The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-25
CAR MAKERS ACT TO
ENCOURAGE TOURING
VIII Work With A. A. A. on
Plan to Have a National
Outing Week.
HOTEL QUESTION PUZZLE
To Insure Fair Rates to All
Motorists Is Point
Other Notes.
HOTEL QUESTION PUZZLE

|
ing the Automobile Chamber of Com
merce. which Is the manufacturers or.
ganization. and tho American Automobile
| Association have n plan they are pre-
pared to work together In order to get
motorists with their families out on the
roads. The idea Is. according to a state
ment by Alfred Reeves. general mana
ger OF the Chamber OF Commerce. to set
| aside some one week, preferably In June,
| when motorists with their families all over
the country will get out and make trips
lasting several days. Furthermore. the A.
| A A. has In mind some sort OF tour
ing trip this summer TO the White Noun
| talns, for which the Glidden and Ander-
| son trophies will be offered as prizes.
Mr.. Reeves already has talked over
matters with Frank X Mud. chairman
OF the touring board Of the a. A A.
and they are to work together. Mr..
| Mudd agrees with me-" Mr.. Reeves Is re-
ported as saying. that touring should re-
/ ceive every encouragement and In no
better way can Its advantages be brought
TO the attention OF motorists than py
/ establishing a national touring week all
over the country. Tens OF thousands OF
| automobile owners never have driven
their cars further than 100 miles from
their homes and thus have missed one
| ownership. Our idea Is to set aside some
| week late in June. when the children are
| out OF school and the resort hotels are
| open. for tours of a whole week or for
| two or three days. The advantages in
the way OF health and education and
| seeing America would be inestimable
and this would apply to our children as
well as to ourselves.
I'VE propose to ask local trade associa-
lions to cooperate with clubs in the pro-
motion OF tours by Offering prizes that
will appeal to owners. The proprietors
OF most hotels probably would be glad
| to cooperate In the spirit Of the affair BY
having special entertainments and dances
during touring week.
MANY may not care TO poin these tours
| or even TO tour during touring wees
These can make their tours later. Flor
ida has its Washington Birthday week
| and Atlantic City its Easter week Why
should not motordom have its touring
week? Good roads systems are now well
defined Excessive hotel charges through
the present system OF the appointment OF
official hotels are now thing OF the
past. so that conditions are favorable for
touring Already the A. A. A. has In
mind great tour to the White Noun
tains in July. wherein the Gliddsn and
Anderson trophies will be given
prizes. In a word. touring In this eour-
, try. with all that It means In the en-
couragemont OF the sport and industry,
scems To be on the edge OF u great boom
which the Automobile Chamber Of Com
msrCe and tn" American Automobile As
sociation propose to help along TO the
utmost"
The idea is excellent and VIII meet
with the approval Of many folks. Hut
perhaps tho wish Is father TO the thought
in what Mr.. Reeves has had TO say about
,,I h..Ir gh.
of fact that is still far from adjustment
At a meeting not long ago OF the Auto
mobile Club OF America, when plans for
the touring Information season were be-
ing discussed. the matter OF getting hotels
TO hold 10 their charges was the main
point up for discussion. There Is stu
much TO be done In this regard
SO much so that one motorist says ne
makes II a point always 10 telephone from
: "A neighboring town when ne wants 10 get
/ a room or other accommodation at a hotel
rather than come up IN a car 20 find that
rates have riz' when he hove into sight.
The Ford branch az boston. serving all
the smaller cities and towns OF Massachu-
sets. such as Lowell Gloucester. Cam
bridge. Springfield and Waltham, reports
II has sold So Fords for municipal use
Cleveland has a record 81 35. Of which &c
are within the city The New York city
territory has % in operation and Los
Angeles has sold IS to municipalities
In Its territory.
February was the biggest month in
the history OF the Lozier Motor Company.
says It's president, J, NJ. Gilbert. I'm Feb
ruary we began deliveries Of the new Log e r
four but also We made and shipped more
skies than In any other month since last
May, which was tho record month up TO
that time.
Nor have the fears Of our timid friends
been verified. You know they predicted
that the poor customer would become
confused at all the controversial CONVEX.
sation about skies and fours. The EN-
phatic stand Lozer took In advocatirg
fours In one price class while continuing
TO make skies in another class was 10
have muddled the mind OF the buyer hope.
lessly, according To these timorous ones
Nothing OF the kind has happened. which
merely goes TO prove that the man
who buys an automobile st!u retains the
same brain power and tho sense of dis
elimination with which ne accumulate ed
the wherewithal
"Buyers who can AFFORD good six
still buy them That Is demonstrated by
the fact that In the very month when w
published our pronunciamento on fours
We made our record In SKIES on N.
other hand orders for Lozier tours piled
up faster than we could ship We hav,
on hand to-day 500 orders for immediat,
shipment OF fours.
I'm other words. all n maker has 10 dc
~ set the facts plainly before the buyer
show from tho fulness OF his eSperienc,
: where the line should he drawn. and IN.
, buyer can be depended upon to decid,
correctly as TO whether his particula,
needs and purse can tsst be served by 4
four or six"