Arizona republican., 1917-07-28
GAR OF STATE. EATSNO MORE
 PUbL|CMONEY
White Elephant of Former Administration Will Be
 Turned in as Part of Payment for Needed Cars

The famous "car of state.' which with it's coat of chaste white was made notorious over the highways of Arizona by former Governor George w. P. Hunt during the years of his administration, is to be disposed of.
 From the proud position of first motor car of the state" it will in few days take the place of an ordinary used car," and on the sales floor among the other downcast, rejected
 gas hogs it will be sorted over, crit icized and condemned by the men looking for something cheap i'll motor car.
 The decision to finally dispose of the white beauty the symbol of the com mon people during the administration of Governor Hunt. was made recently by the new commission which has the management and control of all state institutions, and in that capacity in herited, among other things, the car which has transported the impressive bulk of former Governor Hunt over many thousand miles of AriZona's highways
 The commission had advertised for bids to supply the state with a certain number of motor cars, motor trucks, tractors and blows. A feature of the specifications under which the bids were made was that the successful bid der should take in part payment the states white elephant the motor car which had been former Governor Hunts closest companion during his occupancy of the executive offices at the state house.
 They all knew the car In fact, ev- eryone who has lived in Arizona at any time during the past five years, up until January, knew the car by sigbt it's white tonneau, with the trunk strapped behind, having been in con stant commission, day and night, until the executive offices in the state house changed occupants.
 Since the day former Governor Hunt was succeeded in office by Governor Campbell, the car of state has been re- posing in the Apache Garage on West Adams street where it was "eating it's head off at the rate of S10 per month. The commission was only too glad to get rid of it.
 The bids were opened on Wednesday in the offices of the commission in the state house in the presence of the bid ders. There were nine of the bidders and each stated in figures what the old
 
 payment for new cars or trucks. The least offered for the big white car was s250. From that figure the offers ranged upward to S625, the highest. No awards were made at that time, how ever.
 With the downfall of the famous car assured. it is recalled that the last trip of the white elephant" was made on January 2S, 1917, the cay on which former Governor Hunt made his final departure from the executive offices in the state house, the superior court having decided against him. The fam ous car was used by MT. Hunt to move certain records. It was then taken to the Apache garage. Governor Camp bell has never used the car. The utomobile which has come to the end of it's famous career and now is just second hand" motor car, was purchased by the board of control five years ago for the use of the state. It cost more than $2,000. Records show that it has cost several times that amount in upkeep, however. Undoubt- edly the car held the state record for mileage, 1t being in almost constant use on long trips about the state. It IS said that Governor Hunts motor trips | from Phoenix to Florence and the peni- tentiary were numbered by the scores. Some time after the day of his inaugu-
 ration when Governor Hunt walked rom the Ford hotel to the capital, he having announced that as the represen- tative of the common people he would not only renounce motor cars, but s, eet cars as well, Governor Hunt | fo med an attachment for the big white car which his board of control had purchased for his special use and which attachment continued without abate- l ment until his retirement from the gov ernorship.