A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31319 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 8 1912 Article Description: Harney/Schlater Page 12 Article Text: Washington Post April 8, 1912 Harney/Schlater Page 12 SMASHES AUTO; SAVES TWO John Harney, Chauffeur, Tears Up Lamppost With Machine. Turned and Avoided Motor With Couple Aboard, Which Suddenly Stopped at Foot of Hill. The presence of mind of Chauffeur John HARNEY, employed by Mrs. H. H. SCHLATER, of 1627 Nineteenth street northwest, in sending his car crashing at high speed into an electric light post in front of the Balfour apartment house, about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, saved two unknown occupants of another car from serious mishap. The last car, containing a man and a woman, stopped suddenly while going south on Sixteenth street. The chauffeur left his machine to crank it, and HARNEY, who was coming down hill at a fast pace, alone in his car, seeing the first chauffeur mount again to his place, did not check his auto. When within 30 feet of the car ahead, the latter again stopped suddenly. In order to avoid smashing into the rear of it, HARNEY turned his machine abruptly to the right, and crashed with great force into an iron lamppost, tearing it from its foundation. HARNEY was hurled several feet. He escaped from the wreckage with a few bad bruises. The car was smashed. The names of the occupants of the other car could not be learned. At the Astor Inn, 1627 Nineteenth street, the manager said he knew nothing about Mrs. H. H. SCHLATER, except that mail had come there for her on several occasions. The manager said she had never lived there, nor did he know the address of HARNEY. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com