Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
does he in his calmer moments blame II
COW.
Count EN- by Thousands.

Yes this is a grand city for motor
cars and motorists, barring this little
matter OF the low speed limits. Once
upon time not so very many years ago
a man with nothing else to do could stand
at any street corner and count passing
bikes until he got tired or his ment>s
adding machine broke down. Nowadays
II is the same with automobiles.
Time was, of course, when an enthusi-
astic motorist with one of those con-
sumptive. remembrance. hope for-the-
best automobiles usually confined his
long-distance touring to Washington and
it's confines, or. If he Ventured out into
Rock Creek Park or Soldiers Home, took
along a tame horse or a traction engine,
SO as to he sure OF getting back home.
There are a whole Tot more than fifty-sev-
en- varieties of reliable machines on the
market nowadays, and YOU can hop into
most any one of them in front OF The
Star office and start for Alexandria. Va.
or Nome, Alaska. with almost equal GER
tainty or getting there.
Be Exclusive-Walk!
Time was. too, when the man who own
ed an automobile was the whole works
in his community. He was real pluto
and could borrow money at the bank
without security. He could get admirers
to crank his car any minute of the day
or night. and every time the village ma
Chnist was called in to tighten nut or
loosen up the bearings ON the miZzen
hatch he wore his getaway coat and the
silk hat willed to him by grandfather.
II was almost the same In the cities
right here in Washington, too.
But now everybody 1~ns "A car. 1t is
getting so that real exclusive people have
to walk or patronize aeroplaneS to he
different. MillOnaireS, wealthy men, rlch
men, well off men. Salaried men and poor
men snort around in their own autos.
why, gracious to goodness, there are even
couple of newspaper reporters In town
who own 'em.
Talking Of speed limits and pinching
parties and such. there inevitably comes
To mind Mayor Garrett and Marshal Col
Inns of Glen Echo, whose memories are so
treasured in the minds of every motorlst
of Washington. There are many merry
chauffeurs, professional and amateur, in
this town of ours who can come across
with smile when it's case of too much
gasoline within the city limits, but who
never can become reConciled To the idea of
parting with real aoney for little extra
speed on the Conduit road within the
limits of the thriving metropolis of Glen
Echo. One motorist of this city, the
owner of a real nifty little car. swears
he was arrested by Marshal Collins for
wearing red tie Sunday in violation of
the blue laws of Maryland. He declares.
too, that there are other onenSes Just
as venial that have been utilized TO boost
the town treasury of that Conduit road
town during the Garrett-Collins regime.
How About This Recordp
There hasn't been much press agent
work from there for some time, and a
young person who used to have speak
ing acquaintance with an automobile in
which j. Pierpont Morgan once rode.
says, confidentially, that he came down
from Cabin John bridge to Washington in
eleven minutes the other day. OF course,
he may not have been telling the truth,
hut he seemed real sincere. Perhaps
some reckless cuss will take this as a
hint. Who can tell?