New-York tribune., 1910-02-27

team through sub -ays under the boulevards
, along the banks
Chicago's sky is to be cleansed we'll its
land and water surface. All the buildings shown
IN the pictures that accompany the plans are de-
, Vold OF chimneyS. 1t is pointed out that tho
, scheme of heating lighting and furnishing power
from central plants is that is ever growing
more popular because of its economy and efrec-
hveness- The suggestion is made that the
tire city may be supplied in course of time from
plants situated outside it's limits The power Of
the sanitary canal is already being utilized to
! large extent to provide electric lighting.
| While the removal Of the railway passenger
and freight stations from the business centre
Will tend to decrease the amount of smoke from
! this source, the city beautifiers will not stop
there; they purpose to compel all the railroads
, to haul their trains in and out with electric
power. No recommendation is made for the
, regeneration of the stock yards or the abolition
OF the not altogether sweet smelling aroma for
arising therefrom
All the recommendations of the Commercial
Club are contained in a large book, of which
16O0 copies were printed for private circulation.
The book is entitled THE Plan of Chicago" It
gives the clubs report on its three years of work
in trying to find a way for Chicago to grow
into "a unified. stately and beautiful city" that
in fifty years will be larger than London''-in
fact, "the |; est in the world 1t is embel-
lished with pictures of beauty spots in many
cities Of Europe and America, designs showing
how the city is laid out and how it might
be laid out, with numerous drawings by F.
Janin and paintings of the future Chicago by
Jules Guerin. of New York City. The originals
of all these works exhibition at the
Chicago Art Institute an educational show
In the book the club says The origin of the
he
Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893. which
was the beginning in our day in this country OF
the orderly arrangement of extensive public
grounds and 1uildings' 1t is noticeable in tho
report that the architectural plan for the new
Chicago is mainly the work of the same archi-
tect that fashioned the worlds far system.
In 1906 the Chicago Merchants Club under
took says the report, the preparation of COM
plete project for the future development of Chi
cago. The Commercial Club absorbed the Mer-
! chants Club that year and took up its work.
appointing 'ChicaGo plan commission. D. II.
BurnhaIn, who the chief architect of the
Columbian EXPOSITION and was also an lmpor-
tant factor in the drawing up of plans for the
Improvement Of the cities of Washington and
Manila and Edward H. Bennett, another Chi
cago architect, gave a large amount of their
time without hope of remuneration to drawing
up the plans that finally adopted by the
Chicago" Messrs. GueTin and Janin were en-
ployed to turn the architects ideas into at
tractive pictures.
1t is proposed to make any wholesale inn
mediate changes. but to have municipal COM
mission to use the Commercial Clubs scheme as
a basis for the adoption of d comprehensive
plan and then obtain power to have improve
,ncnts made in accord with il whenever existing
structures give way TO better ones. The club
points out that IN the last twenty five years
500 100000 has been spent haphazard in i'm
provements If this sum had been expended un-
der some general plan the city would already
be transformed. Through the expenditure OF
$500 100000 in improvements in the next fifty
years it is believed the project can be rEt into
effect.
In drawing up the scheme the Commercial
Club sought-"First, to make careful study
Of the physical conditions OF 'hic2So as they