| Show THE AUTOMOBILE IN GAY PARIS Cabs ebs and Carriages Outnumber Thorn nem Fifty to Ont On rHE II Covering lit 1 un ii Ii II I II Say StO JIlle en II lilt 1 Special Correspondence Front our regular lar corr Paris Paril Fiance July 30 10 I returned to iO P Parla after an ablative of tb three 1 IX expected to see the and boulevards bovard thronged with automo automobile bile I had bad heard so much about them True the automobiles are here bert but the cabs abe and nd curl still lill outnumber them by at least 1111 lit to one The Tb French machine II I not u ornate as the Amert Ameri American can but I it has baa a decidedly business businesslike like and enduring appearance They are under perfect control and uel thread the crowded treet and get without damage e In th the Jams Jam Their extricate them from a tUlle tangle In the trePt with quite a as much ease as do Ute the driver vf of other But tt IS tb the automobile d doe not move In tb the battalion through t the Streets of oC Part Paris It I Is because It Its real habitat I is the parka ud and surrounding country there thre tbt they travel at great IreM forty miles an hour through dust dUlt and mud muel ud mid over small mall obstacles A few days day ago th the annual international al automobile cup race was won by the French Charron Chafton adept In the automobile racing game rame covered the kilometers about mIle between the Yule and Lyons Lyon In InS S hours houri S minutes and 29 with an average of about 31 miles itt an hour from tart start to ilso alo French business partner of Charron with same kind of oC was 1111 second in It 10 hours houn 3 36 and 22 seconds Th The other contestants Jenat I ly belgian Winton Wlaton American and De Dc Knyff met with varlo mishap and aid we were forced to abandon the t trac rac Winlon lIlon th the sole 01 American tive was waa going will well until near Cha Cba Jr 11 arrived at that piece with one ot of the front wheels of hi machine twisted until St It would scarcely turn and one of oC tb the rear pneumatic tires tire punctured He managed to lo partially patch up the breakage und and reach Or Orleans leans leuI but at this place found It necessary sary to top stop altogether At several points alon along the route Le Verb who ran Independent ot of the rA race e wu warn mil mis mistaken taken for tor Winton Whiten and this confusion led to the report that Winton was wa see ond on I All the contestants had accidents and i Cherron either had bad the te elt or was waa more fortunate In hi quick repairs The Thereal real contest from first to last warn be between tween Charron and GIrardot At Cbs trill mlle Charron led b by 33 13 mInutes but at Or Orlean lean mU mIles preceded harron Charron by 17 mInutes the litter Mv lag Ina bent his hll axle ule three kilometers be before I tore fore Orleans Charron again took the lead head before La Palisse and kept It to the hush Nr Near his hll machine I struck a bit big d front from the road passed between two trees trl completely clear cleared a ditch and Its Ita course In the road at forty miles an hour bour be before before fore could loul reain control 0 of the steering I t thought I a deed one said Charron In relating kis ex cx penance afterward HIrt Henri Fournier none u the 1 lees daring is an automobile driver w was on Ih the seat lIel with Charron It Is II no unu uRI sight to lee t small mall tricycle ridden by a lady and gentleman tn III the environ ot of Part Paris or In the country The roads road are but there I Ia raIn and nd mud and the machine go 0 log at the rate it r from thirty to forty rol mitts an hour bour will over a man mall end aid hi his wife with thin mortar from head bead to heels beel They a n a rule anticipate the weather and arp an covered with water waterproof proof clothing hll hang In their faces tace and nd especially their n ri protected Many Man optimistic and prophesies are male mae In ID view ot of tb the new The complete ot of th the ho horse linen the streets tretta ot of cities Is only Il a of when dogs dor are an banished the streets and sidewalk mar ma h t kept as clean eleaD as a Dutch parlor With the ot of the horse Ita hie and Del fly Ity breeding filth the flies I thice hulle I insects that are arenow arenow now known knon to l 1 the agents for lor the of and nd Idem Ie Ic diseases will 1 The reason Ion why sweeping and washing streets and destroying promotes health In II I first lv hI off the food supply and nd nuts neat ot of those thOle rI be testable which are more mort d de to human life than were all Ute the wild beaste if f the tot forest when primeval man them with nothing better than a club chub Flies and rats rat have hap been regarded In Um times pat past as al 6 but are now kiowa to be th thi of deadly 1 The scavenger I is man using the beet 1 and hi his wilt III be roost moat Intelligently Ii 11 when It has hall for or Its ILl flint object t the destruction of nr the food supplies of flies lieu rats rat II mice cats and par apr rows row At Vincennes II a ble suburb of Paris PAri ther Is II a mot most for you rou can caD see there the ot of locomotion from its ILl earliest Infancy Ita it I Iwas was about to sa down don to the and rapid automobile of every err On con shape from tb the old lumbering diligence III with to spick span pan a ant 11 ringe driven l br ID occupying litle more sac than ii ht hat hatbox box Tb The I is 11 In tl this category and I Is a splendid w bI cycle track shortly to be thrown 0 open to tn the public lf here re you m may pie t te er man many of ofus us UI remember our I legs with thirty years U as when bicycle first ea camp Int Into public Ue lb bl big wheeled monstrosity with ts III lilliputian rear r wheel that thai fd and aad th the most mOlt aft a marvel of simple In mechanism sep september bou be an Um time at atthe atthe the Annex a the there WIll viii be worth of prizes then to he be competed for on one of them Ihm being Mo em for tor the most mOlt wheel America I may add dd Is II wen well at the Lin In cenne Annul Annex a as she hu baa tour four spaces 01 there I of she In the |
