Show THE HORSELESS AGE electricity will soon delvo aba atal animal 00 the street dr chauncey M depew who was asked whether he thought the horse was doomed said 1 I imagine that one fine morning we will wake up with apparatus ready to take us to our offices by an automobile carriage or perchance through the air but in spite of my full belief in the electric carriage of the future I 1 doubt whether the services of the horse will ever be entirely dispensed with I 1 cannot conceive our active americans adapting themselves to the pursuit of pleasure in carriages moved by electricity or by any other kind of motor but the horse what has made the bicycle so universally popular but the one fact that it permits of action on the part of the rider that it affords excitement por similar reasons the carriage horse will always have friends and admirers his style action and movement canno be duplicated or imitated As to the ordinary everyday horse he is certainly doomed the extent to which triciti has discredited and replaced him is exemplified by the fact that it no longer pays to breed horses that command but a moderate price |