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Show 100 CAR LOADS OF BUjGK AUTOS Two men chanced to meet In the Auditorium fobby In Chicago last Sunday and before they had parted, had closed a deal for $300,000 worth of goods. The thing was done In half an hour, a bonafldo sale for over ov-er a quarter of a million dollars. And It was done with less talk than tho average women would buy a spring hat. Tlio only records mado wero the citations the buyer noted In his pocket memorandum, and that the salesman scribbled on tho hack of a business card. The salesman was "Tralnload" Collins, general manager for tho Bulck Motor company at Flint, and tho buyer was II. E. Pence of tho Pence. Automobile' company at Minneapolis. "The order Is one of 100 carloads, ' said "Tralnload," "and aside from tho fact that It's n nice little bunch of business from a company standpoint, It goes even farther. Time was wucn bankers shied at the automobile game and predicted dire calamity be-causo be-causo so much money was being put Into motor cars the country over. Automobile concerns 'keep currency In circulation, and that Is always a sign of good times. I think I am safe In saying that thero Is no other oth-er line of business that a deal of this size could be put through with such utter absence of red tape, prlco haggling hag-gling and questioning of goods. Confidence Con-fidence Is tho explanation In a' nut shell. , . "Big men developed the automobile automo-bile game nnd tho nutomobllo game has developed big men. . For the first few years there wns a' lot of four flushing, but four, fl'ushers are being rapidly weeded out. Today you look up tho automobile dealers In any city or town In tho United States and you will find them men who stand high In their communities, who aro trusted by their bankers , nnd who live up to tho reputations of tho cars they are selling. Their business busi-ness creates and expands other -business tho old saying exemplified of two blades of grass growing where 1 one had grown before. I "You know I think sometimes, that I wo motor car builders distribute I more happiness than people give us 1 .credit for. Take this ono order as 1 an example. Figuring on a basis of I three to a family for every man who 1 will buy theso 300 Quicks, and there ft are 000 people happier than they ft wero before. Suppose In addition, ft that each of theso owners give 200 I friends a lift or a pleasure rldo dur- 'I Ing tho year. There aro 60,000 pep. 1 pie, a total of 60,900 benefited JSL. - '-, this ono tralnload shipment aloneRt- On tho snme basis of reckoning for our 150,000 users, there would be a total of 30,000,900 people riding In Bulcks during tho year. "It Is worth consideration too that thero Is an nutomobllo building company; so big that a shipment of this kind can bo mndo In a single day without Interfering with tho routine rou-tine orders we are taking caro of every day." |