"They'll look back on a mile a minute," said Bruce, "as we look back on stagecoach days! And in the rush hour there'll be a rush that'll make you think of pneumatic tubes! Not a sound nor a quiver — just pure speed! Shooting people home at night at a couple hundred miles an hour! The city will be as big as that! And there won't be any accidents and there won't be any smoke. Instead of coal they'll use the sun! And, my God, man, the boulevards — and parks and places for the kids! The way they'll use the River — and the ocean and the Sound! […]"

— His Family by Ernest Poole (33%)