The Legends of Smokeover - Couverture souple

Jacks, L P 1860-1955

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1176777572 ISBN 13 : 9781176777576

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Smokeover and I ts Smoke The city of Smokeover is renowned for size, momentum and obscurity. It contains a million inhabitants, not counting those in the cemeteries, who, though they have no votes, are still potent in the common life. There are ninety miles of electric tramways, two thousand publichouses, four hundred schools, three hundred places of worship, five garden suburbs, two square miles of slums, a municipal Art Gallery, a branch of the Society for Ethical Culture, a racecourse, three prisons, a university, a crematorium, and a sewage system which is the wonder of the world. The city government, with a Lord Mayor at its head, is progressive, especially in the matter of raising the rates. Most of the public services have been municipalized. The consumption of coal is enormous, 900,000 tons being carbonized annually in the production of municipal gas alone. The water, brought from a great distance, is pure and abundant, but the light is dim and the air charged with the products of combustion. The odour of burnt petrol pervades the streets at all hours of the day and far into the night. Smokeover makes all sorts of things ;its products are as varied as the merchandise of Tyre, inventoried by the Prophet Ezekiel; the worm that consumes them never dies, and the fire that creates them is never quenched. But the chief product of Smokeover is, of course, itself; or rather its million inhabitants. More than any of its manufactures, more than all of them put together, these men, women and children represent the citys main contribution to the working capital of the universe. What they are worth nobody knows ;some holding that they are worth nothing at all, or at least acting upon that assumption, others that their value is immense.
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