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EDITORIAL. 
been drawn by horses since the origin of man, running through 
our streets and roads, while camera fiends would be standing on 
the corners waiting an opportunity to “snap” any old soliped 
that might dare to remain as a reminder of the dark ages when 
our citizens were forced to make use of such a creature. Horse- 
breeders, horse-shoers, harness makers, veterinarians, and all 
others deriving a livelihood in one capacity or another from the 
horse, must either seek other employment or “get off of the 
earth.” To show the American public the correctness of its 
judgment of the motive power of the future, and to thoroughly 
establish its right to priority in the “discovery,” it undertook 
the management of a grand spectacular transcontinental race 
against time, heralding the event days ahead, and detailing the 
preparations with an accuracy foreign to its usual practices. 
Every movement of the wonderful pair who were to undertake 
the history-making journey was chronicled, and on the day of 
their departure a vast crowd assembled around the Herald 
building to bid them Godspeed and a safe trip to San Francisco, 
their objective point, being due in front of a sensational news¬ 
paper office in that metropolis on a given date, in custody of a 
letter of introduction from the alien publisher of the Herald , 
who had made extensive arrangements to receive hourly bulle¬ 
tins of the trip across the continent. No other event, save the 
lecent reception to Admiral Dewey or the stirring events of the 
Spanish-American war, bore any such significance in the opin¬ 
ion of the great exponent of automobilism. 
Although we are in possession of all the details of that 
memorable comedy excursion, 'we will not occupy valuable 
space in recounting them, especially since we gave a somewhat 
accurate account of it a few months ago, copied from the San 
Francisco Examiner. It will serve the purpose of this article 
if we say that through a series of most annoying accidents, the 
tourists were just twenty-two days in reaching the western bor¬ 
der of the Empire State, where repair shops were thickly loca¬ 
ted and the home factory in close call. With such experiences 
as they had gone through, and looking with dismay upon the 
