Show A VIEW OF RAPID TRANSIT the progress ot of the rapid transit idea in street streek railways illustrates I 1 I 1 with peculiar force bow how a luxury may become a necessity by dint ol 01 custom sapid pa passenger saenger conveyance within city limits wag was not a necessity in tha ir united states till new now york bad had the 1 wants of over a million of people to louk alter after one year after the elevated railroad waa was constructed for it to have suddenly gone out of use i would have paralyzed the town as completely as an in unexpected biege 11 would do rapid transit has been a I 1 necessity in san francisco with I 1 inhabitants tor for years but in boston with half a million it is in 1 just now beginning to get I 1 the peoples attention as something I 1 I 1 pretty nice for a change V chicago bad to see it experimented with on one or two streets for ten or I 1 I 1 fifteen years we have no statistics at 1 band hand before it waa was deemed a feces sty philadelphia with almost a az million citizens will not discover that rapid transit is an organic necessity tj I 1 with the present generation until this and another shall have passed awa salt lakes forty five thousand people I 1 surmised that something batter better than mules would facilitate their happiness 1 a year ago abom ogden when she had et I 1 but ten thousand discovered that it was one of her most pros pres birg demands and now she b has as beet about to overcome the need so it appears that the whole q question use 14 with the wise hinges upon acquaintance and with the dall dull upon 1 1 experience whether the traditional mule pace is as profitable a speed for I 1 business as that of the steam motor or the electric car so much for the theory of the enterprise which ogden is in just now props preparing ri ng to 1 adopt the practical matters in ogdena particular case are very much easier to comprehend corn the city has now probably population scattered I 1 over an area of fifteen square miles while the less populated region 11 all having more or less of daily business communication with ogden ordenia Og denia Is I 1 five timea times that ahat extent to say that 0 a rapid conveyance for these people C from and to their places of residence 4 is necessary does not mean that they 0 I 1 can no loneer exist without it they can live without it they can live 1 1 without their horse and buggy I 1 or the glaes windows in their bootee but such a privation would throw their style of living very much oot out of balance As matters mattefs are moving in ogden today mule conveyance of any sort fit is quite as much out of harmony with I 1 I 1 other business conditions as a dwell d wiling would be arranged without win dows or a ten story tenement without I 1 an elevator people move and act at 4 the same rate of speed as they think it their brains are active and quick to P conceive their hands bands will bo be quick to execute and ties terea the dull brain I 1 and the sluggish body go together I 1 the man of active impulses therefore I 1 demands facilities for carrying carr ing bis big thoughts into speedy execution execution the possession of the former without the latter is like a swollen stream in a meandering bed it abrades an and 1 gullies gul liei and finally goes tear fear ing ahead in a coarse course of its I 1 own across country or makes it havoc of the whole I 1 neighborhood 1 this is an eccentric illustration but it is absolutely true the man with a brain for mighty achievements may be so hampered for space in which ch to expend his energies or GO so fettered by unnecessary hindrances Ll adrance that all his hill i strength will waste itself away in vain I 1 endeavors or la in trespassing tres passing upon his neighbors righta ogden has fifteen square miles planted thick with pro precisely this sort of people they must have facilities to move among each other with rapidity and ease or else 1 I I 1 I 1 1 1 11 I 1 t 11 i diio I 1 14 11 1 1 1 11 7 IT 7 I 1 1 M all our progress A will he be expended in friction this is the metaphysics metaphysic of ther the rapid a pid transit question and irwill it will hold good under any practical test you please |