The Washington herald., 1916-05-07
ST WRITES BO'
MOTOR GOSSIP
More Than 100 Auto Licenses
Issued During Week at
D. c. Building.
HAAS FINDS HIS CAR
Charles Semmes Is Getting New Dis
play Rooms in Readiness-Plenty
of Persosals.


: Dear Bo-Note what you say in your
T. letter about traffic conditions easing
up somewhat in the west. That GER
tainly is good news. The trade has
2 been sweating all winter trying to
3. get cars through to meet delivery
!. dates, not to mind the idea of trying
. TO have q few ahead for the summer
! selling season. The latter they have
:. been unable to do.
: That automobiles are still in demand
Z. in this neck of the woods can best be
/. judged by the fact that more than one
: hundred licenses were issued last week
!. by the automobile license clerk. To
Z look over the list was like calling the
roll Of the cars represented here. In
/. cidentally there were a few trucks
). listed You know. Washington has
/. never been considered a real truck
. town. owing to the fact that we have
: no factories here. But for all that
> there are somewhere in the neighbor-
!. hood Of 500 commercial vehicles in use
: here.
(, On my way down Connecticut ave-
= nue. the other morning I met Charles
4. Semmes. He was out looking over
= his new place. 1t is beginning to take
: on the appearance of a showroom now.
= He told me the firm has hopes of being
in the quarters about June, but that
b. he Will not make any promises, as al
. ready there have been too many dis
b appointments as to the time it was to
= be completed. Without a doubt it will
. be one of the finest display rooms in
% this section Of the country and a fit-
T. ting home for the Hudson and Dodge
- line Of cars. Understand that it will
also be used as the display headquar-
q ters for the Wilcox and Vim trucks.
o. the commercial lines represented by
the Semmes Motor Company.
= Guess that you have seen by the pa
pers that jOyriders or automobile
: thieves, whichever name you wish to
apply. are again a work in Washing
ton. Their latest victim was our old
. friend J. J. Haas They took his car
e. from in front OF the theater the other
evening, used it as long as they wish
ed. and then left it al the service sta
tion Of the company from whom he
purchased it. In the meantime ]. J.
spent about forty uncomfortable hours.
He tells me that the machine is none
the worse for wear.
Did you ever know that Bob" Gieb
was one OF the best Delco experts
in the East. I never did until the other
day. OF course. you remember Bob"
service manager for Cook and Stod-
daTd, the Cadillac people. J. N. Stod-
dard was telling me that every now
and then after everybody else has
given up on a DelCO that is misbe-
having. they bring it to Bob" and
il is only a very short time until he
has 1t doing his bidding. To talk with
Bob" you would not think that he
was at all interested in this feature
Of the motor car.
You know. Sam Luttreu always did
like to get out in the open when the
IN h. hrfp
day that We had last week he went
OF for a trip through Maryland and
PennsyIvaa MIA in his Packard twin
six" While away he visited Gettys-
burg and gathered a few ideas about
camping from the West Point cadets
who were in camp up there all week.
Expect to hear Of him going down to
Winthrop, the rifle range. any day now
and trying his hand at shooting. Bet
the mark he makes will be something
for these other crack shots around
town to FIRE at for a while, for Sam"
is there" when it comes to hitting
the buus-eye.
If there is one dealer In town that
has sold on his product it is Royce
Hough. In addition to the Scripps
Booth. he is now handling the Mar
mon, and though he has had the
agency less than a week, there is not
discuss and that he does not at every
opportunity. By the way, he is put
ting the Scripps over. In the month
that that he has had the agency he
has sold seven machines.
Stanley Horner is having 1t soft
these days The Buick product is all
sold up until July 1, and Stanley has
nothing to do now but sit down and
wait for the cars still on delivery date
to come through.
You know Al Wilson. certainly you
do. Well, he says he is not going to
speak to any of US any more. He has
bought himself a new car, a Dodge
roadster, and claims that the only
man in town that he will permit to
grace the car with him is Tom Bones
Did tell you that Bradley GIsh had
sold out his garage business to Hugh
Saum. Bradley is going into the SELL
ing end Of the business and has taken
the agency for the Haynes car To