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Show !HE CITY OF THE FUTURE. The city of the future will be, to use an Irish-im, Irish-im, two cities. In the city proper will be only ssiness houses, in the annex will be the homes, e hotels, the schools, the churches, the hospi-ils hospi-ils and the courts. It will bo a noiseless city, ie streets will be smooth-paved and the only hicle will be the automobile. No steam will permitted, except such as is used in the Jjgmes. All the approaches will be made as nearly near-ly noiseless as possible. We suspect that even e church bells will be banished, and the call w worship, will be by signal flags. The only Jgud noises will be made by musicians playing j the public park, and when the . night comes down, the hush will be supreme. But the other city the business city how it Igll roar! There will be overhead surfaces and gb-surface trains, rushing continually. The clatter of hoofs and the roll of wheels will never cease, the streets and sidewalks will be wider and the buildings higher. The battle of the industries in-dustries will rage all the day and most of the night. It will be a confusion of tongues, but through the chaos, there will be a direct order about it, the clashings of intellects, the hustling agencies through which commerce and trade are carried on and the financiering, which gives direction di-rection to all the world's industries, will be day by day evolved. It will not be so long as most people think before this arrangement will be practically perfected, especially in the greater cities, for some of them as now arranged, are uncomfortable un-comfortable things to live in. , |