The Washington times., 1911-03-12
Special Representative Pard-
ington Notified by
Wire Here.
GOES TO NEW YORK
FOR CONFERENCE
Steps Begun in Washington for
Entertaining Hosts of
Motorists.
By HARRY WARD.


Association, received telegram from
Samuel NJ. Butler, chairman of the con-
test board of the three AS, to the eff
feet that it had been officially deter
mined to start the Glidden tour from
Washington on Monday, June 10.
Now that the date of the tour has
been definitely settled, the Automobile
Club of Washington, the Chamber of
Commerce, Board of Trade, and the au-
tomObile dealers will begin steps at once
to raise a fund for entertaining the big
host of motorists who will spend SeVe-
raj days in Washington prior to the
start of the blue ribbon touring event
of the country.
Manufacturers Also Coming.
Not only will all the leading reliability
contest drivers of the country be here
for the event, but many of the leading
manufacturers and the prominent Off
cials of the various motoring organiza-
tiOnS as well. 1t will be the greatest
aggregation of motoring talent that has
ever sWOOped down upon Washington,
and their presence here will give the
National Capital a big place on the au-
tomobie map. All the leading papers
of the country will be represented here
at that time by their automobile writer's.
The board of governors of the Auto
mobile Club of Washington will meet
Wednesday night at the Grafton to dis
cuss the proposition of pOstponing the
proposed floral parade and carnival from
Easter week until June II, in order to
make this a feature of Glidden tour
week.
Conference Tomorrow.
Mr.. Pardington will have a confer
ence in New York tomorrow with the
officials of the three AS, and will then
go to Ottawa to make preliminary ar
rangements for the finish. He will have
Nth ri
general of Canada. relative to the tour.
From there he will go to Jacksonville,
Fla, TO referee the fOur-raCe meet on
the Atanuc-PablO sands, March 2l-3O,
and will then return to Washington to
make further arrangements for the big
tour. During his next visit to this city
Mr. PardingtOn expects to have an au-
dience with President Taft, at which
time he will make formal application
for the detail of a certain number of
men from the Signal Corps of the army
to act as observers on the cOntesting
cars. 1t is known that War Depart
ment officials look with much favor on
this proposition, as the Signal Corps
the department on the actual operation
of the cars, giving the department an
excellent opportunity to get tnforma-
tion at first hand on the work OF auto
mobiles under average conditions.
The new Rambler salesroom at 1920
H street northwest will be opened
tomorrow. The building is a two
story structure and is one OF the best
equipped automobile salesrooms IN
this CITY. Manager Sheldon will have
a complete line of Rambler cars on
exhibition. 81 am delighted with the
attention paid the Rambler since
brought the agency to this city few
weeks ago" he said. "Now that we
are about to be established in our
new home and with the spring sea
hi T1T nil
ing forward to many sales.
A party of officials of the EMF Com
pany will arrive in Washington tomor-
row week to attend a luncheon to be
given the EMF and Flanders dealers
from all the nearby States. In the
party will be President w. E. Flanders,
George Keller, Mr.. Lane, E. Leroy Pei
letter, and Henry Knott. FOLLOWING the
luncheon there will be an illustrated lee
ture on the manufacture Of EMF and
Flanders cars. Hundreds of stereopti-
con views of the big EMF plants in
Detroit will be shown, together with
views showing the process of manufac-
turing these cars.
THE talk of automobile circles in
the United States today is of the
crowning success in the career of
John N WHY'S in marketing his en-
tire factory production of Overland
cars for 1911 even before the selling
season has reached it's height" said
r. c. Smith, president of the Over
land Washington Motor Company. |
''The company is delivering cars just
as fast as 1t can build them, and |
still the orders are coming in. This is
a condition that is most satisfactory"
David Hendrick the Thomas agent |
has been advised that George Fitz- |
Simons has been appointed sales |
manager of the f. r. Thomas Motor |
Company. Mr.. Fitz-Simons is we'll |
known in the automobile industry, |
having been actively engaged in it |
for the last nine years.
Predictions regarding the prospects
been heard on all sides. Some |
prophets outside OF the Industry have
seen calamity ahead for the motor
industry. On the other hand. the
leading men of the industry. like
Charles Clifton. Hugh Chalmers. Al
fred L. Reeves, Benjamin F Rriscoe
and others. have predicted that the
United States will absorb from I5O 0OO
to 100000 motorcars this wear The
latter predictions now seem mora
likely than those of calamity 70 he
fulfilled. There is already an indics
ton that there will be a shorta ga oP
good automobiles before spring is
ever.
The Cook and St0ddard ComnaDv
reports the sale and delivery of
Baker electric victoria to Albert NJ
Reed, president of the Security Stor-
COmnanv