Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-07

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS March 70, 1896.
The world will be transformed in twenty
five years.
II, 1880 two-thirds of our diseases Will
be apolished; cities will be healthy; MIX
will be pure and provisions fresh; clerks
will have a life more ample than their
present day employers; workingmen VIII
live in ease and city and country VIII De
50 merged that every one Will nave un-
d,eamed-of opportunities for a breezy ny
gIenic existence.
This Transformation Will be the work OF
the automobile. These are no visionary
dreams. but the hard-headed calculations
of European captains of industry like the
Marquis de Dion, Michalin. the rubber
tire king; Weight of the c. G.. v. and the
elder Clement. They are the men Wno'
backed I'D by all the French automobile
makers, treasured the French etat major
two months ago by an unprecedented pa
triotic pool OF both material and organlzd-
ton, so that the French fear Germany no
longer.
And every one of these predictions has
its roots already growing. We are In
period of transformation without percelVlng
For example, there are now two automo-
pie street SNtSptIS anu iiNS
sprinklers in Paris, though there are as
yet no automobile scavenger or refuse
vans In 1890 there will be some 80 or loo
each, 10 begin working simultaneously at
the dawn of day in eaCf one OF the elsHty
Paris districts.
In 1880 there viii be one sacrifice that
the holisekeeper must make for the puphc
good The household refuse must be put
out each night. At dawn the 1oo automobile
scavenger vans will begin. A light and
rapid crane worked by the motor, Will
If. up the waste box, dump 1t into the
van rapidly and expeditiously.
Automobile Sprinklers and Sweepers.
Behind each one will come one of loo
automobile street sprinklers. laying the
dust and refreshing the town. Each Will
be followed by one OF 100 automobile street
sweepers, sweeping the dirt that was dust,
the usual city refuse and the scattered
droppings from the waste boxes into long,
straight lines. And then viii come one OF
the city's 1o9 automobile scavenger vans
TO carry off those SweepingS.
Every street of Paris will be thus made
sweet and clean each morning. The per-
lection of the thing viii be Its thorough
ness which only automobile rapidity, power
and capacity can realize. Can you realize
the healthfuness and comfort of a city
free from dust and fermenting refuse daily
cleaned and sweetened in Its every street?
Dust is the vehicle of innrlmerable diseases.
are rapid-will go sprinkling all the streets
again each afternoon
While the 800 automobile slop and scay-
enger vans are quilting Paris for the burn
Ing works and chemical transformers IN the
suburbs another automobile procession Will
be Fastening into Paris with the daylight.
One milk company today advertises that
it brings its milk by automobile from
farm in the Disc district In 1890 milk
will come no other way into great cities.
The milk scandal is Il great one now IN
Paris. A pure milk league exists. Public
spirited milIionaires like young DIR. Roths-
chile are opera ting model dairiss. A fash
icndble kind of Paris Zoo-'fhe. Acclimating
Park"-sells guaranteed pune milk at -
cents per quart! And the municipal labo-
ratory has 250 detectives daily hunting
down the milk-adulterating Intermediates.
There is the secret of the scandal-the
responslhility-escaping Intermediates. The
day when q Paris retailer begins to serve
milk straight from COW to consumer by a
swift automobile service, all the others VIII
+. be forced To follow; or the city or the cen-
trail government viii force them--so says
the elder Clement. who Is a great partisan
OF Casimir- Perier's Social Hygiene All
ance.
VIII Save the Babies.
an 1890 babies will cease dying like flies
In Paris thanks to the automobile" he
says. "Out of i 600 infant deaths between
enc day and o1e year, T75 are due to sick
nesses which the Pasteur school has dem
onstrated accidental OF there 3d. are
due to gastro-anteritis and debility Au-
tomobiie milk will. save the mass of them!'
The coming age of health will be an age
of plenty. While the automobile milk
wagons are doing their quick distribution,
farmers, come In countless automobile
wagons, will be selling their fresh vege-
ia bles In the great city. Today they send
their produce blinGiy to the commission
dealer There is negligence waste hazard
and cheating. But when the farmer brings
his stun by cheap and rapid autmobile to
the city market be can sell his morning
fresh stuff cheaper, and still make bet
ter profit.
Farming land within 100 miles of each
great city will be rendered wonderfully
profitable What even the trolley cannot
give-the personal touch with the city con-
sumer-wiil be the gift of the automobile
wagon. The farmer within 100 miles of the
city win do the trip In three hours. sell out
and be back home with his money in the
early afternoon.
Even meat will come to Paris In these
farmers acknowledgements. The French
have no meat trust, no far-off prairies 60
make a trust possible. But the great abat-
toirs nevertheless have the meat producer
and the retail butcher at q disadvantage.
When the cattle come by rail they must
go to the stock yards. The producer Is no
cannot follow them. Like the vegetable
grower. he takes the price they send him.
In the automobile age, however, live stock
will be fattened again, even In America.
Acknowledgements will bring them healthy
and unfevered to markets where the re-
failing butcher can deal for them directly
with the farmer.
And 1t Is only am.
Life Will Be Intense.
Paris wakes in 1880. Life will be intense.