Life, 1915-06-03 · page 19 of 52
Life — June 3, 1915 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Main Image ("Elevator Boy"):** A humorous scene showing a woman in a luxury hotel suite with a small dog, while an elevator boy gestures toward a doctor entering. The caption suggests the "doctor" (likely a quack or charlatan) is a remedy for her ailment. This appears to be satirizing either incompetent medical practitioners or the gullibility of wealthy hotel guests. **"City Relief by Jitneys" Article & Cartoon:** The piece discusses jitneys—shared-ride vehicles that were becoming popular in the 1910s-1920s. The author argues these cheap transportation alternatives will paradoxically solve urban crowding by making country living more attractive, thus decentralizing cities. The cartoon shows someone "meeting his waterlulu" (an obscure reference, possibly to a romantic encounter or mishap in nature). The satire mocks the notion that jitneys, rather than solving traffic, would worsen street congestion by proliferating endlessly.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Elevator Boy: THAT'S THE DOCTOR YOU NEED FOR THAT PAIN 0” YOURS, MISS. City Relief by Jitneys THE immense multiplication of jitneys is a feature of current daily news, Perhaps the jitney is the microbe that is to bite the cities and check them in their growth. Railroads, the telegraph and the other modern mechanical improvements made possible and constrained the present centralization of population and made the cities big. More improvement of the same sort may stop their growth and drive their surplus wealth and population into the country. As the streets in cities become so crowded that people cannot move conveniently in them the spaces of the coun- try become more and more attractive. Up to now the great factor in crowding city streets has been the tall buildings. But the motor cars have been a good second, and if present motor vehicles are to be supplemented by innumerable jitneys, the central streets of lively towns are going to be jammed, Give machinery time and it will work out its own MEETING HIS WATERLULU problems, comicbooks.com