Show COULDN COULDN'T USE MOTOR MOTORCARS CARS Etiquette Would Not Allow Driver to Sit In Presence of Chin Chinese c Dowager Dow Dow- ager Empress I I When the dowager dO empress of ot China died In 1903 1908 she left 48 motor cars among other things to her heirs Most of ot these had been made specially for tor her many were gifts gilts from high t Chinese potentates and and all were gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gor gor- palatial expensive ears cars Her tier favorite was wn an passenger eight-passenger French machine with with its bod body painted deep orange and Its seats upholstered In violet violet vio vio- let satin brocade e edged ged with round roand flat blue turquoise stones But Dut the dowager never never rode in a mo ma tor tor car In her life Iffe and not ono one of ot the 48 varieties ever left the Imperial earn ea IR- rn rage ge I It was not because became there were no I embr embryo o chauffeurs In la China Chinn The i f young Chinese who had been In la Eng land and America imbibing Occidental college educations had learned to Joyride joyride Joyride Joy- Joy ride and dozens of ot them might have havo qualified as high chancellor of the wheel in the dowa dowager er empress' empress buzz wn wagon on But But no no one may st alt down In the presence of ot a Chinese monarch I And how could any anyone one stand up straight ht and drive a n powered high motor car In 1908 there were not more than a n I dozen motor cars In lu all China besides the collection In the Imperial garage I today tb there re are arp about at least GO CO 1 per er cent of ot which are driven by Occidental Oc Oc- Occidental Oc- Oc traders commercial agents and members of ot the various Western legations Driving Is restricted to a very few of ot the largest coast cities l where It Is rough h going at best and there Is not a road In China Chinn fit for tor a motor ride |