Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — BIG AUTO GOES ON A RAMPAGE [ARTICLE]

BIG AUTO GOES ON A RAMPAGE

Runs Amuck in a Broadway „ Theater Crowd. INJURED LEFT IN ITS WAKE Two of the Most Seriously Hurt Are Not Expected to Recover—When the Machine Was Finally Brought Under Control It Retraced Its Track •nd Picked Up Eight Victims—A Well Known Racing Car Driver Badly Hurt in Paris. New York, Dec. 25.—An automobile Which became unmanageable on Broadway during the after-theater crush injured eight persons, two of whom may die. Cornelius F. Fox, a real estate dealer, and David Mandel, a waiter, who were the most seriously hurt, were taken to Roosevelt hospital, where slight hope was expressed for Fox’s recovery. The other man was injured internally. Just as the crowd was streaming out of the Astor and Gaiety theaters the big touring car was seen to dash down Broadway, striking many persons and skidding on the icy asphalt, with its steering gear completely disarranged and the chauffeur powerless to check it. A policeman, seeing that the car was creating a panic, leaped into the machine at Forty-Fourth street and a few moments later the chauffeur was again able to steer it. Turning back, the machine traversed the block between Forty-Fifth and For-ty-Sixth streets, looking for those that had been injured. Eight persons were found. They were lifted into the car and taken to a hospital. french Peat Made In America. A bright little housekeeper who does her own cooking was asked by a neighbor who happened to be her guest how she could afford to have such delicious French peas so often when they were so expensive. *TM tell you my secret,” said the hostess, “and that is that they aren’t French peas at all. They are Just the common American canned variety. But to give them the delicate French taste you must put about a teaspoonful of sugar with them while they are cooking, after you have seasoned them with the usual amount of salt, pepper and butter. Don’t make the mistake of using too much sugar, though. A level spoonful to a can of peas is sufficient A rather celebrated chef told my mother that long ago. “He must have been a descendant of one of those devoted chefs of the ‘terror* in France, when a cook was expected to make an entree out of a slipper If nothing else offered. “He had a way of making, indifferent coffee taste delicious, too, that I follow, and bless his memory for it That is to pour the ground coffee into a tin, place this over the fire and wait till a rich aroma arises, but don’t let there be any suspicion of burnin. Than make your coffee in any one of the hundred correct ways you happen to have been taught and observe the Improvement."—New York Post.