Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — A STEAM QUADRICYCLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A STEAM QUADRICYCLE.

Liverymen In Danger of llelng Knocked Out by a Yankee Inventor. Clarence L. Simonds, a Yankee inventor, has just made a steam buggy which promises tp knock out tho liverymen. Imagine two safety bicycles, the wheels about tho size of ordinaries, Joined catamaran fashion, with a small boiler and engino and a complicated rigging of machinery hanging between the rear wheels, ai scat for two persons up in front, with a steering wheel for the driver to grasp Instead of rails, and the carriage is revealed. Ten mllos and more an hour is the speed expected, and hill climbing will be as easy as roiling off a log. The little boiler will stand moro than a 100 pounds of steam generated from a throo-Jct naphtha llame, the fuolsbelng carried 1 In a tube bent around the boiler like a stove with elbow joints. It holds four gallons, enough for a seven hours' run. The throttle valve,

steam whistle, steam cocks and other controllers are under the hand of the man on the seat as he steers the buggy. All complete, the total weight of the vehicle is 400 pounds.

THE STEAM QUADRICYCLE.