The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-31
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

William d. Van Week, of SO Upper
Mountain avenue, Montclair, has just
returned from a two weeks tour
through the New England States. Mr..
Van Week took a party of five in his
20-horsepower Lane steam car, stop
ping at Pittsfeld the first day and then
journeying leisurely through the Berk-
shires and White mountains, and then
into Maine and back by way of Boston
and the Connecticut valley. Mr.. Van
Week reports the roads to have been
knee deep" in dust, and the party en-
countered more or less smoke from the
forest fires. which seemed to be raging
everywhere in the mountainous coun-
try.
Frank Mosely and wife, of Newark,
have started on an extended tour
through Connecticut In Mr.. Mosely's
twenty-horsepower REQ touring car.
They expect to visit friends in the Nut
meg State before returning and do not
expect to arrive In Newark until
Thanksgiving.
The Quaker City Motor Club of Phila-
delphla announces that it has chartered
the steamship Grecian to take ninety
four motorists to the Savannah grand
prize race. The boa will leave Phila-
delphia or November % and will return
the morning after the race.
The Automobile Club Of Maryland has
made arrangements with the county
commissioners of Baltimore county to
place 800 guide posts along the country
roads for the convenience Of travelling
motorists.
After the fine Indian summer weather
of last week, when the roads presented
a gala appearance, with the man. tour
ing parties out for runs Of more or less
extent, the bad days of this week pre-
scented quite a contrast. Very few mo-
~torists braved the miserable conditions
to go out with their cars except from
necessity.
Reports from the Pennsylvania State
highway department show that over
"a, 900 automobile license tags have been
issued for this veal The 1909 tags will
be ready for delivery about December
l6. They Will be white with black let
tering.
The hill-climbing contest which the
New York Automobile Trade Associa-
ton expected to conduct on the Fort
George hill on election day has been
postponed until a later date. Frank
Eveland, president of the association,
is endeavoring to arrange for the climb
to DO held on Thanksgiving Day.
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The joint committee of the Associ-
ated Automobile Club of New Jersey
and the Dealers Association met at the
local automobile clubhouse last Thurs
day night. 1t Is understood that pro-
posed legislation affecting h Freling-
huysen law was discussed.
Secretary LeMassena, of the New
Jersey Automobile and Motor Club.
states that he has the names of over
fifty applicants for membership to
present to the trustees for action next
Monday night.
Fred w. Lynes and A. Williams, OF
Newark, took a trip this week through
Pennsylvania In Mr.. Lynes's Maxwell
%runabout.
Recent experiments made by the Of
flee of public roads in Washington
prove that no serious. damage is done
to an average b~roken-stone road by
heavy automobiles driven at a speed OF
twenty miles an hour, but If the speed
is increased to twenty-five miles ar
hour n on up to sixty miles an hour
the bad effects upon the Dad surface
is distinctly noticeable.
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The Good Roads Magazine for Octo-
Der contains a very interesting dis
cussion on the question of whether tai
preparations on the roads tend to in
jure the trees and vegetation growing
on lhe roadside. The views of many
prominent engineers m commission
ers are expressed. and the opinion is
almost unanimous that there seems to