Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-01-21
The Automobile Show.
400 Cars on Exhibition at 9th
Regiment ArmOry, Baltimore.
Greatest Show Ever Held.

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nual Automobile Show opened at the 9th
Regiment Armory, Baltimore. This show
smashed all records for automobile ex-
hibits in Baltimore city and elsewhere,
and the cars and other exhibits are said
to be valued at 81, 600, 900.
The Sunday edition of the Baltimore
Sun contained special Auto Section CIV
ing information valuable to all owners
of cars. From its pages we clip the fol-
lowing extracts:
Harry A. Roe, Commissioner OF Mo-
tor Vehicles of Maryland, comes forward
with the information that automobllists
and others have been seeking. He states
that the growth of use of motor vehicles
pleasure cars, commercial cars and mo-
torcycles-has been approximately 80
per cent. year since his office was Gre
ated by the Legislature of 1910. 1t is
rather startling fact to contemplate this
wonderful growth in the popularity OF
the vehicle driven by gas or electricity,
and it leads to the inevitable conclusion
that for reasons of economy, of pleasure
and of profit, the automobile is fixture
in the civilized world
considerable improvement in the au-
tomoble route between Phlad ,lphia and
Baltimore is reported in the current is
sue of the Monthly Bulletin of the Auto
mobile Club of Philadelphia. Good pro-
gress has been made on repairs to the
Baltimore road just east of the Pennsyl-
yania- Delaware State line, at Marcus
Hook, and also between North East and
Perryvile. The road is completed from
the Susquehanna river to the city line OF
Baltimore, leaving less than five miles of
poor road out of the 100 miles from Phil
adelpbia to Baltimore.
exports of automobiles from the Uni
ted States in the fiscal year ended June
80, 1914, were the largest on record. The
total value, including shipments to Alas
ka. Hawaii and Porto Rico, amounted to
$40, 1876, SOS, against $33, 30 900 in 1913,
the former high reco'dyea The year S
total included 80 1856 complete cars, yalu-
ed at $27, 797, 642; automobile tires, ST.
1859, 454: automobile engines, 81, 39l 1893,
and miscellaneous parts not specified,
Sc. 1877, SIS. y
Methods and materials for finishing the
bodies and running gear of motorcars
have been brought to IA high state of per-
lection, but it is we'll to rem amber that
there are certain abuses, against which
no finish, however perfect and durable,
can long endure No varnish will endure
being scrubbed with a brush, or with hot
water. No varnsh will withstand the
chemical action of ammonia or any kind
of lye soap, nor any of the common wash
ing fluids or powders No varnish will
stand having dust or mud rubbed off, nor
will it endure the grits of dust and mud
driven into it by the water blast from a
high pressure hose, to which it is often
subjected. Use water at 60 degrees or
lower and soft clean cloth or sponge. ;"
Congress now will be aske ed by mil
lion and half of motorcar users to pass
the Adamson measure The American
Automobile Association has taken the
matter in hand and President John A.
Wilson will confer in Washington with
Representative Adamson of Georgia, and
the author of common sense measure
concisey set forth in the following ex-
tract: No person who shall have qualiti
ed by complying with the laws and regu
lations of the State, Territory or district
of his residence to use and operate such
vehicle or vehicles shall be required in
any other State or Territory or district
into which he may go for business or
pleasure to make any additional registra-
ton or take out any additional license in
order to use and operate any such ma
chine.
Automobile racing for 1914 proclaims
as speed champion of the year Eddie Pull
len, who captured the 300-mile Corona
road contest, with the wonderful record
of 81 miles per hour for the 300 mile
course.
"That it will not be long till the motor
its can feel certain of good, sound, safe
road from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Coast across the United States is proved
by recent letter of A. r. Pardington,
vice-president of the Lincoln Highway
Association, part of which is as follows
in November sx-cylinder car carrying
three persons, fully equipped for every
emergency and weighing about 1000
pounds, Travelled from Los Angeles to
San Francisco, and at San Francisco took
up the trail of the Lincoln Highway. The
Ger came through, detouring to Detroit,
thence on to New York, and the driver
told the writer that his mileage was near
$500 miles. He stated that the worst
condition on the Lincoln Highway which
he found was between Reno and Salt
Lake City, Utah. He further stated
that if so miles in short stretches between
those two points the total distance be-
ing about 700 miles-could be improved,
it would be possible to tour in comfort
every foot of the Lincoln Highway.