Show autos to replace the last horse cars fx I 1 r N NEW EW YORK it really begins to look as aa though now york intended to follow the lead of overy every western vil ago and discard its horse cars frederick AV W whitridge receiver of the third avenue and union railway companies intends to test two automobile cars soon and it it Is found they can bo be operated economically enough it may prove the end of the entire horse car service in the city i receiver whitridge operates two horse car lines hues the dry dock east broadway and battery and the horse car branch of the forty second street and st nicholas av denue line besides these tho the metropolitan company has the avenue C line the line from the grand street ferry to the desbrosses street ferry the canal and grand street line the line that runs from fifty ninth street and first avenue to the battery Dat tery cars are also occasionally run on two other lines tho the cars that mr whitridge intends to experiment with are an all electric borage battery and gasoline rao MO tor c cr r there la Is no question about their practicability the receiver says it is simply a matter of deciding which form can be operated tho the more economically the now experimental self propel ling cars will seat about 28 persons they will bo be for purpose ot of comparison about the size of the cars which the metropolitan street railway operates on its eighth street cross town line these are 32 feet in length some form of of automobile car la Is also looked upon as the possible solution of the problem on west street where tho the metropolitan street railway has always asserted that owing to tidal effects and the possibility of short circuits the underground trolley lias has been impracticable in addition to all this promised reform the public service commission has haa granted tho the company as extension of 30 lays days in which to experiment with side door trains in the subway so that the center side door train which the officials consider superior to the side door train which has been operated experimentally for some weeks past may be tried |