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Show j SEATING 'CAPACITY OF AUTOS 30,000,000 The seating capacity of the 6,000 automobiles in use in the United Stales is not less than 30,000,000 persons. per-sons. The total seating capacity of railroad rail-road cars, of which there are 55,705, -Is about 3,500,000 people. To carry the people now carried by automobiles an equal distance would require 60,000 new passenger cars $11,000 each at a cost of 5660,000,000; '149,972 new locomotives $35,000 each at a cost of $524,000,000, and dupllca-tion dupllca-tion of passenger tracks, depots and employes at an expense impossible to calculate. |