Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-07-25
lowers of Mrs. Mary Bake G. Eady.

lowers of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
All this expansion of the city has
been accompanied, and indeed to a
large extent caused by the develop
ment of the most efficient system of
rapid transit yet evolved anywhere.
Here, too, is. returning ex-Bostonians
will notice, great change. 1t began
ten years ago when the Boston Ele-
waited Railway company, which now
operates practically all of greater
Boston's' local car service, was char
tered to lease the surface lines then
existing and to construct an over
head system of transportation. The
result has been the expansion of 1.-THE
Hub into wide spreading metropo-
lis, single community in fact if not
IN name, with million and quarter
Inhabitants.
When the Elevated company took
over the street car lines a decade
ago, there were 304 miles of tracks in
the system. Today it operates a lit
tie more than 457 miles of track. in
Guiding the first subway built In the
United States and the first tunnel un-
der the deep waters of seaboard
harbor-the tunnel that connects by
trolley the island ward of East Bos-
ton with the municipality on the
mainland. From end to end of this
diversified transportation system a
hve-cent fare prevails, and it is pos
sible to travel 20 miles without pay.
ing more than a single nickel.
There has followed huge subur-
ban development and a consequent
transformation of the city that will
prove one of the greatest surprises
with which returning "old-homers"
are greeted. The old town of the
Puritans-the city proper" as natives
call ton its crowded peninsula. is
today a place of the very rich and the
very poor. of palaces and tenements,
hotels and lodging houses. The fash
tonable quarter of so years ago has
become the business district: the
moderately wellto-do for the most
part have moved out of town. This
migration, which Is said to be more
substantial than any similar move
ment anywhere else on the continent.
is due chiefly to the extension and
Improvement of the surface and ever
head electric lines. Through ccnnec-
tons at the elevated terminals the
entire surrounding territory within
radius of dozen miles or more has
been opened: and, in addition, the
cars of interurban lines take passen-
gers directly from the city to distant
points In the state.
Free transfer privileges have been
extended with a liberality that puts
| transportation between any two points
In the entire system on Single
fare basis. In many places, as at
the subway stations and elevated ter
minals, even the traditional transfer
check has been eliminated, passen.
gers simply going from one car to an
other. The passenger from Arlington
Heights, for instance some nine miles
out in the direction of historic Lex.
ington, may come into the northern
terminal of the elevated road. walk
from the semiconvertible' car to
the third rail train, be whisked out to
the southern terminal OF the overhead
line on the edge of Roxbury. near
where the Apostle Eliot preached to
the Indians, and there step across the
platform to the trolley that will take
him seven or eight miles further out,
If he wants to go that far the entire
trip OF 20 miles or so being made In
fast time and with only two trans
fers, both without the Inconvenience
and delay incident to the issue OF