The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-07
CHAUFFEUR HAS
WONDERFUL RIDE
UNCONSCIOUS ON FRONT SEAT AS
MACHINE SCARS OVER POSTS
INTO FISH POND.
lFrom sundnr,a AdvertIner.l


One Of the most remarkable auto &C.
cidents which has ever occurred In Ho.
nolulu took place on the Waikiki road
yesterday at Cassidy station when
% Dooney" Hartman, in machine 59s,
lost control and was thrown into the
FISH pond Waikiki of the Cassidy path.
Hartman was going at good rate of
speed towards Waikiki when the acct.
dent happened. He was just approach
ing Cassidy's when his steering gear
broke and the machine made sudden
swerve to the makai side of the road.
As the front wheels hit the curb of the
wide sward sidewalk Hartman was
thrown against the wheel and knocked
unconscious according to his own state.
ments last night.
The front wheels went on the side
walk, but the rear wheels caught and
szidded throwing the front axle back
into line and starting the machine over
into the pond.
Hartman, who has a reputation Of be-
ing careful driver, and as skillful as
he is careful, was going at about TWEEN
ty-iye miles an hour or triAe moro
at the time the accident occurred. He
was late and was making the best time
he could, but was within the speed
limits. Ed. Lewis, in new machine,
passed him just as he passed the Nc.
Gully crossing, but neither machine
was racing
To show that he did not intend to
race, Hartman shut Off his gasoline and
slowed down. AT that moment the gear
broke and the impetus Of a twenty
five mile an hour pace sent the big
Packard two hundred and fifty feet be-
1 fore it finally came to a halt.
After climbing up on the sidewalk,
the shock of this smashing Hartman
against the wheel and knocking his
wind out, the car whizzed past tele-
phone post, the hub and running board
of the ear cutting big cash in the
wood as it went by, with Hartman un-
conscious in the front seat. After pass.
Il ing the post the car was hurled into
the pond Eva of the Cassidy path, but
the impetus was so great that he ma
chine shot up the incline to the path
the pond being shallow at the time
and scared completely over two posts
one two feet and the other three feel
in heighth and cleared the Cassidy path
fifteen feet wide, without whee
touching the ground. The rear whee
struck fully eighteen feet from the spo
, where the car left the ground, the in
} cline throwing it at least four feet il
, the air over that distance
Hartman's escape was the more mira
{ cnlous because his machine not onl,
cleared the broken posts but passed be
tween the Cassidy sign post and /
! kiawe tree not seven feet apart AMI
after again striking ground, plunged TO
, sixty feet through the water of thu
/ pond and finally came TO halt in thu
: center of it.
! Hartman was pulled from the car un
J conscious as it stood in the water ant
rushed to the Queen 's Hospital where i
was discovered that his injuries amount
! ed to little more than a severe cut oil
i the face and a couple of bruises. TIL
damage to the machine was not owe
j twenty dollars, according to Motorcycle
, Officer Chiffon, who inspected it.
!, Chiffon was on the spot shortly after
wards and traced the course of the ca
by its wheel marks. Several bystander
. gave him the numbers of cars whie
they claimed were all racing, Hartman
! among them, but investigation Shove,
that nearly all the cars named were OF
; their proper stands at the time an,
:, some one seems to be passing the shor
and uglier somewhere.
The police will investigate the charg
. of racing and may prosecute Levi
: among others.