American Life

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American Life
Rousiers, Paul De, 1857-1934
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A Frenchman whom I met one day helped me out of the difficulty by giving me the key to the mystery. " There are never more passengers than you see to-day, " he said ; " the enterprise does not pay of itself, but it pays all the same, because it is part of another concern. It is nothing but an advertisement, and this is its explanation : Two or three speculators, who own a great number of lots in the town, united to build this street-car line, which passes right through the middle of their prope...rty and opens it up. That enables them to sell it to anybody who comes to settle here, as lots with twenty-five feet of frontage on a street-car line, and also to get a higher price. The melancholy con ductor who puzzles you, travels about every day only to make certain that the ground he passes by will bring more money. " The Americans excel in such combinations. A speculator with money in his pockets or credit at the banker s, often undertakes the draining of and even the building on the lands he holds, in order to attract buyers and gain on each opera- AMERICAN LIFE.

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