New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-16
AUTO NEWS Of THE DAY
New Jersey Motorists txpec'
Favorable Legislation.
Commercial Trucks Will Be seen
in Large Numbers at lnoe
pendent Exhibit,

pendent Exhibit.
! The motorists Of New Jersey were pie1S0u
at the result of the elections throughout tiie
state because the indications are that lhe
much abused legislation now upon IhS
statutes Will be removed by the next Les
/ islature.
= This work of securing remedial motor
| legislation was undertaken by the New Jer-
! sey Automobile and Motor Club and they
| canvassed all the state candidates as W
! their position on the requests of the mo-
| florists. The result of the ciuD s canvass
was made public Vice-President H. -
Bowman saws:
Senator FreIinghuvsen will not he the
leading lawmaker at Trenton next winter
for the House of Assembly will be IN our
favor and eleven Of the twenty-one Seha-
tors are counted upon being IN favor OF
a true reciprocity measure.
IAN the Democrats will favor US and sew
eral of the Republicans can be considered
as favoring our reasonable amendments.
"Inasmuch as the Democratic party. in It's
platform. espoused the cause of the motorl-
lists, al the solicitation Of the club, and as
Governor-elect Wilson has written US ne
favors our demands, the remedial motor
legislation necessary for our comfort ana
convenience will soon be passed.
Judging from the results Il appears as II
the motorists generally favored the Demo
cratic candidates, and the hoidover Sena-
tors knowing this, may lineup with the
lawmakers who already agree with US that
the state IS not acting fairly and squarely
TO itself and its neighbors by refusing to
recognize the vast Importance of the motor
vehicle traffic and industry
J. s. Joseph. of the Fiat Automobile
Company, commenting on Saturdays Grand
Prize race, said:
I'VE are satisfied with the showing OF the
Fiat cars al Savannah. We have no re-
grets, for the public knowns full well the
mishaps that can change the result OF any
race. Our congratulations 10 the winner
more especially as David Bruce-Brown, the
Grand Prize winner, has ordered from US
a duplicate eo-horsepower Fiat car of the
same type as was used in Saturdays race.
which by the way, is a stock car with us.
and not a special racing machine as the
impression has gone forth.
THE car driven by Nazzaro In the Grand
Prize has been sold 70 Sidney Smith Of Los
Angeles by z. z. Hewlett, our Pacific
Coast agent and is being shipped at once
direct from Savannah 10 start in the Santa
Monica, Cal, ao0-Inile road race on Noven1-
Der q.
The list OF exhibitors for the eleventh an
nuaI international automobile show, to he
held in Grand Central Palace on December
81 to January = has grown by leaps and
bounds during the last few days. When II
became apparent that the show was des-
tined TO be a success. a scramble began
for the remaining choice locations. Several /
makers who had been invited to partlcl-
pate. but declined. suddenly changed their
minds Every mail brings its quota OF in
quiries and applications.
The motor truck appears TO be coming
into it's own and the built for business J
vehicles will not be sighted at the Palace
show They are to be shown in greater
numbers and variety than ever before
Something like 30 per cent of the motor
car space will be given to the trucks The
greatest improvements have been made IN
these wagons and there will be many new
ideas
Captain William Mitchell Lewis, head Of
the MitcheIl-Lewis Motor Company. of Ra-
pany's sales manager. James w. ellison.
Both came on from the West TO see the
Yale-Princeton game and remained over to
visit the horse show.
CAPTAIN Lewis. who was centre at Yale
in 1880 when his team beat Princeton 81 to 0,
was elated over the outcome of the game,
Both Captain Lewis and Mr.. ellison spent
yesterday afternoon at the horse show, as
+4,1 o-Iyr int tad in ba
classes for utility horses. while Captain
Lewis has always been an admirer OF the
heavy harness classes, having owned and
driven four-n-hands for years.
Although our company will manufacture
about eight thousand motor cars this year
we do a business of almost 100000 an
nuaIly in farm wagons" said Captain
Lewis last night Our company began
manufacturing horse drawn vehicles in
1884 and nave been in the business contn-
uously since that time We have just ap-
propriated $4,000 for additional buildings
for wagon making. II is always healthy
sign of the times in the West when there
is an increased demand for farm wagons"
At the last meeting of the board OF d-
rectors of the Licensed Automobile Deal
ers Association, / NJ. Uppercu, of the
Cadillac Motor Car Company, and r. NJ.
Johnson Of the White Company, were
elected members of the board TO fill the
vacancies caused by the designations OF
Harry Fostck and George W. Bennett.
James M Carples. the general manager,
also placed his resignation in the hands
of the executive committee announcing
that his new duties as general manager OF
the Daimler Import Company who will
handle Mercedes cars. made II impossible
for him to continue as general manager Of
the Licensed Dealers Association
Stroudsburg, Penn, Nov. 15-W. II.
Sharp, who died at Savannah on Monday
from injuries received while driving a
Sharp-Arrow racing car. was general man
ager Of the newly organized Sharp Motor
Car Company at East Stroudsburg w
Burnett Easton. the president of the com
pany, was killed ten days ago on the
Lacka wanna tracks
Both deaths will likely mean the aban-
donment of the business. The building is
about completed.
Savannah. Nov. 15-Having recovered
sufficiently from his injuries received in the
Grand Prize automobile race, Louis Wag
ner left to-day, with Victor Hemery and
Baron Won Gienanth for New York. Wag
ner will sail at once for Paris and will en-
ter aviation meets in France