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Show In Its stead there will be opened up in the not-distant future a new highway, high-way, known as Pennsylvania boulevard, boule-vard, extending from City Hail square to the Imposing and classical east facade of the Pennsylvania terminal. The railroad Improvements are resulting re-sulting In the unsightly section of the Schuylkill Immediately south of Fairmont park being canalized and boulevard-bordered and In giving the heart of Philadelphia that sort of a cleaning that delights every eye. Green will grow tomorrow where grime flourished yesterday, and the dreams of city planners will be living liv-ing realizations where ugliness but lately reigned supreme. On her part, Philadelphia plunged Into a new era of urban planning of startling star-tling proportions and magnificent conception. She would provide the diagonals to the northwest and the northeast that became so needed in the day when the automobile began to crowd every main thoroughfare. Peiin's Dream Is Now Jewel City Philadelphia Continues to Be a Credit to Founder. Prepared by National Geographlo Society. Washington. D. C.-WNU Service. WILLIAM PENN'S statue that adorns the portal of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Re-serve bank, Is soon to be removed because the bank Is to have a new facade. The statue has for four decades been a famous landmark of Philadelphia, In whose history Penn played a prominent part. "At this time, Gov. William Penn and a multitude of friends arrived here and erected a city called Philadelphia Phil-adelphia about a half mile from Shackamaxon," reads the quaint minutes of a meeting of the Society of Friends held at Shackamaxon on the banks of the Delaware on November No-vember 8, 1GS2. In two and a half centuries Philadelphia Phil-adelphia has become one of the world's greatest urban centers, possessing pos-sessing colorful history of leadership leader-ship In the development of the arts and sciences and In the progress of Industry. Meanwhile, Shackamaxon became a tiny park on the Delaware Dela-ware river, tenderly cared for by the big city. Modern Highways. The famous Roosevelt boulevard, the great diagonal to the northeast, with its broad, high-speed central lane bordered on either side by parking park-ing and local traffic lanes, took care of the northeast situation. To the northwest, from City Hall square to the entrance to West Fairmount park, runs the other diagonal, Fair-mount Fair-mount parkway, that marvelous $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 thoroughfare which the city has opened. It was a frank appeal for the citv beautiful that creator! this magnificent drive from city hall to the Art museum, where Fair-mount Fair-mount park begins. A thousand buildings had to be razed. The city's industries are rooted in that remote past before the machine Philadelphia now Is a metropolis of two million souls, third in size among all American urban communities commu-nities and eleventh among the municipalities mu-nicipalities of the earth. It covers 80,000 acres. Despite Its spread, It continues to be the city of Its founder, for William Penn established estab-lished Its plan, selected Its name, and projected Its future. His care and forethought In laying lay-ing out its centra area in the urn-shaped urn-shaped district between the Delaware Dela-ware and the Schuylkill, with Its central and satellite squares, have been perpetuated to this day. This area stands as a monument to his genius as a city planner, even In these times of amazing urban developments. devel-opments. Perhaps one may gain his best idea of the city of the Pious Penn by going forthwith to Its capitol, the city hall, and from the parapet of its tower getting a bird's-eye view of tills metropolis. First, one notes above, the heroic statue of the founder. This huge bronze statue of Penn weighs 53,348 pounds and stands 37 feet high. All of its pro- 4 J ' - 1 I 1 -i I Philadelphia Guards a National Treasure. age reached its height and when men of high skill had to do by hand what mere machine tenders can do today. Such men loved their little homes and had no taste for tenements. tene-ments. Their sons and their sons sons have followed. This home-loving spirit has played an important role in shaping Philadelphia's Phila-delphia's problems. Those of urban transportation have never been so pressing, for the Philadelphia wage earner prefers to have his home within walking distance of the factory fac-tory In which he is emploved; and whether In Tacony or Manavunk, Brldesburg or Passyunk, Kensington Kensing-ton or Southwark, you will find the average workman living near his place of employment. The same circumstances cir-cumstances that served to make the Philadelphia artisan a man with a distaste for tenements, but Intent with an ambition to own a home have served to make him a man with a leaniug toward savings bank accounts and building and loan Investments. In-vestments. A concomitant of all of these qual-ies qual-ies is the Industrious habit through which Philadelphia has aN talned the distinction of having the highest percentage of skilled tabor of any maior r-it r:n. portions are of amazing scale the hat 9 feet in diameter, the shoes 5 feet 4 inches long, the coat cuffs 3 feet deep, and the buttons 6 inches across. A Great World Port. Look over the outstretched city below, be-low, a magnificent river front proclaims pro-claims one of the world's great ports; a towering business district tells of a financial center of the first order; a dozen Industrial areas speak of manufacturing operations ; parks, parkways, a canalized river' museums, stately art galleries, and fine libraries write the superscription superscrip-tion of culture over tlie city ; suburbs sub-urbs of rare beauty environ it and make such areas along the mall line and Reading route resplendent jewels jew-els in the city's crown ; railroad facilities fa-cilities of latest electrified type extend ex-tend the city Into the country and bring country Into town. It was always the dream of WI1-liam WI1-liam Penn that his city should ever remain "a greene country towne" Through these two and a half centuries cen-turies the citizens steadily kept faith with his purpose, and today we find one acre out of every thirteen thir-teen within Its confines devoted to parks and squares. The beauty spot of the whole city Is Fairmount park one of the largest in the world. With 43 miles of drives and 44 miles of oaths ur!nri; i . - "'ui sucn a rinp that V' Iab0 U 'S 1Utle "at the national census-takers were able to find 277 distinct lines 0 commodities being manufactured 1 ea thaMt!lde,,Phin m"PlIt.n PUt Of hn rankS firSt 10 t,le O-PUt O-PUt of hosiery and knit goods- In carpet and rugs; In cotton nce nnS saws, and high In the mnmffncture of leather, hats, fur felt, linoleum and many other commodities ' shon ofnHmal yenr the rt work-Xffio? work-Xffio? weorth0rUOfPrO'U,COS ?2'--ducts SlngSSTaS Of Carnot. 7U1n,ui . J""" - - ; tmougn its 3,000 acres of scenic beauty and romantic try,onewhohasadaytospend . there revels In delightful prospects Here 18 Lemon Hill, the countrv : cier V'the0 tt cier of the Revolution, freciuenterf by Washington and .IeffersonTdam3 and Lafayette, who at d ll2ik -!th the banker where the popu, nowmay come he,e and be entertained at the concerts for which Fairmount park Is fl aous. At the foot of this h,L f" hill runs the SchuyLult ea' t ru western section a ere no diagonals from the rt center at Citv H-.n clty 8 came a timfw t Tr?- Then train facings ot ' Z century no Ion. Nlneteeuth the second qi terofer? annto Steam train o L We'ltlo,h-became We'ltlo,h-became archaic Tlie n!r? street station of the Pn Dl'0ad was outem .",e Pom,sylvanIn r r,;ee, " evorv Innrt sons. 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