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( Y- ' ~ ' K. K BWw 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 Spark Plug From Handsaw 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 SIXT STARTLE. 1 OR CRANK. ? CXNTLE SHORT X. / fi/1 / W r- jSHdgSPSMiI K HCW THICK ? electric* or GAS jfaPiiiimi> 1 KlYtwA LAMPS' JW /!'WM -x -41 YP-A k . /I wShHEL/ x ¥aRRANGM3H ZMS IgßggMM v ■ 1 LgMF ’ Xx of ccurai / £HDSTALL / PEDALS STYLE springs \ kunicng rja-r / acnjNMSS A TORE LLNGTH o/ Wil. tASt —ARHSTIC 6 \rc>CKSty BODY p «••••••••••••••••••••••••• * • • 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. • • • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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- -Simple Engine ♦ Accessible * Economical X.r fot* Jj^moiijrtration I,rt ’ * Ihe * * • CA oTL L. A c STEINHAUER & WIGHT 228*230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233 Touring Oil' ” l v4O” Touring Car livo sizes u 6 O" Touring Car*six cylinder ”> The White Company T ▼ > 120-22 Mnriottn.Sl. 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 ® • lowa BO e • .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 /v Motor Truck f \ f / r.«. Hor*,- A > / Alco Argument X ."-E-X ALCO bww 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. MJUJi-nr |J i e!(A i J® crA A. AK -a A ‘ L’'' • A 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.”