The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-12-21
AUTOISTS TALK
OF FUTURE
AFFAIRS
Beneficial Results Expected
From Conference Of State
Clubs Here.

Motorists generally were we'll pleased
with the results of the conference of mem-
bers of New Jersey automobile clubs held
at the clubhouse of the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club on Thursday night.
The resolutions, while not radical to a
great extent, and not recommending such
advanced" legislation as has been sue
cessful in Connecticut state lucidly the
principal points which automobilists feel
there is great need of making part OF
the law. and make some few recommenda-
tions which, while even the most sanguine
do not expect TO have incorporated in the
law this year, still stand for principle
to which the automobile clubs are pledged.
While the attendance at the meeting
was not as great as might have been de-
sired Santa Claus, as President Sinclair
explained, having proved too much of
counter attraction, the turnout was repre-
sentative, and the discussion broad and
not merely sectional.
Unexpectedly, the greatest contest was
waged over the matter of having greater
number of State inspectors. w. c. Crosby
precipltated the discussion by saying that
II was his idea that the automobilists were
unanimously In favor of increasing the
motor inspector force. Immediately w. h.
Automobile Club and president of the As
socisted Automobile Clubs of New Jersey.
objected, and said that his organization
would never stand for the starting OF
state police force, of which the motor in
spector force might be the opening wedge.
The meeting voted, however, to recon-
mend that there be twenty-five paid in
spectors and twenty-five unpaid ones from
among the automobilists of the State.
in, oil fhn 1fa sNff fha o
were quite satisfactory. Motorists will
now watch with interest the attempt to
infuse life into the Associated Automobile
Clubs of New Jersey by the request of
the president of that body that he call q
meeting OF one delegate from each club
10 confer with Senator Frelinghuysen and
Commissioner J. B. R. Smith.
Essex County dealers are confident that
trade conditions will improve with the
opening of the new year. and are conse-
quently making preparations for an in
creased business. ''Trade conditions are
picking up WE'LL" said an official of the
New Jersey Automobile Trade Association
last night, ''but the trouble is that the
rush, If such the increase may be called,
should have started weeks ago, and we
can never regain any large percentage of
what has been lost through slack times in
the late autumn"
feature of automobile legislation
which, strangely enough, was not compre-
hensively touched upon at the special
meeting of the club Thursday, was the
question of increased license fees for high
powered cars. 1t is understood that
special interests opposed to the automobile
will endeavor to have all license fees
raised instead of establishing more
equitable scale proportionate to the dam
age done TO the roads by the high-powered
machines, especially of the roadster class,
which are low-built and which suck up
the dust far more than any ordinary tour
ing car
If the sentiment of the majority of Off
cials of she New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club can be taken as representa-
tive, then automobile racing is thing of
the past so far as the local club Is con-
cerned. Endurance tests have proved
decided success as carried out by the New
ark organization. and have brought about
much good but racing Is different propo-
sition, and even If a mile track were con-
structed near Newark it ,s very doubtful
whether the local motorists would suppoi-.
auto races upon 1t. The general sentiment
seems TO be that the game is not worth the
candle and that the danger is too great to
be overbalanced by any other considera-
tions, especially as the club never had an
intention of carrying on racing as money
making scheme