. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. e a foolish chap indeed whowent up to her level to learn how tofly. And strictly enforced laws shouldprevent scorchers from moving in 16 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. any current save the one marked outfor them and their reckless, wreckfulescapades. It is certain that after dark no onewlio values his life will stir abroaaon foot, because he will never knowwhat hit him, and something is sureto hit him with every one and his wifeup in the air, infected by a craze besidewhich motoring and golf and ping-pong were mere aberrations of a mo-ment. Indeed, I am not s
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. e a foolish chap indeed whowent up to her level to learn how tofly. And strictly enforced laws shouldprevent scorchers from moving in 16 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. any current save the one marked outfor them and their reckless, wreckfulescapades. It is certain that after dark no onewlio values his life will stir abroaaon foot, because he will never knowwhat hit him, and something is sureto hit him with every one and his wifeup in the air, infected by a craze besidewhich motoring and golf and ping-pong were mere aberrations of a mo-ment. Indeed, I am not sure that great cities will be forced to put up life-netsextending over their entire area. Just how aeronauts will be able tomake their ascensions within the citylimits, if the nets are put up, I leavefor them to determine. The age of comparative safety is ata end. Look to your lives, fellow-mortals, and if you would be perfect-ly safe, voyage perpetually in mail-ships. They will be manned by ex-perts, and they will have the heightof C&rter (mnaoye at sIo» progress of tourist): Now, Ibea, you two ia/roat there, hurry ap I The Other Mr. Perkins By James Creelman in Pearsons Magazine This is a story without a tree or agreen field or a bit of blue sky in it,the tale of a man and an idea workedout in the fever-heats of a sordid cityand through great smoking townsof furnaces, roaring machinery andmen stripped for rough toil. The man is George WalbridgePerkins, the brilliant and much-revil-ed young partner of John PierpontMorgan, dean of American finance,and the idea is the United States SteelCorporations method of dividing pro-fits with its more than two hundredthousand employes—a shadow of theeconomic bridge over which, it issaid, humanity is about to pass fromthe age of competition to the age ofco-operation. , It is not the horned and hoofed , haled into court by the news-papers in a glow of mephitic red fire,but another Mr. Perkins, a tremend-ous worker with a g
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