Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10

bers and will furnish all bail money
when called upon.
AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTH
ERN CALIFORNIA.
(Signed) "Chas. B. Hopper,
Secretary"
As to the value of these cards, we
quote H. d. Hallett, 615 Miami avenue,
this city, who has been touring for
some time through the eastern states,
among them being Michigan, where he
encountered very bad roads and only
two road signs, one indicating the road
to and the other from Detroit. He
states that being a resident of Cali
fornia and having become accustomed
to our perfect system of road signs, the
thing most noticeable in the east to
him was the lack of signs.
While in Detroit he secured a permit
to tour in Canada, in Windsor and vi
cinity. After spending some time there
he returned to the United States and
went to New York, where he desired
to cross the line at Niagara Falls into
Canada. He was stopped and told by
the officer that he would have to get a
bond before he could cross AS his
time was limited, a delay would have
prevented his visiting Canada, as he
told the officer. The officer then asked
him If he was a member of his home
automobile club, and upon Mr.. Hal
lett producing his membership card
in the Automobile Club of Southern
California and giving the officer such
data as his engine number, make of
car ETC., he was. given a permit to cross
the line
Auto License Number
Each member of the Automobile Club
of Southern California is given an en-
blematic hanger which is displayed on
the rear of the members car. This
emblem, which signifies a membership
in the A. C. of S. C. and the A. A. A,
has been of great benefit to those
using it in securing assistance when a
mishap has occurred on the road, as
we'll as fair and courteous treatment
at garages.
Touring Topics
A membership in the A. c. of S. c.
places the member on the mailing list
of the clubs paper, Touring Topics.
This up-to-date magazine is edited by
S. c. Geary. 1t has proved a delight
to its many members, as it is the
clubs official mouthpiece and con-
tains accounts of tours taken by the
club members, gives advice as to rum
ming cars and contains technical and
well written articles on the cars and
equipments themselves. 1t has cir
culation of 1000 and is one of the best
advertising mediums in the local auto
mobile world today. The A. A. A. also
sends each member of the club its
official organ, the American Motorist
Clubs Work for Good Roads
The clubs motto is Join and
Boost"-join the club and boost for
good roads. Good roads might well
be called the main issue of the club,
and an immense amount of hard,
thankless work has been done under
this heading.
According to Logan w. Page, director
of the United States office of roads.
the length of all our roads in the
United States amounts to 2155, 900
miles. The annual expenditure upon
ali our roads is about $90,O00000 This
would seem to be a great sum of
money, but is insignificant when COM
pared with England with only 10000
miles of roads. upon which she spends
$50 OO0, 900 a year, or fourteen times as
much a mile as the United States
Locally, an immense victory for good
roads has been gained in Los Angeles
county by the voting of bonds for
SO. 500, 900. In assisting in the passing
of these bonds the club contributed of
both it's time and money Machines
were sent out to bring in voters, and
the officials of the club used their
personal time in assisting along vital
lines.
Committees Report
A committee of three from the
directorate. composed of George b.
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