Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — The Evolution of the Automobile. [ARTICLE]

The Evolution of the Automobile.

While in Ft. Wayne recently attending the Democratic Editorial Association meeting, we could not help but wonder at the rapid evolution pf the automobile. Only seven years ago we attended an editorial association meeting at Rochester and the party was all driven to Lake Manitou in carriages, such a vehicle as an automobile being unknown or nearly so, at that time. Last year at Laporte and this year at Ft. Wayne the editors were all taken over the* city in splendid automobiles, covering almost the entire city and surrounding country at a speed of perhaps fifteen or twenty miles on hour, and motor propelled vehicles were more numerous <Jn the streets than those propelled by horse power. Truly the evolution of the automobile has been one of the wonders of the century, but perhaps it will he but a few years more until the flying machine supercedes even the auto as a means of conveyance for those who can put up the price.