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, NEW HORSE AND AUTOMOBILE CAR. r The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has ordered six cars from a new model, designed for the transportation of horses or automobiles. Two of the cars have been finished and were put into service last week. The Toronto Sunday World describes the car as having been "built exactly after the style of a first-class coach, has provision for sixteen stalls, all of -which can be removed to make way for the carriage of automobiles. There is also a big space In the center In which there is ample room for the men and all tke feed and hay thnt can be required. The car is built on a most solid and substantial scale, with iron-faced rubber-lined doors and fastenings that elephants couldnt break or move. It is sixty-eight feet long, nine feet wide on the inside, weighs 80,000 pounds and cost ,000: Splendidly ventilated. It Is doubtful if there is a better horse car running on any railway lino anywhere. At present It is proposed to use the two cars finished for moving and advertising automobiles, a local company having engaged them for a trip first to Halifax, thence all along the line to Vancouver and back again to this city. There are few horses moving at this season of the year."
