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 automobile in Detroit. The police and the owners of frightened horses viewed it with suspicion. Wherever it appeared, traffic was blocked and curious pedestrians  gathered to ask questions. The owner was obliged to tether the car to a lamp-post if he left it unattended,  for somebody was always ready to take a chance at  running it. At last he had to get a special permit from the mayor, thus acquiring, as he has related, "the dis-  tinction of being the only licensed chauffeur in  America."

For the first performances of his automobile Henry