Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-18
100000 AUTOS
WILL SOON BE
OPERATED
Alfred Reeves of New York
Show Notes Rapid Growth in
Motor Car Demand,

NEW YORK. Jan. 1S.-"It is pecu-
larly fitting that the national automo-
lille show in Madison Square Garden
orr Grand Central Palace should be the
r,e,test exhibition of its kind says
,re,ed Reeves. of the show committee
If the national automobile show, for
;. reraIds the time when 100000 auto
,,,bires will be i'm use in the United
states. and what is more important.
,i-1out the slightest indication of any
decrease in demand for the wonderful
vehicle that has become so important
raIt of our modern civilization.
Almost every state requires automo-
hi.es to be registered and the records
show almost 100000 cars at the pres
eni writing. From this, however, should
he deducted the number of cars regis
tered by non residents, and considera-
ZION also should be given to the large
number of cars that have changed
hands and have been twice registered
during 1912. Trade authorities admit,
however that there are now $4,000
cars in actual use in this country, of
which 10000 were made and sold dur
Ing 1872.
100000 in 1913.
With a very conservative estimate
If $4,000 ears for 1913, and with the
largest part of that number made in
the spring, the first of May should see
100000 motor vehicles in actual use
for pleasure and for utility purposes,
which at an average of $500 would give
100000 900 as the total selling price.
Although statistics are generally
undressing, those in connection with
The motor car industry are most fasci-
mating. for they mark the gigantic
strides of an industry that has no par
allel in history, easily overreaching as
it does the records of any other man
ufacturing business and marching on
toward the figures of oil, coal, lumber
steel and the producers Of raw mate
rial
The figures indicate that in another
few months there will be a car for every
80 people in the United States, while an
authentic list of manufacturers shows
al companies producing pleasure cars
and $50 companies building commercial
vehicles: although many of the latter
have not turned out more than lew
experimental trucks.
Greater Values Offered.
With electric self starters making
it easy for women to operate them, the
demand for cars is certain TO expand
specially at the remarkable values now
in the market, as compared with few
years ago when the average car cost
$4,000 or more. Greater values will be
offered at the shows than ever before,
whether in cars at $500 or $4,000.
In thirteen years. since the first au-
tomobile show was held in Madison
Square Garden, the industry has pro-
crossed at a rate which can not be
appreciated by any one that has not
been in contact with the captains of the
Industry and the great engineers who
have shown faith in the ability of the
nation to buy and use the vehicle that
Is now as much of a necessity as it was
considered luxury a decade ago.
'Contributory to this wonderful adj
vance must be considered the efficient
manufacturing that has made for lower
cost and the present moderate priced
car; greater simplicity which permits
any one to operate and care for ear;
the increased reliability and most i'm
portant of all, the fact that the motor
car like the telephone, and telegraph,
ana the railroad, is a time saver, and
MS such is essential to our American
life.
California in Lead
registration figures in the various
states show that while New York has
ne greatest number of cars. California
reads IN cars per capita. The final re-
'of' Tor 1872 Of Secretary of State La
~'hNNE shows the actual number of
'a'S IN New York state to be 106, $50, OF
''H'N 300 are commercial vehicles
Ihe state of California has S4.240
va registered or one for each " peo-
pie. while New York has only one for
,a'' Ifl people, because a large proper
mo" OF the population in the big cities
'an not afford cars."t