Mexico Missouri message., 1901-02-07
In Tho kabrich Building.
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DREAMERS DREAM n
r. THE NEW CENTURY.

following are few of their dreams:
AUTOMOBILES. Farmers will
own automobile hay-wagons, au-
tomobilc uck-wagons, ploughs,
harrows and hay-rakes. A one
pound motor in one of these vehi-
cles will do the work of a pair of
horses or more. Children will
ride in automobile sleighs in win
ter. Automobiles will have been
substituted for every horse vehicle
now known. There will be, as al
ready exist today, automobile
hearses, automobile ambulauces,
automobile street sweepers. The
horse in harness will be rs scarce,
if, indeed, not even scarccr, than
as the yoked OK is today.
STORE PURCHASES BY TUBE. -
Pneumatic tubes, instead of store
wagons, will deliver packages and
bundles. These tubes will collect
deliver and transport mail over
certain distances, perhaps for hum
drcds of miles. They will at first
connect with the private houses of
the wealthy; then with all homes.
Great business establishments will
extend them to stations, similar to
our branch postot1iccs of today,
whence fast automobile vehicles
will distribute purchases from
house to house.
VEGETABLES GROWS BY EIEC-
TRICITY. Winter will be turned
into summer and night into day by
the farmer. In cold weather he
will place heat-conducting electric
wires under the soil Of his garden
and thus warm his growing plants.
lie will also grow large gardens
under glass. At night his vegeta-
bles will be bathcd in powerful
electric light, serving, like sun
light, to hasten their growth. f.
lectric currents applied to the soil
will make valuable plants grow
larger and faster, and will kill
troublesome weeds.
No FOOD WILL BE EXPOSED
Storekeepers who expose food to
air breathed ont by patrons or to
the atmosphere of the busy streets
will be arrested with those who
sell stale or adulterated produce.
Liquid air rcfrigerators will keep
great quantities of food fresh for
long intervals.
Coal WILL NOT RE USED. 1t
will be scarce, but not entirely cX
hausted. The earth's hard coal
will last until the year 205O or
POO; its soft-cOal mines until
1900 or 1900. Meanwhile both
kinds of coal will have become
more and more expensive. Man
will have found electricity manu-
featured by water-power to be
much cheaper. Every river or
creek with any suitable fall will be
equipped with watermotors, turn
ing dynamos, making electricity.
Along the seacoast will be numer-
Gus reservoirs continually filled by
waves and tides washing in. Out
of these the water will be constant
ly falling over revolving wheels.
All of our restless waters, fresh
and salt, will thus be halncsscd to
do the work which Niagara is do
ing today; making electricity for
heat, light and fuel
No STREET CARS. All hurry
traffic will be below or high above
ground when brought within city
limits. In most cities it will be
confined to broad subways or tun-
nels, well lighted and well venti-
lated, or to high trestles with
moving sidewalk" stairways lead
ing to the top. These underground
or overhead streets will teen with
capacious automobile passenger
coaches and freight wagons with
cushioned wheels. Subways or
trestles will reserved for express
trains. Cities, therefore, will he
free from all noises.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES
AN HOUR. Trains will run two
miles Il minute, normally; express
trains one hundred and fifty miles
an hour. To go from New York
to San Francisco will take day
and night by fast express, There
will be cigar shaped electric loco
motives hauling long trains of ears,
Cars will, like houses, be artifci.
ally cooled