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Show Our Babylon ALMOST $100,0Gu,000 was expended in new buildings on Manhattan island in 1911, and structures enough and good enough to make a modern little city were destroyed to make room for the sky piercers. Of course there is an expectation that all these structures will find tenants. And the rage goes on. More Is expected to be done in tho present year than was done last. Of course New York is the nation's great clearing house, the rendezvous for great wealth; the incubating shell for great enterprises the modern Babylon in every respect. It is easy to reason that tho host which in endless procession gravitates that way must have houses. But at tho present progress how long can this swelling host get to the houses in the morning and get il away at night. It Is only possible now because r of the subways, but how many more subways can M be constructed and operated? Will not the people B have to begin to lookr the other way soon and 'H in some way increase their elevated roads until they ramify the streets as street cars now do? H Or is it within the possibilities that the aero- H plane is to be perfected shortly, so that the roof H of every skyscraper will become a station and H men will descend to their offices instead of as- H cending? H The good book, picturing some of the Inflrml- iH ties of age says it "is afraid of that which is H H That ought to be a notice to all old -chaps to H fight shy of New York City. H In houses and ships modern men are exceed- iH ing the limit. The houses of New York City are JM some of them too high. Some of the ships al H ready built and under construction, to judge by H the harbors of the world, are too big. Man's H audacity Is running away with him. H |
