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ED*lTORIAL. 
treets of New York 3000 of such trucks, and that they were 
already buying up truckmen, horses, trucks and business, and* 
that as fast as the new inventions were manufactured the old- 
style methods would be replaced, and that there was no doubt 
that the doom of the horse was sealed. They have even put in 
bids for certain large contracts—such as hauling goods from the 
transatlantic steamships to the bonded warehouses, and have 
offered to compete with fire-engines drawn by horses as to 
velocity and facility in handling the apparatus. In fact, the 
claims are so sweeping as to render one skeptical as to their sin¬ 
cerity, and the enthusiastic advocacy of the proposition by the 
daily newspapers brings to one’s mind the possibility of their 
being the recipients of some of the stock of the stupendous 
scheme—while the thought that the amount of bluster accom¬ 
panying the launching of the enterprise may be for the purpose 
of disposing of the stock, and when that has been accomplished, 
the expe 7 Hments with the auto - truck will begin in earnest. 
When a company has a real good thing, they usually maintain 
silence and saw wood, while when the dollars of the public are 
to be sought, it is usually done in the manner that is now being 
pursued. 
It appears to be a foregone conclusion that the new motive 
power is destined to exert an influence as a factor in the pro¬ 
pulsion of business vehicles, but it is not sufflciently per¬ 
fected as yet to merit the consideration now being bestowed 
upon it, and as a substitute for the horse it has no more claim 
to adulation than a china egg has to supersede the real “ hen 
fruit.” _ 
As THE Review Goes to Press the glad tidings come that 
the amendment to section 2 of the Army bill, giving to the 
veterinary surgeon the rank and pay of second lieutenant has 
passed the Hou.se in Committee of the Whole. While it has yet 
to face the House for adoption as a whole, and to run the gaunt¬ 
let of the Senate, we feel that the profession has gained a ma¬ 
terial point, and there is every prospect that their long struggle 
is finally to be crowned with success. 
