The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-09
Motor Hall at Fair Filled With
Good Exhibits.
More Than. % Pleasure Car
Makes on Grounds.
TRACTORS BUSY ON GROUNDS
Eleven Makes Put On Their
Daily Demonstrations.
Advance of Motor Cars Is Indi-
Gated Yearly.

Work and pleasure are fighting
| their annual battle in machinery field
at the big free fair this week. Trucks
and tractors of the forces of work are
engaged in a hot contest with the
shiny roadsters and touring cars and
| limousines of the army of pleasure
1t is a mice" war, tho, and conduct
ed in a spirit of commercial enterprise
They are all good cars, so the sales
men say. but this particular one is
best" according to which salesman
one talks to. In the tractor field the
rival statesmen are on equally good
| terms. There is no pickering back and
! forth and visitors are shown every
| courtesy-in, some instances even be-
! ing referred to the exhibits of other
firms.
The display in motor hall is one of
| the finest in years. Twenty-fiv
classes of pleasure vehicles are on ex-
hibit there. representing the goods of
no less than twenty-one local motor
agencies. Four big motor trucks are
! housed in motor hall, their proper
tions making a striking contrast to the
slim lines and beautiful shapes of the
| pleasure vehicles.
One of the striking exhibits in mo-
tor hall is the big Goodyear Cord truck
| tire. 1t is a monster and the size
|
| by 9 inches. The tire of the ordinary
! automobile looks like a lady's finger
ring beside this immense cushion for
| the smoothing the path of the vehicles
of work. This is the kind of tire
which is used by the big passenger
| gions of the west.
Tractors in Demonstration.
Out in machinery field proper.
J - i
| a perpetual demonstration are the
! tractors. These machines, ranging
from the pigmy type with caterpillar
| tread to the big oil burning ones which
look like they could pull alongside a
railroad locomotive, are the ones
which are drawing the interest of the
farmers. With the wheat crop all in
and sold at a goodly price the farm
| ers of the state are beginning to look
about for means and methods of maxi
| ing farm work easier. quicker and
| more efficient. First among the imI
provements to be made on the old
homestead is the purchasing of a trac
tor. 1t is a machine which can saw
the wood, pillow the fields. drag the
cultivators, pull the harvesting ma
useful things to tighten the farmers
| load.
Among the tractors represented in
machinery field are the Avery, the
Rumely, the OlelTdC, the 1Iloland, the
| Sampson, sold by the Cowdrey Motor
company of Topeka; the Moline, sold
by Raemer Brothers of Topeka; the
White, sold by the Road Supply &
Metal company of Topeka; and the
| Heider. sold by H Brittenstein of
North Topeka. Others showing in the
field are the International Harvester,
sold by Seery-Morton company of To-
peka: the famous Fordson, sold by the
Trefry Motor company, and the Lib
erty.
The showings of cars in motor hall
are: Oakland and Hudson by ]. R.
| Johnson; Overland by the Overland
Buick by Wood Motors company;
| Fords by Trefry Motor company; Nash
| by Neale Motors company; Liberty by
| the Liberty company of Kansas; In
| ternational truck and Brisco cars by
| E. G. Kinley: Pan and Oldsmobile
cars by Ralston Motors company; Re-
public trucks by Rehkopf Brothers;
| Chevrolet and Studebaker by the West
| Motor Company; G. NJ. c. trucks by
and Mitchell cars by Capital Auto &
| Supply company; Dodge Brothers cars
! by w. H. lines & Company; bort cars
! by w. H. Maxwell Motor company;
| Franklins by E. B. Kellam; Haynes
| and. Stephens by the Raemer Motor
company; Kissel truck by the Motor
| Service company; Chambers and
Clevelands by Mccormick Motor COM
pany; Detroit electrics by the Peers
| Battery company, and Scripps-Booth
cars by J. S. Warner company.
Southwick Auto Supply company,
W. A. L. Thompson Hardware COM
pany and the Poehler Mercantile COM
pany have showings of auto supplies
and tires.