Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

week. Both are we'll known cars and will
be popular in this territory.
Kimball has received his 1910 model Stew
ens-Duryea and Cadillac. h big Stevens
is the car in which the president will ride
tomorrow, the property of Mr.. Arthur
Smith.
Another shipment of Auburns has come
and gone. The Omaha Automobile COM
pany expects the Rider-Lewis during the
coming week.
w. D.. Hosford, manager Of the automo-
bile department Of the John Deere Plow
company, returned from Lincoln last week,
where he exhibited the velie.
William S. Hathaway, district manage
Of the Maxwell-Brisco company of Kansas
City, will be in Omaha this week to make
some arrangements looking to the opening
Of his new garage on Farnam. Mr.. Hatha-
way is reported to be worth more after a
half dozen years in the automobile game
than any man in this section.
c. A. Whitaker, sales manager of the
Studebaker cars OF Kansas City, is expected
in Omaha during Ak-sar-Ben In the inter
est of the Il. NJ. F.
Manager Side OF the Buick agency Of
Lincoln expects to lave the Buick in stock
In Omaha during the coming month.
Colonel Deright announces the arrival OF
the 1910 Stoddard- dayton. He said that
this is one of the cleanest, most forceful
and powerful pieces OF machinery ever
produced by the Dayton people. These cars
will attract attention during Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival.
The big Stevens driven last week in
the Sioux City parade was in charge of
Nelson, who has made a reputation for
driving that car.
He was a stout man and ran for about
all that he was worth to get out Of the
way of a two-cylinder car. Then he
brushed his brow and said: That would
have been tho most ridiculous incident Of
my life-to have been run over by the
smallest car in Omaha"
Here is the way Nesman, the record
breaking man, said it. Nesman
Is the man who drove the Duryea
like a bullet at Ormond Beach. This was
the day that hands went up by the thou
sands and the thousands of threats gave
out that shout never to be forgotten by
the man who won the race: Goodness, 1
didn't know it. She went along like a
bird, / didn't have the goggles. The wind
was splitting my eyes, but you see the
dust gets on the glass and I'm Just afraid.
to tell the truth. I wouldn't wear EN-.
once I looked back and saw the fellows
coming. I moved up the spark and went
on. l kept the lead awhile then, and II
was no trouble. After that the fellows
began to give theirs speedTpowerful speed.
l heard 'em coming. l listened at my car.
She was moving smooth as a whistle. 1
wasn't alarmed at all. l knew that she'd
treat me fair and square II 1 was only
good to her. Just TO humor her l said,
Hit 1t up now, sis'-mind you, she was
doing some better than sixty now. I ran
my finger along the spark to the last.
Man, that car looked as If she was human.
1 seemed TO hear her say, plain as any
thing, Come on, I'm hard to follow and,
sir, she left the track a foot. She Just
doubled up like a jack rabbit-got a reg
ular hump in her back. and the engine
barked like a coyote coming. l said in my
thoughts, 'fraid to speak, Well, II we go
down, wen go down flying Then was
when the Vanderbilts and Goulds and
them threw up their hats. They saw that
my car was invincible and they told me so
afterward. Won? Well, l should say. Here's
my picture at the time. Amt / sailing p