Iris somewhat remarkable that, with all the enterprise and go-aheadness that we are wont to claim that Shanghai possesses, there is not, as far as we know, a single motor-car in China, though there was at one time a French motor-tricycle on our streets, which suddenly disappeared under a cloud of its own evil-smelling smoke. With trap ponies at the price which now has to be paid for a decent animal, we shall be driven before long to adopt mechanical traction, and it will be strange if before long our streets are nut full of motor-cars, which are faster, take up much less room, are cleaner, and cheaper to run, than horsed vehicles. There is a good opening for some one to start' a motor bazaar, and let out motor carriages by the day. The industry has long passed the experimental stage at home, and we have now before us the 81st number of " The Motor-Car Journal, a Medium for all interested 8
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.