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Show Onesided Cities. 1 If streets are one sided, cities are, , too. No one, as far as the present writer knows, has ever attempted to give on explanation of the fact that when a town sits astride a river that Rows easl and west, the north side has a monopoly of the best streets, i It certainly is so in London, as it was m ancient Rome Glasgow Is another case In point In Paris too, the north 1 side of the river has distinctly the ad vantage of the south As lor New. castleon-Tyne. its general altitude toward to-ward this overgrown and rather grimy quarter on the south bank of the Tyne is that of one who says, "Can any good thing come out of Gateshead?" Why should this be so? And why should the -vest end of every city you can find on the map be, from a social point of view, far removed from the ast? Why is not Whitechapel Road Piccadilly? To the unprejudiced ear he names ring with equal music. London Chronicle |