The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-16

ness or pleasure, has not yet been laid down He would be a bold, perhaps q rash, prophet who would undertake any detailed description of this car. Nevertheless, reasoning priori there are some features we may prognasti cate In the first place, 1t will be built of better steel than we have been accustomed to use. In the next place, the cars will become standardized, and when standardized they will be built by machinery in enormous quantities at an exceedingly low cost The wheels will be large, built of wood and of the artillery type. Hard rubber or some endurance substance will take tfae lplaca of the present high-priced unsat- isfactory tires. The car will be light, simple, strong, and easily kept In re- pair. Mr Edison once said the auto mobile will never be wholly practial i it is fool-proof and the ordinary re- pairs can be made on the highway by darlly with a monkey The present highly unsatisfactory system of change-speed gears will be sup planted by variable-speed device. Tnere are not wanting good judges who believe that the problem will be solved by a system of Hydraulic trans mission. The fuel of the future will be kerosene or grain alcohol Thirty five per cent. of the population of America are farmers. The farmer will be the chief automobile owner and user The maximum speed of his car may be only twenty miles per hour, but that is twice as fast as his present mode of travel. The car will be inval- uable adjunct to his work on the farm The adjustment of a belt, the turn of a crank, and the automobile e-engine furnishes power to thresh his grain cut his wood chop his feed and pump his water, After being in constant use all tho day the car Is ready to take the entire family to the social gathering in the village at night, or to church services on Sunday morning. The farmer will use the automobile as will the butcher, the baker, and the store-keeper-whe he can in no other way get the same amount of work done at so low a cost; and when the business man can deliver his goods more quickly and more economically than he can by using the horse he will do so,
 There will always be motor-cars de luxe for the rich. but they will be merely the fringe of the garment of a great industry The countless millions of tons of freight now slowly and painfully drawn over the country roads and through city street by poor dumb brutes will go spinning along, the motors of the heavily laden trucks humming a tune of rich content, and all the thousand tongues Of commerce will sing the praise of the mot0r-car.
 Let me suggest a few practical things that the tireless horse of the future will accomplish;
 1. It will solve the problem of the overcongestion of traffic in our city tsret.
 ?. It will free thu horse from his burdens. A few years ago, in the city of New Orleans, an old darky came in from tine country and for the first time saw / the electric street-car, which had taken the place of the mule-drawn car The old darky threw up his hands, and looking up to heaven, said, Bless de Lord. dc white man freed de nlgger now he done freed de mule"
 3, The automobile will furnish relief to the tenement house districts
 4. It will stimulate the go3d-roads movement throughout the United States.
 ,, It will save time and space and become invaluable to the physician, to the fireman, and to many classes b. citizens.
 6. It will tend to break down class distinction, because one touch of automobilism makes the whole world kin.-Harpers Weekly