Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-10-26
MODEL CITY At ST.
LOUIS EXPOSITION
FINE FEATURES ASSEMBLED I'M
STRIKING STYLE.
ONE HUNDRED FEET WIDE
And Half a Mile Long, Best Paving,
Most Modern Methods of Cleaning
and Transportation, Correct Thing
in City Buildings, These and Much
Else to Be Shown.

and Transportation, Correct Thing
in City Buildings, These and Much
Else to Be Shown.
St Louis, Oct. 20.-Months OF
thought, discussion. planning and pre-
paratiOn have resulted in the definite
announcement of what the proposed
model street at the worlds fair next
year will be. This thOroughfare, 100
feet wide and nearly half a mile long,
will illustrate the American ideal of
what city should have. 1t will be a
gigantic object lesson in modern city
making, participated in by twenty-five
American municipalities. The exhibit
will require an outlay Of 100000, each
city appropriating an average sum OF
$4,000, while the exposition will eX-
pend $4,000.
This assembling of the best features
OF the leading cities in the world is a
rev departure. It's scope is so broad
that it contains the choicest of every
thing. 1t will be almost like paying a
Iersonal visit to each city that partic-
i9ates in the exhibit. In some ways
IL will be better, for the exhibits will
lie side by side and satisfactory COM
I arisons may be made. New York will
how the street cleaning service.
Other cities will show theirs, and the
hest system may be really determined
hn Loft
cd, and so on through the list, each
city showing the best features, and the
whole making up a section of a truly
ideal city.
On entering the exposition at the
main gateway, almost the first sight
that will confront the visitor viii be
the hotel street, which stretches east
and west on the north side OF the
mammoth palace OF manufactures.
This community will not be heterOge-
neous collection of diverse buildings,
for each will conform TO the civic
individuality of other features. While
all the improvements in the ideal city
will be under the direction of Mr.. Al
bert Kelsey, the superintendent of the
municipal improvement exhibit, each
city will design its own exhibit and
install it where it does not conflict
with the general plan. Duplication
will be carefully avoided
The paving will represent the mod
ern approved material used in good
street making. Thus one section will
lie made of asphalt, another VIII be OF
vitrified bricks. another of bituminOus
rlacadam. Wooden blocks, treated
with the latest preserving processes,
will constitute another section. Tel
ford will be in one section, while gran
lite blocks, for heavy hauling, will also
re shown.
Midway of its length. will be a spa
Cious square. In the center viii stand
the civic pride monument. designed by
J. Massey Rhind, the New York sculp-
tor, who is now engaged upon a foun-
tain for the German emperor. The
monument will be reflected in basin
OF water, surrounding it. In the pool
may be seen beautiful aquatic plants.
The monument and its accessories rep
resent order out of chaos and the civic
virtues.
On the south side of the square
will stand the city hall of the ideal
city. This structure. built by the ex-
position and designed by Mr.. Kelsey,
will be a noble composition.
On the north side of the square, and
what is really the main gateway to the
model street, will stand the model
railway station. This will be the ex-
hibit of Atlanta. That metropolis of
the southeast is building a railway
station at a cost of $1.000,000. This
structure viii not be a miniature, nor
an exact reproduction of Atlanta's de-
pot. Ii will, however. reproduce the
most striking features of the original.
The, station is characteristic of Dixie
in that it savors of those first archi-
tectural efforts of the early Florida
fathers. The tall twin towers that
grace the main facade are reminders
of the Moorish architecture that pre-
coded the renaissance. The building
united the romance of the Alhambra
with the modern appointments of New
YOrk's 42d street depot.
Leading from the square, TO the,
east and to the west. following a gen
tie curve, is the main street, to be not
less than four blocks long. The west
ern end is closed with the day nursery.
This will be a large and ornate struc-