Stock Photo - The cross-continent craze. 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. Date 1908 August 26.