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0" ' r THE SUN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER .8, 1912. ILI MAY BE 1I9T3 GLIDDEN iH'nflineiit in l-'iivnr of (tinning Sucli Tour Instead of lo Di'lvoU. DKAI.KKS llKlttiSHOl'liDACT riianco for Newly Formed Con test, Association to At tract This Kvent. The OIliMcn tntir, or whatever th A A A. national ii-llitlilllty rim will be ailed no.t time, Is tint dead, merely ilcirm.mt. Then' wilt In- a tnur of some Uiiid next M'.ir ami tlioti) Is h very goeul . h.mci, of h.ivlmr It tun from New Oitenns to New York city Instead of on the New I .. , .... . , ,, .... Orleans-Detroit line. It was the plan thin car to h.tc the tour from Detroit to the descent City, but owing to lack of In terest the A. A. A. ascribed tho post ponement to the price of wheat In Ninth Dakota or the scarcity of eaiibou In Maine or something like that the contest was called off. Them weio only four actual guaranteed entries Now Pettult la pel Imps a pood city for the start of such a tout. The Wohcilno A C. bail made nijanscmrnts for n coed sriKloft of the tuiulM.s and was ptepared pi my pond-by with gnat rheci'lness mid I '..irtliiess. Hut after all Pitt oil wasn't m keenly InktrMnl In the tour and a lot f jeffort had lo be m.iile to achieve the elation "f Detroit for the starling point. 1'urtheimoie Detmlt Is maker lather ilian consumer and the tour Is partly to l.clp Selling. Thn fail that nn clecltlc machine did the pnthtllidliiK ' for the tour was .mother th'ng that hint it. lf-as was extremely untiiral and likelj any gam-l-nn car caino to grief on the, tour In evitably this would be um-iI as a point 111 advertising the worlh of the elm'tilc. r.arolene car makers tinluiull) fought sh.v of entetliiK the ennu'iUtlon with Mich bailees banplOK oxer their heads and an a result the stnttltirr Hi Id was s-m ill It was hard to Ret up clilhiislnMti iilotiK the toad nd In Mime casis It was only after the most strenuous woik that n single ear could bo sol fiom even a big clly III the South. It Is now urgrd that tho tour run from New Orleans nuith lo Detroit In 1013. Tills would mean that the piob.ible woit loads would be cm outiteied tlrs-t on th" tour and that later on the Journey would bo fine. When It happens to tain there nro stretches on the southern section of ih routu th:it becomo lmpnMble-. What Is called buckshot mini, made up of small peMets, becomes so sllppeiy that It Isn't 1 ke the de-cply rutted muddy mads of the North. It Is iieaily Impossible to keep n car on this road when travelling faster, t.iy. than about lighti-en miles an hour The ft!."! too miles of the road from New Orleans to Detroit Is level, not a riade of more llan I per cent. It Is bid, except when the weather Is dry. Under uch conditions It cm be almost .1 houliv.ird It tests with elm nee whither the oarl ji.it t of the trip Is a t. ; nre or a h lighl Th" way as planned fM ;he r.H trip, utibe a ehaiiBe is made, i that th" tirst tluge nhnll b through lt.itun 'bulge til .la'k.-l"i side trip ' naile t Vtekebiiri; and then back to .l.iekion again. I'rum le te the rout" is north to Mem pli.s inn) then over thioimh Corinth to ' fTMd. "i the north pai t of Alabama. T't m ,s a ciy rourb to nl, tilli d In the net r.uii with wasliouts and bard to nic'it'nt.' at anv time I'rotn Shtltleld the w.iv e-iN t,. N'.isbvllle and I.oulsille. Tie re Is ,1 htletell of elKlltV miles Oil this load a s'-'-Sion "f Telford pavunent iiiiire than M-vei.ty ears old, which serin liitlly bn not been repalied or touched In nil It" lifetime There are bin nubbly stones stlekim; out on It which make thl stretch an iwony to encounter. On one trip over It a motorist bad six blowouts In the eighty miles. From Louisville the toad Is to Indianapolis, Kurt Wayne and Detroit. This is nbout l.GOO miles alt told. The sufrpestlon that has been made is to po from Jack-on over through Mont comery to Atlanta nnd then strike through the Cnrollnas Into Charlottesville, Vn , ii very beautiful run through an ex nulsltely plcturesipie section of the At lantic coast, and then to make Washing ton. Haltlmoio mid rhll.iilclphln on the way back. This will cover a section different, save in n few place, from that touched In the (Hidden tour of 1!MI nnd Ht tho same time will tnke u tour through a country live lo automobiles and perhaps n better market than the other. Here Is a thing for tho newly formed. Motor Dealers Contest Association of New Turk to urge. It would properly come within Its range as n boosting organization to work all ends to get a Olldden tour finishing In this city. The trip from New Orleans to New York i wouiu oil auour i,,uu miles arm cne lor the most part of great beauty. ( It has been t-aiu that tne A. A. A. rawed to send out notifications that the tnur had been called off In October and that hotels on tho way with which arrangements had been made for the housing of tho on i oinlnc tourists were left high nnd dry, without learning directly of the postpone ment. This Is denltd by nn A. A. A. otllcial, who was charged with th" duty of sending out suoli notlllcatloris. He sas that bo sent to each hotl nnd garage along the line an oiilclnl copy of thn notlee whlh was sent also by the A. A. A. to thu newspapers, und that In some i uses where 11 hotel man was nlsu the l i-oprletor of 11 garage be got two notices of the postponement. I ' I 8 v- i r vt7. vts-ujjjx jfjjjjB MTtfBi h jmrrr ' . virsm :-.i Tho car shown hero Is ouo of the new Overland soulnl llmomlnes, In which all passengers rltlc liiMtlc. fa me of those In the showroom of the Iocnl tlcHlcr, C. T. Bllver, at Broadway ami Forty-ninth street. CONTROL FOR PEDESTRIANS. lnn Trnnic In .Need of Check, Just t.lkr Vehicles. Th need if regulating not alone au tomoblln tralllc, but pedestrian tralllo Is ii tuple tliat grows In Interest and Im lortanco right along. Chiefly because public attention from the lltrt lias been fo concentrated on vehicles It ha not been realized bow much more of a prob lem It Is becoming to rontrol the move incuts of i ho "man on foot. "Tho vehicle Is under surveillance and supct virion anil unlets at evcty point. It tiuiKt move along a certain side of the street, at a certain pace; It Imiat cross a street under coitaln conditions; It mint obey n whole seilcs of rules, the violation of any one of which Involves a penalty: but In ninny places tho pedestrian Is pei muted lo use the highways practically as he pleases," says tho Chittlnn Science Monitor. "Tlnie nie street ctosslngs to which special policemen ale assigned for the purpose of assisting pedestrians, but pe destrians may nnd, do croi crowded slieets at all points, Unending their way iimomr the vehicles, Inter) uptlng and ninetltntH blocking traftle. A well known "'J''- iuciilng on this subject. ''I1 lecently; 'Taking the non-rldlng and non-driving members of the community throuuh the kingdom. It Is ceitaln ttvit the vast majority consider themselves un der no obligations, lexal or mural, toward Hie dihers of vehicles, and that If they move aside the act Is dictated by con siderations of piudenie alone.' "According to n pints, efforts are now being made In the Itrltlsh metropolis to h.io pcdcitrlaim lindristaiid that although tbiy have the Mist ilsht to the load Ibis does not mean that they have the last and th" sole tight Jo It. Some of the Contlneut.il cltle have begun to make legulatlons fop pedestrian tralllc. In Vienna those on foot are compelled to keep lo the sidewalk unUl lhy come to regular crossing' violations of the or dinances Ity iiedistil ins are punishable exactly as In lln caso of vehicles that fail to obscrvo them, "What wllh the constantly Increasing number of motor vehicles and th re sponsibility which goes with tre driving of them and with the ownerMip of them. It Mould seem only leasouable and Jnt that peibstilans be made to contribute their hH-e towar.l Insntlng nn easy, sife anil conifm table movement of clly tralllc. The motor vehicle. It must be tecognlzed, Is Itcto to stay and It will bp wise to adjust other things to that fact. Ve hicular tralllc In general should not be unnecessarily or wantonly Interfered with. Individual good citizenship In vehicles and on foot will do wonders toward s curlng to all a fiee and uninterrupted passage tluouRh" and aetoss the thorough fares." STEP WITH CAR'S ADVANCES And of Late, Says National Airent. Development Has Not Touched Engine Design. - II W. V. IMIKItTM'.ll. Stalidiidir.atlon of the ideaillte Ijpes of cuts and the advancement and develop-ti-til in fllicleney and retluemeiit aif th" I en I riaMuts fur the ptrxtil ilaj Informed attitude i if the liutlillioblle using public. Jurl as Mum as the motor car ilciuuit drilled its pra lleablllty the general public i-giiti lo try to learn something nlsiut It. The n Milt has Im i n that the ptlhllc has adv atieeil with th" advance of the automobile until to-day With have I em In d a satisfactory Mate. Tho motor car Is well along li.'vard freedom from faults and the owners have mastered marlj all itK i'tplexltles. Tlie pioneets of car making have not in tin list sivcral years made maleiial eti.i g -s Inone jear'ji design from another and this seayou the only addition to some leading cars Is more complete f-iitilpmcnl a.nl in tome cases the adoption of a par ticular type of self-starter. Tor 'ho last thin or four yeais auto- mobile manufacturers have devoted their intuition to the ilevi b pnient uiMiiy i "tint in -"t and comfort for the user Spacious s. ating room, good uidiolstei lug, highly tiollshid paint and umtiy oilier de tails of appointment are the clibf fulfilled of the mi. i car of to-dr.- me lightimc ptoblem has bien solved by the Instal lation of an electric dynamo, by which Is generated electricity for lighting thu out ride lamps and generally at the same time furiilshliiK the power for self-starters. The electric lighting system Is several years old, but It l.as reached Its highest degree of perfiction on'y tills year. Another Important Improvement this year t-nd one that w'M paitlctilarly In terest yie motorist Is Increased baggage equipment. Almost evqry car, large or Mtinll. has provided for carrying; extra luggage, .vloro and mora such equipment has been necessary becaufe of the motor ist's desire to tour throurh tho country for week end trips and often cross con tinent touring for three and four weeks at it lime. MOTOR BUSES ON "BORINQUEN." Peerless Sells Fleet for I'se Dotrn In Porto Rico. A line of motor passenger trucks has re- ently been established In Porto Hlco where the Schelllngs Transfer Company of San Juan operates a number of Peei less machines with special passenger bodies, Kaih one will carry forty people and has a' special compartment for bag- sage. The flist truck put Into, this service operated betwen I'atano and ilayamnn u i at alio and Ilayamnn. about four and a half miles apuit. One round trip was in id" everv hour from 7 A. M to lo P. M so that the truelf coveied a total dlstanie of 141 miles, each ilav seven days a week. Overland Has All Inside Limousine )TI Makers in This Country hook for Husincss in This New Field. STOPPING THEFTS OF CANS Time Limit of Standing May Help A. C. A. Asks for Gasolene Trade. Attention to South America as a Held for tho sale of conmietclal vehicles made In' this country Is being thowii by leading L'nlted States concerns. The American Locomotive Company through Its London olllce Is reaching out after llm South American buclnes? and tho International Motor Company also Is paving mote marked attention to till? tvriltiry. Theie nre some concerns, such as tho Knov Au tomobile Compmv. which luve beiti able lo sell some motor trm-Hs down there, but In the tniin the South American field had been entered bv Atn rl.:ni!J with pasjn ger vehicles only. It Is llltcir jting to r.otlce, too, t)Mt tlv Clood.vear The iii.I Ituhber Coinp.'iny k.n ; vent'.lalor there. i don newspaper which Is e rabid tirlff Incotporatcd a South Amcrlr.ni company, ThermomMi r Tommy nvj that al-icform oigait. All the data on the loss which has given rise to the ic..nt tliat thoiu'1 (!) iler, - r I'.ihtenhelt Is hlgli 1 1 llrltlsli manutu tuie.j tlirouuli tlie In thi Uoodjcar concern Intends to plant Its nousii for other departments of the plant, 1 of American low priced cars was "OUT OF l-.tiirrgliig from tltcvvnlcrs of I.akc Pnnteiiartrnltt In seen a lliipinoitllc.-vvlilch run tint Inncncn from Detroit In New Drleans. It vent Into DO feet of water ami Miive.il tlicrr a fortnight. Nn, the' motor was not rittuiln? when It whs liaiilcil out. Ktti the car after two ilav ovcrliaiillii? tiioli to the mail oner more. own rubber hereafter. The objects of the Incorporation an- given as being to operate rubber plantations In South Aim"-- lea and to manufacture the raw product I A short time ago the BraT.lllan-.MInls- trr of the Interior Issued a proclamation tu corporations and individuals sleslrous of Installing factories of all kinds In the 1'pper Amason district, promNIng bo nuses and fieeiiimi from duties and tax ation to interested parties. It Is under stood that llatti ring offers have been made to the tloo'veiT company to come to Jlrazil and start the ball rolling by operatliiff n factory In the Amazon val ley. Aside from the proposition to fix gear shift locks so that no machine; may ln started In the absence of Its owner and so pievent thefts, another suggestion of fered Is the passage of municipal ordi nances everywhere that forbid any car remaining In any one place more than nn hour ut a time, unless there Is a driver with It. It Is generally only after a car has been standing unattended and unwatcheel for a long time that a thief manages to make off with It. Probably, If a man other than the original driver came- up to tho machine very soon after It was left alone there would be sonio one aioiind who had teen the other leave and whose suspicions would be aroused. Under such conditions the best safeguard would be not to leave a machine .standing for an extended period. One of the points made by th Amerl ean Automobile Association In the pre amble to n resolution favoring national roads as the proper highways on which Federal aid money to good roads should i- U- spent Is one gnlnt the levying of n ' rvttisliation Tee. Tins is c.iuiii "an tin constitutional tax, generally accepted b) motorists solely because th" proceeds me devotfd to highway maintenance pur . poes " I i If the registration fee Is unronstltu f. ,i. "r"r-. The machine 1 tlonal In some Stntes, It Isn't In New Jer sey, where this point has been fought out In the eoillls. It has liecn upheld there, and It has been ruled that the State has n tight to license and leglsler automobiles mill to chaige u fee for I He same. The most ncent number of the Vluli Journal, the organ of the A. C, A., con tains the suggestion made by tile Hoard o' novetnors and seta foith In capitals: "Dittvi: nv Tin: cLiniiiot'sn kvkuv DAY AND lll'Y YOiyt UAHOLENK AT 20 t'KNTS A GALLON." , It Is followed by tills: "If members who do not store at tho, garugo won! J get gasolene from the eluh while pur chasing their HtitomobKe accessories, or have their chauffeurs make special trips for tho purpose, tlm department's use fulness to tho club .would he greater." "At current comifierclal rates for graso leno members can securo substantial benefits by adoplhg this suggestion." I'ndoubtedly.lt will endear any A. C. A. member to th proprietor of the prlvnle garage whete he stores his car. If he makes V piactlce of buying his gasolene at tile club. Inasmuch as the garage men's ptoflts nowadays depend almost en tirely on their sulia of gasolene to ror. RUincrs, they will no doubt hall tho sug geslliUi of the bear! of governor of the Automobile Club of America with tin UUjIlllcd dellsht. 7n the (lnf"-d factory In Klyrla one man devotes his wholn time to the regu lation of tumr rilure In the plant and 1 iiui-s iiiiiiuo on. nun. mei momeier i Tommj " Is what th.i other men call this 1 woilcn in who rocs about tho. plant sup- 1 plylnir n.o'. he.tt hero and onenlnc a ' THE WRECK the toolroom employees, whose dtty It Is to make tools, dies and Jigs accurate to a fractional part of an Ini'h, cannot get along with less than 65 or TO degrees. NEW JERSEY MAKING TEST OF ROAD SURFACE STOFFS Tryout to Continue Through Winter, as Making It More Severe aiul Thorough. The State Koad Commissioner In New Jeiey, Col. I'M win A. Stevens, has given out contracts for tho construction of six sections of different road surfacing ma terials on the road from the Passaic rtlvcr to the Passaic Valley road, In Mor ris county, used dally by thousands of nutomoblles and other vehicles between Plalnfield and liernardsville, nnd thus a most severe testing point In the tate. Tho roads will be built beforo the cold weather stops road construction, thus giving the State Hoad Department the required time In the most severe ten Dig weather to watch how each road sur facing mnterlafholds up under the strain, ns well as to gather the data as to the holding up qualities of such materials after the cold weather has passed and tho damaging weather of the spring sets In. This penson of tho year was selected for doing the work so that the greatest value of the tests would accrue. Hcsldes the materials are all In one road, one starting In where the other leaves off, thus presenting u unlfoim course for the test, as nearly all vehicles Which start nt one end of this road traverse It to Its end. Col. Stevens and State lload Super visor Hobert A. Meeker will Inspect these sections of road all winter. Tho depart ment Is seeklns Just the light kind of toad pavement, having In mind that the n.ilnninMk In lini-i. In ut.iv u.i.l .ir... ait- fnrlni? material must bo cot to render 1 .-1 ,.nmr. ..i.i t, i. scch consistency that the heavy machines , will not tear It to pieces. I The department Is giving rill toad sur- faces fair treatment ami reruses to aitvo - .n,.. ,,. ifm.i ni ii ,mtri ill, ill fieiiini um'.i has demonstrated what Is tho tight kind i of road to build. What will be done when I the engineers havn solved thu problem i they will not say, but It Is a fair assump tion that out of the results of this ex periment the department will evolve a standard load. Say Moon's Wlrlnar System Can't Re Mixed. A point claimed for the electric start-1 Ing nnd lighting system on tho Moon car, is that It Is impossible to connect up tlm wires so that the starter won't work. 'The wiring system consists of two wires! running from tlm battery tu mo motor. Either wln of the electric motor can be connected to cither pole of the battery. Tho generator of the Moon system weighs sixty pounds. Ultra Car and School Course to Fair. ' Ouo of the latest Rifts in aid ot the i Industrial exposition to bo held In the, ! new Grand Central Palace for the bene- . fit of tho flronx Hospital llulldlng, from ' December 11 to 19, Is a now Pullman automobile, given by the Stewart Auto mobilo Company, Tho (Inn elves a course of instruction free to thn winner of tho car. Chinese Mrrchant TonrlnB Coaat, Hlng Woo, a merchant of Shanghai, re cently bought n Stndihird-Onyton 48 and started on n thirty days' tour of the Pacllic coast. After that he will ship the car to the Orient. 11 British by Upronr Stirred Two Makers Who Had "Interests." TO ASSEMBLE 'AMERICANS' Curs Built of Our Parts Put Together Abroad to Oppose Iteal Imported Kind. There Is some reason to believe that thu latest uproar from (It eat llrltaln about the "American Invasion" of motor cars may have had In bjck of It a well laid promotion scheme. At least so It appears from a study of the campaign and some things that have been done since. This Is the ntrilysls undo by the, trade pies In thlii country since seeing an nnnouncemen'. mudo by two Ilrltlih mniiufactuteis who Kp'.nt rome time visit ing factories hern iinJ looking for parts, nn, h:vi been uvjrit active In ials"lng the cry of luvniion. These, two tuaktis an; e edited with bavin j planned th thin- from the st.ut. ! Iiev seleeiml rnr ttnir inniiiniin,.n i. 1 RISE" good meat for the protectionists, and the campaign was not loru: In taking a politi cal character, thus Insuring that it would be Ion,-; lived. Once the bnll was htarted, II kept on of Its own momentum, and one of the meichants was able occasionally to Insert a little "pure reading mallei" leading up to Ills plan was how to save the Ilnellvh manilfactuter. At last tho news paper cani" out with a nice long nitlile entitled "Specialisation tho Si cu t of Meeting Competition," ntnl 'going into gleat iletnll to show Juat how the two merchants were going to specialize. Then came a meeting of Itrltlsh auto- moniie manufacturers 10 devise ways and means of rescuing themselves. The II im mentioned before camo forward with its Tmn f..r,i..r.l .,1,1. n.l Plan, prepared to get to work on Its mis sion of rescue except for the small Item i, lrnr..u, KltlWU, lllll- ll.-l III" . .1 III- palgn brought to a crux with the solicit ing of the means they wanted lo stilt t them in the wholesale manufarture In England of the oars which have proved to be most popular there. "It Is perhaps the onl example on rec ord where n firm tried to get capital from competltots under the guise of helping them, while in renllty doing exactly tho opposite." says one trado paper. "Charles Jarrott said at the meeting: Thn factory Is ready and' waiting. The car to bo madp will be sold ready for the road at f2fln ($1,000), showing n net profit of C10 ($30) each on au estimated output of 6.000 cars, which tdioul 1 yield a profit of Hi 1-2 per cent, on a working capital of f. 100,000, a still greater protlt on a larger output In the second ear, and more still In the thlnl. Drains, experience nnd skill aie all ready. The question Is. Can the necesmry money be found on such a pioposltlon? "It seems that several capitalists, at tractid by the promise of that 1C 1-2 per cent, and also 'feeling tliat the moj- ct nan n.ia enotiKii couit advertls ng thiough the agitation, have financed the scheme, ami su the hhrld cars are to bo made built of American paits to cum - pete with Ameilcan ens! How ever, there Minis to be little danger In them fot the Ami ) lent manufacture)..." ne,,, .... A. . - i llionuis lljioin. of Ityroiii Co.. the, , I-otllUlll agent for the It'l II. in 11 leceiit I VISIL lo tnn Detroit tai tot v. sahl Hint tlie I 'lUuntUy p.oductlon wh'ch is necei ir.v to uialt.. such a scheme a success cannot be ncconipllsheil, not only liecauce the llrlt ; inn uv m mai mac- i ' When VRsj fcSSJ5SSI5S Stiiisnl asJisVMRicVHiBisiiaaaisasaaa Thn eie-e'itslon of tho first of tho lx).ttr Mglit Nixes to he shipped from the factory was made one eif r the picture shown here, Sales Manager HinWe appears twice In separate places, He U Mainline, In ImicU f the bonnet and his rc licet Ion tn the wliuMiU-M Is nl- t'atrly clear. lure In meat numbctf, but because even If they did theio would bo no market for the cats. In other words, the Hi It Ish market Is not largo enough to sup port the manufacture of low priced cars In tho quantity In which they must be n educed In order that their price may compete with that of cars from the United States. CAREFUL GOING UP THIS HILL. Motorists Mnr lie Fined In YooUem If Thor fio Too Knit. Tho tourlnff department of the Auto mobile Club of America advises motor ists that ufter going through Oetty Square, Yonkers, caution should bo used going up tho hill, A rcHiit has been received that non-residents of Yonkcrs arc being as sessed n firm of $15 for negotlathnr this hill at a greater apeed than fifteen miles an hour. The department also reports that the construction work 6n tho lloston Post road between I'ortchesler nnd Oreenwlch Is nw Vomplcted nnd the road Is open to trninc between these places. This will offer nn alternate connection between White Mains nnd the Boston Post toad which will avoid tho rather complicated turns between iVhlto Plains utid Green wich. The alternative Is to bear left nt the water trough In Whlto PluIrA Into Westchester nvenue, which Is followed to Liberty Square, Portrhestcr. From this Hltit the lloston Post road Is u.ed to New Haven ntnl has been Improved, helm? In b"lter condition at present than at any time for the past six months. HELP AMERICAN CARS Itt'ttiT Suited Than Kuropeau Produef lo the Inferior Highways. Pieil'i 'ck .v. Slerllu?. second secro lary eif Ine Anieilc.in Kmh.issy at St. I'etersbui;! In Itussl.i, wilting on the run I ditioit of the automobiln nut kct there, . s.l.vs le li"lleves lllcte is u 301111'tl oppor I tunlty for tho sale of American built I cars In the klin,u.)in of the Itear. (Jiving a bilcf sketch of the history of the automobile Industiv In llussla, ho sa.v s : "Prior to 1!im."i Mheie were few automo biles In Itiiysli and Mtmll Interest was. taken in nutoninhlllng. I.Ike alt machinery, howeve.', automobiles of (Jerman make Ilrst appeared, owing to the proximity of the (iermaii 111. u kit and the facilities fur transportation oviilanil and via the II. li ne Sen. In l'.iiol the ilrst Amerlcai. ran appealed In Itii?l.i. More than ISO of tin 111 were sold. Inasmuch, however, lis no America') ci mpanlo'i had 1111 organi zation In l!u.i 1 their wore no spare parts to be hud Anil nn lepiesentatlvc of the factorv wh old advise the purchaser Ittnv to handle or repair his car. "The llr"t automobile exposition took plain In St. Petersburg III 11MI. This was the lirrl time the ltuiI,iu public had an oppot tunlt to examine nns kind of auto mobile, for St. Pi ti'isbuig at tint time had nut mine than .an cars, all told, of which, perhaps, only live or six could be .een In the streets dining the day, and then mily duiitig the summer months TaMcalis were quit" unknown, notwith standing the fact that the city hid more than I.I.iimo horse cab. "In l:iO!t the Ilrst taxlrab service In Ititssla was established b.v the repi.eseiita llve of the Pord Motor Company and Kord cats were the Ilrst taxlcabs In ltnsla. It was difficult to get tralnul liniurfeuis for this service. Hut tin enterprise suc ifciled In putting on the streets of St. Petersburg M'Venty-llve taxlcabs. At the Piesent time there ate more than five hundred taxlcabs In serviiv. "In Mnv. 1!M3, the Imperial Automo bile Club wl'I held another exhibition In St. Peteisbutg. At the same time It Is ptoH)Ml b.v the American representative of the Ford Motor Company, who has made a study of the possibility of Intro ducing American c.i's In ltuvsla, to hold an Independent ohlbltlon. lie proposes to get a large exhibition building whete theio will be snrice for about 100 cars, ac ceotle's und appliances of American make. "Thus it may be truly said that pub lie Intel est In automobiles has awakened In Itussla. When It Is remembered that at piesent St. Petersburg, a city of 2. 000.000 inhabitants, has only l.fiOO auto mobiles, Moscow even fewer In propor- 1 .... ... "....,... ..... ..... ...u.t . .... .1.... I ..' ... V, V.L v " . '""I"'.' v. v -...,.. iw more than h.000, or lees than one of the (J, smaller cities In the United States, it can n whnt a nebl for the sale of icuioniohlli's the country offers. "Especially Is theie a fa vol able oppor tunity lor the American manufacturer If this product Is pioperly lepresented. He should be successful for the. following rea sons: First, the American car of to-day Is In construction as good, If not better, thjii that of European make; second, for the same powered car It Is lower In price; II. lid, being better suited to the poor roads In Itusla. "There Is a growing tendency among the Russians to understand these advan tages and the situation presents a golden opportunity." 4,100 MILES ACROSS COUNTRY. Simplex Otrner With Ills Wife Ciiinrs Vlotorlnit I'roin I'acille. S. K. Uineli'oof Los Angeles, Cul., has com pleted a e.Pu mile Hip from the Pacific coast in a Simplex car. lie Is now in New ork illv .Mr lllnilre, aceniuiiauietl by his wife, lelt Lo nueles late in .September ' and completed tlie trip lu twenty-five days, I About every poiblo condition of road i was encouiiteied. The route I. in via , 1'liii'nl.t, Mi? . AUnnmi'miie. M Las I i'??", Ti-luidid. following the Santa Ko '.'' . Ul"!hi!",-,.lt 1 '"cago, loleuo, e ,v ei. inn anil loitinio Vl. tiln,,-,. ..Miet.eneed little ellfnciilte lo il 1-1 v tu tr tlie i'..r tliroitieli thn ire le'seii s-inil mill l ie t- iitek lio:e countiv In the. '" i'' ' 'i t ' ;' " ),.',;;, Vl tilV.n rl nunl wi " so dee V and st ,,,, .r.,m,.,i Hlillful driving lo keep the. car m itio ro.iu r First Lozier Light Six GREAT EXHIBITORS' LIST More Than 530 Firms or Per sons Will Display Goods Next Month. UAHDEN SPACE ALL TAKEN And Grand Central Palace Too, Is Pretty Well Crowded for Two Weeks. The exhibitors' list for the thirteenth National Automobile- Show in Unind Central Palace and Madison Square Ont den In January has muro than 630 firms or individuals on it. On the Garden list theie are forty-three makers of ploasure vehicles and 272 accessory concerns ex hibiting In this building thn first week. Thn P.ilaco In the Ilrst week will liavu forty-six in- moro exhibitors of complete pleasure cars: twenty-live displays .of motorcycles and more than 100 accessory displays. In Part II, twenty-five e-ompatiles will show completo commercial vehicles In the Harden, and thn Palace will house models of forty-one truck manufac turers. In each building the majority of the accessory makers will exhibit the entire two weeks. Kvery hit of space in Madison Squars Harden hn been contracted fur by manu facturers and dealers. All told there) will be more than 2,000 products ot various makers displayed. Inasmuch as some ot tho exhibitors exhibit n largo Hue of goods. NVarly all the maRes which have been exhibited at the National shows In Mad ison Squaro Garden for several years past will be -een In the same building this season. Tho new Grand Central Palac will nous many makes whlcn were seen In thn Palace last year nnd which wero exhibited In tho old Orand Central Palac before that building was torn down. In the Garden tho Part I. period pleasure; cats of the following makes will be setn In many models and a wonderXul array of body designs: Alto. Auburn, nutck, Cadillac Carter car. Chalmets, Columbia, Cunningham, Sto.ltlard-.nayton, Flanders, Franklin, ("afford, Iluynes, Hudson, Jackson, Knox. Iicomohlle, Lozler. Mntheson, Maxwall, Mercer, Mitchell, Mollne, Moon, National, Mnrmon, Oakland, Olds, Packard. Peri les, Plerce-Arrow, Pope-Hartford, Pre mier. Pullman. Heo, Bcldon. 8. O. V., Stearns. Stevens-Duryea. WeurtnIei trolt. White. Overland and Wlnton. Those which will be seen at th Pal ace Includo some of tho newer make. On the list are: Abbott, American. Atlas, Berfdolt, Prlggs-Detroltcr. Ituffalo Electric. Church Held Electric, Cole, VlrcHtono-Columbut, Cutting. Davis, IMwards-Knlght, Umpire. Fiat, Danders, Havers, Henderson, Iter reshoff, Hupmoblle.- Stutz, Imperial, In terstate, Hambler, Kissell, Kline, K-R-I-T. Lenox, Marathon, Marion. Metz, Michi gan, Pathfinder, Norwalk. Only Car, Page Detroit, Paterson. Caso It. C. H., Regal, Speedwell, Standard Electric, Studebaker, Velle, Wcstcutt and Republic. Part II., beginning .Iminary SO, will be a point of Interest to merchants und oth iis who have to wrestln with transporta tion and delivery problems. The Garden iipreseiitutlon of commercial vehicles, most of them veterans of tho Industry, Is as follows : Alco, Autocar. Iluick. Federal. Gurforel. (.. M. C, (iramm, Hewitt, Hupmoblle, Kelly-SprliiBlleld. Kissel, Knox, Locomo bile, Muck, Packard. PeeTlcst, Plerce Arrow. Pope-Hartford. Itio. Saurer, Sel din. Speedwell. Velle, Waller und White. Simultaneous with the display of trucks lit the Gardfii, Part II. perlwl In the) '.ruin! Central Palace display will be In full swing with the following makes of trucks and wngons: Atlantic Atterbury, Hnker Electric, llessemer. Hlalr, .Modern, llrown, Iluffalo. Chase', Dart. Durnnt-Dort, O. M. C Gen eral Vehicle, tlramni-lternsteln. Grand It.iplds. Iji Kranee, Koehler, I.ansden, Iiiuth-Juergeris, Llppard-Stcwart, Mais, Meicury, M. & P. Electric, Kandolph, Itowe, Sanford, Schacht, Service, A. O, Smith. Staiidaid, Slegcmau, Sternberir, In ternational Harvester, Stewart, Stude baker. Sullivan, Universal. Ward, Waver lcy, Webb, Maccurr and Kreb. NOTES OF THE MOTOR TRADE. At the teccnt automobile show in At lanta, Ga., forty-two of tho eighty-eight cats were equipped with Gewdycar Urea. The new one ton Universal truck which has worm drive, left hand drive nnd cen tte conttol, with a single pedal for clutch and service hraki Is on view at the ser vice station, 146 West Sixty-third atrect. ' II, C. Whitney was recently appointed manager of the Atlanta Rranch of tho Locomobile Company of America, a place lield formerly by the late Frank I'. Day of Hartford. Conn. Mr. Whitney was for n long time connected with the Ameri can Locomotive Company, having general supervision of sales for tho Southern States. The Empire Automobile Company In, Indianapolis has for chief engineer Loult Schweitzer, who was u lieutenant in tho Austrian Army In 1901 nnd 1902,' serving then In the Hatkau Stales. Ho ha had pluces wllh a number of automobile flnna In this country, among them Plerce-Arrow, Aldcr-Sampsou, Marmon and Atlas En gine Works. . Henry M. Duncan has been appointed supervisor of the eastern district of the l'nlted States Motor Company in place of W. F Sni'tli, 1 1 signed. Mr. Duncan was formerly general rrianager of the West chester Appliance Company of New York. Atlanta, Syracuse, Washington and Pitts burg cnftipanlen are under his control ami In addition he will act as manager of the United Motor Philadelphia com pany. Nntlounl Cars to Have aorbrra. Shock .th- The National car Is to be equipped here-., after with tho TiufTault-IIiirtford hock abfcoi'ber. The devien will form part of thu factory equipment. Set Out ercmouy. In i f the middle 4 m - 4V