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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
The Automobile In England.

The British government is steadily
advancing in it's 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 campaign service, as a
few hundred of these viii dispense with
thousands of horses and be more eff
fective, he thinks. In the postal ser
vice motor cars have for some time
been in satisfactory use, and at the
late Richmond show mail vans were
run up and down the steep hills along
the Thames at high speed. One New
castle car dashed 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-countryi
postal delivery service. Such an onq
is operating now on the London and
Brighton route, which needs speeding
up to meet the requirements. Private
motor car stage routes are being es-
tablished about the country, one of
these lying between Bedford. where
lived and wrote John Bunyan, and
Kepston, a neighboring village. One
day recently 3S7 passengers were car
ried the three miles for the regular fare
of twopence, and the trade is rapidly
growing
The United States has definitely en-
tered the competition in the worlds
markets against both the French and
English makers. American machines
are now entered at nearly all contests
in Europe, and western wheels are be-
ing ridden in increasing numbers in
Paris. the home of the automobile, as
well as here. The artistic Partisan has
been a long time in getting lines of
beauty onto his wares, although one
can now see some real beauties in the
show rooms of the Count de Dion and
the other makers there. The Ameri-
can carriages are better covered in
their working parts, and there is evil
IDENTIFY more security to the rider, as
well as to the mechanism. The Eng
lish autocar is also being improved by
the influence of it's energetic Ameri-
can rivals, and the notorious ugiiness Isl
being slowly worn away, with plenty of
room still for Improvement American
sporting dogcarts are becoming especi-
ally popular for their lightness and
beauty, and European manufacturers
are more and more sending across the
ocean for their fittings. Even such
parts as rawhide pinions are being i'm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
ENGLISH AUTo-TRUoKs AND THE ROAD THEY TRAVELLED.

wholly mechanical motive power, might
be properly and successfully used in
light traffic, but they have looked to
horses for strong hauling. Certainly
the horses We're never bred that could
have accomplished in the same time
and at the same expense what the
auto trucks Chat is the name which
has been given to them) did the other
day in their official trials here
To deliver merchandise direct from
the ship to the shopkeeper; to do away
with the many landings and transfers
now necessary in shipping goods; to
tie : Liverpool more closely TO New
York and Chicago; to bring all the
worlds centers of trade and industry
nearer and easier-these were the ulti-
mate aims of the second contest be-
tween auto-trucks held by the Liver
pool propelled Traffic associa-
tion.
Five systems of heavy horseless vans
were given the severest tests possible,
and they scored in consequence the
most notable successes that the auto
mobile has ever registered in all the
world as an industrial agent. People
said it was impossible that the man.
moth autocars could ascend hills rising
one foot in nine while bearing a total
of more than seven tons in weight;
but it was done, and one system has
two gold medals to prove that the
autocar can rapidly go up and down
rocky sleeps with heavy loads, where
the strongest teams of horses would
slip and stall and fall.
The Severest of Tests.
Everton Brow is the steepest and
most difficult hill in Liverpool. and its
equal can hardly be found in all the
United Kingdom. 1t is paved at differ
ent points with macadam, aSphaltum
stone and wood, all of which are more
or less trying in a test of this kind on
steep gradient. In addition, it takes
three turns, one of them being an
acute angle, and had the road been
made to order as hill-terrlfler, II
could hardly have better served it's
trying purpose. Three separate hill
climbing tests were made on the first
of the three days of trial.
AS a starter, each wagon was sent
up empty and down again. Then they
We're loaded with sacks of corn, and IN
each trip up and down the car Was
stopped by signal on the most precip-
I'itous part of the rise and descent. To
add to the difficult undertaking, the
hill was watered in its SteeDeSt por-
lions and on the sharpest turns. Some
of the five conteSting cars slowed
around with their hind wheels and
skidded bit on the difficult turns,
and two of them had to make double
start before they got away for the
climb. One of the heavy vehicles
threw the spectators into a fever of
excitement by a threatened bolt when
on the most dangerous part of the
hill, and a runaway, an upset and a
steam explosion seemed imminent for
minute or two. But the driver stuck
pluckily to his fractions mount, and
by whirling it in backward circle,
was at last able to bring the vehicle
under control to try again, and sue
cessfully. 1t was the most exciting in
cident of the contest, and proved the
value of a good man in charge Of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
Dewey as DauaI Comrades See BIN
Absolutely
the NavyManla Did Not Give Him His
Chance at HerOSm His Substitute For Swearing

Official Dewey dinner was planned to-,
but which viii mean much. Dewey is
4 the hero of his comrades in the navy
as he is of his countrymen, and every
cork that pops will mean as much in
! its popping in the quiet supper room
as the booming of big guns will mean
in the official celebration.
They Fought With Dewey.
Unofficially the men of the yard are
fast becoming keyed up to as high
pitch of excitement over Dewey's ar
rival as anybody else. There isn't
men in the place, from commandant
down to the newly enlisted on the old
receiving hulk Vermont, or the ap-
prenticeS in the shops, who won't be
thrilled to the finger tips at sight of
the modest man who won the first
great victory in the war with Spain on
the far side of the world, a victory the
significance of which is not lessened
by the fact that another one, quite as
decisive, was won a little more than
two months later, around on this side
of the planet, which virtually complet-
ed the work he had begun so magnifi-
Gently.
Naturally, the keenest interest in
Dewey's homecoming is felt at the
yard by the men who were at Manila
with him. Many of them left Manila
before him, and, two or three months
ago, some hundreds were stationed in
Brooklyn, the receiving ship Vermont
fairly swarming with them. But now
most of the men have dispersed. A
large proportion of them left the ser
vice when their time expired, and those
who re-enlisted have been drafted
upon by ships on station until hardly
any are. left.
Besides Captain Wildes, whose vessel
brought UP the rear of the grim In
dian file of warships that steamed
slowly, yet fearlessly, into Manila bay
and destroyed the power of Spain in
Asia, those now at the yard who were
with Dewey when May 1 was made a
red letter day in the American calen-
dar are only a handful. Captain Thorn
as C. Treadwell of the marines, who
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Does CHS mednDe Borse's Doom?
For
Passengers in This COuntyTryng Tests Liverpool
Carried With Ease-Belef Great Benefit Will Come

Liverpool, Sept. 9.-Whether it means
the doom of the horse as the draught
animal, is what all this part of the
world is wondering. Long ago France,
England, and finally America, reluct-
antly made up their minds that the
advance of the automobile would do
away with our gentle friend as a
motive power for pleasure and light
driving. Now-on the heels of the au-
tomobile cabs. and drags, and run
abouts, and phaetons. and coaches,
etc.-comes the automobile truck.
For some years men have believed
that perhaps steam, or electricity, or
condensed air, or petroleum, or another
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
MOTOR TRUCK WITH TRAILER CARRYING FOURTEEN TONS
ONE THE PRIZE WINNERS AT THE LIVERPOOL TRIALS

nearly opposite to a gate, into which
they must back. Entrace was made
successfully with two reverses by the
most of the contestants, who showed
their careful training as motorneers.
The tendency is. to make the freight
ing cars heavier and heavier, like the
mammoth American railway 1ocomo-
tives, and in this way yaster power
and a greater speed may be expected
to develop. At present the government
lays restrictions upon the weight OF
autocars, and limits their highway
speed to six miles an hour, but a more
liberal enactment is hoped for to meet
the changing conditions of an automatio
traffic. twenty-five tons can be moved
over an average English road as read
lily as fourth of that weight, and If
this system of transport develops as
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plying the one-pounders and siX-pound-
ers We're not idle a minute Four big
electric dynamos were buzzing contin-
ually in our ears, the air compressor
was pumping away all the time, pack
ing atmosphere into an accumulation at
a pressure of LOO pounds to the square
inch, to be used in firing torpedoes if
the opportunity arose. Every man in
! the compartment was working as if
the result of the battle depended solely
upon him. On account of the unnler-
ciful noise we had to howl to make our
selves heard. and our bowls, added to
the other sounds made the place a per-
feet pandemonium.
Every once in awhile word of how
things were going would be passed to
us. Sometimes the news would seem
encouraging; sometimes the reverse.
The facts We're told to us exactly as
they were. American fighting men
don't need to be lied to in order to
keep up their courage. Every time we
got a bit of acknowledgement, bad or
indifferent, it made no odds-we gave
three rousing cheers for Dewey and the
flag. and worked all the harder, down
there in the depths of the ship.
Suddenly someone called down that
the Reina Christina was coming out
after us and that a torpedo shot was
to be taken at her. That made the
heart of me come right up into my
mouth, and 1 did wish I were on deck
and not below. The next minute I
saw that my wish was to be gratified,
for / was called up to put the torpedo
in order. am sure / never worked so
hard in my life as 1 did trying to get
that torpedo off. Some little thing
was out Of order. and that made delay.
Meanwhile the Spanish ship kept COM
ing nearer and nearer. From the in
slant of her starting out, the vessel
had been made a special target for the
guns on e. cry one of our ships, but
she didn't slacken at first, and she got
to within 1000 yards of us before there
was any sign of slowing down. We
had just got that torpedo ready to
launch, and was looking to see the
biggest show I'd ever seen in my life,
when the Reina Christina turned tail,
riddled with shot and shell, and started,
ruined. for the shore. I'd have given
six months pay rather than suffered
that disappointment. Now I'm afraid
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regular cargo of corn, the winning
Thornycroft carried seven passengers,
aside from it's driver, and led the way
throughout All the vehicles received
their stores of fuel and water before
starting, and were not permitted to
take on more, except that water was
provided at fixed points, if necessary
Cost of present means of transport
is particularly evident in a commercial
city like Liverpool, where thousands
of cotton bales, boxes of produce and
merchandise of all kinds are moved
daily at an enormous expenditure of
money. Goods landed from ships have
to be carted from the quay to ware
houses or railway sidings, trans
shipped upon the railway wagons, con-
veyed therein to inland towns and
carried once again, and sometimes
twice, to their destination. Vhile such
a tedious and expensive journey may
be inevitable where the goods must
be conveyed for long distances, it is
obvious that any method of transport
alton which would receive the goods
in Liverpool and carry them over all
sorts of roads right to their purchaser
up to fifty miles away, would be a
boon in economy to merchants and
manufacturers, thus also lessening the
cost to the consumer. The American
who travels in this part of England
could almost imagine himself in the
busting United States by the signs
of enterprise displayed in such towns
as Liverpool, Manchester and Birming-
ham, in contrast to fogy old London,
tramping along half century behind
the times. Brisk methods of business
prevail hereabouts, and it did not take
long for the keen business men of Lam
cashire and Yorkshire to see the posi-
bilities which last years autotruck
demonstrations. opened up for the saw
ing of time and money in the handling
of goods. Therefore, the supporters of
this years exhibition were some of the
leading commercial people of this city.
who are now aiming to tie Liverpool
trade to Manchester and all the coun-
try round by putting on lines of
freighting wagons to give a cheap and
rapid delivery service from the whole
salers to their provincial customers.
Every Possible Test Made.
Rigid tests were made at the Liver
pool steamship docks ON the ability of
the drivers to maneuver their wagons
in such necessarily small spaces as are
met in directly loading and unloading
vessels. A masked bay about half as
long again as a motor wagon, was ar
ranged some twenty feet from and
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was on the Baltimore, and spent the
hours of the battle in the ships flght-
ing top. where he found life sufficiently
exciting to make him forget to be
afraid, is one of them. Leonard j. G.
Kuhlwein, gunner, served on the flag
ship and divided his time, while the
scrimmage was going on, between duty
below, in the forward part of the ship,
seeing that plenty of ammunition was
supplied to the men doing the shoot
ing, and duty on deck, where he was
occasionally summoned to make neces-
sary repairs Besides there are Lieu
tenant Chadwick, who was on the
Olympia while the battle was being
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fought, and DR.. Moore, who was medi-
cal officer of one of the other ships.
1t is safe to say that each of these
/ men viii take as active a part as he
can in the welcoming of Manila's hero.
Kulwein's Disappointment.
As the spelling of his name would
! indicate, Gunner sKuhlwein is of Ger
man descent, but a more thorough
paced American in spirit than he is
never trod the deck of a Yankee ship.
| Kuhlwein is short, stocky without be-
ing stout, speaks with a slight accent,
and has the face of a man with a keen
sense of humor. He is Plelined to reti-
| cence,. like most good fighters, but
there is one subject upon which he
sometimes speaks at length. It is the
grevious disappointment he suffered on
the day of the Manila fight.
I'VE had twelve elegant torpedoes on
the Olympia" says Kuhlwein, land we
had practiced with them until we knew
exactly what they could do. Over and
over again we had discharged every
one of them, and the launching mechan-
ism had been used sufficiently to be in
perfect order. Ever since began as a
gunner-and that was long before the
Olympia went into commission had
been hoping that some day Nigh. have
an opportunity to see loaded torpedo
real GdTueSl. L fWdHLGQ. 10
see what it would do, and when the bat
tie broke out l wondered if the chance
had come at last.
But there wasn't any chance for
torpedo shooting at the beginning of
the battle. The Spanish ships We're too
far away. In the regular course of
things took my place below, just I'M
der the forward turret, when the fun
began, so as to help send ammunition
up.
1T wasn't the pleasantest place i'm
aginable down there. We couldn't see
of the fighting, and besides
we knew that if a shell entered our
or we were badly
or a torpedo hit us, we'd sure
go to the bottom without the ghost of a
show 1t wouldn't be, right to say we
didn't feel skittish at the beginning of
the scrimmage But things got mighty
lively down there soon after the first
guns had been fred from our ships, and
then we had to hustle so hard we didn't
have time to be afraid.
About once in so often the big gun
just over us would go off with a. roar
and a jar that would shake everything.
The grinding, rafting cogs and racks
and other machinery of the turret were
in constant operation, making fright
full noise. Four electric hoists were
sending up ammunition. for the five and
eight Inch guns as fast as we could OPP
crate them. The handwhips for sup
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be no economy in working light ito
save the team
Thirty-five miles and more was the
course laid out, over all sorts of high
ways. for the Liverpool country road
contests. Two days were given to this
under the dragging burden of heavy
loads. and the engines moved steadily
along the route, barring q few minor
mishaps. at a speed varying from
four to six miles an hour. At present
the law does not allow a greater speed
to that class of engines. The judges
and followers Travelled by special auto
mobiles, the freight wagons being Of
fcially stopped on. several of the steep
est grades, both UP and down, and the
time was telegraphed back to Liver
pool from specified points. Besides it's
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rapidly as it promises TO do. there will
come in some new problems in town
paving and country matchmaking. 1t
must revolutionize the present system.
suited as it is to comparatively light
trafficS.
Last years tests in Liverpool showed
the advantage of petroleum in lighter
vehicles, and this year proved anew
that steam is still the standard for
heavy fractions. On the previous oc-
casiOn the wheels and other working
parts gave trouble 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 notable adj
vancement made in one year.
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pays this visit, assemble in dress uni
FORM Admiral Phillip, Captain Wildes
and such other staff officers as the
commandment selects viii receive the il
lustrious guest, the full marine guard
will be paraded. and the entire yard
force will be drawn up for inspection.
When the admiral first steps upon navy
yard soil all of the 1000 officers, sailor
men and workmen will salute, the ma
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fcopyright. 1sgg. S. S. Mcclure Co

Copyright, 1899, S. S. Mcclure COP
No portion OF the tremendous well
come to be extended to Admiral Dewey
and his flagship, the Olympia, on their.
now rapidly approaching return to
home waters, win be more impressive,
more spectacular than that to be as
sumed by the American navy.
Excepting a few boats now doing pa
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Quicker Than Horses.

At a whistle from the judges the
cars We're stopped going up and down,
and the first complete arrest on the
descent was made in eleven feet. The
next driver kept his heavy van well
in hand and pulled up in nine feet.
but the Coulthard machine beat them
all in its prompt response, which set
the wheels motionless in six feet after
the whistle sounded. 1t was quicker
time than the best trained team could
make. On the upgrade some of the
stops We're made in the space of
eighteen inches.
Genuine freighting loads were car
ried. On of the medal winners weigh
ed in itself over three tons, upon which
was loaded four tons, and a heavy
trailer attached with two and one-half
tons more. Yet it walked off easily
with this. heavy drag, and could evil
IDENTIFY have done more.
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ported from Chicago. As usual. the
Germans are counterfeiting the Ameri-
can articles, and with their usual lack
of SUCCESS
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Evolution of the Automobile.

The evolution of the light and grace
full automobile of France into the heavy
and still ungainly looking autOcar of
the British Isles is an interesting
study. In France the machine is one
for pleasure and luxury, but in this
country it has been rapidly adapted
to the serious business of life, Among
the hundreds of automobiles 1 have
seen dashing about Paris and through
the Bots du Boulogne. there was rarely
one that served it's owner ether than
in pleasure. On the contrary, there are
but a few hundred pleasure automO-
-. -
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Heavy Cars NecessarY.

1t is a singular fact that motor cars
are only successful hill-climbers when
well laden If unloaded there is not
sufficient weight upon the wheels for
them to grip the earth on a steep as
cent, SO that there will, for the future,
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Continued on page 1S.l
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-10-07

al organ to represent the situation
otherwise merely demonstrate
with what i'll grace the men MIC
Kinley retained in office receive
any interference by the Presiden,
with their assumed independent
authority. 1t is not necessary for
anyone to cry Anything to beat
the Dole government" No more
perfect display of the Dole's gov
ern ment's inca. ,acity is needed
than a comparison OF the remarks,
OF he otiic ais aud their organ,
wi II tue opinion of Attorney
General Griggs on which the land
order of the President was based.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-10-07
LOVED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
ENEMIES.

Money" said the philosopher, may
often do more harm than good. Sometimes,
the mighty dollar Is mans worst enemy,
YES" answered Senator Sorghum, "and
| often feel number of people love me tor
the enemies have made"
But he did not mention what stauneh
friend his Sterling Bicycle had always
been to him. =,
Myrtilla: LET me explain basket ball
to you, Mr. Ambrose. The object, you
know"
Mr.. Ambrose: ooh, understand the
object, Miss Myrtilla. The object is to
hit some innocent bystander who has on
twenty dollar eyeglasses"
The P. c. & Mfg c.. has both basket
balls and goals, imported direct from
Spalding Brothers.
Likely Purchaser: "By the way, your
manager has just lately been married."
Head Salesman: "Yes; oh yes. Sterling
bicycle people are to blame for that"
Purchaser: "That's interesting; what
did they have to do with it :"
Head Salesman for P. c. & Mfg CO.:
swell, you see, he took the young ladv
out on the Sterling Tandem we have here,
and it ran so easy he thought she was
doing all the work, and the same thing
was passing through her mind. They
both thought how nice It would be to have
things always that way. They didn't
know those Sterlings were to blame"
Purchaser: well, guess you can set
up that same Sterling wheel for me"
Did you know that the P. G. & Mfg
Co. will make your old wheel look like
new for s6a Well, they will; try them.