RETURNING FROM A RABBIT HUNT IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



the true automobilists, but the time 

 will come when even such cases will 

 be rare and the man who owns an 

 automobile and who does not drive it 

 will be a curiosity. 



Going at a high rate of speed in 

 an automobile is poor sport for those 

 who have never done much of it ; but 

 that it has intense fascination for the 

 habitue there is no doubt, and much 

 of the agitation over the infraction of 

 speed regulations by automobilists is 

 absurd. 



On a recent 600 mile trip of a com- 

 mittee from the New York State Sen- 

 ate, it was proven to a number of 

 legislators, who have had more or less 

 to do with drastic automobile speed 

 laws, that an automobile going at 20 

 miles an hour is safer than a horse 

 going at 8 miles an hour. There is 

 absolutely no doubt as to the truth of 

 this statement. 



High power machines are built not 

 for the purpose of scorching on pub- 



lic highways ; but for the purpose 01 

 enabling the owner to ascend steep 

 grades without having to slow down 

 too much, or without having tc 

 change gears unnecessarily. A car 

 that has a great deal of power in pro- 

 portion to its weight is a desirable 

 form of automobile because the en- 

 gines do not have to work hard most 

 of the time, and the wear and tear 

 is, therefore, less. Again, if the ma- 

 chinery be not working particularly 

 well at any time, there is always a re- 

 serve of power on which to draw. 

 High power, then, is not at all a bad 

 thing, even if it does allow a speed 

 which is unsafe. 



Of course it is not to be understood 

 that there is any justification for run- 

 ning an automobile on a public road 

 at a high rate of speed, but at the 

 same time in France and Germany 

 numerous long distance road races 

 have been held which have been of 

 great value to the automobile manu- 



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