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Looking One Hundred Years Ahead. 



Within ten years Stamford and 



Greenwich have made forward strides 



that are marvellous. Fifteen years ago 

 three hundred houses were for rent 



the city hall in Stamford, but the two 

 cities will be one and under one name. 

 They will coalesce into a greater Fair- 

 field City with two districts. Stamford 

 and Greenwich. Such a vision of events 

 one hundred years in the future may at 





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THE FIRST STAMFORD HOME 

 This building, twelve by thirty, succeeded a smaller 



in Stamford, and Stamford was then 

 much smaller than it is now, but since 

 that time building operations have 

 been active and a surprisingly large 

 number of public buildings and private 

 residences have been erected. The 

 builders of our new library, town hall, 

 churches, schools and many of the finer 

 residences are evidently looking ahead 

 for more than a hundred years. 



In these structures have been invest- 

 ed much time and money for the bene- 

 fit of future generations. 



One hundred years hence Stamford 

 and Greenwich will be twin cities with 

 a population of more than a half mill- 

 ion. Cities of that size extending 

 toward each other until they come in 

 contact will appear, when the Connec- 

 ticut shore is looked upon as from a 

 balloon, like one great active colony 

 filled with lively human beings. There 

 will be a concentrated nucleus at what 

 we know as Greenwich and another at 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION, 

 "natural history workshop" only eight by twelve feet. 



present seem Utopian, but even now 

 many parts of Greenwich and Stamford 

 would be unrecognizable by a person 

 who had lived there one hundred years 

 ago if he were to return to-day. Such 

 a gigantic city, or cooperating cities, if 

 you prefer to call them so, will possess 

 one large natural history Institution. 

 That will be ArcAdiA at Sound Beach, 

 Connecticut, ideally located for the 

 convenience of both cities by trol- 

 ley, train or otherwise. There is no 

 equally convenient place in all Fair- 

 field County, to say nothing of either 

 Stamford or Greenwich. ArcAdiA will 

 then be a nature university, sending 

 out its students to establish other 

 ArcAdiAs in all parts of the land. It 

 will have in connection with it, for 

 which the location in the suburbs of 

 both places is ideally fitted, a zoologi- 

 cal garden, a botanical garden, a lab- 

 oratory and a museum, with dormi- 

 tories to accommodate students the 



