The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
NOW, SPEAKING OF COMMUTERS
WHtT 10 VOC THINK OF MN. y. NJ.
WiTKINS or MEMPHISP
The Mount t.Isco "GimIet" Was ''scoOped''
ny a New York Paper. hut II ID the First
to Get the Details Of the Tennessee
Bankers nun Between There and Here.

" lelecPd 10 be the greatest long distance COM
rmter IN The world. MIR. Watkins has a
country home near Mount Kisco, IN West
chester county, and he travels between the
two points in = big automobile, which In prob
;s a. one OF the best equipped machines ever
The machine il 80 horsepower and contains
= writing desk. buffet and a library Of more
than 100 volumes. The banker takes a ste
uographer and typewriting machine with him
land attends to his correspondence en- route.
II takes about six days to make the run
from Memphis 10 Mount Kisco. Ncu York
Times.
MEMPHIS, July 20 Especial to the Mount
hisCo Daily GtmteO Great excitement was
'Bused in this place when the news came
from Mount Kisco that John Watkins is now
committing between here and there. MIR.
Watkins. IL might he added. is the vice.
president OF the Bank of Commerce and
transportation. and ia not only one of the
youngest middle aged men in Tennessee.
but up to the time Mount Kisco was heard
from he held the long distance ommuting
records between here and Nankipoo, up in
lauderdale county, fifty miles from our
city.
Assoon as the Automobile Club of Memphis
heard that Mr. Watkins had added a library,
buffet, photographer and typewriter to his
'automobile "A delegation consisting Of Col.
Eye, Col. Pepper. Major Trimble and Gen.
lee Stude went up TO the Watkins garage
10 see whether the buffet was properly
equipped for one of those six day runs
that the New York Times says he is going
10 make up to Mount kisco, N. Y.
Before the committee started out an
effort was made to fnd out where Mount
kIsco is, but at the local Office OF Rand,
McNally & Co.. is was said that nothing
positive was known about the place. al
though if it is in Ncsichester county. as the
lroh~ dispatches say, it Is probably some
where near ChappaQua and Nalhalla.
TIE committee Xpre ,sed great disap-
routment when NJ Watkins's second butler
sud that the we'll known banker and com
wIter had just started out with his chauf-
eur. stenographar, private secretary library
ot more than 100 volumes, and buffet for
ts summer home. The butler was a little
1 apprehcnsive about the chances that Mr..
Watkins and his stan would get through
safely, because the contractor who has the
job Of keeping the library and buffet stocked
40 turned up with enough ammunition
FIR three literary long distance automobiles
tut he clean forgot about the buffet. But
MIR. Watkins had said that he would take
.FT H'AaNN w Aahh Wv 'hAAtN VII OhNN
RABBIT HASH. Ny, July 3O.-fSpecial
20 The Mount kisco G~imicn-This place,
which is not TO be confused with Rabbit
lars, Col, or Rabbit River, Mich, was
IGNORED to-day 10y the passing through
uC Mr.. J. II. Watkins, the we'll known finan-
cier and automobile enthusiast OF Memphis
Tenn, who stayed here only long enough
to call on Postmaster Wigs for his mail.
Nr. Watkins's secretary and stenographer
were waiting eXpectantly for a big stack
If letters that were ordered forwarded
10 Rabbit Hash, hut as Mr.. Watkins didn't
get anything hut a copy Of the New York
T., 'niIq UGil and the latest issue of tho
Gimlci the secretary started up the electric
~uianola and the stenographer pulled out
her sewing table and went IN with her
lapCy work.
When your correspondent saw Mr.. Wat
X ms he expressed a desire to buy a couple
# billiard tables for h s automobile, and
"e advised him Ia get them across the
Ohio River at Rising sun. Ind. The banker
then oroered his chauffeur TO cut out his
zane Of solitaire on the card table beside
ne pianola and pull out for Rising Sun.
RISING Sun, Ind. July 81 Special to the
Mount Kisco Gimtetl. Some of the best
known ship news reporters between here
and Terry Hutton the Wabash gathered
IN the hanks of the Oh o this morning
! hen il was understood that the Pierce
N'CClOAT0- tHNtOn = Y ora NlprCPIeS- + Ia 4 =
!. Prince Scipio Borghesc long distance com
lnutlng automobile driven By Bankc" John
u. Watkins of Memphis. which il on the
'ay To Mount kisco, was to have an endur-
snce race along the Ohio River with Capt.
elnie Hassenpfefer's Royal Frankfurter
ines S. $. Wabble.
Mr.. watkins, who spent the night here.
wsa down at Rockefeller's cut rate plumb
,nG parlors. hlying private bath tubs for
himself and his chaufeur. secretary and
kIGFO ur9nhaT Wlan tho Dpfn N ~ q m ~ 80
mobile arrived IN the scene equipped
yth IT'S latest fittings, Capt. Hassenpfeffer
trained his binoculars on the car. and was
r'1rd 10 remark through his megaphone:
'Not II isY DO they eggspeQt me TO
r'n races mid dc Nsldorf-Astoria. or iss
: only Marg Dwain's FIT avnoo blaze on
.Dhber dires' De good old dranp steamer
"ahhle, will redire from do races. Yes?"
VIZ. watkins said he wasn't anxious to
~ out the Wahble. any how, because he
fought he could make better time by
cutting across the state Of Indiana han
c.N running along the Ohio River. He
.ooped al the poet office and got the cur
'a"t issue OF the New York Times and the
tr'"irg Mol. and then went on his wav.
i0SHOCToN. Ohio. Aug. Especial TO the
Mount kisco G~imien.-John H.. Watkins.
"'o is committing through here to West
lester county, New York, arrived late last
night, and was the guest at an ice cream
-ooiahle gwen on Mayor Sparker's lawn by
no combined automobile clubs of Coehoc-
TON and GAINESVILLE. In n few fitting re-
marks for which he was called upon, MIR.
Watkins said he expected 10 prove by his
numerous speedy trips between Mount
N'sco and Memphis that he could make
about as quick time az a man who
~ the Erie between Montclair and the
Warren street ferry.
Mayor Sparker, the only man in Coshoc-
on who has been to Montclair on the Erie,
Utmost had apoplexy over this merry auip.
BEFORE leaving Coshocton this morning
lr. Watkins bought a dozen rubber plants
for his auto.
BAGpAD, Pa, Aug. special TO the
Mount kisco GimIeD-The famous long
Instance committing automobile occupied
ny Banker John II. Watkins and staff
arrived here this morning on schedule
s'lme. All our leading citizens were down
~ ~ Buckwheat's general store and post
on"e waiting 10 see Mr.. Watkins stop
on for his mail. There wasn't anything
NV a postal card from Mark Twain. COM
pNnenting him on the attention his oom-
mlt'ng was attracting in the metropolitan
nress; and a copy Of the New York Times
ani The Erening Mail.
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