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RECREATION. 



Those operators who have run their 

 machines several years and who can 

 show clean scores for freedom from 

 important breakages and accidents, 

 brought about by recklessness or care- 

 lessness, are the true automobilists, 

 the people who are doing the most to 

 further a good cause. 



Let it not be forgotten then that 

 the automobile is a machine ; and its 

 limitations become obvious when it 

 falls into the hands of a person who 

 will not or can not give it some of his 

 own brains. 



may engage. A man told me the 

 other day that the best way to make 

 a man of a boy was to make him sail 

 a yacht. To teach him to run an auto- 

 mobile will help him even more. 



Is automobiling a sport? Some en- 

 thusiastic horsemen say no; but, as 

 the years go by, and the field of the 

 motor car widens, the time will come 

 when automobiling will be recognized 

 as one of our leading sports, and will 

 be enjoyed accordingly. Automobil- 

 ing is a sort of natural concomitant 

 to many other sports. A man drives 



CLIMBING MT. SNUWDUN, WALES, IN A GASOLINE RUNABOUT OE AMERICAN MAKE. 

 THE CAR WAS DRIVEN UP THE MOUNTAIN OVER THE COG ROAD. 



The fact that the automobile is a 

 machine and that it is coming into 

 popular use is important, because the 

 general use of machinery has educat- 

 ed many people and made them ready 

 for automobiles. The use of the auto- 

 mobile will educate thousands of other 

 people. 



In order to run a machine a man 

 must know it thoroughly, and no mat- 

 ter how little he may learn he is ob- 

 taining a fund of useful information 

 which, in these days of machinery, 

 will aid in equipping him for any 

 business or profession in which he 



his automobile to the race track, the 

 polo field, or to the traps ; one sport 

 beginning where the other leaves off. 

 We all know the inaccessibility of the 

 average golf club for the city dweller. 

 What better way to go and return than 

 by an automobile ? The fact is that the 

 car can cover more ground in a day 

 than a horse and carriage can, brings 

 good fishing grounds nearer to a man's 

 home, and enables him to tour through 

 the country in the fall, trying the 

 shooting here and there, — wherever he 

 may wish to go. 



In some respects the automobile 



