Evening star., 1909-05-23

Plumbing in Danville.
Seeing the charts upon the walls, he
said:
II see the architects have been at work
here. Now, architects are good things
but expensive, / find. / built house in
'a6 in Danville 1t was a pretty goot
house for Danville. cost about $1,000. lr
fourteen years of married life l had built
nine houses-and sold them all. Then
wanted to build house TO live In. and
when ii was finished 1t was plumbed
Heaven only knows why we didn't die.
but we didn't. We threw that plumbing
out and got new plumbing. Then In three
years along came another plumber ano
he put in new plumbing, ano so finally
we got so we could retire for the night
without fearing for our lives. So there's
been progress in plumbing-and In other
lines
The Farmer All Right.
Mr. Cannon had a good deal TO say
about the farmers. He said that the
farmer needs no help. that he is the
greatest. grandest citizen in the entire
country and that the theorists who said
the country people needed help do not
know any more about what they are talk
ing about than Mr.. Cannon knows the
duties of an archangel.
Don't attempt to relieve people you
don't understand" he said. eff you've
ever read the several carloads of rot that
came to Congress along with some OF the
reports of that commission appointed to
delve into country life, you've probably
taken an oath never to read anything like
IL again The farmer needs no uplift."
He sat down in roar of applause. Mr..
Henry Morgenthau of New York made a
very brief speech and left to catch a
New York train: He said In parts.
Mr. Cannon would not have to join
Tammany Hall to be with those who are
supplanted by the settlement houses The
poor do not lean on Tammany SO much
now that women like Mrs. Simkovitch
have worked hard In their behalf Con-
geston. of course, is a most serious prob
lem. In New York we receive some
years million immigrants, and they
have to be assimiated and taught our
ways, and the things which will add up
to the betterment of the future
Mere architectural planning is not
what we want. The thing to do is to
get at all the streets like Jones street
and transform them into breathing places
OF the people who are cropping in dark
ness"
Responsibility in Government.
Commissioner Macfarland said:
Certainly . city government should be
@SSfohSAoAO AoA a City pau, Sdlu SOmWlS-
sioner Macfarland Hitherto. with the
exception of Washington, city plans in
this country have been the fruit of private
enort- Public opinion must support such
q plan, but the actual responsibility
SHOULD be In the city government. 1t is
10 De noped that cities generally may take
that view OF the matter
we are fortunate here in having had a
city plan from the beginning. Even
though the national government neglected
It's duty to the National Capital for three
quarters OF century, the plan was ready
when the government finally turned to CO.
operate with the District taxpayers in
developing 1t. The additions made to this
pan by the Senate park commission,
while not officially adopted, were prepared
under official authority. The Commission
itself was an outgrowth of our official
National Capital centennial celebration in
lSO. This. OF course. was a general plan
tor the Improvement of the park system
and the placing Of public buildings. Be
yond that Is the program for the removal
OF the slums and the Improvement of
social conditions. which Is equally an i'm
portant part OF the National Capital pro-
gram
The Economic Aspect.
Economic Aspects of City Planning,
was the subject discussed by Benjamin c,
Marsh
City planning Is the most effective
method Of projecting municipal eff
cheney" declared the speaker. The
cost. of congestion Of population, the
cost of industrial congestion. and con-
sequently of traffic. and congestion OF
offices are only partially estimated. The
death rates and sickness rates in con-
gested areas, whether this means over
croWdlng per acre or per room. are
most serious factors and items in the
city's budget.
Recognizing these conditions. we
may frankly say that city planning is
fundamentally a health and hence an
economic. proposition. 1t recognizes:
j. That sunlight to fight disease
should be placed within the reach of
the workingman.
y: That home with its significance is
TO oe retained as the right of the
American citizen.
s. That the enormous tribute Of dis
ease due to land speculation and ex-
ploftation must be checked by the only
power-the government
4. That the city should not spend
money futilely to secure land. but
should secure land while 1t is reason
ably cheap and when the government
can afford healthy conditions.
american cities have. in the main.
capitulated to real estate interests They
are now summoned to conserve the
health. well being and morals of the
community to which said city plan is
essential"
'SS present at tue ulflIeF were Com
missioner and Mrs. H. B. F. Macfarland
George Otis Smith, Miles Poindexter
Cuno II. Rudolph, John f. Reyburn, Mrs
Justina r. Hill, Mrs Herbert Parsons
}. Van Vechten Olcott, Mrs. V. G.. Siniko.
witch, Henry G. Morgenthau, Senator F
=. Newlands, A. p. Clark. IT.. Edw
Filene. Mrs. ]. Van vechten Olcott. Sur.
geon General Walter Wyman, DR. George
NJ. kober, Julius Kahn, Joseph G. Can.
non. Allen d. Albert jr, BENZ c. Marsh
Myron j. Jones. B. F. Smith. DR.. l.
MacBride Sterrett. F. L. Siddons, Mis-.
NJ Bayley. T: E. Bilauist. W. Pierce
Williams, ID. U. Boynton, Joseph Breck
ons. Allen Burns. a. W. Crawford. Thoma.
Dawson. F. l. Ford. George B. Ford
Arthur n. Grant, Joseph Strasburger
Henry B. Davis. Carroll. F. c. Hender
shott. E Munson Havens, George E
Hooker. II. B. Hertz, n. J. Haskell, ir
\. Z. Johnson, III. P. Kelsey, NJ w
Baldwin. Edgar r. Mack. George Miller
John Nolen. f. L. Olmsted. jr., William
F. Downey. Mrs. William II. Bayly
Judge William De Lacy Charlotte c
Barnum. George Truesdeli, Miss Edit
Wescott, Miss Alice Fletcher Archibald
Hopkins, Mrs. W. c. Smith. Samuel I
Prescott, Walter s. Ufford, Ellis Speare
Washington Topham. L. d. Seltzer. Lu
clan Powell. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau
Mr; Simons. Miss Morgenthau Ernest n
Roberts, Capt. James F. Oyster, Johr
L. weaver. Mrs. George Plaster. r. A
Pope. George d. Seymour. j. A. Smith
r. 7: Hartman. Josiah Pennington. r