FOOTNOTES:
[3] Since this was written a national playground has actually been created at Montauk, L.I. A rather strange coincidence.
[4] At the time this was written, no illuminated, night time sports fields existed.
[5] In 1911 the outer planet Pluto had as yet not been discovered.
"GIVE US FOOD"
The following day was set aside for a visit to the Accelerated Plant Growing Farms. It had been known for hundreds of years that certain plants, such as mushrooms, could be fully developed in a few days. Plant or vegetables grown under glass and the temperature within kept at a high point, would grow at great speed and be ready for the market long before those grown in the open.
But only recently, as Ralph explained to Alice, had it been possible to do this on a large scale. To be sure, certain vegetables, like asparagus, lettuce, peas, etc., had been produced in hothouses for hundreds of years, but these, after all, were rather luxuries, and could not be classed as essentials.