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Show WHEN fiUTDS WERE EXPENSIVE TOYS The romance of the automobile industry indus-try is one of those intangible things that no one can place, but the thine is there just the same. The growth of the Industry from an era of expensive, toys to the most coveted article manufactured in the whole wide world in a few years is little short of marvelous. The development de-velopment of the motor car industry 's just as romantic as the growth of the telephone from, a toy device used by Alexander Graham Bell to talk between two rooms In the Centennial Exposition in 1S76 to Its present place in the homes of every one and in every business office. of-fice. In the early days of the automobile two brothers, Apperson by name, devised a horseless carriage which would run. This buggy was propelled by a crude internal combustion motor. It would run a few miles and then bad to be rebuilt. Every one laughed at it and they had reason to. It ran along the streets, scared all the horses it passed and generally raised a grea t co m motion. The cities and towns and states passed ordinances which regulated' the use of the "juggernauts," as they were then named. "All this happened less than twenty-five twenty-five years ago," says C. N. Carruthers, sales manager for the Gates-Horn Motor company, Apperson distributors. "Most of us. remember the first time we saw a motor car and what a sen?atlon it created in ibis city and throughout the country. . There was only one man. so far as historians can find, who predicted a future for the horseless carriage and that man is Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of electricity and the greatest inventor in-ventor of all time. Edison predicted that the automobile would be a factor in the transportation field of the country in twenty years and the most wonderful part of all is that both he and the Ap-persons Ap-persons lived to see the day. "The Apperson car has progressed along with the rest of the industry and some sav a little faster. This year thev are building an eight cylinder car, a thing undreamed of a few years ago. In addition -to making a good automobile they have eliminated over eightv troublesome trouble-some parts from the motor intheir car. "The body lines have been perfected so that the car is high grade in every respect and the factory can not produce enough of them to fill the demand all over the country." |