Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-16

Maryland in an automobile while her brother
in hot pursuit horseback. and married
her right in the automobile. with the clergy
man standing alongside the road: Last March,
Thomas D. Piner and Miss Henrietta Dubois,
down in North Carolina. them better and
were married in touring car going at full speed
along a shell road
Out in Kansas automobilious farmers are TAX
ing their grain to the mill in motor cars Up in
Cromwell, Connecticut, mlkman is serving his
customers in machine Automobile hunts;
shooting prairie chickens the Kansas prairies
In New York the official dog catcher has the
disease and pursues stray mongrels in motor
Columbus. Indiana has duel in automo-
biles; and automobile burglars have become
old story. They building houses with auto
mobile entrances, and burying people with motor
hearses. At least two illuStrOuS victims of the
disease planning to reach both the North and
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 merrily along the
canals of Holland climbing the mountains of Spain
But when they come back, ask them what they have
seen and learned
I'VE made a bully from Paris to Monte
Carlo this will tell you
The garages in Germany don't come up to ours
another will observe.
Ask them about castles and ruins and pictures and
scenery and peasants They do not know that such
things exist. The speed madness into which their
acknowledgements has developed takes cognizance
Oh
Another easily recognizable symptom of the dis
is the reckless disregard its victims have for the
law. Magistrate Crane of New York in filming q
chauffeur asserted that eighty per cent of autoro
blsts persistent and fragrant volators of the law
The Church Takes 1t Up
THE church. too, has recognized the growth of the
disease. The Rev DR.. Frederick A Gould of
Worcester. Massachusetts. preached sermon about
it, taking his text what Nahum wrote seven hun
dred years before Christ
The charots shall rage shall
against another the broad they shall
like torches. they shall run like the lghtnngs.
The clergyman had been nearly run down himself
and after he had described the perils of reckless
automobiling he poured hot shot into the auto
mobilious.
'One noticeable fact" he said lis the strange
spirit Of Indifference to the rights of Others automo
billing to cultivate We talk about the speed
mania in automobling, and that there is fascna-
ton in it that tempts many to take great risks
beyond question: but it tempts to moral risks
we'll 1t is a notorious Sabbath breaking sport.
Thousands now spend Sunday IN automoblling who
formerly reverenced the day of God; or at least
spent a part of it in worship and church attendance.
Another moral phase of it is that multitudes
purchasing automobiles who cannot afford to do 1t.
1t is of the expensive luxuries of day.
and spend money tor high priced machines al
the expense of their grocer and dry goods merchant
and the sacrifice of benevoences and the church
In city of moderate size fifty men mortgaged
their homes within two months to get money to buy
automobiles. and in a smaller place twenty-nne did
the thing.
Even children are victims of automobiliousress.
An official of the New York Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children says:
I'VE have investigate many cases of children
lured from home and we often find that automo-
bile has played part in the chids disappearance
Experience is proving that the automobile Is an II
resistible bait to children lump in and have a
ride is an invitation that succeeds where candy and
all other inducements would simply repel-"
That women specially subject to automo-
biliousness is recognized by Harriet Johnston Nood
an eminent woman lawyer.
In the fascination the automobile has for