Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-03-21
In an interesting and Clever
Way Story Is Told
of Automobile
TROUBLES.
INGENUITY SAVES THE DAY
From the Chicago Record-Herald

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
"A chap who buys ii car nowadays
misses half the fun of motoring re-
marked the old tor as he puttered
lovingly over his engine. in which he
He held the old one in his hand as he
spoke.
Take that plug. for instance" he
There's nothing the matter
with it except that it's badly c~arbonized
and the points need to be separated a
little. otherwise it's just as good as
lew"
He put the plug carefully away, at
tached his magnetic wire to the new
one. and went around to crank his
engine. A half turn started h en-
CINE off at a steady purr, and he
climbed into the driving seat motion
ing his friend to get in beside him.
IN fix that plug when we get back
home" said he. There's no use IN
holding o up now. but it'll only take
five minutes. and that's a dollar saved"
why, the last fellow l rode with
took out two of those things II threw
them away" remarked his friend. II
didn't know that they were any good.
and he didn't appea to. either"
WELL. perhaps they weren't" said
the old motorist. '"rhey might have
been broken. but it's dollars to dough-
nuts that a little cleaning n a read
justment OF the points would have
made them work. Your friends was
no old-timer. I'll wager.
Cars Near Perfect.
That's the trouble with these new
owners. Everything is done for you
before you get into q car. and gener-
ally they're done so we'll that you may
drive for months and never get to
know your machine. L know every
5000 80 -.l l.1 M -
and ! are old friends, n there are
mighty few things that can happen,
even on the road. which would send
me to a repair shop. OF course, a
break might lay me up. but III venture
there's no adjustment | can't make as
we'll as a garage man. and as for i'm
promptu repairs on the road, I'll bet /
can lay it over any ordinary mechanic.
There's nothing like experience to
teach you."
The car was skimming swiftly and
easily along when there came a Jolt.
seemingly from the rear. and the DID
mOtorist pulled up Sharp with a pres
sure on the breaks which halted the
machine in a dozen feet.
"Puncture i'm the rear" he explained,
as he killed the engine. and. jumping
out. started in a business-like way to
jack up the e "a wheel. Presently he
had substituted a new tire and rim.
oSAN IN nv 10y Woo
Take that puncture." he remarked
presently. after he had settled COM
fortably back in his seat. THAT didn't
take us five minutes, all told. More
Of these modern improvements. De-
mountable rims are certainty great
they'll never give me the feeling of
complete satisfaction which an old
clincher once afforded me.
II was making a run to st. Joseph.
Mich. my first long run, and among
some OF the few things which / for
all Of my tools. Everything went well
till 1 got to Michigan City. and then
one of the front hoe blew out. The
wonder was tina / wasn't ditched, for
/ wasn't much of a driver. But I kept
the car on the road. stopped it. and
hoped out to examine the damage.
Uses Cracker Box.
.'I'd changed q few tires. and Id had a
couple of blowouts, so / knew what to do.
1t was when 1 came to do it that ! was
stumped. I had a jack. How j came to
remember that l don't know. But there
wasn't any blowout patch in the car. 1t
oked to me as IL l was up against it.
Well. sir, l sat and puzzled over hat
blowout for Is minutes before l had an
inspiration, and then 1 went over to a gro
Gerry store near by and bought a 26-cent
tin Of crackers. You know the square tins
of cracker hat they've been putting out
for the last few years? ! didn't var the
crackers, but l did want the tin. /. took
the cover off. broke off the edges, which
had been turned down and were sharp,
and then bent my strip of tin into a half
cylinder. There was as good a blowout
patch as you could ask. AT least, 1t car
ried me into st. Joseph without further
trouble, and there I got q new shoe. ]
felt as proud of that tin blowout patch
as Edison could possibly have felt over
the photograph, n it's a sensation one
Of your present-day motorists could never
ave-" :
The old motorist was in q reminiscent
mood.
II was thinking of the time ] got home
on s cents worth of gum and the reed
stem of z corncob pipe" he unused. THAT
vas in my very first days OF motoring.
and the chariot which l used to spend
most of my time polishing was a one
lung affair. That car was the apple OF my
eye, and I'll never hav another that ]
car think as much of.
Pipsstsm Connection.
II was on my way back from q trip
down to Indianapolis. I'd gone all the
way to P~atchogue, and the little old bus
had one splendidly throughout the trip.
I had reached a stretch of lonesome road
when the engine began to splutter- and
finally died out under me. took q look
at the gas, first thing of the reel, for
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