The cross-continent craze / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of scenes depicting transcontinental journeys by various modes of transportation, such as circus performers tumbling and rolling their way across the country, a street railroad car from New York City has made it to the Rocky Mountains, a child in a pedal car (his nurse following by rail), a man golfing his way from coast to coast, members of a country club drinking their way from roadhouse to roadhouse, waiters carrying a tray of food from the mayor of New York City to the mayor of Seattle, and an African American vaudeville couple dancing across the continent. Also, two tramps hitching a ride on a railroad.

Illus. in: Puck, v. 64, no. 1643 (1908 August 26), centerfold.
Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.