Driving at Night
How to illuminate a road in front * of the horses in driving at night is an important matter. The usual side lamps on carriages, or the attaching of a lantern to the dash board, fail to reflect the light where it is most wanted, and the suspending of a : lantern to the front axle is objection- - able for many reasons, but it is the plan for shedding the light where it is most needed that we have seen tried. But a Philadelphia physician suggests the attaching of the lanterns to the breast collar of the harness, which he Bays he has tried with perfect satisfaction; and he has evidently had some experience with the ordinary method of lighting, for he says the various forms of dash lights are pretty much the same, in that they put the light just where it is not wanted, illuminating the horse's tail and hips and the buggy thills with a brilliance quite unnecessary, which intensifies the blackness of the shadow cast by them just where one most wishes to ace clearly. — Scientific American.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 125, 1 April 1886, Page 3
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