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January 11, 1905 {| style="border: 1px solid black; margin:auto; text-align:center;" cellpadding=10 ! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px"|Club Notes ! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px"|
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Special efforts are being made to increase the club membership. On Tuesday, January 10, the third entertainment of the winter will be held in the clubrooms. The program will be of an athletic character.

A committee was appointed recently to confer with the legislative committee of the Maine State Grange relative to concerted action to secure from the Legislature favorable action in the matter of good roads. It is considered likely that the Portland Club will join in the movement.

The club was organized recently in Boston, and the following officers elected: Lewis R. Speare, president; F. H. Tudor, vice president; H. L. Bowden, treasurer; J. C. Kearison, secretary; A. E. Gilmore, Harry Fosdick and W. W. Burke, directors.

A meeting was held in the rooms of the Commercial Club on January 3. Steps were taken toward framing an automobile law to be presented to the Legislature, and volunteers called for who would attend the meetings of that body and help in securing the passage of the bill.

A booklet has recently been issued in which are given a brief history of the club and a statement of its purpose, the names of the principal ofﬁcers for each year since the club was organized in 1900, the ofﬁcers and committees for 1905, the constitution, bylaws and house rules, and a list of all the members. Copies of the Ohio State automobile law and the Cleveland ordinance are also included.

A communication has been received from Richard P. Elliott, of Boston, stating that he has prepared a bill to be presented to the Legislature at its next session, which requires that all vehicles upon the highways shall carry lights after dark, visible 300 feet to the front and rear. The co-operation of the club is asked to secure its passage. The effort to have President Goddard appointed a member of the metropolitan highway committee has failed, owing chiefly, it is said, to the fact that his “boom” was started too late. A number of changes are soon to be made in the arrangement of the clubrooms. A lunch room is one of the new features proposed. At a meeting last week it was voted to hold a hill climbing contest next spring and a committee consisting of A. K. Miller, William A. Chaffin and Secretary F. E. Frost was appointed to arrange for it.

A meeting was held at the Hotel Pﬁster recently at which it was decided to allow the secretary a salary of $75 per year. A paper on skidding was read by G. Scholtka, and an interesting talk on snow blindness given by Dr. E. W. Bartlett. A number of new members were elected.

On January 3 the third annual banquet was held at the Yates Hotel. Henry Walters acted as toastmaster. Among those who spoke were Congressman Michael E. Driscoll, Mayor Alan C. Fobes, Prof. W. K. Wickes, Supervisor Robert E. Gilman, William Rubin, Justice F. W. Thompson, John D. Lyon, of Binghamton, Arthur Benjamin, Giles E. Stilwell and Harlan W. Whipple.

Announcements are out for the ﬁrst annual banquet, to be held on January 16 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The list of speakers contains the names of Mayor McClellan and ex-Governor Odell. The arrangements are in the hands of a committee consisting of Harlan W. Whipple and C. H. Gillette, of the association, and T. M. Hilliard, manager of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reduced railroad rates have been secured for members attending the annual meeting on the one fare and certificate plan. Members purchasing railroad tickets not later than January 18 may obtain a certificate from the ticket agent, which should be presented to Secretary Gillette at the Hotel Seville, Madison avenue and Twenty-ninth street. If the necessary minimum attend the meeting, the return rate will be reduced to one-third.

The fourth annual banquet of the club was held at the Wellington, Providence, on January 4 after the annual meeting in the club rooms, at which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Julian A. Chase; ﬁrst vice president, William Penn Mather; second vice president, Darwin Almy; treasurer, Howard D. Wilcox; secretary, Elliot Flint; governors, to serve until 1908, Charles O. Read and Darwin Almy. At the banquet President Chase acted as toastmaster and presented the following speakers: Harlan W. Whipple, A. R. Pardington, A. A. Post, C. H. Gillette and Asa Goddard, president of the Worcester Club. The protest of A. E. Morrison, of Boston, against the award of ﬁrst place to B. F. Blackinton in the hill climbing contest held by the club at River Point on November 26, has been disallowed, because the protest was not ﬁled in writing within twenty-four hours after the close of the event, as required by the A. A. A. racing rules, and also because the performance on which Morrison based his protest was made in a match to decide a tie, after the hill climbing contest proper.

The post office authorities of Cleveland, Ohio, have placed a number of motor wagons in service for conveying mails between the various sub-stations and railway depots.

The Indiana Automobile Company, of Indianapolis, will act as agents for the commercial cars made by the Knox Automobile Company during 1905. The Rockliff Motor Truck Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been chartered by the Secretary of State to manufacture and sell automobiles and other road motors. The capital stock is $50,000, and the directors for the ﬁrst year are Sidney D. Van Wagner, Charles E. Patterson and Charles Rockliff, of Brooklyn.

The Induction Coil Company, 9 Miller Building, Milwaukee, Wis.—Catalogue of Mueller coils.

C. W. Spicer, Plainﬁeld, N. J.—Catalogue of Spicer dust proof universal joints, for automobile use.

Electric Vehicle Company, Hartford, Conn.—Specifications of the various models of Columbia cars.

J. T. Pederson, 642 First avenue, New York City.—Folder showing his various types of pressure feed lubricators.

Atwood Manufacturing Company, Amesbury, Mass.—Catalogue of oil, electric and acetylene gas lamps for automobiles.

Pittsﬁeld Spark Coil Company, Pittsﬁeld, Mass.—Folder showing Pittsfield ignition supplies, coils, plugs, commutators, etc.

The Hesse-Bright Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, 15a.—Illustrated catalogue of Hesse-Bright ball bearings, giving tables of safe loads, etc.

Cullman Wheel Company, 52: Larrabee street, Chicago, Ill.—Catalogue of chains, sprockets and differential gears made and handled by the company.

The Concentrated Acetylene Company, 330 North Illinois street, Indianapolis, Ind.—Catalogue showing Prest-o-Lite gas tanks attached to various makes of cars.

The Manufacturers’ Foundry Company, Waterbury, Conn.—Illustrated booklet showing some of the gasoline engine cylinder castings made by this company.

The Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.—Booklet containing information concerning the construction and application of Swinehart solid tires.

W. U. Custead, 45 West Twenty-seventh street. New York City.—Folder giving information concerning his recently patented variable speed and power transmission device.

Wray Pump and Register Company, 191 Mill street, Rochester, N. Y.—Pamphlet illustrating the various forms of Kellogg double acting tire pumps and air pipe couplings.