American Veterinary Review. 
NOVEMBER, 1899. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. 6° Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
PASSING OF THE AUTOMOBILE. 
But a few months ago that champion of horseless vehicles, 
the New York Herald , could see nothing in the line of local 
transportation, whether for business or pleasure, which had not 
discarded the untamed, filthy, and altogether abominable equine, 
and in his stead adopted the electric, compressed air, or gasoline 
motor. Every page of its Sunday edition would show an illus¬ 
tration of something in their interest. Every individual who 
for notoriety or advertising purposes secured one of the ma_ 
chines was reproduced life-size, and rules and regulations were 
set forth intended to give popular instruction for their manipu¬ 
lation, so sure was the paper that they were to at once leap into 
general use ; and, as is its custom and policy upon all subjects, 
political or otherwise, it wished to be on the winning side, and 
so perched itself on the fence for the purpose of flopping in 
either direction. Believing tlrat the automobile side was the 
proper one to flop on, it did so in no uncertain manner, never 
losing an opportunity, not only to advance the interests of the 
new machine, but to deal blows of derision upon the horse, 
whose place is so firmly entrenched in the hearts of men that 
nothing will ever displace him. According to its optimistic 
predictions, in so short a time as this date there were to be auto¬ 
trucks, hansom cabs, coupes, coaches, victorias, stages, light 
runabouts, and every other manner of popular vehicle that had 
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