The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913. THE MARCH OF THE MOTOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 64, 22 March 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913. THE MARCH OF THE MOTOR.

The gigantic development of the motor car industry in America is, to some extent, made evident by statistics recently published. Notwithstanding the great population of the United States and the extremes between poverty and great riches which are found, att he present arte of the inustry’s progress there will be within six months one motor car built for every hundred people in the States, while by May Ist of this year it is estimated that there will be as many as a million cars in actual use. Registration figures already show almost that number, but allowance has to be made for cars registered by non-residents and those which have changed hands and have been twice registered. There arc, however, 825,000 cars in actual use, and of these 270,000, or nearly onethird, were made and sold during 1012, while 241 companies are engaged in producing pleasure cars, and 280 in building commercial vehicles. The total number of dealers and garages in America is over 12,500. In the matter of the number of cars in proportion to the population, California leads the way with one for twenty-seven people, whereas New York State, though having only one car for every 141 people, possesses the greatest total number of any State, 106,869. It is not surprising under the circumstances that street fatalities are. rapidly increasing. Last year no less than 221 deaths were directly attributable to the motor car, and 1342 persons were seriously injured in motor car mishaps in New York City alone. The speed mania and the incompetent driver are the principal causes of disas-

ter, so the report says. This may well be believed, for a careful noting of the causes of motor car accidents even in New Zealand would probably load to a similar conclusion.