Show BENEFIT OF ELECTRIC TRAVEL Quick Transit Relieves Congestion of Large Cities A rather striking phrase was used by Prof E A Boss a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago in the course of a recant address Steam massed people foo said but electricity elec-tricity Is dispersing them And not quite so happily continuing When the mechanic comes to think nothing of living ten miles from his work the slum will vanish and the city will diffuse dif-fuse Itself Into the country The objection ob-jection to this Is that In American cities the slums are not made up of mechanics Nevertheless the tendency tenden-cy of the electric railway to oxtend the distance between the shop and the home Is undoubtedly of the greatest benefit to American workingmen Asa As-a simple problem In arithmetic u I twelvemile rldo for 5 cents is cheaper than a mileanda half ride for 2 cents But the difference In standard of living liv-ing made possible by the longer hauls and uniform fares of ho American street railways as compared with tho shorter distances and graded fares In Great Britain Is even greater than the proportionately cheaper transportation transporta-tion Chicago Western Electrician |