100 YEARS AGO IN THE SARATOGIAN
Saturday, Nov. 16, 1918. Saratoga County district attorney Charles B. Andrus and his stenographer are “severely bruised” when his new car is sideswiped by another vehicle on the Schenectady Road tonight, The Saratogian reports.
Andrus bought his Hupmobile “about ten days” ago and tells a reporter that “my lights were not working very well.” His stenographer, Margaret H. Carey, happened to be shopping in Albany at the same time he had business there. When he saw here waiting for a trolley back to Saratoga Springs he offered her a ride.
“After joking about my ability to drive the car she consented,” the prosecutor says. Near Ballston at 11:10 p.m., he sees a Ford car zigzagging on the road in the opposite direction. While he slows down “almost to a standstill” the Ford “continued to come on, very fast.” After nearly going off the road on the left-hand side, it veers back into the righthand lane where Andrus is driving.
“I started up a little when the Ford cut back across the road to the extreme right,” Andrus says, “I saw it coming and realized that I did not have power enough to cut in ahead of it, so I turned out to the life to let the Ford go by. But instead of going ahead on the left hand side the driver threw the Ford back across the road toward the right and caught my car about in the middle.”
The Hupmobile goes into a ditch. Carey is thrown from the vehicle and hits a tree a glancing blow. Unconscious for several minutes, she’s expected to make a complete recovery. Andrus suffers a sprained shoulder and wrist.
The Ford’s driver is C. L. Jones, a Schenectady sewing machine salesman. He suffers a “badly wrenched” back while his passenger, P. D. Buckbee of Glens Falls, is apparently uninjured.
“I don’t know yet how much it was damaged, but it appeared to be wrecked,” Andrus says of his Hupmobile. High School Football The Saratoga Springs High School football team has a subpar performance this afternoon, but it’s still good enough to beat Glens Falls High on their home gridiron.
“The game was close and hard-fought throughout, and many arguments resulted from close decisions,” a Saratogian sportswriter reports.
Glens Falls scores the first touchdown but by halftime Saratoga Springs leads, 146. After building their lead to 21-6 in the third quarter, “the Saratoga boys seemed to let up on their jobs,” allowing Glens Falls to get a late touchdown. The victory aside, the sportswriter concludes that “The wearers of the blue and white … lacked their usual punch and pep.”