The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
MAKE SALT LAKE
REAL BEAUTY SPOT
Citizens Show Aesthetic as
Well as Unitarian Motives
in improvements.
NATURES SETTING IDEAL
NO OTHER CITY ON CONTINENT
HAS FINER ENVIRONMENTS.

are really hCeTebpSH IL ely
ing which shall benefit the Industrial
Importance OF the place. and that they
believe In the carrying out OF INDUS
trial improvements in such way that
they will also be of advantage IN beau
tifying the city. is shown by the com
ment which has followed the tax OK
the celebrated architect Arnold w.
Drummer OF New York at the CONNER
DIAL club, Wednesday evening.
The evident sincerity of Mr.. Drummer
In his remarks about the beauty OF
the city was especially pleasing 10 SaIt
Lake people, and the interest he dis
played appears to have been regarded
very highly by business men OF the
city. 1t is pointed out also that much
has been done in the past for bringing
about improvements which would place
Salt Lake in the front rank as place
where the utilities and arts would De
combined.
Attention Is called TO the handsome
city and county building on its sepa-
rate block, and surrounded by trees ana
grass plots. The choice OF q location
for a new state house is another re-
minder of the attention that men here
are giving to the future of the olty.
The steps taken every arbor day TO
plant trees in ana about the ground
reserved for the state capitol are re-
ferred to as examples OF the interest
the people here are taking in the fu-
ture. Liberty park, Pioneer park ana
the suggestions for other breathing
| places all show, il is cOntended, that
| the citizens of Salt Lake are thorough
ly alive to the opportunities at their
hand for making here g metropolis
at once great from a business stand
point, and beautiful as well.
Identifying Residences.
Many of the citizens are already
/ taking steps to provide beautiful resi-
| dence sections which will vie with the
best in the world The recently COM
pleted Federal Heights addition, the
proposed NeWhouse park, which Will
| be well under way within the next few
months, and some Of the new addi-
lions on the east bench. promise to
be attractions to be found in no other
| city on the globe. In all of these
! places the utilities have been so com
bined with pure attention to the beau
1 tiful that they have produced, or Will
/ produce. wonderful results.
Nor is the movement recent. 1t is
! a long time since the project of the
/ handsome high line" boulevard was
| conceived. and the undertaking was
so far in advance Of the time that even
today only a short portion has been
completed. With the laying out OF
new additions along the east bench,
however, arrangements have been
made for carrying out the undertake
ing through NeWhouse park, across the
Fort Douglas military reservation, and
southwark to twelfth South street
along the high land OF the east bench
In fact the states Legislators in Con-
gress have already had a bill passed
authorizing the construction Of the
handsome boulevard across the reser-
/ walton
In connection with this new feature,
/ attention is called TO lie Grande
| Young's railroad up through the Emil
! grafton canyon, and the proposed eX-
/ tension southwark 10 Hollywood. Com
ment is made on the work being done
| by the Utah Light & Railway company
/ in extending their car lines TO Murray
on a,o
/ which have been made in the lines of
| the company through the city. Sug-
/ geStiOnS for scenic route" along the
east bench by extending the Thirteenth
/ East car line southwark to Twelfth
! South have already been made, and
/ this work depends mainly on the cree
/ ton of a sufficient number of new
homes between Fifth South and
| Twelfth South streets to warrant d
/ paying amount Of traffic over the line.
! There will be, also, in the near future,
/ new car line along Fifteenth East,
| two blocks east of the edge of the
| bench, and overlooking the city from
q higher level than the Thirteenth East
car line.
Many of these things are in the air,
/ OF course" IS the comment of one bust
ness man, but they show that we are
| alive to many OF the advantages OF
! location here and are not neglecting
/ the beautiful in considering our pocket
J books. The careful manner in which
( we have laid out South Temple street
and First and Second South streets are
! examples of what we can do and intend
| TO do Plans are now under way for
/ the Improvement of Third South street
and the Improvement Of other streets
will follow as soon as we can get TO It,
Some Of the streets on the north bench
are already examples of what can be
done
Opposes Central Parking.
"Of course, we realize that a great
| deal remains to be done, and we must
watch constantly while the city is
! growing for opportunities to beautify
! the city. An unusually pretty effect
4 has been obtained at the intersection OF
! Second South and Twelfth East streets
| where the streets come together on the
| side OF the hill, and this same idea will
be carried out in other places where
| similar conditions prevail.
! Careful attention should be given tc
the parking OF new streets, and ii
seems to me best to eliminate as far
as possible the central parking scheme
inaSmuch as the side parking is much
prettier and more easily maintained
and leaves broad, handsome street
for the use Of vehicles
Mr. Burners suggestion regarding
diagonal streets is one that has never
| been considered here. II would seen
difficult TO plan such improvements
! at the present time, and there seems
little reason to suppose that such al
idea would be carried out IN the neal
future. The trend Of development OF
| the city has been along checker board
lines, and the extension of the city onto
| the east and north benches. the ap-
| proach to which must of necessity bt
at a certain level, would appear to dc
away with any necessity of runnine
| streets directly from the business dis.
! trict TO those localities. 1t Is true thai
| up TO the present time we have had No
commission or architect to devise a
| grand scheme FOR us, and such a thins
might be very desirable We are not
| self-satisfied and believe that much
more can be done. That II will be done
however. is indicated. It seems to me
! by the manner IN which the citizens
have united in the past to make our
city attractive and to combine bust
| ness facilities with as MANY as posi-
BILE Of the ornate features in carrying
out improvements of all kinds"