Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — The Railroad and the Auto. [ARTICLE]

The Railroad and the Auto.

When the electric light first began to be used commercially, something less than 40 years ago, those who were interested in gas plants and gas securities thought their business and lnvestfnents were ruined, but in due time the increased use of gas for purposes other than flight made a demand that permitted properly capitalized and well managed gas plants to suoceed as well as they did before the electric light entered the field. And so It will be with the automobile. Its use will take away for the time being something from the railroads, but in the long run the introduction of the automobile will add more than It takes away. There is a curious economic fact developed by the use of the automobile in passenger business. People who object to the standard railroad fare of three cents a mile and clamor loudly for a reduction to two cents a mile will pay 10, 26 or even 50 cents a mile for being carried In an automobile. — Howard Elliott, President of the Northwestern Pacific, in Leslie’s.