The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-03-15

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The streets Of oil the great cities
New York Chicago, SAN Francisco,
Paris or London-will be far, indeed,
from the comparative calm and quiet
Of the present Merely human voices
o. discreditcd coachmcn and ear driv-
ers will be drowned In the prodigious
aud never ceasing tumult Of the whis. I
ties, the bells. the gongs and other |
alarms from all sorts Of vehicles; the /,
shrielss Of escaping steam at each acct. |
dent or collision, the thundcrous roll |
OF wheels, the interminablc clicking of |
machinery. The spectacle will be
picturesque, though dangerous to the
/ pedestrian.
No horse will appear, save In certain
little riding roads In the suburban
parts. Magnificent bicycles, run by
the aid Of electricity and developing a
high rate Of speed 10y the mcrest touch
| OF the most emasculated foot, will be
the fashionable thing In places like
the big parks The horse track will
give place 10 the bicycle track. Jerome
park and Monmouth park will no
more attract people to see contests OF
Salvatore and Tenneys Instead, more
exciting trials Of speed will take place
between famous bicyclists. Enormous
prizes will be offered by rival builders
Of the wheels A curious sight in all
the large cities will be the electrical
funeral trains. accommodating - mum.
Der Of burial parties and running by
schedule every day, each train consist
ing OF half u dozen hcarscs and per-
Inns hundred coaches for the friends
OF the dcfunct These expresses will
run at the rate Of 100 miles an hour,
and will deposit the bodies In the large
crcmatory established somewhere on
the shores OF the Atlantic.
A century from now progress In
transit will have almost reached It's
apogcc. Before the new born genera
tion has become octogcnarian, the
earth will be covered with network of
RAILWAYS comparable 20 the intcrluccd
, rope, which cuvclop balloon. The
oceans will be dotted with powerful
, boats which will dominate wind aud
tide. We may be almost certain that
the problem Of aerial navigation vii
have been partly or entirely solved
In order 10 abandon the odious rcpc
tion OF the future tense, let us suppo,'
that the writer Of this humble littl'
sketch has suddenly transported him
self into the year 1905; that lac Is
spectator looking back upon accom-
plishcd facts.
% "Ycs, indeed gentlemen he say
proudly and pompously, "A centur,
ago our fathers, absurd alike In thci
si,cpticism aud Ia Their naiyctc. woull
never have dared To predict the real
zation OF 80 many projects. VIVA
{. meets our eyes as we look back upo
Of New York? A miserable provincial
IN town, badly lighted, with few fin
Il. streets and an innumcrablc number q
re dirty, narrow alleys, badly pavct
r. lined with unsightly and unwhol'
ps some tcncmcnts, where the seeds
cs vice and disease were propagatcd an
nd nurscd TO an evil maturity. Mint
-. a-...i.- "a L. -tst--a. we're either Ia
by moral or ignorant, knowing It'll
". or nothing OF neighbor, eitic
ridiculously narrow and jcalou
at In all their judgments II took 81
ty hours to go 10 Boston. and twcnty-fou
lie TO Chicago. while san Francisco an
~. the now magnificent metropolis {