The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-28

and interest on first cost. For the
season of 1900, barring unusual usage,
The mileage will not be less than
twelve cents per mile. by reason OF a
general overhauling. renewing old
CARTS and the purchase Of a new cas-
ing. The car carries five passengers
and weighs $3.50 pounds exclusive Of
accessories, water, fuel and oil.
Need Of Motor Sense.
A person coming into possession OF
4 motor car. should take matters mild
- for several days. After that time,
his mind, his eye. hands and feet have
become sufficiently trained to act un-
4rringly In an emergency. / have in
iaind, case where prominent Mari
m county man who had just purchased
i. car, and received his knowledge
through the books issued by the manu-
sActurer, was caught In tight place.
II would have been very simple mat
ter to shut off the power and quickly
apply the brakes, but instead, he open
ed wide the throttle and shouted look
out" Fortunately, the man with him
IN the front seat understood the car.
and brought it to stop, but not until
1t had crashed into buggy and wreck
ed 1t. This accident was caused by
the man. not the car. The first day
some men are afraid of their cars. the
second day they think the cars are
afraid OF them, which means that trou-
BILE is due on the third day. To illus
trate this: A local man one day. was
being instructed in the mechanism and
handling OF his car, and his instructor
went over every detail carefully. On
the following day the car was towed
into repair shop with crushed radia-
tor and broken top. The novice had
run the vehicle up an cmbankment and
into q tree. which some one carelessiy
had planted This man only half-di-
gested the instructions. discarding all
the "don'ts" and warnings Of his in
structor. There was no good reason
for such an accident.
A Dangerous Practice.
"A practice most dangerous Is taking
the eyes off the road while driving,
turning the head to speak to ones COM
panions in the tonneau, or to look
down at the mechanism. A little fellow
on Main street one night tagged his
companion with a shout, ran into the
street Immediately in front of ma
chine. II the driver had not been alert
there would have been frightful &C
cident, and mourning in a home. 1t
wAs so sudden and unexpected that
eye-witnesses gasped. Another case
that comes to my mind. was In the
aRth part of town, where a lad was
1p1nning q top. On bad throw. the
tob rolled rapidly into the street, and
the lad, with mind on nothing but the
recovery of his toy, rushed after II.
and when the automobile was stopped
there was hardly space enough LEFT to
nut book. What would have hap
pened IL the driver had not been watch
ing the road.
Then, too. men swing suddenly Off
street cars. and this is another source
OF danger. Women will alight from
car backward, and will not see an
approaching machine. Nine out OF
ten persons crossing Main street, will
look neither to the right nor left, and
as pedestrians have the right-of-w way,
automobiles should always be under
complete control in congested districts,
hut now that airships and balloons are
to the right Of us. and to the left OF us
1t is best to look In every direction, in
GLIDING up and down. before attempt
ing, to cross a street. sack OF bal
last from a balloon would pay no at
tention to speed ordinances In Its
flight to mother earth.
When the balloon carrying Augustus
Post, burst above Berlin, the other
day, he frantically cut away all sacks
Of sand. A mother wheeling child.
happened to glance up. snatched up her
baby and made for a doorway.
heavy sack struck the baby carriage
squarely. flattening it completely.
No Longer Experiments.
Motor cars no longer are expert
ments, and the man who is still wait
ing for it to be perfected before pur-
chasing, will be on the waiting list
twenty years hence.
The question OF tires was the Dlggest
bugbear that once cast shadow over
the benzine crowd. but now the major
ity of drivers think = puncture but q
trivial Incident
No more of gruelling grind could
be imposed on motor car than the
yearly Glidden Tours, under the man
agement of the American Automobile
Association in the interest of the buy
ing public. A car that comes through
this contest with anything near a per-
feet score of 100 points will be worth
looking into by prospective purchas-
ers. / never abuse my car by giving
ii the hard knocks demanded of it in
these events.
Never envy driver of a motor car.
His troubles surely will overshadow
yours. sooner or later, and your heart
should go out to him. A motor. with
out exception. will always act mulish
at the most inopportune time. and
when a car is acting badly. the operat-
or is the most miserable man imagin-
able. 1t is very much like tying ones
feet together and trying to walk.
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