Mr. Midith laughed as he continued: “Our ‘big houses’ are built about a half a mile apart all around rectangular fields twenty-four miles long and six miles wide, containing according to your measurement four geographical townships, or 92,160 acres each.” (See pp. 57 and 58.) [Illustration: Fig. 3. The rectangles represent Communities 6 × 24 miles and are numbered as above; the black lines represent motor-lines; the dotted lines, railroads which are about 100 miles apart.] [Illustration: Fig. 4. The circles represent “big-houses” about a half-mile apart. The squares represent warehouses, factories, mills and work-shops about four miles apart. All the Communities are surrounded by double-tracked motor-lines.] “There are double-tracked, electric-motor lines running all around these large divisions of land, so that every ‘big-house’ is situated on a motor-line. These large divisions of land, together with the houses and people that live on them, we call communities. A community, then, has an area of four townships, more or less, and a perimeter of sixty miles, on which a big-house, containing about a thousand inmates is situated at intervals of about half a mile. (See p. 58.) This gives a community a population of about 120,000 persons. These motor-lines connect with railroads at intervals of about a hundred miles or more, as the case may be. Our railroads are nearly all straight and almost level, with heavy steel composition rails, laid on a solid roadbed, and the time of many trains exceeds a speed of a hundred miles an hour.” On page 60, figure 5, I have given a diagram, as described by Mr. Midith, of a cross section of the land along the motor-lines, extending from the motor-line to the main field or body of land in the community. “A represents a hundred-foot wide motor-line. B represents a strip of park land one-fourth mile wide, on which the ‘big-houses’ are located. D represents a hundred-foot wide boulevard. C C represents walks on each side of the main boulevard. E represents a conservatory and green-house five hundred feet wide. F represents a walk between the conservatory and the garden G, which is one thousand feet wide. I is an orchard one thousand feet wide. H is a walk between the garden and orchard. J represents the edge of the field, etc., which extends clear across the community. “These parks, boulevards, walks, conservatories, etc., run parallel with the entire length of all the motor-lines wherever the lay of the land will permit it.” “O, how beautifully you have all this arranged!” exclaimed Viola. “I suppose you have a great many fine, fast horses on your broad boulevards. I am sure you have plenty of time to train them if you work less than two hours a day.” [Illustration: Fig. 5. A Motor line 100 feet wide. B Park on which big-houses are built. One-fourth mile. C Walks D Boulevard 100 feet wide C Walks E Conservatory & G-H 500 feet wide F Walk G Garden 1000 feet wide H Walks I Orchard 1000 feet wide