Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
CHICAGO EXHIBIT
OF MOTOR CARS
Big Exhibition to Be Held in
September of This
Year

The great truck. tractor and acces-
sories exposition. to be staged out in
Chicago's S5.000.O0 Municipal Pier in
September. will be in the most pa
triotic sense national exposition of
wartime essentials.
When the Hun hordes made their
first confident rush through stricken
Belgium in the summer of 1914, it
was the taxicabs of Paris-hitherto
used for business and pleasure as are
the taxicabs of any American city to-
day-which were mailed" all at once
by the government, mobilized for the
port the thousands of hastily organ
ized Frenchmen from Paris to the
Marne. which they reached in time to
stop the barbarian onslaught.
Those Partisan taxicabs landed the
unexpected blow on the kaiser's self
confident battalions, saved Paris. and
started the Germans back toward
Germany. For Deutschland Uber
Allies" got no further than where the
Paris taxicabs discharged their SOL
dier fares"
Since that day the passenger car.
the truck and the tractor have play
ed steadily-increasing part in the
war. and American makes have en-
deared themselves to the people of
France and Belgium, Italy and Eng
land. Wonderful strides have been
made. principally in the truck and
tractor lines. And the exposition.
under one roof how American manu-
facturers have met our government $
and the allies calls for aid.
American Tories" have been con-
stantly in the limelight during May
and June, as they rushed fresh Yankee
troops through Paris to the hell of
fire in front of the German drives.
These Tories" are, in civilian life,
emil n f.A
be shown at the Automotive and Ac-
cessories exposition.
American trucks have transported
food and war supplies thousands OF
tic seaports during the last winter
and spring, getting through as reli-
ably as the railroad freights, which
they have relieved of so much con-
gestion. These giants will be on ex.
hibition at the exposition too.
And no one will ever forget how
the British "tanks"-converted
American tractors-raised particular
havoc in the allied drives against the
Tanks are only one phase of trac-
tor development. which will be
graphically shown by the tractor ex'
hibits.
American tractors are doing heroic
tanks" but in farming-plowing.
narrowing. sowing. harvesting and
transporting crops back OF the fight
ing lines.
The war has forced American farm
ers also to adopt the tractor years
earlier than it would have been adopt
ed under ordinary progress. First,
tractor development perfected the
tractor which four years ago was lit
tie more than an experiment. Next.
the crying demands for increased pro-
duction and conservation OF man
power. made it profitable for farmers
TO buy tractors.
This year the tractors manufactur-
ers cannot begin to produce these
wonder-workers fast enough. In the
Middle Western States where the
farmers are always progressive, the
demand for tractors is growing by
leaps and bounds. Thousands OF
farmers will order tractors for spring.
1919 delivery, but first they will visit
the Automotive and Accessory expo
sition to select the tractor best suit
ed to their needs. This is determined
by size of farm, wind and condition OF
soil, roads, fuel supply, and SIM
plicity of operation.
Farms where six horses eat up
81. 900 worth of feed each year can
now buy 6 two-plow tractor for little
more than one years feed bill. With
the allies and the United States gov
ernment buying up every sound
horses is desirable not only from the
standpoint of economy in "upkeep."
but from patriotic necessity.
That the ten states of Illinois, Mis-
souri, Kentucky, Indiana, Nebraska,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Iowa alone have half mil
lion tractor prospects proves the i'm
portance of the exposition in Septem-
| Der, where the farmer will see and
compare all the leading tractors.
The accessory end of the exposition
will be no less important because
since it has become sign of service
! to make the old car do more than was
| expected of it. accessory manufactur-
| ers have concentrated all their efforts
| to putting out essentials that will add
| years to the life of used cars and
! take many dollars off their upkeep
| charges.
Taken from every standpoint the
| great automotive exposition over the
waters of Lake Michigan will be one
/ of the most vital and far-reaching
human interest demonstrations ever
held in all of this broad land.