The Washington herald., 1911-10-15

soon as a few alterations are made will
take possession. full line of Cole
and K-R-I-T cars, which this company
handles, are now en- route here from the
factories.
]. A Muelheisen, OF the Luttrell Com
pany, who has been on visit to the
Packard factory at Detroit for the past
week, Returned to the city yesterday.
Among the exhibitors at the Maryland
State Fair next week at Laurel, Md, will
be Miller Bros, who have fitted up
very attractive booth for the display OF
Ford cars.
The record established by a Hupp
Yeats electric demonstrating car during
the month of May, when it ran 1883
miles, or an average of 81 1-3 miles a
day, is one that is apt to stand for some
time. The car. which belongs to Earle
& Allen, local representatives of the
Hupp Yeats was used simply as a dem
onstrator, and the mileage was made not
over any picked route. but over such
course as any demonstration would be
| liable to take a prospect. 1t included
trips to Chevy Chase, Nd, and through
Rock Creek Park. where, while the roads
arc good, they are far from level.
George Covert, who handles the Inter
state line for David S. Hendrick, re-
turned yesterday from a visit to the
factory at Muncie. Ind.
Fifty million dollars is a large sum of
money and men who handle it are usually
well along in years. Paul Smith the new
sales manager of the Studebaker EMF
factories, Is only twenty-six years old.
hut the enormous business of this con-
Germ, amounting as it does to s5O,OoOO0O
is handled by him. To be sure he has
a number of assistants, but on all ques-
tions his word is final and in every in
slant a reply must be made Immediately,
but as yet no complaints have been re-
received from any of the agencies or
branch houses that he has erred in his
! Judgment.
Buick trucks are certainly making
name for themselves in commercial con-
tests this season. In the Chicago-De-
troit run held a couple of weeks ago, two
OF these cars came through with a
perfect score, and in the recent San
Francisco run they came out first in their
class said Ted Johnson. manager OF
the Buick Motor Company yesterday
Buick truck is the only truck to ever
Richmond and return, and at that It ran
on a pleasure car schedule.
You are a back number in Pittsburg If
you do not say that you sent a ''tele-
pheme" instead of a telephone message.
and If you do not refer to a woman who
/ runs an automobile as a "chauffeuse ."
These two newly coined and handy words
are now being used by Pittsburgers who
pride themselves on being correct and
up to date, and he who fails to use them
is in imminent danger of being thought
either a New Yorker or just from the
rural districts.
." Chauffeuse' is likely to become a
household word shortly If the ideas of a
| Pittsburg woman of prominence are
adopted" says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
This woman advocates the employ
ment of women generally to run autOmo-
biles. which she believes would tend
greatly to lessen the number of acci-
dents. men being. she contends, far too
reckless and foolhardly to make good
cha uffeurs. Another argument made iE
favor of the chauffeuse is that she will
not elope with the daughter OF the house.
but the advocate of the women drivers
/ of the automobile does not mention that
/ the male salon of the family might be-
come addicted to sending a telephone to
! the ChaufeuSe to meet him with the car.
When the Glldden tourists headed south
from New York on October Il, a fleet OF
no less than fourteen Cadillac cars shot
by the starter on the first lap Of the
! long journey to Jacksonville, Fla.
| Never before in any Glidden tour, has
one make of car been so we'll represent
ed. On one tour. several years ago. three
cars from the same factory were among
the contestants, but the records do not
show a greater number than that.
Every one of the Cadillacs in this
tour is a privately owned machine, and
each is being driven by its owner. These
men are all Sou:herners, and all but one
| of them are from Jacksonville. The sim
! gle exception is a Fitzgerald (Ga) man.
Eleven of the Cadillacs are 1872 cars
which the owners never saw until they
were delivered to them in New York Just
before the start of the tour. A number
of Jacksonville men shipped their cars
to New York by sea in order to make
the tour; but the eleven Cadillac owners
ordered new cars. to be shipped from the
factory to New York in time to enable
them to start with the other contestants.
This is the first time the Glidden tour
has invaded the eastern section of the
South; and Southern motorists are CIV
ing 1t their heaTtiest support, realizing
that it means much to the Atlantic coast
States in the way of future road oulld-