Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15
DOINGS IN THE AUTO WORLD
Magnificent Exhibition of Motor Cars New York Show-A Million Cars in Use in May, 1913-A Car For Every 90 People-Many Entries For Providence Show.

and consideration also should be given l to the large number of cars that have l changed hands and have been twice registered in 1912. Trade authorities l agree, however, that there are now l 825,000 cars in actual use in this coun- 1 try. of which 270.0o0 were made and l sold in 1912.
 With a very conservative estimate of l S8O,0O0 cars for 1913, and with the larg est part of that number made In the spring, the first of May should see 1000. 900 motor vehicles in actual use for pleasure and for utility purposes, which at an average of $500 would give $900.000,00o as the total selling price.
 Although statistics are generally un~ interesting, those in connection with the motor car industry are most fas- c1nating. for they mark the gigantic strides of an industry that has no par allel in history. easily overreaching, as 1t does, the records of any other manufacturing business and marching on toward the figures of oil, coal, lum-
 Der, steel and the producers of raw material.
 The figures indicate that in another every ninety. persons in the United States, while an authentic list of man. ufacturers shows 241 companies pro-
 ducing pleasure cars and 2S0 com pan1es building commercial vehicles, although many of the latter have not turned out more than a, few experi- mental trucks.
 That the American with his love of comfort and convenience, was certain to demand better method of starting his motor car than by the ancient and laborious and dangerous use of crank was inevitable, and. as viewed now, we marvel that engine starters or self starters were not demanded in all cars years ago, says E. V. Hartford.
 While the man himself might put up with the inconvenience of starting the car with a crank, his natural gallantry struggle with a hard turning motor, so that, as in many other things, the fair sex Is mainly responsible for the arrival of this latest convenience and necessity on the vehicle that has made such radical changes in our modern civilization; and when this same self starter Is coupled with an electric lighting system and placed on the mod efn gasoline propelled machine it would seem that the automobile itself might be considered almost perfect.
 There is no other industry that has done more in a given length of time for the education, social uplift, health, business and general welfare of the civilized world than the automobile; and when it is considered that the mo- tor industry is hardly past it's swad- ding clothes period no one today can accurately forecast what untold bless ings the future has in store for human ity through the motor vehicle, says R. M. Owen.
 Statistics show that on October 21, 1913, there were registered in the var ious states total of 990,738 pleasure motor vehicles. After deducting fifteen per cent. from this total registration for cumulative and overlapping regis trations, it is safe to say that on Jan uary 1, 1913 there are approximately S43,000 pleasure motor cars in use. rep resenting at least a first value of $1,- 900, 900, ,000 This vast amount of money has gone into the pay envelopes of at least one hundred thousand American workmen, to American man thousands of American dealers and salesmen. Fully one million persons are today benefited directly or indi- rect1y, by this stupendous industry.
 And when we add the vast numbers