The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-30
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.

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distributors of the EMF "3O' car,
cites the case of a customer, w. M. APP
plegate, of Bethlehem, Pa. He was al
the EMF exhibit in the Garden every
day last week and at the close Satur-
day night insisted that one of the cars
be delivered to him to run home Sun
day. No weather argument put forth
could hold him and he started out at
O'Clock Sunday afternoon on his 90
mile drive in the midst Of a rainstorm,
and with three inches of melting snow
on h ground, arriving in Bethlehem at
$50 that evening without a single mis-
hap during the entire trip. The
weather made 1t a strenuous run for
both car and driver.
That the automobile has become an
absolute necessity in the expedient dis
charge of municipal affairs was per-
haps never better demonstrated than 1t
was during the last big snowstorm in
New York city. During the clearing of
the streets Big Bill Edwards, of the
street cleaning department, and his as
sistant, Bill Hogan, were continually
around in the two Lozier touring cars
which this department has made use
of continually for the last three ad-
Illustrations.
By a recent circular letter sent out by
Commissioner Smith, of the depart
ment of motor vehicles, a motorist who
loses M of the Identification markers
from his car will have to pay 81 for a
duplicate pad hereafter, instead of the
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Over forty of the officers of the
steamers Republic and Baltic were
given an automobile ride last Wednes-
day. NJ. & S. Dickinson placed FIVE
Kissel-Kars at the disposal of the tars,
everyone of whom had a good time.
A draft of a uniform bill drawn up
by Charles Thaddeus Terry at the re-
quest of the Commissioners OH Uniform
State Laws from New York. Connect
cut, Massachusetts and New Jersey,
has been issued by the American Au-
tomobile Association. to which body the
bill has been referred for suggestions.
The 150-mile automobile endurance
run from Hartford to Pittsfield and
Springfield, Mass, held on Thursday,
was won by a Mitchell car, driven by
B. F. Smith.
The Philadelphia Auto Show is prov
ing a vast success and drawing enor-
nous crowds. There are 1856 cars on ex-
hibition.
A Truffault-Hartford equipped car is
now such a general sight that it is
taken for granted. Twenty well-known
cars are equipped with T~ruffault-H Hart
ford shock disorders at the factory.
The model II jackson car has created
quite a sensation. The car sells for
81, 600 and the Essex Automobile Com
pany, the local agents for the Jackson
line, are working their entire force TAX
ing care Of the large number of in
quiries.
The Atlantic Motor Car Company OF
New Jersey sold last week a 45-horse-
power touring car and a 45-horsepower
roadster with baby toy tonneau. The
company also sold and delivered to f.
G. Good, Of Hackettstown, a 25-horse-
power model II roadster. The 2J-horse-
power roadster was delivered TO Mr..
Good, on January g, and in making the
run TO Hackettstown and Easton
showed a remarkable amount OF power
and was highly satisfactory in its hill
work.
The Greene Motor Car Company. who
will be one Of the exhibitors 81 the
Newark automobile show. expect 10
have the Locomobile No. 16. that won
the Vanderbilt cup race, on exhibition
in their space during show week. If
the car IS brought to Newarl; thou
sands of motorists will be interested in
examining the great masterpiece of
automobile manufacture, the product
of an American factory, the Locomobile
Company.
Albert Marten, president of the Tea
Tray Company, of Newark, is around
again after having experienced q short
illness.
The old stage coach in Yellowstone
Park is being replaced by a modern
touring car. Thus picturesqueness gives
way 10 progress
The New Haven Automobile Club will
hold their first annual banquet on Lin
coins Birthday.
The new Paris auto regulations pro-
vide that 4 cars number must he per-
m%anently fixed to the machine, and that
it must be so illuminated that It eau
be read as easily at night as in the
day time
Josiah Baldwin. OF Clinton avenue.
Newark, has just returned from a
twelve dayG' trip to New Orleans. Fine
weather was encountered during the
entire time.
Or. 4. Y. Widman has purchased a.
4-cylinder Moline ear. with baby ton
nesu, from r. r. Baisant, OF the New
Jersey Automobile Company, Of Spring
field avenue