New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
Motorists Would Welcome
Phrase to Replace
pleasure Car"
LONG ISLAND CLUB
TO HAVE FLAG HUNT
Orphans Day Outing This Year
Has Been Set for June g.
Morgan Reelected.

Fifty per cent OF passenger ears arc
owned by persons who use them either
entirely or in part for business pur-
poses, in the opinion Of r. 4. lngersoll,
local manager Of the REQ Company.
Like many others, Mr.. Ingersoll con
siders the term pleasure car" as used
to distinguish passenger vehicles from
commercial machines, a misnomer, and
he thinks the time has come for tho
adoption OF word or phrase that will
I'll the bill without making 1t appear
that all passenger cars are used oy
Joy riders"
"The value Of the automobiles manu-
featured in the United States last year
totalled more than a billion and a half
dollars" Mr.. Ingersoll says. This
year more than half million cars will
be sold, and probably half of them viii
play a part in business. IL seems en-
injustice TO this class OF purchasers 10
say that they are buying pleasure cars,
yet there is no other term by when 20
distinguish such motor vehicles. Man
ufacturers, dealers and the pubic
would welcome change"
The energetic Long Island Automo-
bile Club has already announced the
date of its first contest Of the season.
1t is to be flag hunt, on Sunday, Apr
20, Tor the Richardson trophy, and the
entry fee of 81 a car will be used
for the purchase Of a prize for the
entrant making the second best score.
The second contest Of the season Will
be on Sunday, May %. The orphans
outing, as usual, VIII be held early ~
June. No New York organization has
yet made any arrangements for any
thing out of the ordinary this year. a.
though, of course, the Motor Boosters
will have their day.
Alfred Reeves spent part of last
week in Detroit, in conference with "
E. Metzger and VI. L. Pulcher, arrang-
ing for the motor truck convention in
that city, which is to be held on May
5 and 6. Buffet luncheons are to be
served each day in the banquet hall
of the Hotel Statler, and there will be
an entertainment for the delegates the
first night One of the most important
features Of present day truck selling IS
the matter OF time payments, and on
this subject Windsor 7. White. presi-
dent of the White Company, has agreed
to deliver an address.
W. ]. C"Senator") Morgan, foundor
Of the orphans annual outing, was
unanimously elected president Of tho
! Orphans Day Association at its meet
ing in the I'otel Woodward last Thur
day afternoon, when arrangements
were made for this years picnic, which
will be held on June 3. The minimum
number CT children 10 Re cared for Is
5000, which explains the early activity.
/ The location of the outing will be de-
cided later. In the mean time those
who care to help in giving the or
phaned children of the city "a day ~
pleasure can communicate with tho
secretary, A. l.. Prindle, az East For
ty-second Street, New York.
Joe Anglada has just returned from
a visit TO the Panama Pacific EXposi-
ton at San Francisco, which he visited
in order to superintend some electrical
installations. On his way home, SO he
says, he stopped off in Oregon and shot
black bear.
Those who are interested in the prob
lens Of automobile fabrication may
gain some new points next Thursday
evening by visiting the West Side 7. VI.
c. A., where the subject is TO be the
basis of lecture by A. G. Thomson,
of the Dixon Crucible Company.