Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05

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Harry Price, Maxwell messenger 10 the
Auto Livery Company of Winchester and
Maxwell specials to Bishop Harding, I.
II. Cotton and W. X. Hull.
The motor car manufacturing bust
ness has grown with such leaps and
bounds that makers frequently find
themselves handicapped because of
lack of men available to take respon-
sible and we'll paying positions. This
condition is due largely to the fact
that there has not been sufficient oppor-
tunity for young men to acquire the
practical and technical knowledge neces-
sary In this young industry.
Some time ago the Cadillac Motor Car
Company, after much consideration and
planning determined. to meet the stu
alton. and established a school Of applied
mechanics. to be conducted In connection
with the plant
specially equipped training depart
ment is provided With every needed
facility. The students in the school
are under the direction of several ex-
pert mechanical engineers who have had
the technical training and practical ex-
perience. These engineers devote their
entire time to instructing the students
In the correct use of tools and ways
and means for producing the highest
grade of work
The time required to complete the
course is two years and during that
time instruction is given in most
branches of automobile manufacturing
Students are paid from IA to IL cents
per hour and are given bonus of 500
upon satisfactory completion of the
two-year course.
Detroit, great manufacturing COM
munity of more than coo. 900 inhabitants,
Is III dire need of new outlet to the
cast Its present inadequate railroad IA
cilities have especially hampered the au-
tomobile industry and the gentlemen in
terested In this business have stirred the
city into action. An appeal is being made
to the Pennsylvania railroad. which is al
ready within sixty miles of Detroit. to
tap the city with a spur. If this is done
Philadelphia will be added to New York
as seaport for Detroit, and it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that so great would be
the stimulus TO manufacturing in Detroit
that the city would soon grow to pop
ulation of 1000 COO
The effort being made to alleviate the
really serious freight conditions and to
induce the Pennsylvania road to help
out the situation is under the direction
or the Detroit Board of Commerce Its
president Is Homer Warren. a man who
is widely interested in business and po-
Htfcal activities Of his state Mr.. Warren
accompanied by several of the most in
iuential business men of Detroit recently
visited the Pennsylvania railroad officials
to go over the peculiar situation with
them. What the result of this confer
ence was Mr.. Warren will not yet say
but 1t is confidently expected that a real
the Detroit business. which would add
enormously to its freight returns
Detrolt mas been greatly stirred over
this freight problem because 1t has be-
manufacturers are threatening to move
to other cities. The automobile men
are the greatest sufferers. although the
trouble is by no means confined to
them. The railroad facilities in Detroit
are controlled by one system the New
York Central. whose Michigan Central
has belt line around the city If the
New York Central made a genuine effort
70 meet the increasing need of Detroit
Il failed.
Announcement was made yesterday
that Samuel A. Luttrell has purchased
the interest Of j. A. Muehleisen in the
LuttreIl company. local representative for
tinue under the same name. Mr.. Muehlei-
son retiring from the automobile business
n Washington.
The latest purchaser OF a Paige car is
H.. Wells Woodward, delivery being made
yesterday. The car is a fore-door, four
messenger touring car.
While the popularity of motor car tour
Ing has increased with tremendous
strides during each succeeding year.
G,0s tse pe ens of ad
rs well as improved highways
and their proper maintenance. it is pre-
dicted that the present year will be char.
acterized by some novel features in re-
spect TO the number of tourists and the
thousands of miles travelled, IL the in
quiries now being received at the Touring
Club OF America In New York city are
any criterion
since the close of the touring season
last year there have been a number of
changes in the state motor vehicle laws
and many municipalities have enacted new
ordinances governing the operation of
motor vehicles modelled in nearly every
instance on the uniform traffic regula-
stions promulgated and recommended by
tthe Touring Club. Among the most i'm
portant are those prohibiting the use of
the mufiier cutout. smoking motor ex-
hausts and dazzling headlights where the |
streets are adequately lighted.
In many localities the traffic regulations
srestrain the indiscriminate use of auto
/ mobile signals except as warning of |
danger. 1t is obvious that tourists should |
always drive through cities and villages
with the utmost caution, observing par
sticularly the rules of the road and the |
rights Of pedestrians. In approaching |
"a street car which has stopped to allow |
passengers to alight or embark, the |
driver of an automobile should slow
down, and IL the street Is narrow come
10 a stop, not attempting to drive past |
the car until the way is clear. Under no |
circumstances should the automobile pass |
the street car except on the right hand |
side. |
The average motorist out for a few
days recreation on strange roads and |
amid new scenery may always be relied |
upon to be a careful driver 1t con- |
tributes not only to the safety Of those in |
lis car but also shows due regard for the |
rights of other users of the highways, |
and therefore indirectly Is valuable |
means of conserving the legitimate rights
OF the motorists. The Touring Club in
advocating safe and sane driving has
exerted a salutary influence in this phase
of touring which has been most beneficial
to the automobile industry and trade as
IN appreciation Of the advocacy of uni |
lations is exemplified In a leading edi-
torial in the current weeks issue of a
motor magazine. from which the follow
ing pertinent excerpts are quoted:
In the question of signals to be used.
IL the matter of muff1er cutouts, and III
Inc question of lamp equipment. uniform
legislation should be aimed at. In
city one form of signal Is required. in an
adjoining city a different form is stipu-
lated, so that 1t is necessary in certain
sections Of the country to carry at least
three different kinds of warning signals
il the driver is to obey signal laws in the
different places passed through in day :
tour. This question should be corrected.
IL is hardship to the motorists. and is an
antiquated restriction on a modern in
dustry. In country districts the inhabi-
tant of the village along the main high
way objects to the needless noise created
by the tourist at night. and he today is