Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-14
AUTO RECORD IS ESTABLISHED
 IN C|TY
B. M. PattiSon Makes DiavoIo's Looping Loop Look Like Ride In a Baby PerambuIator- Other Incidents.

Within twenty minutes after B. Nj.
 Pattison's new automobile had been
 unloaded from the freight car ycster- day afternoon all records for disturb
 ances caused by. chug wagons had
 been broken, and it was only by streak of supreme good luck that Pat
 tison himself arrived at his residence
 in good condition. J. T. Hood and
 E. W. Spiers had also been scheduled
 to go against the worlds record for
 benzine buggy disturbances, but night fell before the former could get into | action. and the latter was prevented from driving his machine into the
 parlor of a private residence in Lowell
 by an untimely pucture in one of his tires.
 The word had gone the rounds yes, terday that the first shipment of Max well peace dfSturbers had reached the city. and forthwith a meeting of the local association of chauffeurs was called to determine who would be the first to shake dice with death. There
 was a dread silence as the names of Chauffeurs Pattison, Hood and Spiers
 were announced by the death watch. The three victims proceeded to the
 starting point which was near the ice
 plant in Lowell, and there drew lots
 to see who would be the first one of
 the three to take issue with a formid-
 able looking telegraph pole. The
 buck fell to Pattison, So putting on
 his goggles. long coat and automobile
 cap. he bade his friends goodbye, with the exception of those who re-
 fused to leave him to his fate and
 insisted on riding with him. and then proceeded tu make Diavolo's looping
 the loop look like ride in a paU, carriage. r-e71 t. '.rgaE ae-.-r Pattison shut his teeth, closed his
 eyes, gave the throttle vicious pull
 and the party was off on the ride for
 life. Accompanying the embryo Bar
 ney Oldfield, were Assistant Chauf- i feur Gibbs and Aloysius Lorenzo Man ahan, the local operatic star.
 There was nothing doing until Main
 street, Lowell, was reached, where, if it had not been for a stone in the road, Pattison would have scored his first point by riding into a jewelry
 store but the driver was compensated l for his failure by seeing two teams
 attached to wagons start climbing telegraph poles. The course then lay along Naco road. and the record made there in three minutes will long be 1 remembered. Seventeen dogs got into ] action with whelping and barking; a team of mules sat back on the seat
 with the driver of delivery wagon; a horse attached. to a delivery wagon
 got one of the wheels mixed up with a telegraph pole: and trotted off with the harness; the buzz wagon sudden ly took a notion, and backing up IaIu low fourteen feet of board fence: Manahan was bounced nine feet in ] the air. the high record; and finally on Slag Dump Hill the city barn
 avoided annihiliation by dodging just in time because Pattison refused to change his course.
 q Crossing the plaza in front of the
 railroad depot, the chauffeur-in-chief turned to converse with Manshan while the machine was running less than forty miles an hour. and would have easily demolished half of the Copper Queen general offices, if it had not been for Assistant Gibbs. who lost his head and turned the steering wheel so that the machine kept in [
 The finish was to have been at the library building, but when the corner
 was reached the machine took a no tion of it's own and sped up on Main street, while Pattison dived under Ins seat to get the book of rules to see
 how it was possible to stop it. The directions had been torn out by some designing person. Gibbs said that he had heard fellow, say once that if you
 would pull back the clutch, jam on the break, let in some more gasoline, blow in the carburator, turn off the water, quicken the sparker, and spit
 on your hands you could stop the ma
 chine. The only trouble with the re- cipe was that the diagram showing
 the names of the various parts of the
 machinery had been lost, so at last
 Manahan was appealed to in the
 search for knowledge. He suggested
 steering up Mason Hill. in the hope | that the mower would not carry the
 machine. This plan was adopted, and
 the course pointed for the hill. At
 last she stopped, and Pattison was
 congratulated on his record by a crowd of friends.