Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Highways Versus Railways. [ARTICLE]

Highways Versus Railways.

An average speed of forty-five miles per hour, exclusive of stops, was mads by the winner of the first run of 282% miles in three days’ automobile race from Paris to Berlin, which is to be finished today. Does this mean that the railway is to yield to the highway? In an exceedingly suggestive article in the June North American Review Mr. H. Q. Wells foretells the reconstruction of modern cities in this country through the automobile moving over new systems of broad, smooth roads, carrying freight as well as passengers. eclipsing railroads in enterprise, comfort, adaptability, and speed, and lengthening the limit of the one hour’s ride, and so the radius of the ''urban district,’’ to 100 miles.