The Washington herald., 1917-04-08
TRADE GOSSIP

A motor mart, to be known as the
Automobile Exchange and devoted to the
automobile trade, is to be erected at
Fourteenth and streets.
r. T. Dabney. of the wenner Motor
Sales Company, announced last week
that he had secured an option on the old
Willard property on that site. is organiz-
and is having architects prepare plans
The lot has a frontage of 225 feet on
Fourteenth street. and a depth of los feet
along street, and 1t Is planned to have
the building cover the greater part of it.
The first floor Is to be used as a show
room and will be rented to dealers to dis
play cars. These dealers will have offices
on the second floor. The other floors
will be used by people in the automobile
trade and the roof will be used as a gar
den and picture show place.
The Members of the Chicago Automo-
bile Trade Association will hold a used
car show in the Coliseum from March 5
to Is. and it will be the first Of its kind
held anywhere. About 800 cars will be
shown and not a new car will be among
them. The cars will be sold direct from
the floor and also by auction. The CHI
cago dealers expect the show to be the
solution of the used car problem.
Stanley II. Horner, manager OF the
Buick Motor Company. went to the Buick
factory at Flint. Mich. last week to ex-
pedite shipments.
John L. wacksmuth, local representa-
tive of the B. F. Goodrich Company. is
distributing copies of the Goodrich New
York-to-Palm Beach tour. The route is
through Washington, and many motorists
he frin hav af
the Goodrich headquarters at 1926 Four
teenth street.
Automobiles now pay licenses by the
pound in West Virginia. The law fixes
the licenses at so a year for autos weigh
ing 1000 pounds or less and 25 cents addi-
tional for each 100 pounds over that. As
few autos weigh less than 1000 pounds
practically all will be compelled to pay
by weight
Postmaster Merritt Chance has ac-
cepted five Autopede for use in special
delivery service in the city.
Joseph NJ. Stoddard. of Cook & Stod-
dard, returned Wednesday from Detroit.
where he visited the Cadillac factory AND
arranged to expedite shipments of cars.
Irving j. Henderson, manager of the
washington-O Oakland Sales Company.
drove an Oakland roadster from Phila-
delphia to Washington Wednesday.
Joseph A. Jennings, of the Jennings
Motor Sales Corporation, was in Wash
ington Thursday in connection with the
free service he is giving Hal owners at
his branches in Washington, Baltimore,
New York, Bridgeport and Boston.
D. B. Gish, who represents Hupmobiles
and Haynes cars at 1899 NJ street north
west, has patented a device for motor
cars that will clean gasoline, and sew
eral of the largest motor-car device
manufacturers were in Washington last
week to persuade Mr.. Gish to let them
manufacture it on a royalty basis
Mr.. Gish puts one-half gallon of water
with five gallons of gasoline in the gas
tank of his car. Between the tank and
carbureter is an upright cylinder. the de-
vice he has patented The gas pipe en-
ters the tank near the bottom. and leaves
It near the top. The tank is kept partly
full of water. The water drains out slow
ly into the pan. The gasoline passes
through this water and is purified of
cleaned gasoline makes a more powerful
explosion. The device can be used on
any vacuum tank or gravity feed car.
The Cook &, Stoddard Company had on
display during Carnival Week a cut-open
chassis of an 1917 eight-cylinder Cadillac
that was one of the most talked-about
displays during Carnival Week. Mr..