El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-23
4 BOON
To GROWTH
Of CITIES
Make Suburban Property as
Valuable as Property Close
in For Residences.
FACTOR, TOO, IN THE
LIVING COST PROBLEM

a4lnOuEn there are those VINO al e
CquaIly pCsILlte that il lends 10 drive
the price OF our C&iIy bread higher
A. IS Claimed uuaLs aLLrr all the mann
factor III the nigh prices OF the Things
we Duy is me great cost OF olstrlDu-
ton The claim is turther maue that
anything winch TENDS TO bring down
me cost Of distribution lends 10 drive
~ the reLalI purchasing power OF 4
dollar. The auuOmObue SALESMAN goes
10 the grOceryman and declares mat
he can operate ms delivery service al
a greatly reduced cost IL ne VIII en-
pl0y delivery cars instead OF QsllN-
cry wagons Wherever The grocery
man has tried il out the test, almost
without exception, has been against
the horse Yet few persons nave
bought a. pound OF butter or dozen
eggs cheaper because the grocer has
lately acquired q delivery car.
Aids City Growth.
The automobile is proving boon 70
city growth Whereas population IN
former days had to follow the subur-
ban street car tracks and the city eN-
banded unevenly, today the automobile
makes IL possible for the gaps to be
filled up and the city 10 extend itself
more evenly. In some cities subur-
ban properly which was not cents a
square foot IN days before the auto
mobile became a necessity, is now
worth four TO ten times as much, be-
cause The autOmO bile makes II access
ible. 1t also has proved great boon
10 the city business man thousands
Of men in every important city now
can spend the day in town and the
nights in beautiful suburban homes
made accessible through the use OF
the motor car.
Great for Real Estate Men.
There Is perhaps no other class OF
city people who make better and more
profitable use CT the automobile than
the real estate dealers. 1t is estI-
mated that in proportion to the num-
Der Of men engaged In any given Yo-
cation the real estate dealers are the
best buyers of automobiles in the coun-
try. One need only 60 TO the curb in
front Of a husuing real estate office
at a dull hour TO find verlfication OF
this. In front of one office in Wash
ingtOn there was counted 10 machines
ana eight IN front OF another-and
they were all machines for taking
customers out to see properties Of one
kind and another. The psychological
effect Of an exhilarating ride is not TO
be despised by the seller Of real estate.
That the automobile alreaQy mas
wrought no incOnsiderable change IN
urban life is patent to any man who
viii look around him. The most OBJ
vious change II has wrought Is the
reduced number OF horses now being
kept in city stables. One needs only
TO count the number Of horse drawn
and Self-prOpelled vehicles passing
along any street corner in an average
city to discover that many more than
half of the vehicles passing that way
are self-prOpeiled- It may be true that
the city consumption Of horse flesh as
a means of transportation has not
fallen off, and that the demand Cor
horses is Just as heavy today as it
was a decade ago. But when one stops
TO think how much business in the
average city has expanded since 1900.
he viii discover how many thousands
Of horses would have been needed to
meet the growing burden OF urban
D0bbin Drawn Car Banned.
There are but few cities in the coun-
try where business has not almost
doubled since 1900 II takes all Of
the automobiles that both factory and
farm can produce to meet the present
day demands Of urban transpO rtatiOn-
The same phenomena Is witnessed to-
day that was observed in the day when
the electric and cable cars succeeded
DObbin-draWm street cars Everybody
for horses must fail off. But the cable
car and the electric successor so pro-
NOTED city expansion and business
growth that there came about even a
greater demand for horses than before.
Now 1t was draft horses instead OF
street car horses.
But the rise Of the pleasure car and
the auto truck have supplanted horses
IN untold thousands Of places. In some
cities this process has been even more
rapid than others, and has progressed
so far as to fOreshadOW the long pre-
dicted hOrseless era That such a
change would prove gOdsend TO the
public health of the urban community
is the opinion of nearly all sanitar-
ians In the first place II would re-
move much Of the dust and dirt on
the streets which carry disease germs
to thousands Of people In the second
place 1t would remove the stable. the
favorite and principal breeding place
Of the house fly, and would be the
greatest swat that insect has ever
received. How effective this would be
in abating the fly nuisance has been
demonstrated on the famous old news
paper row in Washington Years ago
there were q number OF stables across
Pennsylvania avenue. The result was
that the offices across the avenue and
the adjacent hotels were oVerrun with
flies. Later the district government
formulated strict rules governing
tables, and DR.. l. O. Howard, chief OF
he bureau Of entomology OF the de-
5artment Of agriculture nad MS lnspec-
ors 20 round and see that these rules
were observed The result was that the
flv was all but banished from the re-
gion Of the Mall and upper Pennsyl-
Vania avenue
Hard on Theaters.
The use Of the automobile has hit
the theaters q blow whose severity
has been exceeded only by that struck
at them by the moving picture snow
All theatrical people have felt the
crimp In the financial side or the show
business put into it by the absence
Of those who travel in automobiles
OF course, these people still 20 to the
theater but they go much less ire
quently than formerly because the au-
tOmOble has opened new channels OF
entertainment and diversion
The people who are absent because
Of their automobiles are usually those
who take the higher priced sears. ano
with the automobile rObbinG the or
chestra Of its patrons and the MOVING
picture show depriving the gallery Of
its freuuenters. the com blned eIIecl
has been one which has made serious
inrOads on the net profits Of the thea
trica1 business. These declining re-
ceipts have been the source Of seri-
Gus concern among theatrical finan-
ciers For while they regarded au-
touObilinE and picture shows both as
fads and crazes, but that time is past
and many plans have been proposed tc
bring a return Of the good old time
rich harvests at the box offices But
10 date no solution OF the situation
has been found
Another class Of people who have
suffered immensely by the rise OF the
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