Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-04
WASHINGTON WILL BE
GREATEST CAPITAL AND
NEW YORK LARGEST CITY

Manhattan will in that day be the
capital of the commercial world. 1t
will be the center of city OF many
millions, but the island itself probably
Will have fewer people than 1t has to-
day. The downtown office district will
extend all the way to the Bronx. The
whole island will be given over to busi-
ness and pleasure, while the people will
have their homes outside. It will not
take more than twenty years of the
projected ninety for New York to take
away from London the highest place I'm
the worlds commerce. When the year
1000 comes the whole world will look
to Manhattan for its financial intelli-
!gence. What city it will be then
honeycombed under by tunnels, lowered
over by towers of Babel. perhaps OBJ
scured by the fitting shadows of
myrfads of machines which have
learned the secret of the birds!
Washington, sublimated Washington,
VIII be the gayest social capital and
the most beautiful city of earth. The
patriot for whom 1t was named was
surveyor, mathematician and
seer. He laid out the Federal city ac-
ccording to his own plans. The limit of
his genius Is only now being reached.
but his scheme was so simple and
beautiful that it may be extended in
definitely. The city will have over
noWeu lne narrow liinitS OF the Dis
trict of Columbia long before 1000. But
In the grandeur of its buildings, the
magnificence of its vistas and the glory
of its parks 1t will be thA premier capt.
tai of all the nations.
Speculation? AS to population 1t isn't
at all. The figures are projected ac-
cording to a rule devised by the emil
nent statistician, DR.. Henry S. Prich-
EFT. He has estimated the increase of
the population for several decades, and
he has never missed II more than a
comparatively few thousands. During
the time the rule has been applied
there have been great wars and epi-
denies, years of great immigration and
years of few arrivals, years of plenty
and years of panic-yet through all
changing conditions the law has held
good and has proved itself.
The young business man of today
who may be discouraged by tenn
porary depression should remember
that by the time he is ready to retire
from his desk the half of these won
derful things will have been accom-
plished. The boy in the high school to-
day will live to see three-fourths OF
this wonderful growth and development
pass into history. Some mother today
bends over a man child who will be
able at the age OF 90-more people will
attain that great age then than now
to look back over the greater part OF
the century and remember, step by
step, the things that happened while
the United States was arriving at the
dignity of a full grown nation. There
is no room for pessimism in a country
like this. Let us laugh at the growing
pains!
Copyright. 1908. by Frederic J. Haskin)
Editors Note-The foregoing Is the first
of seven articles In which Mr.. Haskin will
project the future of the United States to-
ward the time when America Is grown"
They look forward to the year 1000. but
they are not merely imaginative conjec-
lures, as they base all predictions upon
the natural growth Of conditions now oh
tanning. Today's article tells of the grown
up America In respect to population. The
others will treat of wealth, agriculture,
manufactures, applied science, education
and political Importance. All will preach
the truths of Optlmism.)