Queer Methods of Travel 



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Photo and Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York 



Crossing the Thelmu River by a Bridge of One Rawhide Rope, Uri, India 



in service on the country roads as well as 

 in the cities and towns ; a company has 

 been organized to manufacture motor 

 cars, and our Consul General reports 

 that the Indian government is consider- 

 ing the desirability of utilizing motor 

 transport wagons for moving the prod- 

 ucts of the out-of-the-way districts to 

 market. Special Agent Crist reports to 

 the Deoartment of Commerce and Labor 

 a rapidly increasing use of the horseless 

 vehicle in South Africa, especially in the 

 mining regions ; that trains of freight 

 wagons are now being hauled by steam 

 motors over stretches of countrv where 



no roads exist, and that the cost of con- 

 structing motor roads where they are 

 required is only about one-eighth as much 

 as that of railroads. In the Kongo the 

 Belgian government is constructing hun- 

 dreds of miles of road, for the use of the 

 motor, which is to be applied to the trans- 

 portation of freights. 



In Java an American horseless vehicle 

 is now being used for the transportation 

 of mails over the country roads. In 

 Japan the experiments with the horseless 

 vehicles have been so successful that a 

 company has recently been organized to 

 build and operate horseless vehicles for a 



