Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-26

package delivery cars of about 600 pounds
capacity to ten-ton trucks. There Will be
twenty-seven makes of gasoline machines
and eleven makes of electric wagons. Be-
sides the ordinary styles of trucks and
delivery wagons, there will be many ma
chimes for special purposes, such motor
trucks with tipping bodies and trucks
with power winches for hosting pur-
poses
Interest in commercial motor vehicles
has developed rapidly during the year.
and it seems certain that almost as
much serious attention will be given to
the second week of the show as to the
first. The same elaborate scheme of
decoration will serve for both displays.
which are the last that will be held in
Madison Square Garden. as the building
is to be torn down in February to be
replaced by a modern office building.
From all sides the garden auto show will
surpass any, of its predecessors.
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The taximeter cab is not an invention of
yesterday, for such a vehicle was known
to the Chinese ages before the Christian
era. Emperor Commodus also possessed
similar carriage Commodus was the
worthless son of a celebrated father. the
emperor known as Marcus Aurelius for
his meditations and who came to an I'M
timely end about 1872 A. D. He posed as
hercules and was the hero of about 100
gladiatorial contests with defenseless OPP
\
and his successor, Pertinax, sold his be-
longings at auction, and one of the bar
gains history tells us was a carriage
which as it moved marked at the same
time the space covered and the time so
occupied.
A 1912 self-starting Cadillac touring
car was delivered last week to Repre-
sentative William Kent
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G.. w. Nash. general manager of the
Buick Motor Company. passed through
brief visit he was the guest of lied"
s. Johnston, the local manager
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w. T. Lawton has purchased a 1912
Maxwell Mascotte Deliveries were
made during the past week of a Column
and Columbia electric victorias to Mrs.
M. J. Colbert and Miss H. Winifred
De Witt.
At a meeting of the contest board of
the American Automobile Association
held last week in New York city the ap-
peal of Spencer E. Wishart, who fin
ished second in the Fairmont Park race
last month, from the decision of the ref
cree in disqualifying his entry for vio-
lation of the road rules was overruled
and the decision of the referee upheld.
Wishart, it will be remembered, was
protested against by Ralph Milford. who
claimed that Wishart lost his mechanic
on the twenty-second lap of the race,
after making tire change. and drew up
to the pits below the grandstand with
the second seat in the car unoccupied.
which is contrary to racing rules. Both
were racing in class sc. Referee Fred
G.. Dunlop thereupon awarded second
place to Milford. which decision is now
upheld by the A. A. A.
Ralph milford finished the 2021s miles
i'm 201 minutes 81 rs seconds. 3 minutes
1l43 seconds behind the Benz driven
by Erwin Bergdoll. BergdoH won the
grand prize of 5000 offered for the best
time made by any car in the race, and
also the thousand-doiiar purse for cars
of from COL to TAO cubic inches displace-
ment. milford will now receive the one
thousand-dollar prize for cars of 451 to
600 cubic inches. payment. of which has
been held up by the Quaker City Motor
Club pending the final decision of the
contest board
For promoting the unsanctioned race
meeting at the Westchester Driving
Clubs half-nile track at White Plains,
n. Y, election day, Edison Card, jr.. was
indefinitely disqualified and suspended
Because of extenuating circumstances
the penalty Of disqualification provided
by the rules for participation of regis.
tered drivers in unSanctioned contests
was suspended in the cases of those
drivers who had competed. as. the board
felt such drivers had participated in good
faith and under the. belief the meeting
had been officially sanctioned.
E Upon his own admission that he had
knowingly participated In an unsapctioned
hill climb at Bedford. Ind, October 10
driver of Indianapolis. who drove a Pope..
Hartford car in the fiye-hundred- mile
event at the indianapolis speedway Deco
ration day, was disqualified and sus-,