spacious. Each one is supplied with certain lines of merchandise and
passes over an unalterable rail route at its own fixed period.

Thus all parts of the city are reached with the necessaries of life.
Those who prefer can go to the trade centers, but no special orders are
delivered except by the regular cars and at the regular time.

For instance, one can go to the trade centers for meats and vegetables,
and purchase what he wishes or give his order. At the time corresponding
to six o'clock of our time in the morning the meat and vegetable cars
start on their respective routes, while the trade centers are open for
personal callers. Marketing goes on at the market center while the cars
are selling throughout the city. At nine o'clock the delivery cars leave
the trade centers.

Similar to the manner of our world, each home is numbered in such a way
that no two houses have the same designation. By this arrangement the
delivery of goods is facilitated.

Everything in this busy metropolis goes like clock work, and everybody
knows the schedule, which is simple enough to be understood almost at a
glance.

All the trade centers lie along the freight and passenger railroad. This
saves a tremendous amount of labor, for the goods are all transferred
directly from the cars to the store-houses.

There is no Fire Department, for there is no need of one. It appears
that only a few worlds in the universe use inflammable materials for
structural purposes, and we are one of them.