The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-18

us almost as effectually as streams of
water would. They obstruct crossings, en-
danger life and limb, detract from the value
of property influenced by them, create
isolation and divergent interests prevent
community of feeling, stunt or strange
civic pride. There can be no model city
without deep intense and general public
spirit. There can be no such public spirit
where large part of the population reels
that 1t is not on an equality with the other
part, feels that ii is hampered and him
dered. that its chances are not so good, it's
advantages fewer.
IF indianapolis is to become a model
city is must have the same facility of move
ment to and from each part of itself 1t
is perfectly possible to have this Elevated
not practicable here. Viaducts are INSULT
Client. Money spent upon them is Ill spent.
The. model city of Indianapolis will have
tracks raised so high that they will not in
terfere with passage on any street. A four
track road, or more, if necessary, can pass
directly through the city, high above all
surface traffic All the commerce can pass
upon ii without interruption. Passengers
and goods can be raised to its level by ma
chinery cheaply operated. Life will be Sc
cure and no opposing obstacles will divide
US into sectional camps.
This is a dream you say. Not bit
of it. 1t is the hardest of common sense.
1t has been done in many cities and is con-
templated in many more. 1t is perfectly
feasible, entirely possible. 1t only requires
money, and not so much of that as you
imagine. Six million dollars would be amply
sufficient for system answering for years.
That means an interest charge of, say,
$50, 900 a year. That sum would furnish
terminal facilities Incompatible for safety
and efficiency. This would be a small thing
for our united railways to handle It
would be the best investment they could
make. Naturally they would object to 1t.
People do not like to spend money II they
convince them that it is to their interest
but they must be convinced If we are to
have. that necessity of a model city. And
this brings me in conclusion to the asser-
shall model
upon the present or any future standard
unless we work for it. Strive without
ceasing is the text the people who want to
accomplish anything for the public good
must take as their watchword and war cry
The model city will not come through fanci-
fui speculations, but through persistent
unwearied toll. There is no excellence
without great labor
CLEANLINESS NEXT TO GOODNESS.
Mr.. Clarence A. Kenyon discussed the
problem of keeping a model city clean. He
said in part:
THE idea that cleanliness is desirable is
followed by the question. how is it to be
done?' and then the doing of it, between
which last two there is too often a con-
siderable interregnum. Men keep coming
from the country to the cities until at the
present time over one-thrd of the popula-
ton of the United States lives in the cities
and towns. All those who come from the
to become accustomed to the greater cost
of city life. They long for the advantages
and comforts of the city, and yet want to
pay only country taxes 1t requires vast
amount of energy on the part of the more
advanced to educate the people Of the cities
to consent to be taxed to build sewers, pave
ments and clean city. 1t is astonishing
how hard it is to convince people that 1t
can be done. 1t was in the summer of 1898
that 1 suggested to the Board of Public
Works that the failure to keep the streets
clean was in the method and not in the
men; that the only method known to prop
erly and successfully clean the streets of a
city was to clean them as the women had
cleaned their houses for thousands of years.
Do it by hand and let the work be con-
tinuous / volunteered to organize a force
and without charge manage the cleaning of
such paved streets as the Board of Public
Works should turn over to my care. The
offer was accepted, and l managed the
cleaning of several miles of streets until the
end of the season. The method employed
was what is known as the patrol or orderly
system CT hand cleaning. The express YER
dict of the board, press and public was that
the method was a success. 1t cost little
more that the old, ineffective way.
''In summing up the result Of the work
at the end of the season / made three
recommendations to the Board of Public
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