oc-plain-dealer 1921-04-09

Saturday, April 9, 1921 AUTOS INCREASE 22 PER CENT IN 1920 A total of 9,211,295 motor cars were registered last year, in the United States, according to figures compiled by the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture in a study of revenue available for road building. There also were registered a total of 238,146 motorcycles. The registration and license fees, including those for chauffeurs and dealers, amounted to $102,034.106.26. Compared with 1919, the data for 1920 represents an increase of 22 per cent, or 1,645,849 motor cars. This increase alone lacks but 4 per cent of being equal to the total registration of the United States six years ago. In 1920 in the state of New York alone the number of motor cars registered, including commercial vehicles, exceeded the total cars registered in the whole of the United States in 1910. Revenues derived from registration in the state of New York in 1920 were about equal to the entire registration revenues of the United States in 1913. In 1906 total registrations were approximately 18,000 cars, paying a gross revenue of about $193,000. Arizona in 1920 paid approximately this amount. In 1906 gross registration revenues were equal to less than three-tenths of 1 per cent of the total rural road and bridge expenditures for that year. Registration revenues in 1920 were equal to about 25 per cent of total rural road and bridge expenditures for 1919. In 1906 practically none of the motor vehicle revenues were applied to road maintenance or construction, while in 1920, 96 per cent, or a total of $97,997,160.60, was used for this purpose. Of the total amount applied to road work 79 per cent, or $77,531,582.57, was expended under the control or supervision of the several state highway departments. Prior to 1912 only a small portion of the motor vehicle registration was devoted to this purpose. In 1930 76 per cent of the value, or $77,531,582.57, was applied to road work, and in addition $20,465,578.04 was New York Letter by Lucy Jeanne Price NEW YORK, April 9—At last some attention is being given to the poor city men in order that they may find a place to eat! Since "the old days," tea roaming have been the dominant form of food place in New York. But they were so filled with women! And the men, driven from under the hospitalable roof of the hotel bars, could find no place to feel at home. So now, in the shopping, teeng district, one large tea room has blazoned forth with the cordial sign: "Special room for gentlemen." o(——) Zona Gale, author of "Miss Lulu Bett," has gone to Portage, Wis., to work on a new play, incidentally, but primarily to recover her health after having spoken at 50 dinners during her 12 weeks in New York City, breaking all records and coming pretty close to ruining her digestion. o(——) Anyone who ever has thot of extreme culture being unnecessary in a detective, just listen to this: First grade detective Bernard Baylan of the nureotic squad of this highly specialized city not only can decipher the letters and read his laundry bill, but he speaks chinese. o(——) Did you know that it's actually true that married men save more money than bachelors? I have always thot it was just a copy book maxim intended to encourage matrimony. But it's a cold, printed fact—in New York City, at least. And another thing—even the unsaving bachelors save more than bachelor girls! After all the years of touting us as the shirfty sex: The Savings Bank Assn. of New York is authority for all this. And they give figures to prove it from typical New York City banks. One of the most interesting things about the Exhibition of Independent Artists, now being held at the Waldorf is the number of works by "part time" artists—men and women whose In 1908 practically none of the motor vehicle revenues were applied to road maintenance or construction, while in 1920, 96 per cent, or a total of $97,997,160.60, was used for this purpose. Of the total amount applied to road work 79 per cent, or $77,531,582.57, was expended under the control or supervision of the several state highway departments. Prior to 1912 only a small portion of the motor vehicle registration was devoted to this purpose. In 1920-76 per cent of the value, or $77,531,582.57, was applied to road work and in addition $20,465,678.04 was applied to road work by counties. A number of the states having in general but a small mileage of improved roads have recently adopted the plan of capitalizing motor vehicle revenues and devoting these funds to road construction. The states doing this are Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Bonds have been voted or issued for road construction, and the principal in some instances also the interest is to be paid entirely from motor vehicle revenue. In Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon, in addition to the registration fees, a state tax on gasoline also is levied. In Alabama, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont, registration fees are in lieu of all personal property taxes. AUTO IN BOSTON IS DISGUISED AS CIGAR A nine-foot cigar is attracting much attention in Boston as it goes up and down the main thorofares, smoking incessantly. The cigar is mounted on top of a standard Dodge car. In the interior of the car is concealed an arrangement for producing the smoke, which filters out slowly thru perforations in the ashes. The effect is very realistic. The advertising value of the device is increased by the mystery of the steady flow of smoke, as there are apparently no pipes,hose or other connections between the cigar and the body of the car, except the flat iron braces, which are painted to be hardly recognizable. The car was sold to Alles & Fisher, cigar manufacturers, Henshaw holds patents on the contrivance. Salesmen who drive the car say it never fails to make an impression on the retailer, and assists materially in making sales. AUTO DOCTOR'S NECESSITY H. S. Cummings, surgeon general of the United States, says: "When life and death are running close motor transport is often a decisive factor. Motorized ambulances and private motor equipment are as much a part of the modern physician's necessities as modern hospital conveniences. The motor vehicle has broadened the sphere of the usefulness of physicians and has actually One of the most interesting things about the Exhibition of Independent Artists, now being held at the Waldorf is the number of works by "part time" artists—men and women whose regular occupation in life is far removed from Art, but who squeeze it into enough of their free hours actually to achieve something. There are paintings on exhibition—good ones, too—by James N. Rosenberg, lawyer, and Louis Ayer and Herman Fischer, physicians, for instance, and Morris Kanton, clothing cutter, Glenn Coleman, traffic cop, Carlton Husche, letter carrier, Emile Branckard, truck driver, William Coyne, trade paper reporter, and Prosper Invarnest, wall painter. In the back room of an East Side tenement, three flights up lives Duke Orloff and his bride, the Duchess Olga; waiting hopefully for the counter revolution in Russia to become an accomplished fact, so that they may take a honeymoon trip back home. Orloff has been keeping silent about his dukedom since his arrival in this country, because a large proportion of the population down around his present quarters are shouting loudly for Lenine and Trotsky a great part of their time. But he gave away the secret at the marriage license bureau the other day. The new duchess was Olga Polishewsky, who had lived on an estate adjoining his in the old days in Russia. He has been searching for her ever since he landed here after fleeing from the first revolution. Orloff is carpentering to support himself and his duchess. Some income tax excuses are pretty lame; but one was received on the last day of grace this year which seemed to be as sincere and as sound as it was polite. And it was very polite indeed. "I am temporarily detained in the Tombs," the letter read, "and it is impossible to make a direct return' on income tax for 1920. I request an extension of time. If your ruling is that a tentative return shall be filed at once, kindly send the necessary forms to the above address." "I am wondering," said Internal Revenue Collector Edwards," whether he wants an extension of time in the Tombs to delay paying his tax or whether he is one of those conscientious men who made a lot of money during the recent crime wave and believes there should be no delay in giving the government its share. His delinquency, however, will be easily understood and excused by use." There is one question of army or navy supremacy which will not have it be fought out by congress; the matter of which force owns the air. AUTO DOCTOR'S NECESSITY H. S. Cummings, surgeon general of the United States, says: "When life and death are running close motor transport is often a decisive factor. Motorized ambulances and private motor equipment are as much a part of the modern physician's necessities as modern hospital conveniences. The motor vehicle has broadened the sphere of the usefulness of physicians and has actually saved thousands of lives as a result." "TREASURE HUNT" NEW SPORT A new form of competition, known as a "treasure hunt," has been inaugurated by the Motorcycle club of New Jersey. Each rider was supplied with a different list of running directions without mileage or names of towns, but which all led in a roundabout way to the "hidden treasure" which took the form of motorcycle accessories, etc. It is expected that this novel game will be taken up enthusiastically by the country. BRISCOE The Leader of Light Weight Cars Added Briscoe refinements this year. Boyce Motometer, Gypsy curtains with plate glass rear window on all open models. Always a little more for the money—that's Briscoe. C. H. McCAUSLAND Birch St. at Fifth Santa Ana A fair sized volume of Who's Who called from New York within the past few days. Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Earl and Countess of Craven, Oliver Morosco, Sie Hojace Plunkett, Miss Edith Taliaferro, and Baron Russo, secretary of the Italian embassy, were a few of them. The white tuxedo has been wished upon the men of the country by the tailor's fashion show for men being held here this week. It was conceded that for the man who had lived a life of ease and good food, a broad expanse of white might show up his bulk a trifle more than his good safe old black coat, but it's no more than fair for him to learn some of the trials that fashion means to womankind. And white Lis dinner coat shall be! Artificial eyelashes! It's extremely difficult in fact well-nigh impossible to write or talk or look about New York just at present without fashion shows of one kind or another looming large and brilliant on one's horizon. But nothing either large or brilliant has made quite the sensation among the ordinary, morials in attendance as have the artificial eyelashes. Some ambitious girl evidently got up some quiet morning and said, "What GAN I do next to, doll up my looks? Everything's been done, I'd say, and I don't look so VERY different yet. Ah! My eyelashes! They're perfectly natural. No wonder I look just like a human being in spite of all my efforts. I'll have some false ones. Then and there the mode was born. And they had a whole booth devoted to them at the Revue de Fashion. An unprecedented longing for early American furniture has broken out in this part of the country, and probably everywhere else. Never had such crowds gathered for the buying of it as those which gathered the other day at the American Art galleries at a sale of a good collection. And never were such prices paid. An American made mahogany lowboy brot $2009—and not from a faddist with mork money to spend than she knew what to do with, either, but from an agent, who bought it to sell at a still higher price. A gilt and mahogany mirror of 1735 brot $359. At last the scenic painters of the theatre are bringing people around to their point of view. Color can do all sorts of things. They have been telling the public, even to turning a dramatic failure into a pocket-filler, just thru properly enlivening the audience looking at the scenery. So now the model Dana View prison is going to try its effect on malefactors. Warren McClellan has announced that the cells are to be repainted and that each prisoner is to choose his own color. The only specification is to be that none is to-be sombre. Only bright and cheerful colors will be allowed for the sake of the psychological effect. The first man to be granted citizenship who is unable to sign his own name, has just received his papers. It is Joseph McCredy, of New York who has been blind from birth. He mastered the typewriter, however and because of this the federal authorities have made him the first exception to the hitherto unbroken law. The subway is about to become of age. At the end of this month, it will have been 21 years since the land groaned when men started running his tunnels through its rocks. 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