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DescriptionCentennial history and handbook of Indiana - the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time (1915) (14762496832).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: rishable adds to the risk ofproduction in proportion, as the market is diffi- CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA 163 cult of access. By virtue of the interurban aflorist in Indianapolis on receiving an order forroses can telephone to New Castle, have themput on a certain car, meet the car on its arrivaland thus within two or three hours receive hisflowers fresh from the soil where they grew.That this must be a great aid to the flower in-dustry is obvious, and other industries are sim-ilarly stimulated. Urban Effects of Electric Transportation.— moved outward, old residence sections havechanged in character, and in the readjustmentreal estate values have fluctuated in a way thatthe shrewdest speculator could not have foreseentwenty-five or thirty years ago, while as a socialfactor it has relieved vastly the old-time enforcedcongestion of large centers. In brief, nowherehas the new departure in transportation workedout a greater revolution than in city life and cityconditions. Text Appearing After Image: Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Station. The first and largest union terminal station in the country.Opened to the public State Fair week, September, 1904. Building was planned by and built under the di-rection of Hugh J. McGowan. The interurban electric system dates from thediscovery or development of what is called thealternating current, whereby the electricalforce could be transmitted over long distances.For ten years or more prior to that this motivepower was employed in urban transportation,and the changes wrought since its introductionare quite an important part of the history ofcities. In the first instance it has made easilyaccessible the outlying contiguous territory; thishas made practicable suburban living, and theresult has been unprecedented shiftings of urbanpopulation. A large class of residents have One more effect should be noted, and that isthe shifting of trade as a result of interurbanconveniences, and to the advantage of the largercenters. People from the coun
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