Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-30 | Page 49 | Seeing the Country on Nothing a Week Young Couple Travel in Auto Pullman Oil and Rubber Are Their Only Worries

I. I Seeing the Country C a on Nothing a l Week eek Young Couple Co up le Travel in Auto Pullman an anOil Oil and Rubber Rubb r Are Their Only Worries i Robins Family Have All the Comforts ts of Home on Trip By Frederick M. M Kerb Kerby By Special News Service NEW YORK Sept 30 I 1 I have found I a a. workingman and his wife who have solved the high cost of living They are Mr and Mrs A. A W W. Robins I of the United States of America The increase in house rent doesn't bother the they they dont don't p pay y rent No gas company or electric light corpor corporation corporation cor cor- por tion collects a nickel nicke from Mr an and Mrs Robins they Robins they dont don't use that kind of light The price of coal does not enter into the family budget of ot the Robins family fam fam- ily they Ily-they they use no coal Robins and his wife pay a railroad bill They spend their summers Inthe Inthe in inthe the mountains and their winters rs in inthe inthe inthe the Southland but no resort proprietor ever collects a cent of board from them They The buy their food cheaper than anybody else in the tho United States States- direct from the farmers themselves They never use an egg that isn't fresh I I NO KICKS I They never have a kick because the radiator in the flat is cold They never have to cuss the Janitor t to get hot water when they want It If it wasn't for tor Standard Oil company company com corn pany and the rubber barons Mr MIS and Mrs Robins wouldn't have a a. single thing In the world to w worry rry about I found them in their home hume The Adventure Adventure Adventure Ad Ad- venture at the tho foot of East street and East River where they have been located for a few days aay The Adventurer Adventurer Adventurer Ad Ad- is not a yacht it is an auto auto- auto I mobile I suppose said Robins when I I asked him about his system for beating I I the H H. C C. LJ there have been few people peo peo- pIe plc who have hae lived longer or more comfortably comfortably com corn on wheels than we have We Ve started out in May 1915 from San Francisco and we have been on onI I the road continuously ever since Why Well we both like to travel and we both like e all the comforts of ot home So we decided the fact that we were poor shouldn't stop us from traveling traveling trav tray eling cling and at the same time being com corn I rigged up The Adventurer Adventurer really a home on wheels When we started out it was not with any particular idea but merely to see the country We Ve de decided decided decided de- de this was the best cheapest and most comfortable way WilY Ve We have stopped wherever we felt inclined On the tho whole however we have followed roughly the Old did National trail as far as Chicago and then the Lincoln highway to New York We Ve dont don't know exactly where we will go from here but we are thinking of ot runn running running run run- n ning ng up to New Haven When the cold weather comes we shall shaH go somewhere into the South I stepped inside the Robins home It was originally a Ford touring touring- car with truck attachment and it is geared to fifteen miles an hour Robins has taken off oft the original body and substituted a somewhat larger one The whole car carnow carnow carnow now weighs about pounds HOW INSIDE COVERED The interior has been covered with wall board and is as warm and comfortable comfortable comfortable comfor comfor- table as any house It Is fitted up with every modern convenience The driving seat can be made Into a bed a water tank provides running I water there is a tiny kitchenette tte there are gas and and fe electriC lights A I HE inside and the outside of the Robins family's observation i to I L and pullman car 1 I II II I I t II riL i I I j jI I jI 9 J I II I I 1 I 1 4 T i iI I I f long hong case of books a a. writing table I Ia and even a small phonograph with many a vr records or I A folding table and folding chairs which can ean be stowed away when not I needed complete the appointments of ot j this model tenement The final home homeI j I touch is given by a few plants which 1 Mrs Robins Insists are necessary to tomake tomake make the car a real home i Robins has earned practically all the expense money for the tho trip so far by filling small printing r mostly for cards cards on on the small put complete printing outfit he hI carries with him I The third member of the family is Monk an English bull pup Just as I enthusiastic about the trip as are his I i masters j I