Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-27
AUTO CLUBS
ALL READY TO
lOM HANDS
Essex County Motorists Voted
Last Night-N. J. Body
Acts Tonight.

One more step was taken last night
in the proceedings to consolidate the
Essex County Automobile Club
and the New Jersey Automo-
bile and Motor Club, when
the Essex county organization,
at meeting held in the
Washington, voted unanimously to
favor the proposition. The New Jer-
sey Club will meet tonight in it's
headquarters, Washington place and
Halsey street, to consider the project,
and from indications the club mem
bers will approve of 1t, too. Begin
ming April l, the two clubs will
gather under the roof OF the New
Jersey Club, retaining the latter's
title.
Arrangements for the. consolidation
have been going on for some time
through the meetings of joint COM
mittees of the two organizations, so
that the proceedings at the Essex
Clubs meeting last night were rather
formal. The preliminary discussions
have had to do with the New Jersey
Club accepting affiliation with the
American Automobile Association
through the Associated Automobile
Clubs of New Jersey, and of the set
Ting on a name for the consolidated
club. The New Jersey Club has de-
cided to come into the A A. A. and
the Associated Clubs and the Essex
Club has agreed to allow the New
Jersey Clubs name to stand as the
title for both. This is q sort of "a
compromise, and everybody connected
appears to be satisfied.
Essex Club Unanimous.
When the members of the Essex
County Club gathered at the WASH
ington last night their first action was
to hold a meeting OF their board Of
trustees. The board, with ten of their
twelve members present, prepared a
resolution of recommendation for the
club as a whole. This resolution was
as follows:
"Thst the Essex County Automobile
Club consolidate with the New Jersey
Automobile and Motor Club, as the
latter has agreed to affiliate with the
American Automobile Association
through the Associated Automobile
Clubs of New Jersey, that the name
of the New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club be continued as the title
for the consolidated organization, but
that the matter of changing the title
at some future time, so that the title
W0uld emDOOy NEWARK n. d., IN some
manner The details of this is to be
left to the two presidents. Messrs.
A.. V. Hamburg, of the Essex Club,
and David Oakes, OF the New Jer-
sey organization
When the trustees meeting was
over, the club went into a meeting as
a whole, al which thirty-five were
present. The action on the trustees
communications was unanimous.
To Discuss A. A. A. AfiIistion.
The New Jersey clubs meeting to-
night will bring forth a discussion
along similar lines. At this meeting,
though, there is expected to be con-
siderable talk on A. A. A. utilization.
1t was the New Jersey Clubs with
irawal from the three AS that oc-
Cured four years ago which caused
the factiona1 fight among the local
motorists, and brought into existence
a second club.
At that time the assessment for the
A.A.A. and State Associated Club
was at the rate of 81 g member per
year, which was considered too high
for the New Jersey Clubs member
ship OF 1900. The New Jersey Club
has about 1, 400 members now and
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