Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-07


| buses will rush thousands of city workers
| at third speed from their healthy cottage
| homes Workingmen will be whisked to
the foundry and factory in quarter Of an
hour. Every one will be able to sleep
| hour later each morning.
The postmen are making their first dis
| tribution at 7:30 am Light automobile
| post-omnibuses already exist in Paris In
| 1890 the hourly distributions will quit the
! central post Office In eighty automobile
! buses for the eighty Paris districts. Daily
| papers are already served by automobile.
| In 1920 the system will be so perfected that
| the city editions will go to press two hours
/ later than at present and the population
| will have two hours later knowledge of the
| worlds doings. Throughout the day auto
mobile services will distribute extras.
| Automobile delivery CONS are already
| common in Paris. In 1880 no one will carry
! home package. Every shopkeeper will
| have his auto-delivery. Every family will
| be bomharded with price lists. Food sup
plies will be ordered by mail or telephone,
| and the automobile will do the rest.
And now, at am, the streets of Paris
| viii literally thousands OF light auto
| mobile voiturettes--sold in 1890 at the price
| OF todays cheap and dangerous motor
| bikes" say at sl00 each, brand new
| $50. second hand.
Perfectly. 1t will be the family auto or
tho clerk of 1930-with one seat. for himself,
| bile, costing little for tires and fuel-prop-
| ably alcohol. which is to be absurdly cheap
| III the Paris of 1880.
Cheap Motor Vehicles.
It is de Dion who predicts the 500 auto
| mobile. These countless voiturettes will
! dash into Paris with mighty little dust and
j dirt upon them-though they come from all
| the countryside around for fifty miles
| Can you imagine what a radius of even
| forty miles from great city means? To-
day the suburbanites of Europe and Amer
| lea come not from the whole circumference
! Of that circle, but from points on straight
| lines tapping it. They are limited by rail-
| way lines trolley iines a best In 1890
| these innumerable voiturettes will bring in
| Vulnerable clerks from their delicious cot
| tages to their town work. When their wives
| want day in town, they will come in the
| auto with them.
Here new trade opens Automobile
garages will have to spring up every
| where in cities They will be eight-storv
| buildings in Paris. with numerous elevators
| for the rapid handling of the countless
voiturettes of lucky city clerks
1t is noon in Paris of 1890 The auto
mobile fad Htates wholesale and retaiS busI
| ness. The representa- OF whoiasaIe
| houses, In one morning, will call on ten re-
| tailers, where they now call on threa with
| difficulty. The auto sample wagon will have
| one seat All the rest will be for samnle
! drawers.
| The streets are full of "taxfmetre" auto
Iaps. fHeAonehonaiiy cheap fuel replacing
| morse reed the absence of high-priced city
morse stablfng and the advertisement of
| horse life will bring Paris cab fares down
| to trffe. In present-day "taximefre
| paying only for the distance registered. I
| can go from the round point of the Cbamps
| Elysees to the opera for Is cents In 1910
| they will do IL for a present-day car fare
The streets of Paris will be so consested
| with auto-cabs. auto-omniEuses auto-de
! livery wagons, auto-vans and automobile
| pleasure vehicles that the foot passenger
| Will not be able to cross a street
Bridges for Pedestrians.
| Look at those light and elegant steel
| brfdgest They curve from one sidewalk To
the other. They are for foot passengers to
| cross alive,
| Yet this terrible traffic will have become
| supple and easily handled This is an an
| dacious prediction of Michelin. the fireman
| City streets will be divided into legal rows
! for the floor in the two directions The
center will be kept free for maneuvering
| and turning. Here and there below curv-
| ing bridge traffic director stands in hang
! ing cage.
| HALT! A big sign uncovers itself. The
| endless procession stops.
| GO ON Another sign uncovers The
procession starts again.
City life will become so intense and coun-
| try life so handy that a vast movement
| which we cannot imagine will surge be-
| tween the city and the country-over dust
less, nludless westrumited roads kept light
| ed at night with are lamps for radius OF
| fifty mles-100 miles from Paris.
| All these roads will present a wonderful
| spectacle by day and night Today auto
mobiles cut terrible holes in them-nothing
| so ruins a present-day road And the dust
| say on the road from Paris to Versailles
| is such that villa properties have depre-
| ciated 80 per cent.
/ In 1890 all these villa properties win
| have gone up in value Reads Will be laid
on solid beds of concrete. thickly west
rumited with composition of tar sand
| and cement. Automobile sprinklers will lay
| the little remaining dust. The turnings will
/ be slightly lifted from the chord 10 the ex-
terior-and not, the reverse, as today
| Dangerous sluice ways, runnels and
| bumps will have disappeared.
| Throughout their whole length these
| roads will be country-in-city or city-in-
country. Villas and cottages with gardens
| will extend their length. interspersed with
| little wooded parks and half-towns, with
| doctor, druggist. telephone pay station and
| express office
The automobile express business will be
| something fierce.
The country doctor will go in his auto.
/ The country butcher, fshmonger. grocer.
coal man and petroleum and alcohol mer-
chant-even the ambulatory general store
man and hardware dealer-w;;l come and
| go ceaselessly in their specially adapted
/ automobiles. Even theatrical troupes and
| fair showmen will come in their automo-
| bile-roulottes-and the countryside will be
as lively as the city is today.
! Black Side Of the Predictions.
There is but one black side to these pre-
dictions. 1t concerns the automobile in
| war. Tile French are even confident on
this detail, because they will be soonest
ready.
Here d an open secret: I have already
referred to It. Last year a Paris Illustrated
| weekly got out war scare edition. with
remarkably faxed" photographs.
/ Well. The central scene represented the
first moys OF the etat-major after the mob