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Show The growth of suburban trolley lines promises to affect the habits of the American people about as much: as the invention of the bicycle, ob-j serves Harper's Weekly. At first the trolley merely superseded the horsej as a means of hauling street cars in; the cities, but it long ago passed that) use and sped far beyond the bounda- vies of cities, until now, from being a; mere moans of necessary transporta- tion it has come to do an immense; business in carrying folks who ridej for pleasure. A few years ago driving driv-ing on country roads was a luxury re-j served for persons who had horses or could hire them. Then the bicyclists' claimed their share ot the country and. everywhere made their claim good.' lNTow all over the land the trolley makes long country rides possible to thousands of persons who are too voung, or too old, or too infirm or lazy to ride bicycles, and too poor or to timid to drive horses. Trolleying through a pretty country in good, weather is an admirable amusement.; It is cool, clean, safe, and refreshing. We are told that its effect is observa-: ble, in many places, in the improved health of city babies, whose mothers are able to carry them now on long rides, where they get good air and cool off. Trolleying is a standard summer resource in Washington, where it affords the easiest means of keeping cool. It is a recognized re- source in New York, and, apparently, everywhere else. Between Boston and Mount Desert, along the Xew England coast, with its remarkable succession of summer hotels, there is now almost a continuous line of trolley trol-ley railroads. They run from village to village, and from port to port, and wherever the seafaring pleasure-seeker pleasure-seeker goes ashore he finds summer boarders trolleying in shoals up and down the country, and getting the most for their money that summer boarders ever got. A great institu" tion is the trolley car. It beats the livery horse out of sight, and is the worthy fellow of the bicycle. |