C.A. Coey's School of Motoring, 1424-26 Michigan Ave. Chicago

A Word About our President Mr. C. A. Coey

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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.

Illustration from C.A. Coey's School of Motoring, 1424-26 Michigan Ave. Chicago

The first building erected for an Automobile Garage—built by C. A. Coey.

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

The first taxicab seen in Chicago—C. A. Coey, owner.

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.

At the left—C. A. Coey, next to him—Charles Bonaparte, grandson of the late Napoleon the Great.

Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks, C. A. Coey, and Judge Hanecy.

C. A. Coey, at the left, and U. S. Senator "Pitchfork" Tillman.

William Hoppe, the world's champion billiardist, in the front seat with C. A. Coey at the wheel.

C. A. Coey at the wheel and Rube Waddell, the famous ball player, by his side.

Packy McFarland, Chicago's star boxer, in one of Mr. Coey's machines.

Charles J. Glidden in his rail riding automobile and C. A. Coey in the rear to the right.

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.

Start of the 24 hour race at Chicago—won by C. A. Coey.

As seen on the back stretch of the 24 hour race—C. A. Coey passing other contestants.

The Finish—C. A. Coey at the wheel. The Winner.

C. A. Coey, in balloon costume—ready for a trip to Cloudland.

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.

The next morning on the way to the Railroad Station with Balloon and Basket.

The landing he made in a tree top in Illinois.

The mammoth balloon "Chicago," the largest in the world—owned by C. A. Coey.

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.