Show penns dream Is now jewel city philadelphia continues to be a credit to founder erard prad by natia Nati 1 kocl V b D 0 W N 80 too P 11 NN a statue that WLLLIAM adorns the t he portal of the philadelphia federal reserve bink bank is s soon oon to be removed because tile the ban bank k la to have a new facade th statue has baa for four decades been a famous landmark of philadelphia in whose history penn ienn played a prominent part at this th la time lime GOY gov william penn find and a multitude of friends arrived liere here and nd erected a city called phil about a half mile from reads reada the quaint minutes of a meeting of the society of friends held at maxon on the banks of the delaware on no vember 3 1082 in two and a half centuries phil haa become one of the worlds great greatest kist urban centers pos poa kessling colorful history of lender leader ship in the development of tile the arts and and in the progress of industry meanwhile maxon became a tiny park on the dela ware river tenderly cared for by the big city philadelphia PhIl adelphis now la IR a metropolis of tro million souls third in size among all american urban comma arid and eleventh among the rou mu of the earth it covers acres despite its spread it continues to be the city of its founder for william penn efat lashed its plan selected its ita name arid and projected its future ills care and forethought in lay ing ang out its ita central area in the urn shaped district between the delaware and the schuylkill mith its central and satti lite squi tres have been teen perpetuated to this day this area stands as a monument to his bis genius its is a city planner even in theae the bal times ct amazing urban devel op ments perhaps one way may gain his best idea 1 of l the city of the ploua pious penn by going forthwith to its capitol the city hall and from the parapet of its tower getting a birdseye view of this metropolis first one notes above the liero lr statue of the tha founder huge bronze statue of penn pounds pound 3 and stands 37 feet high all of its proportions are of amazing scale the ahat liat 0 feet in diameter the shoes 5 feet 4 inches long tile the coat cuffs 3 deft deep and the buttons 0 6 indies inches across A great world port look over tile the outstretched c y v below A magnificent river front pro claims one of tile tho worlds world s great ports a towering business district tells tella of a financial center of the first order a dozen industrial areas speak of parks park parkways ways a can candll allied ed river museums museum 3 stately art and fine libi arks write rite the superscription of culture over city sub urba 0 of rare beauty environ it and make such areas along the mail line rind ind reading route resplendent clat jewels in tile the crown railroad ral road fa clettles of latest electrified type extend the he t city into tile tha country and bring country into town it was always the rhe dream of wll wil ilam ham penu penn that tits his city should ener eer remain a greene country cosne through these two and a half con cen tile the citizens stead lIv kept faith with his hi purpose rad pad today we tod find one acre a jt t of I 1 every thirteen within its bonfi est eg devoted to parks and FAlu are tile the beauty spot of tile the whole city Is fairmount park one of the largest in the world with 43 miles of drives and ti 4 miles of paths winding through its ita acres of ct scenic beauty end and romantic history 11 story one who ins a day to spend there in delightful prospects here ta Is lemon the country home of robert ItI orris the tha finan cler of vie fie revolution i frequented ly by washington find and jeterson jefferson adams adama and lafayette who sat down to I 1 I 1 lot annl ji I ith tile the bunker banker where the populace now fqy come and eat and be entertained at tile the concerts ton Lonc certa erts for or alch fairmount park ta Is fa inous at the fot foot of this hl iffie runs the schuylkill its east bank covered with the clubhouses club houses of the schuylkill navy for sears on end philadelphia has been conscious of a dire need tor for a parkway from the center of the city into park and tho the northwestern section of the city there vere ere no diagonals from the cites center at city hall square then cams came a time when hen the passenger train facilities of the century no longer were adequate to tho the second quarter of tile the twentieth steam draho tor for traffic became archaic aicha aich alc ic the old broad street station of the pennsylvania was outgrown thi the old cl street station of abi baltimore ohio deemed a page from an almost forgotten last and the reading tor ter minal well viell that in might ight hae been Trio modern dern in centennial times but it wai antiquated in the late twenties electrification had to come under ground was sas tile the only way to sliced up the cites great suburban transportation the opening up of the naw bonu mental pennsylvania station and the putting g into service of the broad street suburban station made po sible bible tho the razing of the chinese wallas the great viaduct into the jold broad street station was caufy in its stead there will be opened up ui in tho the riot not distant future a new high way known as aa penisi ivanca boule boula yard vard extending from olty city hal square to tile the imposing and classical east facade of the pennsylvania m ina ahe he railroad improvements are resulting r in the unsightly section ol of the schuylkill immediately south ol of par pork k being canalized canali zed and boulevard bordered and in giving the berrt of philadelphia that sort ol of a cleaning that df delights lights every ey eye e green will all grow tomorrow where grime erline ed yesterday and tho the dreams of city planners ft bo be living where ugliness but lately reigned on her part philadelphia plunged into a new era of urban planning of startling proportions and conception cone slie she would provide the diagonals to tho northwest and th the e northeast that became so needed in the day clay when tile the automobile began to crowd every main thoroughfare modern highways highway tile famous roosevelt boulevard the great dl diagonal to the northeast with its broad high speed central lane bordered on elther side bide by park ing and local traffic lanes took care of tho the northeast situation to the northwest from city unit hall square to tho the to act fairmount park runs the other diagonal fairmount parkway that man canelous nelous ma clous thoroughfare which the city has opened it vina sinis a frank appeal for the city beau beautiful that created tills this magnificent drive from city hall to tile the art muse museum where fair mount para begins A thousand buildings had to bo be razed I 1 ha cites industries are rooted la in that hat remote past before the machine 7 philadelphia guards guard a national treasures Trea Buri ige age reached its height and when of oc high skill had to do by hand mere machine tenders can aa do today odny such men loved their little honnes and had no taste for tenements their sons and their sons sona sons have fol followed loed this home loving spirit has hag played nn an important role in shaping philadelphia delphia a i ro blenis of urban transportation have never boen so pressing for tho the philadelphia wage carer prefers to have ills his home within walking distance of 0 te factory in III ahleah tie lie Is 13 employed and bethen in tacony or manayunk Mana Slana yunk BrUlc isburg or Pasa Vas sunk ink Ken kensington sini or South nik you will find the average workman living bining near his hla place ol of employment llie same or clr cum stances that servel serve I 1 to make the philadelphia artisan a man with a distaste for tenements but intent with an ambition to own a home have haci served to make him a man with a leaning board savings bank accounts and building and loan in vestments A concomitant of all of these ties Is the industrious habit through which philadelphia has attained the distinction of having tile the highest percentage of skilled labor of any gajor city with such a fine fina qi allty of labor it la Is little wonder that tho the rint national lonal census takers were ere able to find distinct hues of commodities being manufactured I 1 in the metropolitan area that it ranks first in the output of 0 hosiery and knit goods in carett and rma rigs in cotton lace and sawa find and hufh in the manufacture of lifets fur felt linoleum linoley M and many other in a normal year the great work shop of tile the s world orld produces worth of manufactured products including bards or of carpet ints fat cigars and saws IN vun iab but one sixtieth of tile the nations population latton the city of tho the great perin produces shout about one twenty fifth of all its manufactures travel where he will from polar circle to polar circle la in any longitude around th irth the traveler will never neer get iway ay from the things ti trat at buya the things it makes arid the things it sells from every land come the tha raw materials it noeda needs in the fabrication of the tha thousand arid one things it manufactures rhiba it A hla hia hubit locomotives draw trains to the top of tile the andes into the heart of china through the solitudes of the congo Ph philadel Iladell hla bla built ball the seven seas and fly thor their flags 11 1 1 esery por in the horld philadel alila made medicines heal beal the sick ness of the in borneo till soothe the aches and the of people from tou and Nani hatla to nome ome find and klo illo orest and field mine and quarry ocean bed and mountain top jungle and d disert sert pampa arid and steppe frozen tundra an annl I 1 trople tropic N hach itch alike trade with the metropolis metro polis polls of rena pena |