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A COAL-BURNING AUTO. .
To the hum of machines in his shop in Springfield, Ohio, H. E. Owen, shown at right, dreams of the "first auto"-a cbal-burning steamer-he built in 1887. Photo of it is shown at left.
Springfield, Ohio, June 14-11 He ruined $12.50 from the sale chine from operating, as there his little garage-like shop here, of old rags, copper and junk. were no laws to cover this emer- to the tune of his motor and lathe, With $2.50 of this he bought agency, so upon the pretext that II. W. Owen dreams of a glary crucible, which he used to melt old the 150-pounds, pressure register- brass given him by friendly em- ing on the stean gauge was dan- that might have been bis:
ployees of the railroad.
Įgeraus, he ordered the boy to re-. It is a dream of the lost pos The story of that "steam wagon" daer it, sibility of being the first automo
The reducing process was ac- hile pioneer and Inventor in the is a tale of callouses, hard work United States. In fact, he is the and deprivations. The parts of complished by changing the post- first, Owen insists, although little the machine were all made by the tion of the needle to read "50 credit, if any, is given him in off-bay himself with patterns mande pounds" instead of 160 pounds,”
cial automotive circles. •
Digging back into the recesses of his memory, Harry Owen, now grey haired and 66, recalls the day when at the age of 14 he enused a stir in his village by pearing on the streets with a smoke-helching, suorting contrap tion that moved without horse or man power.
It was in the spring of 1880, in Richwood, Ohio, that Harry Owen got his idens from the locomotives that passed by the town. te luck ed himself in his room and drew his plans for his motor.
Builds Motor from Scraps, Without funds and denied, ald by his father, a surgeon for the Bric railrond; the boy was forced to to all the work. himself.
LEVEL CROSSINGS.
British and French Impressions.
from old pine boxes, chiselled with ja surgical knife purloined from his father's collection and sand given him by friends in a foundry at Warren, Ohio.
The lad took a year to complete the job. Then he started out to prove, to the town that his work
had not been in vain.
ů
and the marshal was satisfied, lowing that 50 pounds of steam wasn't going to hurt anybody."
In the fall, Harry stored tis machine in his father's barn, where a fire reduced it to ashes and twisted metal,
During the next few years the Ind was kept busy making team wagons", for men over Ohio. They were much improved over his first attempt.
The coal-burning, smoke-belch- ing monater came, down the street at the unprecedented rufe of 17 miles an hour. People vin from Now Owen works in his little their homes to see what "that shop in Springfield, inventing owen boy was up to. Horses things for the ears for which broke from their hitcking racks fothers receive credit because of and ran down the streets, frailing protective patents. Altogether, a racking buggy or wagon in their he has made and sold 27 patents wake.
on parts and accessories.
Fools the Marshal,
The village marshal was juz- zled. He could not stop the ma-
hearts.
He holds no 11. feeling toward those others, but sayat...
"Well, all I made mine for was
to have a good time, and I did.”
1
a scalpel, and that would take a bit gateman, the custodian is nearly of doing in these days when the always & woman, and she has other mov. show close-ups of Aurgeops) duties to perform besides opening excavating. No; it's no good; we the gate. She is almost certainly just have to fume and wait. But in charge of the signal box; she is we don't do it with law-abiding the telephonist, and she may even combine these duties with those of It's only because designers are so station mistres..; and, beyond all feeble that they give us cars that this, she blows a little trumpet. cannot treat closed level-crossing|
Figure to yourself, as gates as a tank could that some of French friels say, what a French If there is one quality on which jus hold back. It is not because of level crossing would be without the we English pride ourselven it is our our law-abiding qualities that we little trumpet blown at intervals. reverence for law and order, We refrain from a great push. It's After perhaps twenty minutes' age so accustomed to "Pass along just simple because we cannot go weary wait, with motorists stamp- there, please,' when the polile forward.
ing up and down the road hoping
By R. A. C."}
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Our
Epoliceman urges us; to stand quiel- }, Now, in Franco-ah! They do against hope for that still far-dis
ly in quetios so that we may pay things differently in Francel, flant dejenner, a thin squeaky blast heavily after hours of walling, to Have you ever beheld a line of smites the air. Ah! it lasti All sit in unconfortable sents for seve-motorists drawn up at a French spring back into their cars, en- ral hours at a play; to tremble all level crossing, on some stretch of gines are started, and hope rises over when the blue paper arrives rond miles from the nearest town, triumphant in everyone's breast. from the income-tax collector, that and with the hour of dejeuner or It is a false alarm! Seemingly. We, feltuie ourselves that we are diner drawing on? And remember a cruel mockery on the part of the the most orderly people on earth. lunch and dinner are not movable servant of the State to rouse opti Have you ever seen Germana in feasts in the French, as they so mism. "Courage", the horn seems the face of retly authority? Or often are with us. Rather, indeed, to speak, "the gate really will open Frenchmen when confronted by the are they almost religious rites-to-day." Nothing more happens. very humblest of the official ser-subjects not fit for banter, certain-Engines are switched off and gloomy vants of the Republic? If you fly not for delay,
lence sets fn again. You walk
have, you have seen orderly obe- Yet, watch that queue of motor-to the barrier, peer up and down dienée compared with which ourists, and wonder. The countryside the line, and admire the wonderful most perfect deportment in "Pass-is as flat as a plate, and the road vegetation which the French appear Ope ing along.. please!" is a disorderly trails out of the picture in an end-to grow between the metals.
less riband as far as the eye can almost expects to see a few sheep rout.
forward nibbling there. How irritable we become if in the stretch in backward or
Another little squeak from the course of a motoring run we come direction. When the road itself across a closed level-crossing gatet melts into, nothing, its presence in trumpet. More silence, and an- a train. Our feelings towards level-crossing the dini distance is proclaimed by other, when all at once
It is gates have nothing, I venture to an endless string of poplare, really dues come into view. say, to do with any feelings of And somewhere, kilometres beyond a colossal construction with enor- Safety First. No; we ball up be- the farthest visible point of the nous carriages and a gigantic en- chuse when we come across one shut poplars, is a town, a village, or may-gine. The permanent way appears we have to wait. Worse still if the be only an inn, where dejeuner or to vibrate frightfully, the train train is a "goods" and does a little diner is perhaps at this very instant seems to be running on wires, so shunting before the radiator of our being prepared for service "dish-slender look the metals after our car. The frightful deliberation of ed up" as we homely English would own solid lines. The whole Im- mense train passes by, and-looks al- the railwaymen appals us. We Ry
Every now and then another au- most like toppling on to the bonnet forget ourselves and have been known to awear. We are always ontomobile rolls up, takes its place at of the first car in the queue. It urgent business when it happens, the end of the queue stretching up disappears. Madame sounds a lit or at least we delude ouracives we and down the road on either sidetle triumphant tool on her trumpet, wonder if the man in of the slender pine tree-trunk bar-and with almost Inconceivable slow- are; wo charge of the gate would believe rier-se slender, yet so patent a ness, to add dignity to her position as a servant of the Republic, she. us if we said we were about to barrier to progress. save the life of a patient by an For the pine trunk represents far moves to raise the barrier.
Perhaps the British level crossing urgent operation, or that we were more to the French than do the Royalty hastening to receive the elaborate gates in our own country is not so bad after all-The Auto-
Here it is car. freedom of a city, though denied to the Englishman. freedom of the highway.
merely a confounded nuisance creat
No good! The picture papersed by a railway company; make every conceivable Royal coun-France it, is an actual symbol of tenance, be it British, Continental, the State,
or even Balkan-somehow the Bal-
BRITISH TRUCK AND 'BUS FIGURES.
There is no sign of a train. In The growing use of commercial kans seem too romantic to be in-England you generally see a train motor vehicles in Great Britain is cluded in Europo, and deserve a within a few minutes of the gates indicated by statistics published by niche for themeselves-known to being shut; in France there is nofter Transport showing that every railway worker. That's the such guarantee, actual or implied, whereas in 1926 trucks and vans numbered 257,123. in 1027 they worst of cheap papers and univer, as car manufacturers have it.
A gloomy silence settles on the totalled 282,005. The greatest in- Bul education. Now, in the old. days of the stage coach, for in-throng. In England in similar crcase is seen in vehicles carrying would be between 12 cwt, and two tona. The stance. However, ds for the circumstances horns doctor-and-patient in-extremis blown, Klaxons Hounded, and a cermotor bus and coach business-- la a healthy condition, the stunt, one would have to induce a tain amount of rough wit project also in doubting Thoming of a porter to ed at the gateman. In France, number of auch vehicles having l bellove a King Dick spanter wasi never. To start with, there is no gone-up-from-40,118 10:42,084.
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