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

man as man are no longer seen. There
Is compressed mass, the substance of
which is vitiated beyond recognition
1t is just here that science, in the nick
Of time. has come once more to the res
into impossible conditions, he now has
a way-as many times before he has had
way-opened for his escape. The city
finds the means not only to decentralize
itself somewhat, but absolutely to dis
charge the masses of its population into
the wholesome regions far beyond There
breath is free, and home becomes re-
viving possibility.
Just at the time when our American
cities have been about to engorge them
selves by swallowing the whole people
the decentralizing opportunity provided
by science arises and asserts itself as the
most saving and salutary force of the
age. The sundown of the century melts
like an aurora into the dawn of the Era
of Rapid Transit All the movements of
mankind have thus far been impeded
with stoppages and congestions The
city has been the greatest congestion Of
all. The solution of the problem of quick
and easy transit has brought relief. or
is bringing 1t, at the critical hour. The
time seems to be at hand when every
great city may. day after day, discharge
its population into wide and beautiful
region Of surrounding country, tho great
prevailing features of which are rest for
the body and home for the soul of who
ever has one.
Let Manhattan Island be considered as
the typical mart Of the future. Let it be
a place where the millions como togeth-
er for the accomplishment of all the
major movements Of civilization, resi-
dence only excepted. Commerce shall go
on there with improved and ever i'm
proving facilities. All of the East river
front and the Harlem shore, as well as
the bank Of North river, shall become a
continuous line of granite bound docks
and wharfs. There the shipping from
every sea and shore Of this poor world
shall be hitched with cable, while the
merchants, importers, exporters, whole
salers, jobbers and commercial officers
gather in their respective spheres to
handle the world s merchandise and dis
charge it by sea and land to the four
quarters Of our globe.
The commercial feature, however, is
only one hneament of the fn nre city
Where the commercial mart leaves off,
the social mart begins. Society is to ex-
pand triumphant in the free civic arena
prepared for the display of its powers.
All art and intercourse will be there
All amusement and entertainment will
be there. All enlightenment and ration
al competition of thought and purpose
will be there. Everything to be pro.
NOTED by the concourse of the people
will be there. There all articles Of com
fort will be distributed to multiplied
millions of buyers. There every street
will be tbronged with thousands of peo-
pie gathered from outside homes, com
ing fresh in the early morning TO clean
metropolis which has purified itself from
the draft and offal of resident popula
tion now piled up to the point of rotting
in the obstrncted ways of rational prog
ress.
All tho apparatus Of intellectual de-
velopment is to be there perfected The
future city will be the mart of literature
and song us well as bourse and a field
Of ships. Whatever the accumulated
wealth of ages can provide for the com
fort and illumination of society shall be
created on magnificent scale in the city
Of the future. Such shall be the scene
that the reactionary effect of it on Tie
mind must awaken the profoundest