The Washington times., 1907-03-02


Mors in New York
A. 3. Barkman, for some time
chief of the sales department office
staff of the Maxwell Briscoe Motor Com
pany at Tarrytown,~ n. Y, has been
appointed successor to c. w. Kelsey as
assistant manager of sales for that
company. The sales maragement, as
IN the past, VIII be under the general
direction CT Benjamin Briscoe.
Mr.. Barktnau comes 20 his new duties
With q wide Acquaintance in the auto
mobile field. From 1883 until the organi-
zation OF the American Bicycle Com
lany. he was In charge Of the bicycle
business of A. 9. Spaldins Brothers
l pom the organization oil the american
the committee Of organizers, and was
| with it for one year in the capacity OF
manager OF the Spalding Brothers sales
department He left this concern 10
| orgauizc the Bridgeport Motor Company,
| OF which concern he was an officer and
| manager FOR six years.
Mr. Barlman has q personal and IN
innate acquaintance with large num-
her of people who were formerly in
the bicycle trade, most OF whom are
now engaged in the automobile indus
try. his experience IN the hanallns OF
large agency field admirably equips
him Tor the position he has now taken.
washington and Baltimore enthusiasts
who were interested directly or other
wise in the recent legal troubles between
the town marshal OF Glen Echo and
pleasure seekers who were wont to
travel on the Conduit road, will no doub'
be interested in the following article
which appeared recently in the Auto
mobile Magazine and explains itself:
! Arrests for repeated violations OF
speed laws have become so common that
none but very conspicuous cases are
! considered worthy of being reported. \
1 large proportion Of the arrests are simply
| cases OF robbery, cOnstdDles ana JUS
tees Of the peace assuming powers
never given TO them by the law. The
/ victims OF these outrages allow them
| selves to be plundered because IL Is not
| convenient to devote the time and
| trouble necessary TO convict the sCOun-
! drels who have arrested and fined them
! illegally. A representative case hap
/ pened in New Jersey some time ago. In
/ a town on a leading highway system
| OF robbery was established that was
/ morally no better than that OF the high
/ wayman who demands pocketboOks 10y
| The inducemeLt of a loaded revolver
| Many people have paid fines which they
/ knew TO be Illegal but they submitted
| on the principle that being robbed of G
small sum was less costly than fighting
! 10 punish the thieves"
one automobiles decided to fight the
] imposition Of the village whose bes
/
| collecting enough fines from people pass
/ ing through on hOrSeless carriages e
! defray the expenses or managing the
4 place. They had found a means OF
| making taxes unnecessary. There was
| CONSERVATION in the place when the au
| tomobilist referred TO turned the tables
| and had the constable arrested. II re-
! suited in the constable being fined and
| IL stopped the systematized robbery ir
| that village. but It cost the HampdeT
| who stood up against tyranny over $500
! besides the loss of much valuable time
! 1t IS a glorious privilege TO stand forti
| as a defender OF the peoples rights. Il
is fine 70 be regarded as a William
! Wallace or William Tell, but IN thi!
prosaic age IL does not pay
| This speech is credited to a well
known automobile dealer: II don't car
when ] get a crankless automobile
! joltless spring and a heatless motor, (
I can only find fineless chauffeur
The Cooke and Stoddard Company hal
recently taken the local agency Of III,
! Darracq car the first foreign machin,
10 be officially represented in the Dis
! trict Of Columbia. The Darracq ca
has the distinction of having twice VOL
/ the famous Vanderbilt cup race owe
| the Long Island course. The Cook
| and StOddard firm is to be congratu
lated upon having secured the ageuc'
or this make Of machine.