The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-03-14
NEIHART. MONTANA. MARCH A. 1896.

hopes aud converting its vices, follies
ments.
Such a future city is not impossible.
There are signs of its coming, and some
OF the signs are SO conspicuous and GER
tain as not to be mistaken in their sig
nificance. We find already transform
ing force at work In the supreme mu-
inequalities of the world. We find at the
same time an outside energy developing
under the hands of science which, if we
mistake not, is destined to become the
p<Incipal factor in that revolution which
is going Oh in the high places Of tho
civilized life.
1t seems to me that the future city
must be transformation. 1t must
come in form and substance essential
ly different from anything now known.
The future city is to be a Mart. That is
its fundamental distinction and the bot
tom possibility Of its existence. Tho
present city is hive of residents, a
badly regulated and confused hive, a
hive in which industry is mixed with
home, courts with amusements, banks
with tenements, parks with shopkeep-
ing and boarding houses with cathe-
drals.
There Is no conceivable tumble of
facts and forces more chaotic and i'll
suited to rational happiness than the
great city CT today. The city as it now ex.
lists is the result of chance. 1t is a mael-
strom of haphazard enterprises, of mis-
placed ambitions and struggling ener-
gies, more like pandemonium in the
general result than like an orderly civic
aggregation of great race of rational
beings.
The city in its present form has reach
ed the limits of its possibilities. The
fundamental vice in the situation is the
combination of residence with business
the heaping up of masses of people per-
manently in the thick places of trade
The digging out Of the earth below and
the laying Of loft on loft above for the
purpose and with the result of aggregat-
ing an immovable mass of people in a
given spot where population, as such,
ought not to exist at all is folly and a
and a crime as it respects society. The
problem, therefore, is to retain, enlarge
and perfect the Mart and to expel and
scatter the population-that is, the prob
lem comprises the retention Of all o. the
commercial and most Of the social fea
lures of the present city, with the expul-
sion of residents from the municipal
limits.
To my mind, it is the residence fea
ture OF the present city that makes its
further beneficial development impossi-
BILE. The Capitalization Of the inhabit-
ants can 90 no further. The limits of
physical possibility have been actually
reached in New York. The heaping up
Of sfo'ks on folks to the very sky has
been carried to the intolerable excess of
rendering further accumulation imposs
BILE. The process has entailed all kinds
OF discomfort, misery, vice and crime.
A column Of platinum million miles
in height resting on one end melts down
like a candle on heated stove. The
| lower end, by molecular compression,
hqueties, vaporizes and disappears. The
human column III every great city has
already reached the height at which
further compression is impossible. If it
60 further, an under combustion and
dissipation of the mass must ensue. AL
ready in lower New York the compress
sion has, in parts, gone so far that the
lineaments Of real people are destroyed.
The stellar aspects n humanity have dis
appeared. In Hester and Rivington and
Baxter streets the defining outlines Of