Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-23
THEIR AUTO NOW
4 PILE OF ASHES
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Quartet Of Bluecoats Come to
Grief Near State
Prison.
DREAM OF WEALTH ENDED.
They We're Going to Invest in Il Par.
eel of Lnnd--But They Invent
Seen IT Vet.

Their automobile burned to Il cindef,
Lieut.. John Hempel5of thu police de-
partment, Patrolman Davidson, Jailcr
Ripley and Bicycle Officer Dan Grund-
Wig found themselves stranded att
Twelfth South and Eleventh East
streets at noon today. At IL O'clock
they had a minor automobile accident
when their hind tire exploded al the
city and county building a few minutes
after their departure from the police
STATION. Another tire was soon i'll
place, however, and the journey Was
resumed, only to end in disaster far
away from their official homes.
Their hearts pealng high in hope With
the prospect of impending aftiuencc, the
quartet hired an automobile this morrt-A
ing from the Whte-Savage Autorno-
bile company, chauffeur and all. to go
out to inspect some valuable acreage
about one mile east and south OF tie
state prison. Tho real estate was dirt
cheap in the words of the prospective
seller and the party formed q COM
munity OF interests to go out to look y,
over They thought that IL 1t Twas T.
proposition. of a&dolar down alt dot
lar a month. they might decide tn ;re~
quire the vast tract and plant euWbu
trees on 1t that their appetitese foi
guinho soup might be INDUCED TO the
limit.
But with the prospective rich, as With
the prospective poor, the eastern hofi-
ION does not always reveal the rising
sun of promise. Their hearts palpitat-
ing with glee wer.a not to be permitted
to so pit-a-pat without Interruption
They didn't even see the land they
thought they might buy maybe ana
| perhaps.
EVERYTHING GOES WRONG.
AS they gasolned down the county
| road they We're joyous i'll anticipation
| OF the right of their future storehouss4
| Of wealth. Suddenly, and without warm
| ing there was an oininous sputter--thc
| sparller refused to spark the carburre-
ter to carburret, the nluftler to muftlt:
| and the horn to honk. q complication
| Of automobile diseases that would even
rake factory advertisement declare
| impossible.
| Lieut.. Henpel being given to embona-
! point, suggested that Jailer Ttirsey
suulnt at the keel of the confoundad
vessel-Hempers brother being a sea
captain, he could think of no other
4 words to use FOR the nonce. Ripley
4 obeyed his superior in hisswell known
| way and just as he was doing 50. q sse NJ
erous quantity of oil besrattered his
countenance and he reiterated. 8
Then the machine burst into flames.
I 1t was seen that the affair was hope
less. The fire department from No. >
station was called. but before the aEril
| got We'll on the wires, the pile of cifi-
| ders in the middle of the road was the
only thing TO mark the spot where the
trip had ended.
The party, however, took the accident
good naturedly-it viii be remembered
! they had only rented the machine.
| Lieut. Henpel notified Sergeant Silas
Smith Of the accident by telephone and
| he sent messenger to the scene with,
catfare. 50 that the quartet could re-
! turn home in the plebian street car,