The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-04

/ restrained Mississippi. Ships vii,
sail directly from Pittsburg to tie
Orient by way of Panama. The steel
from the birmingham iron centre
at the very mouths OF the furnaces.
This prospect is wonderful but not
nearly so wonderful az the Manchea-
ter ship canal In England would have
seemed Il century ago.
The development of Siberia and tho
opening Of China to worid-trad2
ninety years hence will have made the
Pacific Ocean the great commercial
sea. and the Western cities of the
United states Will have prohted there
by. II requires no prophet to see the
commercial greatness OF the Puget
Sound country with cities of the mil
| lion (class.
San Francisco at the Golden Gate,
with It's clustering sisters, viii be rs
large then as New York is now. Los
OF her tributary valleys over Il pop
| nlation half as great as all the na-
ton has now, most OF them living on
land rescued from the blight Of the
desert.
Manhattan viii in that day be tie
capital of the commercial world. IT
VIII be the centre OF city of many
bly, VIII have fewer people than 1t
has to-day. The downtown Office
district viii extend all the way to tire
Bronx. The whole island viii be sly-
en- over to business and pleasure. while
the people Will have their homes out
side. 1t will not take more Than
twenty years OF the protected n...rty
for New York to take away from t.an-
/ don the highest place in the worlds
commerce. When the year 1000 comes
| the whole world VIII look TO Manhat-
tan for its financial Intelligence. What
! city II Will be thcn--honeycombcd under
/ by tunnels, lowered over by Towers
OF Babel. perhaps obscured by tAs
] fitting shadows OF n.yriads of ma
| chimes which have learned the secret
or the birds!
| Washington. sublimatcd Washington
Will be the gayest socia! capital and
! the most beautiful city of earth. The
immortal patriot FOR whom IL Wa
named was a surveyor. & mathema
itician and n seer. He laid OFT t!ie
/ Federal, city according TO his owl
| plans. The limit OF his genius is only
/ now being reached, but his scheme
| was so simple and beautiful that II
| may be extended infinitely. The city
will have overnowed the narrow limits
! of the District of Columbia long be-
fore 20oo. But in the grandeur OF Its
buildings. the magniicence OF It's vistas
and the glory OF Its parks It Will be
| the premier capital of all til. nations.
/ Speculation? As to population It
inst at all. The figures are projected
\ accordinN toea rule devised by the hni-
| nent statistlcian, DR.. Henry $. Pritcl-
\ EFT. He has estimated the Increase of
the population for several decades, ard
he has never missed 1t more than II
comparatively few thousands During
4 the time the rule has been applied
! there have been great wars and cpl
/ 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
Iheld good and has proved itself.
The young business man of to-day
who may be discouraged by tempo
IrarS depression should remember that
by the time he Is ready to retire from
his desk. the half OF these wonderful
4 things Will have been accomplished
/ The boy In the high school to-day will
live to- see three-fourths OF this Won
derful growth and development pass
into history. Some mother to-day
\ bends over a man child who will be
able at the age of ninety-morc people
will attain that great age then than
now--to look back over the greater
\ part OF the century and remember.
4 step by ster the things that happened
a while the United States was arriving
4 at the dignity of the full grown ma
] ton There is no room for pessimlsm
in country like this. Let us laugh at
1.-THE growing pains!
Editors Note.--The foregoing is
the first of series OF seven articles
4 n which Mr.. Huskin will project the
future of the United States toward the
3 time when America is grown" They
look forward to the year 1000, but
Ithey are not merely Imaginative, con-
lectures. as they base all predictions
upon the natural growth of conditions
now obtaining To-day'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
Il tnuortonce. All will Enrea CHI TIL tt'llths
of optimism.)
) Copyright. Dos. by Frederic ].
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