The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-17
OPEN TO IMPROVEMENT STILL.

Any one who assumes, because aerial
navigation has made such headway of
late, that the development of the facili-
ties of terrene transportation is at a
standstill or approaching it must lack
imagination as we'll as the faculty for
keen observation. There are good
many things in this field still open
to improvement by the inventive gen.
ius of man.
Pause and think moment what
an advance has been achieved in
steam railway equipment since the
first through train rolled over Ari-
zona. In the old times the railway
was used for transportation only, the
one difference between the coarse ma
terial and the human freight trans
ported being that the latter was car
iried in covered cars fitted with seats
and a stove. Today men and women
are no longer merely transported
they travel, which implies a great deal
more than being jerked up in one
place and set down in another. 1t
means that they live by the way. The
increase of speed has been great, but
/ it does not begin to compare with the
increase of comfort, in which the long
distance limited express which
whirls through Arizona several times
daily now, with it's sleeping and din
ing cars, it's smoking boudoirs, its bar
! Der shops, its Libraries and waiting
rooms, it's telegraph Offices, its attend
ant stenographer and type writer's, and
even its bath, reduce to a minimum
the suggestion that it's patrons have
left home and Office behind them.
This single movement shows that
the trend in America, in travel as
elsewhere, is toward the saving OF
every minute of time and the non
disturbance Of ones trains of thought.
We do not say that this restlessness is
wholesome, but it is the trend because
. people demand such conditions. Now,
} what are we to infer as to the minor
means of conveyance? They have to
a large degree paralleled the progress
siye changes in steam transportation.
J Rubber tires long ago succeeded met
!, al on the wheels of private carriages
for city streets. Milady has not for
years thrust her pretty bonnet out OF
J the side window to tell John where to
drive or bid him suddenly to stop; she
} has done it through the speaking tube.
She times her calls and errands by a
dainty little clock set in the uphols-
2 terry of the carriage front. If she uses
< trap instead of a coach, a wicker
) guard is deftly slipped over the whee
| SO as to protect her skirts in getting
: in and out.
Why shall not Milford fare as WELL
Milady's soul Graves luxury, Milord'G
convenience. She keeps track of tim'
only so as not to visit her friends an6
find them half dressed; his great ain
7 is to annihilate time altogether. Sht
has welcomed the automobile as {
e plaything; he has seized upon it al
q a new utility. Her constant endeavor
= will be to make its cushions and robe.
0 more elegant, increase its ease O
: control, improve it's means of entering
q and alighting, devise new liveries fol
: it's chauffeur; his mind will be bent OF
: making it save him minutes by en-
abling him to begin his days worl
at the door of his home, instead O
S waiting till he reaches his Office Henc
= we may look to see the automobile @
e. the future fitted with a typewriter at
Q tachment or graphophone, or both
SO that thoughts by the way can be fix
ed before they fee, and even the morn
II ings correspondence STARTED il TIN
le distance to be travelled will admit c
8 it.
1t The trolley cars, which came in re
ss sponse to popular demand for som
swifter public vehicles than thos
drawn by horses, are no longer confir
p ed to the utihtarian accommodate
y of the public. They are now employ
= ed as well for sightseeing in wintt
to as for entertainment in summer.
ar the latter capacity shrewd manage
ment has tried TO kill two birds wit
one stone by placing at the end OF
D. lovely suburban line an amusemel
at resort with dancing Pavilion, or
en- restaurant, or vaudeville troupe, as
tn special attraction. These ANUS
liz ment and excursion trolleys have bee
at made to climb mountains and piert
defiies and forests. Witness Il