The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-19
Population Over 10000.


All the stores in this city" are To-
Gated In Main street-nOthing unusual
for municipalities of its size. In n
particular case this street Is more
than three hundred feet in length, and
is %traversed daily by thousands Of
people. More than twelve hundred
residences are located in this city"
each being labelled On the front door
with the name Of the ~inhabitant and
his business. These residences are
specifically termed Offices, and each
one is visited a number of times dur
ing the day by the postman. OF
course, it would take n pOstman a
good many hours to cover the entire
route of the city" Consequently the
streets are divided into territories, SO
S~kyscraper City may be said to
have it's own ~postofice department.
In this particular city" n street Is
inhabitated by more than seven hun.
dred people. This city" has forty.
| one streets, the entire population be.
ing more than ten thousand.
There is n thing in this same city
of which the inhabitants may well be
proud. 1t is the transportation sys
TEN. 1t consists of twenty-three ele
vators, the combined capacity being
about ten thousand people an hour.
| Transportation In these cases is both
| quick and safe. There is no mortal
ity in connection with this transit
system. An elevator in n Of the
latest of New York's skscraper mu
inequalities travels 548 feet into the
| air, all the way up to the forfeit
street, and this without the incon
venience of changing cars, which Is
more than can be said of New Yorl
| City's car lines at times. These ele
vators can carry twenty-five hundred
pounds at a speed of six hundred feet
a minute, which means rising with
some rapidity.
Again, in the method Of summonins
the fire department or the police de
partment the similitude between 6
municipality and Skyscraper City
is maintained. In the big cities, wher
a policeman is DESTROYS of bringing
about a meeting between some re
creant citizens and the Judge at the
court he summons an appropriate
conveyance by ringing up headquar
tiers from a little box on the corner
The fire department may be required
and it is similarly called. In one Sky
scraper City in Chicago there Is {
system of signals, possible OF opera
| ton from any part of the premises
which permits of an official getting
in touch with his subordinates at any
| instant. And so far as the postal de
partment is concerned, there is the
letter chute, running to every floor
which might be said to correspond
to the letter boxes installed at various
points throughout American cities.
So the immense building operations
of the times are surrounding residents
of real cities with these twentieth
century municipalities, with all the
officers and laws, in different form
of a regularly chartered city. There
is nothing missing, not even the ia
| cilities for travelling home from work
! without leaving the confines of the
buildings, for some of these skyscrap
ers have private entrances to subway
and elevated lines. And all must MOI
necessarily be work here any NOR
than in any other city. If the inhabi
tants of this modern institution wisf
to take recreation some Skyscrapel
cities afford an. opportunity by hav
ing palm gardens laid out on h ROOF
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