Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-03-20
IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.
an Over Heated Correspondent Plants an
Ideal City for Hot Weather.
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But when the north wind Claws itself
out to show what it can do in the way
OF heat then you shall see holiness
that will give the pavements of New
York cause to blush that they cannot
warm up in the dog days Were city
Of far less size and density of population
than those of New ork, but made OF
stone and brick like the superstructure
OF Manhattan island, to be planted in
the valley here below, the people thereof
would during one of these "hot spells"
be swept away like flies at the approach
of winter.
But q city might DO built here that
would surpass all other cities in the
comforts and delights of physical life.
No stone or any brick should enter the
composition OF its building unless
shielded by some material Of less heat
retentive and reflective qualities. 10
building should exceed one story in
heigth. Large odifces should be with
inner courts, with fountains and semi.
tropical plants and trees therein. The
streets should be broad, paved with
wood, and cleansed with never ccasing
cleansing Generous channels of pure
water should run between the roadway
and the walhs for foot passengers. and
by the water on either side should be
broad strips of green turf. Fig trees
and orange trees and the tree of the
walnut should thickly line every high
way and byway, and there should DO
no forbidden fruit.
The fruit should be so plenty that all
might eat and still there be :. plenty
The dwellings should be surrounded
with hedges of pomegranate, aud roses
and all sweet smelling towers should
bloom IN aboundi2g profusion. Great
aroorS OF grapevillss sho I'D grow every.
where, and no foal should let or hinder
him who sought 20 pluck the ponderous
clusters fFeRl the vine. Fountains
should throw up lofty spray at every
corner. Great ponds with cool birds
thereon and turt-clad banks sbonld
form centers whence the streets would
radiate. oft strains Of music woven
from stringed instruments should fill
the evening air. One great promen-
AIDE, luxuriant with overhanginr shade
trees, should surround the CITY.
Open-air cafes there should be and un
roo ed theatres and concert gardens
and all the loudness and vulearity
usually to be met with in such places
rigidly tabooed.
And the persons from Mob Hill md
the rich Californian generally should
De held at bay But the shop windows
should display the artistic wealth of the
world. There should be mighty aque
duct, bringing water underneath the
ground from far up in the mountains
or many artesian wells should supply
every want to plethora. The city
o hclals from mayor to constable should
be men of letters, artists, and the like
with some rich individuals of approved
taste and having experience in
affairs. Chestertieldian manners
shoald reign supreme, and those
people who must be always
doing something should be excluded
like the pestilence. The long midday
should be made siesta-the eyenin:.
and the morning should be dreams of
pleasures pleasure toned down, modu. |
lated, refined.
Then, in that city, with many other
things added 10 those which have pnt
down would the climate Of tho San Joa
quin be found glorious. And the PEG.
pc of the world-the rich, cultivated |
world would flock thereto to spend |
their gold, and the inhabitants thereo |
would rake in the pile and chuckle at
tier own wiles. And the scheme is not
u visionary one.