Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08


on legislation OF the two branches of the
council during the next session of the
Maryland legislature be empowered to
draft amendments to the motor venice
law regarding the issuing of licenses
These proposed amendments call Tor the
appointment' of a reliable board OF eX-
aminers, to which all applicants for
licenses to operate motor cars shall sub
NIT their claims and qualifications. Inc
aim is to have licenses withheld from all
persons except those who In addition TO
possessing the proper skill. are suflcient-
Iv cautious in their, habits. and not a man
ace to the general public 1t is desired
to have a provision inserted making II
punishable for any one to operate motor
car unless lie is an actual iicensee In his
own name: also that the city OF Baiu-
more shall receive a volume OF revenue
from motor car licenses in exact proper
ton to the number of motor car licenses
granted to residents of the city
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After a months work IN the course by
the Savannah Automobile Club. the grand
priX racing circuit Is in good condition,
and almost ready for the November meet
ing.
The remarkable increase of the automo-
bile industry is no better shown than in
figures recently issued by the bureau of
statistics, Department of Commerce ana
La Dor. for the exports of American auto
mobiles during the seven months ending
July last. From these figures it is estl-
mated that automobiles and parts thereof
exported from the United States during
1911 will aggregate approximately SO
100000 in value. According to the official
figures for the first seven months OF the
year, up to July, there was exported more
than S9.OOOO worth Of automobiles,
S2OGOOCO worth of parts thereof other
than tires. and $1,5o0oo0 worth of tires,
making the aggregate for the seven
months s12a0O.OOC. Should the exports
remaining months OF the year, the total
would cross the S20.GNono line Even
this does not include the automobiles sent
to Porto Rico. Hawaii and Alaska. which.
with the parts thereof. aggregated over
one and one-half millions dollars value
during the last fiscal year.
The increase in the expectation of this
article of American manufacture has been
almost as rapid as the growth in their
use in the United States. The total value
ported in 1901, only decade ago, was
less than $1,000. 900; in 1892 1t passed the
$1.GO0.6CO line; in 1903 ii was more than
s1.5OO.GOO; in 1905 s2.5GO.090; in 1:)0i
si5OC, OOo; in 1897 S5.750,O00: in 19O,
N,1jO,OOO: in 1910 s13,CtD,OG0, and in 1871
seems likely to be, for automobiles alone.
about $1,000. 600; for parts thereof, ex-
cept tires, about S3.I00.G00, and for ii rs
about S2,300,WU. These figures are all
for calendar years.
Even this increase in v.:hie does not
fully represent the ncreas- in the num-
Der of machines exported, since the eX-
port price has fallen in the meantime.
The average export price Of automobiles
exported in 1908 was, in round terms,
$1,000: in 1909 $l,JC0; in 1910 a little over
$500, and in the seven months Of the
available, little more than $1,000 each,
the export price having thus fallen prac-
tically one-half since 1908, these figures
of average export prices being obtained
by dividing the stated number of auto
mobiles exported into the stated value
thereof for each of the years in question.
Canada is by far the largest market
for automobiles exported from the United
States. Of the practically 5000 machines
exported in the seven months ending with
United Kingdom. 93S to British Oceanic
chiefly Australia and New Zealand), Al
to Asia and Oceania other than British,
444 to South America. "73 to France, ITO
TO the West Indies and Bermuda, 147 to
Mexico, 137 to Italy and % to Germany.
These figures do not incluue the ship
nents to non-contiguous territory of the
United States, the number sent to Hawaii
in the seven months in question being
202. to Porto Rico 1J4 and to Alaska 2.
One of the most successful transconti-
mental motor trips ever made from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast has just
been completed by Thomas w. Wildly
under the auspices OF the Touring Club of
America. Mr.. Wildly has travelled thou
sands of miles N Europe as well as in
America, and he was selected to make
the recent trip for the express purpose of
mapping out an ideal automobile route
through the Central and more northerly
sections of the country, entering San
Francisco by way of Omaha and Chey-
enne.
He left New York August 81 last and
completed the first stage of his journey
last week when he reached San Francisco
in about thirty-five days. Besides map
ping out the most feasible route for every
mile of the journey and compiling the
latest information regarding road condi-
tons in every state through which he
passed. another object of the tour is to
show how comfortably a long-distance
journey across the country may be &C.
complshed by automobile.
Mr.. Wildly averaged from 100 TO 125
miles a day throughout the trip. He en-
deavored to regulate his daily runs to
no miles, and with the exception of few
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