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Show THE AUTOMOBILE. M Mr. Henry Norman, editor of World's Work (English) believes that the automobile is soon M to banish the horse from the cities, save the few H kept for pleasure; that the machine will soon H banish the street car, and the locomotive on short H roads. He is not a dreamer, but a cold-nosed H economist. He figures that a carriage and pair H means $2,000 per annum in the city and $1,500 M in the country. He thinks a big automobile should H not cost less than a carriage and pair, a small ' one not less than a horse and carriage. He cites H one automobile that was driven five thousand H miles last year at a cost of $575. Another that B ran sixteen hundred and forty-eight miles at a B cost of only $22.50. he rates the difference In H miles between horse teams and automobiles as H 452 is to 2,827 or nearly 7 to 1. M Then he shows what that means in rr.ther H vivid colors, as follows: fl "Every friend within threo thousand square iM miles can be visited, any place of worship or B lecture or concert attended, business appoint- H raents kept, the train met at any railway sta- tion, every post and telegraph and telephone of- ' H fico in reach. Every physician accessible, any place reached for golf or tennis, or fishing or ''1 shooting and with it all fresh air Inhaled under H H exhillratlng conditions. It is a revolution in life. H With an automobile one lives three times as H much in the same span of years and one's life, H therefore, becomes to the extent wider and more H interesting." H Mr. Norman believes that business automo- H biles will soon become universal; that commer- H cial travelers will take their samples through H the country in suitable motor cars, that farm- H ors will send their products to marlcet at a tithe H of the present cost and much quicker by co-op- H erative use of automobiles. Then he ask this H question: "Why should the community pay a M huge sum per mile for special railway for elec- H trie cars and a huge generating station when H self-propelled motor omnibusses of equal speed, Hi comfort, capacity and economy can use the com- K mon road and, by their ability to be steered round obstacles, not interfere with the rest of the traf- flc?" M We suggest to the people of North Salt Lake M who are clamoring for rapid transit racillllcs to M send for a motor omnibus that will cany pas- M sengers for one cent per mile and then laugh the M street car company to scorn. W? Who knows but the first rapid transit to Deep H', Creek will be an automobile line from Toano, m making the round trip in ten hours? H News was received on Friday of the death in M San Francisco, the previous night, of Fred Osgood fl of the Rand Drill company. It is very sorrowful Mj news. Fred was, so to speak, "born in the purple." m He came of the vory highest American stock, and j Fred had every good point of high lineage. He B was bright as a dollar, kindly, genial, shrewd, gen- M orous and the very soul of honor. He was cut off M before his time. His smile ought to have lighted H the world yet for many years. Men in every walk M of life will send after him all-hails and farewells m, to pillow his fln?l couch with peace. |