Show U U U lu I-lu U UL L EDISON DECLARES THE HORSE IS DOOMED DOOM I I I h n n n Al 0 VET W r NEW YORK Ju June e 21 1 VV ITH Tm THE COST OF AN AUTO at rock-bottom rock about tb the horse must go for commercial purposes s. s My storage electric battery will propel every sort of vehicle its usefulness is unlimited t. t Its use sa will ultimately be extended extend d to trains and ships but vehicles will receive the first attention says Thomas A. A Edis Edison n. n half a dozen years ears from now continued the wizard four of ot f. f all ll vehicles will be propelled by ele electricity This means eans the p passing of the hor hore e cleaner and healthier streets and increased traffic facilities facilities i p I The city streets of the fu future tura I venture to predict will easily accommodate I date four many wagons and people as now r. r Y The retirement of ot the quadruped In favor of an inanimate machine of ot superior su superior su- su speed and requiring a minimum outlay in care and cost has been threatened threat- threat f f ened ned In the United States ever since 1805 or 1806 when John r hn Stevens of Hoboken f memorialized the Legislature of New York urging the bundling of railroads which would permit locomotion at the rate of ot twenty to thirty miles per pet hour with the prospect of increase to miles When twenty years later ater Gridley Bryant ran his pioneer steam cars over four miles of iron ways ways as as rails were then called called to to connect connect his quarries in Quincy Mass with the nearest tidewater enthusiastic advocates of steam power predicted that the days of the horse were numbered The fact that t steam carriages were about to take the places of mail coaches was was adduced as an additional indication of progress in that respect But lo 10 opposing interests horse breeders and owners not to mention the sporting fraternity killed the early automobile carriage undertaking The very factor that had given it birth the birth the railroads railroads helped helped to bury It Oliver Evans drove droye a dredging machine by its own steam through the streets of Philadelphia In 1804 in 1833 twenty twenty- two twenty two steam passenger coaches were employed In and about London but during the quarter of a century all experiments of the kind were discontinued dl and the horse once more moxe held undisputed sway In the streets and highways for purposes of utility and pleasure I Next to the competition om petition of the the locomotive and In a lesser degree the unsuitableness unsuitableness I of the roads roads next next to these the only crude construction of the automobIle automobile automo automo- bile vehicle was responsible for its failure The engines of all of-all all the early types were not economical and required constant supervision The large amount of fuel necessary to produce low pressure and the cumbersomeness of the whole affair tended to keep the speed below the horse standard though of course the propelling power of of the machine was comparatively greater Even In those days it needed but a person of average intelligence to see that the true motor vehicle for passenger service must be little heavier than the ordinary or ordinary ordinary or- or carriage while the traction engine for freight should not be more cumbersome cumber- cumber some Borne than the regulation wagon or cart Ability to stop and start instantly and to dispense with a professional conductor is also requisite A pow power r vehicle built on those lines makes not only the mare but bul the horse go And Ands such ch a one Edison seems to have Invented j Speeding over the rough roads in the hills of northern New JerseY are several sev sev- eral teral autom automobiles that the problem of transportation by electric vehicle may be solved Each Is fitted with one of my new light storage batteries says the In Inventor In- In and contin continues es There are heavy machines and light machines each of ofa ofa a 0 different make Each Each- of these machines is to run miles every day until it has covered miles The roughest roads those with tile the most hills hilla ills ills' and ruts and crossings are preferred We go at highest speed making no stops or slow-downs slow except pt for c cause use I want to give the battery a test greater than any that it will meet in a actual use The battery I think will run an automobile over ordinary roads miles without recharging But that there may b be no mistake I shall keep up the experimenting for several months This looks encouraging Electricity or for that matter any agency that will drive the horse from the streets of our great cities should be welcomed for horses hors are the cause of much disease and unsanitary conditions There are laws preventing citizens from keeping certain domestic animals within the city lim lim- 1 u u u u u U U its The advance In electricity will wm soon add dd the horse to the prohibited list along with pigs and cows v Chauncey Chaundey M. M Depew said pointedly I r have given up anticipating what electricity will do for us next and when it will do it I imagine that one fine morning we we shall wake up with apparatus ready to take ake us to our offices through the air all But in spite of m my full belief in the electric carriage he he- het added I r doubt whether the services of the horse will willever ever be entirely with I cannot conceive our active adapting Americans themselves to the pursuit pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit of pleasure in carriages moved by electrify or by any other kind of motor but the horse What has made he bicycle i so universally popular but the motor one fact that It permits of action on the part of ot the rider that it affords excitement excite excite- ment For similar reasons the carriage hoise horse will always have friends and admirers ad ad- his his' hiss his's s style Yle action and movement cannot be duplicated or imitated As to the ordinary d every-day every horse he is certainly doomed The extent to which electricity has discredited and replaced him Is exemplified by the fact that it no longer breed horses that command a moderate price only only Already horse cars are a curiosity In any but the smallest towns and vii vil villages lages of America This Is a remarkable ble achievement full of promise from a commercial and sanitary standpoint and one that speaks volumes for the push I and energy of American inventors While European engineers as intimated spent years ears of time and ad abor in constructing a one or two horse which two vehicle which vehicle which we are about to convert to our own uses uses we we established the gigantic cable and trolley systems that Inevitably means death to all antiquated forms forms forms' and methods of animal power The horse-breeding horse business ir in America Is undergoing a tremendous change to the lasting advantage of stock Improvement Only the most desirable strains of blood are In request for stud purposes and ld their blending promises a new race of high steppers As In the case of motors the survival of the fittest is exemplified ex eC- ex- ex ed in me horse The plug Is dead Lorig live the flyer And the greater the speed of of the blue blooded blue Kentuckian the str stronger nger the Incentive for horse- horse Tota 1 maKers carriage nt e t fn to surpass him him bin Geologists differ as to the he he origin of the faithful quadruped and the time of or his subjection t tj t i man In history he figures figure's as our servant and companion at atthe atthe atthe the very earliest period of which we have reliable records Six thousand and more years he has been with us fighting our battles tilling the fields carrying civilization fr from m. m zone to zone T The e twentieth century will see him hint In his prime no no longer a beast of burden but with all his noblest qualities exalted This prognostication Is made for America Europe hampered b by tradition and constitutional want of promptitude will follow suit slowly Cable and electrIc electric electric elec elec- roads have been built and more are building in different rent parts palts of the Old World under the supervision of American engineers Every single one of the swiftest moving smoothly running cars is a living forceful arraignment of the old-fashioned old and laborious horse railways and of carts and wagons cabs arid and private carriages But will not the depreciation of ot the horse do immeasurable damage to a national national national na na- na- na Industry in fact toa number of industries industries- There is little fear of that A new field of possible usefulness for the horse hors Is indicated by the reports of United States Consuls who say that Europe is already yearning for American horseflesh in lieu o of the prohibited beef and the will in drive and for hire indexed hog Cabmen and liverymen n future keep motor mOJor carriages promising better profits and involving less risk The fhe express and truck business will be reorganized on a broader more economical more humane basis Cities will oe le e he healthier suburbs more more accessible Edison's new invention will be a genuine boon boon if if its it's the success he says it Is and he adds I never yet had to apologize for one one of m my inventions and wont won't commence now This new thing is as important and as revolutionary as the Incandescent lamp Edison's storage battery cells are composed of tiny bricks brics of gf specially pre pared Iron and nickel In th the charging and discharging of the battery oxygen Is driven from one m metal tal to the other and then back again through the action of a potash solution and and without corrosion or waste Renewal of water supply is all that Is needed to keep the cells in good condition ant ana the process of recharging recharging recharging re re- re- re charging the batteries has been improved Improved o that less time is consumed than forthe for forthe forthe the recharging of other batteries |