The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-30
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AUTOMOBILE FIELD
Young Men Told by A. L. A.
M Official, Motor Car Is
[ Now Necessity.

New York, April 29.-That automo-
bile manufacturing and SEEDING offer
excellea9 opportunities for young men.
and that many OF the greatest success
les In thel trade have been scored by
men unddr forty years Of age, is the
statement OF Alfred Reeves. general
manager of the Association OF Licen.
sed Automobile Manufacturers. in his
address before the automobile school
Of the Bedford branch, Y. NJ. G. A., in
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Reeves said that the average age
OF the presidents OF the eighty factor.
les In the A. l.. A. NJ, 10 not more
than fortytwo years. while the young
est president. who Is the head of mil
1ion-dollar company. Is only thirty-one.
He mentioned the men who have made
names for themselves In the engineer
Ing AZ well as In the business end Of
motoring. and supplied some interest
ing figures showing the importance
OF the making and marketing Of motor
cars. He expressed the belief that
ten years from now o horse would be
az rare on the streets Of New York as
motor cars we're ten years ago. There
arp plenty OF factories for making cars
bot there are opportunities galore for
young men to improve even what seem
to be the perfect motor vehicles OF to-
day. Among other things he said:
"The man who succeeds must be
nbove the average. He must not be
IN ordinary salesman. but a star sales.
man: not plain driver. but an expert
driver; not an inventor OF small
things, but q producer OF big things.
y'The recbrd growth of the automO-
bile business during the last ten years
fss been startling to the cOnserva-
tive business man who could not bring
himself to believe that motoring was
more than pastime and that the mo-
Tor car IL just as much necessity as
the telephone, the Telegraph or trans
Portation lines. For q number OF
years these conservatives have pre-.
aiicted failure, yet each year has seen
more and better motor cars produced
and more and more men employed un.
Gil now we have such startling fig.
ures az the following:
three hundred automobile factor
lee In America. Of which 1875 are be-
Eond the experimental stage and are
producing fifty or more machines a
kar.
"Four hundred and seventy-five mil
Zion dollar capital in the motor car
and accessory business. of which $685.
100000 II In motor car factories alone.
"Four hundred and ten thousand au.
aosnobiles manufactured during the
last ten years, almost all OF which are
IN use.
two hundred and seventy-eight
Thousand men employed In the various
branches of motor car making and
selling.
"Nine thousand four hundred deal.
erS In America. most Of whom Min
tain salesrooms or garages.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand registered
automobile drivers and almost seven
ty thousand machines in use In the
state OF New York.
Used Over the World.
Motor cars are now used the world
over. even In the most remote parts
Of Asia and Africa. So far as know
there II only one place where motor
cars are not used. and that Is In Ber-
muda. where the roads are SO narrow
AZ to make motoring unsafe. The au-
thorities have. therefore, prohibited
their use on the islands.
1.-THE normal demand for cars In the
future Ia expected to be about one hun
dred and seventy-five thousand pleas
ure cars annually. many Of which will
20 to the farmers. A to the number
of freight carrying machines that can
he used. only time will tell. 1t Is a
fact, however. that with seven million
horue-drawn vehicles In the country. a
large number must be replaced with
motor cars. and that field offers the
greatest future. Motor-driven vehic.
Leo will solve those many problems
Involved In our present wasteful
mSthod OF transferring merchandise
by horsedrawn vehicles. Using q mo-
tor car which will; carry twice the load
ut twice the speed. and requiring only
half the space will be like increasing
tha width NJ atreets siv tin,es"