The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18

1 and Yorkshire to see the possibilities which
! last years autotruck demonstrate open
I ed up for the saving Of time and money IN
! the handling of goods Therefore. the sup
I porters OF this years exhibition were some
I of the leading commercial people Of this
/ city. who are now aiming 10 tie Liverpool
I trade TO Manchester and all the country
round by putting on lines Of freighting
/ wagons 10 give a cheap and rapid delivery
/ service from the wholesalers TO their pro
! vincial customers.
Every Possible Test Made.
Rigid tests were made at the Liverpool
| steamship docks on the ability Of the dTiv-
! ers 70 u1aneuveT their wagons in such ne
/ cessarIly small spaces as are met ia OIL
rectly loading and unloading vessels. A
masked bay, about half as long again as
"A motor wagon. was arranged some gwen
~ 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 mo-
torueers.
The tendency IS to make the freighting
cars heavier and heavier. like the NAM
moth American railway locomotives. and
in this way a vaster power and a greater
speed may be expected 10 develop. AT
present the government lays restrictions
upon the weight of autocars. and limits
their highway speed 10 six miles an hour.
but a more liberal enactment is hoped for
10 meet the changing conditions Of auto
matte traffic. Twenty-Five tons can be
moved over an average English road
readily as a fourth of that weight ard
e. this system Of transport develops as
rapidly as il promises to do there will
come in some new problems in town paw
ing and country road-making II must
TevolutioniZe the present system. suited as
it IS to comparatively light traffics.
Last years tests IN Liverpool showed
the advantage of petroleum in lighter We
hicles and this year proved anew that
steam is still che standard for heavy trac-
lions. On the previous occasion the
wheels and other working parts gave trOu-
bic by the severe strain and the vibration,
but this year the tires and wheels were
found perfectly sound at the end Of the
exhibitions. thus demonstrating the nota-
bic advancement made in one year.
The Automobile in England.
The British government is steadily ad-
vancing in its use of the automobile for
civil and military purposes. An official
who Witnessed the late hill-climbing and
long distance road trials said he would
urge upon the war office an enlarged use
of autocars for heavy artillery and cam
paign service, as a few hundred of these
win dispense with thousands of horses,
and be more effective, he thinks. In the
DtSldl StiFACt nlOLOT cars nave TOT some
time been in satisfactory use, and a the
late Richmond show mail vans were run
up and down the steep hills along the
Thames at high speed. one Newcastle
car dashes up hill at thirteen miles an
hour. 1t is said the rate of travel for
such heavy vehicles may be raised to
fourteen miles an hour TO make possible
a rapid cross-country postal delivery serv-
ice. Such an one is operating now on the
London and Brighton route, which needs
speeding up to meet the requirements.
Private motor car stage routes are being
established bout the country, one of these
lying between Bedford, where lived and
wrote John Bunyan, and Kempston, a
neighboring village. One day recently 3S7
passengers were carried the three miles
for the regular fare of twopence, and the
trade is rapidly growing.
The United States has definitely entered
the competition in the worlds markets
against both the French and English max
ers. American machines are now entered
at nearly all contests in Europe and
western wheels are being ridden in in
creasing numbers in Paris, the home Of
the automobile, as well as here. The ar
tistic Partisan has been a long time in
getting lines Of beauty onto his wares, al
though one can now see some real beauties
in the show rooms of the Count de Dion
and the other makers there. The American
carriages are better covered in their work.
ing parts and there is evidently more Sc
curity to the rider, as well as 10 the mech
anism. The English autocar is also being
improved by the influence of its energetic
American rivals, and the notorious ugliness
is being slowly worn away, with plenty
of room still for Improvement. American
sporting dogcarts are becoming especially
popular for their tightness and beauty and
European manufacturers are more and
more sending across the ocean for their
filings Even such parts as rawhde pinions
are being imported from Chicago As usual,
the Germans are counterfeiting the Amer
lean articles, and with their usual lack of
success.
Evolution of the Automobile.
The evolution of the light and graceful
automobile of France into the heavy and
still ungainly looking autocar of the Brit
ish Isles is an interesting study. In France
the machine is one for pleasure and lux
ury but In this country it has been rap
idly adapted to the serious business of
life. Among the hundreds of automo-
biles I have seen dashing about Paris and
through the Bots du Boulogne there was
rarely one that served it's owner other than
in pleasure. On the contrary, there are
but a few hundred pleasure automobiles
in all the United Kingdom. and in the
streets of London a rider of one of these
Is still stared a a curio. France Is,
therefore. first in its adoption as pleas
ure machine, while Englands leads the
world when solid work and utility is I'M
der debate While Europe is keenly
watching the American developments, it
is not unlikely that the West will be for
some time rival In the use of the ma
chine generally. by the inferior roads in
most parts of the states. The League of
American Wheemen will likely find the
automobile a powerful ally in the good
roads agitation.
All of these demonstrations are exert
ing a powerful stimulus to automoblism
in this country, and international races
with the French are being held frequent
y. A few days ago, when / was at Blen-
helm Palace, the young Duke of Marlbor-
ough was dashing about for the first time
on a new machine. while his youthful
American wife (Mss Consuelo Vanderbilt
and the babies looked on approvingly from
their seats upon the porch Trips 10 the
limits of the land are being taken almost
daily NOW Inbn Stirling drove hi .,,-4..