Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-12-03
AUTOMOBILE 5 NEW USES
The Motor Car is Entering
Many Fields.
NO TRACKS ARE NEEDED
LAUNDERING Camp and Warpath Are
Successfully Invaded by Horseless
VehloIes-Streets SprInkled and
Swept-Used by Trolley Company
for RepairS,

WIN Cno wholesale INVASION Ol du-
to vehicles, and the consequent rejec-
ton of the slower means Of transit,
the horses are eating their heads Off
In their stalls, while steam engines
and other primitive modes OF locutOn
rust away in idleness.
The day Of the long faithful four
footed beast Of burden, which has
patiently dragged after him every kind
of wheeled continuance made by man,
is gone with the appearance Of auto
power. Everywhere one turns one
sees the horse and old-time vehicles
giving away to motor cars.
Besides this, by means Of this all
conquering power, the difficulties OF
hauling and making a way through
traclless wastes and forests have been
overcome by motor vehicles, when
even the horses and wagons, going at
snail's pace, could scarcely make way,
and the use of steam engines was an
impossibility.
Even the warpath is invaded by the
horseless carriage, which leaves de-
struction in it's wake while escaping
from it.
This death-dealing carriage recently
made its appearance in London in the
shape of a round steel shell spiked on
top with three formidable guns, as a
contrivance for road and coast defense
in time of either naval or land battle.
It's principal object is to act on the
defensive on the coast roads, or with
certain notifications for offensive
work over smooth or rough roads; for
keeping open lines of communication,
hauling guns into position or for car
rying and hauling stores and men.
Amid snow, ice and trackless for
ests, numbering and hauling logs are
now carried on with the greatest ease
and speed, for the snow traction auto,
the biggest thing in automobiles, has
successfully smoothed away all the
difficulties attending the work.
The snow traction auto, however, Is
not the only machine that can over
come difficulties in transit.
Even in paved city streets obstacles
apparently insurmountable constantly
make their appearance, and are
promptly suppressed by auto power.
The use of horse-drawn emergency
wagons by the trolley companies Of
large cities will soon be entirely dis
pensed with.
A trolley company in Washington,
D. c., has installed an electric auto
mobile trolley repair vehicle, which in
actual service is daily demonstrating
its economy.
It was determined to take advantage
of the company's facilities for battery
charging by procuring a self-propelled
repair wagon. Since its installation
the vehicle has met every require
ment, and when not in use the storage
space is small and the cost Of main
tenance practically nil. The vehicle
complete weighs about three and a
half tons A towing device for replac-
ing derailed cars or taking a disabled
car to the repair shop is provided.
Of even more importance in keeping
a municipality up to the requirements
of modern progress is the unique au-
tOmObile street sweeper and sprinkler
that Frenchman gave to the wo-ld.
There are the trolley sweepers and
sprinklers, to be sure, but this little
French machine, which has won such
universal favor is far more serviceable
being small compact, and manipu-
lated equally we'll in highways and Ivy.
ways.
No tracks are needed for the run
ming of this machine, which goes into
places that have probably never felt
anything but a semi-Occasional scrub
from the human street sweeper's
broom.
For speed and comfort in the way of
street carriages nothing can exceed
the autOmObile-bus, which first made
its appearance in London streets and
has rapidly made its way into the
popularity of other big cities on both
sides of the Atlantic.
This auto-bus slows up for pas
senger, and is off again, all in one-half
the time it took the original bus to
stop The remarkable ease and facil-
ity with which the huge vehicle Is
made to thread it's way through the
crowded traffic of the city streets has
been a great card in it's favor among
pedestrians, and the fact that it is self
controlled and needs no expert drivers
has found favor in the eyes of street
railway companies, so the automobile
bus has undoubtedly come to stay.
In the railway world, the latest nov
city is the motor coach, which is rum
ming on the London and Southwestern
Railway, between Havana and Frat
ton. 1t contains two compartments
for passengers-frst class and third.
the coach thus carries forty-two pas
sengers, all told-which Is about the
number you may sometimes see dis
tributed throughout long train dur
ing slack hours.
The passengers can enter at either
end by means of little platforms fitted
with sliding gates, like the platforms
of trains.
A little compartment in front Of the
main body of the coach is intended for
luggage.
The engine, part of the first car
rage, looks small, but it is wonderfully
compact and quite powerful enough for
the work required Of it.
1t can get up speed Of thirty miles
an hour in thirty seconds from start
ing, feat which is far beyond the or
binary full grown engine.-Chicago
Tribune.
AN INTERLUDE
BY Harold White.
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