The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-24
Presented With Car.

1 Presented With Car.
 l Co-incident with the reports of
 successful checking of the cholera presentation to the eminent British physician, Dr. S. M. Cox, of an Ameri-
 can-made motor car.
 These reports have come from 1 Shanghai and include the account of
 a novel presentation service when -Dr. Cox, the man responsible for the 1 checking of the cholera, became the l owner of a touring caf. High off ciaIs of the new Chinese republic
 came together at the home of the dis | tinguished physician and there the ex-
 ercises took place.
 1 pr. wu Ting Fang, former Minister 1 to the United States, made the prin- l cipal address on behalf of the Chi lnese citizens and paid a fine tribute ! to Dr. Cox. He formally presented i the new Regal car and explained the | significance of the engraved silver
 plate which had been placed on the dash Dr. Cox explained that the do- i nors of the car had afforded him the i opportunity to choose between the diff ferent cars made in Europe and the products of American factories. He explained that he preferred the auto
 mobile made in the United States. Hard to Drive and See Country Too. The man who motors is not likely to see much of the road, after all, in touring-that is, if he drives the car l himself. It is the person who sits alongside or who reclines in the tom neau, who has chance to see the country'' through which the car Is rolling. If the man at the wheel is always Hooking out of the window" there are likely to be accidents. It 1 is impossible to do both things we'll or safely-to tour and drive Small hat fn O. mobilist every journey is made up Of
 so many miles an hour and so many hours a day driving, with no other i'm
 pression on him than the contour of the country, rather than its scenic | features.
 saThere is a great deal to be observ- | ed on every high road" writes Max
 Pemberton in the Field. teven upon the meanest. and he Is fortunate
 man whose powers of observation | have been cultivated wisely Possibly the driver himself sacrifices a good Ian argument for those who will not drive in this very fact. The little trazedies and comedies of the great white highway are for those with lei sure and imagination and the bias which leads toward humanities- The driver himself should properly be oo- sessed by his occupation
 'He will be getting the best out of his engine; making reasonable speed, safeguarding his passengers and generally acting the part of the skipper on the bridge. We all know what a different thing it Is to drive over @ certain stretch of highway and to be driven. Giving up the dri- ver's seat to another, we now discover a country which was unknown to us.
 Hills and valleys appear, there are wonderful Old World villages, spires on the heights far vistas, 1t may be, of a glistening river.
 sFWe have all met the merry fellow who gambols at the wheel of the car and is poet and chanticleer by turns. One of the weirdest journeys I have ever made was through Norfolk lanes in the company of 8 dreamer, who
 sat at the wheel of a speedy Darracq.
 The little sheep which skipped and hoped melted the good fellows rhap- sodies He pointed out to me the mellow gold of the corn, and the wild beauty of the marsh land; di1ated up- on the distant view of ships and water. and was touched almost to tears by
 the blueness of the sky. Meanwhile we had missed a wagon by hairs
 breadth and had nearly dashed through the closed gates of a level crossing.
 .Fronn time to time there would be wild swerves when the mus1ng driver regained control and came to earth within an ace of crash. Never once,
 however, did the smile leave that bland and childlike face. He told me that he was an artist, and I could
 believe 1t. The only thing to do was
 to wish him, as Artemus Ward wished
 the Indian chief. an honorable grave.
 ''This kind of driving is to be
 dreamed of at night in theNspells of
 a horrid sleep. We have to recog-
 nize the fact that the man at the
 wheel must think of his car and his
 passengers every time and all the time
 and here we see the advantage of
 there being two drivers aboard when
 any considerable tour is undertaken.
 Nothing is more delightful than to
 take a long spell of ease in a com
 fortable front seat when we have been
 a long time at the wheel, and have
 become conscious of that sat1ation
 which fatigue indicates.
 et'There are those who declare that
 the handling of a modern car in an open country is no strain whatever, but this is a contention with which the old driver will not agree. A man
 must be in exceedingly good condi- ton to drive more than a hundred miles without knowing that he has done it, and if a tour be undertaken and a hundred miles a day be driven regularly then will the element of holiday hardly enter into the proposi- ton. I once heard an old Cambridge oarsman translate the motto of his Pleasure is damned hard work Many 4