. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . losopher, the dreams of the poet andthe plans of the general possible, and thusthey one and all become realities. Thewonderful tale of the seven league bootsbecomes a reality on a good, hard ro;idwith a Idcycle. and is relegated to theconinion|)lace 1)\- the dailv performanceof the autom(/bile. The railroads have done much for oureouiUrv. but their usefulness is multiplieda hundred-fold b_\- the good roads leadingto the numerous stations along their what use is a railroad t
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . losopher, the dreams of the poet andthe plans of the general possible, and thusthey one and all become realities. Thewonderful tale of the seven league bootsbecomes a reality on a good, hard ro;idwith a Idcycle. and is relegated to theconinion|)lace 1)\- the dailv performanceof the autom(/bile. The railroads have done much for oureouiUrv. but their usefulness is multiplieda hundred-fold b_\- the good roads leadingto the numerous stations along their what use is a railroad to a rich farm-ing communit) if the farmers cannotreach the station ? Every railroad manknows that bad roads reduce his |) example, he sends a number ofem]jties to a station, and, on their arrival,the local agent informs him that the cropis on the farms and, owing to the badroads, the farmers cannot get to the sta-tion with enough produce to load the carsin two weeks, In the meantime, the lo-comotives and train crews are scarcelvearning enough to pay running expenses ; Til H S r B L H HA N I T E 11. ONK OF THE ROADS OF WHICH NKW IKRM V IS JUSTLY PROUl) tlun. wlu-n tlu- wasjoii mads in tjnodcoiiiliiion. tlic station ])lal forms arecrowded anil lines of loaded watjons standwaitinjj tluir turn to be unloaded, and atlast grow weary of waitinsj and deposittheir produce lieside the track, where itremains until it is damajjjed before it canbe moved, thus eiitailintj a loss both to theproducer and transporter. of havint; a stead\. uniformamount of he encounters a seriesof rush and idle periods. The cars neces-sary to handle the tonnage in rusli timesare entirely too many for the traffic in lliedull seasons, and he is between the twohorns of a dilemma—either he must havea number of idle cars standing in his \ardduring a greater portion of the vear. cirbe must see his freight tonnage decrease,because the farmers are discouraged fromraisin
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