The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
THE AUTOS NEW USES.
MODERN MOTOR CAR IS ENTER
ING MANY FIELDS.

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OF the slower means Of transit the
horses ara eating their heads on IN
their stalls while steam engines and
other primitive modes Of locution rust
away In ldleness
Tho day OF tho long faithful four
footed beast Of burden. which has pa
tontly dragged after him every kind
Of wheeled contrlyanoe made by man,
is gone With the appearance OF auto
power Everywhere one turns one
sees the horse and old-time vehicles
giving way to motor cars A munici-
pality runs by auto power street clean
ers and sprinklers that penetrate the
smallest and all trackless streets, a
trolley company owns repair wagons so
compact as to Obvlate the usual con-
gestion caused by the original big,
clumsy wagons, and store deliveries,
big item in the routine of everyday
life, are made in a small fraction Of
the time formerly consumed
Then the need of the noisy trolley
is done away with In many city streets
much TO the relief of the inhabitants
Of the fashionable quarters-by the au-
to omnibus, which rolls swiftly and
nOiselessly through the streets and
saves the time and patience Of every
one.
Besides this, by means of this all
conquering power, the difficulties Of
hauling and making a way through
trbckless 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 des-
truction in its 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 de-
Tense 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 haul
ing stores and men. AS it is imper-
vious to bullets Of small calibre it may
also be effectively employed to damp-n
street riots or for searchlight opera
lions.
The main object Of the car, however,
is that of coast defense, and it could,
II employed in sufficient numbers,
make it impossible for any landing
party Of the enemy to come ashore,
for this war car would soon be able to
destroy or sink any invading forces.
The great mobility and therefore the
great range of action, the fact Of its
being able to carry sufficient fuel for
some 500 miles, the invisibility Of the
car itself, the absence of noise, as we'll
as its general construction, all add to
its great scope and utility.
Amid snow, ice and trackless forests,
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 sue
cessfully smoothed away all the diff
culties attending the work.
This huge machine, in successful
operation in Gen. Russell Ayers ex-
tentive Michigan pineries, plows its
way through snowdrifts and over rocks
stumps, everything in the way Of OBJ
stacles in an uncleared country, leav'
ing behind it a smooth and hard.
packed ice road. At the same time il
carries an enormously heavy load o.
lumber and moves at the rate Of abcu
twelve miles an hour.
The snow traction auto, however, il
not the only machine that can over
come difficulties in transit.
Even in paved city streets obstacle
: apparently insurmountable CONSTANT,
make their appearance, and ar
promptly suppressed by auto power
The use of horse-drawn emergenc,
wagons by the trolley companies 0
large cities will soon be entirely dis
pensed with.
A trolley company in Washington
D. c., has installed an electric automo
bile trolley repair vehicle, which i
actual service is daily demonstatin
it's economy.
1t was determined to take advantag
of the company's facilities for batter
charging by procuring a self propelle
repair wagon, Since its installado
the vehicle has met every requirement
. and urhen not in nsa the stnra Q