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re Central Palace is being celébrated at other places as well 2s at the Palace. Dinners, dances, rides, theatre par- tles and all the other concomitants of the car are having their turn, and the leading hotels, cafes and various atiurgement resorts have been crowd- ‘all week. Last night there were a number of @nners, and Old Man Indigestion got mother run for his money. Among the gustatory functions was the epread at the New York Athletic Club, which was given to 100 Peerless deal- ers from all parts of the country by the Peerless general sales manager. of the, Peerless car, the renowned and only Robert J. Schmunk. Bob is the champion oil spreader of the automo- bile industry, and he loves to do his epreading at a banquet. ‘Handsome, smooth, suave and de- ‘bonair, he is at once the Adonis and iypnotist of the horseless carriage, | Pres and yet despite his youthful appear- an¢e, Bob is a grandfather and proud of it, One of the men at the Palace who finds no time for dinners, dances and the like is thes A. Miles, manager o1 the Automobile Shaw. Sam 1s kept busy keeping out of the way of exhibitors for whom there is no foom in which to exhibit. He bas it on them for the yea- son that he used to be a bicytle champ and cham- pion sprinter. He joesn't uso a bike in making his get- aways, but he's c.-tainly there with the fast footwork. Sam has made a signal success as « showman, When he isn't showing he Hives at Christmas Cove in the wastes of Maine, the first Prohibition Sut why say nice things about Vol- stead? He doesn't spend Xmas in "Xmas Cove, but he has.a big farm and is always building roads, and is the real “cove” ot Xmas Cove. He hag his brother Tom here from Flor- ida helping him out, WAS A VOCAL AND ATHLETIC CHAMPION. Harry M. Jewett, “Bluff Old Hal,” they call him, President of the Paige Company of Detroit, ts yesterda: champion all around amateur athietb of Americ: In his you.ger days at Notre Dame, Indiana, he was a cham- pion singer. Once he sang for the benefit of the new Town Hall, and when he came out of the hall they snowballed him, they liked him so well. They say that he would have been a great * tenor if he had but accl- dents will happen, ayen to Caruso. | gag Incidentally, Hal i is giving a dinner to-night to 600 or 600 friends from Detroit, Capt. Charles G. Percival is one of the oldest auto advertising men in imping aH Celeb rilies Is a Froertte Pastime at the Big Automobile Show Grand Central Palace Is Full of Them and 'They’re Worth While Meeting—Celebra- tions Mark Great Exhibition. * ‘automobile Week at the Grand caj fae over on the other them, but always had the Seateot use Buy @ guage loss of a number of good stories on the President, be- cause he didn't dare spell the name Vilson. were, was the ih who took the first auto into the | Yukon. It was an old Abbott Bulldog car he travelled 14%,- 000 miles in it in- mde of three years, going all the way ror Mexico City to the Arc- Circle, after making every State the Union, Gein M. Dickson is an, old-timer om ae Row. Now, he is lept fra General Manager of the Natiow ir Cats nea Vehicle Cor- poration, Net he wasn't always so. hag been in the show gam since the first show of the “horseless in the French lan. eo [stone find W. 3. Anderson, Guftnarson is a sales oe ine whom President A. R. et of the Studebaker ‘aoe ee Bomb. * ” French, cifler a fast as he comm to| for gone, Mallcemembered trip. the trouble ‘with the French type ‘They |sincs, O° WVinw In Greenwich ever of the most popular and busiest fen at the Automobile Show Korbel. also began te on A ibevele and graduated years and years ago into the automobile, gallery of favorites. H ee the most popular in the Palace, for he’s the gentleman who gives out the oe and busy! Oh, my! Herbert Carpenter used to play full was “The Value of Education.” TH back on the Princeton you'd never think Stas he wa South Bend, nat May well point with pride, He lives in Green- hobs og not the Vil- lage, but college, but ha old New York like } od fualities f tnce he does his ig Nery volce with baker. He ich been in the eutee = ba mobile game for twenty yeara, and like many other ane sn men, inceton, Herb. is now cen- tre rush for the, Hupmobile. cossories is les J. Slater, who is strength of the broke down in Greenwich, and Eddie also navy also. is corner {a| and never missed] & ball game in th Windy City, There are more, many more aufo- mobile Presidents and General geen at the Automobile Show in the Palace, ania ila bs SEITZ TALKS TO STUDENTS. yn C. Seitz, business manager of The tlon. World, made two addresses last nignt| = * GARRISON HAWAII lf Phelan Tells Senate U, S. Needs Large Navy—Calls Japan “Warlike Nation.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-Garrl- soning of the United States naval base at Hawaii has been done by Bill made! Japanese, recruited into the Ameri- -| can Nation’ Guard, Senator Phelan, California, declared in the Senate to- Upstairs Gan | the automobile ac-| gay during discussion of the new resolution to fix the limit of the at 176,000. it! Urging a large army Phelan pointed out that the Japanese owe a dual al-| |i) legiance to the Emperor of Japan and the United States, Phelan sald he believed there i# “a vory warlike country on the Pacific,” and that the United States should have a large <> See Miller About Legisiative Inquiry ALBANY, Jan. 13—G@enators Theo- lesmen and Presidents, Vice|dore Douglas Robinson and Schuyler Managera| Meyer to-day conferred with Gov, filler on the powslbility of a legia- lative Investigation of the adminis- tration of New York City, The Sena- tors refused to discuss their conversa- Sealine Coats 86 inches long, large self collar and bell cuffs. Now at the Boys’ High School, Brooklyn. Suc first audience was of about 400 students Wa the class in journalism of the Brook- n Branch of the College of the City of lew York, to whom he related his ex- perlentes in the newspaper fleld. Tne Becond addrean was th the auchtoriuiy of the school. ‘There Mr. Seltz's subjoct alt, Faiaeeeaks ‘atre® race gag wet Bie Ets Gr ie Sealine Coats jectrics, the orig~ al horseleas car- o Those were the old days of + like they have it*in the Vir. ginia Reel. The care were called light running cars, but were heavier than the ordinary truck. ‘The steering wheel hadn't yet been heard from and they steered with a straight rod, like a broomstick, Electricity in those | limes was given the preference over Fasolige, because the virtues of gas- oline weren't known, but the batteries were good as as they would run, and often the electric car would stop short right in the middie of the| street. | Since then the defects in the chained lightoing have been correct- ed, but gasoline meantime came into general service and John D. Rocke- feller has had money to give away to the poor ever since, HE'S AN ARTIST IN TURNING] OUT CARS. James J. Hunt js the New York General Manager for the Reo Motor Car Company, and is one of the few men in the auto~ mobile game who is an art connois- seur, His artistic taste finds play In the mural decora- tions of his s: rooms, in his cars and on his Christ- mas cards. Ho is ® pioneer in the game of the gaso- tine carriage, and \s equally at Kome in Lansing, Mich., San’ Francisco oF New York, or be ny od else he may happen to land. is week General “Jim” has been| nobacbblog with other great nabobe| of the Reo Company, and is showing the lads from Vanes the streets and spires of New York. Among the Re ites aré R. EB, ¥ Scott, General Manager; H. | as, Engineer; D. EB, Bates, Secretary- Treasurer; R. C, Rueechaw, coed Manager; P. L. Emerson, W. K, To ers, C. L, Lemon, J. C. Miller, 4 P| eZ = MeGibbon & Ca. 1 AND 3 WEST 37TH ST. 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