Life — March 21, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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hee The Kelly-Springfield 2 Z le. Tire goes to you with a definite : ILLY-NILLY, and despite the friendly critical caution of Henry James, who has expressed himself pointed promise of service. It is the promise ly on the subject of Theodore ‘Roosevelt's of the maker backed by a guarantee literary style, our many-sided President is * being forced into the limelight that beats and supported by the experience of users, upon the litterateur, “Good Hunting,” from the day of the first Kelly-Springfield ante-Presidental production, enables us to up to the present time. study his narrative style in the jormative period, before he came under the influence of Andrew Camegie and the Congressional av te fst oalklee, » Rabiber ined! Record. ‘The manner is becomingly sim ple, and rather terse compared with the Consolidated Rubber Tire Company later manner of the Messages to Congress, 39 Pino Street, Now Yerk Akron, Ohio but its orthography lacks distinction and . even leans to the conventional. Through the medium of another publisher, the President is constrained to introduce us to Commander Peary’s ‘Nearest the Pole.” In collecting material for this book, Peary ventured as near the Pole as he possibly could without losing his notebooks. and negatives, to say nothing of his life; and as he could not have made the venture with- out “The Roosevelt,” the President could do no less than act as literary interlocutor. A man of letters malgre lui, the Presi- dent, presumably, has had no direct hand in editing “The Many-Sided Roosevelt,” by George W. Dougias—a collection of anecdotes and stories concerning the Chief Magistrate; but the publishers “under- stand” that it has the Presidental sanction. To pave the way for its reception we sub- mit two characteristic anecdotes of our own: : A light snow had fallen in Washington, HOW LONG WILL YOUR AUTOMOBILE RUN? says our informant, who was an eye-witness N . a . . ae of the incident. Out in the suburbs the Not hours, nor miles, but how many years, is the question to consider. Most cars built prior been heavier, but within the city to 1904 have gone to the scrap heap. Not so the Autocars. They are still running. A Washington fall had been heavier; but-yithin: the city physician has been making his daily rounds in the same Autocar runabout for 7 years. Others limits it scarcely covered the ground, and have made equally as good records. Since the first Autocars were made 10 years ago, only the in some places the streets were quite bare. finest materials and most thorough workmanship have entered into their construction. They are Suddenly, between the White House and made the same way to-day. That's why they stand the racket. the Treasury Department, an apparition Write jor the Antocar Book and representative's address, burst into view. It was the President on PhorF{procarGompany — Member: Asexiation Licensed | 4th Street, Ardmore, Pa. skees, headed for the country. Cautious Type XV. 12 horse-power, $1200, 3 passen- mortals of sporting proclivities would have gers. 2 horizontal opposed cylinders, motor deferred such an expedition ; or, making it, tender ood eid aaacsr, tall bearion (rane: would have compromised with the situation reverse and direct shatt drive. by taking a carriage or a street-car as far ee point unit suspension geen: Are of power plant, as the city limits. But to Precipitate ‘Teddy the scant precipitation mattered not. A-skeeing hewould go—and a-skeeing he went; a mere league or two of uncovered asphalt could not blunt that ambition. Tartarin of Tarascon was—but that may be irreverent. More indirectly comes a reminiscence from a Washingtonian—of the days when General Bingham, now Police Commis- sioner of New York, was major domo of the delivery, $3 comicbooks.com