The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-11
MOTORS OR|V|NG
OUT BUS LINES
Nearly 800 of the Old Favorites
Cast Aside, Stand in Deserted
Rows in City.

LONDON, Jan. Like the loss O
an old friend. the people OF Londor
regard the disappearance OF the slow
moving horse omnibus, says cable
TO the New York American.
One OF the famous routes OF these
horse vehicles, where they nave been
running for the last 80 years. you will
now see the speedy motor steadily in
creasing in numbers and the slow but
sure horse omnibus just as rapidly
disappearing.
The other day | happened to be
passing an aged woman who was
waiting patiently in the Strand for a
white Putney horse omnibus. She
turned and asked me why one was SO
long in coming?
She did not know that In this
famous route. which was one OF the
first routes a horse omnibus ever trav-
eled over. scarcely more than a dozen
horse vehicles are now running and
that even they are doomed 10 vanish
soon.
Between Putney and Liverpool-st.,
nearly one hundred OF these we'll
known omnibusses used TO run; but
NllC lhct lew udlo LOoA Va bhtAh
have been taken of the road. Every
where now the oldtime omnibus is
giving place 10 the motor II will not
be long before, with few exceptions
all the horse omnibuses In London
will have disappeared.
A truly melancholy sight for lovers
of the slow -and-sure comforts OF the
horse omnibus. with it's genial To-
quacious driver and persuasive, beck
oning conductor, may now be seen al
one or two OF the omnibus depots. In
long deserted rows. cast aside and
neglected. stand the old omnibuses.
The principal companies have accum-
ulated close upon 800 OF them.
Down the Strand before the motor
omnibuses came, al least IL services
OF the horse omnibuses found their
way. Now there are not more than
three-the remnant or the Putney ON
nibuses, the old favorites.' and a
service between Westbourne Grove
and London bridge.
Eighty and more Of the old green
omnibuses used to run down the bays
i>ter road. Every one OF them has
now gone.
Forty horsed vehicles until recently
maintained service between Clap
ham Junction and Piccadilly Circus.
They are gone from the streets.
Campaign For Fish As Food.
A campaign has been inauguratcd
under the auspices OF the National
Sea Fisheries Protection association
to popularize the use OF fish as food.
Fish is recommended very strongly,
not only for its nutrition and diges-
Utility. but its cheapness II Is gen
orally known that Englishmen as a
majority. are very conservative I'm the
matter OF their food. The kinds OF
Ash they eat can be readily named
and numbered on the fingers OF one
hand
or the many other yarities OF cheap.
nutritious and savory fish-food they
know nothing. from the culinary point
of view. and for that reason venture
nothing.
There are many strong arguments
given for the more extensive use OF
fish as food At the present time,
meat Is at enormous prices. SO high, in
fact, that many have either to- deprive
themselves OF IL. or. IL they bny V
at the present prices. deprive them
selves Of other necessary foods.
The price Of fish I'm England Is ex-
ceedingly low. and IL there was a
greater demand for the cheaper kinds
among the working classes. the fish