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 carried along the Jersey and Long Island coasts, where the waves are busy night and day, doing the work of New York and other cities.

The vehicles upon the street are driven by electric power, and the same current which drives them affords light at night to occupant and passer-by.

The plate-ways carry an electric current which may be taken off by those vehicles provided with necessary motors and connecting appliances; so that the horses have little traction to do; and in fact some private vehicles, never going off the streets supped with plate-ways, have no horses at all.

Other private vehicles are supplied with motors deriving their current from overhead wires, not through trollies as once done in electric railways, but by induction.

Storage batteries that are light and compact have been invented and are already in use for driving carriages along roads which have neither plate-ways nor overhead conductors by which the current can be carried by induction to the motors within the vehicles. The motors for such private carriages are no larger than a man's hat, and are turned out by the thousand