The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22

district almost to Nassau. 1t would over
How half The land between the city hall
and the East river. Further up it would
supmerge narrower strip. but its In
trusion would create great havoc.
City Down Well.
A fifty foot rise of water would put
Manhattan island entirely out of com
mission. Of course, if these depressions
came on very gradually the water
trusions. In this way New York CITY
might be saved from destruction for q
yerv long time. 1t would inevitably
become city surrounded by high
levee against which the ocean beat with
an ever increasing advantage 1t might
perpetuate itself indefinitely by arti-
ficlal means, but in the end it will be
put IN an impossible position: The
waters will follow over the flats Of
New Jersey and of Long Island They
will even beat back through the Della
ware and the Chesapeake and get be-
| yond the city and cut off communica
| ton with the main part Of the land.
| Finally New York will find itself a
city down well far out from the main
land. Gradually the people who dwell
in it will desert it and repair to the
then mainland. The waters will event
ually lap away the great walls that
have been built to keep out the sen,
will tumble In among the skyscrapers.
Perhaps it will fail to reach the tops
| OF some that have mounted to count
| less stories. These will stand for
while as landmarks of passed civiliza-
ton and be commented upon BIZ trans
atlantic passengers rs they pass in their
commodious airships. The fishes will
are now the habitations OF men and
the sprites of the deep will revel up
and down the Great White Way.
| The same things are trne Of Wash
ington, the nation g capitol. Pennsyl-
vania avenue in front of the postoffice
department is but four feet above the
level of the sea. The white house, >the
treasury, the state, war and navy build
ing. the mall with its proposed new
structure. are all but little higher.
| The water in the centuries that are
to come will mount and swallow all
these. That plan of the city beautiful
which is destined to make of Wash
ington the Athens OF the future, is
likewise destined to 30 down in wat
cry grave. The, psychologists of future
generations will hunt In the waters of
the Atlantic for the evidences of our,
civilization as we hunt in the ruins OF
Pompeii.
When Will It Come?
| JnlS dIldlIS Is sure W
come. The eminent geoogist5 who have
studied it exhaustively would stake
their regulations on it. OF course
they would not be here to suffer If
ftime disproved their theories. for it
will be long time. But at the rate
the coast is declining and the facts in
which connection are absolutely known,
New York will be hundred feet lower
than il is now III just 10000 years.
This would be in the year 1910. Then
Philadelphia would also have dsar'
peared and Washington and Savannah
and Jacksonville and Houston, Tex. The
I coast line will have moved back an
average of fifty miles and other cities
will have taken the place Of those Of
old. The people of those times VIII
hold in utter scorn race that was so
foolish as to build temporary great
cities in regions where their destruction
was absolutely known 10 be inevitable.
And the acheologist with his submarine
will revel in such maze of ruins of old
az have been denied the digger IN the
mounds of the past rs we know him:
But if the declining coast line slips
a cog and slides down bit faster than
is scheduled and if that slip comes
tomorrow or the next day, there may
be news story that the dailies of the
Atlantic coast may not print. The
thing may happen and even those con.
servative scientists Of the government
say that there are signs that the start
toward the cold plunge has already been
made.