The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-09-13
IN A HUNDRED YEARS.
What New York City Will Be Like
When Another Century Has
Rolled By.

Controller CIRCUITS scheme for a city
on the Jamaica bay islands and fats is
apparently prompted by commercial
considerations. says the New York
Mail. Mr.. Grout never has shown any
Of the marks of dreamer. But to get
the scheme so completely in his head
as 1t seems to be he must have seen
both Venice and the White City of
1893.
We can imagine the salt water city
In Jamaica bay, with real palaces
standing on the shores of grand canals,
electric gondolas plying gaiiy up and
down, and beautiful arched bridges,
not of.sighs, Lut Of smiles, spanning
the watery thoroughfares. But our con-
structive imagination should not get
stuck in the mud between Rockaway
and Canarsie. Why not cast the eye
a full century into the future and con-
ceive what Greater New York will be
when it has settled down to its really
distinctive state, as the cities of
Europe have done?
New York Is as new and uniformed
to-day as almost any city Of the great
west. Anyone who is able to recall
how Broadway looked, or how the city
as whole looked, ten years ago, re-
memb2fs a New York of a totally
different aspect from the one that we
see to-day.
Changes as great are in store. The
completion of the new rapid transit
system will bring about many read
justments. 1t will create new concen-
trations of traffic, and call for great
structures in new places. 1t will begin
to reflect itself in the skyline very soon
after IT'S completion.
In hundred years the line of tall
buildings in Manhattan, dominated by
a sky-piercing, gracefully crowned city
hall, will be like the range of the Apen-
mines in Italy. The water fronts of the
Hudson and the East rivers will be a
steady line of warehouses and term
inals, commanded at regular intervals
BY lofty recreation buildings on the
piers, each one of which will have a
oS.eNly 4u1SO AAV pCuuCuI duu yet
harmonious with the beauty of all the
rest. Farther up own grea, apartment
houses will overlook the water. Here
and there along the shore will nestle
little parks, and upon both rivers
stately steamers, the development of
our ferryboa-.s, VIII glide, carrying up
md down such Of the teeming millions
who live in newly created residence
quarters as refer that means of trans
portation to he whirling cars beneath
the ground.
In the city itself the elevated struc-
lures will long since have disappeared,
and so will surface tracks of iron.
Powerful d.rDle-decked automobile
coaches, which will have taken the
place of trolley cars, vii: glide over
smooth vitreoys 3avements
By 4 natural process of evolution all
squalid, mean and disfiguring buildings
will have di appeared from our streets.
All points of vantage, like the intersec-
tons of streets and avenues, will have
been occupied by structures of char
acter and dignity. The wealth of the
city vii: ha7e found an appropriate out
let in fountaics and statues at all such
points.
Massive ana imposing model tene-
ments. or great phalansteries occupied
by people living according to a CO.
operative piaD. will nave taken the
place Of the structures of the slums.
Meantime it is fair to suppose that the
palaces of tie rich will have multiplied
in number and greatly improved in
architectural character.
The parks " i'll have become beauti-
full in a way that we can hardly
imagine. IMPOSSIBLE and unadapted
growths will .ong since have disap-
peared, while trees now small, Of suit
able species, will have attained their
perfection. All the parks will have
been adorned with statues, pergolas
and fountains. At intervals stadia, COLI
seums, theate's and other places of
recreation and amusement will have
been reared.
Only beginning is this Of the things
that are to be In this town in hun
dred years! Bat perhaps It Is enough