Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06

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H. e.. Sides, sales manager of the Buick
agency in this section. came up from Kan
sas City yesterday with r. H. Collins,
Kansas City, local manager. They spent
the day here with Manager Huff and left
for Lincoln last night.
Clad in a fur overcoat, with a cap to
match, a stock raiser from down the state
strolled into the Cadillac booth at the
recent Chicago Auto show and asked to see
Mr.. Cadillac. When told that the gentle
man in question was not to be seen he in
sisted upon meeting him. saying that he
had been running one of the first Cadillacs
made for the last eight years and wanted
to shake hands and pay his respect to the
man that invented it. 1t was finally ex-
planned to him that Mr.. Cadillac had
nothing to do with making the car that
bore his name. but that the gentleman was
a French explorer who founded the city
of Detroit many ears ago and that the
car was made in his honor. The visitor
was finally convinced and went away salts
fled after shaking hands with Mr.. Henry
M. Leland, the father Of the Cadillac car.
0AS GGA4 ~ ONAASA A4g - -
itor to the Rambler factory wanted to
know how Rambler quality had been at
tanned. General Manager Jeffrey pointed
to a man at work finishing Rambler en-
CINE bearings and said: Before that man
could qualify for that Job he had to prove
that he had had at least seven years of
experience in that special line OF work.
The difference between the work OF that
man with perhaps twenty years of ex-
perience. and the man with perhaps two
years experience is the difference be-
tween quality and inferiority.'"
c. II. Herring. for the Atlantic Auto
company, said; Paul Hardin OF Chester,
S. c.. is out with a challenge that has
set the auto gossips busy in at least four
Of his neighboring counties A few days
ago w. c. Thomson agreed to buy a two
cylinder 1910 REQ on condition that 1t
would run under its own power from
Chester to Bullock's Creek, S. c.. by Har-
din. Thomson lives twenty miles from the
nearest count seat where the roads are Of
a heavy red clay, which at this time Of
the year are impossible for a wagon in
many places. The long trip was success
fully made by Hardin though the road
was lost twice. Thomson is now the proud
owner Of the car and Hardin offers TO bet
any local owner Of a car that cost twice
the price OF the 1910 two-cylinder REQ,
one car against the other, that he cannot
follow the REQ in a cross country run to
Bulloek's Greek or over any other similar
roads within fifty miles OF Chester. The
challenge has not as yet been accepted.
The H.. e. Fredrickson Automobile com
pany is just in receipt OF a telegram under
date Of February n from the Pioneer Auto
mobile company at San Francisco. reading
as follows; Oakland hill climb today Chat
mers 40 won Heeseman cup for ~runabout,
5000 to 5000. Jean Bemb driving"
Denise Barkalow said: "The middle west
has taken to the electric car like the
proverblal duck does 70 water. This Is prob
ably due to the fact that the home Of
this type Of car ID In the middle west
and in that section has been more fully
exploited than In any other locality. Hav-
ing been given greater attention by tbs
purchasing public because the sales force
OF each oonsern has been more persistent
In the middle west than In any other
section, the sales necessarily have been
greater. Thu far west is becoming edu-
Gated to the use OF electric cars and In
another season every state west Of Illinois
Will have a large number OF cars. h
east has been slow In taking up the cleo
trio cars, the reason for which is problema-
teal"
Speaking Of the m Of the Frank
lin factory, Guy Smith said: "A turn
table for c~onveniencc In handling Frank