Nethermore

Here’s another look into history, 99 years ago.

It is likely that the French have sealed their own fates in their slow negotiations with the Wrights, for the brothers have withdrawn their proposal and taken their aeroplane to Berlin. Discussions have begun with a military arm of that government. I cannot imagine that this is a very good thing if ever Europe should find itself at war again, which is likely, considering their dispositions.

I am increasingly worried over the deaths our new modes of transportation are causing. In August, the Times reported over 40 deaths involving cars (those of the railroad and the Subway in our four counties of the city). More than 50 deaths occurred in September! In addition to this, over ten people suffered cracked skulls, and almost ten enduredtions (I am not positve whether these amputations transpired before, during, or after the accidents). The numbers are increasing since the opening in 1904. Too many people, I think, are expiring in the name of progress. If only the convenience of the Subway could be mimicked by the horse and buggy! For me, I prefer my feet to either.

I’m doing a little research into a bygone era and thought it might be interesting to blog about antique events as if I were someone of that era. It may take a little time to get into the voice, but hopefully it will be somewhat entertaining. The “antique blog” will run in a brown color to offset it from my usual blogging.

I have discovered a recent phenomenon for which Edison would give his teeth. In coming years I suspect this phenomenon will sweep the nation, if not the entire earth. The new feature of which I speak is blogging.

Like an editorial that runs in the Times, a blog is a journal or an editorial that has new editions daily or even bi-daily. It is a product of this modern age that I can take a pen and spew forth my opinions that will immediately be typeset, printed, and distributed upon my immediate retracting of pen from paper. I would have preferred to call this new fancy something more descriptive—immeditorial, for example—for blog sounds as if it were something one might do with his nose.

Monday I will begin with events just days old; events that will hound my mind until peradventure I can strike words to paper. Farewell until Monday.