THE future of the automobile is somewhat like that of electricity; we cannot appreciate its possibilities. A few years ago the motor vehicle was looked upon with wonder, but now it is common. The automobile is being used in every line of business. As a pleasure vehicle it has no equal.

The wholesale business houses were the first to avail themselves of the advantages of the motor truck, but now the retail dry goods houses are replacing the horse-drawn delivery wagon with the motorcar, which enables them to make prompter deliveries. The distance to be covered by the retail stores in the large cities is very great, thus requiring the services of many horses and wagons. The firms that have replaced the horse and wagon by the motor truck declare that one motor truck will do the work of three horses. Not only in the cities has the automobile been found indispensable, but the mail carriers of the rural districts have adopted the automobile, as they find they can cover their routes in less than one-half the time it took with the horse and wagon.