The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
The War and the
Motor Car World

number OF interesting happenings
and opinions In the motor car trade are
being brought constantly TO the atten-
herewith.
Charles r. Redden. general saies man
ager of the Maxwell company. who has
been abroad for tho last four months,
writing from England under date Of Au-
gust "a says;
Yesterday we passed a village swarm
ing with soldiers. cavalry. cannons and
army supplies, with sentrics posted at
every bridge. every crossing ana every
public building, and when we drove out
OF the town on the Channel side tho crests
OF all the hills were corrugated with
trenches, consisting OF a ditch dug in the
ride OF a hill about six feet deep, faced
with sandbags. logs and 10 forth. and q
roof put over the ditch and covered with
sod, hay and stones, leaving q narrow
slot OF about ten inches for the men to
| sight and shoot from.
Below each OF these trenches wers
eight to ten rows of fence poles with an
| entanglement Of barbed wire twisted and
criss crossed In every imaginable form
and shape. There must have been ten
miles Of these trenches. IL did indeed
give one a feeling OF awe. at tho same
time a certain thrill OF wonder and i'm
! aginRtion, to look across the Channel and
| realize that one of the greatest oombats
| of strength. monay, brains and force that
the world has ever known was taking
place at that moment less than sixty
| miles away.
IA night we could mo tho flashlights
OF tho British feet searching the waters
for signs OF the enemy. ana IT WAS indeed
dramatic TO see the different boats flash
electric signals one to the other. until
the lights faded out in the distance. This
IL what Europe is experiencing to-day, and
while here in England we have not yet
seen any bloodshed, the nervous tension
under which the people In the neighbor-
hood OF Dover. Folkestone and the Chan
mel cities are living Is l think greater
than actual warfare, and think II will b,
a relief 20 them to see the fleet open fire
or 10 have their men get into action"
Charles c. Hoyt OF Brookline. Mass.
accompanied by a motor party consisting
OF Mrs IIoyt Edward NJ. Farnsworth
Mrs. Far~sworth and their daughte
, was caught In Vienna the day Austri,
began mobilization The party AT ono
resolved to rely upon its Packard to &c
TO A neutral country Train schedule
' the Alps was stal open. and MI. Hoy
| made for Il.
a on the snow draped summit OF the pas'
r two stones beside the road mark the In
n ternational boundary between Austria an
Italy. Hating his machine. the Amer
$ lean paused Ia hand the guard the paper
= which had authorized him to travel b
G automobile in Austria. His bond wa
= returned and tho party fingered a whit
n 10 observe the beauties OF the place befor
:. starting the descent into Italy.
\ moment later they were abruptly ir
;, formed by an Austrian official that wa
9 had been declared. that Nv more motc
cars might cross the pass. and that IN
i party must return down the Austria
g side. IToyt. noting that his car wa
e standing exactly across the internationt
q boundary line. its engine In italy and II
l. rear wheels in Austria, said In an under
: tone In English to his chauffeur; "Ru
n her a little ahead With an almost In
y perceptible movement tho chauffeur too
y his rear wheels over the line.
: Mr.. Hoyt, turning To the official. r.
y piled ''Nou see sir, my car Is not
Austria You have signed my paper
, Our business is finished. ] shall descen
i, into Italy"
y The guard saw tho point. yielde
!, gracefully. and tho Ifoyt Packard VIZ
- said TO be the Inst motor car TO pass fro
- ]
a through Belaglo and Milan. and thent
into Genoa. where tho escaped party 81
- cured transportation to America on "
= refugees transport, the Principe di CdiD
" Among the automobile MANUFACTURED
~ who find that the European war IL ha'
Is Ing no deterrent effect on the motor c'
n business I'm this country In H. w. For
n president Of the Saxon Motor Comn1n
- 1--WE are still behind on orders desp
the fact that our factory n working
d capacity all tho time" says Nj For
a On the month ~ August. which Is gel
nj orally considered a dun Inonh. we sh'pp'
N 900 cars. The first half OF Septemb
We shipped 500. and our output for u
. month will be 1000 cars For O'tob
70 our schedule calls for 600 cars or NOR
l. '"rhe main difrcultV we are facing
= 10 get tho cars out fast enough. I've
Al can be only one answer, and that n tn
= prosperity rcgus TN nearly all limos
business and industry. We have he'
blessed with great CROPS. which mcaI
,Hat ne f-rusrr hay money. = ~
means reai prosperity FOR tho rank an
fle everywhere"