At 11:00 P.M., Charles B. King, a 28-year-old Detroit engineer, seated himself in an open carriage. The carriage looked like most other vehicles on the Detroit streets, except there were no horses pulling it. King's "horseless carriage" moved down Woodward Avenue to the surprise of pedestrians. The next day a local newspaper called it "a most unique machine." King became the first Detroiter—and possibly the first Michiganian—to drive a gasoline-powered carriage in public.