Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

lean-to on the rear to hold some of the bat
teries and another on front to look like cow
catcher. He cramped the seats and the leg
room between-for long wheel base had not
yet been invented either.
THIS PIONEER DESIGNER of ours found
both the dash and whip-socket there when his
eyes FIRST opened in a carriage factory. He
never stopped to consider that, there being no
horse in front, the need of dash had also
vanished. Nor had it ever occurred to him how
the whip-soeket came there originally-so he
left them both on.
IF THAT CAR HAD RUN we verify believe It
would have been the standard design up to now
for we hnd many features in eleetTics that
are just inogical-just as archaic and just as
useless that
TAKE THE HOOD FOR EXAMPLE-why
should il be on any electric? No reason on
earth save that some designers don't think.
ON GASOLINE CAR il has use-therefore
it is right. Handsome is as handsome does. 1t
covers the motor But do you know we in this
country used to be ashamed of a motor-tried
for years to conceal 1t beneath the seat; till
one day one of Gran'pa Daimler's cars came
over from Germany-and forthwith we all i'm
itated the Mercede hood and viii probably con-
dnue to use it for the next hundred years
whether we need it or cot. We are such an
original peoplei
NOW THERE IS ANOTHER DANGER-the
danger of copying without knowing what or
why you copy. Education training experience
travel are requisite If one would copy intelli-
gently-artistically.
COLONEL INGERSOLL USED TO SAY "Iu-
agination cannot go beyond the range of ex-
perience No man can describe an animal he
has never seen. He may describe one with the
horn of rhinosceros, the name Of lion. the
trunk of an elephant and the wings of an eagle
But that is not an animal-it is a monsrosity
composed of various things he has seen or
dreamed of'-s farcical. phantasmagorical, phe
noTl as IL were.
NEXT TIME YOU SEE AN ELECTRIC on the
street just step and look it over Don't laugh
it might offend the lady inside. And it is not
her fault. She needed electric, and bought
the only thing she could find. though she will
tell you her sense Of the artistic and the beau
uful were offended by every line. She doesn't
think II so ugly now-one gets used to any
thing in time
DON'T LAUGH-Though you will see several
features left over from buggy design coupled
with others from gasoline automobiles that are
as tunny-oI as ridieulous-as was that whip
socket the dash OF the earlier electric or
Ingersolls composite quadruped.
THE FLANDERS ELECTRIC is consistent in
every detail-the graceful body curves. the Dig
nihed, though pronounced stripping, the nowing
leather tenders-even 10 the colonial lamps
which were esps .i5lly designed for this car
rage by Mr.. E Castle
Il EXPECTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT"
exclaimed prominent dealer when his eyes
hrst rested on this carriage, but frankly / did
not expect 10 see anything beautiful and in
SUN SANSiAShA lasNG a. Niais NHulOI sale Nldt
you were making electric that would create
sensation. / feared it might verge on the
bizaue-and for that class of trade of course
that wouldn't do al all. But this-it is faultless
exouisitsl There is not radical feature-not
a discordant note. IL is true to every eonven.
ton-and il is the easiest riding ] have
ever seen"
NOT A "WHIP-SOCKET" ANYWHERE-not
superauous teature-nOt even hood to i'm
itate a gasoline and occupy room that
should be devoted TO passenger capacity