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The Team Score Tells the Real Story of
the. Glidden Tour
"One swallow doesn't make a spring." One car's record doesn't prove much. Average
performance counts. Here is the average score of those makers who entered more than
one car for any or all trophies in the 1909 (Jlidden Tour:
Average Penalty Maximum Penalty
1st Winner of ; ' V against any one car.
Glidden Trophv. 2.95 points ' ' 10.2
2nd MARMON. " 8.9 points ' 10.5
The next lowest average penalty was 17.53 points, and the next maximum penalty against
any one number of a team was 34.3 points.
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The MARION'S Glidden Tour
Road Score
PERFECT.
Perfect time score, but
penalized 8 points for
tightening loose connec
tion under gasoline tank
Marmon (No. 5)
M arm on (No. 4)
This is a truly wonderful performance. Nearly 2,700 miles over rough country under
conditions which made it by far the most severe test ever undertaken.
Each car was n strictly stock "Thirty-two," each came into every control on time, and
each came back with Indianapolis water in its radiator, one quart only being added at Denver
as a precaution.
We regret the luck that brought us small penalties for the merest trifles. But our
record calls for no apologies. The winner has our congratulations. '
The Marmon rThirly-Two" for 1910
is improved but not changed. ,
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MAURICE HEWLETT AT HOME
Interesting Opinions on Some Topics
of the Day.
CIVILIZATION STILL FAS AWAY
Womaa Saffrage a Sinn of Troable
I.lfe la the Middle Ave and
Now The Miracle of
- Iimplratioa.
LONDON, Aug. IS. Maurice Hewlett Uvea
In a maJ!. cxclualv etreet, Nonhwlck
Terrace, which lead from St. John Wuod.
a locality which In the pant haHhouxed
many celebrated profexaioiial folk and atill
retain a goodly number. To the Londoner
born and bred the name itaelf la gynony
moun with dramatic doing and pen pic
tures.
The Hewlett houae la of white stucco
and ha the usual adornmrnU externally
of brass and flow era. Within the atmon
pheie la more distinctly foreign. Mr. Hew
lett hlnixelf In appearance aujmeta the Tus
can anct-Ktry with which he credited;
and hla manner, nervoiia, high strung, with
a tinge of ryniclum, la continental, It
might even be Amriicun, but la far re
moved from the distinctly British type.
It la probable that he would not care for
the American comparison you have In
mind, for Latin aa he l in looka and man
ner, he la Engllxh to the core In his atti
tude to the country 'croon eras. In fact,
it la not long after you are seated 'vla-a-vla
before Mr. Hewlett tells you that he knowa
Americana hate the English. You had In
tended to ask him, if you had the oppor
tunity, why hla nation concealed so ineptly
their antagonism, and the statement ha
makes surprises you so that you can only
look ataggered.
Baals for American Hatred.
"I can't explain." Me says in answer to
your expression, while he walks restlessly
up and down the room. "It is one of the
things you know intuitively, and you know
It a well that argument would only be
wasted force. You raiting Americana" he
Is walking more nervously now, and hla
worda are quicker and more emphatic
"you rssing Americana do not conceal your
feelings well. You don't try to. and there
la no reason why you should."
"An the English?" you venture with a
rising Inflection.
"Oh, the English! They don't either love
or hata. They are Indifferent to every
thing. Wa are Insular!"
Suddenly the man become the artist.' Mr.
Hewlett sinks Into a cavernous chair. hU
long, slim flngrrs are intorlaced and his
wonderful dark eyes look fur Into the fu
ture. He has obliterated the ni-e of irri
tation which cornea from stepping outs.ds
. the beaten path and In a second has forgot
1 ton that he is being Interviewed, something
which ha has befora remarked he "haa
never permitted the reprtn-ntative of an
Kiijll'h paper and never mill, a hlle rtoo
nlzing that American Ideaa are dlffeient."
"I should say that It waa very bad for
us to be Insular." he aaya. "The limited
horizon is worse than error; it la a crime.
Fundamentally,' t believe that when It cams
to a teal, to a real test, you over there
would at.ow yourselves further along on
the path t true progress than we would.
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Mind you, I am merely surmising, now.
Tou might be Juat as bad!
Not Civilised at AH.
"All this talk about Dreadnoughts, la it
a aymptom of civilization? Far from H.
It Is a aymptom of childishness. We are
not civilized. at all. We won't be. in your
time or In mine. W won't see the great
trend toward the broader outlook. We
won't feci the keener sense of brother
hood which must come when people are
brave enough to look facts In the face, to
realize that It makes no difference under
what part of the sky a man Is born, that
he Is brother to all other men of what
ever race or kin.
"We are children In looking at only the
one aide of war. We see the pennants
flying and the music of the bands, and
we are Interested in applying the very
latest discoveries of science to the need
of killing as quickly and In as large num
bers as possible. War to us means the
spectacular. We are of the Middle Ages
still.
"But we don't think that drunkenness
is spectacular. We think It Is revolting
and brutal and disgusting. War la all
that. It is merely drunkenness on a large
scale. It is brutality en masse. I'ntil we
have a national conscience which we cer
tainly haven't got now, we will continue
to wags war.
"I think you have nearly acquired one,
but it would not surprise me at all if you
some day faced a frightful war between
the blacks and tha whites. My reading
of ygur national life, of which I have had
no experience personally, leads me to that
conclusion. Your war of the future, tf
you have one, I assume will be along IhM
line "Just as ours will be of a socialist
nature, from within, not from without.
We will not have a war with Germany or
any other country that will amount to
anything, for It will not fit into the scheme
of European, politics that Knutland should
become the province of another nation,
particularly a German piovlnce, even as
suming that we could be defeated.
Suf fraa;ettea a fcyaiptou.
"I know my vUws are not popular on
J this subject any more than they are on
that of woman suffrage which 1 will not
go into detail about for fear of the let
ters I mijtht receive, and have to read. 1
will only say this, that I consider the wo
man suffrage question and ail that it im
1 Ilea as merely a symptom of a revolt that
has boen going on for fifty, seventy, a
hundred years, and a revolt against na
tuic Is oiw that will be punished by a
force, slow, persistent, unforgetting and
terribly Just.
"It is a greater question than any we
have mentioned, because It is a war of
sex, a war of fundamentals, more im
portant, more disastrous than a mere
battle between opposing nations to ad
just temporary conditions. External dis
eases . are nit ao frightful aa those thai
attack the delicate Internal organizations.
"I have never been in America and I
do not know that I shall ever g . It
stems to me that It would be a terribly
upoetllng Journey and I hate to be upset.
I know that I should loathe New York
Juat as 1 loathe Loudon, which I hate ao
much that I always write here, because
there ! nothing to distract me. In my
place In th country near Salisbury, which
I love, there is so much to do and so
many Interesting things to see and the life
Is ao adorable that I have not strength
of mind sufficient to cut it all out and
tie myself to tha desk."
There la a Utile pause, whlca Mr. Hewlett
Record
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Penalized by Technical Board
7.3 points breaking one leaf of a front
spring, one bent spring hanger, and
stripped thread on one nut.
2.5 points breaking one leaf of a front
spring, and one step hanger.
STATE AGENT
808 Farnam Street
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breaks to answer your question designed
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to leaa tne talk atom? the more natural
channels of the author's work.
"My new book, 'Kest Harrow," Is a story
of modern life. I sometimes wonder if
I will ever write anything but modern
stories attain. I seldom take steps back
ward, but to say what you will do or
what you . will not do Is absolutely ab
surd, for no one knows. With my mind
fully made up to the fact that I shall
continue to write modern stories I may
be so very strongly Impelled to take up
the mediaeval romance again that I can
not help myself."
Plenty of Room for All.
You state tha usual banality that with
so many ptrsons writing stories of modern
life and so few the readable mediaeval
liction it seems a great pity that Mr. Hew
lett should not specialize nls talent. He
shakes his head with quick, nervous ges
tures. "It Is true in a sense, perhapa, that the
mediaeval field Is not so crowded, but one
of the most salient facta In art is that
there can be no rivalry In it. Each man
niuk-'s 1.1s place, his own place, and no man
can fill It or take it an ay.
'Others may write modern romance, but
t.o one can write my particular modern !
romance, for that is a part of me, a bit of I
my inr-onalitv which 1 bI.Jih.iv h.,i
tha power of another to parallel. Charac
ter is the whole thing in art. It Is what
a man makes of himself that counts In his
work, and as no man exactly duplicates
another's experiences, so no man can do
another mans work for him.
"What a man builds h assesses. The
one thing thai he haa at his absolute dis
posal Is that quality he has gained by liv
ing. You can't take It away from him.
You cannot borrow It or steal It."
Whatever Mr. Hewlett has done or may
do with modern fiction, you know that the
characttrs In his mediaeval romances aeem
to think medlaevally and act aa men and
women would do who thought that way.
You ask him how this psychology haa bwn ,
Obtained and he thinks over it a little, '
shuking a lonr. gray ash from his cUaietie
with a dt liberation which would have'
seemed Impossible to you a few moments
bifore. The modern man has become the
mec.laeval thinker.
Life la lite Middle Am.
"I have a friend, Henry Nev.ooldt, who
has written some charming things and wa
have most animated dlf cueslons along this
line. He honestly believes ana shows his
creed In his work that the man and woman
of the middle ages were no different from
the man and woman of today. He claims
that they acted the tame, thought the tame
and were fundamentally and essentially
similar.
"I do not ugree with him at all, as you
have gathered from my books. I want
you to remember Just one thing and that
alone will show how dlffeient tnelr mode
of thouKht must have besn. i refer to their
familUilty wlih death, which is a point of
view absolutely unknown to us.
"They could not open a door, they could
not walk along a street scarcely without
seting a dead body. A man separated from
his fiiend and In half an hour one or the
other dies in a tavern brawl, stabbed in
a dusky street in a. brawl defending, per
haps, a woman's honor. Don't you see what
a difference that must have made? Ufe
must have been lived quicker, tha vital
element was nearer the surface.
"Then take the religious Influence. They
had the fear of tha future before them
then. They bad Christianity which wa
haven't; we have only churches. They
lived surrounded by mysteries and gov
erned by them. We claim to have swept
them all aside. Whether we have or not
life Is not apparently controlled as it was
at that time by the belief in them.
"If you have ever lived in a medieval
town as I have, and there is one In my
mind as I am talking, a strange little
Spanish place, you will have noted the
sanitary conditions, or rather the lack of
them. If they are so horrible today, con
sider what they must have been then and
how the public health, morals and man
ners would of course be affected.
Costume of the Qaeen.
"You look at the row of pictures of
Queen Elizabeth In the Wallace collection
and remember that with these wonderful
garments covered with pearls and other
precious stones she undoubtedly had fin
ger nails that would not stand the inspec
tion of the most middle class woman of
today, who would note tbem with disgust.
Io you think a queen like that had any
real affinity to the supor-reflnud feminine
being of our time to whom the luxuries of
the toilette are an obsession? These are
only a few dlfferncfs, thore are many pth-i-rs
equally salient."
Then Mr. Hewlett fives some interest-
lns data "' rcard to nl method of work,
"It is quite true that 1 have an Intest
Ing collection of medieval literature and
a few, very few, rare books. I have never
attempted to make a real collection. That
would be necessary perhaps ! I tried to
steep myself in romance of the middle
ages, get Into the atmosphere Is the stock
expression, I believe, but I do not.
"I will not say that I work by inspira
tion, for I think that Is a very foolish,
unmeaning word, and I have no patience
with the uses to which it is put or the
abuses It suffers. I have written my books
as I have because at the time of working
at them I loved the spirit of those ages
so much that I naturally Infused it Into
them. I could not help myself. You can't
explain why you do a thing or why you
don't do It, that la satisfactorily. You
can employ words, but they Jeave you
in the dark.
"An artist goes through a country
twenty times and suddenly he sees a pic
ture there and paints It, that Is all. It
sounds simple, but can you tell why he
did not sec the picture the first time or,
finally seeing It, why he must throw aside
all the remainder of his work and palm
that? I can't. It all belongs to the Intri
cacies of mood which are beyond the ken
of wisdom.
What Ueoraie Eliot Did.
"I will give you an example at Its best
and worst.
"Unce George Eliot was in Devonshire
and she had occasion to go to the house
of a woman who lived upstairs In a very
stmple cottage. As she went up tha stairs
she saw an opened door, and looking
through into the room she noted a long
table, some chairs on one side and a large
chair, as if for a teacher, on the other.
I'hat. it is claimed, is the only view aha
had, and In answer to her question regard
ing it the woman she hud come to see re
marked that it was the place where the
Peterltes held their meetings. With that
scant Information, ocular and verbal, she
wrote the wonderful account of this sect
in "Silas Marner,"'hicn ia aald by those
who know to give an absolutely accurate
idea of that religious body. Hera you have
tha Idea at ita best.
- "Befora aha wrote 'Roruola" she spent
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soma eighteen months In Florence study
ing, or rather delving, into the arcnlves, and
probably there never was a worae novel of
the Italian Renaissance written than that.
There you have the example at Its worst.
"The use of the term Inspiration usually
Implies something allied to the supernatural
when It is employed by the average per
son. There is nothing supernatural about a
method of work of this sort. It Is emi
nently natural, but I do not say that It is
not a miracle. The most natural thing In
the world may be that; for instance, Is
there anything more miraculous than that
you should wake up when you have gone
to Bleep? I never lose my wonder and
amazement. I never forget to be grateful.
To think that we wake..
"All that Is necessary Is to love enough
and you can write as you will. Your char
acters will be mediaeval people or they
will be modern as you determine by that
power of finding the natural method
through supreme affection.
"It la the same wayewlth a woman as
with the work. If you love her enough you
will be convinced and you will convince
the world of that love by marrying her.
not always of course, but the analogy Is
sufficient for the need of the moment, for
if you marry a woman for anything but
that overpowering love, the failure Is too
pitiably evident. You can't bo wrong if
you love your work. You simply can't I
must emphasize this truth.
I.ove and Hard Work.
"But don't think that means that you
have to cut oi! hard work. Quite the
contrary, or so It has been In my case. I
waa three yeara writing "The Queen'a
Quhair.' I have labored, unceasingly,
particularly with the work in which I
have been most keenly interested. I be
lieve tha deeper the love tha more will
ingly and patintly you will toil.
"I do not write novels. I write poem,
for the novel is distinguished from tha
poein In thla that the novel la concerned
with what happens, the poem with the
way things happen After I have finished
a work I foret It. I am sincere In saying
that I doubt If 1 ct.uld quote a paragraph
from any one of my works. I scarcely
remember the characters. Think of liv
ing with all the people one hud created.
I simply oould not do it, my only safety
Is in forgetting.
"Balzac did it. He was a genuine novel
ist, as waa Dumas. Thackeray showed
that he kept his people by him, not to the
extent of tha other two but enough to
prove that thry were to him Immortal.
"When I read Balsac I am impressed
with the way he will take up a character
of a previous story and let you see that
he Is conscious in his mind of all the I
things that happened to that man and :
woman that ha never wrote about. He j
baa carried them about with him, and I
made them so perajnal that he knowa ex-1
actly what they did between any two
epoc-ha portrayed. He will say to himself,
'H lived In 16U) and so he must have aeen
ao and ao,' or be will apparently think
'She was in Lyons then, that was tha
time of suih and such an event, and In
all literature I doubt If you will corns
aoross an Instance wnere you feel that
each oharacter waa a distinct entity and
lived to tha author not merely in tha
story, but after the story was completed
and ha had gone on and taken up other
fiction. Trollope was like Balsac in this,
too.
"It would seem that between tha tract
and tha anecdote tie novel of today .a
practicably non-existent and poetry the
world doesn't care for It any more. When
It is written actors recite it as If they
were afraid of being laughed at which
they would be.
"Had 1 ever written for the stage?
Never, but according to my theory, it I
felt the desire strongly enough I could,
notwithstanding the fact -that the tech
nic Is strange. The result of the inariiuge
between the Individual gift and construc
tion Is a work of art, but the Individual
gift is the stronger, the head of the fam
ily, so to speak. It can win and govern
the other."
A question Is then put In regal d to the
theory of reincarnation. Is there an oc
cult explanation for his medieval point of
view In regard to many modern matters?
Does Alma Tadema paint Hellenic sub
jects because he must and Mr. Hewlett
himself answer to the mysterious force
of a poetic personality returned to con
tinue lla work begun ages befoit? Mr.
Hewlett shakes his head decidedly.
"It Is the theory of the throwback, you
mean? No, I don't credit It. I have often
wondered about Mr. ludenia but I am sure
that theory does not explain. I prefer to
assui.-.e mat the artistic gift Is a miracle.
Thai is what it really comes to. 1 inltik
that is all.
"A great many women believe that they
have lived betore on the tartli, do limy
nut? And wtien you talk to tiiem uo you
nut find that they invariably range them
selves in one of the French courts about
the ttme of Louis Quinze or Seize if they
do ol show a preference for that of
Charles the fiecond of England? Yes; 1'
thought ao." x
Interview las; Bear.
The conversation has taken a humorous
turn which ia continued over the tea
table where Mrs. Hewlett presides, helped
by the daughter. Mr. Hewlett tells of an
Interview that took place with a friend ol
his, a man violently opposed to any like
form of publicity. The first question
asked was: "Were you educated at
Eton?" "Yes; beastly hotel!" "Uldd you
ao la Oxfold?" "Yfu: A-fnl t,ln,- " Tl,.u
t Wouldn't .-t .nv fr.h,.r ua
view was never written. Wasn't It a pity,
with such an unusual beginning ?
"Personally," continues Mr. Hewlett,
who sacrlflcea tea for the sake of another
cigarette, "1 cannot for the life of me
see why the public should care anything
about the personality of a man. They
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have the best of him In Ills work. Of
course you don't agree with me; you be
lieve that like the artist gift the curiosity
of the public in this regard ia a miracle
not to be explained, but to be accepted,
unquestionably."
"Wouldn't you like to have met and
talked with Shakespeare?" asks one of
the party, "or It not Shakespeare. Milton
perhapa, Chaucer, even Hi yon, to tuiM
nearer?"
Mr. Hewlett hesitates. He feels himself
cornered, and glances at his wife for pro
tection, who refuses It. Her vote Is cast
with the Interviewers and the public.
"I don't believe," he answers at length,
"that I would have cared so much to
know Shakespeare, for this reason: i
think 'his work was greater than he Was,
but I would have loved to know Dante.
There's a man for you, so much greater, ,
I imagine, than his work, tremendous as
that w as. I doubt if t lit re was any Homer,
and Socratea does not allure me to tha
point of desiring a personal Interview; but
George Herbert, he must have been a
very sweet and likable character, and bir
I'hlllp Kidney, I think I should like to
have known him best of all yes, 8lr Philip
Kidney. There was the man, the gentle
man, chivalrous, courtly. Sir Walter
Italelgh? I am not so keen about lilui,
but old Doctor Johnson, yes!"
"1 think," interpolates Mrs. ! .
"that he would have been a frlghitu . I
bore."
"I auppose ha would," admits Mr. iU .
lett. "I wouldn't, of course, bring hint
home." His voice trails off into silence
He is in some old world Imaginings til
ing to arrange his acquaintance with the
Doctor and hla lioswell so as not to lm
poaa him on the domestic circle.
The last question of the tutarvlewer
brings him back to tha present.
"So you admit that a curiosity concern
ing the personality of celebrities Is quit
human and forgivable, Mr. Hewlett?"
And what could he say?
The Helpful Bellboy.
For four consecutive nights the hotel man
had watched his fair, timid gual fill her
pitcher at tiie water cooler.
"Madum." he said on the fifth nlglit, "it
you would ring thh would be done for
you."
"Hut where is my bell." asked the
woman.
"The bell Is beside your bed," replied tha
proprietor.
"That the bell!" she exclaimed. "Why,
the boy told me that was the fire alarm
and that I wasn't to touch it on any ac
count." Success.
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