The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-08
"a HERE are many automobiles in use
in st. Paul Practically all of
these machines are operated by

in st. Paul. Practically all OF
these machines are operated by
their owners. Running an auto
mobile is as easy as driving a carriage,
after one knows how.
Knowing how That is the great trick
in every business. Everything is easy
to the man who knows how, but it some-
.-mes requires years If patient toll and
study to learn how.
The pleasure of owning an automobile
lies in knowing how 10 operate 1t. 1t is
tame sport to sit by the side of an expert
chauffeur while he guides the machine
through park and over hill and valley
The real fun is found in being at the
helm-in guiding the great, powerful red
devil as it glides with express train
speed over the smooth streets and roads,
or whirls like a gust of wind around
corner.
Whizzing through space at the rate of
so or 60 miles an hour, knowing all the
time that your life depends upon your
nerve and your skill, is an exhilarating
and exciting sport. And that is why the
automobile owner learns how to operate
his machine. That is, it is the primary
reason, although many are not able to
pay 81 or s. a day for an expert chauffeur.
1t is only the older and weaithier citi-
zens who depend upon chauffeurs. Where
one man employs chauffeur a dozen run
their own machines.
Learning how isn't as easy as It
-
looks There are many things about an
automobile which require constant watch
ing, and-guiding one of them through
crowded streets is beset with many diff
ficulties and some danger. The chauffeur
or he not only endangers his own life.
but places that of his fellow citizens in
peril.
Regular schools of instruction have
been established for training the auto
. mobile man. When ST. Paul man buys
machine he doesn't mount it and ride
1t home-that is unless he has had previ-
Gus experience with the gasoline horse
He must go to school again and have
some knowledge beaten into his head
and some skill drilled into his hands
and above all some nerve interjected into
his system.
The proprietors of automobile estab-
lfshn nts have experts whose business it
is to teach their customers how to run
their machines. few days instruction
usually suffces for the man who has
plenty of nerve and confidence, but oc-
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to spend month or more in school.
An expert, A. c. Halsey, who is the
proprietor of a big establishment,
declares that the ST. Paul citizen
is very teachable in automobile tactics.
and that, as a general proposition, he
learns the art of operating his machine
more readily than do the inhabitants of
any other city. But the st. Paul
man has always exhibited an abil-
ity to grasp things quicker than
the average American. The st.
Paul novice could probably learn how
and make a tour of the globe before the
Minneapolis man could nerve himself up
TO the point of venturing out upon the
streets with his machine.
The man who has invested $1,000 or So
600 in an automobile will naturally want
to be its entire master. If he runs off the
tracks and is ditched his machine is
ruined. and he is probably severely in
jured. So it behooves him to learn the
trick thorough and well. and therefore
he gives attention to every detail.
The average American. when he sees an
automobile approaching, either jumps di-
rectly into its path or stands bewildered
in the street The operator never can
tell which way he will turn, and one Of
the most perplexing questions the chauf-
feur has to contend with is what to do
under such circumstances. The best
thing to do is to slow down to walk and
give the pedestrian an opportunity to get
out of the way.