Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — An Automobile 'Residence. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

An Automobile 'Residence.

A novel vehicle that has attracted the attention of pedestrians along Wabash avenue, Chicago, for some days is an automobile house, belonging to George Washington, 481 avenue. It is a traveling van propelled by a forty-horse power gasoline motor,

and ‘is intended for a home for its owner and his wife during their wanderings about the country. An old street car has been rebuilt for the body of the house, to which are added an observation and operating platform at the front end, surrounded by large

windows, and a porch in the rear. The machinery is mounted on a heavy steel frame, the whole weighing about four tons. Although no great success has as yet attended Mr. Washinfton’s efforts to navigate in the new craft, he believes that when he has put teninch tires on it, with teeth to them to catch the ground, he can move his house at a good pace whenever he will.

A TRAVELING RESIDENCE.