Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-17 | Page 4 | The City Beautiful

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Washington on Js to tobe be the most beautiful fut ful UI city ty in the world The Fhe decree has been entered In the book of fate The Tire people of ot o the United States St teil have willed It It What th the sovereign wills must be bedone done The Burnham commission has completed the plan lian The conditions condition are perfect the time is ripe It only remains for Congress to act Most national capitals a pita Is grew Washington Washing Washing- ton Is being made mid to order Accident was not Its father nor hu human hugan an necessity Its mother Neither were werf the nurses left to work out the problem of its fate Washington Wash Wash- ington was was' with the of geometry Nature endowed it with beauty beauty beau beau- ty and art became it its ita godmother Washington Washington Wash ash ashIngton ington Jefferson and L LEnfant were the triumvirate that that decreed its form and future The They had prophetic vision and wrought for the ages Washington Is not finished It Is barely bar ly lya a ft old mer merely merely-an ly nI Infant Jin as a na- na n tion capital It h ha Ren ten on much of the beauty bespoken by by it Its trio of sponsor sponsor sponsors spon- spon spon spon- sor sors Tt Jt has already outgrown the derision den deri aba sion once lurking ira In the title of the City of Magnificent Distances DistanceS DistanceS' ft It is about to enter upon a new stage In its Ita development develop develop- ment The American people have emerged from the bread and butter age as a nation na na- tion lion Pub io I demands that W Washington shall be made the City B Beautiful that the the nobl beginning f shall be expanded and aud harmonized Into Unrivaled unrivaled unrivaled un un- rivaled glories Chicago Chicago Record