The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK. July 26.-With the
rapid transit system in New York hair
competed and tunnels planned to ex-
tend under New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey IN all directions, together with
the practical uniting of Staten Island
ana New York by filling IN process.
1t begins to look as if the formation
OF the biggest city in the world was
well under way.
FIVE or six years ago before any Of
1hese projects were talked about
psychic from India made some prophe-
cleS now brought to light concerning
the future of New York which seem
TO pc IN very fair way to be verified.
Th1s is what he said then: "New
dorK is TO be tunneled through and
through. North and south, east and
west. She is to be net work Of tun-
nels, vladucts and bridges, whilst that
horr1d incubus, the L. road, is to be
removed from the weary New Yofgxers.
Fheumat1c tubes, another consumma,-
tloh long devoutIy wished for. will
INK IN one gigantic system the great
city which will stretch from Hoboken
or paterson to the confines of Long
iS,,aia Ihey will enable the Hobo
russian to call up his Sixth avenue
butcher and receive fresh cut chop in
a rev seconds. There will have to he
no calling up the hello girl and waiting
half an hour for Sixth avenue, how
ever, as thought transference will in
lol5n the butcher what is needed. This
VIII wipe out the postoffice and the
telephone monopoly at a bound.
new YORK city will have been con-
| nected with Staten Island and Cover
n0rs Island by process of filling in
Whlch VIII entirely change the topo-
graphy OF Manhattan Island
immigration is not to be Restricted
". in III
ton are TO be the foreign quarters of
colonies Of the different nations which
VIII come IN from many new parts OF
| the world.
| Tunnel Under Atlantic.
The enormous vessels of the Ameri-
can merchant, marine will need MANY
hundreds of thousands of sailors to
| EQUIP them, and floating out from the
| most palatial docks will predominant
| over all the other navies or the world.
10 Europe will be question of a few
| hours only, whilst Australia, India and
AFRICA Will be reached in few days.
A tunnel underneath the Atlantic is
also promised about this time.
Great. Britain is to nave become a
| republic and the ally of the United
States in developing civilization in ali
parts of the world
| incidentally electric trains will travel
| at the rate of one hundred and hfty
| miles an hour
The nlentalograph is to do the work
OF recording thoughts, and a nentaIo-
srapn1c letter, swept along by an cleo
| tr1c current, without the assistance OF
| human hands, will reach correspon
| dents by means of cleverly connected
! pneumatic systems with head and sub
centers all over the city. A click will
| tell OF it's arrival to the person for
whom it is intended and the thoughts
IA sod IzN
| ism.
You will simply have to sit and think
at your ticker and away the message
Will go. This system will knock out
the ocean cable and metamorphose the
newspaper into thought tablet.
AR boats will carry the New Yorker
OF A. IL. 1000 on any mission of pleas
ure that he cares to undertake and
VIII have driven the ubiquitous bike
out of existence
Clean street cars and clean streets
VIII be universal, as they will be purged
oy an electrical system under the
charge of a modern Waring.
Small Stores to Quit.
Small stores will practically have
been swept out of existence as the
pneumatic communications with enor-
nous stores of all descriptions will
render shopping unnecessary
Automatic chairs, started UPWARDS
/ py pushing a button will rush the peo-
pie UP to any flight required in their
thirty or forty story houses
Inc manipulation Of chemicals will
enable the city to dispense with it's
| ire department and a large fire will
nave become impossible. Observator-
| les on the top Of most Of the houses
with enormous telescopes and phos-
| phorescent light connections will en-
| able New Workers to look at their
| friends In Philadelphia, Boston, Chi
| cago and other smaller cities.
| Medicine will have been displaced by
mind healing and religious bigotry by
| humanitarianism.
| This will disappoint socialism of its
prey at the last moment and the strug-
| gle between labor and capital will be
| settled without the aid of a central
| labor union. The weary Wtllies will all
have found paradise by being provided
with employment and rich men have
become so philanthropic that they will
not care much about riches.
| Municipal affairs will be organized on
a basis Of much greater simplicity. the
| ofhces then falling naturally into the
hands of the intellectual and refined
| In fact the city will be ruled more
by science than politics and political
| jealousies will have passed into the
| limbo of oblivion"
/ So we CLEAN from this crystal reader
| of the Orient whose ideas are revealed
| through the records or a local Psy,
chical Research society.
1t is a pleasing and comfortable pos
, sibil1ty to contemplate under any cir
cumstances. Willard Cook.
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