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Arthur Jerome Eddy. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile
Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.——Some Preliminary Observations II.——The Machine Used III.—The Start IV.——Into Ohio V.——On to Buffalo VI.——Buffalo VII.—Buffalo to Canandaigua VIII.—The Morgan Mystery IX.——Through Western New York X.——The Mohawk Valley XI.——The Valley of Lebanon XII.—An Incident of Travel XIII.—Through Massachusetts XIV.—Lexington and Concord XV.——Rhode Island and Connecticut XVI.—Anarchism XVII.—New York to Buffalo XVIII.-Through Canada Home
CHAPTER ONE SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS THE MADDING CROWD
CHAPTER TWO THE MACHINE USED MAKING READY TO START
CHAPTER THREE THE START "IS THIS ROAD TO—"
CHAPTER THREE THE START THE RAILROAD SPIKE
CHAPTER FIVE ON TO BUFFALO "GEE WHIZ!!"
CHAPTER SIX BUFFALO THE MIDWAY
CHAPTER SEVEN BUFFALO TO CANANDAIGUA BEWARE OF THE COUNTRY MECHANIC
CHAPTER EIGHT THE MORGAN MYSTERY THE OLD STONE BLACKSMITH SHOP AT STAFFORD
CHAPTER NINE THROUGH WESTERN NEW YORK IN THE MUD
CHAPTER TEN THE MOHAWK VALLEY IN THE VALLEY
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE VALLEY OF LEBANON THE SICK TURKEY
CHAPTER TWELVE AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL "THE COURT CONSIDERS THE MATTER"
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THROUGH MASSACHUSETTS IN LENOX
CHAPTER FOURTEEN LEXINGTON AND CONCORD "THE WAYSIDE INN"
CHAPTER FIFTEEN RHODE ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT CALLING THE FERRY
CHAPTER SIXTEEN ANARCHISM "BULLETINS FROM THE CHAMBER OF DEATH"
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN NEW YORK TO BUFFALO UP THE HILL
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THROUGH CANADA HOME HOME
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Arthur Jerome Eddy
Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur"
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If the list includes places of fair size—say, from one to ten or twenty thousand inhabitants, it is reasonably certain that the roads connecting such places will be about as good as there are in the vicinity; now and then a better road may be missed, but, in the long run, that does not matter much, and the advantage of keeping quite close to the straight line tells in the way of mileage.
It is usually worse than useless to inquire in any place about the roads beyond a radius of fifteen or twenty miles; plenty of answers to all questions will be forthcoming, but they simply mislead. In these days of railroads, farmers no longer make long overland drives.
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