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Show I I Newhouse- Park I Newhouse park, named after its present pres-ent owner, was first settled by Charles Popper, as is well known. Its recent purchase 1)3" Mr. Newhouse was the j signal for the beginning of a scheme of exploitation utterly unlike that applied ap-plied to any other section of the city. The entire locality, comprising more i than one hundred and forty acres, will be laid out in an attractive park under the supervision of a skilled corps of landscape architects. Tho streets will be arranged in curves and with careful attention to the natural beauties of the lnnd and a utilization of all the I natural advantages possessed by the lo- cality. The water supply of Dry canyon, which lies just at the rear of the tract, will be iiiilized to furnish water for a reservoir, from which water will be supplied to the entire place. A sylvan dale, or attractive breathing place, will also form one of the features of the park. Mr. Newhouse will have his residence there, and tho building restrictions re-strictions will be such as to insure only houscs of the best type. The electric car" line of tho Utah Light and Railway Rail-way eompuiii" will pass directly through the territory along a specially arranged roadway concealed from view by trees und shrubs and with frequent stopping places for the accommodation of the residents of the district. These stopping I places will all be .provided with small rustic stations, with seals and other conveniences, i All the streets will bo bordered with I trees, and the building lots will be ir regular in form, quite different from thV;" conventional rectangular shape in ' yoguo in the ordinary city blocks. It is almost impossible to give a complete , description of all the things which will i be done to make the place attractive. Plans have been drawn by architects and landscape gardeners. "Already en-' en-' giueers are at work running lines and I luying out the work which will have lo bo done as a preliminary to occupation occupa-tion of tho place as a residence park. The completion of the great work is J confessedly an accomplishment of years, and progress will bo as rapid as possible ulong those lines liich will permit the rvirly occupation by home seekers. T.bo completion of the details of the work will be left until tho last, or will be undertaken in conjunction with the other woik as rapidly as possible. These changes include handsome catea at all the entrances to the place, shady walks and tinv paries throughout the locality, the bcautifiention of tho beds of the canyon streams, pretty rustic bridges, lanes, the erection of a clubhouse club-house for the accommodation of tho residents of the residents of the place, and other attractions which will make j the locality ono of the most beautiful ! in America. The properly stands in the angle formed bv the mountains at the northeast north-east of Salt Lake City, and provides an outlook southward and easterly over the valley. The beautv of the place is perhaps per-haps best described in tho words of K. P. Colborn, who has charge of the property, prop-erty, and who is carrying out the changes suggested by Mr. Newhouse. Speaking of the outlook from the park, Mr, Colborn savs: "Where good people build homes and have pretty grounds, where the honey-' suckle and the red rose clamber about the porches, where the houses do not jostle and crowd, where beautiful gates mark every entrance, and the streets, paved and dustless, arc fringed with spreading trees and grassy paries, where the air, fresh from tho peaks, has never felt the polluting touch of smoke; whore neighborhood pride prevails, and where one standing on his doorstep can see Hie lights go on and off at Sallair and every train for the city fifteen, miles away; where at evening he can nee the imperial sun passing through the gateway gate-way of the west, discharging a quiver-full quiver-full of golden arrows, arrows that plunge into the clouds or glanciug from the towers and steeples of the city, light with their luster every window and roof, and fall in rose and purple showers upon the eastern peaks; where, all these things arc, there is the ideal place to live." These things are truly a heritage of Newhouse park, particularly, although they belong also to most- of the sections sec-tions of the east beuch. Already many lots have been sold, and others will follow. fol-low. Suggestions have been made for an extension of the "highlino boulevard" boule-vard" southerly through the park, along the eastern boundary of Fort Douglas and southerly to the tract alread- being exploited as Laurelhurst. |
