Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — The Automobile. [ARTICLE]

The Automobile.

The automobile is gradually being adopted for business purposes of all kinds, but it seems likely the undertakers will be among the last to take up the horsqless vehicle. So far as known there is only one automobile running In the country in the undertaking business, and that is a wagon used in Philadelphia. One prominent funeral director says he expects to see the motor wagons come Into use by the undertaker, and then he looks to see the carriages in funeral processions all motordriven, and, of course, the hearse too. Within five years, this man thinks, there will be seen going along the streets funeral processions in which every vehicle, including the hearse, will be horseless.