The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06
A WORD ABOUT BIRMING-
 HAMS WOMEN AUTOISTS
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 who has been A capital driver a year or
 mere, managing a car with the same l fearlessness which marks her as a horse
 woman and whip, has ordered the latest model of the ve-passenger Cadillac, and does not expect to be dependent upon the services of a chauffeur. Mrs. J. NJ. Dew berry's car is well handled when she Is on the drivers seat.
 Mrs. Oliver Fucker has a new electric runabout which she manages very clev- erly, suggesting as she rides about in this graceful little machine her expert management of a sensitive, highstrung horse. typical town car which has beer adopted by a number of Brming- ham women is the Rauch and Lang, feur-seated coupe. k is light, Graceful car, easily managed by a woman and the limousine top makes it especially fine for social calls or receptions, for the dain- tiest\ of gowns and hats may be worn without detriment in stormy weather and the lightest and most elaborate coif- fure is unharmed by the breezes. Mrs. c. H. Ungerman has been the possessor of a car of this type for about two years 1 Mrs. Viola Roden-Redin also drives one. Mrs. A. H. Ford goes about in one which she manages very cleverly always ae ccmpanied by her little daughter, Miss Virginia Ford, or some friend. In the pEOlOSEdpn used IONdN MISS ildllildu Elliott is with her, and Miss Virginia Ford is standing outside. In a machine of the same manufacture is Mrs. Richard Brown, with Mr. Brown. Mrs. Charles Sibley also drives a Raueh and Lang and Mrs. B. A Fox has one from the same factory.
 Miss Gladys Enslen's limousine car is a Pope WaIerly. During her travels in Elirope this summer one frequently sees ri, bt- bat. Ersen or her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Kidd. Mrs. John H. Minge, like the other possessors of limousine electrics, gets much pleasure and comfort in her pretty rev car and one of the most enthusi- astic feminine autoists in the city is Mrs. Alan Jemison. Mrs. J. P. Lyons drives a Waverly and Mrs. R. D. Johnson a Pa bcock.
 These are among the feminine devotees of the art of motoring, whose number has increased a hundred fold in the past year or two. It Is pronounced a splendid tiing by each of them to be independent Of busy husbands or brothers, or unre- liable chauffeurs. All are at present. quite adept though. Even the most skill fui may. in the earliest days of her motoring have struck terror to the hearts of the friends who shared their drives, as in the case of the society girl who in initiating her gasoline roadster, ripped four outstanding doors from waiting street car with, the skill and pre- eision that she could probably not achieve now. in the days of her eXpertness. The two bachelors who were with her on that occasion still mention it with awe h. deed of daring of A feminine autoist is never questioned. Carolyn Wells, in one O her Motor Goose" rhymes recently published. touches upon the characteristic in these lines: "I had a little runabout,
 It was painted dapple gray.
 I lent 1t to lady,
 To ride mile away.
 She speeded it. she skidded if,
 She ran at sixty miles.
 wouldn't lend my car again,
 For all lady's smiles'
 This is a warning to bachelors. But the skilfulness of the local feminine driver 1 is vastly improved: the number of cleo tries, which are easy to stop, far exceeds
 the more difficult gasoline cars, and
 wcmans natural sympathies will make her careful at least not to run over any one, so with even a greater number of women autoists than Birmingham can at present boast. one may feel safe either in or out of their cars.