The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-26
1t May Soon Be Necessary to
Establish a Garage at the
Staid Old Village.
SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES
OWNER AND HE NOW SEEMS
FULLY IN CONTROL LACEY
AND WILLIAMS BUY.

Fountain City, Ind, May 25-Staid
| old Newport is rapidly getting the au
tomobile fever. 1t may soon be neces
| sary to establish a garage. The first
| to venture ON the uncertain sea OF
motor vehicles was Ed Shute, the en-
terprising machinist and vender OF
Edison records, who quietly slipped a
motor cycle into town last year and
startled the residents of the back
streets with its sharp and insistent
coughing. This year he seems to
have his fiery steed we'll under con
troll and goes right out on the pike
with it when occasion demands or for
the benefit of those from Missouri.
| Early this spring our genial Rural
reuters, Bert Lacey and Frank Will
| liams, suffered acute attacks of auto
mobilitis, brought on by reading &C
counts of how mail was being deliv-
cred by other r. F. d. men in automo-
biles. The disease got beyond con-
troll, and nothing but Orient buck
boards would appease them, SO now
every fine day these two little chug
wagons are brought up before the gov
e1Hl1eHLs DullulHS WHERE tuey are eA-
amined and commented upon by the
crowd of citizens who always gather
to witness the distribution of mail, I'M
til the smiling repre- SentativeS of I'm
Gle Samuel emerge and with that easy
Indifference born Of exclusive posses
sion, exchange some unintel1igible re-
mark about switch or spark" or
''carbureter,' and proceed to crank
'em up Then with the ease and
grace of turtle doves, they start out
on their flights over the devious
windings of routes 26 and 81.
Some queer stories come in over the
wires. They do say that Frank has
to get out and push up every hill and
that one day plain ordinary pune
ture caused him to walk for four
miles delivering mail and calling loud
ly every ten rods rSa~bicycle pump,
horse and wagon and trail in. It is
also stated that Bert has to creep
along the side of the least road" at a
mile an hour with the machine at an
angle of 40 degrees in order to keep
from being jolted over into the next
field. but all of these rumors are at
tributed to what the telephone fell
lows call "cross-talk'
The latest addition to the list is our
enterprising liveryman. Earl Smith
who has contracted for machine to
be delivered in June, which will be
added TO his already fine equipment
for the accommodation of the trav-
cling public. This machine is SINH
lar to that owned by Prof kamp of
Richmond, who stood it in EarTs
barn each week while visiting the
schools here. and gave him the idea
of its practical utility as livery We
hicle.
Several other citizens are showing
symptoms more or less aggravated
and il is very probable some of these
will break OUT before the season is
over
The pioneer in the automobile bust
ness here has however been omitted
possibly owing to his remarkable rec
ord His machine has been in opera
ton several years but he has never
had a puncture. never had transmits
sion chain to break, or a sparker .or
carbureter TO get out of order, has
never been arrested. or even threaten
ed for exceeding the speed limit and
always gets where he starts and
comes back under his own power His
machine is a Black Steamer, he gen.
orally pulls one or two trailers, and
his name is Frank Hunt. thresherman