The sun., 1916-12-17

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train. reducing the per yard expense
to figures analogous to canal work.
House construction may be of poured
cement with repeated use of a series
Of forms which may be laid. poured.
removed and relaid, all by york train
methods. while concrete making ma
terials are brought up through the
newly finished structure on the per-
manent Roadtown roadway, or sen up
ahead on the temporary construction
train from which the excavation was
made.
In the operation OF the finished
Roadtown structure the 'line prin-
ciple" finds application primarily in
the passenger and commodity trans
~portation system that IL IN a trench
way beneath the house. This system
gives all the e~ficiencies Of the subway
without the enormous building costs
attendant UPON the %souging Of n sub
way through the foundations Of an
established city. and at tho same time.
by placing automatic distributing
mechanism within the house, elm
mates the cost Of construction, opera
ton and upkeep OF all streets and
street vehicles.
The rapid transportation system IL
below the house. but the roof OF the
structure Is a promenade for pcdes-
TRANS. pneumatic tired skates. cycles.
and such motor vehicles as are sufl-
GENTLY light for traffic in such n sit
uation.
With traf1c ways above and beneath
the house. there are still the four
sides Of each dwelling unit to he ac-
counted for. Two OF these sides are
the blind and sound proof walls that
separate tho units.
Tho other two sides correspond TO
the front and back Of the house in the
solidly built city; but whereas the city
house faces on a noisome public
street and the rear on Il shut in court
The Roadtown house will have both
its lateral faces opening into all tho
privacy. quiet and beauty OF n garden
and back NJ that "A farm. This gives
the Roadtown house a privacy equalled
or excelled only by that OF n country
cottage and all the good things Of
the country. The public ran look down
from the roofs upon the endless series
Of gardens. but the public are not in
the gardens to look into or listen into
tho windows OF the Roadtown houses.
In this simplest form of n Roadtown
with single residences that reach
through the structure inc occupy all
the space from ground to roof. there
will be two hundred and nifty houses
which should carry "A population OF
1000 to the mile. Such n population
Is sufficient TO support n rapid but
noiseless transportation system in the
we'll ventilated trenchway beneath the
house, to provide the inhabitants with
the best OF service in heat. water and
electric utilities. and all things hat
may be transported by pipes, rails and
wires.
The economies Of providing such
rail-pipe-wire utilities from an open
and convenient trenchway are far
greater than with the present method
OF buryinG these conduits Of u life's
essentials in tho soil beneath the pave
ment OF our city streets. whore each
addition or repair neCcssitates out
raGsous costs. havoc and u~Glincss.
Roadtown forms the essential me-
chanical base for n social Utopia for
the reason that II large proportion Of
the conveniences Of living and work.
ing. including both those Of the city
and OF the open country. may be built
and onero,cd IN Ro,dtown M n ,ou,cr
COST than is noss,h,a with tho nresert
form ~ either urhan ar rim, c,v,,Iz,-
ton.
C~Inanc,a, economv ,s tbo dr,v,r,
force NJ tho evolution NJ civiIiz,,,on
The chcaper wav IN mako = yi,,en
thing or tho mower uav n make q, .uh-
stI,nte n, "a cboaner COS, uil, drive o,,,
tho old proccss and tho old article and
tho mechanic,, forms ~ man.a Iro lao
changed nv those suha,ttut,ops until
II nppears TINT the very social nature
and hio,op,ca, habits of thu race have
changed
Because ~ 10 Fundamental rcvo,u-
,,onarv mcch. nicoI CONSTRUCTION Pond
town claims IN no n moro economical
form M building and onera,iny tho
essentials NJ housing and t~rapsnor,n-
tion that form tho frornework ~ all
our COMPLICATED civilized life. Decauss
this Road.owp structure Go c~copop,ical
II vii, grow M tho cxnonso NJ THO
present CITY forms. Bccause Of IFS
structure +, will incrc,s 20 Tho amoup,
Of human cooporatIor. for II is a s,ruc-
,ure that. liko railroads rrows moro
economIc.l whom constructed nm,
operated In large units.
Because of Roaatown's cnormous
potentiality 10 change tho very o.sen-
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