Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-02
Breeze from
the Blowouts
BY ]. K. GOwEN, JR.

After the strong boost given auton1o-
bile reciprocity by the Good Roads
Convention held in the First Regiment
Armory at the automobile show last
Friday afternoon and al the ninth an
nual hanouet of the New Jersey Au-
tomobile and Motor Club, held in Krue-
ger Auditorium Tuesday evening of
this week, 1t begins to appear as II
reciprocity has been reduced TO O "nui
sed' proposition. If optimism as to
the ultimate fate of the bill when 1t
is voted on by the Senate is to be
taken as any criterion New Jersey -
virtually the same as all the other
States In the Union now. Almost with
out exception the motorists are favor
able, and the same may be said of the
majority of farmers throughout the
| State. AS to the business interests,
especially those Intimately connected
with the automobile, just let one of the
short-tempered manufacturers get you
by the ear and pour forth his tale of
woe.
A Whole lot Of people would like to
know lust who the Individual Is who
cuts around every day at high speed
in a little red roadster marked Essex
County Isolation Hospital" Is he a
human angel of mercy rushing to the
bedside of a patient whose life depends
upon the speed he makes In h crowd
ed streets or does he simply like to see
how fast he can go and get away with
it. using his red cross emblem as an
excuse?
Notice the cars which budded out
with the spring weather we enjoyed a
couple of days this week? All sorts
and descriptions, from the one-lung
which had been in storage all winter
to the p~alatial sea-going greyhounds
which defy any and all sorts OF
weather. were yanked out of the
garage. Everything that could go was
set going, and the direction was the
same in almost every instance. "Back
to the farm was the watchword and
the country roads were given a SPLEEN
did opportunity to do their darndest
with an a~ll-winter's supply of nice
fresh mud. Not that 1t was not en-
ioyabIe all the same. AND few casual
ties were noted in the live stock. II is
a little early yet for the pigs and
chickens to make a runway Of the
roads.
There is an automobile show going
on this week in the Twenty-third Reg
iment Armorv. ~Brooklyn-the SECOND
annual BROOKLYN auto show. Fine re-
ports come over from it. but neverthe-
less we have our doubts that it is n
better. if quite as good, as the one held
last week in little old Newark. They
haven't got over talking about u
show vet in many quarters and the
consensus of opinion seems to be that
1t peat the New York show FAN hol-1
low Still allowance must be made
for a natural prejudice for things that
belong to us
Strange us it may seem, wheri COM
pared with the success which the Van
Deman e wainwright Company has
beer making since last December,
neither of the two partners had ever
beer in the automobile business before
that date. According to them. they
liked the car they are featuring so
much that they decided to take the
agency for. 1t. And now they are
thinking OF making engagements 10
their present handsome showroom.
Many of the exhibitors Of the more
costly cars at the automobile show.
which occurred last week in the First
Regiment Armory, while they consider
that it was a most successful occasion,
did not depend IN 1t to materially in
crease their sales. They went into
the thing mainly for the unquestion-
able amount OF advertising in it and
to have their cars represented.