Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01
ELECTRIC VEHICLE
SWIFTLY COMING
SCIENTIST WHOSE PREDICTION
or TEN YEARS AGO HAS ABOUT
BEEN VERIFIED.
DIFFICULT WORK or BREAKING
DOWN THE OLD MENTAL
ATTITUDE.

I
years ago Hayden Eames OF South
Bend, Ind, brother OF Emma Eames,
the operate star, and a noted cleo
tricaI expert. was asserting that the
electric vehicle would one day be an
| important commercial factor, thereby
aronsing violent argument imong
his associates-one man in particular,
prominent member Of the Ecison
| association, taking rather strenuous
'ssue With him.
Today Games has seen all his. yar1-
Jus predictions come true, and he be-
iieves that only a beginning has been
--....ss.e. When he first commenced talk
ing about electric vehicles everybody
else seemed to be advocating steam
as the motive power for business wa
CONS 1t would probably be pretty
hard now to convince any of Eames'
dissenters that they ever took such
! a position.
Eames will be one of the speakers
before the twenty-fifth annual conven-
ton of the National Electric Light
ISOLATION which meets at st. Louis
next week when he will publicly voice
his belief that the time is not far dis
tant when the electric vehicle will
Ia xto the very limit the existing CEN
trail station installations.
Games declared that, while ma
terial improvements have been made
during the past ten years in the de-
tails of the design of electric pleasure
vehicles or power wagons, these de-
signs had reached a point as long
ago as 1897 when their proper use
and application showed great econ
omy over any other existing method,
and no further engineering develop
ment was necessary to make them,
then and there, good commercial
investment.
Within the past month, he says, he
has seen in the streets of New York
City an electric power wagon OF the
date of '97 change from it's original
construction, and there are in this
country many such vehicles, the mi
nor defects of which have been elimi-
mated by the ingenious user. More
over, these vehicles are still giving
satisfactory service.
Eames says that the greatest econ
cmy of operation by any single cleo
trio power wagon of which he has
any knowledge resulted from the use
OF vehicle built in 1901, and that
there are at least three such vehicles
still in service without having been
materially changed.
Education of the pubic in the use
of the electric vehicle is, in Games
Judgment, important, and he urges
the cooperation of manufacturers and
individual members. He believes it
would be wise TO maintain a perma
nent educational nucleus in the hands
or under the control of central sta
ton managers. He believes that such
a course would place the central sta
ton organization in the position OF
judicial protector of the industry, and
protect the public from the passing
use of captivating navelty which has
from time to time been a great dis
turbing factor in the power wagon
business. Freaks ana experiments
could be excluded under such sys-
tenn.
Games declares that the ignorance
OF large users of draft animal wa
CONS in regard to the elements which
govern the economy OF their use is
amazing Many of them really have
no idea of what it is coTting them to
use animals Six years ago he made
a canvass of the city of Boston, and
found that, with two exceptions.