Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-11-02
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What | know of our automobiles !,
that they are built in accordance u,.s
the roads over which they are maao
run.
1t is true, up to few months 400
said Edison, that the French vebie1,.
were far ahead of any manufactnrss
In America, but we are and have no..
making wide strides in the advsn1-
ment OF the automobiles during ~.
past six months, and today are nut,,ns
ont more practicable machine tbas
the Frenchmen ever thought Of =.
ever can put out, and in the newt 81,
months America will he ahead of ~
world in the manusacta,ro of th... ..,,,'
chimes, as American engineers are a. |
ercisiug their brains experimental
and from present indications 90 NJ.
cent. of the horses now in use win \.
replaced by this late invention in ~.
next year and half.
From what read of Mr.. Winto,,.
machine, he has a good one. and hafora
the race is finished the Frencbman
will find himself and machine stuck IN
the mud along the road, while M
Winton, with his American ideas win
be speeding merrily along toward tba
Journal Office
The reason Cha"ron's machine can.
not compete on American roads b,,
already been deliberately set forth {,
the journal. In the first place tbo
weight is so great that it will sinh
the wheels to the hubs in the sot,
roadways. The wooden-spoked wheels
will bog down in the sand and tba
dust flying into the unprotected bear.
ings of the French machine will causa
more trouble.
Another fatal defect in Charron,s
vehicle, and as far as traffic on ordi.
nary country roads is concerned il
that the motor, the heaviest part Of
the automobile, is forward, immedi.
ately above the front axle.
any farmers boy, accustomed to the
ruts and powders in the pike that
leads to the market town, knows too
much to put heavy load in the front
end OF his wagon. Speed with We.
hicle thus unbalanced is utterly out Of
the question, and anybody trying to
make it is, in road talk, riding for
fall"
Chawon, If he attempted to ride at
any such speed as he made when he
ran the recent automobile race from
Bordereaux to Paris, would either up.
set or knock his vehicle to pieces.
With automobile cabs taking care of
the street passenger traffic private
automobile carriages thronging the
boulevards and park drives-for the
prohibition against their appearance
Ia the Central is only a passing phase
of the great change-aud auto-trucks
doing all the express and carriage
work, the streets of New York five
years hence will be very different
from what they are now.
One of the big brewing companies
is considering the feasibility of retir.
ing the magnificent Norman draught
horses and Percherons that have drag.
ged the huge beer wagons about the
city and substituting automobile
trucks for them.
A big contractor is figuring on the
relative cost of locomotive carts as
against the carts and horses he has to
use now.
An effort will be made shortly to
substitute another adoption of the
automobile principle for the dump
carts now in use by the city.
There seems no branch or character
of traction for which the automobile
is not clamoring for adoption At the
automobile show now in progress at
the Tuileries gardens, in Paris, there
was a prize for a race among yoitur-
cites driven by children.
Any child old enough to drive
Shetland pony is old enough to run one
of the baby automobiles, and the child
ren of several of the great families Of
the capital of France run their toy
like yoiturettes in the park every
afternoon.
Every day sees a wider spread Of the
automobile in America. An automo-
bile cab company is organizing in
Chicago, where an auto-truck company
is already under way.-New York
Journal.