Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1147
Points per Word
0.000436
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In 1895, The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored a race to prove that the new-fangled and much-maligned horse-less carriages could outdo the horse and carriage.