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Evening star., 1912-11-24

r. y. Prendergast, who has been ap-
pointed manager of the local branch of
the Foss-Hughes Company, representa-
tves for the Pfeyce-Arrow car. while not
so well known NO Washingtonians, is
popular throughout the New England
states. where he has made many friends
during his connection with the Newport,
K. l., branch of the concern.
Mr.. Prendergast entered the services OF
the present company in 1908, being con-
nected with the Philadelphia headquar-
ters tie remained there until the spring
OF 1910, when he left to open a new
branch at Newport. He was appointed
manager of that branch which position
he held up to within few weeks ago,
when he was transferred to Washng gton
as manager of the branch at 1920 Con-
necticut avenue.
Washington appeals strongly to Mr..
PrenderSast and he is delighted with his
latest assignment. He is a young man
of genteel disposition and executive
ability. He is well posted on the auto
mobile business and has made many
friends since his arrival here. In addi-
tion to the Washington office the COM
pany has branches in Philadelphia. VIII
mington, New York. Baltimore, Proyi-
dence and Newport, X. l.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Running Full Swing.

With the exception of the two weeks
Closing OF our factory in October to over
haul machinery and make REPAIRS says
c. W. Seiber ing vice president of the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, 1T will
be necessary to keep our factory in full
swing all year long, twenty-four hours a
day. to keep pace with the demand for
tires"
Commenting on the increased business
Mr.. Seiberling intimates that during the
past year ii has been found necessary to
extensively extend its distribution system.
and he says that direct factory branches
have been opened at Albany, y. Y: Day
ton, Ohio: Kansas City. Mo: Denver,
Colo; Newark, \. j., Oakland, Cal.
Omaha, Neb.; Portland, Ne; Rochester,
y. Y: ST. Paul Mimi. Spokane, Wash.
sat Lake City. Utah; Syracuse, \. Y
Worcester, Mass, and Mexico City, max
ing total Of sixteen new branches in
the past tweve months.
In ALL" Mr. Soldering says, 1.-The
company has now sixty-seven branches
eleven of which are in Canada, fftyfive
in the United states and one in Mexico
with new field being opened in England
Australia South Africa and European
countries.
The company also has erected severa
new magnificent bui dings in the large.
cities To accommodate the increased de
mand for its products. Negotiations are
being made also for other sites fo- new
buildings until eventually Goodyear
branches throughout the country Will
have q uniform and regular style.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
NEW AUIU oluNAL Law
Los Angeles Says Bulb Horn Gives
Inadeuuate Warning.

Los ANGELES, Cal, November 23-A
new city ordinance regulating the use Of
automobile signals goes into effect today
This is the result of efforts OF the Auto
mobile Club of Southern California and
the police department here to reduce the
automobile accident record and at the
same time subdue the Objectionable noise
element among motorists.
The new measure contains seVeral
unique provisions. It demands the use OF
a truly adequate warning signal and de-
fines such as one producing an abrupt
note, sufficiently loud to be heard under
all traffic conditions, but restricts its use
to times when IL is actually necessary as
a warning of danger
Preliminary to the enactment of the or
dinance a test of auto horns was con-
Quoted by the traffic police. The results
showed that the horn operated by means
of a rubber bulb was inadequate to the
demands of safety.
The new law is consequently directed
against this type of signal device. Los
Angeles is the first of the southern Cali
fornia municipalities to take up this i'm
portant question, and ii Is predicted that
the solution embodied In the new legfsla-
ton will be adopted generally through
out this section.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Joins Michigan Company.

Continuing its policy Of surrounding it
self with big men, the Michigan Motor
Car Company has added to its sales de-
partment f. A. Welch. one of the best
known and most successful statesmen of
the middle west
Mr.. Welch becomes sales manager of
the Michigan Motor Car Company for
the middle and eastern states. His ter
ritory includes all the states east of a
line from Chicago to New Orleans. While
Mr.. Welch viii keep his residence in
Kalamazoo. he will travel this entire ter
ritory. calling on the distributors and
dealers of the Michigan car and establish
ing and supervising agencies.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
AUTOMOBILES
N6LEN!0AR)

November 29-30-Richmond. Va.
race meet, auspices AutornODlfe
Club of Richmond.
December 7-22-Paris salon.
January ell. 1913-Cleveland
show.
January 4-11-MontreaI show.
January 11-1S-New York pleas
ure car show: Automobile Board
of Trade: Madison Square Garden
and Grand Central Palace.
January 1-22-Brussels, Belgium.
show. Centenary Palace.
January 20-2J-New York truck
show: Automobile Board of Trade.
Grand Central Palace and Madison
Square Garden.
January oO-25-Philadelphia show.
January 25-February Montreal,
Canada. show.
January 27-February 1-Detroit
show.
February 1-March Pleasure car
and truck show. Cincinnati. Ohio.
February 3S-Automobile show
Convention Hall, Washington, d. c.
February 1-S-Chicago show.
February 1O-15-Chicago truck
show.
February Mime p o lis
show.
February 17-22-Kansas City
show
February 24-March 1-Show at
Omaha, Neb.
March 3-S-Pittsburgh show.
March S-15-Boston pleasure car
show.
March 17-22-BuffaIo show.
Mare. 19-29-Boston truck show.
Evening star., 1912-11-24

mobiles that exists today. Experience
has shown, however. that there exists a
market for a certain number of cars at
a certain price, each of a different class
and each appealing to different grade
of buyer.
''The growth of the industry shows that
the most prominent manufacturers have
realized this and are catering to the class
they think they can best supply. | be-
Heve this development will become more
marked and that in a very few years
each factory will limit its product to one
model, with perhaps several styles of
bodies interchangeable on the chassis.
"Recognizinc this, it makes it difficult
at the present time for new manufacture
ers to enter the automobile business or
to break into any one class, without
a market for large quantity the low
price cannot be obtained, nor the quality
made possible by the large quantity
given with which to meet existing COM
petition; consequently no one market is
open to newcomers, who must therefore
attempt to cater, in a minor degree, to
several of the markets in order to inter-
est new dealers, the old dealers already
having their connection with existing
factories. If history repeats itself, as 1t
is likely to do. under these conditions
marked success is not within reach of
those entering the business at this time.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
TREND Of SUCCESS
IS IN SPECIALIZING
Automobile Manufacturers Are
Gradually Leaning Toward
Concentration.

1.-THE trend of success in the automo-
bile industry today is unquestionably
pointed toward concentration says
George W. Bennett. vice president of a
large western automobile concern. .and
concentration is not possible where the
product Is divided into several models.
Little doubt exists in my mind that
eventually the marked successes of the
automobile business will lie in special
izing, each plant making that which best
fits it's demand, and making that model
in the quantities to which it's place in
the automobile market entities it.
1.-The subject Will not permit Of thor.
ough discussion without bringing into il
Evening star., 1912-11-24
1913 Detroit Deliveries.

Nineteen thirteen Detroit electric clear
vision broughams were delivered Friday
TO Judge George f. Martin of the Court
of Custom Appeals, and Col. Henry F.
Blount. The cars are of the four-pas-
senger type, with all persons facing for
ward. finished in blue, with blue leather
upholsterng.
\ Detroit electric commercial vehicle
equipped with Edison batteries of Loo
pounds CAPACITY was also delivered the
same day to the Washington Tobacco
fContfnupd IN Eighth
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Abbott-Detroit Purchasers.

Although the announcement of the new
1913 Abbott-Detroit cars was just made
last Sunday, yet the local rep: esentative,
David ;. Hendrick, received orders from
Byron 5. Adams for a dem-tonneau. and
touring ears from = G.. Kirkland, q.
second order from +. y. Koblegard. The
orders are all for immediate delivery.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
A New Policy.

Commencing tomorrow the Washington
Motor Car Equipment Company an
nounces that it will adopt a new policy by
doing business on a strictly cash basis,
with the result that the company mas
been enabled to make a big reduction In
the price of its stock.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Al Reeves in Town.

Alfred Reeves of automobile show fame
was here few DAYS ago. He left yesterday
for New YORK. Mr.. Reeves is sales man.
ager of the United States Motor Com
pany. lie arrived here Thursday. and
during his visit was the guest of John
Il. Thomas, local branch manager.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Hupp-Yeats Deliveries.

Hupp-Y eats coupes were delivered
yesterday to Mrs. H. w Fitch and
Capt II. $. Grant. naval attache. Brit
ish embassy. both ears being finished
in blue, with blue leather upholstery.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
1913 Hudson Delivered.

\ 1913 Hudson "37'' roadster. with
electric self-starter and finished in
gray and black, was delivered last week
TO DR.. Loren Il. T. Johnson.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Returned From the South.

r.. c. Smith. president of the Overland
Washington Motor Company, returned
yesterday from d successful weeks trip
through his Virginia territory.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Overland to Exhibit.

As a step toward breaking down the
prejudice of European automobile manu-
facturers toward medium-priced Amer
ican-made cars the Willys-Overland
Company of Toledo, Ohio, has entered
number of its models in the motor shows
scheduled for London, Paris and Brus-
sells within the next few weeks.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Hudsonite Here.

Percy Stubbs assistant sales manager
Of the Hudson Motor Car Company OF
Detroit, Mich, was a guest of r. 4.
Klock of the Dupont Garage Company
during his brief stay in Washington last
week
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Back on Duty.

Traffic officer George W. Osborne, sta
toned at 7th street and Massachusetts
avenue northwest. is back on the Job
again after a weeks visit with relatives
At Manassas, Va.
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Overland Deliveries.

! 1915 Overland model 90 touring car
was delivered yesterday To Ralph w
kirkham aud i delivery wagon to the
To!man Laundry Company
Evening star., 1912-11-24

The Teacher-The earth makes 36J
revolutions In year.
The Student-That must be wrong
There are more than that in Latin Amer
lea alone.-Chicago News.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
iklOTOR5N@
Continued from Sixth Page.)

\. Brown, ]. w. Gather Charles Fol-
lomsbee, George Watt, Matthews-H How
ard Implement Company, IL. q. Machen
and Henry T. Allen.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Restriction Improbable.

"It may not always be possible for one
manufacturer to profitably restrict him.
self to one chassis but it will be pos
sible, IL more than one is considered
necessary, to make large number of the
Evening star., 1912-11-24

the dealers existence and welfare, past
and present, and what is more impor-
tant, his future. All the pioneer manu-
facturers desired exclusive agents. To
accomplish this it was necessary to sup
ply each dealer with practically COM
plete line of cars. This custom on the
part of some manufacturers largely con-
tinues, but / think is in process of eImi-
nation.
ITO make several models in a factory
which is equipped to make not more than
one satisfactorily necessarily restricts the
output of that plant and divides the
energies of its engineers, it's operatives
and it's selling force into several small
channels, all of them considerably below
par in efficiency because of such division.
This division naturally extends to the
advertising and finally to the dealer, $50
that no individual in the organization
designing, making or selling-can consci-
entiousIy say, I'VE have the best there
is in our class" If the statement is
made of one model 1t is at the expense
Of the other models, and obviously lacks
the sincerity that would convince buyer.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
CAPITAL WILL HAVE
AUTOMOBILE SHOW
To Be Held in Convention
Hall February 3
to 8.

Washington is to have an automobile
show in 1918. 1t will be held in Con-
vention Hall. from February 5 to s
inclusive, and is expected to outclass any
thing of its kind ever held since the in
PRODUCTION OF the motor car. The con-
tract for the hall for the above dates was
signed and delivered yesterday.
There has been a feeling among the
dealers for some time that a show would
be desirable this year, in view of the
Fact that none was held last year. The
last show was held two years ago, and
since that time there have been many
changes in agencies in Washington and
many new arrivals in the field. The
dealers admit that the time is ripe for
another exhibition anu have been anx-
iously awaiting the announcement that
one would be held.
t. Oliver Probey, president of the Mich
igan Motor Company and also president
CT the Probey Carriage Company of
Georgetown, has been urged to accept
the craftsmanship of the automobile show
committee, and he has accepted. anI
nouncement being made late yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Probey has been con-
nected with shows for the past five years
in New York and Philadelphia, and is
thoroughly capable of managing a man.
moth affair of this kind in the National
Capital.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Offices to Be Opened.

The name of the active manager of the
show has not been determined as yet.
1t was expected that Il telegram would be
received from him some time yesterday,
but up to last night it had not been re-
ceived. Chairman Probey said yester-
day that he would announce the subcom-
mittees during the present week a
meeting will be called within the next
few days at which all of the Washington
dealers will be invited to attend.
Offices will be opened tomorrow morn
ing at room 205 Woodward building, and
will continue until the week of the show
A feature of the coming exhibition is
that there will be no drawing for space,
as has been the custom at previous
shows. Space will be reserved in
the order applications are received
While no arrangements have been
completed for the decorating of Con-
vention Hall. it is understood that the
contract calls for one of the finest and
richest displays south of New York In
fact. it has been limited that possibly the
same artist who decorated Madison
Square Garden, where shows have been
held for the past fourteen years. will do
the decorating at the coming show. Off
cia announcement of this, however, will
be made during the coming week.
Evening star., 1912-11-24
Market for Cars

There was perhaps in the earlier his
tory of the industry more or less occa-
sion for this custom, in view. of the then
patent situation. This condition, however,
no longer exists, the old method appar-
emily continuing from force Of habit.
Owing to the infancy of the industry
viding line between the classes Of auto
Evening star., 1912-11-24

CONTINUED on Eighth Page.)
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

TAKE care of your money, men,
when you leave prison. Remem Der
how hard you have worked for the
few dollars they give you the morn
ing you leave. and how much it's
accumulation has cost you. You
are going forth into hard world,
and in your fight to gain foot hold
you will need every cent of your
money to tide you over the dark
days that always follow the expir-
alton of a prison sentence. You
have none to spare for booze and
blow-outs. If you waste your money
in that manner it is evident that you
have no wish to make good and that
it is immaterial to you whether or
not you stay out Of jail. If you are
wise you will plant your stake, pass
up the booze and it's attendant evils,
and if you have job. get busy, and
if not, hunt for one as fast as YOU
can. AS an illustration of the
folly of throwing away hard earned
dollars, the following paragraph is
reprinted from the August 10th is
sue of the Appeal, minneapolis E.
A fool and his money soon part
has seldom been more emphatically
verified than in the case of Thomas
Henderson, (colored), who was in
the police court last Thursday morn
ing on a charge of vagrancy. He
had been discharged from the state
prison at Saltwater Thursday of last
week and had 1858, which he had
earned while in durance vile. He
was arrested Sunday and had not a
nickel having spent all his money in
three days that cost him 80 much
time to accumulate. AS no one can
be prosecuted for vagrancy within
thirty days after his discharge from
the state prison the fool was re-
leased"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

For some reason or other the
whltecaps" are CONSPICUOUS by their
absence In this neck of the woods
Some of the western states have
issued plague warnings in rhyme.
A case OF two plaques in one.
A number of newspapers are Civ
ing lots Of their space to the fact
that ]. p. Morgan Jr. resembles his
father. Nothing peculiar about that
surely.
Old Hutch recently returned from
England, at least, if be was not
there, he must have sent over
good supply of his justly famous
whitewash.
Prize fight promoters have put
New Mexico on the black list. 1t
would be good thing if the rest of
the states would now black list
prize fights
Bingo have your handicraft man
10 10, get busy on another ping
pong outfit. Two are needed in
place of one.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22
Many Days of Wasted Energy
Editorial From The Mesaba Ore.

The man who is always laying low
and trying to get even" with some
body for the real or fancled wrongs
done him, is the chap that usually
don't get very far along in any di-
rection- may possibly get even,' y
as he starts out to do. but the best
he has done is to snub up the other
fellow little.
1t is a poor game at best. and one
that usually brings out all Of the
meanness there is in the man, for the
very reason that in order to get even
he has to be just as mean and little
and low down dirty as the other
fellow, and there is go profit in that.
Of course there are mean people
in the world, but they are in the
hopeless minority, and their misery
should be taken as the satisfaction
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22
Things in General
By Gayhoppin

The price of hay per ton has in
creased greatly within the past few
weeks; likewise breakfast foods.
There's a reason.
Eight tornadoes in eleven days in
Kansas. They use to have one
and sometimes two a day when
Carrie Nation called Kansas home.
The most powerful poison known
has been extracted by a German
chemist from the seed of the castor
oil plant. Please take notice.
They. the ones IN power, are fig
uring on changing the five cent
piece, substituting a buffalo head
for the Goddess of Liberty on said
coins. Just about the time a person
has had enough of any one particu-
lar coin in his possession to be able
to recognize ii readily someone
comes along and suggests that they
change the style.
4 man in New jersey was arrested
charged with cruelty to fieas. First
thing we know they will be arrest
ing a person for killing bed bugs.
One more time honored tradition
gone glimmering. The Internation-
al Bible students association says
there is no such thing as fire in
help or birthstone" for the torment
of the wicked. Next thing we know
some body of men will declare there
are no angels in heaven.
A high brow in the east says that
a pound of soap will make 25 ,344, 600
bubbles. Will some one please fig
ure out how many bubbles a barrel
of good old fashioned soft soap will
make?
Charles D., becoming respondent
with a shot gun, kills himself says an
Iowa paper. Shot guns are mighty
poor things to become respondent
with.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

of the person they seek to injure.
They are busy class as rule, be-
cause they have no real business of
their own, and if they had they
could not take the time from mind
ing other peoples affairs to attend
to it.
IT you stop one minute to get
even you are out that minute and
minutes are what count in the
scheme of time, and the more min
utes you use up in this way the less
of the real good of life have YOU
had, and the life is only In the liv-
ing of it.
The person who is always trying
to get even eventually becomes a
victim of the habit, and it's worse
than cigaretts even if it don't stain
your fingers, and there comes with
it a chronic crouch that makes the
victim mighty good thing to keep
away from.
When you start out to get even
you must arm yourself with every
thing that is mean and displcable
and you must keep yourself in shape
to get right down into the same kind
of mud the other fellow lives in,
and if you don't do this you need
never hope to get even-and
pretty soon you will look the same,
smell the same and be the same as
the other fellow, and there should
be great satisfaction in that.
On the other hand, if you ignore
the fellow that gouges you now and
then, and 60 on living your own
life, and enjoying all the good
things within reach, your life will
have been worth something to you
and those with whom you are asso-
ciated, and when you are dead the
newspapers will speak of you as the
model citizen who loved his neigh
Dor and who was real help to
humanity in general.
If you only knew it, there is no
real fixed place in society for the
get even" fellow, and his going is
only noticed because of the calm
which follows.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

THE biennial report of Supt. G.
S. Reed of the Washington State
Prison, shows a profit OF $50, ITO
from the operation of the jute mill.
This is stated to be the first profit
to the state the jute mill has return
ed during the % years of it's op-
Grafton. The jute is used in making
grain sacks. There were some 500,
900 of these sacks stored at the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS has
woven into short-story form one of
the first Cuban adventures of Capt.
Dynamite Johnnie" O'Brlen, who
became noted during the Spanish
American War as one of the most
daring filibusters. The full account
of Capt. O'Brien' s numerous advent
ures has recently been published in
book form by Harold Smith, under
the title A Captain Unafraid."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

AN early marriage, it is our belief
would have saved many a young
man from prison. The responsible
ties which fall upon a man, as head
of family, have SOLDERING effect
upon him, and generally cause him
to settle down and become useful
citizen. All that is needed for the
reclamation of most wayward young
men is aIposition Of responsibility
and someone dependent upon them.
The fact that young man may only
be able to command small wage
for his labor, a wage that seems but
sufficient for his own support, need
not deter him from taking a wife.
1t has been demonstrated that two
can live as cheaply as one. And
besides, the acquisition of a wife
would spur him on to greater efforts
toward lettering his condition, and
serve to stimulate his ambitions, if
he has any, to his final accomplish
ment of the supreme purpose of
man,-the successful founding of a
home
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

MOUNTAIN trout are indisputably
delicious eating, but trout them
selves do not seem very particular
about what they feed on. At least
an account from Idaho states that a
young man, while on a fishing ex-
cursion the other day, caught trout
weighing something over two
pounds, which, when dressed, was
found to contain inside, a good sized
rat and a small water snake. A
pretty good stomache full.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-22

HE is a fool son who doesn't
know his friends" remarks the APP
pleton Press. Butt is this correct?
Do the best of us really know our
friends? Where is the man who
can look back over his life without
recalling incidents of ingratitude
and even betrayal on the part of
friends The best we can do is to
believe we know our friends, and
hold to that belief until time proves
otherwise.