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Former senator majority leader train for attacks about his Senate Service as a diplomat investigator and chairman of the Walt Disney Company. He spoke at politics prose in washington d. C. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so the evening. And bradley graham, cowinner politics prose and on behalf of the entire staff welcome. Very few quick administrative tidbits. When we get to the q a part of the session as you can see we have ceased in tv with us this evening. If you have a question to be heard, it would really be great if you could make your way to the microphone right ther...

Perhaps we would not have the interurban area. Also we can make a case that the interurban is the transition between steam railroads freight and the coming of the motor truck. To begin, the innercity road system was awful. We did talk about it that continued into the 20th century. To begin, the innercity road system was awful. We did talk about it that continued into the 20th century. We had that National Road that was financed by the federal government in the 1840s. It will not be there until the 1890s that there was this bicycle craze. Communities were being pressured to have better roads. O...

Why we have this new perhaps replacement technology. So you may ask what is an interurban. Now, i know that you all took baby latin in high school, so interurban, between cities. Thats the kind of latin i actually remember from the early 1960s. So perhaps its time for me to just give you some visual images of an interurban. This is a brochure, as you can tell, 1907, that was sold to travelers in the greater new england area. And this is going to be the heartland of what we call rural trolleys, and rural trolleys are simply street Car Companies that have extended their lines out into the suburb...

In the latter part of the 1880s. And communities were being pressured to have better roads. Perhaps only going out into the suburbs. And we have places like cleveland and philadelphia that are installing brick roads. So there is a movement for a allweather road system, or at least in a limited sense, prior to the coming of the automobile, which really is about 1900, so 1905. Most american roads at the beginning of the 20th century, were mud holes during the wet season, and extremely dusty during the dry season. It was estimated that only about 5 of americas 2. 2 million miles of roads were act...

In fact, if the automobile had been invented perhaps 20, 25 years before, and if we had the triumph of the good roads movement about the same time, perhaps we would not have had the interurban era. Also, we can make a case too that the interurban is the transition between Steam Railroad less than car load freight and express and the coming of the motor truck. And in the near future, in fact, on thursday, i want to talk about trolley or interurban freight. To begin, lets keep in mind that the american inner city road system was awful. We did talk about that turnpike movement at the very end of ...