Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-03
THE HORSE MUST CO..

fulton applied steam to some simple
machinery and man and articles of COM
merce found a more speedy means of
transportation. Franklin drew lightning
from the clouds and Morse harnessed it to |
wires to convey mems wishes, and
thoughts and speculations. and happen
ings to the world. Tho sewing machine
spared busy fingers from toll, drudgery
and sleeDless nights. The cotton gin
widened the margin for the planters
profits. The spinning wheel ana the loom
and shuttle of our grand mothers have
long since been replaced by the great cot
ton and wooden factories of today. Mans
labors nave been lightened; woman has
been freed from much of the b~ack-aching
toll, which narrowed her ambition to
domestic cares and responsibilities,
through the inventive genius of the age,
but mans accomplishing, long-suffering
II II loJIE IItlSt-liLS Dttl htpl !
in the collar about all the time, notwith-
standing much of the motive power of
the world is being furnished by steam and
! electricity.
But the horse is about to have his
inning. The day of his deliverance from
the spurs of the rider and the lash of the !
driver is near at hand. The law of evolu-
ton as related to improved machinery
will relegate the dumb animal to pastures !,
and b~arn-yards for the especial use of
tirnid children and nervous old ladies'. He
will be out of q job. He will, in time, be-
come a tramp. He must go. Improved
machinery has the right of way and horse
and human must yield to the inevitable.
The automobile, or the horseless vehicle,
is coming, is already here and here to
stay. The Richards of the future will not
exclailn, "A Horse, \ Horse. My King
dom for a Horse!!!" They will rather
shout Lend me your automobile, old fell
low. 1 want to reach tha dufrer over
yonder!"
The motor vehicle, the horseless car
riage, or automobile, or whatever it may
be called, is rapidly coming to the front.
It will turn Dobbin in the pasture. A
Frenchman-Count de Jotemps by name
has come all the way from Paris to con-
troll the European supply of American
made horseless carriages, and contracts
have already been signed amounting to
$15, 900, 900. That means business. 1t APP
pears the Europeans are taking the lead
in the employment of these vehicles, and
the counts contracts call for 500 a year
for ten years. These contracts provide
for the construction of various kinds of
vehicles, including cabs, coupes, brough-
. BUSES. Each vehicle will cost, on al
average, about 81, 900. The count, who is
: president of a corporation, known as the
American Motor General Agency, de-
clares the American patents are the only
ones of practical value on the market to-
day. They will be shipped to Europe tc
: be sold in London, Paris, Brussels, Vienna
: and other large cities in the old country
, Two offices will soon be opened in Paris
for the sale of the vehicles. Quite a mum,
Der will be kept for rental purposes.
The contracts for the building of the
carriages were given to several different
parties, one large Chicago mpa Sc,
curing orders for the building of 500 a
year for ten years. 1t will not be long be,
fore horseless vehicles will be turned out
as rapidly and by as many firms as are
now engaged in making common road
wagons and carriages. In speaking OF
the American make of these vehicles the