Show AUTO IN A restaurant SERVANT MASTERS CAR OUT FOR JAUNT AND HAS EX CITING ADVENTURE MACHINE BECOMES UNRUH throws drive through negro cafe window into him and eggs would be chauffeurs curios it causes trouble hew york dr edgar calvin sei bert of orange N J has a lively sere of humor when he viewed the wreck of his fine new touring cai other day he fairly doubled up wih mirth of course it gasn wasn t a hopeless wreck there was a good deal of the body and framework of the machine left there was a worse wreck ste ing in ointments bandages and lint in a wing of the physician s house competent chauffeurs are scarce la the oranges dr selbert found this out when he sought to hire one he employed several alleged drivers who seemed very eager in the interests of local funeral directors discouraged he decided to drive his own car and carry along a sort of footman te crank up clean the car and do the messy work in time he imagined that he might train the man to run the chine so he engaged walkes a seri ous young englishman the other night the physician went out to deliver a lecture he went in side leaving walkes in charge of the car had a long wait ahead of hari and in his somber british wa began to take an interest in things he crawled under the car and studied the machinery intently he had heard the doctor speak of his fine engine and wanted to look it over he saw a mase of little wheels and pipes that puzzled him he got a mouthful of dripping gasoline and crawled out iud denly to the street he studied the house fronts and snow sugared trees this palled him suddenly he realized that be had oma small spark of genius in him he crank the car and knew how to put in the spark plug he arani ed viciously and the engine burred with vigorous hoarse music he had seen the doctor throw over the throttle and set the speeds dian didn t know the first from the third spee I 1 but he knew there was a speed lever it take a blooming haz ard he soliloquized aloud he sprang aboard and simultaneously jammed over the speed lever and throttle I 1 hen he grasped the wheel and let her go the spark was work ing fine and the engine was fairly bursting with energy the machine sprang forward in a halt circle and shot toward an elm tree walkes managed to yaw to lee ward the bark of the tree tak ing tl e sidewalk in a splendid leap he had his foot on the clutch and was working it as if it he pedal of a bicycle picturesque results tl e mystery of the brakes was utter ly beyond him u he let them alone lie ha 1 l gone about two blocks on the sidewalk when he suddenly veered and mowed down a fence he dash ed safely through an arbor and demol dished a dog ho aae in which there was a sleeping pet the glass screen ot the machine was shattered and there as much glass and splinters in walkes features and hair when he H went headlong through the win dow aimed for the poran of the dodson homestead lie tolled furiously at the steering wheel and only tore down one angle of the veranda this ca ased him to carom out onto the roadway again and he was soon flying diacona ly toward a busy restaurant in his emotion he had one toot on the syren and it was walling horribly when he collided with the upstanding bill of fare and rolled to the window the car hit the structure fair and stopped walkes went out through the window and dived over three tables landing headlong on the fourth at which five negroes were sit ting about a platter of ham and eggs there was consternation amidst them and the ham and eggs but at this juncture lost consciousness when they took him and the bhat car home his mind was on his childhood d tys |