The herald., 1896-03-29

SO al anu
dissipation of the mass must ensue. AL
ready in lower New York the compress
sion has, in parts, gone 30 far that the
lineaments of real people are destroyed
The stellar aspects Of humanity have dis
appeared. In Hester and Rivington and
Baxter streets the defining outlines of
man as man are no longer seen. There
is a 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
cue of man. Driven by his own unreason
into impossible conditions, he now has
a way-as many times before he has had
a 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 deeentralizing opportunity provided
by science arises and asserts itself as the
most saving and salutary force of the
age. The shutdown 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 it, 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, the 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
place where the millions come togeth-
err 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 we'll 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 worlds merchandise and dis
charge It by sea and land to the four
quarters of our globe.
The commercial feature, however, is
only one Gneament of the future 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 BIO there. There all articles Of COM
fort will be distributed to multiplied
millions of buyers. There every street
will be thronged 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-
ton nowpiled up to the point Of rotting
in the obstructed waysof rational prog
ress. . 4 ses9- s,ss.s.
All,the apparatus Of intellectual de-
velopment is to be there perfected. The
future city will be the mart of literature
and song as we'll as bourse and 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 OIL the
mind must awaken the profoundest
spiritual energies, filling every sense
and furnishing wings to thought.
In the city of the future the day shall
DO the mart of business and affairs the
evening. the mart Of society. The hotel
and the cafe will expand into new
life, but the boarding house will become
Renaissance The lodging of man and
woman and child in such place will
become as much a displacement end
anachronism as the holding of a cattle
fair in Carnegie hall or an art fete in
the Tombs.
Under such conditions the future city
is both thinkable and expedient. The one
thing to be done away is municipal resi-
dence. The one thing to be exalted is
suburban and country residence-tho
farther out the better. The one conditio,
or rather the two conditions-on whic,
such residence depends is the will
the masses to go and perfected trans
for the going. The city Of the future
becoming a mart Of commerce and Sc
ciety, must breathe out its populate
in the evening and inbreathe them
the morning. The present movement
sucking in at night, making the city
mephitio pool, is to be completely I
versed. The enormous diastole of
evening and systole Of the day must
perfectly established. In the evenil
after society has fulfilled its cycle
ever varying functions, the city, relic,
ing itself Of it's human burden, must b
come still and sublime through IL
night Under the blaze of electrica
torches and the silent guardianship Of
few patrols, whose footballs echo Oh til
resounding streets, we shall hear at tn,
corners the welcome cry of "All il
WE'LL" while the dappled dawn is