Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-08-24

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weight and thickness Of the cells, on one
now that will cost only So per cent. OF
| charging. About % per cent. of the bust
ness that we are looking after will be In
business vehicles. can equip wagon
what 1t costs to maintain a horse and
| wagon. This includes the cost Of re-
pairs to the automobile, replacing tires,
| oils. and such things.
"The electric delivery wagon Is the
coming thing for city traffic. In ten
years the congestion. II horses continue
| In use. will he something terrific. There
will be thousands ana thousands in the
| streets. An automobile wagon takes up
Just half tho space that horse and his
| load does, 1t moves twice as rapidly, and
and there Is no time lost in feeding.
$50 MILES IN ONE CHARGING.
IT have not paid much attention to
touring cars. but 1 think that the time
will come soon that n big car, electric
ally equipped. will hc able to take four
or five passengers 100 miles on d single
charging ut "a rate of twenty or twenty
five miles an hour over the ordinary
roads. do not mean city streets. but
Jersey roads. have a number of rum
abouts using the battery now, and they
are doing very WE'LL they are making
from 100 to- 80 miles on one charging.
"As an experiment n company built a
tonncau car and equipped 1t with electric
motors. The car, with passengers aboard.
weighed 400 pounds. IT was sent out
to experiment on wind resistance. 1t made
thirty-threc miles an hour. 1t was equip
ped with sixty cells. with a voltage of
about scvcnty-fve: tho battery weighed
about seven hundred pounds. In the run
ahouts. of course the battery is lighter.
The difficulty in the way of long ii stance
touring by electric machines is that there
are not enough charging stations through
out tho country
"'rh" battery that am now putting
out will bc of permanent voltage and will
outlast thrcc machines. ! do not use any
lead or acids ut all in the constructions
use potash lyc nickel. and iron. The
whole battery is of steel
what arc tho advantages over gaso-
line propelled machinc?' was asked
ADVANTAGES or ELECTRIC MA
CHINE.
Manifold. If you have a gasoline ma =
chine YOU have to have an expert to run
1t. There are "A thousand things to got out
OF order at seconds notice and stop
your car. You have spark trouble cylin-
der trouble, battery trouble. and cooler
trouble With an electric any one can
bccom" an expert inside of twenty min
utcs. All he has to do is to learn how
to turn on the switch and then take hold
of tho wheel and steer. | think in a
very few months people will be convert
Ing their gasoline machines into ccctrics
II will be very simple. The gearing is
the same and can be- adjusted without
much alteration. The same old chassis
may be used.
Then there Is another thing to con-
slider In tho running of gasoline ma
chimes. In a short time there will be n
great advance in the price of the fluid
only certain amount of gasoline can
be distilled from tho oil and the re-
hn"rcs Will not 20 into the practice of
running out oil for the express purpose
OF getting the gasoline. 1t will soon have
a prohbitory price on it,
Mr. Edison was not making an cf-
fort to run down gasoline machines in
favor of the adoption of electric power;
but he knows as we'll as any one else who
Knows anything about automobiles that
tho gasoline car is a thousand miles from
perfection. and all along the fine roads
that lead past his residence he secs many
times. machines drawn UP at tho side of
the thOrOuEhfare with the chauffeurs
and generally the owners digging away
at the insidcs of the "bcasts"-huntinr.
hunting. vanly hunting. Tho search
leads generally to some slight dsarranSe-