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Show Combined Beauty and Utility. Paris. hlch knows how to char, travelers tsho are rich, and yet brlnj to Itself thope who wli-h to live pleas antly and economically, has shown also how to maintain the most beau tiful park in the world and yet hav It a source of revenue rather than ex peose. says Franklin Oarkin In Sue cess Mr. ixtue. It costs H2.0n) year ly to maintain the Pols do Houli nne a park of 1,5.10 acres. Hut it brltiKt to the city treasury annually ftso.ooi in rents and concessions. There ar bettr ways than this one of making public revenue lrom a city people lik to ko to. or live In. "Kxss eondem ! nation" Is one of these and It li j spreading:. It means takirg sori ( what more land than Is required foi a park or pobllc-butldlng site, and al lowing the community generally tc receive the benefit of the Incressai value of attuttira land. |