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HKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1913.
FOR Mi POLL
Atlanta W?men Maying Records at Wheel;
Here Is a Skilled Driver in a 'Cartercar’
AUSTIN GIVES UP AUTOS
TO SELL REAL ESTATE
Stewart Avenue Climb on May 17
Awakes Great Interest—List
of Awards to Date.
Vnnouncement of tho second annual
till climb on the Stewart Avenue hill
Saturday, May 17. hag brought out a
host of prospective entries, and in
terest in the races is intense. Indl-
caLions are that many parties from
subur ban points will be in attendance,
as well as thousands of local automo-
b e enthusiasts. The races will be
held under the auspices of the Atlanta
Automobile Association and with the
sanction of the American Automobile
Association
Class I) ig a free-for-all, but re
strictions in Class C consist of re
quirements that cars in Event 1 be of
piston displacement not exceeding 160
cubic Inches; in Event 2, 161 to 230;
in Event 3, 231 to 300; in Event 4.
3**1 to 450, and in Event 5, 451 to 600.
The amateur event will be open io
all owners for cars equipped as used
for everyday service.
Awards to Date.
Among the awards to date are the
following:
A speedometer for automobiles, and
a speedometer for motorcycles, given
by the Stewart - Warner Speedometer
Corporation
One barrel Triple E oil for automo
biles. one-half barrel for motorcycles,
and one gallon of reservldng fluid or
body polish for automobiles, all given
by the Reed Oil Company.
One pair of motorcycle tires, given
by the United States Tire Company.
A silver oup, given by the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Company.
addition to the above, the Atlan
ta Automobile Association cup, now
held by L. S. Crane, and the E Rivers
cup, now' held by the Studebaker Cor
poration, will again be in the com
petition. Those must be won three
successive times for permanent pos
session.
Director of Sales
Abolished by Hupp
Harry Fotdick Leaves, and R. O.
Neighbors Continues Work—State
ment of Assistant Manager.
J. M. Austin, who organized the
Maxwell branch In Atlanta several
years ago. and later was agent for
the Marlon automobile, has left the
automobile business to enter the real
estate field. Mr. Austin has Joined
the sales force of the Edwin P. Ana-
ley Agency. He is a native of South
Carolina, but has been in Atlanta five
or six years.
woman's brain being best suited to
| mechanical details and working more
quickly In acute situations. ■»* pip
ing at conclusions,” merf call it when
they do not wish to appear too flat
tering.
Women went cautiously at first.
They feared this big machine invent
ed by man, made by man and used
by man as something entirely with
out their province. The electric < nr
best suited her idea of her own abil
ity. The electric car became solely
feminine and was adorned, simplified
and made luxurious for her enjoy
ment.
To-day most women are forsaking
the electric for gasoline cars because
they have found that they are espe
cially fitted to manage them. They
have discovered that tlie pleasure of
long runs. the exhilarating speed
and the realization of capability is
best obtained with gasoline cars.
The demonstrators say that women
learn to drive easily. They keep very
quiet at first, listening and watching
until they are persuaded within their
own consciousness that they can mas
ter the car. Then they go!
Will Dame Fashion
Rule Auto World?
Proud Owner of Bulgarian Blouse
Declares Makers Must 8uit
Car to Latest Style.
Is the same Dame Fashion who
rules Milady in the choice of wear
ing apparel, to work a revolution in
the design of motor car bodies? Is
the Bulgarian blouse, that loosely flu
ting. comfortable upper half of
Milady's costume to cause a length
ening of upland-down lines in auto
mobile bodies? According to a letter
recently received at the plant of the
VVillys-Overland Company, of Toledo,
Ohio, makers of Cfverland cars, Ma
dame Style and her latest Parisian
creation are about to Introduce some
Important automobile Innovations.
The writer of the letter Is a well-
known woman motor enthusiast wha
prefers to do her own driving rather
than employ a chauffeur and who
chose a open cars rather than the
coupe. Part of her letter Is as fol
lows:
“The Bulgarian blouse bids fair to
< ali for some changes in motor car
body design. Since the advent of
this conceit In woman’s attire, there
have been complaint/* coming from
women w-ho drive open ears, because
of the lack of protection from the
wind. The blouse*, jou know, are
loose about the bottom and the wearer
finds uncomfortable the winds set up
by the motion of the machine. Then,
too, the full bottom of the blouse Is
prone to fly up about the arms and
hands. Interfering with the steering.
"The best remedy for this situation
that I can see now is to make th ■
dash and foredoors of open cars
higher and thus further protect
women drivers from the wind. Th:*
or some other expedient will have i
be employed, for the Bulgarian blouse
remains in favor.”
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228-230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233
"Know Your Car, Test Your Abil
ity, Trust Yourself," Advises
"Chauffette."
The Hupp Motor Car Company an
nounces the resignation of Harry
Fosdick as director of sales.
According to Frederick A. Harris,
assistant general manager, who has
active supervision over the field poli
cies of the company, the above posi
tion has been abolished. Mr. Harris
said yesterday: ‘ The abandonment of
the position of director of sales in
connection with the policy of this
company will entail no further
changes or additions to the sales de
partment. R. G. Neighbors, the prev
ent sales manager, will continue !ti
charge with his present force. Mr.
Neighbors Is now returning from s
Three-month trip to the Coast, during
which he visited all of the distribut
ing cities and many of the smaller
towns, and also interviewed hundreds
of owners throughout the West.
"He reports that he has not met a
single dissatisfied owner on the en
tire trip and his statements of Hup-
mobile enthusiasm throughout the
« ountry an* verified by the fn^t that
ast month’s sales nearly doubled lha
best previous record of any month
in the history of the Hupp Motor Car
i 'ompany."
“One Lung” Cadillac
Uncovered at Show
Harrisburg Dealer Transforms
Model With Self Starter.
How It Was Done.
Old
The Crispen Motor Car Company,
of Harrisburg, Pa., who handle the
Cadillac In that city, aroused a great
deal of interest during the rerent Au
tomobile Show by showing on the
•treete an antique car built in 1902,
of the so-called “one-lunged” variety.
The old engine, which had done serv
ice for 31 years, was pulled out and
the Delco electrical system, removed
from a 3913 Cadillac Installed in *tn
place. The cranking device had power
enough to run the old car about the
city of Harrisburg, traveling more
than four miles on one battery charge.
A sign exhibited on the car read:
Evoluting Some—the 1913 Cadillac
Self-Starter is the Sole Motive PoWir
Propelling This Ancient Relic.”
JOHNSON MOTOR COMPANY
TAKES UP NEW QUARTERS
The Johnson Motor Company,
agents for the Stevens-Duryea. the
Little Six and the Chevrolet automo
biles, has leased the southern half
of the two-story brick building at 455
Peachtree 8treet and will at once be
gin business at the new stand. The
other portion of this building is occu
pied by the Hendee Manufacturing
Company, makers of Indian motor*
cycles.
Turman, Black & Calhoun, the
well-known real estate agents, han-
tRfed, the lea«e for Dr. J. W. Roberta
owMf of the building.
AtlanlB women make the bevt
chauffeurs. Their husbands say so,
the dealers say so, the demonstrators
May so, and the women themselves
modestly admit It
Granted that Atlanta has the best
Judges of automobile efficiency, the
question of reasons remains. The
1 best way to find out a wherefore” for
every “why” Is to seek those most In
timately interested. Hence, the At
lanta women proficient as automobile
drivers are consulted first.
The opinion of an Atlanta woman
who Is one of Atlanta'* greatest en-
thuslaets who became an Atlantan by
choice and not by birth, was most
elucidating. This lady owns and drives
a Cartercar, although Bhe does not
claim that she has nearly approached
the standard she has set for herself
as an automobile driver. Her car.
she says, Is simple for a woman to
drive because of friction transmission.
This statement In itself shows that
she knows her car.
Milady of the Cartercar, with the
thoroughness Which makes woman
successful in almost any field she en
ters, 1ms begun with a thorough
grounding In the mechanism of her
car. Hears, carburetor, transmission,
lubrication and ignition are not mere
ly words, but essential parts of her
automobile knowledge. With a com
plete knowledge of the car she drive*,
Milady of the Cartercar can adjust
her own car, intelligently direct oth
ore in making repairs, or can if nec
essary, repair her car herself.
Woman's Inner Sense.
But suppose every woman does not
care to go into each and every detail
of her car’s mechanism She will
prove ii good driver simply through
natural ability and instinct. A worn
all’s intuition is her most valuable
asset In most emergencies. Her pres
ence of mind is largely a matter of
intuition, and will carry her through
tests which no man could meet. Wom-
I on, even though frail and flowerlike in
I physique, will show unusual courage,
remarkable endurance ami almost su
perhuman presence of mind In criti
cal Hituatlons.
This may sound as if warfare were
| the subject instead of automobile
driving If a woman is capable,
through natural ability, of meeting
emergencies she can prove to bo a
better driver than any man living.
Rhe need fear no crucial teste, be
cause she can readily and Intuitively
meet them. Ordinary driving can be
accomplished without the leaet hesi
tancy and that Is the reason women
have In the last year or two become
the drivers of their own cars
Milady of the Uartcrcar has good
advice to give. Rhe says, “Know your
car Tsst your ability Trust your
self ” It Is concise, but comprehen
sive ad vies, and iu>t hard to follow.
Her Athletic Training.
The co-ordination of woman’s fac
ulties, the development of women to
their very best, is Mtiady’r most
charming fad Rhe loves girls be
cause she has just emerged from de
lightful girlhood herself and has not
lost her sympathy. A graduate of the
Boston Normal School of Gymnastics
and for sever# 1 years a physical di
rector at Agnes Scott College, her
word a* to women's ability is valu
able.
She can see where the adoption of
automobile driving has had a decided
effect on the best development of
women It tests a w oman’s nerve and
brings to her aid those sleeping intui
tions which a mere automobllist ean
never enjoy It is when a woman is
accomplishing something that she is
most radiantly happy. When she can
have the pleasure of command, of set
ting the car in motion, of stopping it
at the instant of desire, she enjoys
her power thoroughly.
Atlanta is the best place in the
world to make good automobile driv
ers. Learn here and you can take
your car anywhere. If you can run
your car through Peachtree Street
during the busy part of the day, you
can attempt any feat. If you can
avoid losing your nerve in the con
gestion at Five Points, you can
triumph over any test you will ever
encounter.
You don't need to be an athlete in
order to drive a car, but if you are
Interested In athletics your rapid co
ordination will prove most desirable.
You don't, need to be a complete
mechanician to make shopping trips,
but if you understand your car thor
oughly you can take long runs safely
and without dread.
The husbands of Atlanta are
proud of their wives' automobile
prowess. One husband franklly ad
mits that he has never touched the
< ar, does not understand tne car and
does not Intend to learn. He lets his
wife drive. This man realizes that
his wife is thoroughly capable of
managing the large car, which re
sponds to her touch as if it were
alive. He is one of Atlanta's success
ful business men and enjoys the
pleasure which his wife takes in be
ing in command at the steering
wheel.
The dealers do not know just why
it is that women have come to the
front as automobile drivers. In fact,
they would possibly rather not ad
mit It, as It mokes but another in
stance of women beating men at
their own game. Statistics prove,
moreover, that there is but a slight
proportion of accidents among wom
en drivers. Women recognize emer
gencies and meet them more rapidly
than men. It is the old story of a
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‘ A Definition of
Automobile Service
This is a much talked about subject.
Every dealer, every manufacturer, talks
about it. Some are specific, some only suggest
what it might be. This is our definition.
See if you do not agree that it is the most
important in the consideration of your motor
car purchase.
No man, no matter how experienced, can
know what service any car will render. No
two drivers operate their car alike. No two
cars are called upon to render the same kind
of service.
Machinery will wear out. It must be at
tended to. and some one expert, willing and
broad in mind, must be there to see that the
car gives the service you expect it to give.
A car must be built with a sufficient allow
ance to take care of the average demand made
upon it.
No dealer can give service who is not suc
cessful. Motor car satisfaction is largely a
matter of dealer satisfaction. To be able to
give such service the dealer must make a profit.
He cannot tall his cars at a discount. He can
not make unreasonable allowances for old auto
mobiles in order to make a sale and have a
profit left sufficient to give the service that
should go with every motor car.
He must see the broader possibilities of con
ducting his business upon a service basis than
is often found, especially among dealers whose
only interest is in making the sale.
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More Than $2,000
The ”54” HUDSON is all that any automobile at
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The ‘'54” HUDSON is the answer to a question that
has long concerned all automobile builders. “What will
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When he built this car he had as his associates ex
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Thus all guess work was eliminated—all experiment
made unnecessary. With so many viewpoints and so
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The ”54” HUDSON has electric lights. It is elec
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