Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-07

stability of the motor industry and
indicates Enthusiastically it's power to
weather any financial storms that
may arise in the near future
There is now a motor vehicle for
every IL voters in the United States,
Iowa leading with a car for every
five members of the enfranchised
class. Iowa is not issuing new num-
Der plates for 1917 registrations,
but is permitting all owners provided
with 1916 tags to carry those with
certificate of reregistration. A con-
siderable saving in the cost of run
ming the motor vehicle department is
thereby effected.
The motor transport equipment Of
the United States army now consists
of ten turck companies of q vehicles
Of one and q half ton capacity, six
companies Of IS trucks of three-ton
capacity and two companies Of SO
trucks Of three-ton capacity. About
81, IT'S 900 has ben sepent on this
equipment and the cost of operation
OF the trucks per ton mile, including
0Al 4uS40CAtQl6 O-4ONCAy h11uJ 10 COSA-
mated at 20 cents.
The foreign trade council estimates
that $4,000, 600 900 will be required in
reconstruction work in Europe after
the war ends, including buildings, fac.
tory equipment, public improvements,
etc, and that much CT this money
must be found by America During
the year 1916 this country made loans
IN Great Britain, France and Russia,
to a total of more than s., 900, 00Q, 900
The balance in favor of the United
States in 1865 foreign trade was
$S,127,516,344.
The American Automobile Associa-
ton now comprises 40 state associa-
tons, 600 clubs and more than 1000
individual members. The Royal Auto
mobile Club of Great Britain has do
mated its magnificent club house in
London to the government for official
use during the term Of the war. s. F..
Edge, the pioneer race driver and au-
tomobile manufacturer Of Great Brit
ain and charter member of the
Royal Automobile Club, has been ap.
pointed minister of agriculture, to
promote the intensive cultivation of
the rich but limited British lands.
Motor truck dealers and users in
California are very much worried over
a proposed law that is pending in the
legislature, which would limit the ca
pacity of motor vehicles operating on
the state roads, to five tons. In addi-
tion a heavy increase in fees and taxes
for motor trucks would compel all
classes of commercial motor vehicles
to. pay burdensome imposts to the
state, in the case of the five-ton trucks
$3.50 to 500 being the amount of the,t
revised taxes. Motor buses, the hum
Bile jitney among them, are listed for
taxation at the rate of $25 per seat
of their carrying capacity, plus four
and a half per cent Of their gross earn
ings to the state railway commission. !
bringing the ordinary bill for this |
class Of vehicle up to about $500.
In its famous Loop district between |
Michigan avenue and the river, Chi !
cago claims to have the busiest area |
in motordom, with the Rush street
bridge as the center of the paelstrUm. |
recent carefully conducted police |
census of the Loop disclosed the fact |!
that in the course of six business days !
there were 299,762 movements of mo- !
tor cars into or out of the district. OF |
this total the Rush street bridge car. |
ried As per cent. In the six days OF |!
the official count, 43,761 motor cars i
used the Rush street approach to the !
Loop, making an average of 1894 per !
diem. OF course, many of these cars |
crossed and recrossed the bridge !
many times in the course of each day. |
the official count showing that no
fewer than 22,4S2 movements of mo-
or cars across the bridge occurred !
every day, which gives an average of !
1874 per hour from Z a. m. to 7 p. m.
Officer Wallace A. Garard, familiar !
y known as The Force" has un-
the longest beat" of, any
uniformed policeman in the world. His
district, which. is the San Fernando
Valley recently annexed to the city Of
Los Angeles. California, consists of
40 SQUARE miles. with 67S miles Of