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Show ranis IWTORTOURISTS Parties Come From Everywhere Seeking Information as to Interesting Points. ASSOCIATION IS DOING MUCH FOR THE TRAVELERS Fully Equipped Bureau Prepared Pre-pared to Answer Questions of Whatsoever Kind. Is'cw York City is u. mod6rn mccca for the touring motorist. From all parts of the country como thoso who dally visit tho national headquarters of tho American Automobllo association at 437 Fifth avenuo, thus making apparent tho fact, that the metropolis Is now Included In the summer itinerary of thousands of molor car owners. The Now linghtnd country Invariably is entered or left through the metropolitan gateway, and one duy last week applicants to tho A. A. A, touring bureau represented fourteen four-teen states, ono being from California, with several from Colorado and Oklahoma. Okla-homa. Two Georgians sought White mountains information, and a party from Missouri was on a similar ijuost. All tlvltles In their homo states. The problem of meeting tho rapidly increasing in-creasing demand for specific touring Information In-formation from its widespread membership member-ship has been under long and careful consideration by tho directors of tho American Automobllo association. "With an organization containing "62 clubs, affiliated in tho form of thirty-three state organizations, it was felt that an actlvo force might bo recruited and maintained main-tained to gather all the available material ma-terial and hold It subject to call from whatever source. This process has been going on for pome weeks, under the uu-. pervlslon of Powell JSvans. chairman of tho touring information board, until tho principal automobllo clubs throughout the country havo appointed a resident member, each to serve In that capacity. Referred to Board. As a result, when questions come up that cannot bo answered by reference lo the material already at hand, they arc rcforred to tho touring board member mem-ber for that locality, and looked .up with care and Interest. Tho data collected becomes be-comes a part of tho permanent refer-once refer-once systom. so that similar Inquiries coming later can bo nttended lo with accuracy a7id dispatch. Not a few A. A. A. clubs have already done exceedingly valuablo work, and moro ure contemplating early action along the same lines. Tho mapping of the Automobile club of Philadelphia is a most ambitious effort nearing Its sectional sec-tional completion. YVJthln tho past year tho Automobcl club of Buffalo has published pub-lished a valuablo district map for automobllo auto-mobllo users' reference, and less pretentious preten-tious local maps aro now being rnado by a number of the other clubs. Tho .Louisville .Louis-ville Automobile club recently Issued a book of routes tributary to that city,, with extensive ramifications, especially lu Kentucky and Ohio: this promp!y and adequately fills a now need that might not otherwiso bo filled for a long time. In Fall River, Mass., tho local club has Issued a card, In 'colors, showing tho best wuya In and out of town; practically tho same thing has been done in Elmiro, is". Y., and olscwherc Tho "Wisconsin State association is doing somo very effective ef-fective route compilation for the benefit of its members, and the Automobile club of Rochester will soon bring out a book of routes and maps covering that district in a thorough way. It has usually been found that neighboring clubs are quick to follow with similar or equally important impor-tant original work; and as a result the correction of old data and the compilation compila-tion of new Information is all the while under way. Issue Touring Books. Olhcr increasing activities of A. A. A. clubs in various parts of the country include in-clude a touring book by the Automobllo Club of Southern California, while the Delaware Automobllo association, tho Chicago Automobile club and. tho Automobile Auto-mobile Club of Pittsburg havo done similar sim-ilar work for' their respective localities.; Tho California State Automobile association associa-tion has gotten out a map of California and Nevada, while the Savannah Automobllo Auto-mobllo club has covered tho routes between be-tween Its own city and other important points, including Jacksonville, Fla. Tho Automobile Club of Cincinnati has attended at-tended to the routes in its own territory, besides doing considerable 8ign-po3tIng. But In sign-posting, the Chicago Motor club undoubtedly leads all tho others In tho amount of territory covorod, though numerous clubs throughout the country ore more than busy In this particular direction di-rection at the present time, one of 'the most recent entrants to this field of labor la-bor being the Now Jcrsoy Automobllo and Motor club. At tho national hoadquarters, 43 1 Fifth avenue, New York,v all this material is being arranged for the prompt reference of callers, or for transmission to any affiliated club or mambur upon request, inquiries received In a single day frequently fre-quently call for detailed schedules totaling total-ing many thousands of miles, and aomo aro certain to deal with portions of the United States or Canada (or both), for which there arc up to this timo no really or complete or satisfactory data outside of tho A. A. A. files. During tho touring tour-ing season hundreds of tho motorists visiting NcW York call upon the A. A- A. touring bureau and rccelvo prompt, personal per-sonal attention from Secretary, Robert Bruco in planning their trips. In addition addi-tion to tho greater number tnken care of by correspondence. This sorvlco is entirely en-tirely free to members. |