New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Thirty-five Motors to one
Horse-Drawn Vehicle the
Proportion on Weekdays.
IT'S so TO l. ON SUNDAYS
Even Small Traders Turn "a
Motive Power for Use in
Delivery of Their
Goods.
From The Trib, ne cor.spons.,,

From The Tribt ne CORRESPONDENT,
London. Oct. t-Those huge Percheno,,
and Clydesdaes that used TO lumss,
through London streets looking as II thew
could slowly but surely pull either a
Paurs or the British Museum along with
them are fading out of the colorful tran.
that makes London streets distinctly.
The hooters on the motor cars are SOUND.
ing the horses doom.
One ambitious investigator stayed laS
Saturday at one Of the main roads leaa.
ing out Of the city and watched the pro.
cession. Part OF the great throng was Oh
to Brooklands to watch Pegoud loop L,
loop, but the other half Of It wa On
business bent, and yet in the Ions, ,ors
line, for every horse-drawn vehicle thar,
were thirty-five motor vehicles not count.
ing cycles. This rather startling discoy.
cry led to further Inquiries along oths
main roads.
On Sunday on tho 0older's Hin and q
Adams route tho proportion Of motue
cars to horses In the forenoon was % oi
Later, however. when tradesmen's funny
little rigs took the roads, tho proportion
was changed from 30 TO 7. The same rauc
prevailed on the Hatfield Road. Even q
Essex, distinctively farming and agr..
cultural county. there was only one horss
to twenty motors. Kent Surrey and Nd.
dlesex seem 70 have put mans old friend
in his box stall for good. or else he Is %
his way to the museum. tho sporting ID
bic or the glue factory.
In the London streets about the oo.y
horse-drawn vehicles now are those Of
the grecngrocers, milkmen and coalnet
The butchers carts that used 10 rae
through the streets. driven by oily-hsirH
Jehus. have been displaced in part By
boys on bicycles and in part by small
motor cars. II is Just the same way With
-four bread, beer and the other con-
modities. A few OF the big diapers stores
use horse power for about half their W
hicles.
II seems only a question OF time oefofs
the motor will triumph over all ia
Kent fruit and vegetable growers ar
adopting motor traction, and VIII sow
the greengrocers' market troubles. likely
enough. by supplying direct from farm %
shop or local market. Incidentally, they
are plougning and harvesting newadSn
by motor power. AT present they S'
only beginning but they Will 90 on.
What prevents the average milknaa
from using a motor is the fact that Ne
has to stop so often, but motor cars AZ
being already introduced into this par
ticular trade.
The railway companies, in the man
still cling to horses for parcel delivennA
and why. nobody exactly knows TOT Wv
big department stores are serving
motor the thirty-mile radius that the fsA'
, way companies used 10 monopolze.
One great factor which will have to "
with the disappearance OF the horse
that with his going Sunday labor IS eO0'
siderably lessened. The motor does ."
eat at night and does not have 70 De CUT
ried. nor Is II necessary 20 bed down u
bav Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, aooU
thirty years ago:
Now, a horse is a fine lady anon
ANIMALS. fiighty. timid. delicate In esuhs
OF tender health; too valuable ana y"
FESTIVE TO be left alone; so that you ~
chained 10 your brute as to reloN -
ley slave: a dangerous road puts MIN ~.
OF his wits; In short. he's an unceNs.a
and exacting ally and adds thirtylo''
your troubles" 49,.
Louis. the Well Beloved. knew n0u.s
OF motor cars when he wrote this ou' ~
glimpse into the future was propH'
and he gave tho real reason why
horse is going to end up in the Ns'~.
History Museum and why maybe 10
years time tho children Will 90 asA
US: DO you really remember see-s
horses pulling carts about Ike you
them in the old picture books ana
seums?"