The Detroit times., 1911-01-13
AS MAN ON FOOT
SEES AUTO GO BY
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AS the tramp explained to the town
My home is just one thousand ga
RACES from my office, and the scheme
l have on foot as i diurnally traverse
whlrling joyously down town. 1t
makes one think OF the varied caravan
that rumbled down the mountain side
where VIII of the Mill" lived unto
| himself and wondered OF the great
city OF the plain far below toward
Jared.
The only difference Is that will OF
the MIL never followed the procession
that swept past his mill. while 1 20
down town with mine; and as l essay
to cross the street at the end Of my
matutinal tramp l hear the cheufreurs
say one TO another that motoring In
Deroit would be all that IL should be IL
q certain pedestrian did not insist upon
cluttertng up the streets.
Describing the bravery OF the Ba-
tavians. the historian Tacitus said
their young men, cut neither hair nor
beard till they had slain an enemy.
The man who walks In Detroit has
observed that the drivers are all
smooth shaver and short-haired.
Little wonder that we have to have
a brand new model OF measuring time
every year and the Old Man with the
Scythe, as the symbol OF the hurryins
hours. Is succeeded by the radiant
a new chronology Is given unto US,
based upon the local production OF a
machine every minute. so that II Is now
the correct form to say the Wolverine
leaves for New York at forty automo-
biles past three"
To know things well, frst- hand.
you must walk You must join the
gleeful cherubs tripping along to the
NJ. F.'s as they GO
Walk with the eager high school
youths and hear them read from his
tory's page that the fair city OF De-
troit was founded by Cadillac and
completed by Packard
Sean. as you walk, the most recent
edition OF who's Hugh" and find IL set
down that the answer Is uncertain, but
IL stands between Chalmers and Jen-
nirgs, with the odds in favor OF the
former, as Jennings last season wasn't
a model.
Thus he who walks may read De-
troHs new-found fame In the text
books. while the Thucydides OF the
future will record how the people who
lived by the sapphire strait were so
enamoured OF their pneumatic marvels
that they named their postmaster after
one pattern and the leading merchant
prince got his patronym from another
type of sacred vehicles-Just as all the
early presidents were named after
streets In Chicago.
AS revealing how the souls OF
Detroiters were possessed OF one con-
discussion, the future archaeologist
may restore the dialogue occurring be-
tween two cultured citizens OF that
epoch. "Dost thou know" says one,
"that Jones picked up a Rembrandt
and q Whistler willie he was abroad7'
The deuce you say. declares the
other. What's he going to do with
them? He's got a Lozier. Hupmobilo
and a Detroit Electric already"
Another thing that the Detroiter who
tramps has discovered Is that automo-
companionship. When you get in with
a licensed friend at the Campus Mar
thus he remarks, IS warm" and when
you alight at the Country club seven
miles up the river you reply. Say 1t
was"
All, It Is the glorious swing down the
street that starts the currents OF friend
ly speech Sometimes when some other
citizen OF Detroit gets weary OF the
mad whirl OF modernity and would fam
return TO the simple life he led before
he devised an engine or brought out
an accessory. he steals out OF his paia-
tial residence, takes step with me, and
ui burdens his soul: He Is no happier
with all of his fortune and rubber tires
than when he walked, he says. He Is
glad to get the soil of the good old
earth upon his shoes again and be on
level with his brother man. and all
that.
Then he impiores me to set him right
In a signed statement in the paper ex-
planning that he was seen walking with
me that morning not through any de-
sire to desert the established order.
idiosyncrasy. buy n machine and make
since your last annual banquet there
have been times when the automobile
manufacturer who yearned to walk
again, Just as he did when he was so
happy and so poor" nearly had his
In the first flush of achievement the
- ~ A
the Victorious. the winged goddess of
victory, whose attributes were a
wreath. a palm branch and trophy OF
amor. She fioated in the air with
outstretched wings-but lost her head.
some OF our manufacturers thought
the Selden license endowed them with
authority 10 abrogate competition, an
null Poor Richards Almanak and fout
the laws OF supply and demand.
The fabulous scale upon which man
ufacturing. advertising. exhibiting and
selling were carried on :ayored OF the
moter's diary abroad. Entire London
preas against u.s." he wrote; bought
the press. Hotel refuses to serve hard
boiled eggs; took over the MOTEL etc.
cinating industry with the Midas-touch
turning everythingNto gold; But while
the automobile dispensed with the
horse the automobile business could
not dispense with horse sense,
IL Is exhibiting IL now. when the
halcyon and hectic period OF the horse
less era passes and there ensues the
survival OF the Attest, under which
immutable law the ultimate con-
sumner" is not the impatient purchaser
who pays his money In advance, gets
his check at the office and waits In line
for his machine at the factory, but the
nan whom the maker OF the best car
for his purposes end purse will ulti-
mately reach.
Even a man who walks must admire
the automobile genius that doesn't give
up on account OF few Internal eN-
piosions, but Immediately applies the
&C m bGstion 20 the ptunger OF expert
ence and sends some powerful throbs
along the connecting-rod OF conserva-
ton TO the circumference OF the wheel
Of restored con1dencei
The cloud, no bigger than n mans