d to have its average depth increased one hundred feet by the
dams in winter. We have already fifty million square yards of windmill
turbine surface in position and ready to move. The cables bringing us
currents from the dynamos at Niagara Falls are connected with our
motors, and those from the tidal dynamos at the Bay of Fundy will be in
contact when this reaches you, at which moment the pumps will begin.
In several of the landlocked gulfs and bays our system of confining is
so complete, that the surface of the water can be raised two hundred
feet above sea-level. The polar bears will soon have to use artificial
ice. Perhaps the cheers now ringing without may reach you over the
telephone.'"

The audience became greatly interested, and when the end of the
telephone was applied to a microphone the room fairly rang with
exultant cheers, and those looking through a kintograph (visual
telegraph) terminating in a camera obscura on the shores of Baffin Bay
were able to see engineers and workmen waving and throwing up their
caps and falling into one another's arms in ecstasies of delight. When
the excitement subsided, the president continued:

"Chairman Wetmore, of the Committee on Excavations and Embankments in
Wilkesland and the Antarctic Continent, reports: 'Two hundred and fifty
thousand square miles are now hollowed out and enclosed sufficiently to
hold water to an average depth of four hundred feet. Every summer,
when the basin is allowed to drain, we can, if necessary, extend our
reservoir, and shall have the best season of the year for doing work
until the earth has permanent spring. Though we have comparatively
little water or tidal power, the earth's crust is so thin at this
latitude, on account of the flattening, that by sinking our tubular
boilers and pipes to a depth of a few thousand feet we have secured so
terrific a volume of superheated steam that, in connection with our
wind turbines, we shall have no difficulty in raising half a cubic mile
of water a minute to our enclosure, which is but little above
sea-level, and into which, till the pressure increases, we can fan or
blow the water, so that it can be full three weeks after our longest
day, or, since the present unimproved arrangement gives the indigenes
but one day and night a year, I will add the 21st day of December.

"'We shall be able to find use for much of the potential energy of the
water in the reservoir when we allow it to escape in June,