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Show Auto Built Just Like a Pullman Wonderful Palace Car on tho "Way to Millionaire Owner in California. Cal-ifornia. Pullman palace automobiles aro the latest things to he introduced In tho West. Palaces on whcelB for the railroads rail-roads have not been out of tho ordinary In this country for somo time oast. Similar palaces for wagon roads aro a novelty rare. Indeed. But Messrs. Green. Arthur H. Ash and C. "C. Farmer, who spent last night at tho Wilson hotel, are taking such cars through to California. Harry Green, who is In charge of tho party, Is taking tho cars through for M. T. Kearney, a millionaire pleasure seeker of Fresno, Cal. Ono of the automobiles auto-mobiles cost $22,000, being fitted up inside in-side exactly like a Pullman. The car haa a speed limit of seventy miles an hour, being of forty-five horse-power. It Is a Mercedes car, mado In Germany. The large $3000 and $-1000 autos which Salt Lakers have'grown used to seeing In the streets were thought great luxuries. lux-uries. But these expensive toys which went through last night certainly eclipse them. The cheaper of the two, which will be uBed by Its millionaire owner merely ns a roadster, was built specially, at a cost of $5500. Harry Green, who has had. a varied experience as a chauffeur, is an old friend of Chief Clerk Arthur O'Connell of the Wilson. When Mr. O'Connell was at the Waldorf-Astoria In New York the two used to be quite Intimate. Mr. O'Connell says that Green Is certainly cer-tainly a bird among chauffeurs. He has driven for the last six years for large automobile firms In Europe and also for private Individuals, having taken part In two of the great rodd races across the continent. |