1914 Sociability Run Participants
Participants in the First Electric Automobile Sociability Run in Washington, DC as reported in The Washington Times, 5-27-1914 and The Washington Post, 5-28-1914
Winner: Mrs. R. Bruce Emerson in a Detroit Electric Brougham; time, 1h, 15m, 30s
Second: Mrs. Mabel McKay in a Detroit Electric; time, 1h, 15m, 22s
Third: W.R. (Dad) Emerson in a Detroit Electric Runabout; time, 1h, 15m, 40s
Fourth: Mrs. James W. Orme in a Detroit Electric
Fifth: Cook & Stoddard Co. entry in a Baker Electric
1914 Electric Sociability Run participants:
| Participant | Car | |
| 1 | Mrs. R. Bruce Emerson | Detroit |
| 2 | Mrs. Mabel G. McKay | Detroit |
| 3 | W.R. Emerson | Detroit |
| 4 | Mrs. James W. Orme | Detroit |
| 5 | Cook & Stoddard Co. | Baker |
| 6 | Mrs. James G. Knox | Detroit |
| 7 | Miss Louise A. Pattison | |
| 8 | E.S. Marlow | |
| 9 | J.A. Demonet | Detroit |
| 10 | Mrs. C.E. Creecy | |
| 11 | Mrs. J. Collins | |
| 12 | John A. Sterrett | Detroit |
| 13 | Bruce E. Clark | |
| 14 | George Weaver | Baker |
| 15 | Mrs. Robert Ponickau | Rauch & Lang |
| 16 | Miss Hildegarde Portner | |
| 17 | Mrs. Anna K. May | |
| 18 | Mrs. James Lansburgh | Rauch & Lang |
| 19 | A.S. Kidwell | |
| 20 | Mrs. James K. Jones | |
| 21 | Mrs. S.S. Prouty | |
| 22 | Mrs. James J. Lampton | |
| 23 | Mrs. J.J. Bartram | Rauch & Lang |
| 24 | Mrs. A.S. Kahlert | |
| 25 | Mrs. Rufus Hardy | |
| 26 | George C. Hardesty | |
| 27 | Mrs. E.H. Pilson | |
| 28 | Mrs. N.O. Messenger | Rauch & Lang |
| 29 | Mrs. David M. Lea | Studebaker |
| 30 | Miss H. Winifred DeWitt | Detroit |
| 31 | George Mills | |
| 32 | Mrs. E.T. Taylor | |
| 33 | Miss Grace Storms | |
| 34 | M.J. Lawrence | |
| 35 | Mrs. Henry Vollmer | |
| 36 | Miss Jeanette Jewel | |
| 37 | Mrs. William E. Lewis | |
| 38 | Mrs. C.A. Hawley | |
| 39 | Miss Pauline Stone | |
| 40 | Mrs. Alfred Young | Rauch & Lang |
| 41 | Harry Orme | Detroit |
| 42 | Arthur Foraker | |
| 43 | Gardner P. Orme | |
| 44 | Miss Maizie Baines | |
| 45 | A.C.P. Shoemaker | |
| 46 | Miss Gertrude Woodward | |
| 47 | Mrs. John C. Detweiler | Detroit |
| 48 | Mrs. M.E. Orme | |
| 49 | Miss Helen Demonet | Detroit |
| 50 | Mrs. John E. Osborne | |
| 51 | Mrs. Gladys Hinckley | |
| 52 | Mrs. C.R. Erkman | Detroit |
| 53 | C.M. Marsh | Baker |
| 54 | Mrs. M.L. Blumenberg |
Is there a listing of not just the participants but the vehicles involved in the 54-car EV rally of 1914 ? From your website we only gather that there were some Detroit and Baker Electrics. Being 1914, there’d be no Milburns, but given the ads of the day there should have been at least a couple Hupp-Yeats electrics in DC that participated in this rally.
-Myles Twete
Myles,
We only have a record of the models that the first five winners drove in the 1914 Electric Sociability Run in DC. Most of those were Detroit Electrics with one Baker.
Fortunately, there is a record of all the cars in the 1915 Electric Sociability Run. They include Baker, Rauch & Lang, Columbia, Milburn, Ohio, Detroit, Studebaker and Waverly. If there were any Hupp-Yeats in Washington at the time, none of them seemed to have participated in the 1915 event.
We’ll have a full list of participants in the 1915 Sociability Run as well as the cars they drove posted online soon.
Lanny