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Show BH PITTSBURGH. THE BEAUTIFUL H CitjJ planning experls are to make Pittsburgh beautiful, and. if H they succeed, an eastern writer says: It is the business interests of Pittsburgh, including bankers, manufacturers, merchants and professional men H who are financing the planning, fifty individuals and corpo- rations having contributed the necessary funds to gel the project started. They have organised themselves into what is called the iii. ens committee on city planning anil have fl already accumulated a large office fou r .mil staff of archi- H teelural and engineering experts for their work. H The cost of carrying out the program will run into H scores of millions during the next twenty years, according H to one of the aforesaid citizens. In the meantime, Pittsburgh H will be getting a new boulevard ami some new bridges and a H few recreational facilities In oilier v.t.Is the words of the committee, in tact "the mi ne will be spent to provide H a major thoroughfare system, to improve and extend recree b tional facilities, for better transit and transportation, to H stimulate home building and improve living conditons, to protect and enhance property values by proper soning, to fl to make the city beautiful as well as convenient and ef- |