The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-08

squirting the victim to seek the unat-
tainable.
Supplies Humanity's Great Craving.
Il don't mean to rail at the auto
mobile. | am not even saying that
in itself, used in moderation, 1t IS a
harmful factor. 1t is the old story OF
abuse"
There have been many automobile
romances and not few tragedies OF
the whiz wagon in Chicago and It's
suburbs as we'll as in the smaller
cities of Illinois and Indiana. There
have been so many elopments 10
Crown Point by automobile that one
of the machines in auto row is stlll
pointed out as the clippers car.
Among Chicago society people VINO
have gone honeymooning by automo-
bile are Joseph Letter and his bride,
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson Armour, the
bride being Elsa Parker, and Miss
Clara Herrick, who married Arthur
Hevemeyer, a cousin of the late sugar
king. While the Letters were on their
honeymoon their chauffeur was ar
rested at Kenlworth for speeding and
was fined in the local court.
Miss Natalie Duell's romantic eIope
ment with Mr.. Douglas has not been
forgotten. The couple went all the
way from Cleveland to New York II
. a touring car and thence to Europe
: in a liner. The wireless message
: which came, back announcing then
+ marriage was the first word that was
| received.
g Among the tragedies of the automo
d bile are the hundreds of deaths tina
S occur every year, most of them beln'
e due to the carelessness of the driver
k or the high speed at which the ma
n chimes are driven. The milllonalr
r automaniacs who go plunging throug
It the country not only kill and MAR
the strangers passing along the roa
a but themselves fall victims to thei
is own craze for speed.
II. Tragedies Have Been Many.
l ,'e One of the latest tragedies of thi
u kind was that which caused the deaf
y of G. Winthrop Sands, a stepson
w. K. Vanderbilt near his count1
10 home. 20 miles from Paris, on July 3
10 of this year. Mr.. Sands was drlvlr
Al his own machine, and his chauffeu
3 who was with him, estimated II
nc speed at rs miles an hour. One
Vi the tires blew up, the machll
81 skidded and struck tree, bound'
ah against another tree, which it literal
I'll climbed, falling back with its unft
as tunate owner beneath it.
~ Almost instantly the car burst in
flames, and Mr.. Sands was frightful
burned before he could be rescue
The chauffeur was not seriously
in. jured, but Mr., Sands was killed
en- This is another story that is rete
his. almost every day in the neWspape
,es with infinite variations, but alwa
no. the same sad theme-reckless spec
it'll ing. Sometimes there are women
nut the car, sometimes children, sacrific
.ial TO the craze for going faster.
The automobile also has been
to central figure in, many criminal
ma fairs, one of the most notable bel
en-, the Dove" case of Chicago, VIII
CHI still remains an impenetrable mystf
zen and which is familiar to all news
yer per readers.
on One of the oldest cases of auto1
bile stealing was that which occur
mo-. in Chicago this summer. A man h
and who seemed determined to go to
hon Pacific coast stole a $4,000 mach
from a Chicago firm and two mon
~. later they caught him, still with
Ivy machine, in Independence, Ore.
,ns' was Jailed in the Oregon town WI
nv reouisition papers were being
.ne cured. The Chicago firm was wait
= ~ for his return here when word ca
an that he had broken out of jail,
"a stolen the machine and whirled W
"u ward At the last report he had
nos' beep heard from, but doubtless
'he ceeded in making his way to
!. . coast.
IL Some Notable Victims.
J of 49,
the During the year 1907 there were
Rod norted a total of 1858 automo
is casualties-324 deaths and 1,244
IN GUS injuries. AS in previous y
over there was a large number of not
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