Harrisburg's Greatest Automobile Show Opens Tonight at 7 O'clock With Last Word in Construction
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PASSENGER CAR NUMBER. HARRISBURG, PA. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1919. AUTMOBILE SUPPLEMENT!
NINTH ANNUAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW OPENS
THIS EVENING IN OVERLAND WAREROOMS
BEAUTIFUL NEW CARS TO
BE PUT BEFORE PU3LIC
Accessories to play big part in display
designed to aid owners of big and
little cars; exhibition of light and
heavy trucks for all purposes
to be held next week; lack of
floor space makes it impos
sible to show both types
of motor vehicles at
same time; no end
to useful and orn
amental devices
made to aid man
driving his car
GUIDED MOTOR
CLUB TO SUCCESS
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J. CTLDE MYTON
BIG EXHIBITION
SECOND ONLY TO j
NEW YORK SHOW
Every Type of Motor Vehicle
to Be on Floor of Ninth
Annual Auto Show
GOOD ROADS CERTAIN
Governor Sproul's Attitude Isj
Boon to Pleasure and Busi
ness Machines
Surpassed only by the magnificent!
recent display in New York, the >
Motor Dealers' AssociaUon of Har- j
risburg will stage at 7 o'cloc c this !
evening at the Overland Service j
Station, Twenty-sixth and Derry!
streets, a similar gorgeous pageant, i
which will continue for the bulk of |
two weeks, this being the annual j
event of the enterprise. Even a j
flock of five hundred airships sail- I
ing over the arena could not blanket i
the intense interest which promises ;
to be manifested in the road ve- j
hide de luxe. So gorgeously attrac- \
tive is the spacious place, flaming;
with decorations, flowers and green
ery that J. Clyde Myton called atten
tion yesterday afternoon to a blind
man who seemed to derive great rel
ish from the atmosphere alone.
The array of vehicles includes al
most everything up-to-date from
dossy, chipper roadsters to luxurious
sedans and limousines. Most, if not
all. of the cars are more "distin
guished'' in appearance than those
of last year or the year-before-last.
The chubby little brig-built "butter
box" of the last half decade, has dis
appeared altogether, and, even in
the lower-priced machines, given
way to a long, low, rakish, speedy
looking and altogether competent af
fair that looks as if it had just step
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Harrisbu^ Telegraph
Ibis map shows all
State highways
anil cross roads
within a circle of
sixty miles of Har
risbu r g. Each
circle shows ten
miles. Cut it out
and paste on card
board and save for
future reference.
How A utomobile Industry
Helped in Winning War
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Motor Car Makers Were Amony Very First to Place Plants '
and Services at Disposil of the Government
A great part of the effort made by
the Lnited States tn helping to do
feat Germany fell upon the auto
mobile industry, This was to be ex
pected, since the war was conducted
so largely with mechanical eulqp
| ment and the automobile Industry
| possessed, in its hundreds of upto
| date factories equipped with the
jmost modern automatic machinery
unequaled facilities for quick pro'
duction in large volume, The
[hundreds of thousands of employes
I in the industry were skilled in work
ing, and handling alloy steel and
other inetals thousands of mo
1 chanical and eleoirjoal engineers
were engaged in the industry, and
' executives of the automobile com-
panies were accustomed to co-opera
tion, large business and quantity pro
duction.
Immediately following the declara
tion by Congress that a state of war
existed between the United States
and Germany, the National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce
passed a resolution offering the ser
vices and all the facilities of its
members to the President and the
War and N'avy Departments in the
prosecution of the war.
Way before the United States en- :
tered the war a number of leading
truck manufacturers bad taken large
orders for and delivered thousands
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Central Pennsylvania's
Main Highways
High Spots of the Auto Show
! Auspices Harrisburg Motor Dealers Association.
! Manager J. Clyde Myton.
Show Committee—George G. McFarland, Charles R. Bar
ner, Andrew Redmond, T. B. Wildermuth and
H. J. Williams.
Place Overland-Harrisburg Co.'s Warerooms, 26th and
Derry Sts.
Hours 10 A. M. to 10.30 P. M.
Admission 30c which includes war tax.
Passenger Car Show March 15 to 22, inclusive.
Truck and Tractor Show March 24-25-26.
Accessories at both shows.
Music Municipal Orchestra.
Special Exhibits Army Tank (never been on exhibition
before); Army Aeroplane, Liberty Motor.
Any Paxtang or Hummelstown Car takes you to 26th and
and Derry Sts.
Autolsts go owl from Square on Market Street to Fourth, Inn.
r eht to and over Mulberry St. Bridge; East on Mulberry Strict to
IJerrj j Mmlght wt on Derry (Keadln B l'lke) to 20th Street
(Overland Wtreroomn),
DOORS OPEN AT 7 P. M. FOR
PASSENGER CAR EXHIBIT
Big event of the year is being staged
under direction of Harris burg
Motor Dealers' Association
with special features for
owners of cars and for
men planning to own
touring cars or light
town runabouts.
More machines to
be shown than at
any former ex
hibition held in
the city
! What You Should Know
About Cars at Auto Show
| Complete Directory of the Passenger Cars Which Will Be
Found in the Exhibition
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The various models; their improvements, if any, and entirely new
designs as brought out in the ninth annual automobile show are listed
in alphabetical order. This synopsis will give you foundation on which to
start in your perusal of the many cars on exhibition.
American Six
! American Auto Company, dis
tributors, Front and Forster Streets,
| Booth No. 22.
i The changes in the American six
i car this year are as follows: Gen
j nine never-leak top with plate gluss
' lights in the back curtain.
' Substitution of the Grant I.ees
1 transmission for the Covert trans
mission; increase of power by 3(4
inch motor instead of 3 1-3-inch,
and greatly improved quality of all-
Beginning next Sat
urday, the Tele
graph will publish
routes to ull iui
portant points
leading from Ilar
risburg. They will
nppear in the Auto
mobile sectiou
every Saturday.
This map will help
explain them.
I around finish. It i£ built on 122-inch
wheel base chassis.
Apporson
i Keystone Hules Company, distribu
tors, 108 Market Street, Uooth No.
18.
ij The Apperson anniversary models
for 1910 are the same In body und
i chassis design as those of 1918; that
is, they are using the new eight
cylinder motor with the eighty less
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OWNED SECOND
V ' AUTO IN CITY
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GEORGE G. McFARLAND
TWELVE HOURS TO
ANNVILLE WAS
FIRST JIECORD
Eirst "Busses" to Reach City
Were Hard to Manage oil
a Distance Trip
CROWDS WERE CURIOUS
Tinkered For a Week Before
"One-Lunger" Was Safe
to Go to Lebanon
"Best organized automobile deal-*
er's association in America!"
This is the reputation accredited tat
Harrisburg, not by itself, but by the
[ concensus of national opinion an ex
traordinary tribute which accounts
for the scope and brilliancy of this
annual show. The narrative of the
motor car's arrival and development
in the Capital City of Pennsylvania,
reads more entertainingly than a roll
icking romance and the business
vision of the original founders of
the local dealers association must
have been six-cylinder from the start.
"As X recollect" told George G. Mc-
Parland, big boss of the Harrisburg
Automobile Company, "the first ma
chine owned here belonged to Jimmy
Kline, and I had the second, liis
steered with lever and had a single
cylinder and went under the nam*
of Olds; mine was similarly primi
tive and was marked Rambler. These
horseless cars were the talk of the
town. If you got from Harrisburg
to John Reilly's place up along the
river in one forenoon you were lucky.
( The trip to Lebanon was the tale
|of a .Munchausen for a long time.
| I remember the day we tried it. We
worked nearly a week getting the
| machine ready, with pretty much ev
! cry citizen looking on and we depart
ed in a burst of emotion from the
multitude. Twelve hours brought us
as far as Annville and that was such.
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