The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-21
HOW CHAUFFEURS GET
TO Be EXPERT DRIVERS
Test Automobiles for Three or
Four Months and Then
Hire Out.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, April 20.-Would you
take a job as chauffeur at 800
month to begin withl
Well, then, let us visit this automo-
bile factory.
Ever been inside an auto factory7
busy place. The superintendent
says that every kind of metal worker
known to modern industry is necessary
IN making an automobile, except one
the jeweler. He may be needed on the
job tomorrow. They hire all kinds,
from grimy old Vulcan, the blacksmith,
down to toolmakers. There arc uphol-
sterers, too. and leather workers, and
painters, and experts who finish in var.
nish, and carriage makers. And ma
chinery! 1t runs from steam hammer
striking one blow per second down to
the pneumatic hammers whose utter
ance sounds like "B-r-r-r-r-r-r--rrp. -
There are boring machines that trim the
inside Of cylinders with a motion so
eccentric that it would make one s head
ache to watch them long, which in the
most left-handed, foolish and futile way
imaginable you would say. finish the
interiors of those same cylinders in
thousandths of an inch
But let take look around the
grounds
An automobile factory has to have
lots OF outdoors.
This one we are visiting is up the
Hudson, at Tarrytown. Last year it
turned out the second largest number
of cars In this countryside Of them
That s nothing, says the superintendent
wait till they get their new factory
finished out in Indiana, with its capa-
city for 10000 cars year. Then they
may be able to keep up with orders. A
very optimistic person-he doesn t seem
to think the automobile is going to be a
fad. like the bicycle.
Wander over the grounds outside this
factory. An old estate, looking right
out onto the river, and with views |
worth n hundred dollars year per
pupil to young ladies' school. You
can get some notion of how the country
hes by reading THE Legend of Sleepy
this is the country of the S'Headless
Uorseman himself, and not so very
far up the river old rip went to
sleep, and not a gunshot away Irving |
sleeps himself, sounder than Grip A !
country all up hill and down dale. with |
boulders strewed around in profuse
way by reckless glaciers, and roads that
run every way except straight ahead
Say, mister Where do / get that
Job al a hundred month?
Wait! and let a fellow tell his story
his own fashion.
The superintendent S automobile
wbizzes you around the grounds and
the town, and as you go you meet many
other automobiles for that part of the
country. They come toward you on the
road and slip up behind, too. Sometimes
they go around if your driver gives
them the road. Usually lie doesn Z give
an inch But they turn sharply up the
bank and 90 off through the fields. Just
look at that fellow out there among
them in the toughest way Imaginable.
and seems TO be irving 10 do some of
the stunts of the % Headlcss uorseman'
himself. Geel next thing he II be climb
ing telegraph pole.
Funny automobiles they are, when
you come to look close No shiny brass
work, no easy cushions, no body at all,
IL fact, but inst a rough seat fitted onto
Il skeleton running gear-the chassis.
Lots of grease and plenty of dirt on
ma chine and driver.
One of them climbs down hill that
would be stiff going for burro, cuts a
few fancy figures in the road and stops.
The greasy driver gets out, thinkers
moment with the mechanism and goes
on again. Up around the factory there
arc half dozen halted for repairs, each
driver busy with oil can and wrench.
New ones come up, chuff-chuff -chuif.
AS soon as things are fixed, they 20
zipping away again, There must be two
or three dozen OF them scattered about
that par of the country.
What are they doingl
Testing and adjusting new machines
Before you put down your $1,000, or
$1,000 or $4,000 for a shiny new auto
mobile, II is run around recklessly by
these young men, experimentally. Each
machine makes several hundred miles
before it leaves the factory. When the
engine is assembled they set 1t agoing
inside, and just as soon as the chassis
is on wheels, then the young men take