The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17
FROSTS FORECAST
The Editor of the Engineering
News on Salt Lake.
PRETTIEST CITY IN THE WEST
He Tells how 1t Can be Made the Mos
Beautiful City in the
Country.
Beautiful Zion.
Prettiest CITY in all the west,

Beautiful Zion
Prettiest city in all the west.
With its majestic temple and grand tab
ernacle it is the best known of all the cities
of the western world.
To the stranger it offers peculiar delights
and to the irrigationIst every street is an
object lesson, its bitches filled with run
ming water babbling the song of thrift.
When the pioneers founded this city they
laid out the streets with liberal baud and
the generous proportions Of the thorough
fares have attracted the admiration of the
European tourist and the plaudits of
travellers from native places.
The beautiful trees and their genial
foliage, which line the streets, offer shelter
from the hot sun of summer and fres hen
the atmosphere as it soughs through their
tops.
But commerce comes and with its vandal
hands hews down the beautiful Lombard
poplars and lays bare the plumed scions of
the forests in the marts of trade.
Main street is made naked of its gar
nished shade and men swelter as they walk
on its baked pavements.
When asked why this dissertation the
the answer is given: "Other cities have
no trees on the business streets and Salt
Lake should have none either"
1t is therefore refreshing 10 man who has
seen something outside of Utah and the
United States.
A. B. Frost, founder and editor of the
Engineering NelcS, the largest and most ably
conducted engineering journal in the world,
is in the city attending the irrigation con-
gress. He is not only authority on railroad
construction, but has given considerable
ont nf aifi
some OF the prettiest suburban cities about
Chicago were built from plans suggested by
him. The first thing he suggests is to cali
the streets bouievardS. There is something
in name after all, and he says that it be-
Titles these wide avenues to call them
streets. 1t is to be observed that this i'm
proyement would be inexpensive. Then he
would park the sides of all the streets in
inc resident portion, nor could he see any
objection to extending this into the retail
portion Of the city, as the streets are wide
enough to spare the ground. The idea that
business cannot be conducted on parked
streets is American. In Paris the boule-
wards are lined with shops and retail stores
He would improve the streets of Salt
Lake after the fashion of the Paris boule-
wards, and make it the handsomest city in
America.
in the matter of city building" he said.
salt Lake city has the elements of max
ing lovely place, but there must be some
radical measure to reduce maintenance
The great question is to overcome the
heavy expense Of paving such wide streets.
This can be done by reducing the wide
roadway. Chicago finds IS feet of roadway
sufficient for its vast commerce, and
Broadway, in New York, over which more
traffic goes in an hour than there is on
Main street in a month, is only 60 feet
wide"
Mr.. Frost suggested the following ap-
portionment in the laying out of the streets
of this city: 15-foot sidewalks on eth side
AUDITING the lots, then 20-foot strips of
parked ground, and 20-foot paved road
way, allowing % feet in the centre of the
street for double tracks of street railway.
The following design of a cross section of
the boulevard indicates Mr.. Frost's idea
more clearly: