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THE LONDON OF THE FUTURE.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN AEROPLANE,

GARDEN CITIES 50 MILES AWAY FOR PEOPLE OF

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[BY THE VERY RA. W. E. INGE, D.D., DAY or ST. Patz's.]

"What London

Population.

would you do with suppose a hive of aeroplanes will I understand that this be accommodated on the roof of is an examination paper which the the Babylonish-American piles. Editor is setting to several victims. I need to be rather good at examination papers. But this is a "stumper." I feel likė the examinees in "The Vulture and the Husbandman,” when-`

The time is come, the Vulture

said,

To talk of many things, Of accidence and adjectives, And lists of Jewish kings, How many notes a sackbut has, And whether shawms have

etrings.

The introduction of cheap pri- rate aeroplanes will have an im portant effect on the growth of London, Somewhere about the beginning of the century the authoriti in providing for the future war, supply of the Metro polis, tried to calculate for how many persons London might ulti mately have to provide. 1. believe they guessed that the population would reach a maximum of twelve or twelve and a half million. doubt whether this number will ever be attained My calculation, as I said in these columas a few

I will begin to decline slowly toon months ago, is that our numbers after 1911. I based this. estimate oa the tendency of the birth-rate Under the first head come certain each other.

and death-rate to approximate to But two other con- reforms in our manners and cus-tingencies have to be taken into

I could save trouble by saying, "Why, abolish it, of course." But my official residence is in London,

I will divide my answer, like a Bermon, into three heads, (1) Thinge which I should do at once. (2) Things that may happen soon. (3) The eschatological section-the last end of London.

toms.

Too Much Noise

When I was in America more than twenty years ago, I was de

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I

MURDERER IN

HYSTERIA.

TRIAL HELD UP.

DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING RECLUSE.

Sentence of death was passed at Cornwall Assizes at Bodmin on William Joha Maynard, aged 38, a rabbit-trapper, for the murder of Mr. Richard Francis Roadley, aged 64, a wealthy recluse, in his cottage at Titson, near Bude, on February 18th

their verdict of Guilty. Asked if The jury took 60 minutes to reach

he had anything to say before being sentenced, Maynard, who was very lord.'" pale, replied, Not guilty, Y.

Maynard heard the sentence with bowed head and was led from court supported by two warders,

Prisoner's Evidence.. Maynard gave evidence in clear tones He said he was a rabbit- trapper and smallholder, married, with a son aged eight. He had "a nice little bungalow" that cost trap and motor-car. £300, and also owned a pony and

Mr. Elliott Hatt (for the defence): Did you over attack Mr. Roadley I do not think I have seen him for 14 or 10 years.

Maynard said he never slept in the police station on Sunday night,.. February 9th. There were two policemen with him in the guard- room the whole night,

police said they were looking for a "Next morning," he said, "the button missing from Mr. Roadley's jacket. They pulled me about to see if I had it and searched my clothes for bloodstains. The police were always making me 'mazed' with questions. They wanted me to confess. They called me all the blackguards they could name."

"They Held My Hand." to the detectives the statement im- Asked if he remembered making square miles, could not support capital with eight million inhabit Picting Harris, Maynard replied, ants. If this primacy leaves us made that statement themselves.

don't remember. and moves across the Atlantic to They held my hand and worked my They New York, London may have to fingers to make me sign it." shrink instead of expanding any further. Our business men just Mr. Raynor Goddard, K.C. (for now are not pessimistic, but they the prosecution), producing the no longer look forward to unlimit-statement, asked, Do you say ed progress as they did in Queen someone was holding your wrista Victoria's reign.

when that was signed by you!", "Maynard (in a loud voice): Yes. There were four of them holding me, I had to, or be half killed...

London, as it is, is posible only ns the centre of the wealth and cotamerce of the world. The Bri fighted to see notice in Nawtish Isies, with an area of 191,000 York to the effect that "anyone spitting on the streets, or side walks, or in any public place is liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, or a month's imprisonment, or bath." I should like to intro duce this law" into England. No tity can have any claim to rank as. civilised, in which this disgusting habit is allowed to go unpunished. I know most European capitala, and I do not think that any of them allow their pavements to be in such a beastly condition as the streets of London. The thing is a disgrace.

Sprawling Suburbs.

suburbs may sprawi over all the. The other contingency is that the Home, Counties and beyond them. The businessman of the future Next, I would abolish all streetmay travel to his office in the City cries, especially yelling newsboys, Hertfordshire, but from Dorset or every morning, not from Surrey or I cannot see why our eyes and the Cotswolds. noses should be protected against

A hundred miles offensive molestation, while nothing for his little aeroplane.

an hour will be a moderate speed ie done for our ears.

London In many will more and more become a town Continental cities there are neat little kicake in all the chief streets, at present. Garden cities, perhaps of shops and offices, like the City where newspapers can be bought in fifty miles from London, will be a civilised manner. Thirdly, motor erected for people of small means. bicycles are too dangerous and too All this will make it easier to clear noisy to be tolerated within the away alums boundaries of a city.

and beautify the streeta.

his seat after luncheon, he said: It When Mr. Justice Swift resumed

is reported to me that since the adjournment the prisoner has be to go back into the witness-box. come indisposed, and is not ready

Dr. Watson, of Brixton Prison," answering to Mr. Justice Swift, said: I do not think the prisoner is able to appreciate the proceed- covering from an acute attack of ings thoroughly. He is only just re- hysteris.

Mr. Justice Swift adjourned the court. When the court resumed, Maynard was given a seat in the

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There is one other change which Mr. Justice Swift summed-up. Fourthly, I would abolish trams would make the aspect of London He said it was not until Maynard running on rails. They may be. much more cheerful-I mean a went into the witness-box that any convenient in bringing people from reform in male dress. The present thing was heard of the, suggestion the suburbs, but inside a city they costume of civilised man has every that the police concocted one of the "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE Calibre, Hopeating and

possible disadvantage; it is expen- statements and used violent methods sive, uncomfortable, and ugly. It to get his signature. is not even democratic. It wa often remarked that everybody looked a gentleman in khaki; but this cannot be said of a man in an old and badly made tailor's suit,

are a nuance. Fifthly, I would relieve the congestion by abolishing all pirate buses. (But I admit that I am a shareholder in the "General")

Last but not least, I would take drastic steps to abolish smoke and purify the air. There was a letter in the Times a few weeks ago from one of my brother deans, who described a smokeless fuel which he had installed in his house. He described it as warm and economic- al. I suppose, therefore, that the thing can be done, though I know aothing about "these matters, *".

I would have plenty of variety, Each trade or profession would have its own uniform, all pictures que, simple and comfortable. The leisured classes-dukes, trampa and men permanently on the dole, might be condemned to wear the old costume.

10,000 Years Hence.

This, however, I can testify, that The eschatological section of my there are manufacturing towns on discourse shall be short and awful. the Continent-Im thinking If we look far enough ahead, Lon-. especially of Gothenburg in Sweden doa is threatened with disaster

where there is not only no

from two naturál movements the amoke, but not a speck of dirt encroachment of the sea and the anywhere. In England we have to next glacial age. Which of the two wait for a coal-strike to sea Lon will catch as first is doubtful; but don as it ought be a beautiful we can hardly escape them both. city, though not quite equal to There was a time when the Edinburgh, Paris, and Vienna. The Thames flowed into the Rhine;) expense of abolishing smoke would, now our eastern coasts are sliding I suppose, be enormous; but so is down into the ses by great chunks the expense of keeping it. I am every year. Where will the cost- told that a post-mortem on a Lon-line be ten thousand years hence doner reveals that his lungs are The next ice age may be expected, almost black.

I am told, from ten to twenty thou

I pass to my second headingsand years. We shall have a long changes that are likely to come warning, and be able to migrate to about before long...

Mosquito Planes,

some more genial elime, if we can And one; but London will be na some town in Alaska or Greenland. undesirable a place of residence as

The most pressing is the traffic problem, which seems to become more desperate every year. As it make our flesh creep. We have a These predictions will fail to is equally bad in New York, and long lease of our present home, not much better in Paris, I suppose and plenty of time to build "Jeru- there really is no remedy. But salem (if that is the town we thirty years hence we may all be prefer to resemble) "in England's flying, in mosquito-like dwarf aero-

green and pleasant land.” ́Ït ja ä planes, which will jump standing, pity that no one can construct a without a long take-off. This will Time-Machine, on which we could relieve the congestion, but it will travel backwards or forwards at necessitate great changes in house will We should be entranced by construction, and will enormously the beauty of the City in the six- enlarge the suburban area. A teenth century; it was rather like

I suppose the Babylonish Ameri- | Oxford, but finer. What should wi can style of architecture has come find 300 years bence Should we to stay. The future belongs to the wish to stay there, or should we mammoth tenementhouse, and, at hurry back, and draw a long breath the other end of the scale, to the as we recognised the Tower Bridge, bungalow. The Englishman's house St. Paul, Bush House, and Pad- will no longer be his castle hedington Station'1

will dwell in a flat, with perhaps But I see the examiner with a seaside residence not much larger his blas pencil marking a large than the "tub' of Diogenes. And I gathma

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