The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-18
SAYS TO 60 SLOW
John M. Carrere Seconds Cass Gilbert's Word of
 Caution.
NEW HAVEN'S ADVANTAGE
Park System and Beautiful Streets Urged in Third Trowbridge
 Lecture.

Following the note of warning of Cass Gilbert a week ago that the pea- pie of New Haven go slow in the plans for the city beautiful, John M Car rere last night in delivering the third of the Thomas R. Trowbrldge lectures at the Art school, urged the people not to go too far in the plans for the de velopment of New Haven from an ar chitectural standpoint.
 MT. Carrere spoke of New Ravens wonderful natural advantages, and while he favored the plans for the erection of more public buildings, he said that the work should be done very 'alowly. He said that the buildings should be made of such material and in such form that they harnonize ill appearance with the surrounding structures. Much may be lost he sa q, in going at such work too rapidly.
 He said in part: "In the early days of our country, the planning and de velopment of our cities was undertaken without much forethought and with no anticipation of the rapid and unpre- cedented growth of our centers of civ ilization, No provision was made for this growth, even during later years, with the possible exception of the city of Washington, 50 ably and wisely planned by Major L'Enfant,
 It Is great misfortune that the splendid precedent established by the city of Washington was not more widely followed elsewhere. but even in Washington, the very center of pub lie influence, the plan was soon lost sight of with the rapid growth of the city, and it is only at the present time that q serious and determined efcrt Is being made to prevent further mis- chief, and in a measure to correct some of the mischief already done.
 You cannot stop the legitimate and healthy growth and development of a locality, and when it Is once started, but you can and you should control it. and this we have utterly failed to do
 Many of our cities have been boomed It has really been forced on speculative lines, and no end of mis- chief has resulted from the destruc- tion of natural opportunities which cannot in most instances be restored, and the substitution in their places of i'll advised and thoroughly inartistic streets, avenues and buildings which can only be. removed by heroic meas ures and not until they have stood for years as a blemish upon the locality
 In city building the first step to- ward attaining this end Is by develob- 1 ing your entire system of parks within and without your city on intelligent and practical lines. If it were possi- ble to control definitely the destiny of | the entire country surrounding city with all it's beautiful scenery and won derful natural advantages 1t would then be possible to establish. com 1 plete circle of parks around the city. 1 The more study the subject the are few cardinal principles which should underly all city planning. t First Circulation; Convenient, ade- quate and direct circulation, by which mean, providing ample facility for every sort of traffic, so arranged as to connect every point in the city in the most direct and adequate possible manner with any other point no mat | ter how distant.
 Second. Hygiene: That Is to say, the promotion of health by providing for every scientific means of sanita- ton, drainage and especially of natur- al ventilation, by which l mean that certain proportion should be estab- lished throughout eyefy city between the volds and the solids, the areas covered by buildings and other im- provements and those reserved for ah and light,
 Third Art, by which mean til, science of solving the two first prob. lems and all other problems dependen thereon In the most practical and th' ost artistic wa.
 In our cities and In fact in our whole mode Of life we separate work iron pleasure, the practical from the beau. tiful, instead of blending them as is sc l skillfully done by the older nations ol