, Ss5.
s rooms. 222s nth avenue, $50. 80
r. MCCONNELL & CO.
I07 Third avenue. Phones $40.
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NOW
Time to Buy Real Estate.
HERE
BARGAINS in Homes &Farms
HOMES FARMS
FARMS

$500 cash for 10 acres of good land. Rents
for 81 per acre and has creek running
through the place; one and one-half
miles from Louisville and Nashville
railroad; has two good houses and is
fenced in with wire. This will make
you a good farm. Marengo county, at
Gates.
1000 acres of first-class land in Sumpter
county, Alabama, two miles from Coo
taba, on Southern railroad and two
miles from Tombigbee river; has good
tenement houses and big house; 200 acres
In cultivation and 800 acres in good
timber This land is we'll worth $40
per acre. but must be sold at once. You
can buy it at S11 per acre on terms.
1877
700 acres: this is one of the best farms
in Green county, ten miles from Eutaw;
has good cottage and tenement houses
barns and hay houses: 800 acres in Gull
tvation and 200 acres in timber. This
is fine land for alfalfa and will make
a bale of cotton or 80 bushels of corn
to acre. Come to see us and we will
give you close price and terms.
1873
500 acres rents for $12O0; in fine condition.
just a short distance from Uniontown,
Ala. This farm is right in the heart
of the black belt. Will sell 1t to you
at very low price and terms.
$50 acres, near Lincoln, Ala Rents for
$3.50 now and will rent for more next
year; has two good four-room cottags,
and fine spring of water. Thk is fine
land for truck farming and can be
bought for s2ooO-s1Oo cash. balance
monthly or yearly.
s290o-s70O cash. balance SIS per month
for a new up-to-date Groom cottage at
Fairview; one block of car. This is
one of the incest places in this neigh
borhood and you will agree If you will
let US show it to you.
II you want to buy or sell property
list in Birmingham. Come and let us
go through it with you.
see us. We are headquarters for good
bargains and have the best and largest
If you WANT to buy or sell
property see us. We are head
quarters for good bargains and
have the best and largest list
in Birmingham.
Come and let us go through
it with you.
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Business Places for Sale

HOTEL LEASE AND FURNISHINGS.
81 rooms, cheap rent, long lease. heart of
city. Books show a good profit. Cheap
for cash.
16-ROOM BOARDING HOUSE.
Close in, nicely furnished, income 5000
a month. Best money-maker in city;
$1,000 cash, balance $50 a month.
SMALL GROCERY STORE.
Cash trade SIS to $50 day, would run
from $50 to $40 by increasing stock.
Cheap rent. Dandy location. Clean
stock. For quick sale $500 cash.
FIFTH AVENUE ROOMING HOUSE.
s rooms C bed rooms), Fine furniture.
Reasonable rent. House always full.
Pays 800 a month. Must sacrifice 1t.
HOUSE, LOT AND FURNITURE.
Right close in A splendid 10-room. mod
ern house. Excellent location. Just a
part of rooms rented for~S100 a month.
Furniture practically new, cost $500.
The house is cheap at 5000. Price
(house and furniture), $1,000. Only $500
cash
GROCERY STORE CLOSE IN.
A very fine stand, splendid cash trade.
Clean, live stock. Owner compelled TO
leave CITY on account Of III health. This
is the best proposition of its kind in tho
city. The first check for $500 takes It.
LET Us SELL YOUR BUSINESS.
SEE MIR DILLON
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A Few Bargains in Farms, Timber and
Mineral Lands.

level, fertile bottom: fine spring, pas
ture, good orchard of 800 trees; good
5-room house. new large barn, on coun-
ty road ~ mile of railroad, a beauti-
full farm home.
S2500-s4 acres level. fertile Tennessee val
ley farm, 70 acres in cultivation, will
produce 80 to 30 bushels corn, bale of
cotton, 3 to 4 tons of hay per acre; 2
tenant houses and barn, on railroad; u
mile of good town. II properly handled
will pay for itself in years.
$29O0-Nice 3-aoro truck farm, good B.
room house, AZ blocks of car line, near
city. A bargain. The land alone worth
the money. Must sell.
s35o0-5s4- acre truck farm, 4-room house
and barn. blocks OF car line.
seo0-Ten-acre fruit and truck farm, A.
room house, 800 bearing fruit trees in
fine condition, good well, Y mile of
railroad and good live Alabama town.
5000 Acres coal lands, $3.50 per acre, terms
or will exchange.
20 Acres; miles out, on pike, 1920.
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$500 Per, acre, 48o acres timber land. rs
rnilrsg off Birmingham, IA miles from
railroad.
ss75 Per acre, 300 acres timber land, 9
houses, 31a miles of three railroads,
mile shipping point on county road; 30
miles of Birmingham; will grow 100
bushels potatoes 100 to $50 crates ber-
rles, cotton, corn and vegetables In
proportion.
ss75-sO acres virgin timber land, miles
of railroad, near pike.
$3.50 acres virgin timber land, miles
of railroad, near pike, must be sold at
once. Timber worth the price
s1250-75 acres, 30 acres cleared, level, fer
tile valley land, on pike, miles of
railroad town; good Broom house, barn
and orchard.
N75o-5O acres level, fertile valley land,
80 acres in cultivation, 4-room house
and barn; X mile of railroad town, on
county road.
s25oO-117 acres, 65 acres cleared, 40 acres
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Beautiful apartments, for couples mod
ern), $685.
SOUTHSIDE.
rooms, 27i3 Avenue f, sl2.J0
rooms, 9l2 18th street, S25.
rooms, 2015 Humbolt avenue. $40.
rooms, 1417 10th avenue, $40
5 rooms, 1918 18th avenue, $50.
rooms, 700 9th street, $50.
rooms, 1912 Avenue G, s22. so.
rooms, 9o1 18th street, $40.
rooms, 1907 Avenue Fl. $35.
10 rooms, 1915 st. Charles, $50.
rooms, 2173 18th avenue, $50.
rooms, 22l4 Orange avenue $50.
0 rooms. 1920 14th avenue, $50.
Messer Real Estate & ms. Co.
Phones No. Sls. No. 224 North 21st street.
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Look at this poor fellow calculating how
many thousands OF dollars he has thrown
away in paying rent You can see from
his expression that he realizes that he
has paid enough rent to buy several
houses. Profit by his mistake and come
to see us.
FOR SALE-On South Highlands, near
Rhodes Circle, beautiful modern homes
now nearing completion Please give
us opportunity to show you what We
have.
FOR SALE-$5500; new eightroom, fur
nace-heated home, in the best section of
North Highlands; beautiful floors; large
basement; alley corner lot; all street
Improvements; front and back stairway
four bedrooms and bath; terms can be
arranged this will be attractive for
railroad officials or others who desire to
be reasonably near the city; never been
occupied: possession April !.
FOR SALE s215O: IS feet front inside of
Hanover Circle; this price includes
paved boulevard and all other street i'm
proyements; this Is a rare opportunity
to secure a choice lot in the most fash
ionable district.
FOR sALE-s225o; beautiful lot 50x1Go feet
with all street improvements three
blocks east of Five Points. This Is the
choicest lot at the price on the South
1lBnlanuS east OF zttn street, ana Is at
tractlve in every particular. If you can
find another lot on the South High
lands east of 10th street to compare
with this lot at the same price we have
nothing else to say. This lot will be sold
quickly. If you want lido not lose any
time.
FOR SALE-s25o0; lot 50x1S0 feet on South
Highlands, east of Goth street. All
street improvements; e-quarter cash,
balance at per cent; We can recon-
mend this highly.
FOR SALE-On the South Highlands east
of Goth street, several beautiful lots
upon which we can finance homes for
desirable parties. See us at once for
choice lots east of Goth street on South
Highlands, in the fashions BILE district.
sxr- -xr a
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Farm Realty Company Ma ss,. s' siss.
FOR RENT.
sOUTH HIGHLANDS,

SOUTH HIGHLANDS,
S50-1e16 st. Charles Ave. rooms, modern
s55-1025 Crescent Ave, rooms, modern,
s75-1017 Elm street, 10 rooms, modern.
s100-12l3 South 2lst St., 10 rooms, modern
-Maplewood Ave-, 10 rooms, modern.
$4,000 18th Ave, south, 7 rooms, modern
NORTHSIDE.
s50-2305 9Th Ave, north, rooms.
$25-617 North sd st., 6 rooms.
s50-1S25 7th Ave, north, IL rooms.
$45-2001 9Th Ave, north, 10 rooms.
s25-1731 18th Ave-, north, 5 rooms.
Oliver Levert Realty Co.,
2025 Third Avenue, Both Phones 1884,
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FOR SALE


s50oo-New, 7-room. 2-story, furnace-heat-
ed residence on South Highlands; hard
wood floors downstairs: three bedrooms
and bath upstairs; nothing else like this
on the Highlands for the same price;
let us show 1t to you Monday; easy
terms.
S32Oo-A 60-foot lot on Waucon,a street
the only one left on this beautiful resi-
denoe street, just of Highland avenue
SS200-Norwood; We have a very attrac-
tive bungalow just being completed
now in Norwood only one block from
car line.
$4ooO-West End; 150 feet on Tuscaloosa
avenue, on corner; has Groom cottage
In center with a 50-foot lot on each
side; this is pickup anu will not be on
the market long.
We have number of choice residence
lots all over the city. If you are con-
templating building a home or looking
for an investment, call on us as we
have something which will interest you
GEO. G. WHATL.EY & co.
Real Estate and Fire Insurance. 1920
First National Bank, Phones 2439.
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GEO. o. MABRY REAL ES-
TATE AGENCY
FOR RENT.

1861 Second Avenue.
Peoples 2954 Bell 2572
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FOR SALE

Corner grocery and meat market; fine To-
cation, clearing $1,000 a year; got long
lease and will sell at Invoice price.
Finest rooming house on 9Th avenue. neal
Goth street, elegant furnishings servants
house and stable, fine yard with fruit
trees: rent, 49, price, $3.50; take one-halt
down, paying $l10 over expenses.
Two fine groceries; close in; fine opening
for man and wife or widow; price, s4Ot
each; bargains.
Talk With Alan Jemisor.
OR MR.. JOHNSTON
Bell 100. Peoples 81. 2127 Third avenue.
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FOR RENT

SIS North 23d street. rooms, s45.
b22 North 23d street, rooms, $45
62s North sd street, rooms, SIS,
TIT North 10th street, 8 rooms, $50.
zoos Sth avenue, north, rooms, $50
1716 18th avenue, south, s roomg, 1888.
77O8 18th avenue, south. 8 rooms, as.
1920 18th avenue. south, rooms, $50.
301z Avenue Fl, south, 8 rooms, $50.
Tie South 21st street, rooms, $3.50.
$40 South 10Th street. rooms, $3.50
1901 South 18th street, 10 rooms, SO.
Cos South 9TH street, rooms, $3.50.
SOC South 9th street, 8 rooms, $40.
2220 I'd avenue, north, $50.
200 Morris avenue, $40.
4102 Morris avenue, $S5.
JOHN G.. SMITH & CO.,
212 North 21st Street, Phones 40.
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J. L. YANCEY r. E. & ms. Go
lis North 21st Street. Both Phones 6o6.
See H. L. Farley, Rental Manager,
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s25OO-$5OO cash, balance like rent, for a
good two-story, s-room house, one block
of car in the best part OF East Lake.
Newly papered and painted. This is a
nice place and the lot alone is worth
$500. Has fine orchard and garden; lot
1oox150, on corner.
179.
$S6Oo-Small cash payment, balance like
rent, for a nice, two-story T-room
house, on car line, in the best part of
West End. This is a strictly up-to-date
place. Has nice bath, electric lights,
gas and all sewerage connections Nice
lot facing south; nice lawn and cement
sidewalk.
s24OO-ssOO cash and balance l, and
years, for two Broom houses, on val
liable lot, in best part of Ensley. Rent
ing for $40 per month. A pick up and
fine investment. See us at once.
$SS5e-One-third cash, balance to suit pur-
chaser, for modern Groom cottage at
Earle Place. Has all city conveniences
and quick car service. This Is the most
attractive suburban offer we know Of.
1893
S3000-For two attractive cottages on nice
corner lot, in best residence section of
AVondale. Renting for $50 per month.
This proposition would make a oozy
little home or a neat monthly income
for some one. See us about this first
thing Monday.
$3o0O-s1O0 cash, balance like rent, for
modern Groom cottage. in Central park.
Electric lights. porcelain BATH etc. An
ideal little home. If you are tired of
paying rent and want a home of your
own, at a very small outlay of cost,
take us up on this.
IFS
$24o0-Small cash payment and balance
like rent, for a new up-to-date Groom
cottage in one block of car at West
End Has cement sidewa.Ns, nice bath
and all connections, newly papered. This
is a bargain at $4,000, but owner must
sell at once. Lot 50x1sO. facing south.
1876
s250o-One-third cash, balance to suit, for
4-room houses on South Ensley car
line, in Ensley. Rent now for $50 per
month and good as new. If you
want 10 per cent investment come
to see us at once and we will gladly
tell you all about it and show you
something good.
sl2oo-s10O cash. balance SIS per month,
for a good 4-room cottage in Wood
lawn, one-half block of East Lake car
Rents now for $40 per month; on a nice
lot 50x150; has front and back porches
good garden; this is a good home as
well as 10 per cent investment
A~Jtssssv~ As sksf<.
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A HOME ON
SO. HIGHLANDS

Has eight rooms, basement, foored
attic, furnace heat, modern plumbing,
beautifully finished inside and OUT.
Has pretty cabinet mantles and cleo
trio, fixtures. Is built of the best ma
terial, douole-floored and storm
sheeted. On high lot 5oxt75 feet.
WAS NOT BUILT TO SELL FOR A
PROFIT. Owner has to have some
cash and has authorized me to sell at
the following price, WHICH is
CHEAPER BY $1,000 THAN ANY
OTHER PLACE LIKE 1T. THIS is A
SACRIFICE TO GET $1,000 CASH.
PRICE, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
BENZ ADMITTED
FIRST INVENTOR
GERMAN MAKER STARTED THE
FIRST PLANT IN 1883
FIRST MACHINE WAS so NOISY
THAT CITIES REBELLED
Original Motor Is Now in National
Museum at Munich and Bears
the Date of Con-
struction

For more than twenty years there
has ragged international controversy in
the automobile industry as to who
really invented the gasoline car. Carl
Benz of Mannheim, Germany, lays
claim to the honor and GottIieb Daim-
ler Of Cannstadt makes the same claim;
and today there is a greater discussion
than ever by reason of the success of
the Benz cars in classic races.
The history of the car from the time
that the factory was started in a very
modest way in February, 1888, is inter-
eSung. Carl Benz, the founder of the
company, today is nearly 20 years Of
age and worked as one of the head
mechanicians in the great stationary
gas engine works of Otto Langen, near
cologne. He had as a fellow workman
a friend and compatriot, Gottlieb
Daimler. These two men had one pre-
dominating 1dea-that of putting a gas
engine into a frame, later known as
chassis, and putting body on it, Their
idea was the basic principle Of what is
now known as the automobile. Their
Ideas were not received favorably by
the Langen works, and both Benz and
Daimler left.
Daimler went to Cannstadt and in a
Few years started in Germany the
Cannstadt Automobile works later
known as the Daimler works. which
built the Phoenix, the first engine used
by the Panhard-Levassor concern in
France.
Carl Benz, Immediately leaving the
Langen factory, started at Mannheim
to install gas engine in frame, and
nOtnhnV~
IN history, brought out a self-propelled
vehicle. OF course it was crude and
1T was nOisy-so noisy, in fact, that
the town authorities restricted the
motor car to but one street in the
town of Mannheim, and he could only
use that one street between the hours
Of and Z in the evening.
But Carl Benz had invented the self
propelled vehicle, and it is an interest,"
ing and corroborative item of Euro
pean history to note that this motor
is in the National museum at Munich
Bavaria, and bears an inscription
crediting it as the invention of Carl
Benz of Mannheim in 1888. 1t was a
three wheel machine, one in front and
two behind, similar, in fact, to the one
claimed as the invention Of Gottlieb
Daimler, but it ranks as to priority Of
claim by at least a year, according to
the records obtainable.
Carl Benz went along slowly but
surely, charging his works until they
covered five acres and attracted the at
tention some ten years ago of Prince
Henry, the brother of the German en-
peror, himself an ardent automobilist
and now the owner of no less than
seven cars.
Under royal patronage most of the
leading officers in the German army
are users of the Benz. 1t is not an
unusual thing at the army maneuvers
to see the chiefs of staff of the various
army corps going over t.4eir ground in
high powered cars. In 1896 the first
car was built with the engine in front
for the German government.
The first motor car as invented by
Carl Benz was exhibited at the Worlds
fair at st. Louis.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
Well Known Snowman Is Being Dell
uged with Praise for His Re-
markabIe Range of
Conception

Without regard to who he NAV be
dealer, spectator or artisan-with one
accord the loudest, the most genuine
and the most enthusiastic praise is be-
ing shoWered on Dick Ferris, one of
the most lovable of men personally and
dreamer far beyond his time, SO far
as the Pacific coast goes, at least, as a
stager of shows.
Weeks ago Ferris dreamed the dream
that the thousands Of delighted visitors
at last evenings automobile show
opening witnessed in its concrete and
finished shape. The floods of light, the
seas of white, the daintiness, the
chasteness, the richness, the briIliancv.
the arrangement of every detail-aL
these things trooped through his fertile
brain in order and with system long
before the first contract was made. The
designs for the stucco work that con-
Verted the great bare basement of the
Hamburger building, with it's austere.
severe columns, into the fairyland it
looked last night, was Ferris own idea.
The treatment of floors, columns and
ceilings and exhibits, the trimmings.
the harmonies of color-details which
SO often require ponderous committees
of diversified brains to assemble into a
single idea in a single head-these
things were already there in Ferris
head, and whatever has been done in
the past week in arranging for the big
show has only been the molding of
Ferris ideas into form and shape by
an army of men under his supervision
whether at midnight or before sunrise
When the show was first broached
the executive committee of the Auto
mobile Dealers association of Southern
California, under whose auspices the
show is given, called others, Including
Ferris, before it to test the capacities
of each as to his fitness to work out
the great problems of the show. When
all possibilities were weighed Dick Fer
ris was the hearty choice of the COM
mittee. How wisely the committee act
ed the public is able to judge But in
allotting simple credit for what has
been done these honors must go to
Dick Ferris, and to him alone, as ''the
man who did it, Others there were
and there was a score who gave of
their time without stint-who ''helped.'
Ferris did the dreaming and the exc
cutting.