Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-07

Suddenly In the course Of a bus,
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 20 to 12tL
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
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. The law
VIII always be sure of interpreters SO
long as Skyscraper City rears I'D
ward
Population Over 10000.
All the stores In this city" are 10
Gated In Main street-nothing unusual
for municipalities of its size. In one
particular case this street IL 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 inhab.tant and
his business. These residences are
EnaNihPaltU
one Is visited a number of times dur
Ing the day by the postman. OF
course, II 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 Its own postofflce department
In this particular city" one street Ia
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 well be
proud 1t is the transportation sys.
tenn. 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 Yorks skscraper mu-
nicipalitieg travels 548 feet into the
air. all the way up to the fortieth
street. and this without the incon.
NJ ho 0fn
more than can be said OF New York
City's car lines at times. These ele
vators can carry twenty-five hundred
pounds at speed of six hundred feet
a minute. which means rising with
some rapidly.
Again, in the method of summonina
the fire department or the police de
partment the similitude between 4
municipality and Skyscraper CITY
Is maintained. In the big cities. when
policeman is DESTROYS OF bringing
about meeting between some re
creant citizens and the judge at the
court he summons an appropriate
conveyance by ringing up headquar
ters from little box on the corner.
The fire department may be required
and 1t Is similarly called. In one Sky
scraper City in Chicago there 10 &
system OF signals, possible OF opera.
ton from any part OF the premises.
which permits of an official getting
in touch with his subordinates az any
instant. And so far as the postG de
partment is concerned, there is the
letter chute, running TO every koor,
which might be gaid to correSp0nd
to the letter boxes Installed at variuua
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 tho
officers and laws, I'm different form,
Of a regularly chartered city There
~ nothing missing not even the IA.
CITIES for travelling home from work
withdat leaving the confines OF the
buildings, Tor some of these skyscrap
era 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 skyscrape.
cities afford an opportunity by hav.
Ing p2jm gardens laid out on the roof