StNicholas [serial] . ey. The motor-carriage costs nothing until it is used again. We open the cover of the box at the backof the seat, and find all the machinery stowedneatly away, safe from rain or dust. It con-sists essentially of a tank for holding the gaso-lene, a motor or gas-engine, a cooling-tankfilled with water, and the connections for con-trolling, starting, and stopping the are also batteries for the electric lightsand bell, and for assisting the operation of themotor. There are also brakes for stoppingthe vehicle, and the proper connections forchanging the speed, stee
StNicholas [serial] . ey. The motor-carriage costs nothing until it is used again. We open the cover of the box at the backof the seat, and find all the machinery stowedneatly away, safe from rain or dust. It con-sists essentially of a tank for holding the gaso-lene, a motor or gas-engine, a cooling-tankfilled with water, and the connections for con-trolling, starting, and stopping the are also batteries for the electric lightsand bell, and for assisting the operation of themotor. There are also brakes for stoppingthe vehicle, and the proper connections forchanging the speed, steering, and the box at the back closed, the carriageis a neat vehicle, and looks precisely like any single-seat buggy onlow wheels. In New York wetake the trolley-cardowntown, and wetransfer at Twenty-ninth Street. Hereis a large car thatlooks exactly like atrolley-car, exceptthat here there isno trolley-pole over-head. We see thereis no slot in thetrack, so it cannotbe a cable or under-ground-electric 386 the automobile: its present and its future. [Mar.
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