The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-15
THE RUNNING OF
AN AUTOMOBILE
A LADY CHAUFF FEUR

How 1t Seems to Ride i'm An Up-to-
Date Automobile, One of the Best
That is Made in the United states
To-day.
Mrs. A. w. Seaman of Brooklyn, is
an automobilist who has driven over
$4,000 miles, taking entire care of
her car In her experience of six
years, however, she has had no trip
more strenuous than one which she
finished a few days ago when she
drove into Brooklyn after a 300-mile
drive from Syracuse over roads
which by reason of floods had been
left deeply covered with mud and
which were marked in the Mohawk
valley by a massive ice gorge
Mrs. Seaman had gone to Syracuse
to visit the Franklin automobile fac
tory there, to get new car. This
was a twenty-eight horse power,
five-passenger, four-cylinder touring
car finished in battleship gray with
pearl gray trimmings.
Although this was her first exper-
fence with a 1910 Franklin, it was by
no means her first with Franklins
of other years. In 1904 she secured
her first Franklin, and she drove it
10000 miles in two years. There
after she secured a 1906 car and
with it made 10000 miles in four
years.
Mrs Seaman has acquired a rep
utation not only as a driver on tours
but in contests as we'll Last year
as a competitor in the two-day run
of the Women's Motoring Club of
New York from New York to Phila-
delphia and back she drove her car
so successfully as to secure the award
of the Hol Tan trophy
She started out from Syracuse
with her new car after personally
putting it into shape. With her hus-
band, who accompanied her on her
trip, she had spent part of the pre-
vious day in an inspection of the
factory.
Hardly had she reached a point
east of Utica when evidences were
to be seen on all sides of recent
floods. In places the waters mad all
but destroyed the highways, making
the trip one of constant struggle with
road conditions. Speaking after her
arrival home of the most picturesque
part of the food area, she said:
The ice gorge at Herkimer was
full of interest. Great masses of ice
piled everywhere. Trees that had
been stripped of their bark by the
force of the ice flow stood on the
river bank, mute evidence of the
merciless forces of nature.
"A house that had been torn from
its foundation stood aslant in the
pack ice. They had cut a single
mile through the ice that blocked
the road The ice was above the
car as we drove through it.
Then the road led along the river
for way, and logs, brush and all
kinds of debris had been stranded
and floated up on the road. The
track of the road has been cleared,
but / fear it will be many day be-
fore all the marks of the disaster
will be obliterated.
I'VE left Amsterdam at II the
next day and made leisurely run to
Poughkeepsie. Some fine roads, but
we brought our share of real estate
in on our car. We came home
through the beautiful Ramapo VAL
ley. We glided into Brooklyn at
night with nothing to mar our trip
and the car in fine shape except some
paint rubbed off the axles by drag
/ ging over the mud and ice"
Mrs. Seaman always refers to her
| car, just as a seafaring man does his
| ship, as she" Speaking farther of
the run, she said:
"As for the trip down to New
York, it was inspiring. Such trips
give one confidence in ones machine
when one goes through them. From
the covered bridge few miles west
of st. townsville to Fonda, the roads
were only an apology for roads, just
a sticky black clay, into which she
/ sometimes sank to her engine apron
and sometimes climbed on top for a
/ while, only to slush down into a mud
| hole beyond. Her flexible wood
chassis frame had a chance to show
I ll0 WI III lltl tH Blht utFtl ldlltl GU
/ after nine miles of continual
work on first and second gear we
/ came to a steep grade that was
dry, and we stopped to look her
over. Her cooling system worked
/ perfectly, and l feel sure now that
! she would not overhead. no matter
J how many miles of heavy work
put her through. That's the bless
ing of having no water to give out"
In the last statement Mrs. Seaman
refers to the fact that the Franklin
engine, being air-cooled, is free from
the difficulties and complexities of
water cooling.
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A white motor car trimmed with
| gold will soon be seen dashing Ia