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AUTOROSIS. 
The Most Recently Discovered 
_ Malady Claims Many Victims at 
Manchester and at Other North 
Shore Towns. 
Autorosis—A disease which makes auto- 
mobilists timid. Discovered in Chi- 
cago, but highly prevalent in Boston. 
Symptoms —A desire to go slow and to 
put on brakes at every shadow. 
Treatment—Spiritus frumenti in liberal 
quantities. Keep the patient away 
from policemen, if possible. 
_ Automophobia—A complementary dis- 
' ease which makes people afraid of 
chauffeurs. 
Treatment—Place the victim in the mid- 
dle of a plowed field. 
“Autorosis’ is the name for a 
new disease and automobilists all 
over the country are complaining of 
it. It is believed to have had _ its 
origin in Chicago, but Manchester 
and other of the North Shore towns 
are suffering, while scientists are 
trying to discover the germs. 
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the croup, you may know that it’s 
ment does not break the fever, place 
him behind the bars. 
“ Automophobia” is liable to result from jf 
looking at a car, as shown above. 
Peculiarly enough this disease has 
a compl mentary ailment known as 
“automophobia,”’ which makes peo- 
ple afraid of chauffeurs. The only 
cure which has yet been found for 
this is either to place the victim in 
the middle of a plowed field, or to 
quarantine all the streets in town 
and bar out automobiles. 
A Long Chase — likely to develop a case of ‘‘ Autorosis.” 
The symptoms, however, are easy 
enough to detect. A nervous tug- 
ging at the brakes when an electric 
or motor car is seen in the dim dis- 
tance, a cold sweat which breaks 
out all over the body of the chauf- 
feur when a man pokes his head up 
-from behind a stone wall with a 
watch in his hand, and the conse- 
-quent buzzing of an electric bell as 
‘the signal is passed along the line, 
ot a nervous twitching of the limbs 
when another auto which looks fast- 
er than the one driven hurries along 
in the same general direction  evi- 
dently after a brush. 
A sure cure for autorosis has not 
yet been discovered. The anti- 
toxin has not yet been found. It is 
_universally agreed that the victim 
should be kept as far as possible 
from policemen. 
A West Manchester summer resi- 
dent says the only cure is to place 
the victim in a field with a_ high 
fence around it, and if that treat- 
Auto Cases in Court. 
Charles Hackett, chauffeur for a 
family stopping at the Hawthorne 
Inn, East Gloucester, was up Mon- 
day and pleaded not guilty. A car 
load of the auto squad was at court, 
however, ready to show he was 
breaking the law. According to 
the timers, he was going 21 miles an 
hour. Hee argued that he had with 
him an old lady 76 years of age and 
that it wasn’t reasonable that he 
would be running wild with such a 
freight. He was found guilty and 
fined $1o. 
Charles Miller, chauffeur for Ray 
McWilliams at the Oceanside ho- 
tel, was also fined $10. 
Charles A. Robinson was before 
the court Saturday and was fined 
$10 for riding over the speed limit. 
“If you are on the Nerth Shore 
and hear something that seems a 
.cross between Trinity chimes and 
the new kind of auto horn just in- 
troduced down there,” says Home 
and Abroad. 
This is likely to bring on a serious 
attack of “‘autophobia,’ when heard 
the first time. 
Air Brakes for Autos. 
That’s the next thing—air brakes 
for autos; but it will be a mighty good 
thing, if it can be effective, in bringing 
the cars to a sudden stop. 
A New York City concern has 
placed the new contrivance on the 
market, and consists of exhaust gas 
from the cylinder, which is compressed 
in a reservair and carried to the brakes 
by means of a flexible wire rope at- 
tached to the brake lever. The entire 
outfit weighs but 25 pounds. 
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