Show o AUTOMOBILES AT PARIS Horseless Carriages A Rapidly Coming Into Favor Washington Jan 28onsu General Gowdy at PariS reports td the state department that there has been a I marked increase during the past year I in the use of automobiles in the city of Paris not only as pleasure vehicles I but for practical application as public I cabs and for business purposes as delivery de-livery wagons I is announced that I soon there will be 100 motor cars driven I I by electricity running in the streets of Paris ard If the experiment is successful I suc-cessful the cabs will be increased to 1000 1000With this project in view a large plot of ground has been secured where the building of works necessary for the housing of cabs and machinery for the electric supply sre baijjg rabidly completed 4 comletei I The training ground also hiS been adopted for the cabmen Tins is laid out with every possible fornt of DUV mg wood asphalt stone etc including I two steep hills Here and there are dotted about dummy figures and in and out of these cabmen have to maneuver under the orders of an Instructor As a rule In four lessons the driver is ready I to navigate Paris and after ten lessons is considered thoroughly competent i gerd reo I Each cab is supplied with sufficient power to be driven thirty miles at about I eight miles an ur Among the sys I tems or automoDiies in earls tnere arc I many using petroleum which called forth a most pronounced objection by the public by reaon first of the odor following their passage second the noise and third for the passengers the extraordinary vibration A consummation con-summation of great value would be a machine which would combine durability dura-bility speed and economy without l these I annoyances and defects i |