ILLINOIS MOTORISTS BUSY.

The New York Times
January 14, 1910

New Blood Injected Into the State Automobile Association.

Special to The New York Times.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Now that there has been held the annual meeting of the Illinois State Automobile Association and new blood injected into the Directory, it is anticipated that this body ought to be able to do something to advance the cause of motoring in Illinois. The association never has amounted to anything in the past, but the National officers believe there is a big field in which it can work, and they have assured the new officers that all the efforts of the A. A. A. will be forthcoming to make Illinois a power in the land.

The new President of the State Association is Charles P. Root of the Chicago Motor Club, whose experiences in cycling ought to fit him to advance the cause of motoring. George W. Erhart of Decatur, Vice President, is an enthusiastic advocate of good roads and signboards, and ought to be of assistance to President Root. Every one knows how Treasurer John Farson of the Chicago Automobile Club stands, while Frank H. Trego, Secretary, a Chicago Motor Club man, is a strong member of the board.

It went against the grain of Burley B. Ayres, Chairman of the Runs and Tours Committee of the Chicago Automobile Club, to have to abandon the New Year's Eve century run, an affair which has proved a success in other years, and which promised to be bigger than ever this time, had it not been for the weather conditions. But Ayres found that the country west of Chicago and along the Elgin Aurora Century course is snowbound at the present time, Frank Wood reporting that it took him twelve hours to get in from Ontarioville, twenty miles out, and that to do this he had to use horses and to keep four men busy with shovels all the time.