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it available anywhere that an ordinary
horse and carriage could make their
way; and. the present highest result of
his inventive ingenuity and patient ex-
pertinent is a racer which weighs
less than 1000 pounds, can mount %
per cent grade with ease and has
guaranteed capacity of sixty-five mile
an hour: The Cali Herald automobile,
or touring cart in which our two ad-
VenturOus travellers are coming across
the plains and the deserts and the
mountains that lie between us and far
distant New York has been built espe-
ciaIly for this journey. 1t is, however,
save that its vaSous parts are fash
toned more strongly than if it were to
be used for mere pleasure jaunts along
smooth and comparatively level ways,
in no way different from the vehicles
designed for such purposes.
While electricity-eas of access, low
of cost and divested of its present al
most prohibitiye weight and consequent
clumsiness-is most certainly the mo-
tive power of. the sfuture for all auto
matte vehicles, gasoline is the cheapest
and most convenient agent Of the pres
ent
The power principle of the gasoline
motor depends upon the fact that gaso-
line, mixed in certain proportions with
atmospheric air, will explode if ignited.
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that pipes and valves freeze solid and
a .'re-heating" apparatus has to be
provided, which adds materially to the
general clumsiness of the outfit.
Gasoline exploded in an engine cyl
inder by means of an electric spark, the
engine being of what is known as the
four-c cycle variety, gives very satisfac-
tory results, and the gasoline automo-
bile is extremely convenient for general
use. The objections to this power, how
ever, are that there is always a slight
vibration due to the constantly recur-
ring explosions, and always slight
odor of gas combustion, while the vehi-
Gle is never self-starting, the driver be-
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less and free from vibration. but while
the electric auto carriage is all this 1T
is immensely heavy. because of the use
of storage batteries, and can run only
a limited distance without recharging.
When electrical hydrants, such as
were exhibited at the Madison square
Gardens recently. are placed at con-
venient intervals along our streets and
roads these drawbacks will be done
away with and the electric vehicle will
undoubtedly distance all competitors in
the estimation of the public.
OF the six motor powers now in use
electricity, gasoline. steam, compressed
air, carbonic acid gas and alcohol-only
the first three have so far been success
full, and each of them has it's disad-
vantages. They are all necessarily ap-
piled in a cumbersome way, and the
question of sirnplif1catiou and tighten
ing of weight is engrossing the atten
ton of inventors and manufacturers:
Superheated air, which was used sue
cessfully as a motive power in New
York in the early sixties, has not, so
far as known, been experimental with
in relation to this particular mechan-
ism. 49,
Compressed air has been applied to.
heavy trucks, but the air when released
from pressure takes up heat so. rapidly
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before under various conditions and
with the help of various assistants to
progression. The long stretch of 300
miles has been covered by men on foot,
. on horseback, in wheeIbarrows and on
bicycles; but none of these trips meant
anything special to the world in gen.
eral, and they only proved what we all
knew before-that men are capable of
O.. enduring almost unbelievable discom-
fort, privation and fatigue for the sake
=. of earning either little money or a
little notoriety, or both.
= The undertaking of Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis means, however, something ut
: terly different Outside Of the enter
prise shown by the Call Herald there is
:. a deep significance in it which appeals
to the whole civilized world. It means
: a revolution in our entire system of
locomotion and burden bearing -
changing Of Things as They Are into
. Things as They Ought to Be-.
1t means the. passing Of the horse,
save as an expensive luxury for those
who can afford to be whimsical; and
with him will pass the noise and con-
fusion and crowd and most of the
debris Of our city streets. and a reign
. Of comfort. quiet and cleanliness will
ensue which will make US wonder, in
years to come, how we ever endured the
thousand thoroughfare miseries of the
present day.
Mr.. Davis. and his wife are to travel
in an automobile horseless carriage
which has a cylinder instead Of a horse,
a lever instead Of reins, and three gears
instead Of whip. If they succeed, as
they without question will, in bringing
their long ride to a triumphant con-
cIusion, the last argument against the
familiar use Of the automobile will have
been siIenced.
Heretofore it has been considered
that. however well self propelled We
hicIes might accomplish their various
purposes on smooth and level city
streets, or on the almost ideal high
ways Of England and France their
most. enthusiastic. advocates could look
for nothing but failure when the at
tempt should be made to utilize them
outside such limits.
Urged on by the necessity of the
case, the American inventor has turned
his attention particularly to making
such improvements in this most popu-
lar mechanical device as shall render
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and speed with those now being export
ed by some American firms.
Once convinced of the practicab1ilty
and desirability of the idea American
invention proceeded to conquer the diff
ficulties presented. The ordinary Amer
lean road is very different from the
smooth and well-kept highways OF ,Eu-
ropean countries; and one of the prob
lens to be solved was to overcome the
automobiles aversion to grades ana
persuade it to travel along paths not
specially prepared for it's accommoda-
ton.
The result of study and experiment is
that we have now a racing machine
weighing less than 1000 pounds, which
is guaranteed to make sixty five miles
an hour on a smooth road and maintain
a speed of thirty-five miles an hour on
any grade not exceeding 20 per cent.
In 1890 MN. Serpollet and Archdeacon
attempted an automobile speed jour
ney from Lyons TO Paris, and con-
sumed ten long days in the process.
While France has a special liking for
gasoline as a motive power and Eng
land-too fond of horses to readily eX-
change them for mere machines-pre-
fers steam, and so far applies the prin-
ciple more to drayage and trucking
than to pleasure vehicles, America is
far ahead in the electrical line.
The ideal machine is noiseless, odor-
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enthusiasts declare will prove d boon
to her citizens. Over hundred electric
cabs are in daily use in New York, and
200 more are already ordered, so highly
is their cheap, comfortable and rapid
service appreciated.
In view of these facts the Western
city feels no hesitation in embarking a
large amount of capital in the enter
prise, which is to be in full operation
within her borders this month.
The cost of maintaining storage bat
teries for year varies now from $50
for light buggies to $500 for heavy on-
nibuses, the whole cost of operation
being three-quarters of a cent to four
cents per mile.
Although automobilism is generally
looked upon as a new idea, it is in re-
ality far older than our railways, and
did its best to supersede horses as long
ago as the middle of the eighteenth
century. Nicolas Joseph Cugnot built
and ran successfully model of an au-
tomobile in 1853, and six years later
made for the French Government a
three wheeled gun carriage in which
the boiler was kettle-shaped and the
rotary motion supplied by pawls on
the piston rods and ratchet wheels fixed
to the driving wheels. Murdock, in
1871. and William Symington, in 1886,
follow--the one with a steam tricycle.
and the other with. a road coach, and
various notifications of the idea ap-
peared thereafter
In 1901 full-sized road coach was
built by an Englishman named Trevt-
thick, and in 1915 w. James and Sir
James Anderson built and ran stage
coach carrying. twenty people and ca
pable of going seven miles; an hour with
a. full load In 1922 Sir Goldsworthy
Gurney had several steam stages run
ming from London and nine steam. ON :.
nibuses were placed in operation by
Mr: Hancock A steam carriage made
by Messrs. Squire and Macerone in 1888
went fourteen miles an hour at a cost.
of cents mile.
The" opposition of the staging indus
try and the diyerting of public interest
to the subject of railroads brought. the.
DEVELOPMENT of the automobile to
standstill. and it has remained for us
of the present decade to revive and ap- :.
preciate it.
The races which have taken place
and are projected have aroused wide
spread and keen interest The inter-
national contest planned for August
between Alexander Winton, who made
the trip from Cleveland to New York-a
distance of 707A miles-last May in
forty-seven hours and thirty-four min
utes, and Monsieur Charron, the French
champion automobilist, will undoubted-
iy tend to still further popularize these
already popular conveyances. and IT
will probably be but very short time
before every city and town of impor-
tance in the United States will be using
them, both for pleasure and for traffic.
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A COMPLETE
HISTORY OF
THE MODERN
AUTOMOBILE.

The modern history of the automo-
bile in America reads like a fairy tale.
The already immense business of build
ing and operating horseless vehicles of
all kinds seems almost to have come in
to being in a single night, like Aladdin's
magic palace.
Not quite a year ago the less than
thirty automatically propelled carriages
then owned in the United States were
viewed by the general public with
doubling curiosity rather than appro-
bation To-day an aggregate capital
of nearly s4OO, ,000, 900 is invested in this
still rapidly growing industry in New
York. Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia
alone The eighty companies which are
engaged in manufacturing the 200 diff
ferent varieties of automobile convey
ances now in use find it impossible to
supply the daily increasing demand for
their product, and the general public
has become so thoroughly impressed
with the merits of this innovation upon
established methods of locomotion that
it is confidently prophesied that the
horse the most abused and m6st
nearly deified animal in the civilized
world-wiIl be in five years time COM
pletely superseded and looked upon as
a luxury instead as necessity. 1t is
true that this same idea was enter
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erts, into savage mountain gorges, up
steep cliffs and amid clouds of blind
ing dust in the alkali regions, which,
like the tabled Yellow Dwarf, stand
sentinel before the doors of our en-
chanted gardens.
She has made up her mind to endure
all this and bravely. Heat and cold.
wind and sun, 5torm and calm, all are
as nothing to her compared with the
charm of this epoch making race
against time and the traditions of the
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Sen T rancisco to
!. Be. the Objective
Point. Of a Race
!. That Fif1s.With
Wonder the Eyes
Of f the Civilized
Nations. !

n ~ r.. AND MRS. JOHN D.
: :UWA= DAVIS start ..to-mo1row upon
.X.TS>N their. long Call Herald jour
mn: -. Bey; a: journey so freighted
with Importance: to the future Of the
Industrial world as to make even those
ordinarily Indifferent to exhibitions Of
human. power. skill and endurance fol-
low their path from day to. day with
an:intensity of interest which has. never
before been. aroused by a transconti-
mental trip. =.
The Journey. from New York to San
Francisco has been made many times
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MostRen1arkab1e
rip the World
Has Known. It
W ay Revolt
tionize the En-
tire System Of
Locornotion.

ing. obliged to turn by hand the wheel
controlling the piston until the. explo-
sions begin.
The cost of running a gasoline motor
is astcnishingly light, five gallons OF
gasoline sufficing to carry T-pound
phaeton for 100 miles. Steam is also
cheap, and electricity, when the de-
mand for it becomes as great as the
future promises, will be cheaper still.
Chicago has signalized her belief in
the superiority of the latter power by
following New York's example and in
stituting an electric cab system, which
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-28
IMPORTANT SALE.

Under and in pursuance of q Judgment of the
Superior court of Wake county, duly rendered
at April term $780, in the action of John w ard
ct al VS.. The North Carolina Car Company ct al,
and under the provisions of deed of trust exc
cuted April j, 1897, by said North Carolina Car
Company to the undersigned Trustees, and reg
istered in the office of the Register of Deeds of
wake county in Book 193, page 729, the under
signed will expose to pubic sale on MONDAY,
AUGUST z, 1899, at IL O'Clock M, at the County
Courthouse door in the city of Raleigh, all
that tract or parcel of land on which the works
of the North Carolina Car Company are now
state of North Carolina just beyond the north
ern boundary OF the city of Raleigh, bounded
and described as follows: Beginning on Frank
lin Place street at the southwest corner of the
Ylueppelburg lot and running with his line
north ~ degrees west, 208 12 feet to his corner;
thence with his line and the line of Vass lot
nth so 10 degrees, east $50 feet to Steinmetzs
line; thence with Stelnmetz's line north 5 y de-
grees, east S87 feet to w. A Turks line; thence
with said line north IS 1-2 degrees, west 343h
feet to the right of way of the Raleigh CASTOR
Railroad Company; thence southwardly with
said right of way S52feet: thence north "a LIZ
Neumeyer's lots; thence north degrees, east
81 feet thence north 81 1-2 feet, east with Neu-
meyers line I2i ]. 2 feet: thence north degrees,
east with Timberlake's and Heilig's lines 10
feet; thence north 81 Degrees east with Fran Kiln
Place street lis feet to the beginning, contain
ing six and 49, 100 acres, more or less, together
with all privileges and appurtenances thereto
appertaining or belonging, and all the buildings
and structures, improvements and fixtures on
said land. and all engines, boilors and every
other kind OF machinery on said land or in said
buildings and all and singular the corporate
rights and franchises of said North Carolina
Car Company
Terms OF sale: cash. Y. II. BELNlN,
r. g. SMITH,
Trustees and Commissioners.
June 10, 500 t.d.ss
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trading in full force and carried prices
of the railroads to the highest of the
day. New York Central was again the
centre Of interest in the market aud 1t
was Il final squirt of u points III that
stock that gave tire market it's strong
close. Manhattan was also rushed mp
in the final dealings to f16H on the an
nouncement Of the closing or contracts
looking to the change TO electric motive
power. The bull leaders were evidently
in concerted effort to make final prices
of the day the highest.
Federal Steel was conspicuous at the
opening by an advance Of l4s on the dis
mssal of the injunction against the pay
ment of the dividend declared on the
common stock.
Denials from official sources that any
labor trouble was impending among the
street railway employees in greater New
York also gave an upward tendency 70
Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Steel aud
Wire showed some sympathy with Fed
erai Steel. since the directors of that
company had assigned the injunction
against the Federal Steel Company as
Il reason for not declaring a dividend ON
their common stocks. Sugar also was
disposed to move upwards.
Today's business as Il whole was,
however. larger than for some time past
and was remarkably well distributed
throughout the railroad list. todays re-
ports of earnings from all sections en-
phasizing the effect of those received
yesterday.
The increased speculative activity can
hardly fail to call for increased loan ac-
commodations, and this is expected to
add to the already unfavoralle bank re-
turn for Saturday in which gold exports
of $T.500,000 win have to figure
The heavy dividend and interest obi
cations to be met July 1st will also
money market. The possibility of IL
squeeze in the circumstances is taken
into account by some observers. But
it was noticeable that today's hardening
of money rates in New York resulted i'll
Il fall in the rate Of sterling exchange.
although the rates for money in London
We're also higher on the demand incident
to the stock exchange settlement. Lon
don bought stocks in New York which
was said to represent bear covering on
the settlement and which had its infiu-
ence in lowering the rate of exchange.
But whatever temporary furry may oc-
cur in the local money market. the
Judy disbursements will undoubtedly
bring relief.
The bond market showed increased
activity and strength in sympathy with
stocks. Total sales fpar valuel $2,2337,-
600.
United States advanced Il and the
3's II in the bid price.
The total sales of stocks were $4,000
shares including: 22.599. .Atchison pre-
ferred; $4,000. Burlington: 10. 1912. Louis
vile and Nashville: 2S.21S. Manhattan:
1870. Metropolitan Street Railway; r.
725. Union Pacific: 1850, Union Pacific
preferred; 9.4l0. Missouri Pacific: G.150,
Missouri. Kansas and Texas preferred;
35190. New York Central: 5000. Chi
cago \. Il W.; 33.732, Rock Island: 49,
$50, Reading first preferred: 1920,
American Steel and Wire: 1885, st.
Paul; 14,095. Federal Steel; 5000. Peo-
PIES Gas: 41,255, Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit; 14.1S5. Continental Tobacco; 30
$40. American Sugar
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ANOTHER GOOD DAY
For Railroads and Their Re-
lated Stocks.
BOND MARKET ACTIVE
AND THERE WAS A NOTICEABLE
HARDENING OF MONEY.
COTTON FUTURES RESPONDED TO CABLES
Demand for Cotton Goods Quiet for Staples
and Fancies. Grain and Provisions
Firm.

New York. June PA quiet home de-
manl reported in primary market for
cotton goods in both staple lines and
fancies. Tone unchanged and prices
steady Good sized bids in the market
for heavy brown cottons for export. some
sales reported for distant shipments at
advance of s cents over price for cur
rent deliveries to home trade. DENNIS
are duh and irregular. Fancy prints
quiet, but firm; ginghams in short sup
ply and firm. Mems wear worsteds tend
ing upwards. Worsted dress goods very
firm. Johbers had excellent day in
clearing up sales.
COTTON.
New York. June 27.-W-hiIe private
crop accounts had bearish average,
the cotton cables were better than look
cd for. and covering became a feature,
supplemented by some good buying for
European and Wall Street accounts.
with preference on the part of for
eigners for the new crop positions.
The first call developed a steady feel
ing with prices point lower TO l point
higher. Immediately the market began
to strengthen and the bears became sus-
picious or fearful as to the extent OF
the short interest. known to be heavy,
having steadily accumulated on the re-
cent protracted decline. After an adj
vance of las points lower, there was a
let up in the buying and prices began
to sag Il little, but throughout the ses-
sion the market reflected the apprehen-
sion that the future list had been over
sold. especially in view of the fact that
brace of holidays is at hand in this
country with the markets to remain wide
open abroad and the possibility of a
change in the crop outlook also sufti
GENTLY recognized to add to the caution
of all classes of traders. Nevertheless
the volume of business for the day was
very fair The fact that the banking Gle
ment and foreigners had figured as
buyers. encouraged the bull contingent
to take hopeful view of the general
situation. in which the steadier ruling
of the spot market in Liverpool was a
prominent feature. giving support TO re-
iterated forecasts of activity in spot cot
ton in the English markets.
The weekly crop report from Washing
ton was regarded as of bullish signifi-
canoe. The final tone was steady and
prices . to S points net higher.
NEW YORK.
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, N. c., June 27.-Jurpent fne,
nothing doing at 80 <a36A; receipts l3I casks.
Rosin quiet at 90a95 receipts COZ.
Crude turpentine firm at sl.35, 1910 and
1920; receipts u.
Tar firm at 81 80; receipts 81 barrels.
CHARLESTON. s. c., June 27.-curpentine
steady at 81 l-2; sales - casks.
Rosin firm; sales - barrels. Quote: A, b, G,
ID. co. +, so; F, sl.00; G., sl05; Fl, s1.lo; !,
size; X, Sl.30; M, sl6l; sl.S5; &, $500; W W,
$40
SAVANNAH. Ca. June 27.-lTurpentine firm
at SO I-2; sales go; receipts 1854.
Rosin firm; sales sS6; receipts 5,j2l: Quote
A, B, @, 10; L, 95; e, 81; +, Sl.65: q, si.l5
Fl, sl.2O; /, S1.25 K, $40; Ii. s1.70; n, sl.95;
W &, 81. lC; W w, $3.50.
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NEW YORK MONEY.

NEW York, June z7.-3 p. M Money on call
steady at l-2m3 per cent; last loan at liz
Der cent, Prime mercantile paper 3a3A per
cent. Sterling exchange easier, with actual
business in bankers bills at $4.S7Am4.s8 for
Posted rates S4.86 l2ai. 81 and S.8Sk a4. 49, Com
mercial bills $48a4. Silver certificates COZ
as2. Bar silver 60 IA. Mexican dollars sS l-2.
Government bonds strong. State bonds inactive.
Railroad bonds strong.
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STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, June 27.-The activity Of
the buying of railroad stocks showed
some falling off in the course of today
after notably active opening and early
buying movements. But the demand
sprung up again in the last hour OF the
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COUPON NOTICE.
Mechanics and Investors
Union

The semi-annual coupons, from the
FULL PAID CERTIFICATES of
stock. issued by the Mechanics and
Investors Union of Raleigh, will be
paid on presentation at the Commercial
and Farmers Bank in this city on and
after June Oath.
These dividend bearing coupon certifi-
Gates will be sold until further notice
at seevnty-seven dollars cash. The
maturity value is 500; they are secured
by first mortgage on residence property,
and make very desirable investment.
Prompt loans will be made to satisfac-
tory applicants, when secured by resi-
dence property in town or city.
GEORGE ALLEN, Secretary.
% Pullen Building, Raleigh.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago, June 2T.-Prospects of relief
from the heavy burden OF wheat at
Western points and an increase in the
cash demand, turned weak market into
a comparatively firm one today, and re-
suited in a closing advance in the Sep
TENDER option of AMasc over yesterday.
Corn and oats were firm, corn closing
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REFEREES NOTICE.
MRS. t. A. ROBBINS ct al
VS..

MRS. t. A. ROBBINS ct al }
L. r. WYATT ct al.
The above case having been referred to me at
the last term of the Superior Court of Wake
county to take and state the accounts of Messrs.
job p. Wyatt and j. N. Holding, assignees of
l.. r. Wyatt, and to ascertain and determine the
sum in their hands for distribution among
creditors will hear all matters involved in the
reference at the office of the clerk of the Supe-
rior Court, in the city of Raleigh, N. c., on the
9th day of June, 1899.
The creditors of l.. r. Wyatt are hereby noti-
fed that the hearing will take place as above
stated, and they are hereby required to come in
and file proof of their claims on or before the
day above set out. w. NJ RUSS,
iuneI3-I5d G.. S. G. and Referee.