Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1912 — Wrecked New Auto Which He Was Bringing From Factory. [ARTICLE]

Wrecked New Auto Which He Was Bringing From Factory.

Charles M. Martz, propfrlet&f’ of the Arcadie Canning Works, of Arcadia, Ind., and also secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Canners Association and of the Arcadia Telephone Co., has been an involuntary guest of the Makeever hotel since Sunday evening. Accompanied by Norman S. Martz and Ira Trout, of Arcadia, and J. G. Troyer, of Waterloo, Wls., he was on his way Lrcm Kenosha, Wis., where he had purchased a brand new. Rambler auto right from the factory, to his home in Arcadia. The party left Kenbsha Saturday afternoon and were speeding right along without an accltlentexoept ■ that they got offtheir route at, Thayer and went to Morocco by mistake. They were headed for Rensselaer and had reached a point in Newton township at 4bout 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon when their trouble occurred. Mr. Martz was at the wheel of the car. He is a novice at driving and failed to keep in the center of the road. When the car veered out of the road it was confronted with a large rock and he succeeded in guiding the car around it but he ran right onto another one and his car stuck right up on the top of it. The accident occurred on the Kelley road, about a mile and a half from the residence of Jay W. Stockton, to whom an appeal for aid was made. Mr. Stockton went over there In his automobile, helped jack the car up and get it off the rock and then piloted the car to RensselaeK The four men all climbed into the car, which made it trail a little hard and When Jay came to a sand hill he asked the men to get out until he had pulled the machine over and then he came on to town and the four men came In most of the way on foot, Jay returning for them a short distance in the country. It was found at the garage that the Rambler was quite badly damaged. New parts had to be sent for and they did not arrive until today and the four men have been waiting here until the car is put in shape to continue the trip. The car was dameged to the extent of $125. Mr. Martz has been especially put out by the delay, as his company is right in the midst of the canning season and he is needed at home. He claims that the fact of the rocks being in the road is sufficient cause for making the township liable for the accident, but It is hardly probable that he will start anything, as he admitted to several people that he was a beginner at driving and was not in the center of the road when the rock was encountered.