New-York tribune., 1908-08-16
Mem and WIDELY Prevalent IncurabLe Malady


was in hot pursuit on horseback, and married
her right III the automobile, with the clergy
man standing alongside the road Last March
Thomas D Piner and Miss Henrietta Dubois
down in North Carolina. went them one better ana
were married in a touring car gong at tul speed
along shell road.
ING their grain the mill in motor cars Up IN
Cromwell, Connecticut, milk kman IS serving MS
customers in machine AutofnooIe hunss
men are hunting deer IN the AdrondackS ana
shooting prairie chickens on the Kansas prairles
In New York the official dog catcher has the
disease and pursues stray mongrels in a motor
car Columbus Indiana, has duel IN automo-
bi1es. and automobile burglars have become an
old story They are building houses with auto
mobile entrances. and bury1ng people with motor
hearses.' At least two 1liustrlouS victims OF the
disease are planning reach both the North ami
the South Poles in automobiles
This summer probably ten thousand American
victims are touring Europe in their machines You
will find them scattered all along the highways OF
England, whirling through the picturesque villages
of the south of France, bowling merrl!y along tne
canals of Holland climbing the mountains OF SPAN
But when they come back, ask them what they have
We made a bully run from Paris to Monte
Carlo this one will tell you
The garages IN Germany don come up 70 o"'9'
another will observe
Ask them about castles and ruins and pictures ana
scenery and peasants. They do not know that such
+hinos exist The speed madness into which their
aI1to7nohiliousness has developed takes cognlzance
only of speedometers and roads and garages =.
ease i the reckless disregard its victims have tor the
law Magistrate Crane of New York IN h1nn9 Il
chauffeur asserted that eighty per cent OF autoo-
bist were persistent and fragrant v1oaorso OF the ia"
The Church Takes 1t Up
THE church. too has recognized the grow OF the
/ disease The Rev DR. Frederick 4. Gould OF
Worcester Massachusetts, preached sermon aoouI
il taking as his text what Nahum wrote seven nun
dred wears before Christ:
The chariots shall the streets the & shall @ Jst gs5
one against another the broad ways ttE Sid seem
Ike torches they shall like the hghtnngs
The CLERGYMAN had been nearly run down himself
and after he had described the PerllS OF reckless
automobing he poured hot shot INTO the auto
One noticeable fact" he said, =" IS the strange
spirit cf indifference the rights OF others autoo
hino seems to cultivate. We talk about the speed
mania in automobing, and that there IS ttSclflt
+;n- - i that tempts many take great risks IS
havond question; but it tempts to moral risks as
well 1t is a notorious oabDath DreakHIe SP'ii
Thousands now spend Sunday IN automoolil1s VINO
formerly reverenCed the day OF God: OF al iei9I
crent mart of it in worship and church attendance
Another moral phase of It IS that multl'udeS are
purchasing automobiles who cannot al1ord u 40 It.
it is one of the most expensive iuAuIlgS u Iui "a
and many spend money for high priced machines at
tbe vI.nse of their grocer and dry goods merchant
and at the sacrifice of benevoienceS ana the cliUioH
In one city of moderate size hftY men Hort8a8ed
their homes within two months 10 set Iron! ~ ~;
automobiles. ana III d SIlI0iieA Ii'NN N-
the same thing
Even children are victims of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
An official of the New ork society ior 'ne X
yenton of Cruelty to Children says. ,,,
I,r.d from home and we often find that an autono-
bile has PLAYED part IN the chld ulSd
Fxnerience is proving that the automobile Is an II
rac!It;tIa hait 10 children Jump in and have Il
ride is an invitation that succeeds where candy anu
all other inducements would simply repei-
That women are specially subject to autoho-
biliousness Is recognized by Harriet oiStoll "''
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