Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-10-22
MODEL CITY At ST.
LOUIS EXPOSITION
FINE FEATURES ASSEMBLED IN
STRIKING STYLE.
ONE HUNDRED FEET WIDE
And Half Mile Long, Best Paving,
Most Modern Methods of Cleaning
and transportation, Correct Thing
in City Buildings, These and Much
Else to Be Shown.

Else TO BE SHOWN.
St Louis, Oct. 20.-Months of
thought, discussion, planning and pre-
Laration 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 mile long,
will illustrate the American ideal OF
what a 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 vi 100000, each
city apprOpriating an average sum OF
100000, while the exposition will eX-
pend $4,000.
This assembling Of the best features
OF the leading cities in the world is 4
new departure. It's scope is so broad
that it contains the choicest of every
thing. 1t will be almost like paying a
personal visit to each city that partic-
ipates in the exhibit. In some ways
it will be BETTER for the exhibits Will
lie side by side and satisfactory COM
PARSONS may be made. New York VIII
show the street cleaning service.
Other cities will show theirs. and the
best system may be really determined
Detroit's park system will be exploit
ed 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
rain gateway, almost the first sight
that will confront the visitor will be
tie hotel street, which stretches east
and west on the north side of the
mammoth palace of manufactures.
This community will not be heteroge-
aeous 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
en approved material used in good
street making Thus one section will
lie made of asphalt, another Will be OF
vitrified bricks, another of bituminous
n4acadam. Wooden blocks, treated
with the latest preserving processes,
will constitute another section. Tel
fcrd will be in one section, while gran
tie blocks, for heavy hauling, will also
he shown.
Midway of it's length, will be a spa
Cious square In the center will stand
the civic pride monument. designed by
J. Massey Rhind, the New York sculp-
tor, who is now engaged upon a foun-
tain for tie German emperor The
monument will be reflected in a basin
CT 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
ailway station This will be the ex
hibit of Atlanta That metropolis OF
the southeast is building a railway
station at a cost of $l,000,000. This
| structure will not be 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 large and ornate struc