Two thousand miles on an automobile; being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West . omanchariot racing the records of man describe nothingthat parallels automobile racing, and, so far as wehave anv knowledge, chariot racing, save for the The Start 41 plaudits of vast throngs of spectators, was tame anduneventful compared with the frightful pace of sixtyand eighty miles an hour in a throbbing, bounding, ;careering road locomotive, over roads practically un-known, passing persons, teams, vehicles, cattle, ob-stacles, and obstructions of all kinds, wit
Two thousand miles on an automobile; being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West . omanchariot racing the records of man describe nothingthat parallels automobile racing, and, so far as wehave anv knowledge, chariot racing, save for the The Start 41 plaudits of vast throngs of spectators, was tame anduneventful compared with the frightful pace of sixtyand eighty miles an hour in a throbbing, bounding, ;careering road locomotive, over roads practically un-known, passing persons, teams, vehicles, cattle, ob-stacles, and obstructions of all kinds, with a thousand ,hair-breadth escapes from wreck and destruction. The sport may not be pretty and graceful; it lacks 4s a spo>tthe sanction of convention, the halo of tradition. It \does not admit of smart gowns and gay trappings; it ?is the last product of a mechanical age, the triumph ;of mechanical ingenuity, the harnessing of mechanicalforces for pleasure instead of profit,—the automobileis the mechanical horse, and, while not as graceful, isinfinitely more powerful, capricious, and dangerousthan the ancient THE CHAPTER FOUR INTO OHIO Cu> tying thesteed A FIVE oclock call, though quite in accordance withorders, was received with some resentment and re-sponded to reluctantly, the Professor remarking thatit seemed but fair to give the slow-going sun a reason-able start as against the automobile. About fifty minutes were given to a thorough ex-amination of the machine. Beyond the tightening ofperhaps six or eight nuts there was nothing to do,everything was in good shape. But there is hardlya screw or nut on a new automobile that will not re-quire tightening after a little hard usage; this is quite42 Into Ohio 43 in the nature of things, and not a fault. It is onlyunder work that every part of the machine settles intoplace. It is of vital importance during the first iewdays of a long tour to go over every screw, nut, andbolt, however firm and tight they may appear.
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