By 1911 most horse-drawn carriages had been replaced with the automobile.  That year a brave eighty-three-year-old wrote a letter to the Post-Dispatch.  In that letter he agreed to ride through the Park in an automobile.  He wrote this:

I knew … that my family was fixed for life, and when I die I want to die quickly … I saw some deer, but you never have time to stop and get a good look at anything when you are in one of those automobiles.   We went around in circles.  I spoke to the motorman and asked, if he would know his way out again …When he said he would, I was glad he was there.

About this time, the Saint Louis Police began taking measures to combat “scorchers”.  Policemen and their driver would patrol the Park’s roadways in a “high-speed automobile” equipped with a “speed gauge”, looking to apprehend “scorchers”.  They were there to enforce the Park’s 8 MPH speed limit.

I biked in the Park both Thursday and Friday mornings, before going to work.  Thursday’s ride was gray and the roads were still wet from the preceeding night’s rain.  I didn’t take any pictures and I had to clean my bike after that ride.  Friday’s ride was sunnier and drier.  I got the pictures of the cone flower and the yellow crowned night heron.  I got 15 and 16 miles respectively.  Later Anne and Joanie walked in the Park and she took the two pictures of the Great White Egret and today’s header.