Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-10-28
WILL BE A COSTLY STREET.
London to Cut New Thoroughfare at
Cost OF s3.5oo,ooo.

London TO Cut New Thoroushfare at
a Cost of ss,5oo,ooo.
The city Of London is about to un-
dertake another OF those gigantic OPP
erations which have marked its de-
velopment during the greater part OF
the present century, in the opening OF
a new street for the convenience OF
commerce, extending from Holborn to
the Strand. IL will be cut through
district now intersected by crooked and
narrow thoroughfares and inhabited by
a population of about 1900 artisans
The improvement requires the eyic-
ton OF these people from their homes,
and the London council has agreed 10
rehouse them within a mile OF their
present quarters, so as not TO disturb
their yocations. 1t is estimated that il
will cost the municipality 81 SOC, 600 to
do this, being an average of $1,000 for
each family The rent to be derived
from these artisans when quartered
in their new homes will represent only
a small share Of the interest on the
capital invested. but that is the penalty
which the municipality has been will
Ing 10 assume in making the changes
involved in the main improvement,
which will cost $500 ooo Incident
ally the measure has introduced Gu
rious problem into municipal govern
ment, for in rehousing the evicted
working people employed OF the line
OF the new thoroughfare il has virtual
ly established the principle that the
municipality shall reserve part of the
constantly expanding and high-priced
areas within IL, which are devoted to
commerce and warehousing, for the
housing OF the laboring people en-
ployed in them, and that the munich
patty must bear the difference be-
tween what the working people can
reasonably be expected to pay for such
accommodations and the actual inter
est due on the basis of surrounding
land values The experiment has been
made there on a small scale for years
past, with some degree of success. The
great cities of the world have grown
turing the present century as they
never grew before. Modern travelling
facilities, the development Of manu-
featuring industries and the growth of
commerce have steadily drawn into
them the population OF the rural dis
tricts- As consequence the crowding
has been so great and rapid within
them that many such improvements as
the one which London now contem-
plates making to relieve a gorge, which
were little dreamed of in the earlier
part OF the century, have, in the latter
half OF it, become imperative necessi-
ties Within the past fifty years the
ground plans of Paris and London
have been materially altered through
the opening OF new thoroughfares
through congested districts in the in
terest OF convenience, adornment and
commerce. During this brief period
all the bouleyards which make Paris
he city beautiful and the magnificent
sewer system which makes il the best
Trained city in the world have been
So, also. the Thames en-
'ankT ent and the great sanitary prob
EN- involved in the relief of the
Thames of the eity's sewage, which il
arried with it; the opening up of grsa.
horoughfares through congested dis
riots, the construction of new bridges
o accommodate the ever-increasing
ransriver traffic. and the construction
4 subterranean system Of metropol-
tan railroads have largely changed the
ace OF the British metropolis.