The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-15
ilr. Jos. B. AthGFtOn Selects an
Electric Carriage.
II is 4 NATTY PARK TRAP
Sius Print of the Cab tina, ts 20
Come-Mr. Grants Letter.
Varieties.

Mr.. JOS. b. Atherton has been visit
ing automobile plants and trying the
machines at Chicago. where hundreds
of the new vehicles are 10 be seen upon
the streets constantly. For his own
use Mr.. Atherton has purchased one cf
the prettiest and neatsst park traps
Imaginable and will have il here early
III the new year. IL will carry four
people hand.ly. will be speedy AMI
easy To manage.
Louis I. Grant. who is at Chicago as
representative OF the local autamobils
company. sends a blue print OF the
cab that the syndicate VIII put upou
the streets OF Honolulu for passenger
travel. The e!eCtriCs have the very
appearance of the hacks now in use
here by the one horse concerns. De
tails show that the autos will he a few
inches wider in the seats than the horse
cabs and that they will he upho,ster-
ed and finished generally in somewha;
better style.
Mr.. Atherton. like everyone else who
has tried the automobile in Chicago. is
enthusiastic over il. II may he seated
here that one Honolulu man lately
in Chicago found the autos other than
electrics in favor with people who uu-
derstood machinery. One practical man
unreservedly endorsed Boston mJ-
chine that weighs but 400 pounds. ear
ries two people and costs only $500.
1t is expected that Mr.. VI. VI. kohn,
who is in the States for the Oceanic
Gas and lighting Comapny. will bring
back with him a couple of automobile
agencies.
The electric cabs for Honolulu are To
carry three people besides the driver.
The promoters are well satisfied with
the style OF vehicle they have selected
and are confident Of the entire success
of the use of electricity as the motive
power. From the first they have con-
sidered only the eleCtrics and have en-
ployed experts to pass upon everything
in the market. The great trouble has
been to get companies manufacturing
TO agree upon any time for delivery.
The plant capacities everywhere are
all booked months ahead and new eS-
Establishments are cropping up in all the
States. \ strong company is being or
ganiZed at San Francisco, and II will
make a special effort To- secure the
lIdNlc VI VI l4ieSt ASisthbs- SAt
of the big men in the San Francisco
company said a few weeks ago that his
concern expected TO sell several hun
dred autos in Honolulu so soon as the
goods were ready for delivery.
\ number of magazines and papers
devoted TO automobiles are now pub
lished. Neither these prints nor any
OF the men engaged in the great new
industry claim that the horse Is to- h'
superseded. But they do claim that tn,
auto is to become cheap and is to- come
into quite general use.
1t was in Omaha that a genius hav
| ing money and time perpetrated th'
greatest automobile joke OF the year
He appeared on lie streets and at tbs
Exposition grounds with two automatoI
horses ahead of his machine and :
| wooden dog coming along behind.
| y local cab factoT-a man owning
number of rigs-said yesterday that tn
men at present in the business wer,
not at all worrying themselves over tn,
prospective advent OF the electrics
Said he: I'VE do not believe that they
| will become popular with the public
At any rate il will take n long time q
| establish them in use. If they are &c
| copied we will sell our horses or TURF
| them out and rather out-Pain Mr.. Pair
| in the matter of converting to- electric
| ity. gasoline. kerosene or whatever I.
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