that the entrances to all of the houses, stores, theatres, churches, hotels, etc., were on the upper streets; and also, that access to the lower streets was obtained at every street-corner by flights of broad steps. He noticed that the streets and sidewalks were perfectly clean, and that an air of care, attention, and good order seemed to prevail. Light carriages to horses, electric drags, and such lighter vehicles as are used for transportation of persons only, were alone permitted upon the upper streets. At short distances upon either side of the street were electric lamps, while at one of the corners of each cross-street was a combination post of fine and handsome make. At the base it was about two feet square, decreasing in size to about eight inches at a height of six feet, the whole surmounted by a white glass shaft, twenty-five feet in length. These posts were for a variety of purposes. The lower part contained the carbons, materials, etc., for the electric lights which were placed upon the top; the next compartment was for the reception of mail matter; above these two were the fire-alarm and police boxes, while on either side were the hydrant nozzles. Just under the lamp were the names of the two streets and the ward of the city. The street name was also set into the sidewalk under foot, in different colors--two names on each corner. Red names indicated a north direction; white, east; blue, south; and green, west. Asking Hugh, who was with him, if they had any improved method of removing the snow during the winter--for he remembered with what difficulty the streets of New York had been cleared of their snow in his time--he was informed that very little snow fell in New York, or, in fact, along the coast as far north as Maine. "How is that?" exclaimed Cobb, in surprise. "You haven't changed the seasons, have you?" "Yes," nonchalantly. "What!" "We have changed the possibility of a frightful winter into the reality of a very even and uniform temperature," he continued. "What haven't you done?" "Well, we haven't made a California climate by our work, but we have vastly decreased the severity of our Eastern winters," he laughingly replied. "And how have you accomplished this great change?" Cobb asked. "Here is the Metropolitan Club," as they came to a grand edifice near Union Square; "let us go in, have a bottle of wine, and I will explain the methods pursued to work this beneficial change of climate." "Do you know," asked Hugh, as he filled two glasses with champagne, after they had become seated in one of the reception-rooms of the club; "do you know why New York and the coast to Nova Scotia is so much colder than the Pacific coast of equal latitude?" "Certainly. On the Pacific, we have the Kuro Sivo, or Japanese current, touching the coast; while on the Atlantic the Gulf Stream is driven off the coast from about the mouth of the James River, by an arctic current coming around Newfoundland and flowing close to the coast."