The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-28

Even In New York, where, accord
| ing to popular belief, life comes near
I being a money-spending marath on.
! automobile buyers are learning that
size and class are not interchangea-
BILE terms Light cars of popular
| price and moderate appetite can be
| Just as graceful in outline. just as
! carefully built, and just as comforta-
BILE, as the infinitely larger and
heavier annfhilators of space. Raso-
| line and tires.
| In cases where srnartness of han
4 ding and limited turning space are
at a premium. the light car enjoys a
great advantage. In the hands of a
skilled pilot II darts in and out OF
through a feet of battieships,
| More highly standardized than Its
corpulent brother and with fewer
necessary adjustments, the light car
1 fs less prone to become crippled, and
easier to repair when accident hap
pens Women find II easier to drive
| light cars. A woman at the wheel
of road-locomottve Ia an unusual
sight: driving a light car the woman
especial comment.
/ Suiting the car to the buyers per-
sonal need is an art which permits a
high degree of discrimination
The DuchesSe de Talieyrand. bet
1 ter known to the American public as
/ the one-time Anna Gould. present In
/ America IN attendance on the wedding
| OF her sister, Helen Gould, to Finley
]. Shepard. went shopping for an
automobile for her personal use. The
duchesse is an accomplished uaotorist
! and had definite idea Of the quail
ties she wanted in a car. She spent
nearly an hour In the salsxroom OF
| the New York 9tudebaker branch
and thoroughly inspected the me-
chaniSm of a Studebaker "20" en-
| closed roadstar. which she finally pur-
chased, and In now driving.
The duchesss Was especially struck
with the coxy protection afforded by
| the side curtains. which. In this type
of car, swing with the doors. giving
| the weather-proof advantages of q
coupa. with the option OF changing
the car, at any time. into an open
roadster of conventional lines. That
such a combination should be exclu-
/ sively the property of an American
! builder of light. popular priced cars
appealed to the duchesse as novel and
! entertaining.
/ She has taken the car back to her
/ home In France. with the idea oil
| using 1t In her personal trips about
her great estate.
Autos and Churches.
! In the year book OF Emmanuel
7 Episcopal church. OF Boston. Just Ia
I sued, Rev. Elwood Worcester, ID, d.
/ the rector. presents a number OF
4 problems for the consideration OF his
I pariEhioners. Most of them touch or
4 the financial side of the up-keep Of
I the parish He refers first to the
1 development of the automobile and
/ the changes II has wrought in the
1 social customs OF church people and
I the pronounced effect it has or
/ church going fabits
! These conditions" he states, "art
/ not peculiar to us, they are affect
! ing the congregations and resources
, OF the great majority of city churches
| Nor do write these words as re-
4 preach or a renaonstrance, but as 9
/ simple statement of conditions The
\ fact In that unless our social customs
i change In a way that we have nc
/ reason to anticipate. the future of al
/ our great city churches Is very prob
I iematical."
1 Building Up Zig Plant
/ Buildings costing over a quarter o'
/ n million dollars have been added te
1 the factory Of the Chalmers company