. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r-mer days and was snapped on the fly. Itdoes not represent the South as a wholeany more than the East Side representsNew York, but is interesting others give an idea of the swampsand long trestles necessary in some places,while the Savannah River views show that 267 steamer instead of by rail, and the timenecessary placed the fruit raisers at a dis-advantage. Encouraged by the means oftransportation, even at higher rates thanin the North, the east coast is being set-tled, and pineapples
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r-mer days and was snapped on the fly. Itdoes not represent the South as a wholeany more than the East Side representsNew York, but is interesting others give an idea of the swampsand long trestles necessary in some places,while the Savannah River views show that 267 steamer instead of by rail, and the timenecessary placed the fruit raisers at a dis-advantage. Encouraged by the means oftransportation, even at higher rates thanin the North, the east coast is being set-tled, and pineapples, lemons, etc., are be-ing raised. True, some of the towns areonly winter resorts, but who would saythat Asbury Park, Buzzards Bay or BarHarbor were of no value because they arefully peopled but part of the year? Then the cost of operating the road isheavy. It is only a winter road, as thesummer traffic is practically nothing. Thewhole roadbed is sand, and how any jour-nal stays cool is a wonder, after seeingthe amount of sand that lodges on everypart of the truck. Sanders are entirely. FLORIDA SAWMILL. INDIAN RIVER, PALM BEACH. AVENUE OF PALMS, PALM BEACH. improvements are being made by theSouthern along its line. Group 2 takes us on the Florida EastCoast Railroad, which controls the eastcoast of the peninsula just as the PlantSystem does the Gulf coast. You heargrumbling about monopoly among someof the travelers here, and especially at therate of fare, which, I believe, approxi-mates 5 cents a mile. It is a monopoly,its true; but theres another side to away this railroad (or the Plant onthe other coast), and what would happen?This is best answered by looking at thecondition before the road came. The In-dian River oranges had to be marketed by BRIDGE OVER ST. JOHNS ORANGES, INDIAN STATION AT ST. AUGUSTINE. unnecessary, and the brake shoes take holdin a manner that leaves no doubt as to theengineers intention to stop. All this addsto the expense of
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