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Mr. French,, seem futUrTf t
"horseless carriage," aa they were clle
In those days, decided to embark In the
manufacture of earn, bo arrangements
were mado for organising a company. On
Thanksgiving Day, 1898, I arrived Irf bu
Louis, and tho St. Louis Motor Carriage
Company was organised with 80OOO capital
stock. Mr. French was president of the
company, and I was chosen vice president
and engineer."
WESTCOTT NOT TO ENTER
t NEW BUILDING FOR VIM MOTOR TRUGKS
DORRB T&LS STORY
OF AUTO DEVELOPMENT
to engage In the piano "business wHJl the
Jesse French Piano and Organ Company,
a concern controlled by his father. About
tho time Mr. French went to St. Louis
I became Interested In automobiles from
reading accounts of the early German
nnd French experiments as publlihed. by
the Scientific American, and encouraged
by tho success of tho road race held
Thanksgiving Dny, In ISM, at Chicago, I
Immediately decided to build an automo
bile. Accordingly, I started to work on
this machine nnd had It In operation In
the -early spring of 1&97. Needless to say,
the machlno attracted a great deal of at
tention. In tho fall of 1897 my nutomo
bllo had reached such a state of success
that 60-mlle trips wcro very successful.
"In 1S96 Mr. Fronch placed his order
with tho Wlnton Motor Carriage Com
pany for one of their single-cylinder cars.
Tho delivery of tho car was. however,
delayed from month to month, so that
It wai not actually delivered until the
middle of tho summer of IS9S, and this
was the sixth Wlnton macnlne. nnd was
successfully operated In St. Louis for a
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Thtk TVWM Mn(n... a . .
Baker-Price Company, 2031 MartS .
haa an excellent exhibit of 19U Zz
Mr. Baker denied that i hi
Began Working on "Horseless
Carriage" Wheri He Was
Only a Boy
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O. P. Dorrls, In his story of the early
history of the automobile business and
his connection with It, says:
"John L. French and myself nro natives
of Nashville, Tenh , land we were boyhood
friends nnd attended school togother. As
we grew older, our Instincts naturally
turned to mechanical problems.' This
mutual Interest resulted In 18M In our pur
chasing a second-hand ftaclno coal-oll-burnlng
steam launch anc' wo operated
this launch for tho season.
"In 1S05 Mr. French moved to Ht Louis
Motorcar Company, Is eonltmplMisT!
terlng tho proposed combination of !
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MOTORING McGUSTY HITS MANAYUNK
HILL AT 50 PER; HIS MA-IN-LAW FAINTS
Speedometer Quits Registering as Wind of the "Warm
Baby" Tosses a Farmer From His Wagon Seat
and Barrel of Spinach Is Lost
Uy MOTORING McGUSTY
ISUrroaE I ought -to put tltlci on these
occasional llttlo messages ot mine on
tha art and science of motoring as I
Achieved It. That'd pin mo down to sep
arata and distinct episodes and keep me
from slipping In odds and ends that seem
to sort of drift oft the pen. So I'll call
tills one:
"Down the Manayutilc Hill," and tnlto
you down that hill Immcdjut and without
stops.
There was another railroad bridge be
tween me and the regular Manayunk hill
proper when 1 left ort my last message.
And, like with most railroads bridges,
there's a. step-up to It nnd n step-down
from It. I guess we were making to when
1 lilt the. step-up, and, whllo the "Warm
Baby's" rear springs n'ro good, they're
not any too good. Mother-in-law Plggott
cot most of the step-up, but she had hold
of the roDe-ra'l In front or her which kept
her from leaving the tonncau and drop
ping down on a passing freight a freight
passing under tho bridge.
Leastwise, that's the way sh explained
It afterward, short and enrcasttc. Mcbbe
she laid It on a llttlo thick. Mothers-ln-
law do Hint. Still mebbo she didn't. I
was looking out front nnd not paying any
attention. We'd no sooner crossed tho
bridge than I begnn to get a slant of a
real hill. Tho Mnnayunk hill. It looked
a. mile long nnd cut awny steep enough
to causo a mountain goat to wear brake
bands. And recollect, I still had the clutch Jn
and tho englno was turning oyer. I was
told after that If I'd slowed her down
and got her Into second that would have
acted better'n tho foot-brnke. I'd Just
explained to the ass that told ma this
that the foot-brake was clear to the floor
and not braking.
"Then why didn't you use the hand
brake," said tho same "plnhcad."'
"I'm coming to that," I told him, "and
I don't want any of your cheap amateur
advice till I've finished the story."
"Sucked htm out through Ms covered
tcagon."
As I said somowhero back, and I had
to explain It nil over ngnln to this chump,
I'd dislocated tho hand-brake by starting
off under a full head of gas with it
locked. I nlso said I didn't know this
had happened till Mrs. Flggot got her ono
frco hand the other was still welded to
tho robe-rail twisted In my collar and
sc-enmed att mo:
"Lou, tho emergency!"
I suro did hato to let one hand off that
wheel, with the bottom of the hill com
ing up to meet me at about sixty. Hut
I reached out nnd grabbed that alleged
emergency and pulled her back to the
lait notch.
Ht'ISODES.
Nothing happened that Is, nothing In
tho way of retained acceleration. Before
wo hit the brldgo at tho foot of the hill
and that henven-provldcd nnd cobble-
paved upslope beyond there were one or
two high llttlo cpliodes No. 1, for which
I mil thankful, provented a real catas
trophe, though It Involved the loss of con
sciousness of Mrs, l'lggott.
Her grip on my collnr had. cut off my
wind, nnd ns sho lurched buck and forth
with tho swaying of the "Warm Daby"
she'd suro liavo torn mo loose from tho
wheel nnd we'd nave gono Into the ditch,
lint she fainted Just as soon as Bhe saw
tho handhinko didn't work. Hence, I
got nlr ngnln and held on nnd stcored.
Yen, I steered. And If I do say It my
self, Do Itestn. Do I'nlma nor none of
that hunch could have ivulo that little
S-turn Just before tho t'ldge nnd then
cleared the bridge Itself any neater. Not
at tho speed I was making Tho speed
ometer hnd null registering, so I can't
give it to you exact. The huckster who
was eioslng the bridge In the opposite di
rection snja It was 90. He figured It at
90 'cause just the wind of my going by
lotnovcd lilni' from his driving scat and
sucked him out throiiRli his covered wa
gon nnd over tho tailboard. There was
a barrel of spinach nlso that followed him
out over tho tailboard. '
Hear hi mind now, I never touched this
wagon. Didn't even scrape the hubs. If
that wasn't Class A steering for a be
ginner J never want to sell you another
egg Arid this brings mo down the Mana
Mink hill with Mrs. l'lggott still In a
swoon, but othcuvlso Intact.
(To bo Continued.)
Auto Accessories
With the addition of a largo amount of
space It has been found possible this
enr to glvo a display to tho sundries
and nccessorles, a feature, much wel
comed by motorists. This portion of
the show came In yesterdny for big
attention from the public.
Tho largo section filled up by the
display of Gaul, Dorr & Shearer Is par
ticularly Interesting becauso of tho largo
offering of Important adjuncts to tho
comfort of the motorist.
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