The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-20
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
New York, Oct. IL, 1911.

views of the New York Worlds cor
respondent with Mr.. Thos. A. Edison
in his tour of England, are no doubt
amazed at the wonderful progress
now going on across the water.
The smoke-stacks, so much in evil
dence in Germany, especially signal
ICES and symbolizes these great for
ward movements in the worlds mar
velous progress.
Men of genius, men of capital and
men of enterprise are industrious in
their efforts, and are constantly de-
vising plans to make the world bet
ter abode for human habitation.
The results of their efforts are
more observable in the towns, but
the progress on the farms is not less
marvellous.
President Taft, in one of his late
speeches, said that in fifty years the
farmers of the United States would
be called upon to feed two hundred
million people, and to make this feat
possible our laboratories and machine
shops would be put to their best eff
forts
But that the farmers of the coun-
try will be successful there is no par
ticle of doubt. Compare the uses of
the cotton plant of today and a few
years ago. and how immensely the
corn yield has been increased in the
last few years
The great problem to be solved in
our cities is that of locomotion-how
TO handle the crowds, how to convey
the people from and to their homes.
When the writer first visited New
York there was nothing but horse
cars and omnibuses. His next visit
he saw the initial steps towards the
construction of the elevated railways.
and the completion of the Brooklyn
bridge. Later, the subways. Later
still, the McAdoo tubes under the riv-
ers and many bridges overhead, and
the completion of the greatest rail-
way station of the world. Now there
are automobiles of every description
whizzing by every moment in the day,
and with the origination and compile
ton of all these plans for the distri-
button of the people, there are still
congestions in certain centers. Auto
mobile salesrooms and garages are
seen on nearly every block in New
York
What has contributed more than all
other agencies to the rapid upbuild-
ing of our cities TO the mind of the
writer was the invention and perfec-
ton of the elevator. Yet it seems to
have received scant mention. With
out this most serviceable invention
the construction of the tall and state.
~ and massive buildings that have so
changed the appearance of our cities
in later years would have been i'm
possible.
We arrived in New York at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning and are To-
Gated at the Hotel Cumberland, saith
and Broadway. There is not that
congestion of population that is so OBJ
servable down town." which acts as
a sedative. and makes sleep more
certain.
OF course the countryman must
first visit the Hippodrome, and it is
we'll that he does. for it is the largest
playhouse in the world. and its spec
tacular productions are the most daz-
cling. This year it claims to excel
all previous efforts. and perhaps the
claim is not unmerited 1t takes the
spectator around the world" giving
a dramatic representation of the
phases of life of the different coun.
! tries.
/ One is conveyed across the ocean
in yacht, and the picture is so per-
feet as to be almost real. The yacht
glides along over real water and real
smoke is seen issuing from the
smokestack.
The first landing is in England.
Windsor Castle is seen in the dis
lance, and a country scene in the
foreground. The lights go out, and
in moment We are in Scotland and
Ireland, and again in Egypt; Constan.
tinople, in the Vizier's harem, in We.
nice, Spain. Switzerland, and on and
on until the tour of the world is
made. The pictures are spectacular
in the extreme. A storm passes: the
winds increase in fury, trees are up
rooted and houses are blown down.
forest fires are seen, and the waste
of devastation is presented in after
scene.
The butterfly scene is most beau
tiful and enchanting, The scene rep
resents a beautiful woodland glade,
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