The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-10
WILD MOTORING
ENOUGH FOR HIM
CARL WALLAUE's LIGHTNING
CONDUCTOR TOO STRENUOUS.
Trip from Willmar in Pouring Rain
Was Like a Nightmare, with Runa-
way Farm Horses, Frantic Farmers
and Skidding Autos Combined in One
Awful Phantasmagoria.

Representative Carl Wallace of the
forty district is telling a high
hair adventure story today to all his
friends. 1t ends with: /" Now, if any Of
your friends want to give you 100
mile automobile ride thru the country
in the rain, just duck -
Saturday afternoon, when the sun
was working overtime trying to make
the birds and bugs and little fowerlets
think it was summer time again, Carl
and friend yclept Piper started for
Green lake, near Willmar, MINI, in a
forty-horsepower gasolene rig. The
roads were fine and the juice was feed
ing right, and the 100 miles was made
in a little over four hours The real
adventure began at am. yesterday,
when the outfit started to make the re.
turn trip. XII
"It looked like rain,' says Carl,
"but we started, and as long as we
were travelling southeast we kept ahead
Of it. We could see it coming behind
us, but we just kept her wide open and
ran into Litchfeld for breakfast as dry
as a whistle. The rain got to us before
we had finished our repast, and then
our troubles began.
"Our first adventure was with a
horse. We saw the rig mile away
and noticed that the driver was doing
some quick work trying to turn. we
got within quarter Of mile, and
then the horse made strong start in
the other direction. The old farmer
who was driving slid after him thru
the mud for a while, and then let go.
H. Picked Up the Farmer.
"We picked up the farmer and start
ed out to hunt the horse. The farmer
could talk no English, but I somehow
had an idea from his actions and utter
ances that he was nervous and excited
on. In trying to make a sharp turr
he had skidded on bridge over thu
Great Northern tracks and was dow1
and out. He had slid to one side ant
his feet were dangling over the bridge
rail. We managed to extract him ant
put the outfit together, and started th'
owner back toward Litchfeld.
"We were running down into Cokatt
when, bing! without any notice, th'
machine began to turn handspring
sideways over the road. I couldn
see any occasion for it and said so, bu
Piper assured me that all well-regulate'
machines are likely to skid on wet
slippery hills. We landed at the foo
of the hill with the machine pointed u
and it made seven turns doing it..
| "The next skidding operations wer
in a narrow road and we ended up il
| the ditch. We finally found a farme
who hooked up a couple Of plow horse
and pulled us out. I wish we had cal
ried the horses with us for future. use
but we did not. After several othe
adventures we reached Maple Plain an
decided to hike across country to Min
netonka, and get to the good boulevar
roads where we would have better foot
ing on the gravel. We were almos
there, when we struck hill, which W
afterwards found was newly graded. B
actual count we went into l,017 holes
and then syhen we went out on tn
mired. This time the farmer had mule
to pull us out. The mules saw us
dry ground again, and at last we &c
back to Minneapolis. Modesty 70:
bids me to tell how wet we were or no,
we looked. We reached Mi'nneapol
about 4:30 pm. alive, very wet an
muddy and hungry as BEARS"