Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — Colorado Ingenuity. [ARTICLE]

Colorado Ingenuity.

The great loss of time with horse cars as compared with rapid transit is in going down grade, when it is not safe to drive the horses nearly as rapidly as a car can be safely run by gravitation. When in Colorado two weeks ago I rode in a car in which this difficulty was got over in a most amusing and simple, manner. At the top of a long hill the horses were unhitched, and they at once entered a kind of pen on four wheels attached to the car. The weight of the car took them down the hill ten nr twelve miles an hour, the driver regulating the speed with the brake and the horses killing time by eating a little hay. Compared with tiring out horses by urging them to travel rapidly down hill this idea seems the perfection of ingenuity, and it ought to be copied elsewhere, if not secured by rigid patents. The secretary of Haryard University says that a student can complete the college course there “honorably and happily" for S3OO a year, while Professor Palmer believes that an annual income of $1,200 is a positive injury to a student.