The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-02

! as the water department Is concern
ed, one New York skyscraper has a
| pumping station that is capable of
supplying sufficient water to furnish
city of 100000 people.
Now here is where the similarity
| between the skyscraper and the recog-
nized city is made strongly apparent
Skyscraper City often has within it's
boundaries establishments which can
supply every need of hungry, thirsty,
dirty, naked citizen.
No need to die of starvation were
you to be confined for life in Sky
scraper City while it's restaurants are
able to get dinner together. It's cafe
would Danish all fear of longing for
something, to render the throat and
stomach more comfortable without
hope of receiving it. It's haberdashery
and tailor could clothe you in the lat
est fashion; its shoe store would at
tend to the task of keeping your feet
well shOd. Its baths would be ever
ready to open their arms to you. Your
every want for things procurable only
in confectiOners shop would be fill
ed, while you would merely have to
go downstairs should you feel that
your happiness might be enhanced by
fragrant cigar The fruit stand is
on the main floor, left.
Suddenly in the course of a busy
afternoon the confectionery which you
might have bought at Skyscraper
City's progressive shop might cause
some restlessness on the part of your
teeth. You merely have to go to 18th
street, which is Skyscraper City's
twelfth floor, and have the trouble
remedied by the dentist. Or perhaps
some fruit from the stand below might
result In little disturbance in your
interior mechanism; you will find a
doctor on Sth street An occasion
might arise where you might require
the services of lawyer-a bad account
or any of the many little things that
simply will crop up in everyday life
Skyscraper City just swarms with
these eminent practitioners.
Population Over 10000.
All the stores in this "city" are 10.
Gated in Main street--nothing unusual
for municipalities of it's size. In one
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 number of times dur
ing the day by the postman. Of
course, 1T would take one postman a
good many hours to cover the entire
route of the city" Consequently the
streets are divided into territories. so
Skyscraper City may be said to
have it's own postoffice department.
In this particular city" one 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 one thing in this same city
of which the inhabitants may we'll 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 one of the
latest of New York's skscraper mu.
inequalities travels 54S feet into the
air, all the way up to the fortieth
street, and this without the incon
venience of changing cars.
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 not
necessarily be work here any more
than in any other city. If the inhabi
tants of this modern institution wish
to take recreation some Skyscraper
cities afford an opportunity by hav-
ing palm gardens laid out on the roof.