The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-08-31
YOU AUTO HEAR THIS

This is the way Slidell Brown, of the
Vest Virginia Argus, looks upon the
henIine buggy There is food for thought
n MS utterance, and they will be read
With interest, if not with profit
The automobile is a rubber tired cash
separator, which is being used largely
to keep prosperous American citizens
from worrying over how to invest their
money. There are a great many varie-
ties of cash separators, but the automo-
bile is far the best 1t can go through
the ordinary. flush citizen in a very few
months and leave very little cash in the
taiilings. In fact it's work is approach
ed in thoroughness only by the private
yacht the society bug and the private
schools for girls. The automobile is
driven by gasoline, assisted by water,
oil, electricity, wind and gas, and some
times horses and mules. Some drivers
have also used brains with great sue
cess, but the supply is too limited to
be generally adopted. If every automo-
bile driver We're equipped with a small
set ofbrains, we would have no more
accidents which occur while Il car Is
being driven about Is miles an hour, the
speed limit. An auto consists of an
engine with LIS parts connected with
clutch with 80 parts to gear box with
10 parts and then to a differential with
81 parts. When all of these parts are
feeling well, and working together, like
the old Guard Republicans in New York,
the automobile is said to be in good run
ming order. However, if any individual
part of an automobile is feeling conval-
will oil he
man who wants to sell the machine to
ycu secondhanded will soemnly swear
the machine will run like watch
Automobiles come in all sizes, includ-
ing the piker size, the family size, the
bank director size, and the fool size
small car, with only IL condensed horses
in it can be bought for $3.50 and can be
driven over the curb and into a tree as
successfully as a big car, which costs
$4,000, and has tires as fat as elephants
legs.
Automobiles are now very carefully
made and are entirely practicable, be-
ing made for hauling trunks, transport
ing passengers and getting rid of the idle
rich Automobiles are made which an
run 100 miles an hour and will stop
when requested. Very few automobiles
break down any more but the number
of owners who break up is steadily in
creasing. This is because the automo-
bile is no longer a weird hobby, but
badge of prosperity, and great many
people are wearing thebad ges who can't
afford to pay their dues.
Automobiles are more costly now,
because they are more reliable and also
because hundreds of people are busy
every day inyenting new things to hang
on them. Ten years ago an automobile
would go ten miles and then stop
month because of a 80 cent breakdown
But now an automobile owner will go
200 miles, pay $35 in fines, wear out $50
worth of tires, eat $40 worth of food
knock SIS out of $40 buggy, and ne
elect $1,000 worth of business all in a
day.
"The number of automobiles made in
this country next year will approach
125,O0O This will not supply one
fourth of the people who want them, but
after the people who can afford them
have bought. there will be 1OO,O 900 left
and they will all be sold