New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-26
MOTORISTS AT DINNER
NO ATTEMPT At SPEED.
Governor Fort InUites Automobile
Club to His State.

About five hundred members Of the Automobile
Club of America attended their tenth annual dinner
at the Waldorf last night. The speed limit was
not thought OF, and il not until after midnight
that the motorists reached their final destination.
which was Aud Lang Syne" Not that the pace
was slow; far from It: other functions OF the kind
would have q hard time keeping up The original
route was from the Waldorf TO Trenton. \. j. to
WASHINGTON, and then back and up TO Albany.
But the club got only as far as New Jersey, and
then the eighty horsepower oratorical Limousine
got stranded IN the meadows and sent out FOR more
gasolene.
There were i've set speeches on the after dinner
programme. Only one OF these delivered, this
one by Governor Fort OF New Jersey. The other
speakers, Senator Depew. Congressman j. Van
vechten Olcott. Senator Aids and Henry w. Hill
were not present. There IVES, however, a fine op-
cratic concert programme. The artists were Mr.
Sammsrco. Nine. Doria and Mile. Trentin- or the
Manhattan Opera House, and Herr Meisel. violin
ist. There also two vaudeville numbers that
added 20 the gayety OF the occasion.
Ebert H. Gary. president Of the club, was the
toastmester. After proposing toasts TO President
Taft and the members Of the foreign autorobhe
clubs affiliated with the Automobile Club OF Amer
lea, he read a cable message from Colgate Hoyt.
which said.
Greetings to YOU 70 members and guests RE Re-
greet absence tonight Just finished s 6:ooo-rnle
Judge Gary then introduced Governor Fort 'Pity
the plight Of the Governor Of New Jersey, he said;
he doesn't own an automobile and he said so last
night but he has hopes"
The Governors theme International Reia-
tons" and he adhered rather closely 10 II, dis
cussing for the most part the relations Of the state
of New Jersey with New York automobilists- He
promised that ne and his state would do all pos
sible to help and encourage automobihng de said:
We must have a speed limit such that the act
shall not create race Of lawhreakerS. am oP-
posed TO putting in the statutes of our states or
in the acts OF Congress that which every man
knows nobody intends 70 observe It is not fair
to the public morality of the state 10 put re-
srfotions IN laws that every man knows When no
votes for those restrictions NOBODY interluS To GU
Interstate agreements are provided for under
the Constitution of the United states. WIN tne
consent of Congress any two states may make
any agreement they please between themselves.
And If New York and New Jersey and Connecticut
and Rhode Island and Massachusetts ana Mary
land shall together agree a method Of travel
by automobiles and a uniform fee for all
those states and il shall be approved. will
need no further legislation on the subject, ana
shall have one fee for all those states In the
East. This is not idle dream; this is not an
made after conference with the Governor of
your own state which he and had some time
ago, and I under the earnest hope that, either
at Trenton or Albany very soon mere may oe
gathered together conference OF states by rep
resentatives 10 fix uniform fee for more than
one state in the Union.
Judge Gary proposed toast Ito the ladies'" who,
he said were doing much for automobiliug. The
POSTMASTER suggested this sentiment:
The ladies always were. and always will be-
our supeTiors. whether not by convention or
otherwise they become equals"
Mary Garden. The prima donna, whose father is
a member Of the Automobile Club. to sing. but
she reported sick But Bobby North, comedian,
sang a song about Sadie Salome," whom he adj
vised TO ''go home for more clothes.