Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1909, Page 17

R yeLl il A, THE INDAY Uil i N e \\'l!fl D T T ! e - 7 TR b g M il <DEALERS BOOST W OTOR SHOW Automobile Men Enthusiastic Over Prospects for 1910 Exposition, MORE EXHIBITS AND BETTER ONES Good Thing for Publie Say ™ Working Toge Denlers and | Purchasers, n Who are her to Pro- e Itn Succens. e d of Omaha laring that the com-| will be bette and while this new with they are in The prospects fact, altogether Leading lack ing and bigger of statement pect autom n i de exposit than ever no ferve automohi'e tor wort a hows,"” one ve to annual carnest and qui the show are, In roseate Interviews with @ number of dealers who will exhibit 1910 models reveal a single- minded purpose, to forget alousies it there any—and 1o together with a long pull and a hard the succéss of the exposition It is conventional w15 going to be sald Denlse any J pull pu'l for are to say ‘this year's the biggest and best Barkalow, “and the therefore carry much statement does not €. F. LOUK, Maxwell Ford, L. HERRING Reo and Premier. HENRY H. VAN BRUNT, Overland. DENISE BARKALOW, ectric Garage. C. J. CORKHILL, Apperson D. HOSFORD, Velic. conviction but in Trite it the present {nstance tionably true and must the risk of seeming commonplace. In common with other Omaha dealers I shall show a full line, Including the Rauch- Lang, Packard, Detrolt and Baker Electric | cars | J. J. Derlght balleves in futures. *T be- lleve every automobile show that we shall to say this, it s unques- be asserted even ¢ ©. Along Auto Row ag Establish Branch in Omaha Soon. BRICK The P. KUHN, Holgman W. H. WALLACE Oakland-Stearns, F. E. BUTLER, Apperson A. S, AVE The Auburn W. L. HUFFMAN, The Regal e F. Louk to Bulld New Gar- f Council Bluffs Concerns to | pertect | maker | ear right and to the buyer it furnishes criterton of all | Otto Nestman, manager of the | Bdwards Automoblie company | panted Mr. Sw to Missourt Indiana factories last week and overlooked the mechanism of the cars to be handied the Omaha market. Nestmar them the best cars In their class and lleves he will be able to make them derfully popular in Nebraska and lows proven performanc et the and won Moon WD race | “weis racing who was in the in New York ten days ago my eyes when it Ernest Sweet yesterday he was whizsing speedometer Ixty-four hour. He thought he was golng iimit, when he heard something fiit | was Strang in the Flat. He was | oft ninety-four miles an hour. Well that the Moon ned to b |wards at a little better than | miles an nour the man for t Vanderbilt made v 10 spe Wells around the | peopie oper sald that i A sald track comes miles about the by. 1t pping id hack twenty-five showing | Frank Sloan has come out from the Na tional factory manage the mechanical department of the Standard Automoblle {company. He is expert machinist and this company will in position to carry first cluss repalr department an be |on JOHN The P. DAVIS fease last Jackson. . C. F. Louk night fo. |the property just west of Frederickson |garage on ¥arnam street and clos:d a (he | deal with Contractor Partridge for the | erection of a brick garage to be completed by January 15, The building will be 1 and the specificatlon calls for one | the best appointed automobile houses | the country. Louk has been very |ful in the automobile business came to Omaha four years ago. He held th place just west of ghteenth | street and from there has carried on thriving trade In Nebraska and lowa Hi mechanical department is managed by F E. Edgecomb and the office s manage by F. C. Johnson. Louk now handles the to build | Marmon, Falcon, Halladay and Empire signed a that of finished at head This whieh any other entry) it its class and with a perfect fourth great rellability run in Premler has participated this all of which it has finished Is the in season, in he has since of such to “I certainly am heartily in favor thes, belie the buyer th the them malker individual To the weak points of th old hoss shay—it has dealer it inspires | bility contests of Inestimable dealer and the they show th no weakest point), to the confidence in the makers’ value to (unless like ERE is the niftiest aggregation of record- breaking machines yet offered the public. It is quite possible to select a car from this line up, no matter who you are or what your ambition may be. The Marmon is the classy car for the dis- criminating man of taste. He can find no bet- ter car, while the Empire is low enough priced to permit the man of moderate means to sail around as fast as any of them. Look over the list and let me give you a demonstration of the car that seems to please you. Halladay, 28-8. P., $1,250 Marmon Suburban, 40-H. P., $2,650 h J Hayaes' Model 19, $2,000 Full Equipped slve will be bigger and better than the ¥ | one preceding,” he says. “The motor car ) i business improves every year and the pub-| utfman sald: “E. W. Swanbrough of| | | lle recognizes the value of the automobile| Denver is a Hupmobile owner who has| | 3 in social and business life. 1 shall exhibit | been putting his car through some stiff {lve makes of cars, the Stoddard-Dayton, [ places to see what Kind of stuff it's 4 the smobile, the Matheson, the Mercer | made of, and to find, if he can, a limit and the Waverly Electric. I'm boosting [ to fts endurance. for the best show that the Omaha dealers [ “Mr. Swanbrough's latest venture have yet put on."” was a 400-mile trip through the Colo ‘The automobile show is a good thing | rado mountains. The major part of | for Omaha and, of course, for the dealers,” | the journey was made at elevations says Guy L. Smith, “and I am a booster | averaging 9,000 feet, and at this height | J..C. corr H. B PREDRICKEON T. STEWART, J. J. DERIGHT, GUY L. SMITH, for Dboth. The attractlon comes at the | he says he experienced no trouble in| Rambler Mitchell -r'fi.":",‘a': |r|;-u;’. Mitchell, Rambler Stoddard-Dayton Franklin right time of the year, during, perhaps, | negotfating 30 per cent grades. At the worst part of the winter, when the | this height and on slopes 80 steep, o - E = = T - auto fever is likely to be low, but when | he says, he had no trouble averaging|way that insured either he or the machine, |plete plant in order to meet the increased | visability of allowing the additional room people—~prospective phirchasens, 1 mean fifteen miles per gallon of gasoline | or both, getting the worst of It |demand for St. Louls cars. |to be used by the corn show, to remain are looking forward to the summer trips. | while on the casler tretches, the average It's mighty different now | —_— for the automobile show, would be con I shall cxhibit two makes, the Franklin | was thirty miles to the gallon. Thé last| ‘“Nine out of ten of my buyers have more | Mr. Guy L. Smith, the Franklin automo- |sidered by the association this week. The and the Peerless. 1 shall endeavor to| 120 miles of the trip was made fnfor le technical knowledge of what the |bile dealer has returned from a visit to | Ploneer Implement company of Council make an attractive exhibit and beleve | five and one-half hours | the machine they want must embody and [the factory of the H. H. Franklin Manu- | Bluffs has an Omaha branch and is en every man interested In the exposition will | “Down among the Georgia hills, Ty|the more salient merits of construction and |facturing company In Syracuse, N. Y., |titled to exhibit at the show. It is under- | do his best to make it a success.” Cobb is putting ‘he Hupmobile | automobile engineering seem o be Known |where he went to inspect and become ac- | stood that the Van Brunt Automobi “We shall exhibit but two makes of | through fts paces. During the Atlanta|to all of them quainted with the 1910 models of the Frank- | company is negotiating for a garage on cars, the Rambler and the Mitchell,” de- | show, Cobb drove his car from Au Where a man used to buy a machine in |jin car and to arrange for the coming [Farnam, and it is more than likely tha clared J. €. Colt of the auutomobile com- | gusta, his home, to Atlanta, & distance | fifteen minutes because it carried an aristo- | seagon. The first of these 1910 cars have | the Atlantic Automobile company will b pany bearing his name. We shall have|of 210 miles, in ten hours. What makes |cratic name and an attractive coat of paint, | now been in service some time. One of |established In Automobile row before the three cars of each make in four and six- | the time remarkable is the fact that the|he now approaches me with an alr of confi- | them recently acquired the distinotion of [show. 1In case these concerns establish eylinder touring cars. 1 belleve the 1910 | car was loaded with three men, including | dence and a volley of questions concerning | hreaking a world's record as its intro- |branches in Omaha, they will be entitled show will be the best ever, as every dealer | Cobb, and three suiticases..It @lso car-|vital points of construction, which g0 10 |guction to the public. That was In an|to enter the show as Omaha cdncer v will make an offort to eglipse past dis- | rled its complete equipment of . wind| Show that he has glven the subject deep |gfficiency contest held by the Automobile plays. (It was a good move on our part|shield top, too, etc nlfl){)v club of Buffalo, in whieh the Franklin| Representatives of the Atlantic Auto when we declded to make the exhibits uni- | “Sigmund Eckerl, an Austrian who is The wutomobile has eloped very ‘w,,,, 4.1 miles, carrying a combined car | company of Atlantic and Council Bluffs s form in regard to floor space and dis- |taking a Hupmobile to Viénna, made a[rapidly and has now reached a state of |3 pagsenger weight of 2,948 pounds on one | 1a., daistributers of the Premier car, ar plays 500-mile tour of New York state before |perfection which Insures the up-to-date|caiion of gasoline. . ¥ AR stupel lency o ery much elated over the magnificent 0 one v stronger for*the auto show [#alling for Kurope, where he and his|marufacturer of high,efticlency product, | “pp gmith was given an opportunity to| ehowing made by that carn the Atlanta than 1" said C. ¥. Louk, “because it is a | bride will tour in the car. Mr. Eckerl [and the wide-awake, hustling dealer, all the | ;jqo 1y and drive cars of the new model | New York good roads tour il 4ood thing for everybody—publie, deslers |18 @n expert on forelgn cars, and |business they can take care of. and assure himself that the company was | ..poor though we are becoming quite ac and those who may buy cars. It benefits | frankly admits his surprise at the fact, e right in declaring that for 1910 it would std a . Ssolth 5 ,,f.' L Omaks by bringing people here, It unques. | Which was Impreased upon him, that thel The ChalmersDetroit Motor company an- put on its air-cooled motor car in & form | CoStomed (o such results,” sald C. L. Her- « tionably sells cars for the dealer, and, |twenty horse power Hupmobile requires |nounces the completion of @ new four-story |that would mark a distinet development | '8 president of the company, “we are the purchaser 18 given a chance to look |M© more gasoline for efficient road work | factory bullding of immense proportions, |in automobile construction Ercremslyaprond of the shouing cmgie n around before he settles on a car ot, of | than a foreign car which would rate at|which, they state, will keep them up Lo the [ The new cars belng made in fifteen | thi8 tour. The car was appointed as offi course, that there s any real question as | 81X to seven American horse power. M. |minute on 1910 deliveries. | models, the range of horsepower being | C/al representative by the city of Charlotte to which is the best car—in the mind of [ Bckerl comments favorably upon the —_— | forty-two, twenty-cight and eighteen $5- S RWIE p C1e FIERY INStAR0D WRLKN LW the individual dealer, but this Is besds|Motor's action, the carw riding ualitles| ., ..y, week two large Plerce-Arrows (engine shows a new application of of where a motor car has been nominated fre case in point. I shall exhibit models [&1d the splendid condition of tires after| =5 Fe B 0 Bl Na0oeq to Mr.|current of cooling air, which tests are [ official boomer of a town. Notwithstand- of five cars, the Haynes, Marmon, Empire, | s New York trip, most of which was| 2% % (0 P0G T bl g and Mr. | Showing to be more effective. A feature [ I8 the fact that the car had previously Hallagay and ¥ A. R." made through continuous rains and over| . A Cudahy. M BRCICE G ae| 16 the abolition of the front fan which | been, driven 26,000 miles (more than double Most assuredly 1 shall make an ex.|f°2ds deep in mud cars remaining two are for the city a .L‘"“\'*‘I" the construction of other auto- Bibit,” answered W. H. Wallace to & ques- | o s two for lowa 8eivery mobile engines. J.T. Stewart of the Coft Automobile com- Lo tion, “and 1 would #r the sake of the | ¥ s Bakive. fhaisokheDateolts & ce| Mr. Smith found the factory running to i ! model, achieved ‘fame as the first auto sone 0 4 f ik % enterprise, good for everyone—the city, the i B 2 0- | ¢ them going to out-of-town subagents,| Well Lnder way, the tull factory force is | : mobile to carry a transcontinental war being employed to bring forward the entire purchaser and last, but not in our minds, | 8e K SRTY G R O . 17, | principally for use as demonstrators | & | 4 avery reason to belleve that there will be | A~ N New York to General J. . Wea | | 0 SO 0 Maxwell. | Motor cars which throughout the country more cars and better ones shown this time | "0 "0 kool g '»{ Waamit Briscoe Omaha company, will move his|!¥ €Xpected in 1910 to exceed the supply | 4 at the last show and the same Is true | (¢7¢d experlences in the mud of Wyoming | o o B n colth street to the new | The factcry itself nas been enlaiged by | o : A yeapsot to-autemdhile aocessories, The ‘ll.ml quite j-u'-u threatened to put Driver piaEg i a2, s | the construction of a sixth story for the | Bowser Gasoline Tank and Pump Frank X. Zirbles ‘up in the air. But [t | Earage, next to Fredrickson's, 2124 Farnam R B o2 g ) field of the latter is broadening at a won- !x'\mulnr(l 100 &n ”‘I prising Atlanta, Ga., | Street second largest of the buildings, thus mak- Stands the Test and Saves derful rate and has become almost a sep- | i e e s Sl ing an increase of 15,000 square feet, or a Yire s i Sk e e o s cm",, |man to sugwest the literal elevation of this | 1 o o L TRl A ATty M0 ahate Taat ik Chad Disastrous Fire Loss. e e e e o curne oy, |famous machine. During show week In| Max Pemberton, an English critic of au- |y, 1" qaaition a neighboring factory | “The fire department arrived with all dis- o e by the deaters and |the Georgia city, the Mitchell Ranger was | tomoblle affairs, has raised a storm Of|puyging has been leased for use of the | PAih and the firemen were pruvely rusi i A |the ‘highest; ‘best swinging' and ‘oft- | protest because of an article by him ap-| . g s F |ing into the seething barn when cer imilar arrangement of booths and floor | 3 “ N dommercial oar department. Morgan warned tham. of the lmmente i s enest seen’ automobile in the eity | pearing in the London Field of recent ——. | derground ine tank which ix buried & space Wil make the 1910 show better in — | date adversely commenting on American Just we barn doorway. There was every way than preceding expositions,” | : Care In ity of steel and soundness| . Drummond.has one of the best shoW|qno" mean chauce that this tank become ssys J. T. Stewart of the Colt Automobile Speaking of selling automobiles,” said | 4! 1 § h rooms and garage in Omahba now. He has |ignited and, if this had happened, ther company. “Our Incorporation of the auto- |H. B. Fredrickson to a group of dealers the of design, among other things, the .\n!f‘l'*‘ renovated ar overhauled the former | would probably have been no buildings | moblle show means a bettér exposition in |Other evening, “It's a snap to what it used | “a0 =”mhum~' he asserts, are )mmh‘n to| buggy repository, glass doors have been }I«:_!”\'\illl:x’l\{! t-lr'lrluliwfl-]v‘cl,fw St every way he 1911 show will be an |t be those of the British isles. Mr. Pemberton's| put in and an approach for cars from | congiruction of & Bowser equipment for URiireRaEent. 100 Over She ads o A Diaiwithetanding the faot that X1, Devgy| SORGINIONS hAve hean chal:enisd by ¥ Eighteenth street, making the place, both | explosive ofls absolutely prevents explo- " | s0ld anything but the best, I used to feel ett, manager of the Anglo-American | from & show room and repair standpoint, | slons. The greatest test ever given oil i ‘88 SHN DoAY ‘of (A Thatar graw, | i * Motor Car company, in heated fashion. |one of the best in the country storage systems occurred at San Francisco ®he nearer the makers come to perfecting | e Years ago when | sold a machine, that i during the earthquake conflagration when 4 thelr models. [T was loading both him and myself with a — £ be = i ; LR Bl 288 storage tanks and pumps Went through | am very enthusiastic over the auto- |bunch of trouble, the fact being that sev-| Krnest Sweet of the Sweet-Edwards Au-| Pre r‘u:;m et t IenuI deaiora' | the Hre withort & wagle, explogion. - mobfle business and am boosting for |°rs! Of OUr mare prominent citizens who|tomobile company spent last week in In-|assoclation sald thai there has be 19| plain 1 vou how. yon cun safeguard | ‘ bigger and better auto show, stated H. I, | Were numbered among the earliest auto- | dianapolis and St. Louls hurrying up the |inteniion ito cut the Council Bluffs deal- | gy seonerty as well as prevent evapora: v )| Fredrickson of the Fredrickson Automobile | MOPlle owners could relate many funny [ Moons and the Parry cars, which he ex-|ers out of the show and the chances are | 1’1;1':;"‘":-"!-\ lessening the upkeep ex - company. . ~Our firm will exhibit five lines | XPeriences of the troubles they encoun-(pécts tomorrow. He said that both fac-|that they will be in it it they wish. He [P (0 o0 prices RRPARE, TIP SUD WIS SXUBIE D0 HDAN | o torles pre working overtime o get out | explained that the number of Omaha deal- Fritchle Elootric, the Chalmers-Detroit and | 10 those dave, of course, machines had | cars. The Moon people have been working (ers had been Increased since the last show S F ngsEB & cn {he Thomas. No plans have been spared | IOt reached anything like the perfection |u large force of men night and day. They jand it was not an casy matter to take N 1 iy to make the 1910 show the best vet, and we | Which they now embody, and the operator | have increased their plant, putting in heavy | care of them with the present accommo- | 3. st Plkert Seiea Ag $2% Bran \ bellove we shall succeed In pleasing the|Went 8t it in a hit and miss sort of a|mechinery and adding to the already com- | dations. However, he sald that the ad- | gois Bldg., Phone Douglas 4 Ind. Ad412 public.” | ‘Shall 1 exhibit any cars? Well, I should | say most emphatically,” says W. L. Huffman. “Our company will have ten models on the floor, including four makes. the Interstate, the Anbut Six, the Hupmo bile and the De Tamble. All the dealers are taking considerable interest in the expo- | sition, and I'm sure I think we'll be able a ahow &% do we're all trying our %0, Its success is assured. | to put on just as good | Chicago; anyway, | make a big | | ihey in best Lo thing out of the 1910 event. It certainly show way of does look as if the coming | and better in every sald W. D, Hosford which handles will be bigker than that of 1609, the John Deere company Velle, Columbus Electric and Wilcox | mmereial Truck. ‘“This is more or less an old story, but It is, nevertheless, true regards i We shall do all in our power to promote its success.” The automoblle expositien,” declared A of N show to come. . 3. Avery, “is not only a good thing for us . dealers, but for Omaha In general, and it also has real value to the prospective pur- chaser. He can get & line on all the offer- ings and make some comparisons, perhaps. For Omaha it 18 good because it comes at A time of year when there 1s nothing «is 1 in particular to attract outsiders ¥ and the auto show does bring man y 'his year 1 shall show three mod t the Auburn and two ol e Rider Two Visiters. Mr. E. C. Jones of the Hudson M it (ompany of Detroit and Mr, Smith o - R. Thomas Motor company of 1 e visiting the M. E. Fredrickson A b+ Joblle company this week. It s the ) ¢ Qoth these factories to have an expert i s territory at Intervals of from four 1 woeks to see 10 It that users of their pective machipes are kept thoroughly atistied. of the rear wheels. The W. L. Huffman Automobile Co. Here is the Prettiest Car That You Ever Saw for $1,700 Isn’t 1i? Have you ever seen a prettier car at any price? It is a 6 cylinder. It is standard from tires to steering rim. There is no experimental work in Every feature is proven. The eugine clutch transmissions are built in one unit with all moving parts enclosed and running in oil. Power is trans- pitted to the rear wheels through a multiple disc clutch, selective type, three speed and reverse transmission. Two pairs of brakes located on drivers Anhut Six is such a good car that we do not base our claim on price—It could not be made better at any price—Roadster, 1,700; Tourabout, $1,800. 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