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Show BENEFIT OF ELECTRIC TRAVEL. Quick Transit Relieves Congestion of Large Cltlefe. A rather striking phraso was usod by Prof. E. A. Ross, a visiting lecturer at the ' University of Chicago, in tho course of a recent address. "Steam massed people,' J.e said, "but electricity elec-tricity Is dlspernUg them." And, not quite so happily, continuing, "When the mechanic comes to think nothing of living ten miles from his work tho slum will vanish and the city will diffuse dif-fuse Itself Into tho country." Thc objection ob-jection to this Is that, In American cities, tho slums nro not made up of mechanics. Nevertheless, the tendency tenden-cy of tho electric railway to extend tbo dlstnnce between tho shop nnd the homo Is undoubtedly of the greatest benefit to American workingmen. As n slmplo problem In nrithmetlc a twelve-mile rido for C cents Is cheaper than a mlle-nnd-a-half rldo for 2 cents. But the (llfferenco In standard of living liv-ing mndo possible by the longer hauls and uniform fares of the American street railways, aB compared with tho shorter distances nnd graded fares In Great Britain, is even greater than the proportionately cheaper transportation. transporta-tion. Chicago Western Electrician. |