THE COWBOY AS HE IS FREQUENTLY TO BE FOUND TODAY. in country affairs. Rural mail carriers is the experience and opin has found out that giving the boy a chance to get to town now and then opens his eyes to the real truth about the lure of bright lights: "I first regarded the motorcycle in the light of an extravagance," says this Iowa farmer, "but as we have an eighteenyear-old boy in our home I was persuaded to invest in one of these machines. What has been the result? In a word, it was the best investment I ever made, because it has been the means of giving the boy a new interest in farm life, while Dad himself has participated in many a joy ride on this machine. We have scores of times had occasion to go to town, five miles a way, on a hurry call and the trip has been made in about a quarter of an hour. We have fixed a kind of crate on the seat and can take produce to market and bring home provisions for the household and even small articles of equipment for the ion of an Iowa farmer who THE RURAL FREE DELIVERY CARRIER farm. I thought at first FINDS THE MOTORCYCLE SWIFT AND SAFE. that the boy would spend his evenings in town, but I find that he is upon hired help. from the lonely fate of this old neighbor." Thus it can be seen that the motorcycle, which was in the beginning the toy and later the vehicle of the city man alone, is now coming to be not only the means of transportation but the prob CARRYING CAMP CHAIRS TO THE LAWN FOR A SOCIAL AFFAIR. lem solver of the farmer. The motorcycle navigates country roads which Old Dobbin and the automobile find impassable and it does it speedily and in comparative safety. importance as a factor in making farm life still Its more attractive and still more profitable can hardly be overestimated. I do the very best I know how —the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. -Abraham Lincoln USING ONE RAILROAD STATION WHILE BUILDING ANOTHER ON THE SAME SPOT, Looking west from the south end of the Grand Central terminal, MOST MARVELOUS OF TERMINALS T By CHARLES FREDERICK CARTER HE most wonderful thing about the new Grand Central terminal station in New York City is that it is built in the identical spot occupied by the old without interfering with or even inconveniencing traffic. It is no unusual thing for railroad engineers to replace a bridge or other structure without interfering with traffic; but such a feat has never before been performed on so vast a scale. In the last nine years the engineers have removed two hundred old buildings and twenty-five miles of pipes and sewers from the area added to the enlarged terminal, built an entire new sewer system to take care of the drainage from the terminal area, replaced the busiest railroad tunnel in the world with a new one, took down an old station and replaced it with a larger one, sunk the tracks to an average depth of fifty feet below the surface, largely through rock, and replaced it with steel and concrete, all without injuring a passenger or seriously delaying a train. Another remarkable thing-this greatest by burying the entire terminal deep in the of passenger terminals will cost nothing; solid rock, roofing the excavation with or perhaps it would be more intelligible steel and concrete and building a town over it. One very large commerciall to say that while the entire improvement will cost $150,000,000, the railroad will building twenty stories high is already get it all back without touching its completed and rented. Two enormous So vast an im- office buildings, to be twenty stories high' transportation revenues. So vast an imultimately, are finished up to the seventh provement in so valuable an area was story and occupied as offices by the two quite beyond the means even of two such railroad companies. On one corner adbig corporations as the New York Cenjoining the station will be a twenty story tral and the New York, New Haven and hotel that will rival any other in the city Hartford, which will also use the terminal. So the two companies out- in the luxury of its appointments and Brandeised the the altitude of its charges. At the oppoBoston effi- site corner of the Forty-second street ciency frontage will be another hotel of equal prophet size but with a rate schedule so much himself modified that it will not be necessary for the prospective guest to mortgage his farm to rent a room for a night. An opera house and a new home for the National Academy of Design are proposed! for the town that is to rise over the terminal. Altogether seventeen city blocks formerly taken up with unsightly noisy, dirty railroad yards or cheap private structures will be added to NEW GENERAL OFFICES OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL. ULTIMATELY THIS BUILDING WILL VAST CONCOURSE IN THE MAIN BUILDING. Incoming and outgoing passengers will be completely isolated from one another. the available building area in the choicest part of the metropolis, not to mention a fine broad avenue and a number of cross streets where such things did not exist before. In the matter of size the New York Central terminal is so much larger than any other that it seems a shame to mention the rest. The great Pennsylvania terminal a few blocks away, the new Union station at Washington and the new Northwestern station in Chicago, all of which have been the subject of much flattering comment, and the St. Louis union station, hitherto regarded as rather a sizeable affair, could all be dumped down in the New York Central's wilderness of tracks and still leave room to add the Waterloo station in London, which Englishmen consider something of a ter minal. The combined areas of five famous terminals in Europe, St. Lazare in Paris, Frankfort central station, Waterloo station in London, union station at Cologne, and Dresden central station equal less than two-thirds of the acreage of the New York Central terminal. In the length of track it contains the New York Central terminal more than equals the combined trackage of the Pennsylvania, Northwestern, St. Louis Union station, St. Lazare and Cologne stations. Perhaps these comparisons may serve to inspire proper respect for the seventy acres included in this titanic terminal with its sixty-seven tracks, aggregating about thirty-two miles, and its thirty platforms. The concourse, which in this instance is not an open, wind-swept platform, but an |