St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-03

oltef water power will be chained and
| converted into electric force Along the
highways will run electric lines. ON
which you will find not only passenger.
but express and freight trains. These
lines VIII ply between the principal
cities and towns of the country; they
VIII gather up the products of the farm
and dump them at the freight Office
OF the great trunk lines. The familiar
spectacle of the farmer driving to town
with the product of the yearly harvest
will be witnessed no longer, Instead.
he will merely haul his produce to the
nearest highway and have it shipped bv
electricity to town. The electric car
will bring his mall to bis door daily, and
instead of being the lonesome affair
That 1t Is nowadays, the farm,of the fut.
ure iWlll DE In close touch with the town
and the city.
Again, in the cities themselves the
whole industrial scheme will be reyo-
luGloniZed. look to see two immense
plantS-One for the manufacture of COM
pressed air and the other for the gener-
alton OF electricity. Compressed air.
will be used in various ways for pro-
pulsiYe purposes. elevators and the like:
the electricity, on the ether hand, will
run our street cars. turn our machines.
neat our homes and buildings, do much
OF our chemical work; by electricity we
will cook, and for that matter do eyery-
thing that Is now done by steam and
coal.
Not Very Far Off, Either.
80 far from all this being distant
natter MIR. Ferris continued, II look
to see it come very soon. There is alb
s0lutely no reason at this moment WHY
cities like Buffalo, Minneapolis and st.
Paul, or any city that has great water
power at hand should consume single
pound of coal within their entire limits.
Even with present appliances, electric
lty III these cities can do, and in many
places that know is doing, the work Of
coal not only far cheaper, but without
dust, without smoke or SCOT"
1t is certainly pleasing outline
such Il picture as Mr.. Ferris sketches.
and according to him his fulfilIment is
already begun. Between the cities of
Massillon and Canton. o., for example,
the electric line is practically already
performing the work for the farm
which he predicts il will do in the near
future.
Fixed Factor of Progress.
In another striking part OF the con-
yersation my attention was caught by
MIR. Ferris attempt to lay down a fixed
factor for municipal growth. Said he:
''The condition which will determine
the relative expansion of towns and
cities in the next decade is the pressure
OF water power. The whole problem of
electricity is one of cheap generation.
Now. any city or town of this country
which has got waterfall within an
available distance, and that distance is
large one, has, so to speak, gold
mlne@ Water power means the mini
mum OF cheapneSS in the generation Of
electric power. You can easily see.
therefore, that any city which possesses
this advantage must take the lead over
any city that has not. Buffalo, for ex-
ample. will absolutely double its popu-
lation within five or ten years, because
there the capacity of the water power is
to all intents and purposes limitless.
The same thing to greater or less ex-
tent will take place in st. Paul and Min
neapoliS, in Rochester, Great Falls.
Mont, and other points where great
water power exists. Even about New
York there are numerous waterfalls
within working distance which | look TO
see made available tor that city,
Vital Statistics of st. Paul.
The official report of the health de-
partment for the month OF August
gives the following figures: Total
deaths, IT'S; births. 345; death rate for
month OF August, LIB; death rate per
annum per LOCO, 1862; marriages. IS;
deaths from zymotic diseases, "a; deaths
from constitutional diseases, %; deaths
from local diseases, IS; deaths from
deVeiopmental diseases, IL. Reported
to the department: Forty cases con-
tagious diseases, % cases diphtheria
and II scarlet fever. Deaths from