Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-02-02
COO.l OF TIE HORSE.
El,ctr:c!ty tho Ccu'ag Cot.ve
Powcr fer VoL.cics-
Not Oily Street Cars, Tut Wheeled Con.
vega oes OF All ri ID Win Ec FRO
PEELED by tSc Upsce Force That
Is Ecvolui, iziag the Word.

from present indications II will not
be surprising II within a few short
ycar3thc electric c,otcr will have super /.
sedod the horse generally. II not uni. :
verbally. as a motive power. says the
Pitt6burgh CONNER cial Gazette With.
IN three years It has taken its place on
oil the street railways in the city. with a.
single exception. that were not using.
the cable The same is true Of overy
other city in the country Even coun.
try towns and thicl;ly populated corn.,-
try districts have electric roads. In this
way hundreds Of thousands Of horses
have been displaced within the last eve
years The cable came FIRST, but It is
being superseded by the electric motor.
rs it is less expensive and more easily
handled
Many of our readers will be able to
recall the cry against steam railways
that they would do away with stage
coaches and hcrscs. thereby throwing
thousands of drivers. hostlcrs. horse
buyers and tavern keepers out Of en-
plcymcnt 1t is said that this cry was
so loud as to keep the Baltimore 4 Ohio
railroad out of this state. Had it not
been for the turnpike influence the frst
line would have come to this city. and
thence to Wheeling. instead Of going
over the mountains from Cumberland
to Wheeling. The stare horse was
doomed, however, and had tn 60 Is 1t
not possible, CT even quite probable,
that the carriage horse and the draft
two years from the present time car
riages, buggies and light wagons will
be scudding along our streets propelled
by electricity, and 1t is not improbable
that the same power may DC applied to
! heavier-wheeled vehicles
In a recent letter Thomas Shields
Clarke. the artist, who has been IN Paris
for some time. scys:
"Do you realize that the days OF our
equine friend arc numbered? Carriages
propelled by electric or naphtha motors
are already a common sight on the
streets of Paris and becoming more nu.
merous every day. Not being o great
lover Of horsc1esh shall be g I'D when
it is conc. What nice. clean streets we
will have when 1t ceases to hammer
them TO pieces with its iron shoes
More capacious carriages can be used
and many men can own their own con-
vcyanccs when propelled by motor
that only uses o few cents worth OF
electricity, Ia nsphtha. per day. and
costs nothing at all fcr feed or ntten-
ton when not in actual uso. Every
man may then be his own driver. 1t
looks very rauch Us if this new order OF
things will be established before tho
close of the present century.
There are nonc, or at least only n
few. who v!ll take issue with Mr..
Ciarl:s On the subject. The electric
raosor end storage battery have been
brought to su.h perfection that it is
cutie safe to rrcGi.t i general II not
universal decline In horse power Dur
lag the coming harvest n number OF
agricultural machines, such rcapers.
mowers, thrashcrs. plovs, herrovs and
rolScs will bc operated by storage bot
teries instead of horses. This is rem
dcred ssible by late improvements N
the storage battery. A fvc-horsc-powcT
battery, good for ten hours steady
work. occupies a box no larger than on
egg case. aid weighs no more than one
hundred and City pounds. These can
be transported any distance. and may
be returned and recharged at small
cost.
A battery Of this size and power will
propel farming carriage continu'
ously for City hours, or at least for ten
days If only used Eve hours each day.
So it will not cost nearly so much as a
carriage horse. nor require either feed
or attention when not in use. There Is
NO reason why it should not become