This town's already spreading; bicycles and trolleys have been doing their share, but the automobile is going to carry city streets clear out to the county line." The Major was skeptical.

"Dream on, fair son!" he said.

"It's lucky for us that you're only dreaming; because if people go to moving that far, real estate values in the old residence part of town are going to be stretched pretty thin." "I'm afraid so," Eugene assented.

"Unless you keep things so bright and clean that the old section will stay more attractive than the new ones." "Not very likely! How are things going to be kept 'bright and clean' with soft coal, and our kind of city government ?" "They aren't," Eugene replied quickly.

"There's no hope of it, and already the boarding-house is marching up National Avenue.