House and Garden 
Four vertical cylinders. Sliding gear, roller-bearing transmission. 
Three forward speeds and reverse. Direct shaft drive. 
1 12-inch wheel base. Three-point unit suspension of power plant. 
PERFORMANCES THAT PROVE RELIABILITY 
Twenty-four Hour Endurance Derby at Point Breeze Track, Philadelphia, May 24-25. Won by 
Autocar stock touring car, 30 horse-power—55 miles ahead of nearest competitor. Ten contestants. 
Philadelphia-Harrisburg Endurance Run, January 1-2, over 220 miles of muddy roads. Won by 
Autocar stock runabout, 12 horse-power, 225 points ahead of nearest competitor. 
Record Run from Savannah to Augusta over 132 miles of worst roads in South without a single 
adjustment—Autocar stock runabout, 12 horse-power. 
Perfect Score, Endurance Run of New Jersey Motor Club, May 30-31 and June 1. 
These are the kind of tests that establish the supremacy of Autocar construction and prove 
Autocar Reliability. Speed when speed is desired, but Reliability always. 
Type XV 
$1200 
The Autocar Runabout — most highly 
developed motor car in the world. Ab¬ 
solute standard in runabouts. 
Two horizontal-opposed cyl¬ 
inders. Motor under 
hood. Sliding-gear, 
roller-bearing trans¬ 
mission. Three speeds 
forward and reverse. 
Direct shaft drive. 
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The Autocar Bonk 
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unsuspecting customer until the pro¬ 
fession of bunco steerer became a saintly 
calling in comparison. 
No wonder some folks lost their hith¬ 
erto sublime faith in the roof of plastic 
composition! No wonder that the Phar¬ 
isees became numerous in the land, and 
that none were left to do reverence to 
the roof of plastic material! For the 
plastic roof costs money and is worth 
but little unless honestly made. 
“Smart” people of alleged perspi¬ 
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and have been able to show up the 
weak points of many varieties of roof; 
but the roof whose basic substance is 
tar stands impervious to the assaults 
of the disgruntled. The old-fashioned 
tar-and-gravel roof is as popular to-day 
as it was fifty years ago, and there are 
ten times as many of them in use now 
as then. Yet the asphalt roof probably 
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ANCIENT ROMAN HOSPITAL NEAR 
ZURICH 
A VERY interesting and pleasing dis- 
^ covery is announced from Baden, 
near Zurich. The learned have been dis¬ 
cussing for ages whether anything in the 
way of hospitals were known to the 
ancients—it is not to he said that they 
have been disputing, for there was not 
material enough hitherto to support a 
lively argument. One might read the 
whole volume of Greek and Roman 
literature, carefully too, without noticing 
one passage that might be interpreted as 
an allusion to a hospital. The works 
of Hippocrates could not fail to speak 
of them surely, if any existed; but noth¬ 
ing is there beyond a reference to the 
notes of “ cases ” observed in the Temple 
of iTsculapius. So it is generally as¬ 
sumed that there were no hospitals in 
those days; the iEsclepia were “baths” 
with massage treatment. Scholars who 
hold to the other opinion can adduce 
only hints in its favor. But now we hear 
that one has actually been discovered at 
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