New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
FREIGHT CARS RUN AT NIGHT.

GENERALLY freight cars sTe run at night
and there is no delay in deliveries and no loss OF
time In depots side tracks. Berries picheo
late in the afternoon are on sale In the market
twenty-five miles away early the next morning.
Village merchants now order from the "hoiesaie
dealers by telephone, and their goods reach them
on the next express train. or ct most. in lie"
hours
In many places there sample rooms 1or
commercial travellers adjoining the trolley sta
tions arrangement that does away with long
waits for steam railway trains and the hauins OF
baggage from depots to hotels In region "eil
served by, electric roads the old methods Oh ooiis
business have been completely changed Merchants
order more frequently and less at a time, ana SO
their stocks are always fresh. Furthermore, they
are In personal and constant touch with the men
from whom they buy. If there are any bargains
they hear Of them right off. The advantage to
the wholesale merchant is that the time OF MS
credits is reduced and that more of his transac-
tions for cash on the spot
But the earmer together with his wife and his
children has been benefited even more than the
village business He is no longer penned up
in his house during whole winter by bad roads
1 know Of farmers who now take their families TO
churches theatres, concerts and lectures IN cities
to which they rarely went and then only on busi-
ness. before trolley passed their doors every
hour Of the day. And there are no cinders from
locomotives and smoke. Women can dress IN
their best and ride fifty miles and even further.
and their clothing is clean and fresh as when
they started.
Most farmers IN settled regions have telephones
II q mower or reaper breaks down, the farmer
orders part Of the machine he needs. and II IL
sent to him at once he boards an electric car
and goes to town himself There is no waiting for
a week In a busy season. Meanwhile the farmer
has planted berries fruit trees because of the
opportunity to reach market quickly and cheapiy,
and thus has turned wheat, oats. or corn into far
more profitable crops Better than all else now
ever he has frightened the life Of his hard-working
wife and minimized her chances OF becoming insane
through drudgery and isolation"
What methods followed in building up tbs
territory between the termini Of trolley liner
asked.
Steam railway men assist the farmer who raises
livestock or grows coarse crops, like corn, wheat
and hay Some roads haul bulls. stations. rams
q nd seeds free of cost. We all know what James
7 Hill has done in the Northwest and what Benta-
min F. Yoakum has done in the Southwest to make
business their great systems Of transportation
Officers Of electric roads help the fruit grower and
the xardener all they can. but passenger travel is
what they live on. Accordingly. We try to develop
he v,,et. and to build up towns. We don't engage
in the real estate business ourselves, but
courage others to do We often agree to carry
prosnectiye of lots into the country and
hack again free of charge. Then we help to
establish out-of door places OF amusements, espe-
c,aIlv whore there are small lakes and other nat