Palisadian., 1908-01-01
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Talks on Places and People.


little i'll common with those of European
countries; yet there is a similarity to
certain extent, in ALL 1t is a wonderfully
interesting thing, this building up OF
city. In our own time we have watched
a great many go up from the very toun-
dation, and there are several OF 100000
population that were scarcely started
twenty years ago. 1t is almost lncred-
ible that within one generation we could
build up even one great city. lhlrty
years ago Buffalo had less than $4,000
population; it has over 100000 to-day.
Twenty years ago Seattle had less than
10000 population; to-day there are
zoo 1000. When the Civil War closed,
there wasn't anything left of Atlanta,
either in population or houses. To-day
it is the most up-to-date city of 10000
in the entire world no exception any
where; having fine residences, more and
finer modern skyscrapers from twelve
to eighteen stories high; more miles OF
street railways than any city OF 100000
people. Yet it has grown slowly com
pared to other American cities, due to
the fact that Atlanta has had to build
itself, relying entirely upon home capital,
home brains.
Buffalo, upon approach into its busl-
ness heart, is one of the most beautiful,
open and attractive looking cities Ill all
America The streets are wide and III
its centre there throbs as busy hustle
of people as one could find anywhere.
Buffalo is rather an imposing city and
different from almost any other. he
land on which it is built is perfectly
fat-a dead level, in fact. There are
no grades, no hills of any kind. This
makes street building of comparative
easy operation So, when Delaware
avenue and other choice residential
thoroughfares came first into being, there
were no difficulties to overcome. Della
ware avenue is one of the finest resi-
dence streets in the country, though
scarcely so attractive in the main as
East avenue, in Rochester. A peculiar
thing about Buffalo is that there are
so many framed residences. When one
gets away from the centre of town, say
half a mile out, there are many more
wooden houses than any other kind.
Yet there are certain residence streets
where brick and stone for homes are
the prevailing materials used. But these
are few. Buffalo is a great manufactur-
as unprepossessing as any one ever sees.
The Buffalo one sees entering on the
New York Central lines is far from
attractive Take the city all in all, how
ever, its business section and its select
residence districts and it not only COM
pares favorably with any, but surpasses
most cities of the same size. 1t is
great busy mart for trade and manu-
faeture and travel It's close proximity
to Niagara Falls keeps it filled at all
seasons with floating population, which
in summertime runs we'll up into thous-
ands. The city is we'll supplied with
parks. and there are number OF t1ne
driveways There are art galleries. also,
a very fine one supported by the city, IN
which are number of magnificent pant
ings. some of the most famous canvases
in the world. The wealth of Buffalo is
great Society has been rather more
gay than in most places because money
has advanced those into prominence who
have sought to rival the most extrava-
giant lavishness possible for money t,
huv Tt is no wonder that there should