The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18

It's all ready now but the decorations. Surely you don't mean to say that you don't know what 'ft' is If you do, you're not a perfectly good automobile man. Because where should the thoughts of any perfectly good automobile man be at this time except on the big auto show, which opens March 5?
 Yes, tomorrow morning, crew of workmen Will start to work putting the finishing touches to the big building at Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue. And putting such finishing touches" as are designed in this particular instance isn't any easy job. It's going to take lots of men to do 1t.
 But Henry B. Marks says he should worry.
 And Ted Brownell says so, too.
 And so do all the other automobile men of Birmingham
 They've told the people of this old town that they're going to see the biggest au- tomobile show ever pulled off in the south and they're going to give it to them if it takes a thousand men to get it ready in time
 The decorations are all here, and ready to be hung.
 there are Illl6S ana miles or Snllax and more flowers than you can count unless you know more about mathematics than we do. There's gross after gross of plants, and thousands and thousands of blossoms, each a brilliant hue, and each ready to do it's little part to make the Birmingham show the show of the season.
 The lighting system is a marvel.
 Of course, everybody knows that there's nothing quite like 4'sandle light to give just the proper touch of enchantment to any show, and the automobile men real ize this, too. So, they have arranged to have the show lighted by just hundreds of shaded lights.
 There's going to be music, too, a world of it.
 In fact if there's anything that can be done to make this a festive occasion it's going to be did" That's what they all say. And if cooperative scheme of planning and decorating and arranging can accomplish anything, that automo- bile show will be something we'll worth Eeng, when it opens.
 Get ready.
 Everybody's getting ready.
 Not only in Birmingham, but from every hamlet and village in the state
 They're coming from the farm, and they're coming from the hillsides; and they're coming from~fhe country man sion and the city homee They'll all be there, ready to view the biggest auto mobile show the south has ever seen
 And they won't be disappointed
 Because
 It's going to be some showi
 There's a new dealer among us.
 And they say he's regular Hive wire He is W. H. Webber, late of Montgom- cry, now manager of the Bartlitt Motor company of the local office handling the Scripps-Booth car. The Scrfpps-Booth isn't 8 new car in Birmingham, and neither is MT. Webber unknown. He comes to Bir- mingham with many friends already here who stand ready to welcome him into their midst.
 we will have Birmingham and one half the state" said Mir. Webber, land I'm mighty glad to be located in this city. We have a carload of the little old Scripps-Booths on the way and when they get here-well, you know The outlook in Birmingham is great for big business and I'm ready to meet it" sS
 MT. webber has hA years of ex- perience in the automobile business.
 A. T. Speights of DeShazo Motor company distributors for the Maxwell, tells about the little increase in the Maxwell business during the past year. During 1915 there were measly little 25 Maxwells traversing Birming- 4 HdIIlx lTeelS- Aid at alHe cloSe Ol tI5l0 MT. Speights and others had managed to bring the number up to 748 That's a gain of some great big per cent, at anyisirate. And 1917 looms awfully bright before us,' said MT. Speights. I am sure it's going to be the biggest year we have ever had"
 George H. Dupree has taken the agency for Corbitt trucks for the state of Alabama. He'll handle from two to five-ton trucks.
 "The new Stratford Paige is the prettiest. thing have ever seen in automobiles,' said Lawrence Penning ton. I've Just sold one to E. R. Rosa mond and it's on the way"
 Lawrence Pennington of the Detroit Motor Car company unloaded car of