The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-08
NO LONGER LURES.
MOTORING LOSES CHARM
FOR M'CARTER'S GUESTS.
After Making Fourteen Miles in Twelve
Hours, Newark Enthusiasts Decide
Train Is Good Enough for Them.

Three enthusiastic Automobiles of this
city have ceased to love the purr of four
cylinders or the honk Of the auto morn.
They don't love 1t any more because of
the trying experiences they had Saturday
night just after leaving the home OF
Thomas N. McCarter near Red Bank.
The aforetime enthusiasts are G. Wash
Davis. Freeholder Frank Smith and Court
S~tenographer Jesse r. Salmon. who made
up a party to run down to Mr.. McCarter's
country home Saturday afternoon, In the
auto of a friend whose name is kept a
deep secret and whose colored chauffeur
was taken along for safety in the guidance
OF the high powered machine.
The pleasure seekers left the city about
! o'clock and journeyed down to the sea-
side home OF the president Of the Public
Service Corporation in leisurely fashion,
giving them time to make a pleasant visit
on their boat. They left the McCarter
acres about Z o'clock, believing that the
enjoyment already recorded for the day
would be greatly enhanced by the evening
and night drive home.
Half a mile from the start, at a place
called Farihann. however, the first of a
long series Of b~reakdowns occurred. One
OF the inner tubes collapsed, and It cost $40
and two hours of waiting for repairs to
be made. This was a mere incident to the
three auto enthusiasts, as they said to
each other:
"Oh, well. we're bound to be up against
AZ thing like this, don't you know" quite
in the real automobillsts' own style.
The party left Farihann at 3 o'clock.
with everything shipshape, and the whirr
of the engines perfect in rhythm. Two
three, four miles out, everything was o.
IA than cnddaplt- urban fhp naarpGt IN rim
house was a mile away, the recently re-
paired tire puffed out with a mighty puff,
and the car slid along on three legs for
fifty feet, before the brakes could be APP
piled. The slide cut through the outer
shoe and the party was hopelessly stalled.
the chauffeur having failed TO bring along
his repair kit.
The three enthusiasts gazed at each
other when the situation became plain to
them. The car could not be run on the
rim of the wheel over the rough roads
and the only thing that could give them
temporary aid was rope, and plenty of 1t.
There was no help for it, they had to do
it. Rope was obtained. The farms for a
mile around were visited and barns en-
tered at midnight without the owners
knowledge.
With the game wheel wrapped in many
LAYERS of clothesline and odds and ends
of heavier rope, the machine STARTED again
close to / o'clock Sunday morning. BY this
time the three auto enthusiasts were say
ing little. but evidently were thinking a
mighty lot Of thinks. incidentally, the
mosquitoes of South Jersey had located
the North Jersey bloods and were after
them.
Three miles the automobile plodded on,
the chauffeur guiding it carefully to pre-
vent a more serious mishap, when the
sparker failed.
This proved to be the limit. Adjectives
of Latin. German and French origin and
pure bandit English drove off the pur-
suing cloud of insects for a brief Interval,
and then the party got out and proceeded
TO investigate.
IN all my 'speriences'' remarked the
chauffeur.
Col darn your 'speriences,' interrupted
the Freeholder. Isn't this experience
enough for you? We don't want to hear
ANYTHING of anyone else's troubles, we've
enough here"
Say, boss, will you shoe does mosqui-
toes often my face while rs worlkin'?'
asked the chauffeur. a little later as he
endeavored to adjust the plug.
1t was long after 9 O'clock before this
trouble was adjusted, and as they took
their seats the chauffeur
In all my 'speciences Is never had
Stow it!'' Numbered a chorus of three.
1t was Z O'Clock when the party arrived
at M%attawan, fourteen miles by road from
the McCarter place. The autoists figured
1t up as twelve hours from the start and
fourteen miles gained, or about one mile
and a sixth an hour.
w could push the gol darned thing
backward double the distance in half the
time declared the Freebooter, while
Wash Davis stood aside and addressed
himself to a strictly personal vocabulary
of sentiments on the advisability of pur-
chasing a 'four-cyllnder machine that
runs like a watch"
The machine finally run down for good
on the south-boupd tracks while the party
was crossing at the Mattawan station, and
Wash Davis was chagrined when he found
no. train was due so that it could get a
good bump.
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