Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-02

in contact with the powders in tie
roads,
'WhatsI. know of our automobiles is
that .theys4te. built in accordance with
the roads oyer which they are made to
run
1T is,tH SD to few months ago."
said Edisois 4hat the French vehicles
were far ahead of any manufactured
in America, but we are and have been
making wide, strides in the advance
ment of the automobiles during the
past six months, and today are pntting
cut a more practicable machine than
the Frenchmen ever thought 81, or
ever can put out, and in the next six
months America will be ahead of the
world in the Manufacture of the ma
chimes, as American engineers are ex-
ercising their inswexperimenting
and from present indications 80 per
cent. of the horses now in use will be
replaced by this late invention il the
next year and half.
From what l read OF. Mr.. Winton's
machine, he has good one, and before
the race is finished the Frenchman
will find himself and machine stuck in
the mud along the road, while Mr..
Winton, with his American ideas, will
be speeding merrily along toward the
Journal office"
The reason Charron's machine can
not compete on American roads has
nc " Lob al n
the Journal. In the first place, the
weight is so great that it will sink
the wheels to the hubs in the soft
roadways. The wooden-spoked wheels
will bog down in the sand and the
dust flying into the unprotected bear
ipgs of the French machine will cause
more trouble.
Another fatal defect in Charron's
vehicle, and as far as traffic on ordi-
nary country roads is concerned, is
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 a We
hicle thus unbalanced is utterly out of
The question, and anybody trying -
make it is, in road talk, riding fol
fall
Charron, 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
III the Central is only passing phase
OF the great change-and 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
geo the huge beer wagons about the
city and substituting automobile
trucks for them.
A Dig 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 dunn
carts now in use by the city.
Inere 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 Iulleries gardens, in Paris. there
was a prize for race among voitur-
cites driven by children.
Any child old enough to drive q
shetland pony is old enough to run one
Oh the baby automobiles, and the child
rem OF several of the great families ~
the capital of France run their tow
like voiturettes in the park every
afternoon.
Every day sees wider spread of tho
automobile in America. An auto,no-
bile cab company is organizing IN
Chicago, where an auto-truck comnanv
is already under way.-New York
Journal.