Show SENATOR CLARKS LOCOMOBILE Is a Duplicate of f the Machine Used by King Edward and Has Arrived in Washington From Paris I 1 Senator Clarks locomobile the exact I I pattern of the machine used by King Edward VII arrived In this city Saturday Satur-day oayti tho Washington Post It cost approximately 5000 will carry ten persons and weighs about 3000 pounds It has promised to startle the wheeling fraternity because of Its size Its peculiar pe-culiar construction and Its speed sixty I miles an hour The machine was built I In Paris France and although of French construction was designed and built under the supervision of nn American Amer-ican machinist G II Gardner who located lo-cated In Paris eight or ten years ago Senator Clark now has the machine safely ensconced In his stables awaiting await-Ing the arrival of his chauffeur who Is expected within a week The carriage Is thirteen feet In length and about four and a half feet In width It has the appearance of a gasoline machine but Is run by steam the dimensions of the engine arc four feet In length three feet In width and eighteen Inches deep At a maximum rate It Is capable of developing tent four horsepower The firebox Is In the rear and Is similar simi-lar to that of n portable thrashing machine ma-chine with ten burners These burners arc confined in a space not more than I two and a half feet wide and one foot I In depth The clutch Is the same as I used on an American gasoline engine with the wheelsteering attachment Two powerful brakes are used to control con-trol the vehicle one fox foot use and the other an emergency brake tho principle being the samp as on road wagons It has a long reach spring tending to make It a comfortable and casyildlng carriage the whccla are thirty Inches In diameter with fourInch tires The gasoline tank is carried under the front seat and has a capacity of I twelve gallons while the bottom Is one mass of pipes used for the circulation of water to keep the cylinders cool Two pipes project from the rear which are used as draft funnels the front having a round dash with a semicylinder receptacle re-ceptacle for pipes which contains three gauges and ono oiler The carriage Is clumsy and awkward In appearance and has two large wheel fenders with one chain connecting the rear wheels with the engine It was said by a skilled machinist that a machine ma-chine of this type built In America roman rom-an American pattern will be oneeighth larger 1 in size than Senator Clarks carriage car-riage This Is i explained by reason of the fact that French machinists are noted for their ability to confine greater great-er horsepower In smaller space than American machinists This carriage was used by Senator Clark for six weeks while he was in Paris It was there ho contracted the automobile fad T H i cL i C I 1111L IIr 1 I1JJ Silas They say that Bill Smythers kin pick a banjo out o sight Lemuel Yes but I reckon ho kin pick blackberries better |