Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-10
MODEL CAPITAL CITY,,
Scheme Proposed by Oklahoma
to Erect One.


to Erect One.
WILL SELECT VIRGIN SITE.
All Public institutions to Be Grouped
In Place Built on Ideal Lines-New
State to Employ Architects and En-
sineers to Lay Out Grounds.
Shall the people of Oklahoma erect
an ideal capital city. in which would
be grouped all the state institutions.
or shall they be distributed over the
state in separate locations. as sort
Of pap to each section? is question
that is now being agitated throughout
the new state, writes Muskogee q.
T) correspondent of the Chicago Post.
Argument for the united plan pre-
sents the opportunity of building city
that would be the only one of it's kind
in the world, where every building and
its surrounding grounds could be laid
out on plan of absolute permanency
and with relation to It's surroundings
and its contemporary state institutions.
This plan, it Is asserted. would save
the taxpayers Of the state $5,00O,000,
or $25 for each voter in the state.
For the other plan 1t is argued that
certain towns In the state would be
given one institution each, and the
state would thereby divide its property
and extend a certain state interest to,
the various counties where such insti-
tutions were located.
Residents of cities where there are
hopes of landing some state building
favor the latter plan. The average
citizen. who has no favorite town,
wants the state buildings centralized
under the ideal city plan.
Some of the strongest men In the
state are working on the ideal capital
city plan. They propose to have the
state elect q nonpartisan commission
which shall have entire charge of the
work Of building this city. It Is pro
posed the state shall condemn two or
three townships as site within fifty
miles of the exact geographical CEN
ter and then let the commission So
lect the most advantageous city loca-
ton out OF this prescribed area.
Expert engineers and architects
would be employed to lay out the site
and place the grounds for each build
ing in general scheme with the 9th
er institutions. Here would DO locat-
ed the state capitol. the penitentiary,
the asylum. normal schools, agricultur-
al college. some Of the experiment sta
lions, school of mines and other insti.
buttons supported or endowsa by the
state. When all the land necessary
for the state buildings should be segre-
gated the remainder could be laid Cd
in town lots and sold for residences OF
business.
Conservative town site men say that
In this manner the state could sell al
the first sale 100000 worth Of lots
which would be available for the con.
struction Of the state buildings. BY
other plans the taxpayers must pay
for the buildings. In addition to this
as the city grew additions could BIZ
laid out and sold by the commission
and the state would have big income
from these sales for many years.
In addition to the state buildings thu
commission would also control the
municipal property. The state would
own and operate all street car, light
water, telephone and other municipal
franchise properties. As the street.
are laid out water and sewer mains
telephone and telegraph wires are t,
be laid under the streets In conduits
and the street once made would sci
dom have to be disturbed lin othe
words. as the city builded 1t woult
conform as near as possible to moderl
methods and requirements.
To carry this plan into effect it viii
be necessary for the legislature to cal
an election for the people to vote th
needed power to commission or othe
body to have charge of the proposition
1t is believed that the first state legis
lature will consider such call.
The enabling act provides that tn
state capital shall remain at Guthri
until 1913. This gives FIVE years for
uGClSiOu dS 10 pSTMdNeut CdplI8
This would also give time in whic
this comprehensive plan Of mode
capital city could be carried into effec
Corridor Cars For India.
The East Indian railway intend
shortly to put corridor trains. built af
er the most approved American design
on the Calcutta Bombay run, and ever
tually similar trains are to take th
place Of the present mail trains to De
hi and beyond. says Engineer. Th
new carriages. which are almost read,
are luxuriously upholstered.
IN the Swim.
We've been to see John Drew
And other fine theaters,
The Htppodrome and Hammerstein,
And now we tip the walters.
1nAsed. we've moved into
A neishborhood OF rank
We've done 1t all since father drew
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