Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 172, 30 April 1911 — Page 17

THE RICHMOND PAIXADIUM Axil OIJIJ-TTXEGBLA1I, SUNDAY, APRIL SO, 1911.

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ooniiiis in lUTOuODm FIELD Youhg Men Told by L. A. M.iOfficial, Motor Car Is Now . Necessity. :,v NwVVork, April 29. That automobile manufacturing ond Bedding offer excelletty opportunities for young men, and thatmany of the Brenteat successes In the trade have been scored by men undrtr forty years of age, is the statement of Alfred Reeves, general manager 'of the Association of Llcened Automobile Manufacturers, in his address before the automobile school of the Hertford brunch, Y. M. C. A., in Urooklyn. )

( Mr. iieeves said mat me average age tof the preiiidents of the eighty factories in the !A. L. A. M., Is not more 'than fortytwo years, while the young'est uresident. who is the head of a milI "lion-dollar company, is only thirty-one. lie mentioned the men who have made names for themselves In tlie engineer ing as well as in the business end of motoring, and supplied some interest ing' figures showing the importance of the making and marketing of motor cars. He expressed the belief that ten years from now a horse would be as rare on the streets of New York as motor cars were ten years ago. There are plenty of factories for making cars 'bCt there are opportunities galore for young men to lmpove even what seem o ee uie peneci muior vfuitit-n ui iw day. Among other things he Bald: "The man who succeeds must be above the average. He must not be ton ordinary salesman, but a star sales nan; not a plain driver, but an expert driver; not an inventor of small things, but a producer of big things. "The recbrd growth of the automobile business during the last ten years ton been startling to the conserva tive business man who could not bring (himself to believe that motoring was (more than a pastime and that the mo tor car is just as much a necessity as ilia telephone, the teleghaph or transportation lines. For a number of tytrs these conservatives have preKliciea ratiure, yei eacn year naa seen more and better motor cars produced nd more and more men employed until now we have such startling fig urea as the following: "Three hundred automobile factorlet in America, of which 125 are beyond the experimental stage and are producing fifty or more machines, a "Four hundred and seventy-five milpiori dollar capital in the motor car smd accessory business, of which $285,000,000 is In motor car factories alone. "Four hundred and ten thousand automobiles manufactured during the Saat ten years, almost all of which are In nse. ,STwo hundred and seventy-eight thousand men employed in the various branches of motor car making and nelllng. "pine thousand four hundred dealers In America, most of whom maintain salesrooms or garages. ' "Twenty-five, thousand registered automobile drivers and almost seven ty thousand machines in use In the state of New York. Used Over the World. "Motor cars are now used the world over, even In the most remote parts of fsla and Africa. So far as I know there is only one place where motor cars are not used, and that is in Bermuda, where the roads are so narrow as to make motoring unsafe. The authorities have, therefore, prohibited their use on the Islands. TThe normal demand for cars In the future is expected to be about one hundred and seventy-five thousand pleasure' cars annually, many or which will go to the farmers. As to the number of freight carrying machines that can be used, only time will tell. It is a fact, however, that with seven million horse-drawn vehicles In the country, a large number must be replaced with motor cars, and that field offers the greatest future. Motor-driven vehicle!, will solve those many problems intolved in our present wasteful mthod of transferring merchandise by horsedrawn vehicles. Using a mo tor car which will carry twice the load at twice the speed, and requiring only half the space, will be like Increasing the width of streets six times." COL. ROOSEVELT SAW j SEATTLE IN E. M. F. 30 olonel Theodore Roosevelt during Hit recent visit to seatue. wasnigion, at irhlch time he was the guest of the Seattle Press club, used an E-M-F S0" exclusively in his rides around .the, northweeetern city. At the Unl erslty of Washington the famous lion hunter addressed n crowd of nearly lOOO people from the tonneau of the , E-M-F. In the car with Roosevelt was President Franklin Kane of the University. The colonel used the car during the parade given In his honor. Heretofore he has always used a carriage or rode horseback on his previous visits to the -extreme west, and the fact that he; rode in a motor car brought forth much comment. Harry ' McKnlght. the elusive Scotch salesman of the E-M-F Seattle forces and who induced Roosevelt to use. an E-M-F "SO," was the proudest man in Seattle. After the parade McKnlght joyfully remarked: "Ah'm beIn thlnkin' thu mon has a wee bit o thu bonny heather in him ot that and nh was verra verra sorry ah cudna weer me klltlese. Teddy overheard tbe ramark and un corked a typical Rooseveltlan burst of laughter, and slapping Mac on the back exclaimed: "You are all right ray boy. I had a bully time good uc to you." ' " Pe Artists. . jStse Peach I hate rubbers. They 'ttfraw say feet so badly. Her Escort ISaca pretty models too, Exchange.

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OF MILE RECORD . Will Go After Other Records at Speedway Big Priz- , r es Are Offered. Indianapolis, ; April 29. Ralph DePalma, champion mile-track driver of the automobile racing season of 1910, will drive a Simplex car during the' 1911 program of big events, according to the announcement by the Simplex Automobile company. DePalma has been nominated to drive a special fifty horsepower Simplex In the 500mile International Sweepstakes race at 'the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, on Memorial day. This will be the first big event In which the famous Italian will participate since his recent winnings at the Los Angeles motordrome, when he was one of the star perfprmers on the big board saucer track. The Simplex car which DePalma will drive was one of the first to be entered in the long classic but the steel steed has been left riderless until the nomination of DePalma came to complete the entry. DePalma is now In New York preparing his car for the coming season and will bring it to Indianapolis to tune it over the brick track within a few weeks.1 DePalma's nomination as a pilot in the long grind narrows the list of those great masters of the motor who are still out of the event down to three Burman, Lytle and Mulford. Assurances have been received by the Speedway management that all of these will be In the field of starters. Burman has been doing some great work on the beach in Florida and comes north soon to prepare a car for the Sweepstakes, Mulford Is certain to pilot a Lozier in the race,' and rumor has It that the dean of all the American pilots, Herb Lytle, will be seen at the wheel of a MarquetteeBulck. ' It is believed highly probable that ten more entries will be added to the list of thirty which were made under the early closing conditions, and all preparations are being made for the starting of forty cars in the long race. While the foreigners are whapped up In their own big races across the water this year, indications are that some of them will be among the starters In the Sweepstakes. From the standpoint of the entrants the' race conditions are becoming more and more interesting and alluring daily. Side offers are being made by the various accessory and supply makers,-and the side money thus far hung up totals $8,500. This is in addition to the purse of $25,000 offered by the Speedway. The Wheeler & Schebler company of Indianapolis, lead tt side offer list in size with the "Sc :p iler Carburator Purse" of $2,500 foifc the winner ot the great classic if the car's equipmen Includes the -Schebler carbuertor. The donors of the famous Wheeled & Schebler trophy have placed in the hands of the Speedway management a check for the amount, payable to "The World's Champion Automobile Driver." They state they believe the winner of this event entitled to that name. The "Reyfleld Carburetor , Prizes" of $2,000 are made payable to the winners of the first four places by the Flndelson , & Kropf Manufacturing company, of Chicago, makers of the Rayfleld carburetor. This purse is divided as follows: First $1,000, second $500, third $300 and fourth $200. The other side offers are $1,000 by the Columbia Lubricants company, in the "Monogram Oil Purse", and $1,000 by the Remy Electric company, in the "Remy Magneto Purse." It is now thought that the total of the prizes to be won in the event will be about $50,000, and several accessory makers have said they will come In later with' other offers. This makes the fortune at stake the greatest by far ever offered In any one automobile race.MILLION AND HALF INCREASE 1N STOCK Chicago, April 29.. J. T. Morrison of the Morrison Motor Car company, Chicago agents for the Oarford, received confirmation of the report that the Oarford company of Elyria, O., in order to keep pace with its ever growing business, has just increased its capital stock from $650,000 to $2,000,000. The company has just completed a new factory building 150x80 feet, three stories high where Garford trucks and municipal public service wagons will be made exclusively, and those branches in addition to their large pleasure car business have made the increased capitalization desirable. The new capital stock will consist of $850,000 In common stock and $500,000 In preferred. The common stock will be paid for out ot the surplus fund which amounts to $950,000 and it is reported it will go to the present share holders without cost. The preferred stock will be sold. OMAHA SALESMAN HAS THE BEST "AD" YET That the branch managers of .the E-M-F company are developing into literary stars, publishers and comedians in conjunction with worrying the sales department for' additional car load shipments is evidenced by the various books recently issued by them. . , A short time ago Joe Oilier, southern representative for the E-M-F "20" and Flanders "20" cars. Issued a book entitled "Defects In the E-M-F 30,' r but like Elbert Hubbard's book on "Silence", contained no printing. Now comes a "literary genius" from Omaha with a book on "How We Lost One Sale." After U:o reader passes j over several blank pares he flnallv finds on one page the information "He died."

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"The Retiring King of Speedway" Comes Back. Ray Harroun, hailed at the close of last season a "The Retiring King of the Speedway." has come . back to fight for his honors at the wheel of bis six cylinder racing car, the Marmon "Wasp." The announcement was made by officials of the Nordyke and Marmon company yesterday. When asked why he had returned to the racing game after he bad announced last fall that he would never sit behind the wheel of a throbbing steel juggernaut In competition," Harroun's face lit up with the same smile that he wore when he was presented with the Wheeler-Sbebler Thophy at the July meeting of the' Speedway last season. , "I returned to the game because I like it, and again I returned because of the large purse that is offered the winner of the 500-mile race," said the Bedouin pilot. "I have had countless

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offers to drive racing cars Indeed, the many requests for my services became wearisome and I had just one pet phrase to give to one and all, "I am never going to race again." "It has not been such a long time since I. told that same phrase to the Marmons, but the more I thought about the big race, and the 'prizes offered, the more I longed to sit at the wheel ot my Marmon car, smell the gasoline and see the brick track gliding swiftly under my car. "When the race starts-1 will roll the 'Wasp with which I have won many races up to the tape and I am going to go the 500 miles without a stop. I will go tbe long route and I am out to win. Harroun will drive the same Marmon car with which he won the Wheel-er-Shebler trophy and the car with which on the day following we tore a large chunck of concrete out of the heavy retaining wall and then slid for nearly twenty feet along its top and came out without a scratch to show for his momentary gaze into the depths of eternity. Harroun won more important races than any other driver on America's speedways last season, adding 15 firsts

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ENTER MARMON CAR IN GRAND PRIX RACE American representatives of the Automobile club de la Sarthe have asked the Nordyke and Marmon company of Indianapolis to enter one of . the record-breaking Marmon cars in the Grank Prix race the great French

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