Scranton, being an Illustrated and Descriptive Booklet of the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania, . 3P H The Scranton Railway Company IN TEN YEARS ITS PASSENGERTRAFFIC HAS INCREASED FROM10,500,000 to 24,000,000 PASSENGERS. ,N OTHER Days the visitor said: Show me your newspapers and I willtell you what you are. To-day the visitor looks at the modes of trans-portation of a community, and upon that evidence renders his verdict. The development, the stretch out, the success and the progress of a citynow depends largely upon the methods of transportation. This age is sofast, and life is so strenu
Scranton, being an Illustrated and Descriptive Booklet of the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania, . 3P H The Scranton Railway Company IN TEN YEARS ITS PASSENGERTRAFFIC HAS INCREASED FROM10,500,000 to 24,000,000 PASSENGERS. ,N OTHER Days the visitor said: Show me your newspapers and I willtell you what you are. To-day the visitor looks at the modes of trans-portation of a community, and upon that evidence renders his verdict. The development, the stretch out, the success and the progress of a citynow depends largely upon the methods of transportation. This age is sofast, and life is so strenuous, that busj people have no time to and women are in a hurry to get to and from their homes, their laborsand their amusements, consequently very much of the progress of a community depends uponthe street railway. Nothing in this city of push and action has grown, spread out and met the demands ofthe people like the street system, an enterprise that has expended millions of dollarswithin recent years to spread the city and bring the valley and its people into closer commun-ication. In 1900 the Scranton Railway Company transported ten and one-half millionpassengers. Last year it carried nearly twent
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