The New England magazine . The Cathedral at Providence railway service into Americas summersocial capital is that the rich come inautomobiles arid private yachts and therest dont count with the railroad. At thispoint it may be set down as a general ob-servation that the railroad-passenger servicein old, rich, and thickly settled New Eng-land is as a whole decidedly inferior inquality to that of the better Western rail-roads. There is still some^show of com- petition in the Middle West. Even thoughone group of New York financiers maycontrol several roads in a given territory,the active managers
The New England magazine . The Cathedral at Providence railway service into Americas summersocial capital is that the rich come inautomobiles arid private yachts and therest dont count with the railroad. At thispoint it may be set down as a general ob-servation that the railroad-passenger servicein old, rich, and thickly settled New Eng-land is as a whole decidedly inferior inquality to that of the better Western rail-roads. There is still some^show of com- petition in the Middle West. Even thoughone group of New York financiers maycontrol several roads in a given territory,the active managers of these roads have anincentive to competition in the desire toexcel each other in the amount of businessdone. This active rivalry for business mayobtain between divisions of the great systemwhich controls southern New England, butit does not show in sumptuous equipment. WHATS THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND? 145. Marsden Jasiel Perry, born poor, of pioneer parents, is president of the Union Trust Company, organizing genius of Rhode Island public-service corporations, and owner of the Central Railway of Georgia jointly with Oakley Thorn, of New York. He never held a political office, but has been mentioned for United States Senator. He has the finest collection of Shakespeariana in America The States Leading Industries The principal industry of Rhode Island, in the number of people employed and the alue of product, is the manufacture of woollen goods. The woollen-mills, inclu-ding those which make worsteds, employed,according to the last census bulletin, 19,399people, of whom 9,582 were listed as menover sixteen years old; 7,984, as women 146 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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