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Show ' I gMrTTgl 1 1 ' When the Indiana-Pacific Coast tour rolled Into Denver, Colo., on July 11, Governor Amnions was on hand to meet the visitors. Above, the governor is shown in company with Elwood Haynes, father of the American automobile Industry, In-dustry, and Miss Clara B. Dorrington, private secretary 'to the governor, holding hold-ing the state of Colorado flag. Elwood Hayne3 is one of the most conspicuous con-spicuous figures on the tour. He invented invent-ed the first American gasoline car and conceived the idea of a "horseless carriage" car-riage" In the year 1S91 During the following year he prepared drawings for the construction of a self-propelled self-propelled vehicle for use on the highway, high-way, and in 1S93-4 built his first machine ma-chine at the Riverside Machine works, Kokomo. Since that time Mr. Haynes has been continuously Identified with the automobile auto-mobile industry. The Haynes Automobile Automo-bile company, of which he is president, was the first company organized in the United States of America for the manufacture manu-facture of the gasoline automobile. The pioneer car was gifted by Elwood Haynes to tho Smithsonian Institution, United States National museum, Wash- Ington, D. C, in 1910, and today it stands on exhibition placarded as follows: "Gasoline automobile built by Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana, 1S93-94. Successful trial trrp made at a speed of six or seven miles per hour, July 4, 1894. Gift of Elwood Haynes, 1910. 2G51135.,, Elwood Haynes, despite his sixty-odd years, Is standing the trip in good shape. He is a passenger in car No. 12 in the tour, which is a Haynes six-cylinder Model. He Is" likewise a good roads enthusiast enthusi-ast and makes three 'to four speeches daily on the subject of permanent road- way construction at the various towns through which the tour passes. One speech particularly, that delivered at Columbia, Co-lumbia, Mo., on July 1, was conceded to be one of the most interesting addresses ever delivered on the subject of automobiles. auto-mobiles. In his opening remarks, Mr. Haynes contrasted the present tour with his initial in-itial trip ln the "horseless carriage" nineteen years previous to a day. Tho little car moved along at a speed of about six and one-half miles pn hour, whereas,' 'the Haynes "Six" coasted into the city of Columbia, Mo., at forty-two miles per hour. |