The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-10
new JERSEY AUTO
CLUB SPEEDS To
COVETED GOAL
Wants to Jump Membership to
2,0OO-Forty New Names
Added to Roster.
TO STOP TACK
AND GLASS NUISANCE
New Style Pennant and to Drop
Word "M0tor'-Open House
Will Be Big Event.

The New JERSEY Automobile and
Motor Club still keeps up its remarka-
BILE record, and Is marching with
steady, rapid strides toward the 1000
membership mark, and 1t Is now not
beyond the realms of reason to predict
that If the increase and interest con-
tinue that the big New Jersey club
will ere long take the first position in
club membership away from the Au-
tomobile Club of America and lead all
the motoring organizations of the coun-
try in numerical strength.
At the meeting of the trustees this
week forty additional members were
placed on the roster. Those elected to
active membership were: B. H. Click
ner, Passaic; James F. Sayles, Airing
ton; William g. Mckenzie, Rutherford;
Charles e. Callard, West Hoboken;
Colonel William C. Heppenheimer, Jer-
sey City; James e. Brodhead, Fleming
ton; Fred w. Kraemer, Paterson; John
A. Serrell, North Plainfield; William
H. Weldon, Railway; Walter e. Dare,
Maplewood; Charles f. Downey, Ma
plewood; Walter D.. jameson, South
Orange; w. F. Allen, South Orange;
Frederick J.. Lovatt, South Orange;
Charles D. Moulton, East Orange; John
Rettinger. East Orange; Franklin G..
Manley, East Orange; Sheldon Frank
lin, East Orange; c. George Breier,
East Orange; Alfred H. Rowe, East
Orange; Edgar B. Ward, East Orange;
John A. Hill, East Orange, and
George B. Merritt, Jacob Meyer,
William Schmidt, Fred Castle. William
J.. Oathout, Gilbert V. Burdett, William
H. Shepard, j. Henry Smith. James j.
Murphy, r. P. M. Eagles, Beda Voigt,
all of Newark.
The associat> membership list was in
creased by the election of the follow
ing: Judge Thomas L. Raymond, J.
Bayard Kirkpatrick, James Owen,
George E. Post, e. l.. Wetherill and J.
Flank Black, all of Newark.
Invited to Housewarming.
The secretary sent invitations this
week to all members to bring thcir
f lies and friends to the clubhouse
on Thursday night, at whic' time the
he use committee will inaug1rate The
social season by giving a monster
housewarming at the now club quarters
in Park place. The program will in
clude excellent music and a collation.
which the steward will serve.
1t will be ''open house, and a. large
gathering of motorists and their friends
and a general good time are assured. AS
a prelude to the event the last touches
have been placed on the house-furnish-
ings and the new piano and billiard
table, recently purchased by the club,
ha- been installed, while the contract
for TIL, new heati-g plant was awarded
yesterday and the work will be rushed
to ompletion.
Decide on New Pennnnt.
The trustees have also decided to
adopt a more elaborate style of PEN
nant to be carried on members airs
and have requested the committee on
revision of bylaws to take under con-
sideration the dropping of the word
! motor" from the title of the club, and
adopt the more dignified name of New
Jersey Automobile Club. The commit
tee is expected to make a report with
recommendations in the near future.
That the club is determined to keep
up it's fight against persons who throw
or leave glass upon the public high
ways is shown by the following resolu-
tions offering a reward for the convic-
ton of nyone guilty of the o~ffense,
which is now a misdemeanor under the
statutes:
Resolved. That the New Jersey Au-
tomobile and Motor Club offer a reward
of SIS for the arrest and conviction OF
a person or persons placing or leaving
glass. tacks, nails or other sharp OF
cutting substances on the public high
ways.
Resolved, That he good roads COM
mittee cause to have. printed and dis
tributed in prominent places posters
announcing such reward"