Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — HORSELESS CARRIAGES. [ARTICLE]

HORSELESS CARRIAGES.

A Consul’s Report of BmmS Experiments. C. W. Chancellor, Otated Statai consul at Havre, Frawea, say*. *■ • recent report to tbe State Department regarding horeetee* carriage* in France, that the 'ttteaaaMaaa approaching when automafise road, carriages, propelled by steaoa, «teotricity or petroleum wM esaaa fate general use and take awry (roes the patient horse the worst part erf his daily toil. The odds aft preeaut seem to be rather in farer <sf petroleum. “A most interesting competition has recently taken plvr* b* Franc* between varied specimens at motor carriages. The course presented was from Paris to Bordeaux— sdistance of 858 miles—and back any vehicle to sta«d dtsq«.aSJi«4 if it consumed more than re* fxandred hours on the road. "Hie la< prize of the day—4o,oo® francs, —was for four-seated carriages, which was won by Les Fils de Bengent Crores, while Messrs. Panhard JL Lovaareo secured second place with a twoseated carriage, making th* trip in twenty-four hours and fifty-thre* minutes. "The winning conveyance* were propelled by gasoline, and the rat* of speed was about fifteen sail** an hour, which is regarded a* a* extremely creditable performance, th* long lines of hills being taken into account. These hills appear to have proved too much for the carriages propelled by electricity, es which only one got through, th* others having abandoned the coatee*. One of the steam carriages was brought to a standstill at Versail lee early in the race, owing to an sccitearf, and the others lost time by frequent stoppages of five and ten minutea. made for the purpose of taking in coal and water. The electrical conveyances had also to stop, from time to time, to renew their dynamic charges, but the petroleum machine* carried enough force for a twentyfour hours’ run, and on th* return journey the run was mad* without a single stop. 1 n comparing th* merits of tbe different propelling agent*, the palm must, so far, he awacded to petroleum, which is clean, andean be easily carried. The eedinary feeder used for short distance® contains less than four quarto of oil. which will last over a journey of twenty miles, or two and one-half hours. For long distance*, a receptacle capable of holding rerough petroleum for a run of at teas* twenty or twenty-four hours is or>wtde<L "Wo hear also of bieyefee propelled by petroleum, in which green interest has been exhibited, and tels adorec of such machines .started i* tire race to Bordeaux, one, at least, holding its own among the larger suhbeles. It is believed that lightpotreteombycycles, tricycles and even fear-wheel-ers will soon come into ge**rat use, which will tend to relieve lady cyclists from the necessity of wearing short skirts. A Itogetter, it areata that petroleum is destloed totaoMS* the popular agent for ssteing th* problem of traffic and coavuyaoe** without horses in the street* of great cities and on staoeth country roads.”