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Show Making Start for Horseless Town St. Louis First American City to Prohibit Use of Horse-drawn Horse-drawn Vehicles. Announcement that one of the main thoroughfares of Pt. Louis probably wilt be closed to horse-drawn vehi-Mee for all time may nvirk tIir beginning of a now era in city cleanliness. Morc's "iMnphT" piotnrpil a citv in which the horse hmi disappeared completely as ! a draft animal and. whether or not the city fathers of the Missouri citv have this I I topi a ii diam in mind. th- proposed Action Ac-tion may he I a ken a a t lie Hist step I toward its realization. I This is not tho first insiam-o In which i a town sans horse h;i(- heea proposed. 1 Several yci is ae whpn the manufac-t manufac-t u rim; district near the Indianapolis speedway wa. laid out, ii whs the ide of , Carl Kish.er. its promoter, to prohibit I horses from its streets, j In faet, t he riisti ioi. was rhriptened ! Horseless Citv. ji quite possible i ha t I when the se.-lion does develop fig w as anticipated oritinallv, ji in reality will be a horseless tow n. J Meanwhile, St. Louis may lake proce-i proce-i depep as l be first cit v to reserve some of jty sirecls for motors only, an e--j -imple that possibly soon will be followed I by oilier run Til-'! pa lilies. 1 There are no ejty dwHr.c bin enn men-' men-' tion a street in their home town That could he unproved fo:r n eMreM'' and sanitary stand poi n t hv tho prohibition of rl e small percent;, cc of horse lrfiff-e that now uses it - and that without flrii-crear flrii-crear hardship to the horprn:cn thetn- |