Folks who believe hustle and bustle itf everyday life is a characteristic confined strictly to the Western Hemisphere would do well to visit GUsrow, according: to an engineer writing in Electrical Reviowj " In all the time I was in the busy ScotoU tnotropolia," states this engineer, "I never saw a streetcar stop at any but few stipulated stations. At all other places the motorman merely jeduces tha speed of bis vehicle when he is hailed bjn a prospective faro, and the latter makes his ascent to the platform on the fly. Men and women, younir and old, have' become so used to mountm* the- oars whil» they axe in motion that the lattor seem to bo in a iitate of perpetual motion at all times. Obviously, snob a practice saves coneiderablo current in tije cpnrae of a
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 29, 3 August 1921, Page 9
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