The Washington herald., 1916-04-30
; ST. WRITES 'BO'
OF MOTOR ROW
Says Dealers Complain Open
Weather Now Is Month
Overdue.
BOB BARTLETT TO LEAVE
Eddie Foster Claims American Tire for
First Home Run and Gives
1t to Griffith.

Dear Bo: Here it is lacking one day
until the 1st of May and the weather has
not broke yet During the past week we
mad more than our share Of rain, and
everyone has been on edge. Cannot blame
them much. But, oh. weIl-they say April
showers bring May flowers, and tomor-
row is the LIST Of May With the flowers.
tets hope we get enough sunshine to make
uo for all the bad weather We have had.
II We do not hurry up and get some
good weather. George Weaver will be
leaving our midst. He is the leading
warm weather fan Of the trade, and all
winter he has been living on expectations
cf nice halmy weather after the 1st of
April. Well, he is only a month late to
Gate, but let's hope he has his wish soon.
Bob" Bartlett was telling me the other
day that ne leaves our midst tomorrow
He goes TO Philadelphia to take charge
OF the advertising department Of the Foss
Hughes Motor Company distributors in
the East for the Pierce Arrow. Ever
since the opening Of the local branch of
this company he has been assistant to
Fred Preudergast. the local manager.
Ie date no one has been named as his
successor
Joe" Trew is combining business
with pleasure. He left yesterday in A
FeO six for trip through Virginia
on p visit 10 mis- dealers and expects to
be gone a week or ten days. He took
MS family along with him. They will
so south by way of Charlottesville and
return up through the shenandoah
Valley.
Fred Harveycuttcr has Deen pusy for
'"- Iast ten days answering questions
as to how the tire which he has in his
window can remain suspended if the air
and at the same time rnyoIye without
Fny visible means of support Evervtb;ns
from magnetic attraction to perpetual
motion has been guesscI One presIr1-
ably wise visitor remarked that he could
throw wrench inside the tire and that
IT would rcv0've with it, Notice. how
ever, that Fred was careful to see that
ne did not carry out his idea
Eddie Foster. who w,n the American
tire for making the first home run Of
the season. was on the Job the following
day TO claim his prize. lie gave il to
Clarke Griffith. Ed Post, manager Of the
American Tire Sales Company, is him
self rabid baseball fan in addition to
Eeing great admirer Of the midget third
haseman and they had quite a tanning
bee. Incidentally Post in his younger
days was, from all accounts, some third
baseuau himself
Percy Rowe is having great success
with his Cole Fights. To date as fast
. as he has received them they have been
sold. He had a carload come N Friday
and Yesterday sold both of then.
ttad ride in one the other day with
him and it certainly was a smooth
running piece of machinery with
ample power.
Looked in on Bill" Jose the other
day. They are tearing out the wall
between his store and the electrical
department. Bill is tickled with the
idea for 1t will give him considerable
more room. of which he is much in
need. and in addition, make a much
more attractive salesroom. The con-
tractor figures that it will take
about three weeks to do the work
Henrv Cunningham sales manager
for Miller Brothers. has an idea that
he is working out with a great deal Of
success Every morning he has a
So mans meeting a which they go
over all the work of the day before
and discuss just how they closed an
order, what objections the man offered
10 the car If any. and the sort of
demonstration that they gave In this
manner each one present gets the
benefit Of the others experience and
i'm -everal case sales that might have
0rhorwi-e been lost were made due to
.-we idea that was brought forth at
these meetings.
You know it's a real pleasure to
watch Harry GOUcher make tire
change. He goes about it so easy, no
matter how badly the tire is rusted to
the rim or how secure the side rings
are frozen he goes along in the same
calm, even way as though there was
nothing to it. The result is that he
aCeOmpIshes his end with the least
possible. expenditure of energy and
without doing the rim any damage,
Of late he has a good deal to do
along this line for Pennsylvania tires
have been selling fast.
There is but little that goes on in
the. motor world that Arthur Foraker
is not up on. He follows the trade
journals closely and reads every piece
of automobile advertising that comes