The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-11
Rapid Development Of Auto Selling In
dustry in Kenosha has Brought Best
OF Conditions About the Trade
Show Rooms Filled With Products.

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kenosha man or woman who wants
something propelled by motor power
can hang the "Seek No Further sign
on his house for there is someone in
Kenosha who is able and willing to sell
him just what he wants. If he wants
one of those wonderful French made
automobiles that groWls like bull dog
and eats UP a pint of gasoline every
time it heaves he can get it delivered
to him right over Kenosha counter
and if he wants an old style high wheel
buggy with a motor concealed some
where under the seat, he can get that,
too. Kenosha yields to no place when
| it comes to selling automobiles Just
tell the automobile dealers in Kenosha
what you want and they will have it in
stock even if they have to 60 to Tim
buctoo to get it.
! There might have been a time when
| kenosha people had to go to other cit
les to get just what they wanted in the
line of automobiles, but that time is
past and all the prospective purchaser
has to do is to say the word and
chauffeur will be round to deliver the
buzz wagon at the front door.
The automobile business has devel-
oped wonderfully in Kenosha in the
past five or six years and it is now one
of the best established lines of business
in the city. There are more than score
OF men in the city who get their living
and good one at that-out of sell
ing automobiles, motorcycles, and other
motor propelled vehicles. These deal
ers offer a selection of cars that would
be hard to find in any other city the
| size Of Kenosha in the country and all
Of them have relations with selling
agents in Chicago and other cities
which make it possible for them to de-
liver cars just as quickly as the cars
could be delivered if bought direct
from factories Many of the Kenosha
dealers carry large stocks of cars in
their garages and they are able to de-
/ liver car to the purchaser just as
soon as he turns over his money.
OF course it would not be possible to
find a sample of every car made in the
country in Kenosha any day in the
week, but the man who drops into the
auto agencies with a catalc cue and has
picked out just what he wants is pref
ty sure to get it.
Automobile selling is being done
along modern business lines in Keno
sha and the men in the business are
high-minded men who recognize the
fact that competition is the life of
trade, but who at the same time are
not in favor of the competition that
ruins business. There are no cut rate
dealers in Kenosha and automobiles
are being sold here with view of Civ
ing the purchaser a fair price and the
dealer a fair margin of profit. Many
OF the dealers also carry parts for ma
chimes. thus affording their customers
every chance to take care of small re-
pairs without the long delays and trou-
bles of sending to factories for them,
Nearly all the automobiles driven in
i IN
statesmen. Of course there are one or
two mail order house gasoline bug
gies" seen on the back streets once in q
while which were not sold by Kenosha
men, but these are so rare that thev
only prove the rule that Kenosha
trades at home when it comes to buy
ing automobiles. More than a half
dozen of the automobile dealers in the
city maintain large show rooms to
properly display their cars. Then there
is a score of men who have demonstra-
tors and while their business may not
be as large as that of some of the men
who maintain garages these men sell
q lot of cars in Kenosha in a year.
Then there are the motorcycle show
rooms where the latest thing in this
sort of vehicle is shown and if a Keno
sha man wants to get a motor to put
on the back wheel of his bicycle he will
not have to go to Chicago or Milwaukee
to turn the trick.
The big growth of the automobile
business in Kenosha is shown by the
fact that at the show which opens to-
morrow ten dealers will have displays
in the Coliseum and lot of others are
rigging up displays in other places.
Prominent among the dealers in au.
tomobiles in the city are Russell Broth
ers, who handle a lonG line of cars
specializing with the Haynes and the
Cadillac. Ben T. Stahl is the agent fol
the Kenosha made Jeffrey cars, Arnold
and Murdoch at their Park street gar
age have the REQ, Former Sheriff DR.
f. W. B. Achen has the Chandler
Stutz, Sphinx and General Motor
Truck. John Schmitt the Saxon, Chas
iCurtiss the Chreyolet, Charles Turn