Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — RAN FIRST AUTO [ARTICLE]

RAN FIRST AUTO

In Spokane, Did Geo. E. Bartoo, Formerly of Remingtton, Indiana. Saturday’s Indianapolis News contained the following dispatch from Spokane, Wash,, together with a picture of Mr. Bartoo: Spokane, Wash., March 11.— The mart who first ran an automobile in this city is George E. Bartoo, formerly of Remington, Ind. He operated the first car and owned the first garage in Spokane. He also was among

the first to make a “goable’V automobile.

Mr. Bartoo is a machinist. Machinery has been his pastime. When a boy he built a machine operated by steam. That was in 1886. The machine was soon wrecked.

Then Mr. Bartoo came west. He came to Spokane and followed tlhe business of steam engineering until 1903. The first automobile was shipped into the city in 1899, and Mr. Bartoo had the first tussle with the new machine. He made good and added to his glory when he drove the auto fifty miles the first day. Then he kept at it and soon opened an agency.