| Show t MORSE HORSE STAYS DESPITE PITE AUT AUTO Still Good Demand for Steed In U V S Industry f BY nr Gf c co CO Director of 01 Motor Company n Let us ue consider 1 tho the gasoline mo- mo motor motor mo motor tor as a transportation agent and ace ce ee what hat has lias happened since Ince its lt It Inception In the year 1900 the or- or or ordinary transportation ot of o the coun- coun count country n coun try t was as conducted l b bs I s steamers and horses hores We e had prospered mo n In the pre pre- preceding pre preceding ceding thirty years ears h hid d expanded In bt leaps and bounds and It could be said Bald that thc they hey were reasonably prosperous Inland nat nat- nav l nUon had geOl growl gro i 1 especially c on the Great Lakes Lokes where coal Iron lI moved In ore orl and lumber weer Nr great quantities There seemed to bt b a good and constant coutant demand for tor horses torI forte tor for I te kr fr r number had hall nearly tripled 1870 and 1900 when there Vera WErn 18 In the thc country shit Ith a 11 ot Then Thi n came the automobile Ine Ing at first 1 ae m a or an ex- ex experiment ex experiment and rapidly becoming a necessity until now non there are about passenger and freight motors In use uso In the count country 1 Yet the horse hoe has managed to hold his 01 own n through all nee nc competition for tor the go ur lIs-ur figures sho show ahoy th that thit t on Januar January 1 last It there were Erp i er 18 1885 horses witha a talus ot of In the country COO GOO more than in 1900 and a valuation per ler horse orse nearly doubled It may be said Bald that more mor horses could hate ha hll e been ben produced It If the motor had not come This may ma or may not b be tru true for durIng the late war nar period when hen prices reached a maximum figure there here sere ere about more horses borses than at nt present but this yes BS wholly due to the European dEmand Good horses seem b to be belike belike belike like good butter and good eggs gS eggs th they cannot b be o Er produced 0 As late lite as May 9 1923 eastern papers published a news Item from Boston reporting greatly increased sales of horse hore mules and ponies and said thit that dealers were ere sur- sur surprised sur surprised at the big demand for tor York work ork louses hOlse Ison 0 on what hat does dos all this mean commercially The rall ralla a s are taxed to theIr capacity the car and locomotive shops tilled filled with Ith orders and the horse collectively ely Is as busy as ever evet What hat then can lie ye say Bay ot of othe the odd motor cars and trucks which ore are chugging chus along in cit streets and through country 1 It If they are all buSand buss buS and yet et ha e enot not taken business s from Irom the rail rall- rail railways ways B S or the horse they certainly must ha e created new business or orha orlease ha lease haI I come Into existence Just as th the world orld was as reaching reiching re a n new era erl ot of which would kayo Ive fallen flit flat It if the motor bad had not happened lt It Hl Ha la has nM Ford rord Du- Du Dun Du Dull ll n ea eo or sonic some 0 other her genius had not jut Just happened to be at al jut the right time for 1 01 many uses use In towns to n an 1 clues where short hauls and Ire Ire- fre frequent v quent stops are made and hr the horse does dols part put of ot the think think- thinkIng thinking ing fog there will al alnas a be a IL demand for his No r-o gasoline motor can stop top n IL milk wagon agon exactly opposite OUr o r door while the milk ian tan Ian Is la on the opposite side Ide ot of o the street doing hIs bis part of o the job It it were ere possible to build a motor shaped like a 0 horse no ono one on would care to ride It for tor it would lack the almost almot human touch and friendship ot of the horse Can you ou Imagine a rord Ford or a Buick pushing Its radiator Into a n kitchen n door to tobe tobe tobo be petted by a farmers wife silo or gl en en a lump ot of o sugar b by by the children chil- chil children chil children dren No The rhe hor horse will mil be with us for ears to come but hut he WIll keep a little nearer home and as a old oid long distance work oo 00 |
