Chapter C: A. COEY, President

COPYRIGHTED 1912

BARNEY OLDFIELD to the left racing against C. A. COEY in Mr. Coey's famous Tornado on the St. Louis fair ground track. Mr. Oldfield won the race by the smallest margin that a motor car race was ever won, he being only six inches ahead at the finish.]

To the Prospective Student

If you are about to make your start in life, or not satisfied with your present line of work, or for the sake of your health are desirous of securing a change of employment which will take you out into the open air, it is worth your while to consider the matter of learning to be an expert automobile operator and to take up that line of work.

The great growth and development of the automobile and its use needs no comment. The compensation of the chauffeur is good and the demand for his services so steady, and the standing of the profession is so high now, that it is more and more attractive to that class of individuals who are able and willing to combine mechanical skill with intellectual effort.

It is for that class of men this course is intended and it is that class of men, who, by supplementing their natural mechanical genius with a little properly directed mental work, can qualify themselves to secure well paid positions, such as, to the proper persons, are certain to prove stepping stones to greater advancement.

The great number of chauffeurs who enjoy the esteem and confidence of their wealthy employers is well known, and we could enumerate hundreds who have started in business for themselves and who are on the road to wealth through the assistance of their employer.

The Object of Our School

The object of our School is to prepare young men throughout the country to become expert chauffeurs, repairmen, demonstrators, salesmen, garage managers, etc.

Our president, Mr. C. A. Coey, has been in the automobile business for twelve years, and he is one of the most prominent automobile men in America today.

During this time he has sold thousands of automobiles, and his customers can be found in every state in the Union. He found that the only way he could supply the demands of the automobile dealers and manufacturers throughout the country, was to open a school of motoring, and it is for this reason that _C. A. COEY'S SCHOOL OF MOTORING_ was started.

Mr. Coey commenced as a small farmer boy himself, and he knows that the country boys are even more ambitious than those in the city, but they do not have the opportunities like the city boys. And because he knew that there were plenty of such young men all over the country, who would be able to fill just such positions, if they could but prepare themselves, and at the same time to supply the demand from his customers throughout the country for good honest young men he founded this School.

A Word About our President

Mr. C. A. Coey

Mr. Coey has been prominently identified with the automobile business in Chicago from its inception, in fact, he is the pioneer automobile man of Chicago.

He constructed the first building ever erected in America for an automobile garage, which is now standing at the corner of Cottage Grove Avenue and 53rd St., Chicago, Illinois.

He placed the first taxicabs on the streets of Chicago and now owns the best in the city.

He is one of the few who made a success of the automobile livery business, beginning with one car and increasing to fifty. Commencing with practically nothing, he built up not only the largest automobile livery business in the country, but also the largest automobile sales business in America. The companies bearing his name now maintain a large garage and salesroom.

Mr. Coey is intimately connected with some of the foremost men of this country and is well known as an automobile manufacturer and dealer throughout the country, and a _DIPLOMA_ with his name signed to it is the best thing you can have when looking for any kind of employment in the automobile industry.

He has secured more good paying positions for his students and friends than all other auto schools in America combined, because he is so well known.

Mr. Coey has won more twenty-four hour races than any other man living and holds the world's record for twenty-four hours for a one-man driver, covering 990 miles without a minute's rest.

Mr. Coey has also been widely known throughout the country in connection with ballooning, and he holds the world's speed record, having covered six hundred and seven miles in ten hours and fifty-five minutes, ascending at Quincy, Illinois, on the 2nd day of June, 1907, in the evening and sailing through the clouds all night, through thunder storms, and making a landing at Clear Lake, South Dakota, at five A. M. the next day.

On the flight from Chicago on the 4th of July, 1908, at the meeting of the Aeronautique Club of Chicago, of which Mr. Coey was president, he crossed the Great Lake, landing in West Monkton, Canada, covering a distance of five hundred and fifty-six miles, having made the flight in a single night in his balloon, "Chicago," the largest balloon in the World. In this trip he sailed over seventy-five miles of water.

Mr. Coey is President of the following Corporations:

COEY-MITCHELL AUTOMOBILE COMPANY,
Capital $250,000.00

AMERICAN TRAVELER COEY COMPANY,
Capital $100,000.00