The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-02-28
URBAN DEVELOPING VT.

issue Mr.. w. T. Galloway speak
of the special advantages to be derive
from the free rural delivery system
and the general tendency of the time
to build up the urban Districts of tn
country.
The convenience" of the city
and the isolation of country life, ha
been building up the cities at tn,
expense of the country. all these years
until. the cities have become 81
crowded, so pestilential, SO noisome
that the ingenuity of man is looking
for way out of the difficulty.
Man is a social animal, and naturally
loves to mix aud mingle with his fel
low man. At the same time however, al
a general rule. he loves plenty of elbow
room. Some people love hotel life il
a city but they are those who have not
tried it long at time. Some prefer
to live right in the heart of the rumble
and noise; but they are comparatively
few. A majority of town and city
people. whose business calls them there,
would prefer a suburban home to go
to when the days work is done place
where they may free their nostrils
from the noisome odors of Easements
and cutters and streets, for the balmy
air of the meadows and the sweet
odors of the clover field. 1t is sweeter
and healthier and purer and better !;
but-the ''loneliness" and isolation
of the country, has been a terror,
especially to the women.
Nothing will do more to relieve that
loneliness and isolation, than the rural
route system for the free delivery of
the mails, and the constantly reaching
out of the urban electric cars. And
what is matter of especial congratu
lation to Maury county-one we have,
and the other we are likely to have.
The rural route system has grown
wondrously fast in this county since
Congressman Padgett took hold of it.
Better, work faster work, more effec-
tive work, no man has ever done for
this district. And still this good work
goes on; and before this year is gone
all of Maury county will be under
this system, and every man and woman
will have their mail brought to them
every day. The women appreciate
this change to the fullest. The men
used to enjoy taking half day off once
or twice week, going for the mail,
while the women were left to revel in
lonesomeness.
Add to this delivery system an cleo
trio car line from Nashville to Mt.
Pleasant, and just think how that will
wake up the people along the way,
and how it Will invite others to enjoy
life by buying and building some
where, anywhere, along this beauti
full pike. With an electric car passing
your door every hour, who would not
prefer a country home to town house?
What excuse would there be for lone
,omeness when your neighbor a mile
lway woulfbe in five minutes ride of
you? What isolation could one feel
With the whistle of the postman, the
yhir of an electric car, and the ring of ;
he telephone sounding on the tympa
lum of the ear?
We are not prepared to speak with {
my degree of positiveness as to the
oming of the aforesaid electric rail '
way line, those knowing the facts s
efusing to divulge them. But from |
What we can learn there is at least t
trong probability that the road will {
70 built Such roads-and there are
cry many of them-have proven a
uccess wherever built, and we see no
eason why this one should be an ex- '
option to the rule. 1t would double T
be population along it's way, in little 4
yhile 1t would invite and increase @
'avel greatly. Town people would visit '
heir country friends more frequently, {
nd country people would come to v
,wn oftener Their parcel. package Il
r small freight business would be enor- I
lous. And during the summer months a
leasure parties in the evening would f,
ake the welkin ring. 1t would en-
ance the value of every acre of land
ON Nashville to Mt Pleasant, and find
purchaser for every farm that is for :,
lie. 1t is one of the good things that o
e hope the future has in store for us.
ut the law that gives them being ought
protect the people from the extor- i
Dnate charges and other high crimes
ID misdemeanors that characterize
monopolies owned and controlled
few men.
The fire insurance companies doing
lsiness in the United States have &C. |