San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-14
AN ELECTRIC TRICYCLE..
The Storage Battery Problem Robbed OF
Half Its DiHicuItics-St. Louis


ST Louis, Mo-, March 31.-A tricycle.
vent spinning over the houlevar,ls ,-s
line afternoon this week, end q. f.
body who saw it turned to lco,l at it
curiously. 1t had no pedals, and the
riders feet were At rest, having moth
ing to do with its propulsion, but VIII
that exception it was like all trlcycies.
The young man riding it was ms
chanIc employed in d large bicycle es-
Enlistment, and the storage battery
by which it was propelled he Ead IN
vented himself improving on one rnat
has been abandoned He SAYS that ne
has not got his invention TO the Point
where he can trust Il to carry him
through rough usage, and is careful 20
keep his tricvcle on the very snoOthest
streets, but he IS confident that he win
have within year battery that viii
stand any kind of work. Il he succeeds
his fortune is made, fore every street rail
wa in the country IS looking for that
very thing
The question Of annexing the sub
urbs Of ~. Louis to the city proper VIII
be before the people as soon n this
campaign is over. There IS strong
party in favor Of it already, AMI as the
plan cannot be consummated, Of
course. till a majority ofthc citizens of
both the town and the suburbs arr
agreed that il is a good one 4 cam
paign of education VIII be begun and
carried on till the Legislature meets
again. The city has now over half Il
million people. and the suburbsit is in
tended TO annex have about hundred
thousand more Besides the popula-
LIT h...
~ in taxable property. and about five
square miles of territory, while the
dwellers Of the suburbs would get the
publiUimprovemeIts especially a water
supply, and the police protection they
want.
Architect George r. Mann, who has
in charge the building of the new City
Hall, announces that the roof is on,
and several Offices will be ready for oc-
cupancy 10y the fall. The Mayor who
Is to be elected next week will be in
augurated in the present building but
he will move into the new one before
he has served 4 year OF his term. From
an architectural standpoint, this build
ing will be without superior in the
country It has been erected by plans
which the city got through a money
competition among architects at home
and abroad, paying several thousand
dollars for them, and while there has
been no jobbing in the building there
has also been no false economy. When
completed the hall will have cost the
city nearly two million dollars.
There will be several new streetrail-
way lines built in the city this sum
mer. All of them viii be elcctTi,
lines, of course. That goes without
saving in st. Louis nowadays. One Of
the most important Of all these Will be
the railway betting Forest Park. The
franchise is to be sold at auction by
the city, the plan having been pro
posed by municipal engineers, and
will bring, it is expected, fully half
million dollars. Thousands OF pSople
60 out to the park every day, winter
and summer. 1t is one of the city's
sights. None of them would fail to
ride around the beautiful forest after
the proposed line is built, and railway
men say that the company which gets
the franchise viii easily make > per
cent on the half-million investment.
This will be the first experiment the
city has made in selling franchises by
auction.