New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Tips to Travellers,
Buyers and Owners
A Car Minus Good Service Station Is as a
Home Without a Kitchen.

The matter of service is beginning to
get its proper recognition among many
manufacturers.
1t is quite evident that no manufact-
urer can continue long in business I'M
less he provides the best of service for
his owners. The older makers realize
this, and they are straining all their
efforts to hold their dealers up TO the
maximum grade of service.
Where they find this impossible they
are putting in branch houses, and in
the future the dealer, in order to hold
his agency, must give to the owner the
same service which he would get were
he dealing with branch of the factory.
The Tribune has frequently advised
buyers to look carefully into the SER
vice behind the cars which they may be
interested in. When an agent tells you
his car is so well built he does not
have to maintain a service department
it is time to look at some other car.
The automobile has never yet been
built which can produce continuous
good results without attention. When
the time comes for this attention the
owner is helpless unless he has the CO.
operation of the man from whom he
bought the car.
In order to provide this cooperation
the agent must fortify himself with a
service plant.
Where such a plant is not apparent
it is a very unwise thing to put your
self in the hands of an agent who you
can see from the start is going to dodge
any demands which you may be called
upon to make for service.
HOTELS IN YELLOWSTONE.
Colonel Brett, superintendent Of
Yellowstone National Park, has made
arrangements with the Gallatin Auto
mobile Club of Bozeman, Mont, to
handle hotel bookings for motor tour
lists who desire TO stop in the park
The Gallatin Club is in telephone COM
munication with all the hotels in the
park, and will make arrangements for
motorists who communicate with the
club either by wire, telephone or letter
Bozeman is situated north of the
park and east of Butte. 1t is on the
Yellowstone Trail, which runs from
Chicago. Tourists going to the park
over the Lincoln Highway would nat
urally enter the park by way of the
Yellowstone Highway, which runs from
Cheyenne to Cody and then enters the
park by the eastern gateway. Tourists
who use the eastern entrance would
not go near Bozeman, and il would be
necessary for them to make hotel res
ervations by wire or post
MOTOR LAWS CODIFIED.
The American Automobile Asocia-
ton has completed codification of the
automobile laws of the United States
to date. Ii is now in press and will
be ready for free distribution in a few
weeks. Copies may be obtained by
writing to the association headquar-
tiers, Riggs Building, Washington, or
the New York headquarters, 437 Fifth
Avenue, and mentioning The Tribune.
OWNER WINS INSURANCE CASE.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has decided that an owner whose
car is insured only for private use NAV
collect insurance if the car is destroyed
while on hire. provided it was hired
out without the owners knowledge or
consent.
In the case in question a chauffeur
hired out his employers car to hunt
ing parties, and it was destroyed When
the owner attempted to collect his in
surance the company refused to settle
because the policy did not contain a
renting privilege. The court decided
in favor of the owner
NO SCARCITY OF LEATHER.
That a scarcity of first class leather
upholstery for automobiles exists. is
emphatically denied by James B.