El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-01

LSS Of FL PasO viii run their first
motoreade Of the year out Of FL
II Paso Sunday morning, going to
Globe Springs, the first Of the W. W
Cox ranches, a little less than 40 miles
from Fl Paso. The start viii be MADE
Trim the EIks' club. on the corner or
Myrtle avenue and Campbell street. at
e o'clock Sunday morning and luncheon
viii be served at the picnic GROUNDS
where a truck viii this evening take
a young pig for barbecu1ng, also liquid
refreshments 1t had been INTENDED 70
hold the first outing at Hueco Natural
mark but the act Of its owner in clos
ing the park TO the public led the Elks
To change their plans and to go 70
Globe Springs. At some future date
the EIIzs plan to run an excursion TO
Cox's upper ranch and take their fam
lilies. but the first trip will be for mem
bers Of the order only.
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Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 the FL
Paso Auto Sales company had parade
C. Winton six" cars from the 1917
model TO the 1915 model inclusive, there
being five Of the 1915 models in the
line and one each Of the others The
fi-st car in the line was 1912 MODEL
Wmtou six" painted golden brown,
with cream wheels The next car,
1918 model, was painted light gray,
with a white streamer. The first 1913
model in the line was carmine red
car belonging TO j. W Berins. Inc
next. a cream colored 1915 model, with
black borders and wire wheels, belongs
To senior Antonio ElOsua, the next, a
1915 model, painted battleship gray,
with ivory streamer and mouldings, be
longs to A. Schwartz The last car IN
the line was a 1915 model, painted light
gray throughout and belongs to Z. S
Stewart The cars paraded the busi-
ness streets and several Of the resi-
dence streets and attracted great
deal OF attention.
Each Of the cars carried a pennant,
bearing the words, " inton Six and
the year IL was built The first car in
the line, the 1912 model, has made
agency claims that WintOn cars hold
the record for low upkeep expense and
that the average cost is 22.T cents per
thousand miles.
Excellent business from the northern
districts is reported by all the local
distributors. Local agents have been
having only fair business in FL Paso.
but the past week mas oeen somewhat
Of an improvement over the previous
three weeks
As they predicted some time ago, the
agents for the medium priced and
medium weight cars are now getting
in their ticks" Evidently many touring
trips are in prospect and the larger
cars are desired
Road conditions are reported good in
aE directions from FL PasO, the only
report Of really bad roads being in
Trigo canyon on the Albuquerque road.
Tourists can avoid that bad stretch by
going TO Socorro and from there 10 Be
len and on 10 Albuquerque.
Another new agency has been estab-
Ished in Fl PasO. ID. T. Nichols has
opened the Nichols Detroiter company
er~ 1FT Il v-7T1 -r7T11
the Detroiter Fights" and ''fours" in
western Texas and the southeastern I
part Of New Mexico. His demonstrators 2
are due here about Tuesday.
@The worst feature Of the fire which
destroyed u Of our cars was that il
wiped US out Of roadsters,' declared 8
Leonard T. Gilett. sales manager Of {
the FL PasO Overland company. The
factory is unable to supply US with any
more roadsters and we were thinking
ourselves fortunate in having three
model so and four model 81 roadsters
in our warehouse. The fire took them
all and also four model so touring cars
and model 81 delivery wagon. The
adjusters have not yet completed their
work, so I am still unable to estimate
our loss"
Two Cadillacs were delivered 20 Of
ncers at Fort Bliss this week. Can't
P G. Reaney invested in an eight-cy-
AAlLuEI Sth en- passenger touring AaQlllac
and Capt A. W Bjornstad in a Cadillac
roadster.
The Buquor Motor company has de-
hvered a five-passenger Maxwell "25"
10 A Justiani of FL Paso.
The Pioneer Motor company has re-
ceived another order for a DENLY truck
from the Arizona territory, recently
covered by A. Bliss A1bro.
Walter s Clayton has purchased a