The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
LOCAL AUTO NOTES

The New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club, through Its race committee, was
this week called upon to define its position
upon the matter of automobile racing. The
"A, A. A., whose race board has lately
come in for so much criticism because of
its vacillating action, is seeking express
sions of opinion from clubs all over the
country. An answer stating that the New
Jersey Club is neither In favor of motor
car races on half-mile or one-mile tracks
as ordinarily constructed for horse racing
was returned to the A. A. A. committee
on sanctions, which is soliciting the oplh-
ions of the clubs.
For the convenience of motorists com
netting in it's Neutrality-suspicious. contest, the
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
will have a tank wagon ready to serve
dve-gallon cans Of gasoline and all Kinds
of oil at a moments notice. The method
will avoid splitting gasoline over the cars,
land will thus decrease the liability of
fire.
Angus Sinclair, president of the New
| Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, has
been appointed to the technical board of
| the American Automobile Association. Mr..
Sinclair is singularly well fitted for the
honor, being a mechanical engineer by
profession and an authority on matters
pertaining to locomotive and automobile
design.
Under the direction Of Joseph H. Wood,
former president of the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club, the combined good
roads committee. which meets for a session
in New York, will on November 8 be given
an object lesson on road building. Mr..
Wood will go to New York and escort the
delegation to this State in automobiles
loaned by prominent New Jersey motorists.
Whether he will begin the course with an
object lesson or how not to build roads, by
reversing the Turnpike or the Plank road,
Mr.. Wood has not announced.
A. N. Drummer, president of the New Jer-
sey Automobile Company, OF Springfield
avenue, arrived Monday night after a five
day trip from Moline, ILL.,, driving one OF
the new 1908 24-horsepower demonstrating
cars all the way from the factory. he re-
ports the roads west of Chicago in the
most exeerable condition, but from Chicago
East in fine shape. Not the slightest adj
iustment was necessary during the LOO
mile run and no tire trouble of any Kind.
The car is being used for demonstrations
at the Crystal Palace show.
The new 1908 Moline tw~o-cylinder car has
arrived and promises TO be a revelation 70
the automobile public. 1t is claimed with
out reserve to be the best and finest car
for $3.50, and in power to exceed most any
of the ordinary run Of f~our-cylinder cars
the engine being the w%ell-known 5x5 %
horsepower Moline type.
C. w. Stengel, president Of the Feigen-
sran Brewery. has placed his order with
the LAnkroum Automobile Company for a
1903 shaft-drive Lozier, with limousine
body.
1t may be possible for a hurrying auto
driver to break the speed laws, but he will
find It an impossibility to call for anything
in the way of wearing apparel for auto
mobilists at Hahne & Company's big store
and not be accommodated. The auto en-
thusiast and his women folks will find
there everything which serves to make
the grand sport comfortable and pleas
urable.
". II. Ellis. Of the Ellis Motor Car Com
pany. and a party Of friends have started
on a tour up the Hudson and through the
Berkshires, with Springfield, Mass, as the
objective point, and expect. to be gone a
] week.