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Claude relates that all this was when Jacksonville was a mere village, with cow and hog pens in what was considered as downtown. The leading stores were Wilson's and Clark's. These stores handled groceries, dry goods and whisky. As a means of transportation two-wheeled drays were used, mule or horse-drawn cars, which was to come into use later were not operating at that time.
"In the morning," Henry exclaimed to himself, "in the morning, that little swine will sing another song!" A horse-drawn cab came down the street, and as it approached, the guard at the gate turned out, and challenged the driver. "Halt!" they shouted. "Ah, g'long with you!" the driver replied, whipping up his horse.
The masses of the people do not possess them, as in America. The civil population either walk along these highways or travel in horse-drawn carts and wagons. The carts are different from any that we see in America. Frequently they are heavily constructed with wheels of from six to eight feet in diameter. They are fitted with brakes, which are used on the grades.
Every available automobile truck and all the horse-drawn drays were impressed by the sanitary officials and hundreds of men were engaged all day removing the carcasses to the different incinerating plants and to vacant lots on the outskirts of the city, where they were burned.
Grip had seen to the carting of thousands of lambs and sick ewes; but for himself to climb into a horse-drawn vehicle at the bidding of a lady! one can imagine how scornfully Grip breathed through his nostrils as he saw Jan driven off, with Finn, as escort, trotting alongside.
On the step of the last jitney that rumbled through Franklin making no stops, and being entirely unoccupied by passengers, Tessie managed to hide as the car slowed up at a turn, and later she crawled inside, when the sleepy driver, his day and night work finished, allowed the motor to "take its head" as we might say to a horse-drawn vehicle.
They have stimulated the invention of improved means of communication, as the demands of manufacturing stimulated invention of machinery. The slow progress of horse-drawn vehicles over poor roads provoked the invention of improved highways and then of railroads.
No motor-car had crossed on Thursday the 23rd of April. "A horse-drawn vehicle, then?" suggested Beautrelet. "A cart? A van?" "No, not either." Isidore continued his inquiries all through the morning.
The long distances traversed by the man between the shafts of a jinricksha and the speed he attained and maintained were almost a marvel to the foreign visitor. It was possible to get about the country in one of these vehicles quite as fast as any horse-drawn vehicle could convey one, and quite as comfortably.
Generally speaking, the French plan is to assign short-range howitzers and mortars to the division; the longer range, horse-drawn guns hippomobile the French designate them to the army corps; while the tractor-drawn pieces and those mounted on railway-carriages are placed directly under the orders of the chief of artillery of each army.
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