New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-19
Faithful ServitorS Of Man WIN
Soon Be Released from
Bondage.
TRUCKS INCREASE RAPIDLY
Transportation Problem VIII
Soon Be Entirely Solved
b. Use of the Powerful
Automobile.
nv Harry Ferry.

Gradually mans faithful friend, the
horse" is being crowded from the streets
OF large cities. II any one doubts the
figures that are brought forward from
tmc TO time TO prove this he need only
observe the traffic on Fifth avenue and
seventh avenue. in New York. any day 10
bc convinced. From TO 6 o'clock the
street is congest,d with traffic in which
horses arc so few as to seem totally alb
sent. This marvellous change in condi-
,ions has been wrought in the last seven
wears Photographs of the avenue taken
50 recently as 1905 snow a predominance
OF horse-drawn carriages, broughams'
hauloms and wagons
Fifth avenue to-day presents picture
of conditions that will exist five years
later on all north and south avenues Of
tho metropolis, except that on other ave
nucs the traffic will be motor trucks and
delivery wagons principally instead OF
passenger vehicles. The coming revolu-
ton is already forecast in Seventh avenue
where there is heavy traffic by CONNER
cisl motor vehicles. There arc already
between four thousand and five thousand
motor trucks and delivery wagons oper-
atmg i'm greater New York, and so Tar
This winter new motor trucks have been
REGISTERED with the Secretary of state at
Albany at the rate of fifty week. II
this rate is maintained ii means that
more than twenty-five hundred motor
wagons will be added to the present num-
hcr during the year, and as each IS ca
,,alIc. of doinc the work of three or more
horsc-drawn wagons they will displace
tcn thousand horses, at conservative eS-
tmatc. Undoubtedly, however, the regis
traton- will increase. as many orders Tor
new machines Will be placed AT the motor
truck show in Grand Central Palace ana
Madison Square Garden, and subsequent
oroers will be greatly stimulated. Straws
that indicate how tho wind Is blowing
lead TO the prediction that this will be by
far tho best buying year in the motor
truck field. as business houses through
out the country are exhibiting unusual
interest i'm the subject, equal to that here
tcfo5c taken in the pleasure cars.
Within the last five years the taNicab
las displaced thousands of horses and
cabs from the streets of all large cities
of Europe and America. In London alone
there we're 1896 motor cabs in operation
at the end of last October. So complete
has been the displacement of the hanson
cab there that a movement was started
recently 10 induce the British Museum TO
Iul d hanson and install il in the mu-
scum before that type of vehicle should
become 50 obsolete that IL would be diff
cult To obtain one in good condition.
There has been a similar substitution
or motor buses for horse omnibuses in
Great Britain and the Continent. At the
end OF October 2.677 motor buses We're
registered in London and the old horse
drawn buses had nearly disappeared
So far the motor bus has not attained
To ANYTHING like the same prominence
i'm America, although the New York
Coach Company Is operating a feet OF
more than one hundred on Fifth avenue
and Riverside Drive and large depart
ment stores in Chicago have established
private motor bus service between their
stores and the railroad station
The electric streetcar is so ubiquitous
In America that motorbuses have made
relatively slow Roadway, but there has
been considerable development of inter-
urban motor stage service. and of late
there has been a noticeable increase of
interest in motor bus lines In small
cities and the suburbs of large cities
where streetcar service is inadequate.
\ sample Of the new type OF bus il
now Incorporation carrying passengers be-
tween the two buildings occupied by the
automobile show and 9th street and
Broadway.
This passing OF the horse will not be
regretted even by friends of the animal,
who ought TO be glad that Poor Old
Dobbin" is at last released from bond
age. hard work and abuse. II horses
could talk they would have a good deal
10 say about faithful friendship that
was all on one side. Faithful servitor
s. far better appellation to apply to
the horse.