Life, 1908-05-28 · page 8 of 24
Life — May 28, 1908 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page celebrates **Life's Car**, apparently an automobile that completed a remarkable journey from New York to Paris. The headline announces "Life's Car, the Zip, Wins Hands Down!" The main text describes the car's arrival in Paris, where it was received with enthusiasm. Notable figures mentioned include **Bernard Shaw** (the famous playwright), who reportedly left the vehicle in Cairo. The article references the car crossing the German border and being greeted by crowds in France. The bottom photograph shows a large crowd cheering "over the French border," with visible banners and flags suggesting a celebratory reception. The cartoons appear to be humorous filler—one depicts characters discussing neighbors, unrelated to the main story. This appears to be early 20th-century automotive journalism celebrating a record-breaking endurance run.
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> ESRESES: Lire’s Car, the Zip, Wins Hands Down! derful Victory ! OTHING succeeds like getting there! Who would have dreamed, when Lire’s auto left New York with its world- famous Yale graduates, Metcalfe and Taft, that any such run would, or could, be made? No doubt the mental attitude had much todo with it. The fact that Anthony Com- stock had resolutely set his mind on getting to Maxim’s in time for the spring season to open, made failure impossible. The reception at Paris beggars descrip- tion. Tt was well expressed by a huge banner, over the entrance to the Champs Elysees, which read: “WHEN THIS THING DROPS ME OFF IT'LL BE TIME TO Go HOME!” Jimmie. WATCHER WAITIN’ AROUND DE CORNER WID DAT FIST FULL ER MUD FER? Mame: 1’ WAITIN’ FOR SALLY RYAN! “WOT SHE DONE?” “NUTHIN’! ONLY SHE'S DE QUEEN OF DE stay!” ODD: You live next to a burying ground, don’t you? How do you like it? Topp: Very much. Good neighbors. Quiet and peaceable; never running in un- expectedly. St seems like a very nice girl.” “One whom it would be safe to marry?” “Oh, no. No girl is safe enough for that. But she’s nice enough to think about marry- ing, if you only know when to stop.” How Napoleon would have envied the Zip, had he been there to witness its tri- umphant progress! The wonderful car, with Metcalfe, Taft, Anthony Comstock, Bernard Shawand Gib- son, left St. Petersburg with flying colors on May 11, passing the Russian censor, who was said to have smiled for the first time in his life. At Kénigsberg, over the German bor- der, several professors of philosophy looked up as the car passed. A Won- This will give some idea of the intense enthusiasm. At Berlin, the Emperor was noticed tag- ging on behind, and was finally given a place. The national trade-mark Prosit was displayed everywhere. It was here that Bernard Shaw decided to leave the car, as he had an engagement in Cairo with Cleo- patra. The parting between Shaw and Dub Comstock was very affecting There was not a dry gog “Tony,” said Bernard, “when you get back to Summit, tell them that I’ have learned to love you, and if any one says a cross word about you in blarsted America— for whom my prefaces are written and from whom my receipts come—cable me at my experse. We are both working the same game, only at different angles. Farewell, brother, and may Charles Evans Hughes and W. T. Jerome be with you.” “Good-by, Bernard,” sobbed Comstock; “keep up the good work, and don’t forget to send me some of those postal cards you mentioned—you know the kind.” Emperor William, who, as everybody knows, is the Teddybear of Germany, took his place beside Anthony until the French border was reached, and then got out and in the car. OVER THE FRENCH BORDER