Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1905 — Automobile Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Automobile Expenses.

There is one cause of expense very few motorists anticipate when they buy their first car. I refer to what I might call the entertaining department. No sooner do you find yourself the owner of a car than all your sisters, cousins and acquaintances want to be taken here, there and everywhere. You as the owner of the car invariably act as host upon all such occasions, and the fact of your being a motorist does not make the hotel proprietor charge you anything le§s. On the contrary, he usually piles it on, as he naturally argues if you are rich enough to own a motor car you won’t grudge him anything he inclines to charge.—Motor News.