Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
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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ing, be- sides the expense of repairs to harnessand carriage, found he could get a greatdeal more service out of a little auto-mobile at an outlay of $2.50 a month.He could take a ride of thirty-five milesfor 40 cents, and he never had to feedthe car when it wasnt working. The manufacturer of a cheap autolooked up the records of one hundredand fifty of his cars. He found thattheir owners had driven them an aver-age of nine thousand miles each at anaverage outlay of $40 each for repairs.The cars had averaged eighteen milesper gallon of gasoline. After all, statistics about automobilesare of little value, for in the last analy-sis the expense of maintenance and oper-ation is found to depend more on thedriver than on the machine. There isjust as much difference in individualways of handling automobiles as thereis in driving horses. Incompetence orrecklessness will ruin an automobile asquickly as it will kill a horse. So far as the average man is con-cerned, the expense of maintenance and
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Photograph by Underwood I oood, A- >• ili NTERS CAN HAVt CARS EQUIPPED TO SUIT THEIR EVERY NEED.

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