Show HOIN TOWN HEL P 8 VALUE OF CITY BEAUTIFUL aside from aesthetic commercial benefit benefits arr are of the create greatest importance in the recent city planting congress in london reasons enough were ere given glen for the beautifying of towns one however and an important one was as not we me believe mention ment lond d ahls ili a li ii th the commercial benert which accrues to a city which hie his become famous fop for the beauty of ite its buildings the vistas unfolded by ite its streets ite its public parka parks and garden gardens vcr ageo ciris has been known us as the playground of the civil iced treil world orld not only have countless thousands thoua ands flatted it for ite its ancient palaces pa lacee ite its storehouses of art tread utes and ite its historic but because of the more modem beauties of its architecture ite its boulevards and its parka parks and pleasure grounds hut but many of the allent buildings which d di lighted the va e of the th artist have had to glie gite nay ny to th of ess and the needs of tod so go paris Is I 1 trying to ing to beautify bia util itis it modern features that some of Us its land landmark marl of 0 the past will III not be missed so strongly do the larli lans believe in city beautification as an nit investment that the municipality has been author lied to borrow for this purpose A part ot of thia this 17 haa has just been raised by an issue of 1 bonds which aich in spite of labor lea ties and other obstacles was scribed twenty times at leist two to lending leading thoroughfares thorough farea are to I 1 a brently gre ruly extended new parka parks established and new nev government buildings erected in america tho the chief opposition to improvements of this cort art are likely to come from the classes which would mould most bo be benefited by them chicago a chief claim on visitors Is its system of parks parka and boulevard there Is 18 no to t tilling illig ho how many of our guests are at traded by these thebo nold driveways and cleasure ile asuro grounds the chicago plan which commercially may be looked upon as an expensive dream of visionaries vision aries would mould it carried out be the alef asset not only would it conduce to immensurable benefit and delight to those who ho ike here but it would mould attract millions of people from front else elsewhere here and those these indirectly would help kiy for its cost coat and maintenance chicago tribune TRUTH ABOUT THE SUBURB in theory th they e y be well gov arned but frequently they have their Trout troubles iks in theory fitall cities and big vit lages which are largely of the residences of mea men who do bu bUbs sc and earn their living in 0 great urban center which carries along and sus sull bains these suburbs ought to be mod to of good government they should bt very efficiently gaar gaarden gaard ded cd supplied with whatever hat ever necessaries local officials are expected to provide and kept clean wela IAM caved well mell regulated and con tented such communities are not too big for wideawake wide ide awake citizens to watch match their public busi business nebs closely they are tree from many difficulties which great cities must face in the nature of their industries and commercial interest interests and the mixed character of their lation in theory the suburbs have all the better of such comparisons v irh ith their bis big neighbors the practical tests of experience do not work nork out that way suburbs arc are often full of troubles they have more than their hare share of vi wrangling and bit tern ess anil and la in politics and anti government often the local adminis in such municipalities Is costly extravagant aud inefficient many great cities bave st u en hed their growth groth promoted and their legal urn lint its enlarged time and aln arin by the de do giro jt f suburbs to have haie better local government than they seem able ty tu gel get for or them selea they join great cities to improve extremely uti conditions necessity ft city parks it Is a sin on a crime i says a voi writer riter in fit Cass canslers Ca salers lers to con dinue to construct citler extending overine over mile les of territory in danse form a I 1 alon without effect effective I 1 v meana means for or cutti g off the chorre of a conflagration i er it has hat ordinary bound bounds and restraint rf cities should be divided into sec see gloni not riot exceeding one mile quare square by parks and ade par parkways kays those will mill not only tervo as fire barrners barr but will ad greatly to the hualah comfort and happiness of the people and the beauty of tue tile city this ys tern provides a brak bruak in the conti continio nit lly ity of the bull building dins mass thus making it practically impossible for a con fla gration to spread over miles of 0 tor ter before checked I 1 it would be much easier to stop a it fire at tho the perks parks and park parkways waya than in a solid mass of building buildings the cutting down of trees a id shrubbery ry would mould be much easier safer and more me re effect effective iTO than the destroying a line I 1 of f building buildings and the loss of a mile or two of the parkways adornment would be a trifling matter in compan compari ton with ith the sos loss which would be by the destruction of an atil equal trea res of buildings |