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HASKINS & SELLS CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO CHICAGO BULLETIN LOS ANGELES DETROIT SEATTLE ST. LOUIS DENVER CLEVELAND ATLANTA BALTIMORE WATERTOWN PITTSBURGH LONDON VOL. I NEW Y O R K , JUNE 15, 1918 No. 4 In Retrospect JU L I A N WEST fell asleep May 30, 1887. He awoke September 10, 2000. At least such is the experience ascribed to him by Edward Bellamy in his bo'6k called "Looking Backward." Accustomed to insomnia Mr. West had constructed in the cellar of his house a sleeping chamber hermetically sealed, except for a pipe communicating with a windmill on the top of the house which insured the renewal of air. When his wakefulness continued too long at a time he was wont to call in a mesmerist who through the practice of his art was able to induce sleep. The awakening process was left to a manservant who had been taught by the mesmerist to perform the manipulations necessary to restore the patient to consciousness. On the occasion which gave rise to his long slumber Mr. West had been put to sleep as usual, with instructions to his man Sawyer to awaken him at nine o'clock the following morning. What happened during the night was never disclosed. Presumably the house burned, destroying the faithful Sawyer, thus preventing his master's whereabouts from becoming known. When finally discovered, one hundred and thirteen years later, by a learned doctor, the excavation for whose house occasioned the discovery, he was received into the doctor's household. Much pleasure was derived by both men from exchanges of information concerning the respective periods with which each was familiar. Some of the changes which Mr. West found, according to the book, in the year two thousand do not seem so strange to us now as they must have done to those who read the two hundred thousand copies which were printed about the year eighteen-eighty-nine. There was national organization of industry instead of private enterprise. Yet Bellamy knew nothing of railroad, coal and food administrators and the recently organized "Federal Express Company." Society was so organized that the individual underwent the educational process from the age of six to the age of twenty-one. He, or she, served in the industrial army from twenty-one to forty-five, when retirement came. The balance of one's life was spent in rest, recreation, travel, study, or the pursuit of "hobbies." The industrial army was employed in production and distribution. Production was controlled and regulated according to the needs of the country. Distribution was effected through a system of central warehouses and ward stores. Money was unknown. Incomes were predetermined and assigned to all in equal 29
Object Description
Title |
In retrospect |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Prophecies |
Citation | Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 01, no. 04 (1918 June 15), p. 29-30 |
Date-Issued | 1918 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 1-4-p29 |