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UNIQUE SCENE IN CAMOUFLAGE: Cleverly Painted Auto Cannot Be Distinguished from Surroundings in El Paso Herald, June 8, 1918—
In the display window of the Buquor Motor Company is a camouflage scene rarely equaled "over here." In the background is a canvas on which is painted a battle scene—bursting shells and air lurid with explosives. Before this is a Maxwell car, although its best friend would hardly recognize the car because of the camouflage. It is spotted and spattered with green and fire colored splotches. Foliage, in addition to that on the canvas, is supplied by palms and leafing plants.
Standing close to the arrangement, there appears but little remarkable about it, but from the sidewalk the camouflage is quite apparent. From the middle of the street the automobile can hardly be distinguished from the plants and the glare of shots. The work, performed by J. L. Buquor, is so admirably executed that the machine blends with both the glare of shots and with the foliage in such a way as to quite conceal the auto from across the street. The work was done with water colors.
In thus showing how camouflage prevents autos from being detected in time of battle, a spot light has been provided which is used at night time, giving an even better effect than a day view. Naturally things "over there" are constantly in the mind of Johnnie Buquor, his brother, Ad[olph] Buquor, being now ready to depart for France from New Jersey at any time.
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WOMAN COLLAPSES WHEN MACHINE GUN UNEXPECTEDLY EXPLODES IN HER FACE—REALISTIC OLD TANK in El Paso Herald, June 15, 1918, p. 15—
Because he operated a machine gun carelessly Johnnie Buquor is in line to become the defendant in a damage suit. In the display window of the Buquor Motor Company is a big war tank—marked F-4—of the type used by General Byng to roll the biggest victory of the war over the Germans. It is a massive thing with mud-splotched wheels, steel-plated and heavily riveted, surmounted with machine guns whose ominous muzzles frown toward passersby.
Thursday evening a dozen or more pedestrians had stopped on the sidewalk before the window to view the war monster. One woman pressed close to the glass to get a better view of a machine gun pointed towards her. Suddenly the gun belched out fire and smoke, right in her face, the woman screamed and collapsed on the sidewalk.
Now for a little inside information: The big tank that looks like a steel-riveted fort on wheels from the sidewalk, is found when viewed from the other side to be made of old packing boxes, Maxwell mud pans, tubes and old crates. Johnnie Buquor has one of the guns so constructed that lamp-black is puffed out of the muzzle by compressed air, and that's how the woman got shot. Invariably when there is a crowd before the window and the machine gun is touched off, somebody jumps to get out of the way. The discharge is so realistic that people before it don't feel safe.
