Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-10
BREEZE FROM BLOWOUTS.

Day after day this winter sees more
ladies' driving in closed cars than ever
and the bold, bad man does not hesitate
to climb into one of the snug bodies
where he can be away from the wintry
wind and yet spin along at a good rate
of speed to his business. The closed
car certainly is in favor around these
parts, as the sales books of the local
dealers will DISCLOSE, and the good point
about the whole thing is that the
closed car has such real virtue that il
is right it should find favor. Any open
body. no matter how fastidiously fixed
up, is a bad proposition in a storm,
especially if that storm be snow. The
inside of any of the cars, regardless of
make, looks especially inviting, and
there is car selling for little more
than fifteen hundred dollars which
would be more than fit for some kings
to ride in. The closed car in the sum-
mer time Is more or less of a joke ex-
cept for the fact that it excludes dust,
but 1t is no more of a Joke than the
open car in the winter. The closed car
has come to stay. and in spite of some
Very warm-blooded persons who prefer
to rough it in the eyes of pneumonia
the general public seems to be recon-
ciled to the fact.
Very few drivers of cars, n GER
tsinly very few who do not drive
them, realize the alarming amount OF
force hat there is in a ear going
along at a smart rate Of speed-should
it hit something. 1t is not until the
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realizes hat he nay have been going
too fast. and it is not until he has re-
covered from the effects OF the shock
that the force with which he hits is
brought home to him in the true hight.
Even a light machine spinning along
at twenty miles an hour will do quite
a little damage should it come in con-
tact with some solid obstacle, n when
a car weighing more than 1000 pounds
shoots against a strong old tree some
thing is in a fair way to break. There
would be many more careful drivers
could there he more participants In and
witnesses of accidents. 1t would not
be an exceedingly difficult feat for a
mathematician to sit down and figure
out with Just how many pounds force
the car struck, but no amount Of fig
uring would convince the skeptical sc
well as seeing a single mud FOUNDER
come in contact with a tough old fence
The peculiar fact about the whole thing
is hat in most collisions n acct
dents it is o the car which is dam
aged the most, but rather the thing
which is in the way, in the greater
number of instances. A runabout
Weighing considerable less than 2,00f
pounds, came around the corner oil
Halsey street into Branford place the
other afternoon. The tires were
equipped with chains, and the rate OF
speed was very moderate. but the
driver attempted to take the corner Q
little sharply. AS a result the wheels
slipped on the wet pavement, and the
car leaped the curb. There was hardly
any crash, but the front springs or
the right side went through the foot
thick telegraph pole which happened te
be in the way. as II it were made OF
pasteboard. and while the car was moi
SO badly hurt the pole had to be re.
moved. 1t was so badly injured as tt
prove a source of danger to passersby