Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-29

store and say Can you spare me
10 gals of gas and at. of oil if it
isn't too much trouble?" On the
eastern roads in cold weather you
can drive with l hand and keep the
other in your pocket, but out west
you have to drive with hand and
hold onto the wheel with the other
to keep it from bouncing out of the
car.
However east or west they's moth
ing like it and they will be more
cars than ever on the roads this
comeing yr. what with all the mil
lionaire l. w. w. buying them, but
don't let that scare you out of buy
ing for yourself because vile the
increased number of cars may jam
up the roads a little, it won't be no
harder to drive because as l say
most of us is going to be sober.
Accidents at Night.
Besides witch it has been this
birds experience that most of the
smashes comes when they's the lease
traffic abroad. About 3 mos. after
I had boughten my first horselest
carriage l got the cute idear at 2
o'clock morning that it would be
nice to drive out to the Wayside inn
witch was a place about IS miles
outsides of Chi and | don't know
how to describe it only it wasn't a
church. Well when l landed out
there the inn was all lit up like a
cemetery but I went up and banged
on the door and finely a waiter lei
me in and lighted candle in the
parler and went back to sleep vile
| enjoyed a few hours practice or
the piano. Well / got back in Chi
between ! in the morning and come
back to Lawrence's ave- and they
was only l vehicle besides myself
on the SITS. and this was a Law
rence's ave. st. car and you would
think when they was only 2 vehicles
romeing around in a town as big
as Chi why the odds would be about
a million to l that they wouldn't
hit each other. But on this occa
sion the long shot win and when
regained consciousness and asst fol-
my car they showed me the chassis
with no more on it than Aphroditey
The body and the top and so fortf
was all on the st. car going west.
On another occasion l was ou
taking the air on Mich. av. some
where's between 5 in the morning
and this time they wasn't nothin,
else on the ST. but the lamp post
sticking up in the middle of it, bu
the one at the intersections of Mich
and Is ST. jumped right out in from
Of me and bit off wire wheel. S.
you see it isn't the jams witcl
causes the danger but it is just SOM
piece of carelessness like on tn
part of the st. car or the lamp pos
that had their mind on something
else. *
| No Special Advice.
They's no special advice I car
give new beginners on how to avoit
these accidents only to say use you
head like the fellow I remembe
reading about in Chi that was drive
ing night lords / Of those bridgeI
acrost the river that when they's +;
boat comeing through it RACES uI
in the middle witch is split open t.
give the boat chance to go through
without humping its bean. Well thi:
guy didn't hear the bell ring OF
something and he was pretty neal
the middle of the bridge before HI
seen that the section he was on wa:
getting pretty hilly but it was to late
to stop himself so he give her all the
gas she would take and she lep
over the gap and lit on the Other
section and then he throwed on tn,
brakes and stopped before he got te
the bottom of the down hill side
Some of his friends kind of hintet
afterwards that when he steped or
the gas going up he really meant te
step on the brake witch would oi
been kind of fatal but any way he
got away with the story in the pa.
pers.. Critics may point out that
this guy used his foot instead of his
head but some peoples brains is 10.
Gated in different places the same
as their diseases.
One of the first things that the
new beginner should out to do when
! you get hold of your car is thyow
lot OF things out Of it like the
tools and the curtains that don't
do no good and just weight the car
down and make it heavier. The
curtains is one of the best practice
jokes connected with moter life. II
you want to have the factory put
them up when you first get your
machine and then leave them up