The Washington times., 1912-04-02
AUTOMOBILE CLUB
TO HOLD SPECIAL
MEETING TONIGHT
Plans for Summer Activi-
ties Will Be Dis
cuSsed.
BY HARRY WARD.

A special meeting of the Automobile
Club of Washington will be held to-
night at the clubs winter quarters in
the Grafton Hotel. Plans for the clubs s
summer activities will be discussed and
President Harrington Mills expects
large number of the members to at
tend.
An attractive program for the COM
ing season has been outlined by the
club officials, and it Is desired to set
the ball rolling at once. The organiza-
tion's country home in Georgia avenue
will be opened for the season April Is,
and 1t Is probable an entertainment will
be provided to celebrate the occasion.
Ameeting of the board OF governors
was held Saturday night. at which 1t
was decided to hold general meeting
tonight to enable the members to make
suggestions regarding the summer cam
paign.
Congressman Ollie James Is the latest
member Of Congress to purchase an au-
baker electric car rom the Commercial
Automobile and Supply Company and
viii use 1t IN his trips 10 and from the
Thaps9 u fhs PomfIn "ls9 Sa,s t@
T.. Conger, Mrs. Laura B. woodward
&. Banks McGlnty. Capt. II. ii. Bailey.
and Mrs. Wilson Haywood.
Having outsrown it's present quarters
at 1916 Connecticut avenue, the Wash
ngton branch of the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Company will, within the
next few months. remove to the build
ing now being erected at 1Gl6 -Four
tcenth street adjoining the salesrooms
of the Storm Motor Car Company. The
building, when completed, will be three
stories high. with basement. and it is
planned to make II the most completely
equipped automobile tire derot south
Of Philadclphia. Manager F. w. Powers
!. SO expense viii be spared in Mt
ting up our new branch said Manager
Powers.
More than year ago. in order to test
a car to n mileage that might be said 10
be it's limit, the Studebaker Corporation
selected the EMF '30' Bullet, which
at that time had known cerViCe at q, 900
miles done for the Atlanta branch and
it's manager" said W. c., Long, of the
Commercial Automobile and Supply
Company.
Throughout last year the car was
kept at work in the middle West, used
by the firms travelling men as a moving
advertisement. Early last month the
car was sent to South Bend, to be
present there at the celebration OF the
siXtieth birthday of the corporation. 1t
then had passed 100000 miles.
Nearly every locality has some one
car that has done long service, although
not as much as the Bullet. These cars,
farcifully named. include Old Zeke
which has done more than $4,000 miles
for the Louisville branch, and Old Huldy,
at Birmingham, Ala; Texas Long Horn
of Sequine, Tex; Old Ike, at Marion,
Ind; Old Reliable. of Biddeford, Me,
and The Ark, of Rochester, N. Y, all
of which have covered between 10000
and $4,000 miles"
Washington friends of Wallace C.
Hood, sales manager of the Metzger
Motor Car Company. learned today with
regret that he is seriously i'll in De-
troit with blood poisoning. Mr.. Hood
was identified with the automobile trade
of this city for a number of years, and
has a host of friends here who wish
him a speedy recovery.
W. r. BarnhaTt. the Everitt agent,
will leave today for Boston. He eX-
poets to be away about a week.