The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-08

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THE PLAN OF CITY IN THE YEAR $1,000,
in one factory, which is the only one in
existence, and wherein the process OF
hurrying out the various parts neces-
sary 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 ductile
metal which is produced in the vicinity
of the factory by an equally perfected
system of machinery. The process of
erecting city is simply that of piecing
the various portions together, service
readily performed by advanced speci-
mems of the simian race, trained to per-
form all the manual labor necessary in
this epoch. This utilization OF the ape
would not have been possible, perhaps,
but for the entirely mechanical process
observed in producing everything under
an absolutely perfect system, and for
doing work of this kind their faculties
are even better adapted than those of
the human being ever were.
In building 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 go to
complete its equipment.
BY examining the plan of the city it
will be observed that the streets are
formed in the shape of ellipses, all con-
verging to one central point, = the
public hall, which forms the focus of
the system.
These streets are built on principle
which permits of a rotary movement,
and revolve continuously from the
time of the city's erection, being dotted
with small pavilions intended to take
the place of the wheeled cars of the
present day. They are formed in five
sections, the center one of which re-
wolves at the most rapid rate, the speed
declining from it on either side; conse-
quenstly, when one wants to hurry, it
is only necessary to step from one plat
form to the other in order to travel
more swiftly. In the center of each of
the ellipses is row of houses and be-
tween the streets is central avenue or
garden, twenty feet in width at the
inner end and increasing in width out
wards. This plaisance is filed with
evergreen shrubs and plants which are
perpetually in bloom and exhale a most
delightful fragrance. In this plaisance
are also innumerable fountains, and
through it's center runs a pellucid
stream, some five feet wide, which
passes through trough of aluminium,
designed especially for the purpose of
public additions.
The streets, as will be seen, spread
outward from central circle surround
ing the public hall, a building mile in
circumference, capable of accommodate
ing all the citizens, and a number of
visitors in addition. Beneath the floor
of this enormous hall are stored all sup
plies 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 sup
plies are raised and manufactured, and
which radiate out from the cities in
every direction. The water and power
reservoirs are beneath this huge build
ing, from which all supplies are sent
out as well as received.
The system of the city's construction
may be likened 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 OPP
erations in either farm or factory can
be watched, owing to the perfection of
that wonderful invention, the electro
scope, which permits you to see by
means of electricity an object at any
distance from where you may be.
With regard to the supplies required
by the people, there has been wonder
full change undergone. Whilst every
one has new suit of clothing every
day, the amount of food consumed by
them would appear altogether insult
ficient to those accustomed to living in
the past the variety being restricted to
practically one universal diet.
Two plants may be said to supply
everything that is required for the
comfort and luxury of man, outside OF
what the mineral kingdom and ele-
lneuts contribute. One of these is
| polyfi bral plant which has been devel-
| oped from an amalgamation of all the
best origin al fibers. and which yields so
prolifically and grows with such won
derful thrift anywhere tn at it is consid-
cred superior to anything else which
could have been produced.
Farming at this period has ceased to
be very troublesome operation, every
thing being done by machinery. The
touching of button in the production
department, will either pillow, fertilize,
plant, regulate the ripening or harvest
the crop of fiber or the corresponding
food product, polypomus, which is
fruit embracing all the elements that
contribute perfect diet, produced by
the interbreeding of such heterogeneous
plants as the agarics, succulents, tubers
like the potato, and other varieties.
This gigantic fruit, somewhat re-
sembling many times magnified pump
kin, is, when ripe, gathered and trans
ferred by machinery direct to the fac
tory, where it is peeled, and after pass
ing through various processes comes
into the supply department in small
tablets. containing food in its most
concentrated form. In appearance 1t is
not unlike small cake of chocolate,
and the aluminium in which 1t is
wrapped very much resembles the tin
foil formerly used for wrapping that
eonfection in.
You may imagine how tremendously
this simplification of feeding has re-
duced homework, as one can carry
their DAYS food in their pocket MS they
usually do, and eat il as inclination
prompts.
AS for the clothing question; when
the fiber lie ayes the field it is carried to
the factory, from whence It arrives at
the supply department In the shape Of