The Archive · 1910

OUR SETTLEMENT

To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuisa Dairy News."

Retarning to the city again after an absence of some years I find many ide and well kept afreets, 1 country roads, " five bridge orer the gardens aod that greet oae feel proud to belong to sach a place.

Tt was not long before I tried " car ide. Yangtzepoo has been " favourite istrict with me for many yeara, I naturally boarded " car bearing that nine and rode first class. The old riesha on a cold day for over four and half miles wasarather trying experiment. I recalled it all and rejoiced in the new mode of travel. I was accompanied by my little boy and of course his eyer mero everywhere, notiog changes compared with what he had kawa of cars in another city. He spelled out the words "No spitting" but observed that there was n0 notice against smoking Now as it happened there were those in the oar who were much against smoking and it was suggested to the little fellow that the notice about spitting was the way the company bad of stopping smoking, for needs spit ani then so is smoking The ides raised the tramway company much in the boy's estimation. I only wished it were trae. Tt seems hard on the nou-smokers, men, women and children, to have to sit breathing the fames of tobacco, because some men are so wedded to the habit ly shat even a short trip cannot be under-2 without the pipe cigar or cigarette, This was the mai blemish I

All the other features of the service ere enjoyable—the speed, the comfort, the price. It only remains for the tramway company to ses to it that enough cars are rooning at the tiffin hour and before and after office hours, 'Somstimes the cars are late aod very often overcrowded have been strack with the seem' great increase of young people. This la surely a good sign,

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