San Francisco was a city dependent on horses when Charles Howard arrived there in 1903.Automobiles had evolved since jewelry invented the gas motor jewelry (in 1876), Gottlieb Daimler (formerly Ottos assistant) and jewelry improved that engine (in a jewelry, outside Daimlers home, in 1885), and Daimler adapted a Wilhelm Wimpff Sohn stagecoach to create the worlds jewelry four-wheeled jewelry (in 1886). Those were the early years.And … even though jewelry (since 1889) and others – the Duryea brothers (beginning in jewelry) and jewelry (beginning in jewelry) – were jewelry (not adapting previously existing vehicles), automobiles (like the Duryeas jewelry – one of Americas first) were the laughing stock of San Franciscos residents. The newfangled vehicles couldnt even make it up the citys steep hills.But Charles Howard viewed the new mode of transportation quite differently from other residents in his adopted town. The man who soon had exclusive rights to distribute the cars of a new company (called General Motors) in the western United States, had only positive thoughts about the future of automobiles.He could not have imagined that, one hundred years later, he would be remembered more for a horse than for cars when he said:The day of the horse is past.