New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-11
WOMEN ON AUTO RUN
TO GO TO PHILADELPHIA.
Start on Trip This Morning
Garden Work Begins.

The twO-daV from tllS city "
and return Of the Women's Motoring Cluo OF NE"
YORK will star. this morning at o'clock from the
Hotel Plaza. The tourists are to be welcoIheo D,
the New Jersey Automobile and Molor oIuo o.
Newark, where luncheon Will be sefVeo Ahe
Quaker city Motor Club will entertain the TOUR
lists On the evening of their arrival In Philaoepnla
and n ia said that Mayor Reyburn OF Phllaoeipnia
will head the reception committee. 1t Is also an
nounced that the return trip Governor Roi u
New Jersey will receive them at tie state f1ouse
at Trenton. and later e luncheon WIN Do setVeu
The Richmond County Automobile Club, OF Staten
Island. will prepare q luncheon at Atlanto Inh'
where Borough President Cromwell Will help en-
terrain the women automobiists
Another valuable trophy has been presented TO
the entrants In the rum the 500 Hol-Tan trophy a
bronze figure to be awarded to the comolnalioh
of car and driver making the best run, and TINS
trophy can be competed for by any car and or1Ver
with the exception Of the Lancis entry. harry
Fosdck wishes It TO be understood that the trophy
is open to competition to all cars entered III 'he
run except the Lancia.
Among the entrisAS-e Mrs Joan Newton Ounce.
I.ancfa; Mrs. Alice IL Ramsey. Maxwell; Miss
Harriet Quinby, CHGallao; Mrs. J. c. kirkman'
Maxwell; Mrs. A. W. Seaman, Franklin; Miss
Bertha Rittwetzer Maxwell: Miss Lillian Gillespie,
Maxwell: Mrs EVELYN NJ Buchanan. Renault; Miss
Alice D. Hayes Cadillac; Mrs. Bach, Maxwell;
Miss Beatrice Wilson Jewell, and Mrs f. s.
Spooner, Jackson.
Fred ]. Wagner will be the official starter, and
the timing ana CHeCKlnS VIII DC III llio iIoaAoo VI
expert committee.
The work Of preparing the arena OF Madison
Square Garden for the ninth annual national show
OF the Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, which
opens Saturday evening at O'Clock. will begin
in earnest to-day tomorrow. For some weeks
a of men has been kept busy making altera-
tons and putting UP decorations in the upper
part of the building the cafe the concert hall and
the basement. The decorations arranged for this
far 1ara all
easily be feature in themselves
The second session OF the fourth annual meeting
Of the Society OF Automobile Engineers will be held
on January 1e At the meeting Of the society
held last week the annual election resulted in pac-
ing the following officers in charge for the coming
year. President Henry Hess, Hess Bright Manu-
featuring Company, Philadelphia; first vice-presi-
dent, Russell HUFF, chief engineer Of the Packard
Motor Car Company. Detroit; second vfce-president
B. D. Gray, chief engineer of the American Loco
motive Company, Providence; treasurer. Allan H
Whiting, New York representative of the Stoddard-
Dayton cars managers for the term Of three years,
David Ferguson, chief engineer OF the George n.
Pierce Company, Buffalo, and Professor R. c. Car
penter. of Cornell University. Charles B. Hayward
was again appointed secretary.
Taxation OF motor vehicles, based horsepower
rating of the machines, is proposal in bill which
passed the branch of the Vermont Legislature
q strong fight Is TO be made in the Senate This
bill provides for graduated registration fee, rang
ing from So to SIS a year. The fee for the first
year is based upon the actual horsepower. The
horsepower computed at 20 per cent less the sec
ond year, so per cent less the third year, and 10
per cent the fourth year and each subsequent
year. Provision is made that the receipts from
registration fees shall be turned into the highway
fund to be apportioned among the counties on the
basis Of population, and the bill is favored by c. w
Gates of Franklin, State Highway Commissioner
1t is estimated the would raise from 10000
to $50, 900 annually. The argument in support of
the bill is that of automobiles is not local
and is a cause of damage to highways throughout
the state.
Among the opponents representatives OF the
cities and large towns. The ground Of their oppo-
sition is the unfairness of the measure in regard
TO large places. Representative Barber. of Brat
tleboro who opposed 1t from the start says the
passage of the bill would take more than S125,000
of taxable property from Brattleboro's tax list and
the small towns would get the benefit of 1t. Proba-
bly, twice as many automobiles are owned in Brat
tleboro as in all the rest Of the county Mr.. Bar
Der believes that there would be justice in tax
ing automobiles any other basis than other prop
erty Is taxed, in making the 1900 automobile
owners IN Vermont pay one-fourth OF the entire
highway tax of the state, would be the case
under the method of taxationrthe bill contempates