Deseret Evening News | 1900-06-30 | Page 10 | Tremendous Automobile Speed

Word WOld from P Paris comia comes that thal the speed with which automobiles are being driven through the tho and chiefly chleO through the suburbs of that great city Is bringing about condemnation and an policemen have been specially ordered to look all offenders The speed which Is III In some of the die rat races Y there Is nothinG short ot oh marvelous and rivals express trains that run dely along on steel rails ralls In Ina Ina a recent taco nce ot of miles the winner Rene de cle 1 hytt the distance at an average ot of clo close e to H 44 miles nn an hour on country roads and ono one stretch ot of 3 mined he did In minutes had been stationed along the road to maintain roper surveillance but when one what a tro rate that is II for Cor even evenn evena n a locomotive loc held bela to a straight line on the rails by tit the flanges on its own wheels It can be seen what A feat t t it Isto Is Islo to lo guide lIdo II a carriage car weighing n a ton run running ning at the rata ot of a 11 mile a 11 minute with only the tho hand on the 8 steering lever leer to prevent Its going oft off from a true course It If one has ever steered a bob sleigh down lown a 0 long steep Incline on 01 the ICY where lIe he knows know that the slightest t weakening on his part would bring about abou results It would be difficult to describe or It lie he has en n bicycle where It if the hands dId not hold the handle bar absolutely steady going down a lonG ny at the rate of M 26 or 80 10 miles an mil may image Imag Ipe Ille what hat Ills it to the lever ot of a 2000 pound automobile guiding its Ita destiny und and incidentally his hie own at the rate ot of over II a mile a ml uto It l is surely a hair lifting thought