Show Automobile in America 1 I r tar The A dOZ years ago KO the tho vehicle v ve ye- strung a sight In l An Amen r rica r- r hide hicle was a as Ica lea a as an airship is today A At t that automobiles automobile live five time there were ere only at fabulous lab fab In the United States Imported ulous prices price Even IWo avo years ago I Invention was retarded regarded as a play the Uw toy for Tor the amusement or of a tow few mil mil mU- AA Today there are over machines machines machines ma ma- States State chines In u use In the United wore new now cars can wild sold of ot which hu last t y year 1 OG It Is safe to say that I 50 more American a automobiles will iii i he be purchased In 1907 1901 Consumers I will nay lay perhaps for fo these car cars A raging Averaging the capacity of the themore themore I in It more morr th than n cars In America Amertt this thin Nr at four our passengers each there will be nearly half a million million mil mu- lion people 81 speeding spec over the thc country In automobiles automobile For the y ar r ending June 30 1 there were 53 foreign automobiles Imported for rOl consumption tion aggregating In fn value value- 2291 s. 10 For th the nine months Including Sc September 1906 there were machines machines machines ma ma- chines imported Q aggregating in hi value In 1895 1805 there wa not flOt a turning single 1 factory In this thin country out cars for fOI the market market- During tin UM year endI ending June 80 30 O 1905 the ex es- aggregated alone of oC American ears care gated JS 13 tS V ihla I. to u ii r t ii h in h un- un ate transportation por nUon na method method- Ill n nI tl I r- r J revolution i is a more 1111 extent of the witness to the fact that the automobile automo bile has hns In this short time become a II practicable vehicle fur for the thc average man maim The amazing growth of the Industry in America during Ih th the past few years year'S is no longer based upon a popular tall lad nor on evanescent experiments experiment experiments ments ment to meet It It as 88 was move more or less the first popularity of the horseless carriage here a decade ago ngo which was Vas given Its Impetus chiefly by the cheap steam runabout runabout tn an n unsatisfactory tory lory type Indeed it is only within the past two or three years yeat that the thc production of anything like hike permanent permanent perma porma- nent font types and standardization of ot conI construction construction con con- I IK is to be found in the Amen Ameri I can automobile industry What went I before really amounted to experimentation tation atlon and learning the tho trade the older and more mOle expert foreign manufacturers It Is lit now quite possible pos pos- sible sibie to turn out good cars in this country countr- our manufacturers more and more of late have c abandoned I freak models model and Instead Im t ad of striving fag ing for tor something ne ha have VE confined confined con con- on- on fined their attention to the superior construction of types that experience has proved to be serviceable Tho The side entrance touring car c r. r varying in solidity ot of construction according to the power to be bo developed has 1103 beCent be- be Cent eom th the tho standard tn to which nil all types V aI oro Qi Harry It II Haines Up ida w of Review j |