Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-18
Doings in The Auto World

A larger percentage of women drive
automobiles in Soutaern California
ing to the estimates of Los Angeles
dealers. More than $4,000 cars are
credited to women drivers among the
$4,000 that are registered in the coun-
ty.
The reasons assigned for the popu-
larity of the auto with the fairer sex
are the good roads, the $4,000 sign
posts that have been placed along H.
900 miles of highway by the Automo-
bile Club of Southern California and
a climate that permits use of pleasure
cars every day in the year.
Checks made along the state bou-
miles south of Los Angeles and San
Francisco, 500 miles north, show that
the women drivers do not con11ne their
trips to short distances, but enjoy
their cars in fullest measure. Deal
ers here declare that milady's ideas
in auto comfort are given more con-
sideration in Southern California than
anywhere else in the country.
'+Never before in the history of the
automobile industry has there pre-
vailed sueI, condition as tnrsatens.'
says John N. WHY'S. a well known
automobile manufacturer.
Instead of over-production, a
shortage of automobiles may be look
ed for.
I'm the first place there is a short
age of railroad freight cars. Auto
mobiles cannot be shipped from many
manufacturin centers as fast as they
are produced because SO many freight
cars are tied up at seaboard and 9TH
err points.
"a number of manufacturers are
likely to run short of material be-
cause of the prevailing high prices of
steel, aluminium and other metals used
in automobile construction. They
purchased limited supplies trusting to
a a VIZ -
ends.
I'VE are safeguarded against these.
Toledo, where our home factory is To-
Gated, is the second largest railroad
ping facilities are at all available we
are sure to have them.
I'VE have on hand right now $780,
000, 900 worth of rough stock-not FIN
ished parts, but material untouched
by machines purchased in many in
stances at before-the-war prices. We
doubt whether the end of the war is
going to reduce prices appreciably.
Because of thesmanufacture of mu-
nitions much construction work in
this country has been stopped. Build
ing projects have been suspended be-
cause the material they require IS be-
ing sent abroad
CAS- soon as the war ends building
of all kinds is going to take a boom
and much of the material now being
sent to Europe will be required right
projects.
Europe, too, is going to REQUIRE
plenty Of material for reconstruction.
with the close OF war a good deal
OF, money that is now invested in cor
porations and plants that are profit
ing by the war. is going to be re-
leased. This will mean more money
spent for automobiles.
That the National Parks are now
real magnets which induce Americans
to become acquainted with their own
country, was particularly accentuated
on Motoring Day of the Washington
conference conducted by the Depart
ment of the Interior. At the request
of Secretary Franklin K. Lane, the
American Automobile Associa ton
took in hand this phase of the weeks
sessions, which covered every posi-
Bile angle of National Parks manage
ment and progress.
1t was to be expected that the A. A.
A. officers. headed by President H. M.
Rowe, would put forward the motor
Ing proposition as second to no other
in the enlarging use of the nations
Fairgrounds. In. his Introductory talk.
President Rowe thus referred to our
general tardipess in parks prepared
ness: "The parks have not been ready
to be seen, and the preparation for 1t
has been intermittent and haphazard
and the help from congress frequently
has been given grudgingiy. But with
the coming OF Mr.. Lane in the de-
partment of the interior and his ex-
cellent selection of Mr.. Mather as his
assistant and in direct charge of the
national parks, there has come
wholesome and inVigorating change in
the policy pursued toward improving
the facilities for seeing and enjoying
our wonderful scenic assets"
Durham.-While men were engaged
in blasting out rock at the stone
erusher at Reeds Gap few days ago
a large rattlesnaAe, having Il rattles.