Arizona republican., 1909-12-17
GEORGE MITCHELL BUYS
 B0mp-9R00F AUTO
IT WAS MADE FOR PRINCE oR-
 LoFF OF RUSSIA.
Equipped With Rapid Fire Guns It Would Resemble a BattIeship
 on Wheels

Although George Mitchell has
 lever had his life threatened by an-
 rchists and those who make the
 cad that wears the crown as uneasy
 .s they know how. yet today he
 $ the owner of the only bullet and
 Homb proof automobile in this coun-
 ny. The huge car which is more
 Ike a battleship on wheels than an automobile. was purchased by Mir
 Mitchell from the Panhard company. turing his recent visit abroad. The ar was ordered by Prince Orloff, a
 nember of the czar's family, who re used to accept it because he thought he steel armor in which it is en- ,ased. was not thick enough to pro- ,ect him against the new dynamite nombs the nihilists have been using If late The car is now on the way Co San Francisco and will be sent rom there to Mir. Mitchell at Los Angeles.
 George Mitchell went abroad last summer to interest foreign capital in the Clara Consolidated Mines. of which he is manager. While in Paris, he visited the Panhard fac tory and was shown the car. which only requires Hotchkiss guns fore and aft to turn it into an armoured cruiser Mitchell took fancy to it at once. and expressed desire to take a ride in it.
 The door. which looked like the door to a bank safe, was opened and f,, To only part of his person visible to the outside world was the crown of his hat. There were peek holes below through which he could view the scenery After riding about in the bomb proof car for while. he told the polite French salesman that he would take the car; that 1t was just what he had been looking for for a long time. They appeared sur prised. They bowed low. removed their hats and apologized. After that one of them addressed him as My Lord" and the other as Your Highness"
 Mitchell soon discovered that the car with its tripple armor on 1t was going to wear out tires at a rate that would make even a millionaire shudder. Tires have not yet been invented that will bear up all that extra weight without bursting after many miles. MT Mitchell wanted to tour northern Europe with it and decided to brave the throne disturb CTS He had the top works removed and lighter material put in. Then he ran from Paris to Brussels and toured England and Wales.
 In France the car is rated as an so h. D.. which means about lZo in America There is no car like II in this country today It is equipped with an air brake which will bring it to stop almost instantly No American cars are provided with air brakes In addition there are the usual hand and foot brakes. Then there is a little four-foot elevator which raises the heavy body or the car from the chassis The tires are pumped up by a little engine fasten- ed to the car for the purpose.
 lust to show how thoroughly com plete and luxurious the appointments of the car are. it should be men, rioned that there are four cigar lighters at different places in it. If is provided with all sorts Of lights. one of the lamps being as large and powerful as a locomotive headlight
 Another remarkable feature of the car. accessories which only royalty | and George Mitchell have ever pos sessed in their cars before. IS system of musical instruments for the purpose of soaring off differ ent kinds of animals that may be i Ioftering in the road. There is first ! the regular auto horn. Then there IS siren which gives out wall like a lost soul. After that comes what IS known as a dog whistle This in strument produces a sound which | closely initiates a dog fight partici- pated in by a half dozen dogs of | different breeds The dogs run from | it as from an explosion of dynamite. l