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At the Atlanta Automobile Show You’ll See All Latest Improvements Yet Made in Cars
EVERY NEW MOTOR WRINKLE WILL BE EXHIBITED
Even Those Who Don't Know
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Sure To Be Interested.
FOUR weeks from tonight the cur
tain will rise on the biggest and
best of Southern automobile
shows.
It will be staged, like its two Atlanta
predecessors, in the Atlanta Audito
rium-Armory
Rot it will be a new and transformed
Auditorium-A' inorj Exactly 316,000 in
real m >ney will be spent on the decora
tions The auto show is not paying for
it all. it is true. The same decorations
will be used for another show which
comes early in December. But that
makes no difference to the exhibitors or
the spectators at the automobile show.
They will get the full benefit of the
handsomest lighting and decorating
that has been ever known in the South
for an affair of this sort.
' .More floor space has been provided
this year than ever before. This has
been done by leveling oil the stage, by
decorating below the seats and by util
izing carefully every inch of available
cpace.
The show itself will be one that has
’er been equalled in tlie South and
btfc a few times outside the three big
RuMgnobjle centers of the United States
The greatest variety of cars will be
exhibited at the coming show. From
the very cheapest to the very highest
price, they will all be there
Perhaps the most interesting side of
the exhibition will be the now vastly
improved cheap and medium-priced
cars, now offered in such vast and at
tractive profusion.
Machines Perfect Now.
These new pleasure cars will largely
go into the hands of families making
their first motor purchases. They will
be the families of the farming areas,
of tl" well-to-do, fairly prosperous
communities of cities and towns scat
tered all ove: the United States. One
ne al only look at tin' occupants of cats
on Peachtree street or Roswell road,
the park drives and county toads on
tiny Sunday to be convinced that the
mere possession of an automobile is no
badge of great wealth. Notice how fre
quently one sees a young lather and
mother, with the children, starting out
for a Sunday pleasure drive from their
unpretentious home—often a modest
Hat.
What a change since the days of the
first automobile show in Madison
Square Garden, when a running track
■was provided so that manufacturers
could demonstrate to doubting Thom
ases that the wheels would really go
round, and that the engine and car
could be started and stopped at will!
Those were the days when argument
was heated over the merits of vertical
end horizontal engines; of partisanship
over aJr or water cooling systems, dis
putes as to shaft or chain drive, stor
age and dry cell batteries, all-steel
frames or laminated wood; when the
electric systems on even the best cars
■were installed about as crudely as the
average open circuit electric doorbell
tn a house, and nowhere near as relia
ble; when radiators were mostly tubes
with funny fins; when the carburetor
was not much of an improvement over
an ordinary cologne atomizer, and the
muffler spoke like a miniature Gatling
<un.
Those machines, however, served to
demonstrate the feasibility of the auto
mobile. The bright minds of American
inventors, engineers and mechanics
have produced the flawless, dependable,
almost indestructible car of today —and
in a decade!
Improvements Came Fast.
Improvements came almost faster
than one could keep track of them.
One by one the horizontal engines in
pleasure cars disappeared; the prob
lems of transmission and ignition were
solved for all time; carburetors be
came models of reliability and efficien
cy. Engineers learned how to get
tougher metals, to design the moving
parts so that they became almost noise
less in operation, and various little re
finements were added to make auto
mobile driving pleasanter, safer and
cheaper.
But improvement did not stop there
With machines as reliable as a watch
ttyere were still a few rough points to
be smoothed over. And smoothed they
were
Electric lighting systems wee de
vised so that by touching a button at
the front seat the headlights or tail
lamps could be set aglow . the gasoline
engine was made to manufacture elec
tricity for every purpose on the car.
Then came the s -if-st a t tore eilmlnw*.
mg the necessity of ( ranking the engine
get it under wav In their wake
ave <mm other little shot-saving de
(' l es and conveniences and Improve
ments in methods of operation which
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• List of Exhibitors at •
Automobile Show •
» —__ •
• R. H Corporation—R. C. H.- •
• Hupp Yeates electric. •
• Reed Oil Company—Reed oils. •
• Michigan Georgia Motor Compa- •
• ny—Miehigon 40. ’ •
• Studebaker Corporation—Stude- •
• baker E-M-F 30 and Flanders 20 •
• .1. I. Case Company—Case. •
• Velie Motor Vehicle Company— •
• Velie. •
• Cole Motor Company—Cole- •
• Federal and Alco trucks. *
• Premier Motor Sales Company— •
» Premier. •
• Fulton Auto Supply Company •
• Hudson, Marmon. •
• Stelnhnuaer A- Wight —Cadillac. •
• Locomobile Company—lxtcomo- •
• bile. •
• International Harvester Compa- •
• ny International. •
• H. W. Brown—Accessories. •
• Charles E. Miller Accessories •
• and supplies. •
• Sigma Engineering Company •
• Haynes. Lozier. •
• It .1. Sl,ar Vesta Electric sup- •
• plies •
• Elyea-Austell Company—Aces- •
• series and supplies. •
• Alexander Seewald —Accessories •
• and supplies. •
• Atlanta Top and Trimming •
• Company 'fops and upholstering. •
• Johnson-Gen inner Company— •
• Accessories, supplies, motor ap- •
• parel and novelties. •
• Firestone-Columbus Southern •
• Company—The Firestone-Colum- •
• bus electric. •
• L. S. Crane Pope,-Hart ford. •
• Atlanta Auto Sales Company •
• Henderson. National. Flanders Six •
• and Colonial electric. •
• Overland Southern Motor Car •
• Company—Overland. Harford •
• F. R. Stearns —Stearns. •
• John M. Smith —Pierce Arrow. •
• Chalmers. •
• C. H. Johnson—Stevens-Duryea. •
• Raker electrics •
• Oakland Motor Company Oak- •
• land. •
• Mitehell Lewis Motor Company •
• —Mitchell. •
• The Gewinner Company—Acres- •
• series and supplies. •
• Ford Motor Company—Fora. •
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make the ear of today almost uncanny
In Its efficiency. •
And so we come to the automobile of
1913, the new models of which ate to be
displayed for the first time in tile Cnit
ed Stall’s at the Atlanta Auditorium-
Armo y November Ifi to 23. It is the
first big automobile show of the season,
by tile way. and includes about every
thing the manufacturers will be able to
get together for the New York exhibit
next January.
What ar,- the improvements" Well,
to the eye only they consist in hand
some. more artistic bodies: longer
wheel base: the practical banishment
from sight of top] boxes and the various
devices which used to make the dash
board appeal tittered, the tendency to
substitute electrb lights for al' forms
of gas lamps, and the Improvements in
The Atlanta Georgian ?
Automobile Department
MODEL SHOWING ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN MOTOR CAR BUILDING
springs to make for easier riding. Fore
doors are now the almost invariable
rule.
Mechanically, the most noticeable
feature of tile 1913 models is the large
number of even very moderate priced
cars which have adopted self-starting
devices of one kind or another. At the
show in Atlanta, last year there were
only a few such cars. Another point on
which many makers seem to have
agreed is the placing of control levers
In the center instead of at the right
of the machine.
One thing is certain to impress the
informed and observing visitor —and
that is the large number of new cars
with six-cylinder engines. some of
which sell for a very moderate price.
The question of fours and sixes has
been thoroughly threshed out in the last
eighteen months and “sixes" seem to
have won many converts. Some of the
high-priced machines are still made in
fours, however, showing as, indeed,
any experienced motorist will tell you—
that four cylinder- have certain merits
which appeal to the owner who does
not have to consider price.
In engine design the stroke gets
longer and longer. One well known
make this season Will have a seven
inch stroke, and others are only a frac
tion of an inch less. Not so very long
ago a five-inch stroke was considered
rather daring, ami as, late as 1910 the
average was probably about four
inches.
Other mechanical improvements are
in details of design and manufacture,
which make for durability, ease of op
eration and quietness in running. One
popular car has arranged the centers of
control—magneto, lights, battery, etc.
on a little platform directly under the
steering wheel. In several makes the
clutch and brake pedals have been re
designed so as to make their operation
possible with only a slight pressure
t out the foot. This, no doubt, was done
becaust of tite largely increasing num
ber of women who drit e their own gas-
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Z Number of Inhabitants
; For Each Automobile :
• In the Different States •
• Population •
• State or Per Car •
• Territory. Registered. •
• District of Columbia 35 •
• Nebraska x 45 •
• South Dakota 45 •
• Indiana (io ®
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• .Maine ............... 60 •
• New Jersey 60 e
® North. Dakota 75 •
• Massachusetts 85 •
• Michigan 85 •
• Ohio 85 o
• Oregon . 85 •
• Idaho 90 •
• Rhode Island 90 «
• Wyoming 90 •
• Vermont 94 e
• New Hampshire 100 •
• New York ipo »
• Arizona 110 •
• Washington no •
• Wisconsin 15 •
• Delaware 120 •
• Illinois 120 *
• Minnesota 120 «
• Montana 125 •
• Connecticut 130 •
• Maryland 130 e
• Colorado 135 •
• Nevada 145 e
• Pennsylvania 150 •
• Florida 160 •
• Missouri 165 e
• Georgia 175 e
• Texas iso e
• Utah iso •
• Kansas .' ISS e
• South Carolina 185 •
• New .Mexico 200 •
• Louisiana 285 •
• California 315 •
• Tennessee 315 •
• Oklahoma 350 *
• Arkansas 415 •
• Virginia 420 •
• North Carolina 450 •
• Alabama . 520 •
• West Virginia 570 o
• Kentucky 655 •
• Mississippi 1000 •
• (From statistics collected by •
• Automobile.l •
AUTOMOBILE NOTES
The “Midland Trail,” third of the
three trans-continental routes to be
laid out this year by the A. A. A. tout
ing Information board, is now in proc
ess of preparation, with A. L. Westgard,
the association's field representative,
well on his way from New York to Los
Angeles.
Three R-C-H cars are the latest pur
chase of the New York fire department,
a deal having been consummated be
tween the Metropolitan authorities and
the New York branch of the R-C-H
within the last week.
With the Glidden tour, abandoned for
this fall, the R-C'-H Corporation has
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x Blue Monday”
"A Blue Monday " horse cripples the day's delivery W
7 here is a sickness horses business. They do not use horses in
known as "Blue Monday." It comes their delivery any longer. They use
always on a Monday. It is caused by motor trucks.
horses overfeeding on Sunday and no Alco motor trucks are not affected
work on that day. It is what might by an idle and over-fed Sunday,
be termed “horse indigestion." They do not wnaume on that day.
"Blue Monday” sickness usually They are not susceptible to indiges
nianifests itself a short time after the • tion. They deliver the goods as well
horse is at work on Monday. Some- on Monday as on Saturday. They
tunes the horse is given a lav-off for enable their owners to keep promises,
the entire dav . other times alter an to satisfy customers, to reach out and
hour’s delay he is on the way again. get new business.
But meantime deliveries are set An Alco truck is waiting in our
back, promises are broken, customers salesroom to show you what it is doing
become impatient and dissatisfied, for others—doing in eighty-six lines of
and business is lost. business in the leading cities of North
Messrs. John Wise and Son. up the America. ’Phone Ivy 799 and it
street, are getting most of this lost will call on you.
Alco Truck* are built by the American Locomotive Company
COLE MOTOR COMPANY OF GEORGIA
Distributors also of Alco 6-Cylinder and 4-cylinder Motor Cars.
239 Peachtree Street. Phone Ivy 799.
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decided to enter a team in the around-
Lake-Michigan-tour of the Chicago
Motor club October 21 to 28. Practi
cally the same team and crews that
were to make the national tour will be
entered in the Chicago run. which
promises to be the banner event of the
kind this season.
Ten thousand miles in 100 running
days is the feat to he attempted by th-.
Mormon "Hundred Century car." which
left Indianapolis Wednesday, October
2. on a remarkable touring test. The
"Hundred Century car” is a new Mor
mon 32 touring car and is the property
of M. L. Templeton, of Indianapolis,
who will pilot the ear on its hundred
century jaunt.
USE OF AUTDS
GIVEN fl BOOST
Test by Los Angeles Postmas
ter Shows Motor Car Supe
rior to Horse.
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 19—Te«t= by
government officials in Los Angeles
during the past three weeks have
opened up another field of usefull? =s
for the motor car—that of supplanting
the horse in the coiWWion and distri
bution of mails. The postoffice author,
ities have made their trials exhaustive
and accurate, and when they report to
Washington in a few days it is . x .
pected radical changes w ill be order, d.
For many years the government re
fused to heed the call of progress. It
had employed the horse for so long in
the work of handling the mails that no
change would be considered. “We have
been doing our work with horses for
years, and it has been done well. Why
should we experiment with motor
cars?” was the answer given when Fed.
eral methods were criticised.
Postmaster Harrison of Los Angel. -
was the one to take the bit In his teeth.
He did not ask for a fleet of automo
biles, but instead put on two gasoline
propelled vehicles for a test which
would prove to those at the capital
that the horse had no place in their
service.
Test Costs Nothing.
These ears cost the government neii
ing. One of them, a Studebaker -JO,' -
of the regular delivery wagon type,
was donated for the test by Sales Man-'
ager LaCasse of the local Studebaker
Corporation branch, and an exj .r;
driver, Frank Griebel, was placed in
charge. The ear was put on a regular
run, comprising twelve hours hard work
every day. and accurate records of fu. i
consumption and stops for repairs were
contemplated.
The latter was an unnecessary pre
caution, for so far the little Studeb ke
has not lost a single second throng.,
"illness.” It has knocked out an aver
age of over a hundred miles a day fi. ■
three weeks and under Griebel’s guid
ance bids fair to go through the 30-day
test without a flaw, and at much ■ss
cost than would have been the case
were the fleet of horses and wagons
necessary for the work maintained.
"It is almost a certainty that the re
sult of this test will be far-reaching
said a prominent postoftice official y.--
terday. “Not only will horses be 1.41
ished from the collection service, but
the big wagons now used in hauling
mail to distributing points w ill be r. -
placed by trucks, motor driven.
Rural Delivery Next.
“The rural delivery will be next '7
line. At present the government allow’
rural carriers so much a month forth
maintenance of their horses and wag
ons, and this money, together with a
little bonus at the start, can just a !
well be applied on motor cars. The ad
ditional money to start with will aid
the carrier to purchase his own ma
chine, and the government will he tak
ing no chances of contracting bills be
yond what it expected.”
