The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-25

away horse ran into his machine. It was hard to tell which was more battered and smashed. the auto or the horse. At any rate the owner of the horse has brought a suit for damages to his horse and the automobilist will bring d coun- ter-suit. It is the old case of Bullam vs. Boatam. Bulam's bull got into Boatam' s boat and chewed the wisp of hay that held it to the dock. The boat and the bull sailed away together and were lost Bullam sued Boatam for damages for carrying his bull away and Boatam brought a counter suit for the loss of his boat.
 A well known automobile owner re- gently kept a record of the cost of oper- ating his touring car. It was an average machine and he ran it many thousand miles, then divided his total outlay by the number of miles travelled, and found that to run it cost him $1.27 per mile Automobile bargain hunters recently had a glorious opportunity in San Francisco Two wealthy autoists made a wager. the one betting that he could get approxi- mately what his high power machine was worth at public auction. The machine was worth about S15,000, yet the best bid the auctioneer could get out of his crowd was $40 Of course, the fellow lost his bet and his car too.
 Automobile manufacturers are marvel ling at the growth of the export business America is doing in the automobile line. If exports for the full year keep up as well as they have for the first nine months. there will have been $3,0OO 900 worth of autos exported during 1907. This is approximately double the business of 1906 The American manufacturers, how ever, are sore on Ambassador Reid just now. Americas representative at the Court of St. James has a fine French car, and every automobile journal in America is dressing him up and down for not pat ronizing home industries.
 Autoists are determined that if they do not hear Gabriel's horn of Biblical lore on wonder side the pearly gates they will hear it on this side. So many of them are eoupping their machines with the siren of this very name. It is an affair with a number of chime horns and a keyboard resembling that of piano. While one of the party Is at the wheel another. if he be a pianist. can be reel ing off music by the yard. The effect of a machine running thirty miles an hour and giving a piano performance at the same time is rather startling, and is said to cause every farmer in that vicinity to stop and listen. An Amer ican consul abroad figures out that Amer ican automobile travellers annually part with $24.O00,0O0 in expenses in Europe. He says that there are now 5000 touring parties in Europe, and that they aver age five to the party. He estimates their expenses at $10 a day each, which would make s400000 a day. Counting the motor ing season in Europe at only 60 days, their expenses would be $24,000,000 a year.
 A worlds record in automobiling was recently established by Prince Borghes of Italy. who made the trip from PeSn to Paris in 60 days This involved the cross ing of all Asia and it's mountains and a trip from one end of Europe to the other. Not many years ago the party which crossed the American continent from New York to San Francisco, was thought to have done something wonder ful. Now it is being done almost every day in the year. F.. IT. Shackleton, the explorer. is planning to reach the South Pole in automobiles especially built for work on snow or ice. His expedition will leave New Zealand in January and dividing in three parties will break trails across the ice fields in their new vehicles
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