ACROSS AMERICA BY TRAM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 115, 12 June 1909, Page 4

ACROSS AMERICA BY TRAM.

Within <a comparatively brief period of time, if an jmos well, 'it, ivf.fl he possible to travel by Irani right across t,ie comment, of America, from .\ow York to San .Francisco. Even now one ca'i rule ill electric tritmcnrs from Xew Yoifc to Chicago, 'a distance of approximately one thousand miles, the Inst link in the system having -been finished recently i-x-.1l MILES OF TRACK. '' from Chicago, tram lines are binl. or building, over three hundred miles'of roads, ami they extend eastward from San Francisco for nearly six hundred miles, with a few uniiu-l I'ortant gaps vvh iclli' are fast Ire in* bridged Allogehlier it. is e.stimated'lh.i't -...1 ones ol track ~,-e either actually an m , ; , p,,-0,e.. c i f eonslruclion, so Hi; t on.y about four hundred and fifty "Hies, remain (~ be put down i„ orde'r ~'.,'" i, !'r ' ""■''!' iW fasl,inl V <•"* At,"'l ;'' <»">',i,i vvM. (he Pacific. I I l " <""i'se. ewn Mien, it will „„(, ]„, I \«ik an 1 deniaml ~ tii-kcl to San I'r-in- «•■•>■ On the conlr.-n-y, U,, passenger «lio a-p res („ m!lk( , Ulis U|f . ln 7 . stui-eildous "trolley .trip" j„ j|l, 0 ~v i)r| ( | lmi,l™i"- 1 ', , ,/ r "« V< ' 1 n V' '"on. than four '"id ed -M.pnra.tc syslenw of lines, am! o lakeland pay for, st least that m,n!

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