The Washington herald., 1911-05-28

spending the day at the quaint Mary
land town return in the cool of the
evening. confetti tail will be laid.
so that there will be no danger Of any
one losing the road. Among those who
will make the trip are S. A. Luttrell.
who will drive his Packard; E. H.
Clarke, in a Regal; James Orme, in an
Apperson, and Clarence Barnard, in a
Stoddard- Dayton.
H. B. Leary, jr.. with a party Of
friends. left yesterday afternoon in a
Hudson touring car for Braddock Heights,
Md. They will return home this even
ing.
The first prize to be donated for the
hill climb. which is to be held June 10.
has been offered by Mrs. Charles Bender.
wife of the local Standard Oil repre-
sentative, in this city. She has offered a
silver cup as a prize in one OF the classes,
the particular one to be determined py
the Automobile Club.
]. NJ. Stoddard, Of Cook & stoddard
Company. agents for the Cadillac, Is In
receipt OF some figures on the perform
ance of this car in the recent twenty-four-
hour race at Los Angeles. The car made
l4A miles, which is a greater mileage
than was ever made before by an auto
mobile in a twentyfour-hour race. This
is as far as the distance between New
York and Omaha, Nebr, and it takes the
fastest train forty-three hours to cover
this distance, or four-fifths more time
than was required by the Cadillac to
make the same number Of miles.
The Hupp-Yeats will shortly have on
the market an electric torpedo, according
to information received yesterday by
Earle & Allen. local representatives. In
mechanical way the torpedo is the
making seventy-five miles on one charge.
Frank Zirbies. of the Mitchell-Lewis
factory, who has Just returned from a
trip abroad, during which he drove 5000
miles, claims that the main reason why
foreigners get more service out of their
cars Is the fact that they use their gears
more intelligently than do Americans.
According to him they are not imbued
with the idea that car must take
every hill on high; instead. when they
come to a raise in the road. they imme-
diately shift into lower speed.
Robert H. Martin left yesterday after
noon in a model 2s Buick for a trip
through Maryland. He expects to return
Tuesday.
According to William R. Emerson, Of
Emerson & Orme, local agents for the
Regal, the automobile industry requires
knowledge of salesmanship. He says,
to-day there are SO many machines of
about the same relative price on the
market that the prospective purchaser
oftentimes becomes confused and does
not know what he really wants after
looking around.
1T is the man that can show by COM
parison where his machine is superior to
other makes on the market that gets
the business, and it is to him that cred
1t must be given for the remarkable
growth of this industry"
According to James Flynn, local manager
Of the Zell Motor Car Company. agents
for the Hupmobile. Colon, Panama, has
but one machine and that a Hupmobile.
1t belongs to Lieut. Mems. U. S. A.. who
is on detached duty in Colon.
The manufacture of motor trucks Is
considered the infant branch Of the auto
mobile industry, yet, 1t has grown to
ers are crowding their resources to meet
the demand of trade. At the Hartford
branch of the United States Tire Com
pany 1000 solid motor truck tires are ship
ped every day. There are approximately
800 concerns manufacturing vehicles re-
curing rubber tires and seventy-six diff
ferent sizes are necessary for their equip
ment.
Special body designs in adapting the
motor truck to meet individual require
ments are now the biggest factor In
truck development. The field Of motor
TRANSPORTATION is being constantly ex-
tended by new forms Of equipment
Many lines Of business have developed
a type Of body thar meets the peculiar
needs Of that business, and with more
or less alteration in detail nearly all Of
these types are adaptable to the motor
chassis" said s. A. Luttrell, OF the Lut-
trell Company, agents for the Packard
truck, yesterday. THE wide adaptability
of the motor truck Is shown by the fact
that a single make In three standard
lengths of wheel base is now being used
in 123 lines Of trade
The use Of black enameled lamps was
first thought to be passing novelty. but
they have met with such favor that to-
day large number Of the automobile
buying public specify them when. filing
their order. The enamel is very durable
In putting II on, the lamps are frat
gone over with special cleansing prepa-
ration ana polished, then freed from
every p6rficlo Of dust by Compressed cir.