The Washington herald., 1912-01-07
Timely Gossip Of Horses and Horsemen-AuomObiIe News
AUTOMOBILE NOTES

The Commercial Automopile and supply
Company reports the delivery Of the fol-
lowing cars for the last week: An Elec-
trio Studebaker coupe TO Mrs. Minnie
Warington; a Studebaker victoria to
Mrs. n. B. Blumingburgh. and an Elec-
trio Studebaker coupe" TO Mrs James
L. Marshall.
A Flanders chassis. stripped. is being
shown for the first time In the window
OF the local agents and is causing a
good deal Of favorable comment. II Is
! finished up In handsome style, ana at a
glance one entirely ignorant OF the dif-
ferent parts that make the wheels go
| around, car. Ind the reason for each sepa-
rate action on the part OF the motor
brakes. &C.
The Carter Motor Car Company reports
the sale Of Washington cars TO the fol-
lowing the past week: washington
Roadster, fully equipped, to the Kansas
Grain Company, Kansas city. Mo-, and
seyen-passenger touring car, fuiiy
equipped, to A. T. cline Auto Livery
Company.
Another live wire is gone. ID. v. Nyce,
until recently connected with the local
Buick branch IN the truck department,
has accepted a responsible position on the
sales force of the White Motor Car Com
pany, Of Cleveland.
W. p. Barnhart, representative OF the
Everitt car, is travelling through virginia
closing agencies for the car there, and re-
ports meeting with great success.
At a luncheon at the Hotel Rector, In
New York, January 3, Charles J. Gid
cen, of Boston. formally presented the
Glidden Trophy, emblematic Of the ma
tional touring championship, TO Benja-
min Briscoe, president OF the United
States Motor Company. whose trio OF
Maxwell cars won so cleverly in the
recent Glidden tour from New York TO
Jacksonville. Fla.
The 1872 annual dinner of the Society
OF Automobile Engineers will be held
on the evening of January 10. In the
Belvedere room OF the Hotel Astor. 1t
Is expected that COO or more will be
present. The occasion will naturally re-
feet the current enthusiasm for the
S. A. f. work. II Is a fact that there
is no more true and hearty fellowship
than that between the American Auto
mobile Engineers. both socially and pro-
fessionally.
Competitors to the finish in a busi-
ness way. one of the most marked fea-
lures OF the times is the manner in
which they cooperate on those motor
car design and construction problems.
which can be solved in no other way
than by joint deliberation and action by
those long familiar with the endless de-
tails Of motor car manufacture and
maintenance.
The waverly Company will exhibit |
at the 1872 shows the first electric IT, |
mousine-a fve-passenger car. in which |
the driver occupies the front seat with |
no one 10 shut OF his full view OF the |
road ahead. The car was designed more |
than a year ago and has proven a great |
success.
When HughIe Jennings came back from |
the dark shadow where he had lain for |
days unconscious as the result Of a pitch |
ed ball from the arm Of the mighty |
RusIe, II so happened that he had to |
face Rusie again in his very first game. |
History records that Hughie got three |
hits and hugged the plate as closely as
ever
Characteristic. therefore. is Hughes I
come back" from the motoring accI-
dent which gave him his third close |
call. when. In pitch dark, the Tiger man |
ager took the first half OF an ''S'' turn |
in the mountains OF Pennsylvania but |
kept on straight thereafter. down a cliff |
and into the rocky bed of the stream be- |
low, his EMF go falling on top OF |
him.
As soon as he could dictate a letter, |
he wrote TO a friend at the factory, ex- I
onerating the car from all responsibility !
for the accident. and requesting that II 1
be put in shape for his use as soon as
possible.
The Hudson representative, Mr.. Stock, 1
received the interesting news yesterday
that Orville and Wilbur Wright, the
aviators. have purchased a Hudson au-
tomobile, and make 1t serve for business
as well as pleasure.
In testing out aeroplanes on the Day
ton, Ohio, field. adjoining their aero
plane manufacturing establishment the
Wright brothers utilize the Hudson for !
pulling the aeroplanes over the field 20
the stations from which they start and
for hauling them back into the sheds.
The simplifying of mechanical details
IS expected to appear strikingiy in this
weeks pleasure car show in Madison
Square Garden, New York. The devel-