The Washington herald., 1916-01-02
81 WRITES BO
ON SPEEDLAW
Local Autoists Are Going to
New York to Secure
Show Cars.
WORRIED BY TIRE PRICES
Values May Go Up Tomorrow. Though
Local Sales Agents Will Not Tell
Him What's Doing.

Dear Bo-"That business may be as
good during the coming twelve months
as 1t has been during the year just
closed" is the New Years wish of every
automobile dealer in town. Goes to
prove that they have been putting over
fact they have certainly had one good
season so far, and only half over. II
would have been better than II was II
the factories had been able to make more
prompt deliveries.
Well. l guess the coming week will be
rather slow, so far as news goes, for
most every one has journeyed over to
New York to take in the automobile
show. Not only are the dealers going
almost er masse-get thst-but a large
number of individual owners are going
to attend to business on Manhattan
Island some time during the week.
Sam Iuttren Is going with the idea
of getting some of the Packard show
cars. So that later in the season he can
hold little show Of his own. Burton
Leary, jr., has been promised that he
but nevertheless he is going over to
remind his company lest they forget.
One or two others are going to try for
at least one car from the show so that
they can exhibit it to their local trade
for at least a few days. Too bad there
is not something in the line of a show
here. Guess shows are a thing OF the
past for Washington though, for in the
first place they have no hall big enough
to hold all that would want to come in.
Told you all about that before, though.
Local traffic regulations Is a topic dis
cussed whenever a number of car owners
get together. The sum total of their
conversation Is that twelve miles an
business district, but entirely too slow
in the other parts of the city. 1t seems
to be the consensus of opinion that in
other than the busy parts of the city the
limit should be raised to eighteen miles.
Rudy" Jose and Cadillac cars have
gotten to be synonymous. No one in
Washington ever thinks of this car with
out thinking of Rudy" Same way
baker. They both seem to be part and
parcel of the cars they sell. Guess
told pou that the Semmes Motor Com
pany are building new home for the
Hudson and Dodge 1t is the second
door from their present location on Con-
necticut Avenue, and when completed,
which will be sometime in the spring.
will be one of the show places of the
city.
Looked in on the Buick crowd the 9TH
er day. George Howard and Bob Has
kins were both figuring on just what
kind of story they could tell Stanley
Horner, so as to each get two cars out
of the last shipment that came in, that
they might deliver them to particular
customers This company has certainly
been up against 1t for cars all season.
Dave" Hendricks told me a funny one
the last time l saw him. To date this
year he has sold the same number OF
Franklins and Saxons, thirty-eight of
each. Rather odd coincidence. Tayloe
Pollock is fussing and fuming because
they have not started the work of en-
larging his showroom. Bet his land
lords ears have burned many a time
during the past week. He is going to
take in the building next door. and by
tearing out the partition provide a larg-
| er showroom for his line of Oldsmobiles.