Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-21

has awakened and quickened every
nerve within him-brought the luster
to his eye, the flush to his cheek, and
has filled his mind with the pleasure of
living While it has been accomplish
ing all these miracles on the buyer 1t
has put the seller In the proper mood
for talking up a sale. So every real
estate dealer tries to have his auto
mobile. and some of them have dozens
of these flying dragons
There is a lesson for buyers in the
story of real estate agent in Texas.
He took a prospective buyer in his mo-
tor car to show farm. The ride was
so delightful that the prospect" no
ticed nothing about the distance, think
ing 1t only a few hours ride. Under
that impression he bought the farm.
All was well until he started to drive
to his farm for the first time. He
found it so far away that he had to
stop for the night en- route, and he
didn't complete the journey until the
evening OF the second day.
Even the famous COW pony and his
fearless rider are beginning to yield, be-
fore the onslaughts of the automobile.
Romancers may rage and authors
imagine vain things, but the chugging
motor car has taken the place of the
bucking broncho and the begoggled
chaffeur has succeeded the lasso- throw
ing cowboy A Western ranchman has
given the automobile a thorough try
ing-out in cattle herding, and also
sheep herding, and pronounces 1t an
unqualified success. recent automo-
bile journal prints some pictures of the
new evangel of cattle herding. In
them one sees a wealthy ranchman
entertaining n house-party of city
friends, and they enjoy the eXcitment
of the roundup in a dozen machines.
These things have tended to add to
the popularity of the automobile, and
with an active advertising propaganda
behind machines in general and each
machine in particular 1t is little Won
der that automobiling is making great
strides in popular favor. This popu-
larity finds expression in the many en-
tries In all of the shows scheduled. IT
also finds expression in the number of
automobile manufacturers now engaged
| in the business, of whom there are
nearly three hundred. Likewise, it
finds expression in the action of the
carriage manufacturers of the coun-
| try who, at their recent annual meeting
in Washington, decided that they must
look to the automobile business as
| their salvation
Thanks to the automobile the good
roads crusade has reached its highest
point this year. The great New York
Atlanta endurance run, christening the
| thousand mile national highway, of
which Major John S. Cohen. managing
editor of the Atlanta journal is the
father, sets new mark in the auto
mobilists propaganda for good roads.
1t is said that there are two million
| miles of roads In the United States,
and that less than seven per cent of
them are improved. 1t would require
/ only $50, 600 miles of good roads to
parallel every mile of railroad In the
United States. and what a paradise
| for automobilists 1t would make of
| this country. Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, and New Jersey have established
comprehensive good-road systems;
New York will spend fifty million dol
! lars in the making OF good roads; and
California is considering n scheme to
connect every county seat by sys-
| tenn of macadam roads.
| In the recent New York-Atlanta run
an incident which occurred In little
town Just outside of Atlanta served TO
| show the spirit of the Cracker state
toward the visiting automobilists. AS
the party ran into this town a flaming
sign greeted them commanding that
they slow down to ninety-six miles an
| hour while passing through the town.
Every driver gave the town a cheer.
Automobile contests are of almost In
finite variety. There are economy runs
in which the cost of operation is tested,
! dust-raising runs in which the success
IN preventing CLOUDS OF aust is tne
issue at stake, sealed bonnet contests in
which the hand of the operator cannot
be placed on the machinery without
penalization, stopping contests In which
the prize goes to the machine that can
stop within the shortest distance when
going at a given speed, nonstop runs,
hill climbing contests. anti-skidding
contests and eccentric gymkhana con-
tests. These and many other contests
have regular rules laid down for hold
ing them, and have the approval OF
the courts Of last resort in the auto
mobile world-the great national and
international associations.
Tomorrow-A Notable Bieentennlal.