Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
MAXWELL CLUB
is ORGANIZED
WILL INCLUDE DRIVERS OF
ALL STATES
MANAGER CONWELL TAKES A
PROMINENT PART
Purpose of Club Is to Assist Maxwell
Owners in Touring by Various
Aids Which Are Inn
portant

Simultaneous with the receipt OF
word from the home factory of the
Maxwell -Briscoe company, j. S. Con-
well. the local manager of the Max
well -Rriscoe-Los Angeles company, has
given impetus to a movement looking
IN the organization of all Maxwell driV-
ers all over the country into one clupI
by having pushed the organization OF
such a club well under way along the
Pacific coast.
Advance word had been received by
Mr.. Conwell a few weeks ago of what
was about to take place in the east in
organizing a club of this nature along
national lines, and without waiting for
definite information that this step had
been finally taken he set about to work
out such plans as were possible and in
harmony with the national scheme.
To this end he has already taken the
matter up with Maxwell owners in
large number of California cities, even
so far away as San Francisco, and has
received enough responses to indicate
to him that two or three months Will
doubtless see everyone who drives a
Maxwell inside the fold. At such a
time it is quite likely that a meeting
will be called at some convenient point,
either Los Angeles or San Francisco,
and a formal organization be effected,
with the national organization.
Naming Official Hotels
Meanwhile Mr. ConweH is working
out other details of the general scheme
of the national organization by list
ing Official hotels in each of the
California cities most freQuented by
Maxwell tourists and by equipping
these members with Identification cards
I'll
privileges at such official hotels. Many
of these hotels have already been
named, and this phase of work will be
gradually pushed to completion.
1t is quite probable that later in the
year, after organization is perfected, a
club run or outing may be arranged,
so that all members may meet and
become personally acquainted and in
cidentally get much comfort in talking
over the virtues of the Maxwell car.
The details of the organization of
the national club are contained in a
recent issue of the Co-Operator, the
giSt of which follows:
With the meeting held on January
at the Hotel Manhattan, New York, the
Maxwell-Briscoe Motor club has as
sumed reality and legal existence. Sell
dom has an association begun it's ca
reer under more auspicious circum-
charter members, for when the club
took shape no fewer than 349 names
were on the list for membership
The deliberations on January me-
cessarily were of short duration, since
the duties consisted merely in eIecting
the first board of officers, which is as
follows:
National Officials
President, H. A. Hover, Spokane,
Wash; first vice president, Hon. Peter
T. Barlow, New York city; second vice
president, j. D. Schofeld. Dallas,
Texas; treasurer, H B. Worthen,
Brooklyn; secretary, Ernest Coler, New
York; executive committee, H. A. Ho-
yer, Spokane; Hon. Peter Barlow, New
York; J. D. Scofleld, Dallas: H. B.
Worthen, Brooklyn; Ernest Coler, New
York; Frank Bropst, New York; DR..
j. F. Spargur, Cleveland Ohio.
Committees
Laws and rules-Charles F. Lazal-
ere, New York, chairman; I. c. Kirk
ham, Brooklyn; w. F. Smith, Phila-
delphia
Tours-R. C. CIothier, Tarrytown. N.
Y, chairman; ]. S. ConwelI, Los Ange-
les; Peter Bach. Newark, n. J.; Rev.
Charles Townsend Orange, n. J. Off
cial photographer to touring committee
M. Lazarnick, New York.
Maps-W. K Hadley New York,
chairman; J, c. Otto, Springfield,
Mass; Col. K. G. Pardee New York
Publications-Ernes Coler New
York.
Women's Division
President Mrs. ]. R. Ramsey, Hack
ensack, N. j.; first vice president, Mrs
Lillian Gillespie, Poughkeepsie, n. Y;
second vice president E. P. Gresh,