New geographies . Copyright, 1900, by Detroit Photographic 88. —a crowded street in tlie East Side of New Yorii; City. If anything should prevent food fromreaching a city for a few weeks, thepeople would starve. Even when aheavy snowstorm blocks the freight-trains for a day or two, there is sufEer-?ing in the larger cities. The people are so crowded in a greatcity that there are often enough childrenin one block to fill a large 4. schoolsschool. Sometimes a thou- J the citysand, and even two or three thousand 72 HOME GEOGRAPHT children, go to school in one schoolhouse may
New geographies . Copyright, 1900, by Detroit Photographic 88. —a crowded street in tlie East Side of New Yorii; City. If anything should prevent food fromreaching a city for a few weeks, thepeople would starve. Even when aheavy snowstorm blocks the freight-trains for a day or two, there is sufEer-?ing in the larger cities. The people are so crowded in a greatcity that there are often enough childrenin one block to fill a large 4. schoolsschool. Sometimes a thou- J the citysand, and even two or three thousand 72 HOME GEOGRAPHT children, go to school in one schoolhouse may have from twenty-five to seventy-five large rooms in it,with a teacher for every room. Scoresof such schools may be found in a singlecity (Fig. 89). The children usually need to walkonly a few minutes to reach their school,. Fig. 89. — A large city school in New York. and at noon they go home for is so valuable that these children,unlike those in the country, very oftenhave no school must play in the street,dodging horses, wagons, andstreet cars as best they can. People in the country walkshort distances to visit one Transportation another, Or tO in country and work. They havein city horses, which they can use for hauling goodsor for driving. The roads arenever crowded (Fig. 90), andwhere they are well made, it isa pleasure to drive over them. Transportation in a large city is a verydifferent matter. In spite of the factthat each building holds so many people,many persons live too far from theirplaces of work to walk there. Streetcars, therefore, carry many of them. In the largest cities the distances areoften too great even for riding on streetcars. They go slowly andcannot carry half of the peo-ple, even though they runonly a minute apart. Thisis especially true in themor
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