The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06

That the Alabama state fair now being held in Birmingham is good for the au- tomobie dealers is evidenced by the very heavy sales during the past week from visitors and the information held here that the city will be the mecca next week for those who wish to look over all lines before buying cars
 The effort of local automobile dealers \ to get buyers adjacent to this city to buy their cars here has proven exceedingly fruitful for the ready sales indicate that several cities that have been used as trading centers in the past have been bested by Birmingham in that direction. The fair this week, according to local dealers, will bring to the city physicians. merchants, bankers and others from out of the city who will, it is said, look over cars sold here. It is understood that all the local sales forces are making heavy preparations to not only sell the cars here, but to give those who visit them good time in Birmingham.
 The various sales forces engaged here in handling automobiles have been re- ceiving advioes from agents over the state and elsewhere to the effect that heavy work may be expected during the next few days from visitors.
 Birmingham dealers, it is said. will be able to break records during the week if indications pan out.
 The Trip of Dr. Hinkle
 Gentry IIillman and Robert Baugh, agents here for the Locomobile, gave out yesterday very interesting account of a recent trip taken by pr. A. E. Hlnkie or Macon to New York and Canada. pr. Hinkle is known in Birmingham by sev- eral citizens who will be interested in the following statement:
 pr A B. Hinlsle, a prominent physl- clan of middle Georgia. has just passed through Atlanta en route to his home in Macon. Ga. after @ 5o0o mile tour in a large six cylinder, seven passenger, fofty- eight Locomobile.
 sDr. Uinkle with his wife two children and a negro cook, left Macon on June 10 in his handsome Locomobile, perfectly equipped for an extended camping tour of the eastern, New England, ihidoie states and Canada. His outfit consisted off side and rear trunks, made special to fir the running boards and rear tires. In the tonneau was carried an Abercromble and Fitch camping outfit, sleeping bass' air mattresses and pillows, tents, relrls- orator, aluminium cooking outilt, camp stools, collapsible stove with telescopins pipe. a complete camp lighting outiit-ln fact. everything to make camp life lux ury.
 ..rrhe doctor drove the car the entire distance himself, and says he and his family never had a more enjoyable and delightful trip, having only Il punctures and no trouble whatever with his car Twenty-one states and Canada were toured going via the National hlshWaS through Staunton, Va, Roanoke, va, the beautiful and fertile Shenandoah valley to Gettysburg Pa, visiting the two sauare miles of battle fields, now con- yerted into a beautiful national park dotted with ever 300 monuments; thence to Philadelphia, Trenton, N. J., sprlng Lake. New York city, up the Atiahtic coast to Bridgeport, Conn, the nome ol the car Narragansett Pier Hampton Beach. Boston. Portsmouth, then inland via Dover, N H., through the White Mountains to Breton W oods, Bethlehens, on to Franklin, N. H., visiting the biui'e and Profile mountains, camping along the ,Winnepesaukee and Sunapee lakes, Whlte River Junction, Rutland, Vt; Manchester' yt Troy and Albany, N. r., crosslhs tho Hudson river on to Buffalo, Niagara Falls. around Lake Ontario via Hamilton to Tororto through the most fertile part of Canada thence via Buqalo, N. Y., along inc Lake shore drive to Cleveland, ana on to Toledo, O., up to Detroit ana pach via Toledo to Cincinnati, Louisville. Mann meth Cave, Nashville entering Georgia via Chattaoocga, thence 10 Atlanta anu on to Macon.
 "Dr. uinile praises the elegant macao am roads throughout the eastern and New England states, and thinks that the southern states should control and keep up the main roads through their sectloh'
 .'rrhe doctor says he has given the Lo- comobile the severest test possible to put a car through. and that it has met every requirement. with its heavy load of doeo hounds. pulling over the rough mountain roads and through deep mud with apso- lute certainty, never failing under the seyerest strain, experiencing no engine trouble not even removing single spark plug during the entire outing, covering 15 days"
 The National Tour Postponed
 The presidential election has not dis- turbed business to any great extent, put inc American Automobile association tour has boen interfered with, which has cailsed a postponement of the tour through the south. The announcement re- ceived here by Hubert A. Drennen fol" lows:
 .'The A. A. A. National tour committee teddy decided to postpone the annual re- laD4Lt Ne. ent uhtli heAt year iesius- tial campaign activities are held respon- sible for a depleted entry list and sus- pended interest in long distance touring competition Many cities guarantee teams for next year, and several sections Of the Detroit-New orleans route now under improvement will have been finished"
 The Cole Agency
 E. R. Minhennette Jr.. and w. w Roh- inson. two well known automobile men of this city have secured the agency for the Cole Automobile company, and will soon have some demonstrators here. The Cole has heretofore been handled here by foreign agencies, but it is said the new management will push the car for all it is worth The new agents are widely known in Birmingham and have made n success of several automobile ventures,