The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-10
MOTORING OF FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMOBILE
 IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY.
1rincip,e VIII Be Applied to Many Industrial Pursuits-May Af- feet the Lives of Individuals
 and Communities.


 
 The automobile is no longer an experi- ment and motoring is no longer only a psstime or 2 luxury.
 what IS the probable influence of the automobile upon contemporary life? Every car owner has at once a vastly increased radius of movement.
 The old coaching roads and coaching Inns will once more be thronged with Travellers. We shall know the land we live in-its rural interests. its beauties. It's antiquities. The man who has busin- ess in the town will no longer be depend ent upon a slow and rare service of trains Therefore thousands of the town dwellers of today will be the country dwellers of tomorrow. This will bring into the mar ket at good prices a great number of country places unietable and unstable today There will soon. arise in conse- uuence an irresistible demand for better reads. The present absurd laws regard ing speed will soon be altered by abolish ing all restriction upon speed and making penalties. for inconsiderate or danger ous driving.
 So much for the privately owned car and it's future influence. This. however, win be but a minor factor in the coming development of motor traffic. The motor vehicle for business purposes will soon be universal. Already the more enterprise ing tradesmen are using. with greater eff ciency and economy, light motor vans for the collection and delivery of their goods. NGW port is being rapidly absorbed by the mo- tor. A few years hence we shall look back with smile to the practice of the railways and large firms in using horse, drawn vans. Commercial travellers will take their samples through the country An suitable motor cars.
 Farmers Will Benefit.
 Agriculture will be one of the chief Industries to benefit by the coming rev. olution. Already company has been formed for manufacturing an agrcul- sural gasoline motor which has proved its large farming tasks in the United States tare accomplished by some kind of en- i8ine or motor. A motor lawn mower al- ready makes 1t less costly to keep up those stretches of glorious sward which tEngiand alone can show. Groups of far liners will combine to send their milk, eggs. butter. fruit and vegetables to a a farther to a railway. By the return tdourney the farmer will get his supplies from town or rail at fraction of their present transport cost.
 i, The coming of the motor menas an abso- flute cange of the nature and conditions tof passenger traffic in citise.
 Ten years hence there will not be a Fhorse left in the streets of London or sNew York except the few kept purely for fpleasuhe and police and military purpose. Their diappearance will have three re- lsults: First twice as much traffic can be Accommodated in any area; second, the streets. no longer subject to the pounding
 
 and quiet and will last incomparably lon ger-to the saving of the taxpayers money land, third, there will not be 5000 tons of manure deposited in London every day, 10 be collected and carted away. filling the air with odors and the lungs with poisonous dust and costing an enor- kInous yearly sum for it's final dispsition.
 Will Kill the Railway.
 am even inclined to go step farther and hazard the opinion that the motor will kill the railway. Why should the com munity pay. huge sum per mile for special roadway for electric cars and a huge generation station when selfpropelled motor ominbusses of equal speed, comfort capacity and economy can use the com mon road, and, by their ability to be steered round obstacles. not interfere with the rest of the traffic? I am con- vincled that municipalities would consult their own interest by carefully consid- ering the introduction of motor omi- buses before embarlSing upon the heavy initial cost of an electric railway system which may quite likely be obsolete before their depreciation fund has been charged dozen times.
 One great organization alone-the great est of them all, the railways-will suffer from the coming of the motor. The motor will rob them of passenger traffic, of the transport of malls except for long dis tances, of the carrying of light goods and light agricultural produce and will prevent them from opening up new dis tricts, which will be served by light lines and motor i vehicies ,a as tcray & m Amet1ca etnt the injury will be mitigated by the motor bringing to them agricultural produce from wider areas than can produce 1t the motor engine or rapid succession of motor carriages, as already planned in France and Austria, will replace the steam traffic. But. on the whle, the stage coach will be avenged upon the railway by the
 Other Aspects of the Case. FfTr of &1,o development of motoring-such for ex- ample, as the motor on water, where also 1t will effect great changes, and the stationary gasoline motor for light manufacturing and domestic purposes. One more matter, however, cannot be passed over-namely. the colossal indus try that the manufacture of motor cars and all that belongs to them will become. In 1902 Great Britain imported motors ihnd parts to the value of $5,512 ,S10 and ex- ported only $657 .4O5. The value of the 1902 is officially reckoned at $25, ,000,00O In the same year France exported motor lyehicles to the value of $5,310 200. Two firms manufacturing pneumatic tires in France turned out in 1902 $4l00.000 worth and each of them has 100000 worth lof goods in the charge of agents. Seventy land their combined output last year was l12,000 cars. The industry employed 1S0,- 009 workmen, earning on an average S360 a year each.
 The coming of the automobile will be "a social and industrial revolution I have not the slightest doubt; that it will add vastly to the sum of human pleasure and health is certain; that 1t will render what MT. Hardy calls "the doubtful honor of brief transit through sorry world fuller and more interesting experience, I feel sure. In fact, if
 'Tis life wherof our nerves are scant,
 More life, and fuller that we want. s-the motor car, in one sense, bids fair to go a good way toward supplying the de- dciency.
 Henry Norman, M. P. NEGROES PLANNING