The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-24
MOTOR PAGEANT IN
PRECAUTIONARY FETE
Part Of Commerce Celebration
to Be Held in tine
Autumn.
TRAPPERS IN NEW JERSEY
Those Who "Coax" Motorists TO
Go Fast Draw Two
Who'll Fight.
IN NEW JERSEY

In connection with the Cornr,o-o,.,
Tercentenary Celebration this fall wb,c,
Is to celebrate the beginning 300 wear,
ago of chartered commerce in Arnerlc,
there will be an automobile carnIv,,
Gov. Glynn signed a bill last week an.
propriating 100000 as the basis OF I.
fund to make the celebration a suocss,
The city, public service corporation, And
private business interests will contribu,.
further. A part of the fund will n.
used for various pageants. including the
automobile parade and carnival
A committee of fifteen mon pronln.,,
In the automobile industry T. 10 dire.
the automobile end OF the celebration and
n programme Is being arranged. I, 4.
planned to have huge industrial nigh,
pageant, depicting on floats. allegoricai
and otherwise, the growth OF the auto.
mobile and accessory industry. There ala,
will be a section for private owners, in
Guiding a division for fiorallv decorated
cars, electric cars, also grotesque division.
cycle car, decorated motor truck and ad.
vertislng sections.
The pageant will take place the laH
week in September and will be run
through the boroughs of Manhattan, Thu
Bronx and Brooklyn. Appropriate prize.
are to be offered for the various division.
The automobile carnival has the lndorss
ment OF the leading automobile sssocia.
lions and organizations. number Of
officers OF which are on the committee
and have promised the carnival their
strong support.
Motorists driving near Verona, ". J.,
should observe caution. There Is a plain
clothes motorcycle man who patrols in
the neighborhood. All those who 90
faster than fifteen miles an hour are in
danger of arrest. The State law recuir.
Ing to stop behind trolley cars which halt
TO receive or dislodge passengers Is rig.
idly enforced. II Is unlike the New York
ordinance calling for eight feet clearance
In THE SCS not long ago there was
a notice of complaints made by motorists
visiting New Jersey that they were coaxed
into speeding by men In other cars who
later on turned out to be police officers
and arrested them. Only recently W
W. Sweet. general manager Of the Motor
and Accessory Manufacturers Assoc.
ton, and Sidney s. Meyers. counsel for
the association. were In a car SO trapped
They are going TO carry the matter uo
and do what they can 10 put stop 10 t7s
trapping business.
In. the ten months ended with Ap-l
last nearly 300 more American motor
cars were shipped abroad than 10 tsr
corresponding period in 1918. Exports
of automobiles. engines. parts, tires &c
totalled s3O.s60.043. a gain of more than
81. 250.000 The ten months total al.
most equals the exports for the entire
year of 1912 and there were already for
ty-two cars more on the export list than
were shipped in 1912. Thus far 2S,is:
cars have been exported.
In April. 1914. there were exported
1921 motor vehicles valued at s2,S33,lji,
as compared with 2.766 exported in April
1913. valued at s2,s0i.224.
Imports of complete ears and Chasss
dropped from $50 In ten months ended
with April. 1918. valued at s1.540,l2I
10 26o in the corresponding period ended
April this year. worth s56e,s35. Parts
imports, however, increased in the sane
periods from s224,Ss5 to s5s3.56s--s net
loss OF more than 100000 in combined
imports of automobiles and parts IN 4
year. or more than one-third.