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Foreign News
July 22, 1893
Mineral Point Tribune
Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin
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In Milan, Italy, a new company is introducing tricycle cabs as a cheaper alternative to horse-drawn cabs, with drivers, stationed in public places, expected to be faster except when hired by the hour.
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NEW USE FOR TRICYCLES
They Will Be Substituted For Cabs in Italy's Fashionable City.
Until quite recently the tricycle was used only as a means of recreation and exercise, and exclusively by elderly men and by ladies whose confidence in their ankles was not sufficient to permit them to use the frank and fearless bicycle, says the Pall Mall Gazette. A little later the tricycle was substituted by many tradesmen for the horse and cart, or the boy and basket, formerly employed for the delivery and mislaying of parcels.
In this humble sphere the tricycle has been a success, because it appeals to the imagination of the youth. The boy or the young man who delivers Smith's groceries with a tricycle firmly believes that it is far easier to drive his heavy and clumsy machine in the roadway than it would be to trudge along the sidewalk with a basket on his arm. Everyone else knows that his is a mistake, and that the unhappy youth who wears out his legs and brings on disease of the heart by daily labor on the commercial tricycle is miserably deceived. This, however, is his affair. If his tricycle brings pride and happiness to his soul, perhaps he is right in regarding his legs and heart as insignificant details concerning which it would be a loss of time to trouble himself.
But the tricycle is about to enter on a new field of usefulness. A company has been formed in Milan for the purpose of supplying the city with what might be called cab tricycles. These will be stationed in various public places and any one will be able to call a tricycle from the stand and take a drive through the city at half the cost of an ordinary cab. Each tricycle will have its driver, who will sit immediately behind his fare, the latter having nothing to do but to sit on the saddle and try to remember the prayers most appropriate to the occasion. It is expected that the tricycle will far surpass the cab horse in speed, except, of course, when it is hired by the hour, in which case it is estimated by the managers of the company that a skillful driver can take twice the time to cover a given distance than the lamest and most thoughtful horse in Milan would require.
They Will Be Substituted For Cabs in Italy's Fashionable City.
Until quite recently the tricycle was used only as a means of recreation and exercise, and exclusively by elderly men and by ladies whose confidence in their ankles was not sufficient to permit them to use the frank and fearless bicycle, says the Pall Mall Gazette. A little later the tricycle was substituted by many tradesmen for the horse and cart, or the boy and basket, formerly employed for the delivery and mislaying of parcels.
In this humble sphere the tricycle has been a success, because it appeals to the imagination of the youth. The boy or the young man who delivers Smith's groceries with a tricycle firmly believes that it is far easier to drive his heavy and clumsy machine in the roadway than it would be to trudge along the sidewalk with a basket on his arm. Everyone else knows that his is a mistake, and that the unhappy youth who wears out his legs and brings on disease of the heart by daily labor on the commercial tricycle is miserably deceived. This, however, is his affair. If his tricycle brings pride and happiness to his soul, perhaps he is right in regarding his legs and heart as insignificant details concerning which it would be a loss of time to trouble himself.
But the tricycle is about to enter on a new field of usefulness. A company has been formed in Milan for the purpose of supplying the city with what might be called cab tricycles. These will be stationed in various public places and any one will be able to call a tricycle from the stand and take a drive through the city at half the cost of an ordinary cab. Each tricycle will have its driver, who will sit immediately behind his fare, the latter having nothing to do but to sit on the saddle and try to remember the prayers most appropriate to the occasion. It is expected that the tricycle will far surpass the cab horse in speed, except, of course, when it is hired by the hour, in which case it is estimated by the managers of the company that a skillful driver can take twice the time to cover a given distance than the lamest and most thoughtful horse in Milan would require.
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Tricycle Cabs
Milan Transportation
Cab Substitution
Italy Innovation
Where did it happen?
Milan
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Milan
Outcome
a company formed to supply cab tricycles at half the cost of ordinary cabs, expected to surpass cab horses in speed except when hired by the hour.
Event Details
A company has been formed in Milan to supply the city with cab tricycles stationed in public places, allowing rides at half the cost of ordinary cabs. Each tricycle will have a driver sitting behind the passenger.