Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Prominent Drivers.

II NAV seem remarkable in spite of the
general use of the automobile In Wash
ington society, there is not one owned in
the cabinet This possibly may be because
the cabinet officers are mostly grave and
reverend gentlemen who do not go In for
anything approaching frivolity. Also 1t
may be because the President does not
drive nor own a machine.
There is no prejudice against the machine
in the diplomatic corps, however. Hugh
Quincy of the British embassy drives
Pope-Waverley coupe and Mr. Ewarts OF
the same embassy has just gotten Pope
speed wagon costing something over S1,l00
that is one of the SpeedieSt and most up
to-date machines in Washington. Count
Wenckheim of the Austrian embassy also
drives a machine. His Is Pope Toledo
with the new side entrance. 1t Is thirty
horse power machine costing 5000. X. H.
Scheller of the German embassy uses
Pope runabout, one of the smaller machines'
and keeps 1t principally for city work.
There are a good many machines both in
the House and Senate, some of them owned
and others hired by the congressman here,
who find them more satisfactory and
sneedy than horses in getting about the
city. Senator Clark, who could afford to
have about anything he wanted in the auto
mobile line, even to gold wheels and
diamond inlaid steering head, has one of
the oldest imported machines in the city
d
was laid away several seasons after the
senator brought it home, but was recently
resurrected and put into commission.
Senator Depew does not own car, tnough
he drives a good deal with his friends
When asked why he had not invested IN
one he is reported to have said with a
smile that he had troubles enough In the
Senate without adding to them outside. 1t
is understood, however, that ne is gong
in for an electric coupe.
Thomas F. Walsh is a business man be-
fore everything and he uses twenty-four-
horse power Pope Waverley In getting
ahout because he says it saves time and
is a good investment. Jerome Bonaparte
goes in for the sport of the thing and
has a speed wagon an electric machine,
with radius of fifty miles nominally,
though he says that he has gotten fifty
three miles out of it on a single charge
of the batteries Mrs. Westinghouse OF
course drives and has a big French West
inehouse gasoline machine, the first, 1t Is
said that has been built in this country.
Another of the imported machines in WASH
ington is big forty-horse power Mercedes,
owned by Edward Mclean, Whlch Is SAID TO
represent an investment OF 5000 Mrs.
Mary Scott Townsend has two Toledos, a
twenty-four and a thirty-horse power that
cost about S. $50 each, and 1t is said that
she is also going in for the electric power
Both the oriental legations, the japanese
and Chinese, have taken kindly to the auto
mobile. When Minister WI Ting Fang was
here for China the automobile was a COM
pardtfvely new thlng ,Dul Win MS tend
ency to adopt all the latest improvements
of western life, Minister WI went nearly
everywhere in steam car, and the sight of
his black skull cap and flowing silks tucked
carefully into a flying runabout was one of
the customary but striking sights of Wash
ington. Now the japanese minister. Mr..
Takahira, and his Chinese colleague, Sir
LANG Cheng. both drive big gasoline cars.
The Austrian ambassador, Baron Hagen
muller, is also motorist and drives a high
powered gasoline car. The members of the