Show THESE SNAPPY ITEMS ITEl WERE WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMOBILES TWENTY VENTY FIVE YEARS AGO i Postmaster Hess of Indianapolis I joins other postmasters in an en I statement to the effect that automobiles soon may be used for handling the mails Hess asks Washington to permit him to carryon carryon carry carryon on an experiment at Washington I IA A house on wheels is a show for residents of o Wabash a avenue Chi Chicago Chicago cago The contraption has taken sevel several al days to proceed a mile or orso orso orso so along the a at avenues It is an auto automobile automobile automobile mobile affair belonging to George 1 Washington 81 avenue The Germans want a motor fuel tuel which presents no danger of ea c or fire A prize of Is offered to anyone I who ho will find It The product must not be more e ec- ec ex expensive I pensive e e than gasoline I I New York Automobile club erects the first signboards for motorists around about New v York The signs are going up between New York and Bridgeport Later the load Albany is to be tackled lot tOI Automobiles are beginning to de I I I T elop elop a language langua of their own T The e chauffeur who ho scorches but I tails fails to to show s skill Is a chauffard Century Motor Vehicle company S Syracuse totes lotes otes to IncI ease Its cap capItal capital Ital Ilal stock am to Practically all the stockholders were ere present at the meeting In Baltimore Dallimore the Ole United States ess company is considering the feasibility or of o substituting automo automobiles I biles bies for horse drawn n vehicles Auto bus service has been establIshed in Passaic N J The fhe corn com compan pan Is 01 I with Ith a capital stock The charge Is 10 cents a single fate faie Vanderbilt while out rid nd ridI log ing In his new automobile IS la brought close to a se serious fous accident I when hen ho he pulls the wrong rong lever le Ie er per per emitting twitting the car to run back backward ard over a precipice into the sea Ilea Mrs John Jacob Astor startles society an and sends a thrill up the sprine of oC the young oung automobile In InI i I by making a social call In her brougham automobile The car made quite a showing sho InS with Its 11 drives drivel In Pans Paris statistics are published showing that 0 o er er a certain period ot of time one death and 33 Injuries resulted from automobiles In the same period of time there had been beon beoni i 67 deaths and Injuries Cl from am horse draw drat dra n n I i chides Newspapers are filled with ac accounts accounts accounts I counts of ot an automobile lace race at Galesburg III A three year old Duryea raced against a new WIn WInton Winton Winton ton o er 0 er a distance ot of 15 mIles The Win Winton Ion IonI I won on making the 15 miles in 42 12 ml minutes and nd 18 13 seconds So man many complaints of speedIng on Chicago streets a ale aie e ed by bythe I Ithe the Chicago city council that thai the 1 council council is considering enactment ot of legislation cutting the limit l dO down downto downto n nto to fise n e miles an hourI hour I National Carriage Builders asso asco- as association o- o elation meeting in Indianapolis totes otes to admit manufacturers of ot au automobiles on equal terms with members of at the other guild I |