Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-25

of the Patuxent Lumber Company, which
has a unique display in the shape OF
portable garage, with sleeping quarters
for chauffeur in the rear. The build
ing is one story high and is lighted III
| the interior in order to display its fea-
lures. On the other side is located the
Headquarters of the Automobile Club of
Washington, where the members of this
Organization are invited to be comfort
able during the hours of the exhibition.
Display of Motor Boats.
The first display of motor boats ever
witnessed is located at the extreme south
end of the hall by G. d. Davis, repre-
senting the Racine Motor Boat Company
of Muskegon,, Mich. His display includes
la large wenty-seven-foot sea-soing
cruiser, dory. canoes and various motor
boat accessories. The display has many
attractive features, and proved entertain
Ing to those who visited there last night.
The display of the Wayne OIL Tank and
Pump Company was also an exhibit
where keen interest was displayed. Min
iature pumps and gasoline tanks We're on
exhibition. and clearly proved their value
| in both private and public garages. Sec
tional views of the tanks and pumps in
larger proportion were also shown to the
visitors. The products of this company
| are an aid to safety and at the same
time give the garage a neat and clean
appearance which it would not otherwise
have. The local agent is A. III. Collins
of this city.
The Westinhouse Electric Company Of
Pittsburg has fine exhibit of electrical
devices for the home and kitchen, where
electricity Is convenient for use in this
| manner. LIE Roy Mark has display of
photographs of automobiles destroyed by
fire, while on the other hand fac smile
letters from owners who have received
IN inc
panies are exhibited in frames at the
| north end Of the hall. The Chapin-Sacks
Manufacturing Company had booth at
the south end of the hall and dispensed
| the Velvet Kind during the evening.
Thursday Night Society Night.
1t is expected that as the week con-
tinues the crowds will daily grow larger.
Thursday night will be society night
and the attendance on that occasion is
expected to he a record breaker.
The musical program for this evening
| will include: March, Prince Charming"
Innis: selection. 1.-THE Fortune Teller"
Herbert: waltz suite, Fairy Kisses"
Johnson: overture 1.-The Ruler" O'Hare;
patrol, The Yankee, Meacham; selec-
ton, THE American Idea Cohan Sec
selection, THE Good Old L. S. A."
Sloane: intermeZZo. "Honeymooning,
Harris; excerpts. prince of Pilsen,'
Luders; waltz suite. The Last Kiss"
Blake; selection, "Forty-five Minutes
from Broadway Cohan.
The Aeronautic Display.
| The aeronautic end of the show was
better even than had been expected. There
! have been automobile shows in Washing
| ton before. but this tic first time
/ that the mana cement had felt justified in
adding an aeronautic section. The result
i ing output showed that the aeroplane had
| developed to the point where it was to
/ be reckoned as serious commercial fac
| tor Down the length of the main aisle
were hung models of planes of various
| sorts. The weather bureau had con-
| tribu1ed kites and meteorological instru-
| ments and the signal service had loaned
| one of the big war balloons and all its
accessories ready for imitation.
The makers of aeronautic toys were on
| hand and there was continual flight of
| toy heliocoptres and similar devices, many
of which were given away as souvenirs.
Some of these were the output of the
Aeroplane Toy Company of Brooklyn.
n. Y. and others from the National Air
| Craft Construction Company of Washing
| ton.
Curtiss Machine Delayed.
| There was some disappointment that the
| man-carrying aeroplane of the Curtiss
| type was not on hand. Chadwick Hunter,
| the manager of the aeronautic end of the
exhibition, had been informed that the
machine had been shipped by the Warner
| Instrument Company. with a Warner
! speedometer attached, and there is a pos
| sibility that it will arrive today. This
machine is duplicate of the one with
| VIII CHI Curtiss won the Gordon Bennett
! speed cup at Rheims.
! There We're a number of models of
| heavier-than-air machines by local men,
Ererhard II. Eoeckh had five models on
| view, with others big tetrahedron of
the type made familiar by DIR. Alexander
Graham Beii's kite experiments 1t was
built however. with the tetrahedral cells
reversed. as the inventor says that eX-
pertinent has proved the little cells to be