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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS sidered a nuisance: Women and children (he said) were afraid to drive a horse to market. The majority of horses, when they saw an auto approaching, stopped short, shivered and shook, tried to escape by making a sharp right-about turn, and as the monster came closer, reared and plunged and sometimes ran away. The law re- quired that a motorist should bring his machine to a halt on the side of the road and help to get a terrified horse past; but very few obeyed the law. And funeral processions lost their calm and dignity; for although motorists were required to halt when they met a cortege, and to remain in the rear when they overtook it, many paid no attention, with the result that the whole black procession was smothered in billowing dust, horses reared and plunged and took to the ditch, and the occupant of the hearse was hustled to the cemetery. The editor particularly disliked the fast, reckless driver - the scorcher. He expressed his antipathy by publishing the following rhyme: He scorched upon the highway He scorched upon the street, He scorched away from rivals He scorched his friends to meet. He scorched in pleasant weather He scorched when it was hot, He scorched when races asked it He scorched when they did not. At last his neck he broke it When scorching on a bet. And for all that you or I know He may be scorching yet. The editor again uttered a complaint on May 5, 1912: It's about time the police put a crimp in the speed at which some automobile drivers persist in travelling on the streets of Paris. These exhibitions of mile eating are not confined to some of the long runs on the Brantford or Governor's Roads, but can be seen at times on William and other main streets. The way some visiting drivers circle around the corners at William and Dundas street bridges regardless of right or left, can be compared only Js ~ to a feature act in a three-ring circus. Meanwhile, Parisians had begun to buy cars. Frank Hammond is said to be the first Parisian to buy one. According to William Thomson, it arrived by freight - unassembled. Hammond, with the advice and help of his friends, put it together; and then, having studied the instruction book, took his friends for a perilous ride. Thomson said that the first horse they met reared and kicked, and that he had to get out and cling to the bridle. In June, I9og, Richard Thomson bought a "handsome" Olds- mobile, and hired Sinclair Knill to drive it. One of their first long trips was to London, to which they conveyed a group of bowlers. In Ig9Io, Penmans bought a truck, and requested that the town bridges be strengthened "to bear the weight of a new autocar, weight 233