The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11
John Burns Voices His Ambition for
an Architecturally Beautiful Lon
don Which Shall Vie With Paris
or Vienna.
BY G.. L. HARDING.
Cahln to The Tribune

special Cablo to The Tribune
IA LONDON, Dec 10.-The new theo
ries of state and civic responsibilit,
and enterprise England is so vital,
occupied in applying and extending
Nowadays have set on foot few more
Impressive and epoch making projects
than the colossal schemes which are
now being wrought and dreamed fol
The Identification of London This, OF
course. is no sudden move-it is rather
the climax of series of scattered but
prodigious changes extending over the
themselves have altered the face of the
Ecity for all time. To the traveller
who visited London last short twelve
years ago, three very elaborate changes
enacted in the name of progress stand
out as particularly striking The great
new thorOughfare of Kingsway, whic h
furnishes long wanted direct road
from the Strand and Fleet street to
Hoiborn and the north, struck into the
heart of Glare Market. one of the most
evil districts in all London. and swept
out Of notorious existence thousands
Of disreputa bic tenements and rook.
cries.
The entire southern end of Whitehall
and Parliament street. with the ad.
|ioining blocks Of dingy official bnild.
'jngs and narrow streets, has also been
transf formed out of recognition bv the
erection of the new Offices OF the local
government board and the education
|department on the one side of the way,
while the wide entrance 10 New Scot
land Yard is 10 be seen on the opposite
'or river side. The surroundings OF
Victoria railway station will also pre-.
sent an unfamiliar aspect to the return.
ing traveller. while the Transformation
q year or so ago OF narrow. dirty
|Nbitcchapel into the stately boulevard
which now bears the name has com
|pletsly altered the environment in fhis
|once most squalid of London s slums.
IA Many Splendid Buildings.
8 Besides such vast sectional changes.
naly SPLENDID buildings have enriched
and diversified the city's ..hroad and
ton museum is now provided with an
Entrance worthy Of the nation 8 great
egt collection. and the magnificent
gloup oi subsidiary museums in South
keDslEgton. ibe beautiful Tate gallery
on the Thames bank. the colossal new
war ONCE. and scores of other govern.
msnt buildings. with the towering ey-
hibition palaces of the White CITY al
SLephsld s Bush. which have almost
t1'h' W 'S ipDH'i h.joh DCTlOG Dplt. !
ase all new TO this generation. The |
sass editions 10 the public parks. al. |
nos forming n continuous garden ring
II radius Of ten miles from the center |
Of the city, tie garden suburbs, and the |
Forknlea cottages all over Greater |
london. as well as the thousands of
Todei Dwellings i'll the more conaested |
5istricts., are ample evidence OF the !
Irults of This new civic vision. The
Fpi'ire may we'll be read from the in.
'liriHg words ot John Surns: ''We
Ftend 10 look, at no distant date. upon
u archi;ec:urallv beautiful London
'hn' viii vie With Paris and Vienna as
ln attract;on 10 the world -
,fTbis riHgiag prophecy was delivered
o. the Town Planning conference
'1iied BY the Royal Institute of
Tiiish Architects. As president of the
cral government board and father of
he iowa planning bill which furnished
be initial occasion for the confer.
'cce. .tohD Barns was its official head
lpg II is largely duo 10 his extra
rdiFaif enterprise and enthusiasm that
le plans for a new London are be
ppnine 10 develop so hopefully toward
eaIzaton, IL was at this conference.
~ the Ray, that Daniel Buynham e !
'uge ideal scheme of Chicago as he
YOU'D have II aroused such keen and ,
"MirinG interest. and furnished any