The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-28
PRICE OF GASOLINE
SHOWS A DECREASE
News Of Gushers From Mexico
Makes Things Seem
Brighter.
SUPPLY MEN TALK AMITY
Fairness Of Competition and
Price Maintenance Their
Topics at Dinner.

Things really are looking up for the
motorist. II IL only a short time since
Rasolene prices twholesale) took a drop.
so that now gasolene 10 selling at 1G
cents a gallon delivered to garages, with
the likelihood OF Is cents coming along
soon. More than that. word comes that
a well capable OF flowing 100000 bar
rels a day has been completed in>Mexico
by the Dutch Shell interests. The oil Is
Of light gravity. which Is highly desired.
and the well is on the Gulf Coast OF
Mexico. so that the oil isn't hard to get
to. that Is. when the war isn't on.
Word comes from Mexico too that n
well at Amatian is running about 10000
enough to satisfy the great demands OF
the motoring public.
The recently orgs nized Metropolitan
Association OF Auto Supply Jobbers and
Dealers had a dinner at Reisenwebers on
Thursday night and listened to talks on
the subjects of fair competition and price
maintenance. The objects OF tho associa-
tion are just those mentioned. because a.
one OF the members said the business has
been too much of a cut throat game here
lines were Harry Hartjen. Ajax-Grieb
Rubber Company. who presided: Frank
q. Hill. Republic Rubber Company: T. H.
Nesbitt, Mutual Accessories. Edward
Barnum, b. +. Goodrich Company Harry
Benner. Federal Tire and Rubber Com
pany Emil Grossman and A. T.. Thomp-
son. Joseph Dixon Crucibic Company.
Among those present were Dan c.
Swander. FirestSre Tire and Rubber Com
pany Billy Richards. C. W. Miles, United
States Tire Company; Norman Oliver,
Diamond Harry Braender Braender Tire
and Rubber Company George II. Robert
son. Fred Storms and Harold W. Stimp-
son. Ajax-Grieb Rubber Company Mar
Gus Allen, New Jersey Carspring Tire
Company. and r. w. Chatheld. II. @.
Martin IL secretary OF the association.
Ralph DE Palma, the racing driver
who won the Vanderbilt Cup race in 1912
and this year too. Is back with the Mer-
Ger again. having signed for a year
Therefore his plans 10 campaign here
and abroad with a Mercedes car are of
out West De Palma and Oldield came to
sort Of understanding and their per-
sonal differences are not SO acute.
Horace A. Bonnell has been elected Sec
rotary OF the Manufacturers and Dealers
Motor Underwriters. an organization re-
Gently FORMED by manufacturers and
others prominent in the automobile In
dustry to handle all forms OF automobile
insurance. one Of the principal objects
is to enable dealers to cover cars by in
surance as soon as sales are made.
Mr. Bonnel has been identified with
the automobile industry for a number of
years as treasurer of the American Auto
mobile Association. manager OF the Auto
mobile Board OF Trade and assistant gen
eral manager OF the National Automobile
Chamber OF Commerce. This last named
place he gives up TO assume his duties
with the new organization.
Automobile body design has reached a
high point OF beauty. nearly as far along
as II can go. In the view OF Il T. Ingersoll.
who manages the Eastern branches for
the REQ. 1T seems to me-" says Mr.
lngersol. that body designers will have
TO rise early In the morning and work
far into the night to fashion design
nearly so engaging as the streamlne
type.
This, to my way OF thinking IL clearly
in grace and charm to any body
offered. In fact. ! believe tn.
streamine body has come to stay, Tor
II is happy medium between the square,
boNlike bodies of old and the speed sug
costing and radical lines OF the torpedo
types of recent memory.
There is of course no way OF predict
ing what designers can and will do,
They may come out with something even
more pleasing than the stresmline. bu:
| doubt II. At all events 1914 lines, not
only in the REQ but In most other cars
that ] have observed are far superior
to the lines of any previous year"