. Electric railway journal . if acquired, should stimulate business in yearsto come. The loans in France and Great Britain havebeen of a popular character. For instance, the firstloan in Great Britain was taken up by 150,000 sub-scribers, but the last loan was taken up by 8,000,000subscribers out of a population very much less thanours. With our population of 100,000,000 people, itwould be a shame if we could not do as well. Changing a Carhouse Scrap Pile to aFarm and Garden Long before the cry To farms! To farms! threat-ened to make every stay-at-home a new kind of em-battled farmer, at least
. Electric railway journal . if acquired, should stimulate business in yearsto come. The loans in France and Great Britain havebeen of a popular character. For instance, the firstloan in Great Britain was taken up by 150,000 sub-scribers, but the last loan was taken up by 8,000,000subscribers out of a population very much less thanours. With our population of 100,000,000 people, itwould be a shame if we could not do as well. Changing a Carhouse Scrap Pile to aFarm and Garden Long before the cry To farms! To farms! threat-ened to make every stay-at-home a new kind of em-battled farmer, at least one far-seeing railroad manhad taken Sir High-Cost-of-Living by the throat andchoked him on potatoes. The railroader in question is J. W. Davies, foremanof the Turk and Fillmore carhouse of the United Rail-roads of San Francisco who, for the past three years,has been running a combination farm and garden along-side the carhouse. The suggestion for this plantation came from JesseM. Yount, master mechanic of the company, who. POTATOES IN THE GROUND AND FLOWERS IN THE AIR AT ASAN FRANCISCO CARHOUSE thought that greenery would look better than a reposi-tory of scrap iron and other goat provender. At first,the area was simply cleaned up and some climbingnasturtiums were trained to keep their eyes on theshopmen. It is the 1916 growth which is shown in the accom-panying halftone. The sticks are not for the intoxi-cating beer hop, but for the cheerful dahlia. Mr. Daviesmay be termed a dahlianist as he has raised some 300varieties. For this season he has divided the plot intotwo sections—176 ft. x 9 ft. and 183 ft. x 11 ft.—whichare devoted exclusively to the delightful dahlia and thejustly popular potato. 1008 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 22 Electric Railways Co-operate withWar Department Recruiting Train Operated by Chicago ElevatedRailways—Help from Railway Industry Dis-cussed by New England StreetRailway Club AFEATURE of the recent reports on war-timeactivities of
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