Life — June 6, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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A Car of Thorough Design Its The American Motor was designed to attain high power, Motor perfect balance, smoothness in operation, and protection against difficulties that have developed in other motors. It has successfully met these aims in every way. We commend to the expert a careful study of its construction. Here are a few of its points: Cylinders offset. Valve pockets on one side only, Large valves. Large water jackets. Large bearing surfaces. The pan constructed crank case forms the underbonnet. All gears enclosed in a housing cast as a part of the case and partitioned so that they can be packed with grease. Large fly wheel, giving smooth-running engine at low speed. Costly double ignition system. Carburetor protected from the splash of mud and water. Develops 40 h.p. with ease, and has great additional power in reserve. The American Tourist, as a whole, is the harmonious result of the best materials, careful hand workmanship, and a superior design. Look into it! General Specifications: Four cylinder, 5x5, water-cooled. Double ignition with Bosch H. 'T. Magneto. Shaft drive. Floating live axle. Automatic lubrication for entire car. Drop frame. Wheel base, 116 inches. Wheels, 36x4. Road clearance, 103 inches. Write for Catalog American Motor Car Company Indianapolis SELLING AGENCIES: New Yor Crry. Detroit Motor Car & Supply Co., 2230 Broadway Hostox, MASS. W. A. Fredericks, 16 Columbus Ave: HICACO, 1ut. Pardee & Canary, Inc., 1218 and 1220 Michigan Ave. St. Mo. Peper Automobile Co., 3922 Olive St. Smith Automobile Co. 1420 and 1423 Court Place = ‘aL. S. California Motor Car Co. ‘Tonaran, Nev, Renfros Garage OKLAHO , OKLA. Oklahoma Motor Car Co. g Fiatea, N.Y. Willys Crew Motor Co. Cepax Rarws, IA. ALE. Durin Have You Seen the American Roadster? The sportiest thing on the road! Are you furnishing a House or Life’s Pictures Decorating a Room? are Have you wall spaces or spots Particularly which you wish to make artistically Appropriate effective at small cost? — A dainty catalogue showing in miniature reproductions many of Life's Prints will be sent to any address upon request. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 3lst Street, NEW YORK 759 he Lister Zoo ID = OOS 9 mund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic and banker, has not found that the stock ticker stifled his inspiration. Richard Watson Gilder, who has always been able to save postage on his sonnets by publishing them in The Century, passed much of his poet- life in Clinton Place, now Eighth Street. Bliss Carman abandoned Canada many years ago for our local scenes de la vie de Boheme; so did his schoolmate, Charles G. D. Roberts. If you look sharp you may see Edwin Markham, some fine day, on the Staten Island Ferry, with a bag of pocms for New York delivery, wtile Edith Thom- as, his neighbor, may be observed taking in Battery Park or threading her way thoughtfully through the canyons of lower Manhattan. William Vaughn Moody, of Indiana—where the authors come from— found such a welcome on Broadway that he has let slide the cause of English litera- ture in Illinois. e+ * * AS OF old, Frank Dempster Sherman warbles from the heights of Columbia. Were it not for Theodosia Garrison, some of the magazines would be pretty hard put to it. Libraries do not seem to produce many bookmen, but when they do the product is generally worth noting, ¢.g., Ridgley Torrence. Richard Underwood Johnson, another poet of these parts, is even more celebrated as the watchful fore- man of the Literary Shop. True, his guar- dianship of the Young Person has been challenged since he admitted the disrepu- table Wolf Larsen to the society of The Century's exclusive circle, but it is said in extenuation that Mr. Johnson was on the night shiftat the time. Will Carleton’s hand has not lost its cunning as a maker of “Farm Ballads”; he lives in Brooklyn. But when secking inspiration for his “City Ballads,” he comes over to Manhattan and mixes with town folks. At any rate, our shrinking Southem poct would not be lonesome here. Let him come and smell the sea in the spring, when the breeze blows up Broadway—and then ery “Invita Minerva” an’ he will. Connor 'T MAY be true, and casual observation sometimes seems to confirm it, that the average American family spends more time with the Sunday newspaper than it does in church, But our own particular mind moves slowly to conclusions, and even in our darkest moods we do not fully share the apprehension of fearful souls that the supreme expression of modem journalism —the colored supplement and the wo- man’s page—will actually supplant the pulpit. Moreover, the cause of popular religion has gained an ally unthinkable to the Puritan Fathers. The “evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge” at last pro- comicbooks.com