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Show AUTO BUSINESS BEATSRAILROADS "It is not a stretch of tho imagination imagina-tion to say that the automobile business busi-ness will eventually exceed the entire business of the railroads of tho United Unit-ed States," said F. A. Seiberllng, president pres-ident of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of Akron, Ohio, in an address delivered at the recent convention of automobile manufacturers and dealers, deal-ers, held at Indianapolis, Ind. "The automobile business must be considered as Just beginning. The railroad business has already reached its normal or stationary period. When we shall have developed in this country coun-try tho good roads comparable to the continental roads of Europe, and wo shall have taken advantage of them by connecting towns, villages and cities cit-ies with automobile travel, carrying the traffic under a schedule as the railroads are now doing, when we shall handle all the traffic on the streets wllh the commercial car, and, the produce of the farmer is transported trans-ported to the city by the same means all of which Is bound to come then It is no stretch of the imagination imagina-tion to say that the automobile business busi-ness will exceed the entire business of tho railroads of the United States. "It is estimated that the grand total to-tal of automobile and the allied accessory ac-cessory industries will be in 1913 nearly 31,000,000,000 several times the business of the Pennsylvania system. sys-tem. This will give you some idea of the quick rise of the automobile Industry In the last decade." |