Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1922, Page 68

CITY MOTOR CANS CROWING POPULAR 300 Already Established Seen as Reflection of Credit on Automobile. C. H. NEPHLER, General sales manager, Oakland Mo- tor Car Company. “The time is not far distant when every city in the country will have a municipal motor camp. “The fact that 300 cities now have municipal motor camp sites consti- tutes one of the greatest tributes to the automobile as a factor in helping American citizens see their country first.” b Thus C. J. Nephler, general sales manager of the Oakland Motor Car Company, sums up the benefit of the automobile as a means of transcon- tinental travel as well as the shorter summer trip, which have grown in vogue tremendously in the United States. “The 300 cities having municipal motor camp sites are performing a service for tmynscontinental motorists, and for those taking shorter au- tomobile- trips, that was hardly thought of ten years ago. In addi- tion to these 300 cities dozens more are planning camps for the 1923 season. “Hundreds of additional camp sites are supplied on natlonal and state forest reserves and on privately owned grounds. “Official figures show that 598,000 campers used these municipal sites in 1221, whereas hundreds of thousamds more camped in the state and na- tional reservations. Increased Touring Certain. “Just in proportion as these camp sites Increase, just in that proporton will crass-country touring and in general long automobile touring in- crease. It is mot only profitable for the communities to foster these camping sites, but it is profitable for the country, as a whole, to have our citizens see our own country. “Another great advantage of the automoblle tour is the fact that per- sons making such a journey will visit the little by-ways, the little out-of- the-way spots and thereby gain a bet- ter knowledge of the country than visiting the large centers only when traveling by other means of transpor- tation. And the health feature of being outdoors in an automobile is not _the least of the benefits. “That this form of traveling has gained tremendously may be gleaned from the fact that nearly 7,000,000,000 passengers were carried In motor cars in 1921 as compared to a little better than 1,000,000,000 carried on steam railroads.’s —_— AUTO BODY BUILDERS OPEN EXHIBIT JAN. 8 Annual Convention of Organization Will Be Held During Same Week. Elaborate preparations are being made_to produce the second annual auto body bullders’ show in New York as a thoroughly representative ex- hibit. This exposition will be held the week of January 8 to 13, in the 12th Regiment armory. It is the same week as the national automobile show in Grand Central Palace. During _this week, the Automobile Body Builders’ Association will hold its annual convention in conjunction with the auto body show. This as- sociation includes in its membership and associate membehship the lead- ing manufacturers of bodies and body materials and parts for them. Under the leadership of its’ president, John Graham, it has developed into & well knit, strong organization. and is becoming more of a factor in the industry each season. —_— TRADE NOTES. The latest offering of the Maxwell Motor Corporation—a sport touring and sport roadster, fully equipped in all that the phrase implies—bids fair to rank with the introduction of the new series a year ago. The coach, the latest addition to the Chalmers line, and the new Maxwells will be on show during the coming week at the logal showroom of H. B. Leary, Jjr. 1333 14th street northwest. Dr. Friet and Sidney Prince of the Stutz Motor Sales Company of this city are attending & factory reunion at Indianapolis. B Bob King, formerly used car man- ager of Stanley Horner, is now man- ager of used cars at the Peerless Mo- tqr Company's Washington branch, 1sth and P streets. Jack Baker, who for the past few years has been selling retail for the Oldsmobile Sales Company, is now manager of the wholesale depart- meot. ner, 1015 14th street northwest, local Buick dealer. . ROAD BARGAIN SUCCEEDS. Dallas Supplies Fire Protection to County With Good Highways. Dallas county, Tex., has made - it possible for its rural districts to obtain tection from the fire department in Bfl]‘n through the construction of mod- ern hard-surfaced highways. A contract Dallas city eomlnllll%lll del;\;l 1 oy = miasioners pro or fire tion farmers on all paved mx:\)'"mn a rufl']:rlmcf fifteen miles of Dallas. When a house or barn along a paved road catches fire all the farmer has to do is to telephone the Dallas depart- ment and it will respond at forty to fifty miles an hour with a chemical en- gine or a steamer, as occasion may war- Tant. Dallas county is one of the first in the Andrew Duffy 1s now connected with the sales force of Stanley Hi . WEATHER ADS WORK ON LINCOLN HIGAWAY Completion of Ideal Section in Northern Indiana Is Expect- ed This Year. Northern Indiana has been favored with such excellent weather for several weeks that it begins to look as if the paving of the ideal section of the Lin- coln highway can be completed this year. Early in October it was feared that delays due to the railroad strike had held up the work.so much that freezing weather would set in before more than half of the paving could be completed. Work is now going. forward rapidly and only a few more days will be neces- sary to complete the mile and a third of road which is to be laid and two brh‘;x:& From 400 to 450 feet of twenty-foot-ten- :f;‘fil’; reinforced concrete are being lald The forty-foot width is being 1 id 1 two twenty-foot strips, which, gn:evel‘: Join at the center to make forty feet of continuous paving, steel dowel bars con- necting the north and south halves of the road into one unit. The central joint will form a natural line of demarcation between traffic headed east and west. Progress in October. During October the progress of the work was inspected by many visitors with a technical interest in the way the Job is handled. These included Army iy i msestor 2 Y2r oz (36 INTOXICATED DRIVERS | OPEN WHITE HORS way officials. The icoln hwlLtAllocllllofl has to date secured 1,600 feet of motion plc- tures, showing the efficlent way in which the construction is bping carried on. These scenes, together with others to be taken when the séction is fini completed, will be combined into a plc- ture which will show the evolution of the road from the old, narrow, rough trail to the most ideal form of modern highway. e completion of the paving and bridges this &ur will leave for next spring only the construction of the shoulders, the landscape work and the installation of the electric lighting sys- tem for night travel. J. N. Gunn, vice president of the United States Rubber Company, which is providing most of the cost of the job, and who Is also president of the Lincoln Highway Association, Is expected to personally ‘inspect_the progress of the work in the near future. LONGEST HIGHWAY CONTRACT Federal ald project No. 14 {s the longest highway contract ever let in Tennessee. It conslsts of five miles of new road In Gralnger county, be- ginning at Fate Springs; forty-three miles across Hawkins county and two miles in Sullivan county, extending to Kingport, a total length of 50.22 miles. The new highway passes through the Holston river valley for about forty miles and lies between Bay mountain and Clinch mountain. The grading on this contract was begun in 1920 and the construction of the macadam base in 1921. The road will be surfaced with asphalt through- out. and will cost $1.387,000, or $27,700 a mile. [ — “Say it with safety and save the flowers."—Auto Club of Berkshire county. £ Py ARRESTED IN BALTIMORE Nineteen Released—Of 166 Held in October for Recklessness 78 Are Dismissed. Bpecial Dispatch to The Btar. 5 BALTIMORE, November 18.—Twenty- four persons were sent to jall in October for violations of the auto- mobile and trafic laws. One man ‘was committed for operating an auto- mobile without permission of the owner and five others were fined and sent to jail for driving under the influence of liquor, according to the Mp‘:fl‘t on the traffic court, just made public. - Altogether thére were 1,806 viola- tions of the Baltimore traffic laws and automobile zsegulations during the month. A total of $8,939.20 was col- lected in fines, $6,834 of which went to the commissioner of motor ve- hicles, $915 to the city of Baltimore and $1,190.20 to the board of police commissioners here. One hundred and sixty persons were arrested for reckless driving. the report shows, 66 being fined, 78 dismissed, 2 fined and committed to jail, and 14 released on costs. Seven persons were arrested for using auto- mobiles without the consent of the owners, one being sent to jail, another was committed In default of fine, four were dismissed and one was released on_costs. Two hundred and fifty-seven per- sons were arrested for operating niotor vehicles at more than twenty milex an hour in the city. Kleven were dismissed, eight released on costs and the others fined. Four persons were committed in default of fines for falling to give right of way. Altogether there were 36 persons arrested for driving while intoxicated, but 19 were dismissed. —— e Jerseyites Complete Their First Transtate Highway. The famous White Horse pike was opened to motorists Saturday, Novem- ber 4, with a big celebration and ha motor car parade. This is New Jersey's first com- leted transstate highway. The o 2!0“. Automobile Club of Philad gfil and the Atlantic City Automobile Asso- clation, both N. A . M. ons, were the only automobile clubs co-oper- ating and participating in the ceremony. ‘The new section g\ll! completed covers a distance of fifteen miles from Camden to Berlin, just com- pleted at a cost exceeding $1,000,000. This section_is of concrete, twenty feet wide. In addition, the various municipalitles which line the pike have paved the curbs and gutters, 0 that for the greater part of the teen miles the road is forty feet wide. The newly completed section con- nects Berlin with Absecon, which was opened last year, and which is also concrete, twenty feet wide. This highway is considered the longest continuous stretch of concrete road in the United States. It is also one of the most traveled roads in the east, being the main connection from Philadelphia and eastern Pennsyl- vania to Atlantic City. DRIVER AND OWNER CONVICTED IN DEATH Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 18.—The conviotion last week of Joseph Latvanus on a charge of manslaughter makes the case a uniqué one in the history of automobile cases here. 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An attempt will be made with the support of the state highway commission to amend the state highway act with the fol- lowing provision: *“Proper footpaths for the use of ped: be constructed on such portions of any state highway where. in the nion of the state highway commlission, such construction is necessary or ad- visable.” Closing Out! at drastic reductions— our entire stock of COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPHS Nationally known instruments . of proved merit at lower prices . than you are asked to pay for unknown instruments of doubtful performance. ments. All these reductions are © You know the Columbia phonograph—it has stood the test of time—it has proved itself one of the best of the nationally known instru- So you are not guessing or experimenting when you buy it—you buy with confidence knowing you are get- ting a full third more value for your money. from present fixed prices —the prices you will pay for Columbia phonographs at every dealer in town today. 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