Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Traveling Then and Now. [ARTICLE]

Traveling Then and Now.

If In 1800 a man had set out on a business tour which required him to visit all American cities of 4,000 population and upward he would have had to go no farther north than Boston and Salem, no farther south than Savannah. Traveling by stage coach and allowing a week to each place he should have made the rouuds iu four months. The commercial traveler who now sets out to visit all American cities of 4,000 and upward, calculating to give a week to each place upon the average, must expect to be a matter of about twentyone years on the road.