People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — NOVEMBER LITERARY NOTE. [ARTICLE]

NOVEMBER LITERARY NOTE.

A complete and immediate revolution, of transportation methods, involving a reduction of freight charges on grain from the West to New York of from 50 to 60 per cent., is what is predicted in the November Cosmopolitan. The plan proposes using light and inexpensive corrugated iron cylinders, hung on a slight rail supported on poles from a crossarm-the whole system involving an expence of not more than fifteen hundred dollars a mile for construction. The rolling stock is equally simple and comparatively inexpensive, continuous lines of cylinders, moving with no interval to speak of, would carry more grain in a day tnan a quadruple track railway. This would constitute a sort of grain-pipe line, the Cosmopolitan also points out the probable abolition of street-cars before the coming horseless carriage, which can be operated by a boy on asphalt pavements at a total expense for labor, oil, and interest, of not more than one dollar a day.