The Newtown bee., 1909-08-27
AUTOMOBILE PARTY HAVE EX'
 CITING EXPERIENCE.
Machine Lands in the Ditch While Chauffeur was Trying to Avoid
 Some 0bliglng Cows.

way store and Allison r. Smlth, Edl- tor of The Bee, by invitation of Mamert Woiceowski, the hustllng and successful farmer of Sugar Street, went in MT Woiceowski's Mitchell car to Lake Quassapaug and Middle bury. At Lake Quassapaug they stopped for luncheon and then went on to Middlebury Center, where they stopped to visit the fine new Vest over school plant of Miss Hilliard. Miss Lamont, the assistant principal, informed the writer the school would open with 122 pupils, and that they were now turning away applicants daily. The party then started for North Woodbury. lney had made the journey through the White Deer Rocks with safety and had emerged on to a level section of road when an accident not on the program took place. Two COWS loomed up on the horizon and in avoiding them the machine skidded into the ditch and in less time than it takes to say Jack Robinson" had jumped cross wise of the road and had crashed into a sandbank and a pile of dry rails. A quick inventory of the situation showed that all four gentlemen had escaped serious injury, but that the car was temporarily out of commits sion, with one front wheel turned partly under and one or two spokes injurued. MT Woiceowski had shut off his engine before the crash. To the credit of MT Woiceowski it may be said that he was as "cool as a cucumber on ice" throughout the trying experience, expressing the sin cere gratitude that all four felt that none of the party had sustained any serious injury. When the crash came MT Smith was thrown against the rail in the car, bruising one knee painfully. On looking over the situ- ation it was decided that Messrs Smith and Steele should "beat it. into North Woodbury tor aid while MT Morris remained to assist MT Woicehowski. A half mile further on they stopped and called on A. R. Gibson, who kindly offered to go back with his team and assist the gentle men. Arriving at North Woodbury the gentlemen repaired to the drug store of H. H. Garfield, who granted them every courtesy possible. First aid to the injured" remedies were applied to MT Smiths wounds. The clergyman had on a pair of stiff new shoes and was iE position himself for a physician after his somewhat lusty' effort to keep up with the scribe as he hustled into North Woodbury. Communication was had at once with c. B. Taylor's residence, who kindly offered to send his car to Woodbury after the brethren in distress. Mean while Messrs Morris and Woiceow- ski succeeded in getting the car back into the road and ran it under it's own power to the barn of MT Gibson. Another gentleman who offered as- sistance was MT Bacon, nephew of D. c. Bacon, neighbor of the Edi- tor. The accident happened about 4 o'clock and about 6.30 o'clock Messrs Steele and Smith were relieved to see their companions come riding into North Woodbury in the team Of MT Gibson. At 7.3O the welcome lights of MT Taylor's automobile, in charge of MT Williams, his expert chauffeur, appeared and in short order the gen. tlemen boarded the car and were speeding on the way to, Newtown, arriving there shortly after 8 o'clock. Automobiles, flying machines and dirigible balloons for some but the good old "hoss' is quite enough for the Editor The gentlemen, while being heartily and sincerely con
 graduated by their friends on their
 escape from a serious accident, have
 had to take some good-natured joking
 AS prominent citizen of Sandy Hook expressed it: Tt does look rather
 bad when a clergyman, a deacon and
 a prominent church officer start out
 in the middle of the afternoon and
 land in the ditch." An examination of
 the car showed that the brake rod
 had dropped down, probably causing
 the accident. The report reached
 Newtown to the effect that MT Smith
 had a broken leg and that all four
 were injured, which happily was not the case.