The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-22
TT HAS COME.

It was bound to come in the natural
 course of events, but 1t arrived little earlier than we expected. What 1t Is
 we learn from The Washington Post:
 Gay Farce has just been startled by
 "VI "whizzing zRa along the Champs Eiysees | at tho rate of twenty-five miles an hour" He was not on horseback, neither was he in an auto. He simply | stood up straight on his own legs, and | the only unusual thing connected with | his appearance consisted of a pair of | immense boots. He didn't walk. He l never lifted either foot from the pave ment, He simply carried himself erect | and flew along. as we have already | stated.
 interesting facts Fastened to the soles | of the enormous strangers boots were | tiny automobiles. with rubber tires eight | inches in diameter. and in belt worn about his waist were "accumulators' or l one and a quarter horse power, con. nected with the boots by means of wir ,c Thus equipped, the mysterious | person flew along the avenue at the speed above stated, exciting wonder; admiration and alarm in about equal In other words, this astonishing but highly uncomfortable gentleman-Con-
 invented tho lonR-looked-for and much feared motor boot" As a mat 1 ter oe fact, the device will enable the individual citizen to acquire pair Of boots by means of which he can chase along the boulevards of Paris or any other capital at a frightful rate Of speed, and, as long as the "accumula- tors" hold out. make anywhere from six to thirty miles an hour. It is the
 much desired consunimation--the ap- Daratus whereby we may pay a hundred calls during any afternoon. evade po- iicemen, stfeet cars, footpads, the car aF Ea artGfnpranv and tho tIn- portunities of the very fieetest reporter! No more need to squander~ money on night hawks. herdics. "copays, or even broughams, and victorias. Put on your seven league boots. light your cigarete. hush the button, and away you go! We foresee a time when our greatest statesmen will provide themselves with the Constantini boot and laugh at would be interviewers.
 That is as much as we have yet
 learned about the new invention, but it
 gives an idea ot what we are to expect.
 If it has appeared in Paris 1t can't be
 kept out of the United States, especially
 if the people of dear old Lunnun"
 should take 1t up. In that case the
 army and navy of the United States
 couldn't bar it out.
 The Post suggests a dangerous possi-
 bility in connection with the invention. As will be understood from the above
 description, the wearer of these boots carries the power about his waist and
 turns it on with such force as he chooses. Suppose one of our eminent statesmen travelling in this way, and while his mind is engaged with affairs of State he should turn twice as much power on one foot as on the other how long would it require to make pair of statesmen of him? Then. again, we can imagine a man weighing about a quarter of a ton doing a stunt on the things and running into a hole or against a post: only think of the quan- tity of debris the city authorities would have to clean up!
 Of course none of these things may happen, but we never know what is in the future. So many unexpected things come to pass that we may well be prepared for anything. and these mo- tor boots are likely to do some high jinks if they become common. For all that, if such things have been invented no possibility Of doleful catastrophes will prevent their adoption. People of this day are not going to let a good thing escape them.