Show Appersons Claimed to toBe toBe I Be De Descendants From First of Automobiles Tho Th two Apperson Mack J Rabbit touring cars which arrived in Salt Lake with the Pacific Indiana tour are lineal descendants of the first successful successful success success- ful Cui American gasoline automobile said G O. F. F Horn of ot the Apperson Motor MotorCar MotorCar Car company compan 41 H S. S State Utah dis dis- for Apperson cars yesterday The present day a models of ot the Ap- Ap parson are twentieth anniversary r cars for Elmer Apperson who In his little machine shop sho In Kokomo In the early earl nineties with the all aid of ot his brother Edgar and John M. M I. I Maxwell built tho the first machine in America In 1893 Elwood Haynes at that time secretary of ot the gas as company compan In Kokomo approached Elmer Apperson and inquired if It the Apperson brothers were able to build what was wa wathen then terms a 11 horseless carriage The Appersons Appersons Appersons Ap- Ap persons started work on the car and Elmer Apperson made the drawings vins all the patterns and designs und and purchased purchased pur pur- chased the tle materials Since that time the Appersons have been heen making automobiles and nd have havo 1 been selling cars that bear their name The two cars In iii the Indiana Pacific tour that make up the Apperson team are aro In charge char of or H IT W. W Curtis Pacific coast representative e and Max winters factory experimental superintendent Winters Is driving Xo No 18 and Nelson Indiana territory manager Is driving No o 17 W. W D. D Edeburn assist assist- ant chairman of or the tour Is connected with tho the advertising department of ot the factor factory It was ivas deeply gratifying to us to know kno that when tho the rl rigorous orous drive through southern Utah from Grand Junction t to Green River was ended the team arrived in the night control while several of the other teams in the tour were forced t to spend the thc night at Thompsons the other side of ot Green River This again shows that the Appersons have havo a rl right ht to the name Jack Rabbit which represents stamina and speed The Tho two cars are painted red the tho only cars In the tour with such a dl distinctive color f |