Outing Volume 37 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...electric runabouts with as much space for carrying purposes as required, and weighing little more than 500 pounds, won admiration. THESE shows were considered highly successful by the exhibitors, affording them an excellent opportunity for comparing notes; and most of them received the impression that it would be desirable to commence active manufacture at once. A strong impetus in this di rection was received, and the effect of it must soon be felt in the market. Another effect will be the discouragement of amateur automobile: building: the hopelessness of which becomes very conspicuous. The shows were an epitome of all that has been going on in the automobile world, and overshadow in importance the fast journeys between New York, Newport and Boston which several owners of imported gaso'nc vehicles made during October, with minoi mishaps due to wretched roads Our public refuses to take those vehicles and road-racing exploits seriously, in which it requires a twelve to twenty horse power motor and two to four thousand pounds of material for the transportation of two persons with little or no baggage. While highly interesting to a chauffeur embolic, whose vision of automobilism is one of fancy, they do not seem to point the way to those useful results which the American business man likes to keep within his visual angle, even though he depart on an errand of fashion or caprice. "thundering Through The Narrow Streets Of A Country Village." "The Automobile in French Recreative Life." p. 876. THERE was no wind; and the young fir-trees stood up straight and tall and stiffly pointed from the noiseless white levels of the snow. The blue-white moon of midwinter, sharply glittering like an icicle, hung high in a heaven clear as tempered steel. Th...