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TAKE THE HIGH-SPEED SIDEWALK 715
Not Only Business Men in a Hurry, but Women
with Shopping to Do Would Find the Roller Skate
High-Speed Sidewalk a Convenience
ese are connected to the
engine by two wires reaching from a
switch at his belt.
In spite of the completeness of this
motor skate outfit, and the fact that an
operator can make thirty miles an hour
with it easily, the entire weight is only
thirty pounds, three pounds of which the
skater must carry on his back.
Of course, there are many other types
iif roller and motor roller skates—a set
which runs by electricity and
which makes the operator carry
a huge storage battery on his
lack, a set which has a single
cylinder motor on each skate.
and so on—but the two described
are by far the best.
When the high-speed sidewalk
reaches through to your suburb,
you will undoubtedly try
on one of the two kinds.
At that time, however, when
this method of quick transit has
passed the experimental stage,
there is little doubt that better
skates will be offered immediately.
The Yankee inventor
possesses marvellous ingenuity
when need presses: it is not an
overestimation of his abilities
to say that if there were a concrete
demand for ten-pound motor skates,
he would have patents taken out on this
device within six months. And if tenpound
motor skates did appear, they
probably would be dangerous rivals, not
only for automobiles, but for suburban
traffic on railways, and even for long distance
passenger service.