Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29

garding the quality of the show, it
would be wise business stroke and a
step which the prospective purchaser
would greatly appreciate to permit Of
further time in allowing the latter to
make satisfactory selections. Scores
of out-of-toWn visitors will buy cars
before going home, and other scores, it
IS believed, will come to the city next
week If allowed to do so. The dealers
also realize that the exposition atmos-
phere of the show allows of greatly
improved facility for displaying cars to
their best advantage, a feature not pos
sessed by their individual show rooms.
and it looks as if all that is required
to extend the show will be the circu-
latlon of the agreement on the part Of
the managers.
AS a special mark of thoughtfulness
on the part of Moses Hamburger, pro-
prletor OF the building in whose base
ment the show is being given, the en-
tire exposition room will be sprinkled
tonight with dainty perfumes furnished
by him. This, with the flowers. will
prove feature that will be long re-
membered by the visitors. Manager
Ferris is loud in his praise Of Mr.. Ham
burger for the freedom he has displayed
throughout the entire course of the
show in making the demands of his
business secondary to the success of
the show. Few merchants, Ferris says,
could have been induced to push the
contents of this great area into the
background to have made rom for an
other line of merchants in which to hold
display of their goods, and as the
days have passed the efforts of Mr..
Hamburger have merely increased in
the direction of an effort to enhance
the success of the enterprise.
F. w. Pfaffmann, state agent of the
r. & l.. electrics, has received a letter
from his factory in Cleveland in which
the following significant sentence is
contained: 1.-THE New York show was
disgrace as to looks, although it was
very well attended and we cannot COM
plain as to business done and as to
prospects" Every dealer would do we'll
to send to his factory a copy Of Sun
days automobile section of The Herald
as an object lesson of what is being
done in this field to popularize auto
MODELLING by really high class shows.
Barney Oldfeld should stand around
the Locomobile booth for few min
utes any hour of the day and hear the
remarks dropped by visitors regarding
his ability to successfully compete with
the big No. 1 racer of that concern
which ran second in the Vanderbilt
road race the past season. The Loco
ulODlle was sent OIL 10 the SHOW IOr
show purposes entirely, and no driver is
available on the Pacific coast who
might successfully race Oldfeld, so
Manager Leavitt, who is now i'll in
the hospital, or, Acting Manager Cain
do not feel disposed to listen to any
talk on the part of the public to issue
challenge to Oldfield. Mr.. Cain
laughingly answers all suggestions on
this subject with the one remark: LET
Oldfield get a reputation first mean
ing that he has never yet driven car
at the speed attained by the famous
racer on exhibit. 1t Is fair to say, how
ever, that the Locomobile people are
just enough elated over the effect Of
the car on the public to go to unusual
lengths to get a driver from the. east if
Oldfield were to seriously open nego-
tiations. After Oldfeld's 'closed hip
podrome" exhibitions in other sections
of the country, it is not believed that
he has any appetite for the kind of
race the Lomocobile people would give
him. but it is safe to say that as a
money making proposition he could not
suggest anything so big as such a race
would prove if he really wants a new
scalp.