New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-07
SEEK JERSEY NUMBERS
Clerks Get Busy Issuing Nerr Jersey
Licenses.

There has been such rush for registration at
the offices OF the department of automobile and
motor vehicles at Trenton recently that Commits
stoner J B. r Smith has found II impossible
get along with the thirteen fifteen clerks at
work, and has found IT necessary to increase the
force by getting assistance from the Office Of the
Secretary OF State There seventeen
and women carrying the work All
bers, certificates and licenses will expire The
day OF this month Licenses must be procured i'm
naediately by all drivers Of cars but the old car
numbers Will be good for period OF trrty-ons
days thereafter, that every may have a chance
TO attend to the matter without being hurried
having any excuse that he or she had no time to
lcok after II before the first Of the year.
It is expected that the heaviest rush of the bust
OF the Office will during the next
weeks and throughout the month of January, but
there is probability that the department will
be kept going at full tilt until about May L Those
owners who will have their old numbers again
next year will number about three thousand
that many have made the request therefor within
the time set by the department. No one however.
will be allowed TO retain any number which under
the old arrangement over 10000. II is
pected that the number Of certificates issued will
total about eighteen thousand, Of which about
hundred will be to manufacturers and dealers
The number tags are about thirteen and
quarter inches long and about six inches in width.
They made of English charcoal iron, with the
OF black enamel, the numbers being Of The size
prescribed by the law and in white enamel In the
upper right hand corner Of each is circular seal
inch and three-Quarters IN diameter. in which IS
the certified number Of the machine by the manu-
facturer The tag is neat. attractive and OF a size
and design which make its inscriptions plain and
observable at a great distance in ordinarily clear
weather.
Workers IN staff plaster Of paris casts.
cabinetnaakers and decorators are now building
under the direction of ". ". Knowles the archi-
tect. the most massive decorative piece intro
duced into Madison Square Garden. This is a til
umphaI arch 81 feet IN height and IS feet across,
which is TO used the ninth national sutorno-
bile show. 10 held in the Garden from January
Is 10 q The arch Will be erected the OF
be supported by four Roman-Corinthian columns.
each feet inches in diameter, one-foUrth of each
column being imbedded IN the arch and three
fourths standing free in relief. Between the col
will "a three bays, their arches just beneath
the co-nice and their bases at the balcony rail
In these bays will De massive plate glass mirrors
the centre one 20 feet ta width side one
feet across. These mirrors. being set a al angle
with the tops inclining forward, viii double the
view OF the whole interior Of the main floor or
anphitheatre top of the arch above each
column, viii be huge decorative urn. while swing
ing on chains against the face Of each column
the balcony level will be great bronze lamps.
The bevelled panel that recedes downward from
the outer edge OF the cOrnce TO the facade of the
arch known to architects as the 'sofit" will be
studded with electric lights. The balcony face
which is all plaster. will be off by one of the
"eagIe-on-a-w wheel enblens Of the Association Of
Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. This TIL
umphal arch will form d background and support
TO the hole decorative layout of the floor Of
the Garden show. the decorations the foreground
being subordnsted in their height is a single
item OF the whole great decorative scheme for the
pig automobile show, but II is the big the
main floor and indicates the substantial character
OF the decorative plan.