Ways of Living

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 16 June 1904, Page 7

Ways of Living

‘ LOOPING THE LOOP,' , ,'|3®HERE' is nothing new under the teun. That apparently up-to-date mm method of illustrating centrifugal pjm i force known as ‘looping the loop’ "was practised, it sseme, as long ago as "the first half of the last century. A French journal ascribes ltd invention to >M. Claviefe, of Havre. At first the car that did the ' looping ’ bote nothing but bags of sand, and in 186.0: the sport was a prominent feature of the performance at the Paris Hippodrome. Apparently, how-, ever, it was reserved for America to throw the sport Cpen to the public, as was, dona, at Coney Island, and, later, to produce a performer daring enough to make the trip on a bicyole. In spite of this Jong record* the feasibility of the loop trip with a car running on rails was denied several years ago in a technical journal, on the ground that the ?■ necessary initial speed Could not be obtained^ ; j P AVEMBNTECP MILS. , v,rV A land flowing with milk is ~aa ancient idea, but streets pwad with it is a notion essentially ihodern.' It is being seriously proposed to the municipality of Paris by a contractor of standing. He claims for a pavement of indurated milk the advantages of durability and noiseleseness. Perhaps, also, in times of distress and turbulence, it might provide a resource attractive to divert the populace from barricades' and bombardment of the public forces. - V -V 'WHAT IT MAY COME TO, iThat the motor cat must inevitably supersede the horse for all city traffic has long been apparent; nevertheless, says the ‘ Builders' Journal,’ it is not to be the final means of locomotion so far as men and women are concerned. We have no thought of an age of airships. On the contrary, we come down to earth, - The motor oar is to be superseded in large measure bj what we will call the motor skate. The City man of the future will carry roller skates on his boots, each driven by a small electro-motor. He, will tush along the pavements (or will a special track be, provided for him P) with his finger on a button controlling the current from a very ’compact generator. On arrival at his office he will quickly unfasten the skates end, for the time being, will lapse back to the primitive method of walking about, like any man of the nineteenth century.