New-York tribune., 1910-03-10
TIM ELY AUTO TOPICS
MEETING IN BOSION.
Plans Discussed at Length foF
the Coming Season.

curing. good roads and contest queStiohs
occupied the attention Of the executive
eou'hhttee of the American Automophe As
So"'a5lon at its monthly meeting on lues-
Jay III Boston. the session having pee''
cahed there at the invitation OF the Boston
show management
incidentally. the thirty fourth state asso-
c!al'"h was added 10 tho national automo-
o'e family. of which President Lewis X
0PeaFe' of Boston. is ruling spirit. The lat-
est ADDITION was the Florida organization
or hlne clubs, and the news with the appll-
cation Indicated that that state had the
sood roads fever, with rising temper
ature The Savannah Automobile Club was
also an accepted applicant foT active mem
bership, and a state association will soon
be formed in Georgia
AS Illustrating the growing individual
membership :. r. Jaques, jr., Of Macon
Ga; Edwin A Carter of Springfield, Mass
NJ. Robert Guggenheim, OF Seattle; f. j..
McClain, of Greenfield, Ohio, and T. A.
Nickerson, OF Portland Me, were duly
elected
Touring information plans occupied much
of the time Of the meeting, and fna, ac-
ton was taken on arrangements that have
been In the making since President Speare
began his administration. in December. In
commenting on this work President Speare
said
From the national headquarters, at No
i31 Fifth avenue, New York, II VIII be pos
sible when the regular touring season opens,
a few weeks hence, TO obt ain the most
complete information available for tourlns
II any part OF this country or Canana, llri,r
information board. has just secured me
services of the most competent man In tne
country for this particular work, ana Wheh
this experienced compiler OF route intor,
nation says that there is none 10 be had
for any particular section that region had
better be left for the aerial brigade
Foreign arrangements are hardly less
thorough, and include reciprocal relations
with the Touring Club of France, the
Automobile Association of LONDON, ths
Motor Union of Great Britain and Ireland
the Touring Club of Italy and all other
members of the International League OF
Touring Association which comprise al
bodies whose chief work is the furtherlne
of touring in their respective countries.
There viii be no disappointment in rely
ing upon our national headquarters tor any
sort of information and maps, which. OF
course, will be at the disposal Of all Ameri-
can Automobile Association clubs and thelT
members, and those who are individual
members or who become such.
Present at the meeting were President
L. r. Speare, of Boston John P. Coghlin
of Worcester. Mass: {. H. Gillette. OF
EdIIIOrQI conn., a. l.. JeICHes Cl
field, Mass, II. a. Bonnell, of Newark, \. J
s. NJ Butler, chairman Of the contest
board; Alfred Reeves and a. G. Batchelder
Fl. Chadwick Hunter, president of the Az
tcmobile Club of Washington. was named a;
a member of the executive committee
George G. Diehl. chairman OF the good
roads board, reported upon the growing ac-
tivities Of this important department, in
Guiding its recently established publicity
work. which is national in character. Nr
Diehl stated that the good roads conven-
ton to be held in ST. Louis in October
promised to be better attended than any in
the past Besides the National Grange, oi
which Ex-Governor Bachelor of New
Hampshire Is the master, q guarantee OF
cooperation has been received from Presi-
dent Barrett of the Farmers Union of the
South and Southwest.
s. NJ. Butler, chairman of the contest
board, stated that the schedule Of fixtures
for the coming season was d lengthy one
embracing all sorts of endurance. economy
and speed competitions. He added that the
tour for the Glidden trophy. starting from
Cincinnati and ending at Chicago, Is likely
70 be the largest in the history of this an
nual run.