The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-06
MOTOR PUFFs

According to several tourists who have
been over 1t. the route for the A. A.. A.
tour is much more picturesque than that
Of last year. The finest scenery of the
trip will be found in Pennsylvania, and
those who know the country thoroughly
say that no better path across the Allie
gheny Mountains could be selected. Bed
ford Springs, in the mountains, where the
tourists spend a Sunday. is a popular sum
mer resort with hotel accommodations In
plenty for the motorists. From Bedford
Springs the ronte lies over the pike to
Baltimore, and the same is true from Bal
timore to Philadelphia.
In spite of previous talk to the con-
trary, it now seems probable there will
be a slight further frightening of the
wheel base in 1908 touring cars. Some In
terestlng changes in engine detail are
promised also. The runabout situation
seems to have settled into a ~two-cylinder
standard of the Maxwell type, for light
cars of medium price and all-around serv-
ice ability, with the four-cylinder, semi
racer type, forming a class by itself, in
which further variety of pattern is yet to
be expected. 1t is still an open question
whether the semi-racer Is not a fad, while
the two-cylinder disc motor gives all the
evidences of permanency.
"A new rule of reciprocity, courtesy, hos
pitality, or whatever it may be called, that
is coming into observance in the East is
that of the guest or guests doing all the
spending when out on a trip in the auto
mobile of a friend. This has the stamp
of common sense, for 1t has been in the
nature of "rutSlng it In to have the man
who furnishes the car. the gasoline and
driver do all the spending at the roadside
stops. A few clubmen started the thing
| - = -ks1.latsN- tha4 nd he
had to submit to the car owner being the
host while they were on the road he
would insist on being the host whenever
they stopped for food and drink. The
idea appeals TO many as equitable and a
promoter of case in mind when a party Is
made up for a trip.
If there is a Vanderbilt Cup race this
year, and 1t is more likely there will be
one than that there will not be, the credit
for making it possible will belong to the
American Automobile Association and not
to those whose only works of tongue or
pen are complaints and criticisms.
1t is interesting to note the entire abb
sence of ~foreign-built cars from the entry
list of the A. A. A. tour, which will lead
through mountain roads that will be very
hard on complicated or delicate mechan-
isms. The nearest approach to a foreign
car in the tour is q Berliet, which iS OF
French design, but is built here by the
American Locomotive Automobile Com
pany, and has fewer parts than any Inn
ported car.
With the American Automobile Associa'
ton fighting the battle for good roads
just legislation, sign boards and equitable
representation everywhere for all motor
lists, those who do not support 1t to tn
- Q q N .raar for nnn1hQr
ship appear to the rank and file to be II
much the same class as tax dodgers
Those who are not acquainted with thu
of the organization can OBTAIN
full Information by addressing Secretary
f. H. Elliott, 437 Fifth avenue, New YORK
How little faith in the future of i'm
ported cars has E. r. Hollander. who wa
n dominant figure in the importers auto
mobile salon is attested by the fact OF hi
having withdrawn from his importing firm
and gone abroad TO arrange for the manu-
facture here of a car of foreign design
importing the materials and building her
greatly reduces the cost imposed by Tn
tariff and gives the advantage OF puttlni
superior Yankee machinery to work o.
superior foreign metals. The present sit
uation of the foreign car importers Wi
make their proposed special show in Janu
airy seem like a last stand, II it really
made.
With lis bonnet still carrying the orig
8 inal seals of the Automobile Club G
America, used in the recent 6G0-nile tesi
L and doubly sealed by the Chicago Mote
Club, the Mora Racytype il returning t
New York, having covered 1900 mile
without an adjustment of any kind to tn
motor. This is the Longest nonstop ru
ever accomplished in the history of II
industry. Regardless Of the fact that III
cago contest, the motor never made
skip. The car left Chicago with the boz