The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-13
As MAN ON FOOT
sees AUT co BY
Alphabet Glass in Detroit, Says
James Schermerhorn, Know
Its E-M-F'S.

Henry Ford. who has just won a vic
tory In years OF litigation with the
Association of Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers, turned the annual din
ner into a love feast when he and
James Cozzens appeared at the guests
table last night
Ford was greeted as a good fighter
and his presence inspired the utmost
good feelings.
Hon. Edward Iazansky. OF Brooklyn,
secretary of state, and James Scher-
merhorn, publisher of The Detroit
Times, were the principal speakers.
A large representation OF Detroit auto
mobile interests was present.
Mr.. Schermerhorn's subject was
Star of Empire Is Now a Fixed Star,
But All Else Takes Its Way" and he
spoke as the lone man who walks" In
the automobile center of the world, as
follows
Mr.. Toastmaster and members OF the
Association OF Licensed Automobile
humble lodgings on the top floor would
never have been heard from IL he had
not fallen down stairs l would not
had not walked down town-if 1 We're
not the solitary citizen OF Detroit who
possesses a 1911 model in the same
way as the patriarch Jacob saw the
ladder reaching heaven-only In
| am proud to appear here as De-
troit's only pedestrian. The pedometer
is attached SnG,s n, to 5Sys that All, the eyclom,
reverently near the beauteous surface
OF Mother Earth and TO put on the
hour when one goes to slumber In her
bosom. 1t IL especially footing TO ''hoof
it." even In pneumatic-ti tired town II
-as the tramp explained to the town
constable-one has scheme on foot
My home Is just one thousand ga
RACES from my office. and the scheme
have on foot as l diurnally traverse
this distance Is 10 see all Detroit go
whirling toyously down town. II
that rumbled down the mountain side
where "Will or the Mill" lived unto
himself and wondered of the great
S which of ts se pse far now Se5GT oS
Jared.
The only difference Is that "will Of
the Mill' never followed the procession
down town town With With mine; nil man and wnif as / esssS sS
to cross the street at the end of my
matutinal tramp hear the cheuffeurs
say say one to another that motoring In
a certain pedestrian did not insist upon
ciuttering up the streets
Describing the bravery OF the Ba-
their. young men cut neither hair nor
beard till they had slain an enemy
The man who walks In Detroit has
smooth "shsven and and .Sort. ye haired ede al
+ Little wonder that we have to have
a brand new model OF measuring time
every year and the Old Man with the
Scytbe. as the symbol of the hurryins
hoyfs. is succeeded by the radiant
maiden at the steering wheel There
new chronology Is given unto US,
based upon the ldes& production of q
the correct form to say "the Wolverine
leaves for New York at forty automo-
biles past three"
To know things well, hrst-h hand.
gleeful cherubs tripping along TO the
alphabet class, running over their E.
MS as they go.
youths and hear them read from his
tory's page that the fair city OF Do
troit was founded by Cadillac and
completed by Packard.
Scan, as you walk, the most recent
edition OF Who's Hugh" and ind II set
down that the answer Is uncertain, but
IT stands between Chalmers and Jen-
nirgs, with the odds In favor OF the
a model.
Thus he who walks may read De-
troit's new-found fame In the text
books. while the Thucydides OF the
lived by the sapphire strait were so
enamoured OF their pneumatic marveis
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-
trolling passion at the period under
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 Rembrandt
and a Whistler wfile he was abroad7"
The deuce you say declares the
them? He's got a Lozier. Hupmobilo
and a Detroit Electric already"
Another thing that the Detrolter who
tramps has discovered Is that automo-
bile velocity and conversation hold no
companionship. When you get in with
a licensed friend at the Campus Mar
titus he remarks. - warm" and when
you aliSht at the Country club seven
miles up the river you reply, Say IL
was"
All. 1t 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 fain
return TO the simple life he led before
he devised an engine or brought out
y,
tial residence, takes step with me. and
uiburdens his soul He Is no happier
with all Of his fortune and rubber tires
than when he walked. he says. He In
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 ne implores 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-
but to entreat me TO give ND my
ldiosyncrasy. buy y machine and make
IL unanimous!
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 40 poor" nearly had his
wish
In the first flush OF achievement the
industry was fttingly typihed by Nike
the Victorious. the winged goddess OF
wreath. palm branch and a trophy of
| al NOR She iioated m the air with
outstrctchcd wings-but lost her head
Some OF our manufacturers thought
the Selden license endowed them with
authority to abrogate competition, an
null Poor Richards Aluansk aud nout
the laws OF supply and demand
The fabulous scale upon which man
ufscturing. advertising. exhibiting and
selling were carried on savorcd OF tn,
daily notations In the American pro.
press against u.s." ne wrote: bought
the press. Hotel refuses 20 serve hard
boiled eggs, took over the hotel" etc
III was the faiTy-story cycle of n fas.