Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-02
Optimistic Sale Reports
of Autos Everywhere

The heavy artillery of the 1918
automobile shows having smashed
the opposition and ENHANCEMENT of
DOUBT and Tfmidity into atoms, the
infantry columns of Dealers have
advanced on a front three thousand
miles long, and consolidated the
work of the batteries of optimism.
Now in natural sequence, comes
the press "Communiques," covering
the Great Offensive.
Chalmers Second Query to Auto
Editors
Just previous to the national and
local automobile shows the Chalmers
MOTOR Company sent question
nalre' blanks to automobile editors
IN all sections of the country. The
reports as to trade conditions were
gratifying in every instance, but now,
since the annual automobile shows
second query has brought news of
more intensive motor interest from
every section of the United States.
san Francisco Chronicle, l.. J.
Plnkson, says: THE 1917 motor
snow was the finest in the history
OF san francisco. But the 1918 show,
just closed, in point of atter/ance
| and general results, exceeds any
thlng ever staged by western motor
dealers. The only complaint on the
racine Coats iS-the dealers can't
| get sufficient freight cars. The actual
sales at this years show established
a remarkable precedent. The amount
OF advertising done by the San Fran
! cisco dealers shows their extreme
confidence in San Francisco-where
pank clearingS, wages and business
thermometers were never higher"
Boston American, c. f, Donneck-
er, says: The eve of the 1918 auto
mobile show finds New England mo.
tordom ready for a solid conserva.
tive season. War business has added
to the general prosperity and motor
sales in Boston have been gratifying
all through the winter. But the re
cent national automobile show:
have dissipated the last tinge O.
buying reluctance" The dealer
watch the confidence or lack of con
| hdence of the manufacturers anC
the motorbuyerS watch the dealers
Hence the rousing demonstrations a
New York and Chicago have cleared
the way for triumphant activity
Nashville Tennessean, A. w. Han
cock, says: 'The Solid South is soJt
for the automobile industry-ant
the automobile. The number of car
sold in the first two months of 1911
exceeds all records. This year
| Nashville auto show was host t,
multitudes heretofore never interest
ed In a motor car, and never wer,
they in the class of prospects, Blu
supply and demand has put the cot
ton picker and the merchant anC
the laborer of the South on the roat
to happy days.
/ Portland Journal, Joe A. Jordan
says: "Shipbuilding is Oregon's frs
claim to unprecedented prosperity
Good roads expenditures have add
ed to the motor fever of the grea
northwest, and consequently the re
cent automobile show in Portlan,
reached the high water mark in tn
annals of the local association O
dealers. The present is all so Lowell,
we are f1attered over the outlook fo
the future"
Houston Press, TeTas Thoma
Martin, says: More than fifty pc
cent. of the white population O
Texas are automobile prospects an
are financially able to buy a ca
without working any hardship Of
their families, their business o
themselves. Cotton, corn, wheat an
fruit have fattened the earnings O
every person in Texas that wants t
work"
Kansas City Post, William f
Floto, says: kansas City-'Th
Heart of America finds it's farme
with his crops harvested and sole
and his money in the bank He il
making money and wants to say,
time to make more money Conse
quently the Missouri farmer is buy
ing motorcars in excess of any sea
son in the history of Kansas Cit.
dealers"