The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-04

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ton, and will inquire into ordinances
and council proceedings. particularly
where real property owners are directly
interested.
Learn Some New Tricks.
City. The real estate men there have
brought about several good results in
their city by forcing the application Of
business principles to matters relating
to paving and other city improvements.
Application Of some Of the ideas alb
sorbed on the junket will be tried in
Minneapolis.
duly impressed with Kansas City and
its Importance, sober second thought,
following the. enthusiasm, that was
aroused by viewing the city, develops
the fact that Minneapolis is only. a
year behind in it's figures. While Min
neapolis undoubtedly has superior nat
ural advantages, Kansas City has, out
of it's comparatively desolate landscape,
developed city that III its resident
ordinate than that of Minneapolis.
Kansas City Ahead.
Altho Minneapolis is famed for dts
natural water and land opportunities
for development into a park and boule-
ward system, Kansas City has out of
its nothingness produced a marvellous
system that has added millions to the
value. Of its real property. While Min
neapolis sustains commercial relation
to the northwest that might well be
the envy of any corporate municipality
/ in the country, Kansas City has &C:
| quired the feeling that it is the real
| metropolis of the west. Boiled down
into small space, the general impress
sion gained by the Minneapolis men is
| that Kansas City has made the most OF
| itself,b while Minneapolis is letting
/ superior opportunities 20 to waste fol
! lack of self-appreciation. 49, e..
4 The Kansas City park system was
/ probably the most notable feature tc
| the Minneapolis men. Twenty years age
4 the city was a homely and scattered
/ city, with fine houses distributed here
and there, but without continuity. Th1
4 park system has now been co-ordinated
II The fine boulevards have been hneC
u with beautiful homes and stranger
II can be driven all over the city on The
HI boulevard system without seeing any
h thing but the best residences.
III Millions in Parks.
III in the last nine years betwee,
n $6,O00,OOO and 100000 has. been spen
81 sion had made a foreign tour of study
Il The work has been well done TIL
II parks have been co-ordinated, or unite'
II with a system Of boulevards, more ex
4 tensive than that of Chicago. The i'm
n provement in the whole city has bee7
HI remarkable. Shanties have been re
II moved and the boulevards have bee,
II lined with beautiful houses costing fro1
& $4,000 to $4,000, or more.
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II transition stage and poor structure
may be found, they are on the insid
( and cannot be seen closely from tn
/ boulevards. More wealth is evident, an
( finer houses than can be found in tn
i twin. cities together. The plan Ia
1 worked out magnifcently with increas
Of many per cent in estimated and req
values Of all real property.
The realty men were convinced tha
the same results may be produced
Minneapolis, SO that access from or
/ ! part of the city to the other may b
gained without passing thru medioe1
( districts as now is necessary. Wit
/ Kansas City's experience repeate'
lots that sell for from 500 to $50 fro1
/ $65 to 500 foot, and property that
comparatively worthless may be re
cued.
The park system in Kansas City ]
not a luxury, but has paid for itse
in dollars and cents and has increase
the city's taxation power. 81 /
Sees and Repents.
The transformation required mut
legislation. One of the bitterest opp
nerts, however, when he died, acknoW
II@edged his error by bequeathing 1,5t
acres on the river bank for extensic
II of the system.
II Much was heard about values on tt
Kansas City trip and better rents a
I undoubtedly in vogue than in MINI
II apolis. With Kansas City, Kan, al
Il other suburbs the total populate
reaches about 900, which pays tri
n ute. to Kansas City alone. In the ca
L Of Minneapolis the. trade is divid
II with st. Paul, SO the comparison b
tween Kansas City and this city on