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"Now, I shall endeavor to give you a description of the exterior of the ‘big-house," said Mr. Midith, as he began to draw a neat outline, on which he located four "big-houses" and a cross-section of a community, as shown on page 115.
"Before I give you a detailed description of the different parts of this outline, I shall have to refer you to the diagram I drew for you the other evening. (Page 58.) You will there notice that our communities are all numbered, as Community 1, 2, etc. Hence, a country as large as the United States, containing nearly 3,500,000 square miles, divided up into communities like ours, containing about four townships, or 144 square miles each, will make about 25,000 communities. I told you, in brief, that the ‘big-houses' are situated along the motor-lines, on the perimeter of the communities, and are about half mile apart, as indicated by the dots in Community No. 1 (page 58). The ‘big-houses' of each community are also numbered, as indicated by the figures 1, 2, 3, etc., in Community No. 1 (page 58).