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Tonight we're relaxing with a very curious volume of utopian urban planning.

Road Town by Edgar Chambliss, published by Road Town Press, 150 Nassau Street, New York.

Copyright 1910.

Let's begin.

Dedication.

This book is dedicated to J. Pierpoint Morgan, a straight player of a crooked game who it is said played his usual role in the

Wall Street manipulations of the Central Railroad of Georgia securities which adroitly and legally absorbed the small savings and

happiness of many unsophisticated investors, an action which, in my case at least, proved to be a blessing in disguise.

Ford made me suffer first and then made me think. Hence the gratitude and

consequent dedication to Mr Morgan for starting the train of thought, which finally resulted in the invention of Roadtown.

A plan for sidestepping the crooked game as now played so that henceforth

whosoever will may become a straight player of a straight game.

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