The Washington times., 1913-01-18
CAPITAL DEALERS
SEE END Of PART
Of MOTOR EXHIBIT
Pleasure Car Section of Best
Show Ever Held Will Come
to Close Tonight.

/ NEW YORK, Jan. lS.-Many automo.
bile owners and dealers of Washing
| ton will be present tonight at the end
| of the first half of the best automobile
| show ever held in this country Ar
| rivals in New York today to see the
end of the pleasure car shows at Mad
| ison Square Garden and Grand Central
| Palce include Arthur Foraker, of the
Potomac Motor Car Company; Jonh
Hartman and Ed Long, Commercial Au-
toDobile and Supply Company; W. p.
Barnhart, of W. P. Barnhart & Co.;
F. w. Robartes. manager of the Loco
| mobile Company of America; r. c.
Smith, president of the Overland Wash
ington Motor Company, and Clarence
Barnard, of the Barnard Motor Car
Company.
Show week Is over tonight, and be-
yond question we have had the best
| automobile show ever held" said Hugh
| Chalmers. We have had a greater at
tendance than last year even, when all
| attendance records were broken, and l
believe the present show has had the
| best buying crowds of any year.
THE most wonderful thing about
these annual shows. to my mind, Is
| the steady drawing power. The
strength of the motor cars hold on
Americans cannot better be illustrated
| than by the thousands of persons who
each year spend money simply for an
opportunity to spend yet more money.
Not Built Upon Fad.
THE, motor car show is the answer
to all those who see a decline in the
automobile industry. The buying pub
s,,r,r
dustry year after year-whethsr it be
motor cars. theaters, books, or any
thing else-unless it finds something in
that nterprise-something which is
needed. 1 say needed advisedly. for the
motor car is needed. Think what New
York would be without motor cars. One
Of the Inarvels of the city is the rapid
expansion northward, made possible
largely through the automobile. IL
, New York were totally deprived Of
motor transportation the city would be
instantly thrown backward fifty years.
'.All this wonderful industry has
grown up within the memory of the
present generation. 1t is less than two
decades ago that automobiles were
unknown. Today the manufacture of
motor vehicles has become the third
largest industry in the United States.
Can such thing be built upon fad?
l think not. ..sN
A Young Mans Industry.
This means a lot. for during 1918 the
world will buy more than s30o0oo,0 900
worth of American made goods. 1t
means that more than a quarter OF
million skilled workmen are directly
employed making cars, while allied in
dustries. employing nearly two hundred
thousand men, are made possible. In
a word, ii is true beyond a doubt that
the motor car has revolutionized our
civilization.
Because the automobile industry is
young il has been decried by some who
were not familiar with its magnitude
and its permanence. Because a thing is
new il does not follow that Ii is not
good. The automobile is new, and It
has made a new country, new spirit
and untold opportunities Building mo-
tor cars is a young industry. and it Is
young mans industry. II has opened
new fields to the young men of our
country-and they have proved worthy,
for they have builded soundIy and well
against great odds"
The Commercial Automobile and Sup
ply Company reports the sale OF Stu
debaker electric victoria TO c. A. Mum.