Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-12

appointed by President Robert F. Hooper
to Till the vacancy caused bv the death
Seven passenger 1872 Washington cars
We're delivered during the past week to
". H. Wymen and Charles A. Rupert
and a five passenger car OF the same
make to o. &. Sears.
| \ 1919 Washington car. with Howard
o. Carter of this city at the wheel,
scored another victory during the past
week by finishing with perfect score
in the Newark IN j. Star endurance
run. There We're thirty-six entries in
the run The affair was conducted by
the Newark Star. under the auspices
of the Newark Motor club. The route
Covered a 1a1-mile circuit through the
most picturesque part Of New Jersey
The cars were started by Mayor Haus-
sling, who fired shot from a revolver,
| Each car carried official observer,
who kept accurate account of the time
consumed in work on the car. as pen
alties were imposed at the rate of |
point a minute or fraction thereof The
rules provided penalties at this rate for
every stop made outside of the Newark
control, except a the HackettstoWn fuel
control. where water. gasoline and oil
could be obtained. If these were taken
on at any other point on the route a
penalty of :; points was imposed. Each
contestant required 10 cover the
entire route in exactly seven hours from
the time of starting, under penalty of
disqua LITIGATION. The Washington car not
only finished we'll up in the ranks. far
IN advance of the other contestants, but
never heSitated at any point on the run
from start TO finish. Driver Carter in ad-
dition to winning a silver trophy for a
perfect score was also presented with
handsome gold medal for his car finishing
in the best condition. This car is making
a tour of 10000 miles, and arrived in
the Skeeter state just before the start of
the run and entered the contest purely
from a sporting standpoint not expecting
to carry off the honors.
Nj and Mrs T. Pliny Moran, Mrs.
Pardoe and son Edward Pardoe. motored
to Leonardtown, Md, last Sunday in MI
Moran Great Western touring car. The
trip was via T B. to Mattawoman, over the
new state road to La Plata. crossing the
railroad tracks to the left, to Bryantown.
seven miles distant. At this point the
party took the right fork to Hughesville
and followed the regular route the re-
mainder of the distance passing through
Charlotte Hall and Mechanicsville to
their destination. Mr.. Moran says that
this route from Washington TO Hughes
vile is preferable to the route via Horse
Head and Galen Green to Hughesville
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Maxwell Specials. fully equipped, were
delivered to q. w. Hammersly and W r.
Huntsberry. A Columbia touring car,
fully equipped. was delivered to E. l..
Brice Francis Cotton placed an order
yesterday for Columbia electric coupe
with ironclad batteries.
G. D. Woodworth has been appointed
sa les manager for the Luttrell Company
local representative for the Waverley
electric and Packard gasoline cars. Mr.
Woodwork was formerly branch man
ager of the local branch Of the EMF
Corporation in this city and was recently
connected with the sales department of
the Philadelphia branch of the same COM
pany. The Luttrel Company announces
that Mr.. Woodwork will assume his new
position tomorrow
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The Pope Automobile Company of this
city has been appointed distributor for
the 1912 Marathon line. which is an
! nounced today. The latest addition to
| the Marathan line is q snappy fore-door
roadster. which is proving the sensation
of the next years models by reason Of its
generous specifications. grace of design
| and efficiency. The different models for
| 1912 include touring cars. limousines,
roadsters and a complete line of motor
| trucks.
| The model k-2o is built in fore door
touring and fore-door roadster type. Of
twenty horsepower. with 90 and 30 inch
wheel bases. Model I4-3O is also built in
| horsepower of l16-inch wheel base. The
model MO is rated at thirty five horse
power, with 11S-inch wheel base. and is
built in torpedo touring, fore-door and
torpedo roadster type. The largest type is
model NO. rated at forty-tive horsepow-
er. with 191-inch wheel base, built in IL
mousine. fore-door touring and fore-door
roadster types. The Marathon established
quite a record in the recent Glidden tour
and has excellent records in endurance
contests in the west and middle west.
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The service department of the Buick
Motor Company is now installed in new
quarters at 1i.J |, street northwest. ana
is RAPIDLY recovering from the effects Of
the recent fire. which completely wiped
out the warehouse and service depart
ment on nth street. Manager Ted >.