. The street railway review . erminus of roads from thesouth and southwest, and on the line of the roads trav-ersing the central portion of the country from east towest. It is the connecting link between twenty suchsystems. It has been estimated that the total mileageof roads entering St. Louis is some thousands of milesgreater than the total mileage of the roads of either individual. The particular form in which for the lastseventeen years it has taken its vacation is in the annualpageant of the Veiled Prophet. So different, St. Louis potentate from his prototype of Khorassan,who w
. The street railway review . erminus of roads from thesouth and southwest, and on the line of the roads trav-ersing the central portion of the country from east towest. It is the connecting link between twenty suchsystems. It has been estimated that the total mileageof roads entering St. Louis is some thousands of milesgreater than the total mileage of the roads of either individual. The particular form in which for the lastseventeen years it has taken its vacation is in the annualpageant of the Veiled Prophet. So different, St. Louis potentate from his prototype of Khorassan,who wore the veil to conceal the hideousness of a vis-sage upon which no man might look and live, that heinvites his subjects from the farthest bounds of hisdomain to join in the festivities attendant upon his visit,and they obey. In the tenth month, on the sixth day ofthe month, in the seventeenth year of his reign, or, gen-erally and modernly speaking, on the Tuesday followingthe first Monday in October, the prophet appears, and. (Illustration copyrighted. Used by courtesy of Woodward & Tiernan, St. Louis.) England, France or Germany. The terminal facilitiesfor handling both freight and passengers are unsur-passed. The tonnage of freight hauled by roads center-ing at St. Louis is in the vicinity of 20,ooo,cx)0 tons,carried b}- about 400 trains daily, and the number ofpassenger trains arriving and departing is from 300 to350 daily.
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