The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-04

mittee.
Conservative estimates places the
value Of the Importers show, In the
Hotel Astor ballroom, New York, at
100000. II this Is true the Richmond
show, February 18th to rfie 22d, inciu-
sive, will be considerably more, for
the Richmond show will be a far larger
exhibition.
Vincent Aston, who has tried to buy
1e celebrated Simplex car that Dis
brow drove In the races under the
auspices of the Richmond Automobile
club. !s greatly interested in the I'm
porters' show. He gave special at
tention TO the exhibit OF the De Dion
Bouton, and the Isotta Fraschini, where
there were high powered cars on view.
Mar, Aston is already the owner OF
two high powered Flats. one a seventy
and the other a. ninety. and both of
them raci'A- machines with big prices
to their credit. He Is likely to ac-
quire either a i0e-horsepower or So
horsepower De Dion Bouton of the
eight cylinder type. There were ma
chimes Of this kind ON view. Mr.. As
tor looked over with interest the worm
drive chassis Of the De Dion Bouton
3o-horsepower eight cylinder machine.
The worm drive is being furnished
now with almost all the bigger De
Dious. 1t Ia an overtype worm.
One Of the prettfest of all the cars
in the show was Il Kelmer body
limousine on a Renauit chassis This
had a delicate cloth of light color for
the lining and fine wood paneling that
attracts much attention. The Re-
nault cars were strongly represented,
there being ten Of them out Of the
seventy five or SO at the show. There
are eight cars and two polished chas-
sis. One Of the Renaults Is a Muhl-
hacher coupe, on the 1918 chassis.
i@iich has an arrangement for leath :
'er extension top for the driver 10 he
huttoned on to framework over the
wind shield The body Is a small af-
fair and the whole car is attractive
kor town service
Another machine that attracted In
slant attention was a big Tsotta- Fras-
chini, all in white, said TO be one OF
the highest powered touring cars In
the world. This Is 800 horsepower
machine with electric lights set in the
splash guards in front II has a Hart
ford electric starter. The mud guards
are so close 70 the wheels that 1t wenld
be Impossible to Use chains. This
car has wife wheels
In the Mercedes space there are five
-
Ralph DE Palma was victorious in the
road races for the Eiein trophy and
the Vanderbilt cup. This latter tro-
ply Is on the floor sust in front OF lie
Palna's car, which ~ owned by f. >.
Schroeder There are three 50-horse-
power Mercedes machines. q Iimousina
by Dema<est, q landaules by Holbrook
and touring car by Hothrook. There
Is also a 40-horsepower machine with
another Deuarest body.
One If the oddities Of the exhibition
liz an 0-hcrsepower Austrian Daimler
which has a roadster body The hood
comes down 10 81 point and the radia-
sor In y shaped There is a peculiar
windshiegl so made that from the
front the first impression is Of heavy
trimmed eyeglasses over q sharp. long
nose. There are two more of these
cars. one a 90 horsepower touring car
and the other ea-horserowe ma
chine.
The prize car Of the Panhard ex-
h!tlt IS noe yet In place. This is
Kelner coupe. which Is expected today.
II IN finished in mahogany ana said
to be extremely beautiful There are
tN-n- ilorsenoWer cofl4plefe cars. one
n Holbrook limousine the other
Moore x Munger touring car. There
is a Kelner 20 and two chassis, one
- 30. Tie other 20. and all OF the
Knight tyne.
The Minerva has an extremely daln~
- s's,r,' -~out,o v,asae ~ IEclhrcok The