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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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e only reason a greater num-drove a stage coach from Utica to Al- ber will not undergo this metamorphosis bany and return, a distance of two hun-dred miles, in seventeen hours andtwenty-eight minutes. When the same species of idiots, a few years later, annihilated space at the rateof twenty-five miles an hour on that newfangled freak, the railroad, the publicoutcry was redoubled. Less than twenty years ago indignation meetings wereh eld throughout the country to protest is not because the people cannot raise more than the two hundred million dollars they will have to pay for this number of cars, but solely because the manufacturers cannot assemble the men, machinery, and material to build more than a hundred and fifty thousand. The\will try to do better. It is only fair to say in this connection that in addition to the hundred and in perfervid resolutions against the ad- fifty thousand converts of 1910 and the vent of that chariot of death, the one hundred and fifty thousand who 410
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Photograph by Spooner & Wells, N.Y. .TWENTY THOUSAND OF THE 150,000 CARS TO BE BUILT IN I9IO WILL BE OF THE LIGHT, HIGH-WHEELED TYPE.
owned cars at the beginning of theyear, approximately three times that number will crack the shell of preju-dice preparatory to becoming recruitsfor the ever-growing army of automo-bile owners. For a new car in theneighborhood spreads its insidious lurewith all the certainty with w^hich a caseof measles goes through a boarding-school. Whatever he may say for public consumption, the average mans real grievance against the automobile is thathe doesnt own it. Realizing this great truth, the crafty manufacturers are building only enough$11,000 cars to relieve the sufferings of those w7ho cannot get rid of their money fast enough and are concentrating all their energies on the end-less task of supplying the needs of the average m an. The present year marksthe real beginning of the era of the low-priced car, which, as the dealers understand the term, is one that

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