The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

landed from ships have to be carried
from the quay to warehouses or railway
sidinSs, transhipped upon the railway
wagons, conveyed therein to inland
towns and carted once again, and
sometimes twice, to their destination.
While such a tedious and expensive
journey may be inevitable where
the goods must be conveyed for long
distances, it is obvious that any method
of transportation which would receive
the goods In Liverpool and carry them
over all sorts of roads right to their
purchaser up to fifty miles away would
be boon in economy to merchants and
manufacturers, thus also lessening the
cost to the consumer. The American
who travels in this part of England
could almost imagine himself in the
hustling United States by the signs of
enterprise displayed in such towns as
Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham,
in contrast to fogy old London, tramp
ing along half a century behind the
times. Brisk methods of business pre-
vail herea bouts, and it did not take long
for the keen business men of Lam
cashire and Yorkshire to see the posi-
blities which last years autotruck DEM
onstrations opened up for the saving OF
time and money in the handling of
goods. Therefore, the supporters of
this years exhibition were some Of the
leading commercial people of this city
who are aiming to tie the Liver
pool trade to Manchester and all the
country round by putting on lines of
freighting wagons to give q cheap and
rapid delivery service from the whole
salers to their provincial customers.
Rigid tests were made at the Liver
poo! steamship docks on the ability of
the drivers to maneuVer their wagons IN
such necessarily small spaces as are met
in directly loading and unloading vessels.
A masked bay about half as long again
as a motor wagon, was arranged some
twenty feet from and nearly opposite to
a gate into which they must back. En-
trance was made successfully with two
reverses by the most of the contestants,
who showed their careful training as
motoneers.
The tendency is to make the freighting
ears heavier and heavier, like the mann
moth American railway locomotives, and
in this way a vaster power and greater
speed may be expected to develop. At
present the government lays restrictions
upon the eight on aucocars, and limits
their highway speed to SIX miles an hour,
but a more liberal enactment is hoped for
to meet the changing conditions OF auto
matte traffic. Twenty-Five tons can pc
moved over an average EnglSh ROAD as
raIidly as a fourth of that weight, ana IL
this system of transport develops as rap
idly as it promises to do, there will come
in some new problems in town paving
and country roadmaking. 1t must reVolu-
tiOnize the present system, suited as IL IS
to comparatively light traffics.
Last years tests in Liverpool showed
the advantage of petroleum IN ngnter
vehicles, and this year proved anew that
steam is still the standard Tor heaVy
fractions On the previous occasions the
wheels and other working parts gave
trouble by the severe strain ana the Vi
bration. but this year the tires and wheels
were found perfectly sound at the END
of the exhibitions, thus demonstrating
+ba notable advancement made IN one
year.
The British government is steadily ad-
vancirg in it's use of the automopue LOT
civil and military purposes. An oAhclal
who witnessed the late bill cumming aug
ong-distance road trials SAID ne "oulu
urge upon the war office an enlarged
use of autocars for heavy artillery and
camnaien service, as a few hundred of
these will dispense with thousands OF
horses and be more effective, he thinks
In the postal service motor cars nave lot
some time been in satisfactory use, ana
at the late Richmond show mail vans
were RIM ND and down the steep hills
along the Thames at high speed. one
Newcastle car dashed up hill at thirteen
miles an hour. 1t is said the rate OIL
travel for such heavy vehicles may be
raised to fourteen miles an hour to MAKE
nossible a rapid cross~country postal ae-
livery service. Such a one is now on
the London and Brighton route, which
needs speeding up tic meet the reqHlre-
ments Private motor car stage foutea
are beingcest abl;shed about the country,
one of these lyiag between Bradford,
where lived and wrote John Bunyan, ana
Ke1npston, d neighboring village. one
day recently 3S7 passengers were carried
the three miles for the regular rare Oh
two pence, and the trade is rapidly
growing.
The United States has definitely en-
tered the correction in the worlds mar
kets against both the French and English
makers. American machines are now en-
tered at nearly all contests in Europe
and Western wheels are being flddeh
in Increasing numbers in Paris, the home
of the automobile, as well as here. Inc
artistic Partisan has been long time LII
getting lines of beauty onto his wares,
although one can now see some real
beauties in the show rooms of the Count
de Lion and the other makers there. The
American carriages are better covered III
their working parts, and there is eTl-
IDENTIFY more security to the rider, a. well
as to the mechanism The English
autccar is also being improved by the
irfluence of it's energetic American rivals,
and the notorious ugliness is being slowly
worn away, with q plenty of room still
for Improvement American sporting dog
carts are becoming especially popular for
their lightness and beauty, and European
manufacture ere more and more sending
across the ocean for their fittings. EVcn
such parts as rawhide pinions arc being
imported from Chicago. AS usual the
Germans are counterfeiting the American
articles, and with their usual lack of
success. Edward Iase Idsloh'