The Washington herald., 1916-06-02
Motor Gossip
BY "sI GRoGAN.,
Auto Licenses Granted Yesterday,

AANthsts
seess-H w Kuhn. lza2 I st. NV; Ford 1916.
39sA-N. B. Gray. 81 St NV side car
1916
aees-willam B. Hester. 1893 Irving st. NV
Stearns 1918
RsT-MarTin Wesley. l2s Nd ave NV; Auburn
1916
S9ess Marvin Wesley, ID Nd. ave. NV; Auburn
1915
seeee-A D. Bryant. Y. E. Capitol: Allen 1875.
Fpc-Dr Henry HURT. l524 P st. uw.i Overland
iOOI-Leon Brill. 2sl Ga. ave; Ford 1874.
EoC2-Mrs. Sidney Bsllou, ll5O Conn. ave; Loco
mobile 1914
4oQ3-Corbin Thompson a4 B st. sv,; Overland
1916
4OOo4-John s. West. 1879 Calvert st NV; Over.
land 1916.
4ooOs-Eussne Van Ranschelsar. 1876 18th st
Cadillac 1916.
4oU76-Irrin T DouOhoe. 1873 18th st. NV; Hup-
mobile 1876.
0G-J. Z. Bodsnstein, SD D st. ne; Maxwell
1916
40Oos-Providencs Hospital; Ford 1876
4Ooa-C. B. Bean. Benning. D. O.; Ford 1916.
Solo-H. MacNamee. 16 Colorado Bldg; Briscoe
g5
OaI-CarOn Electric Co.. ia 18th st. NV
Ford 1872
4OOl2-Aibert R. shsdd Fountsnet Court; Chain,
ers 1914
4OQS-Mrs. Anita Swan, 81 St ne: Oakland 1876
4ul4-Peter NJ. Dorsch, 6T St NV Saxon 1916.
Ss0-Sheodprdht * EOLOuAC IeiepnUle company
White 1875.
4O:6-Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company
White 1876.
4OOlT-Nsn S. Hall. 1+3 Euclid st. NV; Standard.
EolS-E. Q. Teman, lf4 Harvard st.; Ford 1916
Judging from the number of entries
that the Record Auto Company have SO
far received for their Saxon Sociability
to be held next Sunday there will be in
the neighborhood of two hundred people
on the trip. Three prizes have been Of
fered for the first three that come near
est to the secret time set for the run and
there is an additional prize for the par
ticipant who makes the ffty-ive mile
journey between this city and Rock
Point, Md, on the least amount of gaso-
line.
Every garage in the downtown section
Of the city reports that during the past
ten days there has been a large number
of tourists in the city. The majority are
from the north and have simply come to
Washington to see the sights and then
turn around and go back home. Most
every one of them narrates instances OF
friends of theirs who have planned to
see some Of the South this summer but
have decided to go by way of the Shen-
andoah route News of the condition of
portion of the road between Washing
ton and Richmond has reached them and
being pleasure bent instead of on an
exploring expedition they have decided
to go the way they know the road is
good. These people must eat and sleep
and buy gasoline and oil for their car.
Washington has better facilities for sup
plying these things than any other place
in this vicinity.
TnuyarFn1 h,Ys
New York Commercial, is openly adyo-
eating the building of special arteries for
motor truck traffic exclusively When the
new subways in New York CITY are fin
ished two main north-and-south arteries
Broadway from Park Row to Forty-second
street and Seventh avenue. Varick street
and other extensions from Fifty-ninth
street to the Battery, will have to be re-
paved. why not devote Seventh avenue
and VaTick street to motor trucks?" asks
the Commercial in a strong editorial
They could be repaved with concrete
for motor traffic at a much lower cost
than with asphalt, granite blocks or
wood" The Commercial points out a
score of economic reasons why this plan
Is not only desirable but extremely nee
essary from a financial and transporta-
ton viewpoint.
During twelve years of varied expert
ence in the automobile business" saws
III. c. Hart, manager truck sales of the
Thomas B. Jeffery Company, IT have
noted with satisfaction the changing OF
public and press opinion on the subject of
motor traffic. Time was, and not so very
long ago either, when a leading New
York newspaper carried a standing edi-
tortal against motor trucks. And now we
have the New York Commercial throwing
the weight Of its tremendous influence
into the motor truck movement without
reserve. 1t is striking commentary on
the success of motor truck haulage In
face OF the opposition of vested interests
thousands of years old. The motor truck
has won out BY sheer merit"