Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Dray Hit By Auto; Auto Suffers Damage. [ARTICLE]

Dray Hit By Auto; Auto Suffers Damage.

A lesson to automobile owners. Don’t try to rufi over the city dray. Strangers were in Rensselaer Monday with an automobile. As they dashed past Everet Warren’s dray and his horses shied off to the side of the road they enjoyed a great laugh. Shortly afterward Everet had loaded a piano and was taking it to Fred Phillips’ store. He was at the Chicago Bargain Store corner when the big auto approached from the rear. He kept his eyes on his team and apprehended no danger when there was a collision from the rear and his dray lunged forward on the horses heels and the piano gave a lurch that almost threw it off the dray. He looked back and saw the auto standing still a few feet behind with the lamps and front badly damaged. He thought it was his time to laugh and he laughed. It was a case of he who laughs last laughs best. The driver and his companion had no laugh coming. Just how it happened no’one could explain unless the driver, had been rubbering at some of Rensselaer’s pretty girls and lost control of the machine. The dray was uninjured.