Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-06 | Page 12 | A Trackless Street Car

A TrarMeiM Street Car. An exhibition run of the "carette,' a diminutive street car without a track, which has been in use in Chicago for several weeks, was given the other afternoon. after-noon. Tho "carette" is light and easy in motion, and no jolting or discomfort was felt in riding in it along the part cobblestone cobble-stone paving of Chestnut street. It cannot can-not run on the ordinary street car track, the distance between the. wheels being greater than tho car track width. It avoids delays or blockades, arid stops at the curb to receive or discharge passengers. passen-gers. It seats twenty persons, is drawn by two horses and litis a conductor and a driver. It is said to be very popular in Chicago among ladies and children. Philadelphia Times.