Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — The Autos Are Full of Trouble. [ARTICLE]

The Autos Are Full of Trouble.

The town was full of autoes Tuesday and the antoee were fnll of trouble. Yes, verily, “The au 4 o man ts born to trouble es the spark era fly wrongward” is the way Job would read in the lat(st revised version. Aud this applies not only to the looal owners of autoes who spend most of their leisure moments flat on their backs gazing upwards through tbe works of their machines trying to see what has gone wrong again with their insides, but with eqnal or greater foroe it applies to tbe anto strangers within our gates. Thus of five big autoes which passed through here Tuesday every last one had to stop at Willis & Boa’s barage and have repairs of greater or less extent made. Two of these were early in tbe morning and did not need much and made bnt short stops. A Chicago dootor who got here abont two o’olook had more than his share of bad luok. He had a French built machine end so far as knowa it was the first foreign built; auto to strike Beutselaer. He started out from Chicago with his wife, aud had hardly got out of tbe city before be had a complete upset, and was so badly wreoked that he had to hire a farmer to tow him back for repaire. He made a fresh start, and got as far as Fair Oaks, when a wheel looked. By telephoning in to Willis and got advice whereby, he managed to get to town, but s*nt his wife baok. Here the Willises made a new cone for his wheel, and many minor repairs and towarde night, he palled oat for Olney, 111., his furthest destination.

About the time the Frenohy got in, came also a big Austin auto, driven by Melville A. Hill, a mightily muscular young man, who is now left taokle on the Cuioogo Universty foot bill team. With him were bia mother and sister and a oollege chum, Their maohine was clear on the bum A blacksmith shop was busy, with it all the afternoon, until about six o’clock, when they made a start towards Terre Haute, their destination. A mile or two oat they went lame again and had to come back, Willises worked on them until nine o’clock, sad they made another start, but again had to oome baok, and stay all n ; ght. This time the engines were out of order and it took until noon before they were ready to pull out again. Still ano'.her auto all out of whaok arrived from some place south, late in the evening, and the repair shop worked on it until 11 o’olook at night, when that too wbb ready to start oat again.