Show Penns Penn's Dream Is IsNow Now v Jewel vel City Philadelphia Continues a Credit to Founder t hr br r tf le U U. a c. 8 Serle 1 tF S 'S statue that WILLIAM adorns the portal of 01 the Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia Federal Reserve bank Is soon loon to be removed because the bank Is le to have a new fa la BIle cade The he statue staple tins has for tor four decades dec dec- ades adl's been blen a famous landmark of 01 Philadelphia Phil ihil adelphia In who whose e history Penn Peno played a prominent part port At this time line Gov Coy William Penn Ienn and ond a a- a multitude of ot friends arrived here and erected a city called Philadelphia Phila delphia about a halt half mile from frolD Shark Shack om as on the quaint minutes ofa of ofa a meeting of 01 the Society of Friends held heM at on the banks bunks of 01 the Delaware In November oember 8 8 1082 1042 In two and a halt half centuries Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia has hall become one of ot the worlds world's greatest urban centers poss possessing colorful col colorful history of 01 leadership In the development development development de de- de- de of ot the arts artl and sciences and andIn andin andIn In the progress of ot Industry Meanwhile Mean while Sh became a tiny park pork on thin the Delaware river tenderly cared can for by the big city that now entirely surrounds It Philadelphia now DOW Is a metropolis of 01 two million souls third In size elze among all American urban communities ties and eleventh among the municipalities polities of 01 the earth orth It covers SOI acres Despite It Its I eprea spread It continues contin u ties ues to be bl the city of ot Its founder for lor William WIlllam Penn established Us Its plan seI se se- I Its Us name nome and projected protected Its ter future fu tu- ture Ills Ills' care core and forethought In laying out Its central area arfa In Iu the urn shaped district between the Delaware and the Schuylkill with Its central and satellite sate satel I lite squares have been perpetuated to this tills city This Title area ara stands as a monument mon mono monument to his genius as a city planner even In these times of 01 amazing urban developments de The traditions and the attitudes of the long ago are maintained In this metropolis as al perhaps nowhere else in America It Is II no mere coincidence that Philadelphia has hns sixteen establishments establishments establish establish- ments that have hare been doing business consecutively vely from Irom Constitution ante-Constitution days or that the city has a number of ot firms that ha have persisted for tor a cen tury Perhaps one may gain his bis best Idea of 01 the 11 city ty of 01 the Pious Ilous Penn b by going goIng go- go Ing forthwith to Its Us capitol the city hall lIall and from tram the parapet of 01 Its tower getting a eye birds view of 01 this me me- First one notes above the heroic statue of 01 the founder This huge hulte bronze statue of of- Penn weighs 53 ro- 13 pounds and stands 37 feet leet high All of Its portions are lire of 01 amazing scale scale tile the hat 0 U feet In tn diameter the tho shoes 5 11 feet foet 4 Inches lon long the coat cuffs Golfo 3 feet teet deep and the buttons 0 Q Inches les across A Great World Port Look over oyer the outstretched city below be be- low A magnificent river front proclaims proclaims pro pro- claims one of 01 the worlds world's great grat ports a towering business district tells of 01 ofa a financial center of 01 the first order a dozen Industrial areas speak spank of 01 man maa operations parks parkways park park- wa ways e a canalized river museums stately art galleries and One floe libraries write the ills superscription of 01 culture over oyer the city suburbs of 01 rare beauty cm environ Iron It and tasks such areas alon along the 1111 mull mail line and find the Rending Heading route routt resplendent Jewels In the CIt city's 11 crown railroad facilities of latest electrified d type extend PIte the d city dInto Into the country and bring country Into town It was always the II dream rIll III of 01 William Penn nn that his hili city should ever eer remain remaina a n ene country towns towne Through these two and a II half hall centuries the citizens steadily kept faith with his purpose s and today we find one acre out of 01 thirteen every Itry within Its lis confines con ron tines fines le t to parks and squares The beauty spot Slut of 01 the whole city Is Fairmount park one of or the largest In Inthe the Ihl world With 43 miles mills of drives and 44 mills miles of ot paths winding through Its ar j acres of scenic beauty and romantic history one who has hal a day to sll spend nd there revels re In delightful prospects rO Here Is Lemon Hill lilli the country home Gone of ot Robert Hubert Morris the financier of ot the Involution frequented trl by WashIngton Wash Ington anI and Jefferson Adams and lat fn fayette Ette who sat cut down to break bread breall I with the banker where the populace now nosy may come coma and eat tat and be he enter I 1 at the concerts for tor which Far Fair i mount park Is la famous factious At the foot of 01 this historic hill hili runs tuns the SchuYlkill its east t bunk blink covered with the club club- houses bouM s of 01 the Schuylkill navy nav For ur years on en end II Philadelphia has been blen conscious of 01 a dire need ned for tor a aun INti un K I. WilY way from Irom the center of 01 the city Into tuto l park pork and the northwestern northwestern north north- western section of 01 the city There were no diagonals nals from runs the ills city's center center cen en enter ter at City tall Hall square squar Then Ihen came a ft I tune tUlle when the passenger truth train ties pas of ot the Nineteenth century no longcr long cr Ir were adequate the to second quart guar ter ter tf of ot the lie Twentieth Steam trains for tor suburban traffic became archaic Th The Theold old Broad street station of 01 the tie Penn was outgrown the old oh Chestnut Chest Chest- nut street station of ot the Bait Baltimore Imore Ohio a page from an almost almos forgotten ast and the Rending Heading tor te-r- wIl weil well that hat ml might ht e hate been wool mod era vrn In n Centennial times limes but It wa was Willi antiquated In the lute late twenties Kiev Kiev- 1 had hall to come Underground traffic came was is-as the on only I way to uj up the city's great suburban ton The opening up of 01 the new monumental monumental mental Pennsylvania station and th the putting potting Into service of the this Dr Broad Broadstreet ad street treet suburban station made possible th he the e rating rasing of 01 the Chinese i Wall as as' as the great viaduct Into the old Broad Drood Broadstreet street treet station was wal c Grilled called In Us its stead there here will be opened up In the not- not d distant future a new highway known as i Pennsylvania boulevard extending rum City Hall lIali square to the Imposing and nd classical east eust facade of 01 the Ienn Penn s terminal The railroad Improvements are re- re In to the un unsightly section of 01 the Schuylkill immediately south of 01 Fairmount Fairmount Fair Fair- mount park being canalized and boulevard boul- boul vard evard bordered and In giving the heart of ot Philadelphia that sort of at a cleaning that hot delights every e eye ee Green Creep will grow grout morrow to-morrow where grime flour flour- shed ishee yesterday and the dreams of 01 clip city planners will wilt be living Ions dons where whre ugliness but hut lately reigned s On her part Philadelphia plunged ed Into Inlo a new nw era ern of 01 urban planning of 01 startling proportions and magnificent conception She Rhe would p provide the file diagonals to the northwest north w west est and the northeast that became s so o needed In the day when the automobile automo automo- o- o bile began han to crowd every main thoroughfare borough Modern Highways Highway The Th famous Roosevelt boulevard th the e great diagonal to the northeast wit with h Its ts broad speed high central lane bordered bor boy dered on either side aide by parking an and d de local ocal traffic lanes took care of 01 th the e northeast situation To the northwest from City Hall square to the entrance e t to o West Fairmount park runs th the theother theother e other diagonal Fairmount parkway that hat marvelous thorough thorough- f faro laro are which the city elty has opened I Isea It t was sea a frank appeal for lor the city beautiful beau beau- that created crated this magnificent drive from city hall to the Art mu mu- museum g seam seum where Fairmount park begins A thousand buildings had to be razed The city's Industries are rooted t In that remote past before the machine e as err IR r rI I Philadelphia Guards a National Treasure age reached Its Us height and when me men a n ar of 01 high skill had hod to do by hand wh what at mere mero machine tenders can con do toda today y r Such open men loved their little homes an and d had no DO taste for tor tenements Their Thiel r sons Rons and their sons sons' sons eons have ha fol fo u lowed This loving home spirit has played playe d an Important role In shaping Philadelphia's Phil Phila s- s delphias delphia's Those of 01 urban urba n transportation have never been a so 0 pressing for the Philadelphia wage wag e earner prefers to have his home within within with in walking distance of 01 the factory i In tn n which he Is employed and whether t In n Tacony or Manayunk Bridesburg or Kensington or 4 you will find the average a workman n living near nar his placer place of 01 employment t. t The same circumstances that serve serveto served d to make makl the Philadelphia artisan a aman aman man Conn with a dl distaste taste for tenements tenement s but Intent with an ambition to own a ahome ahome home have served to make mako him a ma man n with a leaning toward savings ban bank k accounts find and building and Ion loan a loves Invest t. t ments A concomitant of ot all all of 01 these qualities gnat t- t ties Is the Industrious habit throw through which Philadelphia has attained t the he distinction of 01 having hn the highest pe percentage per r- r of skilled labor of 01 any mat major or city With such a fine quality of 01 ii la labor labor la- la I bor It Is little wonder that the n national national na na- a- a takers census were able to fin find d distinct lines lints of 01 commodities b bIng beIng being be be- e- e ing manufactured In the Philadelphia fa metropolitan area arta that It ranks fir first it In to the output of 01 hosiery and knit It goods good In carpet and ruleS rugs In en enton cotton cot t. t ton lace and saws and high In tn t the he manufacture of 01 leather hats fur lur felt Tel t linoleum m and many other ether commo dt- dt ties In a normal year yar the great won workshop work i- i shop of 01 the world produces 2000 I is Will oon worth of 01 manufactured products product s Including yards yard'S of 01 carpet carpe tid t t hats cigars at and id ti saws With but sixtieth one th h of or the nations nation's population the city of if the tile great Penn renn produces about or one 19 e twenty twenty fifth fifth of 01 all Its manufactures Travel where he will from Irom pot polar It ar circle to tolar circle In any longitude lon e e. e around the earth the traveler w will Ill never get away from the things th that it at Philadelphia buys the things It makes make s s. s and the things It U sells sell From eve try every ry land 1811 come the raw materials It fleet needs Is Isid s In III the fabrication of 01 the thousand and at atone id d one onu things It tt manufactures Philadelphia Philadel el phia built locomotives draw trains to the th top of 01 the Andes Into th the bra heart tort rt of China through the solitudes of ot the th Congo Cono Philadelphia built steamship steer steam n- n ship sail the seven seas and fly the their nIr f Ir Hags In lot eer every ort In the world Ih Phil Phil- II- II made medicines heal the sic sick k k m nests M of ot the till savage In i and und Zulu Zulu- ii ii- lan land Una soothe the aches sand and still ti the tho 19 e pains of tit tt ope from runt and at id d to Smite Nome and itlo I Forest orest anti and fit field nitric mine and anI quarry ocean orlan bed and mountain top Jun Junland ale l. l and t desert pampa and steppe froze fro en n tundra and tropic bench beach alike true trade Je ie with the metropolis of ot Penn Penu |