Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-29

/ Park of motor vehicle drivers who
operate their cars with the cut-out
open. The open-muffier nuisance will
receive a severe setback in the Jersey
coast resort, owing to the strict en-
forcement of a local ordinance against
excessive noise.
The membership committee of the
New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club expects to have 5000 motorists
enrolled in the organization before next
January.
Practically the entire prospective out
rut of the hudson Motor Car Com
pany's factory for 1911-12 is already
under contract. Early in June dealers
from big cities and from places near
Detroit visited that city and contracted
for more than th~ree-fourths of the
years output.
George c. G~reason, ~well-known in
Montclair and Newark, has been APP
pointed manage of the clubhouse de-
partment of the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club.
-Four National cars are entered for
the Elgin road races. August 26.
S. e. Oplinger, local manage of the
Stoddard Motor Company, stated to-
day that the announcement Of the 1912
Stoddard- Dayton models would be
ready in a week or two The 1912 line
will include models ranging in price
from $3.50 to $1,000. including thirty diff
ferent body designs and five different
types of chassis.
The Jersey Motor Car Company,
State distributors of the Mais truck,
announce that they will receive their
21h-ton demonstration in Newark on
Monday or Tuesday of next week.
The annual carnival and fair to be
held In Pennington will take place
August 1 to 8. Motorcycle races will
be a feature.
Fhe new Packard "Six" has arrived.
The first shipments of the regular fac
tory output were made this week to
New York. Boston and Philadelphia.
Before making the new model a manu-
| featuring proposition. the company sub
| jected 1t to S. 900 miles of testing. The
, experimental Skies have left a trail
|. of dust from the acknowledgements" of
the Alleghenies to the widest parts of
Wyoming, where the roads are merely
mountain trails.
1t is reported that to date there are
about sixty cars entered for the climb
at Dead Horse Hill at Worcester. Mass,
L -,tiol, u{Il he hoII an A,,1yet 10
When changing into reverse speed
the driver should be very careful not
to attempt to make the change until
the road wheels have come to rest. II
is wise also to keep the clutch out, be-
fore making the change, sufficiently
long to insure the primary shaft COM
ing to rest.
Clarence H. Bissell, a former presi.
dent of the New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club and at present serving or
the board of trustees of that organi-
zation, recently narrowly escaped
drowning in Otsego Lake. New York
while endeavoring to rescue a drown
. ing italian.
A jackson car has been entered in
8 the Point Breeze races today at Phila-
delphia.
Robert M. yandiver, of Birmingham,
r Ala. and NJ. l.. Foster, jr., of Mont
) gomery. Ala, passed through Newark
this week on a many-thousand mile
y trip through the Union. Mr.. vandiver
: drove a h~igh-powered Oldsmobile.
~
e The national efficiency and economy
competition for commercial cars to be
held August 10 is attracting consider
able attention among users and MANI
facturers of commercial cars. The
manufacturers, in particular, who APP
s preciate~ the lack of any real informa-
: ton on the respective merits of their
! cars. are welcoming the contest as ths
most practical and, promising of any,
thing which has so far appeared In
the contest line.
u When filing the gasoline tank from
q a car which has been standing arouni
for some time be sure to wipe off the
cork and top of the can before tippins
it over nto the funnel" says the Cycl:
e and Automobile Trade Journal. "Other.
: wise the accumulation Of dust and dirt
e will be washed into the tank to stor
d up the gasoline line. Also tunnels
which have been hanging up for a time
9 should be thoroughly wiped out, and
d the spout which cannot be reached
with a rag washed out with a little
gasoline"
The New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club has invited tourists passing
n through Newark to stop at the Park
: place clubhouse and consult the toul
d bureau when desiring any road infor-
nation.
a OF t~wenty-four cars which started
in the recent one-day reliability ru,
" under the auspices of the st. Louis
Auto Club not one finished with as high
n a score as did the Mitchell, Model T,
1911 car, which won in the ~tourin.
d car class over a number of autos OF
a greater horsepower and higher price.
IS Hemery kept up his habit of win
ming big races when he captursi TIN