New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-23
The / COMING MARVE|S
Marconi Predicts Ships Will Be
Run by Electricity.
AlRsHIPs FOR COMMON USE.
Inventor Also Sees a Better World
With Fewer Children, but of Higher
Quality Operas to Be Heard and
Seen From, a Distance.

That steamships will be run by sun /
shine is the opinion of Guglielmo Mar j,
conf, who recently discussed the mar /
vels of the future.
The inventor Of wireless telegraphy
has come to America to increase his !
transatlantic service from capacity
of 5000 words day to 10000. After
predicting great future for wireless
telegraphy he said to reporter of the
New York World:
There seems to be happy fate in
the coincidence of scientific discover
les, which on first thought are quite
unrelated to each other. The develop
ment of the airship, as shown in the
astounding performance of Orville
Wdght's machine in Washington,
would seem to have nothing in COM
mon with the perfection of wireless
communication, and yet, If one looks
into the future, the great airships
which are to come, sailing at fncredi-
BILE speed and at unforeseen and vary
ing attitudes, could never without the
wireless speak each other as ships do
at sea and SO remain in touch with
those safely at home
"And the airship is certain to come
into general use, and that within the
lifetime of our generation, not for
freight perhaps, but for people sure
ly. In fifty years the people of New
York will be freed Of the vexing prob
lem Of rapid transit. There will be no
need for surface cars, elevated roads,
subways, tunnels and ferries.
I'm fact as look into the years to
come I am convinced that life will be
an easier problem, more genial func-
ton in the scheme of things, than it is
today.
aside from the economy Of labor
which follows the conquest of natures
forces, there will be, fewer people
among whom to divide the benefits.
The birth rate viii continue to de
crease, as believe it should, at least
| for the present. With the growth of
intelligence among the mass Of people
there will come realization Of the
| folly of rearing more children than
can be properly fitted to be efficient
members of society. Quality, not mum,
bers, will come to be the standard OF
racial excellence, and the present
anomalous condition wherein the mum
Der of children in family is In inverse
ratio to the earning capacity of the
parents will have disappeared.
''The condition today Is not one Of
race suicide but of social common
sense. And If the present enlighten
ment of the average men and wome1
continues to its righteous turnins
point there will come an end Of con
gested cities, with their wretched ant
starving children Of the tenements
their crimes, their killing competition
and their encouragement of the gen
tier aspirations of men.
TN all ways science is more ant
more studying to perfect the pracdca
comfort and we'll being of the world
OF course there will always be ship
upon the sea. The mysterious primeva
voice of the ocean will continue it
spell over the human imagination. Blu
there will not always be steamships
They win pass the way of their prede
cessors, and ere long we shall cross
the ocean in ships run by electric pow
er. There will be no CRIME Of Goa
smoke, no sickish odor of stale steam
| HI IN, 4ho h1l1
human beings with starting eyes ant
b1ackened faces sweat their lives ava,
that the pulse of the engines may no
stop. The storage battery will taxi
the place of coal and fire and water
Instead of coaling the great ship will
quietly and Clearly renew her batter
les at her journeys end, and if coal Il
used it will be far from the linen ant
the noses of men.
Furthermore, I look for the tim,
when coal will cease to be our onl,
source of energy. In every land mel
OF science are patiently studying tn,
problem of utilizing the energy of TIT
sum storing it, in fact-so that tn,
generation of electric force may b,
cheapened by its use to point wher,
the storage battery on large seal,
will be an economic as well as an AGA
demtc possibility. The wasted energ!
In coal as now used may in the inter
val be brought to do its work and 81
bring about the monster storage bat
terry sooner than we now expect. Blu
sooner or later we shall enslave tn.
suns rays to our uses as we have TIT
other products of his being.
"Ah, yes, life is going to be better
experience for our children than 1t |!
for most Of us now. In many little
ways it will be so. Do you know tha
in many laboratories they are coming
close to letting US see the person who
is talking to us at the other end of TIT
telephone connection? And II they car
do this, II they can transmit the ligh
waves Of images at distance and i
looks as II science is bound to accom-
i plish It'll am voicing NO extravaganza
In saying that we may yet sit in oul
homes on cold winters night, turn {