The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08
MIR. EDISONS PROMISE FOR
 AUTO FOR THE POOR MAN
The Wizard of Electricity Has Solved the Problem Of CheapneSs, Durability and Utility of thc
 HorSeleSS Carriage.

What want to see is first-class lit- tie automobile, the equivalent or tne one horse and buggy which every man with a fair income can easily afford to ..rhe rich, of course, can afford to pay any price, but what we want IS a reiiapIe automobile within the reacn oI net met ,t ot the population fall within the latter cat. egory, they are the people l want 70 see get their own autom obiles. At present tle street car is the poor mans coach' pu' 1t will not be so much longer.
 q have been credited with saving that we have put the horse out Of business, but that is not strictly accurate. Wna' intended to say was that With the per. lection of the electric storage battery we may say good bye to the horse TOT com merciaI purposes. The storage battery vii propel ali delivery wagons; the sphere of it's usefulness is unlimited. am con- fident that electric vehicles will soon su- percede all others for city work.
 Thomas A. Edison thus announced yes terday the purposes ana resuIts oI as periments in which he has been engageu for more than two years. In what to ali outward appearances is a rectangular tn can of the kind distributed to their cus- toners by peripatetic vendors or kero- sere oil MT. Edison mas bottled up Wnat he believes to be the solution or prop- lem which has been perplexing scientists and electrical experts for many years Tn other words. he believes he mas per fected a high power and thoroughly re- liable storage battery which will revoiu- tionize methods of travel. abolish horses as useless and slow, and place wHnln easy reach of men of moderate incomes the swift-running automobile
 Work Undermined His Health.
 One of the deplorable results of MT. Edison's work. as he expressed It to World reporter yesterday at his labor atn in Glen Ridpe N. .I. is that 'tne public owes me a stomach.
 "I have worked night and day." con- tnued the great inventor, and now my stomach has gone back on me, but I am more than rewarded by the success upito the present time of my invention Hay ing perfected a storage battery that has stood more than fair test, I have no doubt of its ultimate success.
 What I am aiming to do Is to perfect storage battery that will enable us to furnish an automobile that will be within the reach of practically everybody-an automobile that will be absolutely reliable. capable of high speed and equipped with battery that will run 1t for not less than one hundred miles without being re- charged. and which in point of endur- ance will stand test of not less than 5000 miles.
 T do not like people to speak of this invention as a discovery. No one has any conception of the genuine hard work that has been done in the matter of this storage battery I think the problem has now been solved and that the future will be clear sailing"
 On the table before the inventor were the disc onnected parts of one of the storage batteries. When put together the whole is encased in a rectangular box os sheet steel Il 1-2 inches high, leg inches long and 3 1-2 inches wide. The weight of the battery Is 332 pounds. The battery has successfully withstood tests over some of the toughest roads in the locality and has propelled runabout automobile conveying two persons. with a total weight of 1,750 pounds, eighty-five miles on one charge.
 Construction of the Battery.
 The cells are constructed of nickel