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ture city will cover three times the present space, 

 with the same population. 



The automobile, or its successor, will have a little 

 chance of free motion without killing old people and 

 children. Horses will be out of the problem, ex- 

 cept for the pleasure of those who love animal 

 friends better than they love machinery. Aerial 

 transit will deliver most of the goods that are sold 

 and allow the storage houses and stores to be at a 

 much greater distance from the shoppers. 



Suburbanism will spread out for miles beyond the 

 core of population, and every home will be sur- 

 rounded by its adequate garden. Still farther from 

 the roar will be the intensive garden and farm, and 

 you will find a population of six hundred millions, 

 well fed and housed, without isolation and without 

 crowding. We have made immense strides in the 

 way of tools and trolleys, something to work with 

 in the soil and vehicles to convey our produce to 

 market. Mr. Edison is now testing the limits of 

 his storage battery that will need charging only 

 once in one hundred and fifty miles. We are not 

 very far from a motor that will carry our produce 

 to market at an insignificant cost. 



I believe in private customers as far as possible, 

 but for the majority of the producers this is impos- 

 sible as things are. Our surplus goes to middle- 

 men, whose interest is of course to get a large share 

 of the profits for themselves. Neither do they un- 

 derstand how to handle my pears and your strawber- 



