The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-29

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any such unwieldy and unnecessarily
large agglomerations of buildings sucn
as were found in London, New YORK
and other immense cities, communities
of the size depicted in this plan, having
been found for q number or reasons,
the most convenient and desirable.
Let us take trip around this city
of the future. which is one OF many
thousands similarly constructed, all
made in one factory, which is the only
one in existence, and wherein the pro-
cess Of hurrying out the various parts
necessary for the construction OF these
houses and their complete equipment,
Is so marvelOusly perfect that little
more than the touch of button Will
produce an unlimited quantity of ma
terial from the beautiful and ductlIe
metal, which is produced in the vicin-
ity Of the factory by an equally per-
fected system of machinery. The pro-
cess Of erecting a city is simply that
of piercing the various portions toge-
Their, q service readily performed by
advanced specimens of the simian race,
trained to perform all the manual labor
necessary in this epoch. This utiliza-
uon of the ape would not have been
possible perhaps, but for the entirely
mechanical process observed in pro-
ducing everything under an absolute
" perfect system. and for doing work
of this kind their faculties are even
better adapted than those of the hui
man being ever were.
In building q city, the ground to be
occupied is first made perfectly level,
and the street surface is erected ten
feet above it. so as to leave space for
all pipes. tubes and machinery which
60 to build it's equipment.
BY examining the plan of the city
1t will be observed that the streets are
formed in the shape of ellipses, all
converging to one central pOint,-the
public hall. which forms the focus Of
the system.
These streets are built on princi-
pie which permits Of a rotary move
ment. and revolve continuously from
the time of the city's erection, being
dotted with small pavilion intended to
take the place Of the wheeled cars of
the present day. They are formed in
five sections, the center one of which
revolves at the most rapid rate, the
speed declining from it on either side;
consequently, when one wants to hur-
~, it is only necessary to step from
one platform to the other in order to
travel more swiftly. In the center Of
each of the ellipses is row of houses
and between the streets is a central
avenue or garden, twenty feet in width
at the inner end and increasing in
width outWards. This plaisance is
filed with evergreen shrubs and plants
which are perpetually in bloom and ex-
ho1 oil Il
this plaisance are also innumerable
fountains, and through it's center runs
a pellucid stream, some five feet wide,
which passes through a trough Of al
MINIMUM designed especially for the
purpose of public additions.
The streets, as will be seen, spread
outward from a central circle surround
ing the public hall, a building a mile
In circumference, capable Of accom-
modating all the citizens, and number
of visitors in addition. Beneath the
floor Of this enormous hall are stored
all supplies necessary to be carried for
the community; the storage quarters
Of each communicating by pneumatic
tubes with every house in the CITY,
and also with the farms on which the
supplies are raised and manufactured
and which radiate out from the cities
tn every direction.
The water and power reservoirs are
beneath this huge building, from which
al supplies are sent out as well as re
ceiyed.
The system of the city's construction
may be ikened to that Of an animal
of which this building is the heart. re
ceiving and pumping out again vitality
In all directions. From this public SUP
ply department every detail Of the on
eratons in either farm or factory car
be watched, owing to the perfection
of that wonderful invention, the cleo
troscope, which permits you to SCI
by means Of electricity an object al
any distance from where YOU NAV he
With regard to the supplies required
by the people, there has been a won
derful change undergone.
Whilst everyone has a new suit o.
clothing every day, the amount of foo
consumed by them would appear alto
gether insufficient to those accustomed
to living in the past the variety bein!
restricted to practically one universal
diet.
Two plants may be said to suppl,
everything that is required for tn,
comfort and luxury Of man, outsid,
Of what the mineral kingdom and ele
ments contribute.
One of these is a polyfibral plant
which has been developed from al
amalgamation of all the best origina
ibres, and which yields so prolificall,
and grows with such wonderful thrift
anywhere that it is considered superio