The Washington herald., 1921-03-18
AUTO SHOW WILL
NOT HOLD OVER
ANOTHER WEEK
Dealers Decide to Close
Saturday; Throngs Still
. View Exhibits.

Dear Henry: The watchword at
the auto show in Convention Hall
kzst night was God bless the
adiesr" Expressed otherwise. It
vas ladies' night"
perceived that superfiuity-no.
I'M wrong; there's never a SUPER
'uity Of 'em-I mean>I saw more of
he Nineteenth amendment unit than
! lsual at the show. So when II
-irifted around to the once of Chair
han Rudolph Jose. to whom every
body goes for information about the
show. ! asked the reason why.
There are more than usual" he
said. but this isn't ladies night
My company-the Cadillac Company
lis giving away red carnations to-
night. and you probably saw more
of them being worn, and consequent
~ thought you saw many more
women-"
20. /. c." answered. and backed
out.
But that's the way 1t looked.
Henry. And It looked good. too.
Well. you'll want to know some
thing about the cars. / ought to
have told you sooner about the rip
snorting Mercer roadster and the
locomobiIe cabrioIet which Peterson
Motors has on display. The Mercer
Is a beyond-words Rolls-Royce blue.
with gold stripping. and has an i'm
proved spare seat in the rear. The
seat comes right up out of the back.
Is well-constructed and there's even
a foot-rail on the fioors What more
could you want?
Mr.. virgins Enthusiastic.
Besides the cabrioiet. the aristo-
crat Of the cars on exhibit, a four
passenger Locomobile is attracting
a lot of attention. NJ. T. Virgins
showed me the fne points of all of
them. or started to. He would have
been showing me yet II some Gus
toner hadn't dragged him away to
sign up.
The dealers at the show had a
meeting around 3 o'clock. and de-
eided to close the show on Saturday
night, as per schedule. thus closing
mp much talk about holding it over
for another week.
Samuel A. Luttrell. president of
the Luttrell Company. is taking a
lot of pride in his display of three
of the new Packard single skies.
shown for the first time in WASH
!ngton. This new Packard has been
the subject OF a lot OF admiring
comment at the New York and Chi
cago shows. It's only right that
Washington should have a look at
Il.
II. w. Hartmann. in charge of the
electrics at the A. B. c. Motor Com
pany. which handles the Hupmobile,
the Detroit Electric and the MilburnI
Light Electric. whispered in my
shell-like ear that electric cars are
going to give the gas machines a
run for their money before many
suns have set From the appear
ance Of the Milburn. I'm inclined to
agree.
He's CertainIy ON the Qui Vive.
- The semmes. Motor Company has
such good looking Dodges on view
that I tried to congratulate r. ~.
swafe reach ed him just as he'd fin
ished selling somebody a Dodge, ard
before ! could talk, he was selling
another. So l put a big question
mark behind what IS the user and
went on.
Ever since / started going to the
show. Henry. my ambition has been
to find out the name of the snappy
.violinist who leads the Meyer Davis
Orchestra. on the top balcony. It's
Maurice Partnoy, IL you want to
know. / buttonholed him just as
he put a final flourish to "Caresses'
and forced the confession from him.
He has a large audience of his own,
who sit around tapping their feet
to the music and wishing they were
allowed to dance.
Up on the balcony also is the ex-
cellent display of Roy F. Carty. the
ignition genius. He has L. E. Lash
ley. the staring. lighting and igni-
tion expert, helping him to run the
big show. Roy has been showing
folks q million things they didn't
know about the anatomy of the
auto. Put him on your list as a
good fellow.
Charles c. Thomas. sales manager
of the A. B. C. Motor Company, is
handling the Traffic Truck in the
truck section at the show. Thomas
says the factory can put out one
truck every ten minutes, because of
the machines simple. but strong and
ingenious construction. Thomas is
handling a good article, IL you ask
me.
No, shes Not an Exhibit.
And. Henry. old man. can't leave
out little Miss Loretta Collins, who
has charge of the Cinderella Candies
booth. by the second floor entrance.
Miss Collins is my authority for
saying that auto men are eating
lots Of candy now. She says she's
been doing a rushing business all
the week long, and her customers
aren't only young bloods. whose
feminine guests gaze pointedly at
the stand az they pass. Miss Collins
is a highly suitable young lady for
a confections booth, Henry, take II
from me.
Capt. Al Headley, the head of the
police departments traffic division,
told me yesterday he was going to
be up at the show last night with
a new coat and new epaulets.
Maybe the rain kept him away, but
Il didn't keep $500 other wash
ingtonians. Or maybe he did show
up and my eagle eye didn't happen
to be pointed in the right direction.