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Show Hs The Auto vs. The Horse THERE are about town great numbers of ' poor, scrawny, lame and half-starved H horses. Their owners are not fit to own H. horses. These horses would be but wrecks if H they were well fed and groomed, as it is, they are H more than half starved and their appearance on H the streets is a disgrace to the city. H To see them makes a humane man glad that the H automobile has been invented, and makes him H hope that the machine will soon push the horses H of the kind referred to above, off the streets. Some Hn of these horses are attached to express wagons. B One runabout automobile w 'd deliver more par- H celB lhan twenty of these scare-crows could bo H made to. And the difference in the promptitude 1 of delivery and of cleanliness would be a distinct H gain all around. H Pasture lands are being restricted daily: less B and less horses can be raised in the future; if m such wrecks as we sec daily are the best that can m bo utilized now when good, common horses are M so cheap, what can be hoped for in the future? B Our belief is that the automobile is the thing m to be hoped for. It stands without hitching, it M starts without delay and when started it "goes m some." It is simple in its wants, it needs neither H hay, grain, blankets or grooming; " does its work H with dispatch, it is a messenger as prompt and M expeditious as it is clean, why should not man H turn to it. For all business purposes in cities, H as we look upon it, the presence of suffering H horses is about over. Some horses will always B be kept, but they will be for people who are able M to own them and who have a fellowship with their H horses. But for quick work the day of the horse H in the city is over. The automobile expedites busl- M ness; if a tired man wants to All his lungs with H country air in the evening, ho can, with, an auto- H mobile, take a forty-mile spin in less time and H with less trouble than he can with a buggy and H fast team go six miles out of town and return. H And the prices of the automobiles are growing H less, the rage for the high power machine ia pass- M ing, for practical, effective machines the price M is not extortionate; they can be easily kept, the H expense of running them is not great and they R are equal in effective work to four horses and they f d teJr wi'k vastly quicker. Land that can be B cultivated Is already too valuable to raise horses B on; first-class horses ought to increase in value, B and with the improvements constantly being made H the efficiency of automobiles ought to all the B time Increase and the prices ought to grow less. Km( We certainly believe that the horse Is passing n I from tne cities. The wrecks of horses now so BD often seen in use, the differences in offectlvw' H! 1 ness and cleanliness in favor of the machine, all point to the time in the near future when, for work and for expedition in business, the automobile auto-mobile will be the chief reliance in cities. |