The Washington herald., 1916-05-19
Motor Gossip
By asp GROGAN.

The following automobile licenses were
issued up to the closing time yesterday
S6l-WashingtOn Automobile Livery Company,
me- Pa. ave; Hudson 1915.
S6S2-Utica Heater Company, SIS BTanS Bldg.
Ford 1914.
&62-w A. Simpson. $50 Tth st. Sc Ford lg6
&G5i-Carl T HulScher. ans HIlyer p: REQ 1915.
:at25-Wes Fargo Co; Garford 1916
2965-F Frank H Thomas. 5ls st. Sw.s Giant !s13
G3T-Fred D. Potter. lzO r St NV; REQ 1876.
1876
8Ga-F F. Fletcher. IEH Mas ave-; Overland
1876
a6D-wnlard P. Colrnan. 81 Keefer pl Ford 1876.
T6i!-D. c. McGin. 1000 s. G. ave. Sc Ford 1916.
S6i2-Geo. NJ. Mcclellan. Uni. Club: Detroit 1910.
3S43-Chss L. Waters lI4 Y st.: Auburn 1876
%6H-Richard Cook. 81 n st. nv; Furd 1876
3S5S-Miss Rose A. Nelson. Sc 9Th 81. Ford 1915.
556-Swtnehart Sales Co, IS y j. ave NV.
Columbus 1872
asC- Charles n. Jones. 1871 wyo. ave Ford 1916.
&6i'-Hcnr Revan. 33 nth It. Sc Dodge 1919.
S4'-FraHklin T Howe. 1000 Quincy It. ne.
2.Soo-P. \. Hall. e8 9Th st NV: Chevrolet 1916
E95l-John L. Vaker, 18th & SIS. nv; Ore
land 1876
39Se-Gco. des. CanavaTo Smithsonian Inst.
Cadillac 1874
0e6s-J. ". Long. 8l6 woodl.y pl-: Col. 1915
A5+-B. BsTman ~ sth st. ~ Ford 1916
3se66-PFed V. Campbell. 1915 Z 81 NV; HudSon
:fS56-F. F. stnor. Brookland: Overland 1916
EMF 1911.
:o58-Goo. Fischer. as la ave; Ford 1916 -.
Overland 1876.
;aso-J. F. Rhodes. iii nth st NV: Ford ~,
9t6l-a l. Shelby. 800 Mt. Pleasant Ford lR6
'S'6--LocSe Wles Biscuit 10. Is H. l. ave. ne
sea,-P. S. M,diE,D. zpc Nlchol. ave. Ch.-ole.
1876
16sEGeo. F. O'MalIey. 1910 Pa ave. NV; Mitch
al 1913.
Next Monday evening the ProfessInaI
Chaufers' Association will give a smoker
at the clubrooms on Fourteenth street.
1t is to be for members only.
William Colt, Of the Colt Stratton Com
pany. OF New York, Eastern distributors
for the Cole car. was in Washington yes.
terday. While here he was the guest OF
the Henderson Rowe Auto Company. local
distributes for the Cole.
We are more than pleased With the
amount OF MiCheen tire business that
Barber & Ross have done so far this sea-
son. Dick Wheat, manager of the auto
mobile supply department, has more than
surpassed our fondest expectations in his
Michelen sales" said f. NJ. Benson, sales
manager OF the Michelen Tire Company,
'i4o' III 1OlllpdHy with X NJ. BTamWell,
advertising manager OF the same com
pany, were in the city yesterday.
Anything that resembles an automobile
finds ready sale these days. With the
touring season just opening up. people
who have for some time pa1 been on the
fence as to whether or not they should
purchase n machine this summer are
making their decision in favor Of the car.
Traffic conditions made It impossible for
the dealers during the winter months to
get any cars ahead for the spring BUYING
season. The result is that, unable to get
new cars, purchasers are taking whatever
they can find and hope to make it do for
the present. at least. and then get the
new car later on. Conditions this sum-
mer are unlike those Of any previous
year. Men vino had money invested in
what had been considered welI-pa wing SC.
curittes find that the market, due to war
conditions, has advanced steadily unit,
now the amount over and above what
they were receiving as dividends n wear
ago Is sufficient to purchase a machine
and they are buying them with tbs sur
plus. This is true not only of Lhe small;
cars. but the higher-priced ones as well