Show The Value of Time aue jI j In the last analysis the secret of the leadership of Americans In the modern I J race may bo found in the keener appreciation which thoy have of tho value oi time l Londoners and Britons generally aro still riding by millions in omnibuses l I ian i-an coaches With them the street railway is still 0 novelty Cheater for instance t In-stance saw its first trolleycar last April Their fast trains arc luxuries for the wealthy few only They fall to see that If the working millions could move about more rapidly the time saved would add enormously to the national wealth A modest estimate is that time that could be easily converted into labor worth 1000000 n day Is lost In London alone by the absence of elevators In I business buildings and the slowness with which elevators are run in such build lags as have them Modern England indeed sterns to be relatively slower in its place than tho England of Henry VHIs time The postofflce did not then exist but th courier who carried carred the Governments messages was reminded by the drawing of a gibbet on the envelope with the Inscription Haste for thy Itet under it that he was liable to be hanged If he lost any time on the road Today England is content to leave the resources of the telegraph the telephone and steam power only half utilized while her people go at half speed a compared with ours and practically suspend travel I prtcnly and business altogether for a full day and n half in over seven New York World |