Show MAKING CITIES BEAUTIFUL I j In an address before the Commercial club of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi- Chi cago the other day Bryce said You have hae formed the conception of making Cl Chicano Chicago cao i i worthy in its external aspects of its immense wealth and its splendid industrial f future ure ure You have in your lake front an ani i opportunity such as few cities have for providing superb pieces of city landscape Your great reat inland sea may be faced by a ma magnificent promenade and you may rear colonnades like those of ancient ancien Egypt over lagoons like those of medieval V Venice nice You nave have have already through h parts of tho city a chain of parks arks and boulevards boule-ards which only needs to be further extended extended au and developed to make Chica Chicago o without a parallel among m mod mod- d- d ern era cities The beauty of architecture will doubtless come comein comein in it time to reinforce those beauties which general street desi design desin de de- si sin sign n can not creato create for vou you and YOU vou will find that the effect on the minds of your people wi will stimulate the growth not only of an enjoyment of art but probably of t a creative faculty in art and literature With your wealth with your public spirit there is nothing impossible to such a city as Chicago Mr I Bryce had doubtless when he spoke in mind mindI I the th proposed great improvement which Chicago is preparing to make which is what is called the recovery re re- covery of the blue line which means the improvement improvement improve- improve ment ment of the lake front The wc work rk contemplated is js the building of a narrow park strip on the main land jand and a broad one out in Lake Michigan leaving an o open en lago lagoon n between the two to be diversified with islands and the shores to be planted with trees Il shrubs shrubs' and fl flowers a affording a needed succeed touch of color y The Th Commercial club has secured the services o of s Daniel H. H Burnham who under Federal patronage tz i i v has ha's performed similar work in Washington and Manila Manila Ma- Ma nila the It is his to supervise improvements design to clearly define a scheme which will permit unhampered r p red growth within the city proper as the center and and the development of the city beyond and to establish establish establish es es- great circuit boulevards into which may be gathered and from which may my be distributed the traffic to every section of the city and to have the improvements extend from the center to the outskirts outskirts outskirts out out- skirts and make mak all an as beautiful and splendid as pos pos- si sible le And all will include such an adjustment of the railroads as will insure to the city the swift handling handling han han- of travel and freight r Chicago is very rich It has reached that stage u 5 i when hen it can afford to add to the city's attractiveness attractive- attractive t ness and with Chicago daring and enterprise the thel r l' l Y T intention is to have one of the beautiful cities of the r. r J i world orld L S Salt Lake City is bus busy now on st streets sewers rP pad pavements ye grades and mains but her time will come J and nd by When it does how will Chicago's site and vair air compare with hers I Even now some of the work should sno ld be begun The great boulevard should be completed and bordered border d with trees and shrubs It sh should uld be to Salt Lake what the w way y was to old R Rome Korne me It will not cost very much more more a litlie littIe little lit- lit tIe lie money a little care until the foliage becomes loot rooted d and then the object object lesson lesson that it will present F will il aW awoken awaken ke the solicitude of f the cit city to to make it more beautiful and twenty years h hence nce it t will be one 5 0 of f the glories glori s of the city a |