Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...You have to fee the fellow anyway, and I believe in using him all you can. He likes to have you use him, and we found he was a pretty good man to tie to. We never saw the hotel proprietor or manager except when we entered the hotel on arrival. Where he keeps himself the rest of the time is a mystery. Day or night the portier or his assistant are always to be found. Soon after leaving the hotel the machine began to act badly. The spark did not work properly, and we had to stop for repairs on the road near the National Museum. We now had with us a guide. We had been unable to get one in The Hague, but the Ting of the Amstel found one for us. While our chauffeur was busy we went into the Museum to see the most famous picture in its collections, "The Night Watch," by Rembrandt, painted in 1642. It represents Captain Frans Banning Cocq, with his com 67 pany of arquebusiers, leaving their guild house on the Singel. When we returned to the machine, which was in a very short time, a large number of people had gathered about it. There were children and adults, men and women, and even dogs. Our man tested almost every part of the machine and finally was able to start it along. It was soon evident that the real trouble had not been fixed, and so we hobbled along on one cylinder until we reached a garage. The head of the establishment came out and in a short time got the machine working properly. He could speak English, and we talked "shop" to liim. He said the Oldsmobile was the only American machine he sold. He had inquired about other American machines, their relative standing, etc., but expressed himself as having been unable to have satisfactory dealings with any of the American manufacturers, save the one he handled. He said the Americans woul...
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