New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29


own soil. estimated as averaging five feet
thick and weighing One Hundred and Thirty
four Thousand Millions Of tuns; while just
across the Mississippi lie the Thirty Thousand
square miles of Illinois coal-beds, with those
of Indiana directly beyond them. st. Louis
may thus be fairly regarded as the commercial
if not the exact geographical center OF both
the Coal and the Iron deposits of the Union
the poipt at which these minerals may be
brought together in largest abundance at the
smallest cost.
Mr. Reayis has faith in the benefcence
of vast aggregations of human beings which
we do not fully share : hence we allow him to
sum up his argument as follows:
0Iet ma comprehend the inevitable causes which God
and civilization have set TO work to produce In te TINS
final great city the world in our own fair ahd ahu
with prophetic conception reazlng us nha COMING et
s hail il as the masterwork OF all art and the home OF
consumate wisdom the inheritance of organic liberty,
and controlled by an allpervadng social order that VIII
insure comnetency to every member OF the ngathered
family The immense accommodation OF railroads VIII,
by rand cheap and easy communication, draw 70 great
ceners from great distances around ana thus tine great
cities of the world will continue to grow until they roach
a magnitude hitherto unknown; ana, above tleih all
will St. Louis reap the rchre OF modern discoveries
and inventions, especially as regalus SVc"n "iu " no
vast and varied influence
Henceforth St. Louis must be viewed in the light OF
her future her mghtiness in the empire OF the World her
so an tho rule of States and nations Her destiny Ia
axed like new born empire, she Is moving forward 10
conscious greatness and will soon he the WORLDS magnet
OF attraction In her bosom all the extremes oi 'he
country are represented and to her growth all parts o
the country contribute Mighty as are the possibilities
Of her people still miger the hopes inspired Inc
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CITY ~ the future that she will be, with her ten
million souls occupying the vast OF her dominion
Her strength will be that Of nation and as she grows
toward maturity her institutions OF learning ana pho7
ophy will correspondngly advance If we but LOOK io
ward in Imagination, to her contaminated greatness
how grand the conception! We can realize thh mere
will be reared great halls and edces for art and learn
ing here will tho great men and women OF
future ages here will be represented in the future some
Scion or Hamilton, giving laws for the mgher ana Dete
government OF the people, here will be represented soe
future great teachers Of religion teaching the idea ana
spiritual unfolding Of the race, and its allegiance 10 the
angel world here will live some future Plutarch, weigh
ing the great Of his here some future Mozart
will thrill the strings of more perfect Tyre ana inpro-
wise grandest melodies for the congegaed people mere
some future Rembrandt through his own ideal magma
ton will picture for himself more perfect panoramic
scenes OF natures lovely landscapes May we justly
rejoice in the anticipation Of the future greatness Vi e
civil social industrial intellectual anu hoIa' oi0"'
which are destined form part OF the future great
cityi And may not realize that the millions VINO are
vet to be its inhabitants will be wiser and better
people than those of this generation and who in more
perfect life will walk these streets in the city OF the
future with softer tread, and sing music with sweeter
tones be urged by aspirations of higher AIMS rfJoce
with fuller hearts and adorn in beauty with more tehder
hands, the final great city of the worldF
To all which, we say perhaps"