http://fdelaitre.club.fr/Beach.htm
Entertaining site..I was originally going to post this in the Grand Schemes thread but this was decidedly un -interurbanish ( Is that a word? ) I am amazed that not only of this concept in that Edwardian Era, but most of all, it appeared to work after a fashion.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
At this link, try chapter 9 for pictures of Grand Central Depot.
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach/index.html
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