The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-07-27
In THE YEAR 1889.
Revelation of Some OF the Won
doris of This Enlightened Age.
Like Unto Fairyland - Travelling 1000
Miles an Hour-Fritz Napoleon Smith
and the Eemai kable Features
of tho Earth Chronicle"

from JUGS serHc uiRhiy cuIeteuAuihB
article in the Forum entitled: ''ln the year
2Ss9:''
Little though they seem to think of it, the
people of this twenty ninth century i've.
continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they
are with marycls, they are Indifferent In
presence of each now marvel. To them all
seems natural. Could they but duly apprc-.
ciate the rcflnements of civilization In our
day; could they but compare the present
with the past, and so better comprehend
The advance we have madcl How much
fairer they would find our modern towns,
with populations amounting sometimes to
100000 souls; their streets 300 feet wide,
their houses 1000 feet In height; with
temperature the same in all seasons; with
their lines of aerial locomotion crossing the
sky in every direction! Think of
the railroads of the olden time, and you will
be ablc TO appreciate tho pneumatic tubes
through which today one travels Mt the,
rate of loco miles an hour. Would not our
contemporaries prize tho telephone and tho
telephote more highly If they had not for.
gotten the telegraph?
Hence Is sprung plciad OF I'M
yentors, its brightest star being our great
Joseph jackson. To Jackson. we are in
debted for those wonderful Instruments,
the new accumulatorS. Some of these alb
sorb and condense the living force con-
tanned in the sun rays; others, tho electric
ity stored in our globe; others, again, the
coming from whatever source, as
waterfall, a stream, the winds, etc he,
100, it was that invented the transformer, u
moro wonderful contrivance still, which
takes the living force from tho accumu
lator, and, on the simple pressure Of q but
ton, gives it back TO space in whatever form
may be desired, whether as heat, light,
electricity, or mechanical force, after hav-
ing first obtained from itthe work required
From the day when these two instruments
wero contrived is to be dated the era of
true progress. They have put into the
hands of man power that IS almost in,
finite. As for their applications, they. are
numberlcss Mitigating tho rigors of
winter, by giving back to tho atmosphere
the surplus heat stored up during tho sum
mcr they have rcvolutonizcd agriculture.
l'y supplying motive power for aerial navl-
cation, they have given TO commerce q
mighty impetus. To them We are indebted
.or the continuous production of electricity
without batteries or dynamos, of light with
out combustion or incandcscencc, and for
an unfaihng supply of mechanical energy
for all the needs OF industry.
u
y y When two hundred years ago
the political center OF the United States
was transferred from Washington to
Centropolis, the Manhattan Chronicle,
founded many years previous by George
Washington Smith, followed tho Govern,
ment and assumed the namo of Earth
Chronicle. Pressed on all sides by rival
journals of more modern type, it was con-
iinually in danger of collapse. Twenty years
ago its subscription list contained but few
hundred thousand names, and then Mr..
Fritz Napoleon Smith-remote descendant
Of the original founder and owncr-bought
it for mere trifle ard originated telephonie
journalism.
Instead Of being printed, the
Earth Chronicle is every morning spoken to
subscribers, who, in interesting converse.
lions with reporters, statesmen and scien.
lists, learn the news Of the day. Further.
more, each subscriber owns photograph,
and to this instrument he leaves the task
Of gathering the news whenever he happens
not to be in mood to listen directly him.
self As for purchases Of single copies
they can at very trifling cost learn oil thai
IS in the paper Of the day at any of the
numerous monographs set up nearly every
where
In the course of few years the numbe,
OF subscribers grew to be eighty. Ave mill
ions, and Smiths wealth went on growing
till now 1t reaches the almost I'm imaginable
figure Of ten billion dollars. This lucky mi
has enabled him to erect his new building
in Two Hundred and Fifty third avenue,
vastcditice with four facades, each $3.50 fee
inlenRth, over which proudly floats the hun
dred starred flag Of the Union. Y y
Owing 10 'rhe progress of hygiene which
abatcs all tho old sources Of unhealthful
ness 10 tho compromising and preparing o
food according 10 scientific pripciples",-
which Is received through food. pipes from
tho Grand Authorization Company estah
lishment-and to the fact that "tho atmos
phcre 10 freed from the micro organism
that formerly used to swarm in it," Mr.
Smith il enabled to Withstand the tremeu
dous strain under which he is const anti
placed IN the performance Of his nultifari
GUS duties. ''Vain the attempt to estimat
the amount of labor he under goes"
This morning Mr.. Fritz Napoleon Emit
awoke in very bad humor. His wife hay
ing left for France eight days ngo, he wa
feeling disconsolae The frs
thing that Mr.. Smith does Is to connect hi
ahonotelepho,e, The wires Of which CON
municate with his Paris mansion. The tele
photo! Hercis another Of tho great tr
umphs Of science III our time The trans
mission Of speech is an old story; the trans
mission Of images by means Of sensitiv
mirrors connected by wires ,is.a thing bu
OF yesterday. u 80 She Is tallslng, pre-
nouncing o namc-his name-Trits: n
delightful vision gavsa happier taru toMr,
Smiths thoughts. And now, at the call OF
Imperative duty, hghtrheartcd he springs
from his bed and enters his mechanical
dresser.
Two minutes later the machine deposited