The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-06
SALT LAKE To BE
CITY BEAUTIFUL.
George Wallace Proposes Plans
to Make Zion Most Attrac-
tive Spot in World.
URGES PARK ON SHORE
OF GREAT SALT LAKE
Suggests Employment of Land
scape Artist of Interna-
tiOnaI Fame.

win Wnat the Almighty has done for
this region, Salt Lake City and the i'm
mediateIy contiguous region can, By the
exercise of intelligent. well-directed effort
and the expenditure of q comparatively
small amount of money, be made the most
beautiful spot in the world. bar
none"
This was the emphatic statement OF
George Y Wallece. chairman OF the Com
mercial club committee on public i'm
provements and parks at the conclusion
Of what might be done IL the citizens
carried forward with interest the move
ment TO give the city park commission
something like adequate funds TO work
with b. enactfng into law the measure
which passed the house Saturday and
which provides for maximum and mini
voted exclusively To the beautifying of the
city.
Citizens Are Aroused.
While a virtually similar measure had
been earlier defeated the prompt and ef-
fective work OF the city park commits
sion, composed OF a. Fred Wey. chair
man; c. II. Griffin. Joseph Redman. Rich
ard P. Morris and Heber NJ. Wells, and
the Commercial club committee. headed
by Mr., Wallace, caused the change in
sentiment and the reconsideration OF the
action taken by the house: These ci:i-
senate and Governor Spry win view the
measure In the same light as did the
house Saturday and afford Ii their cordial
support.
II the measure becomes operative II will
afford the board OF park commissioners
fund. realized from a tax OF not less
than one-half mill and not more than
one mill upon each dollar OF taxable
property in the city. which the city coun-
ell is compelled TO levy of from sa7 son
to $4,000 yearly, based upon the present
valuation of taxable property in the city.
Step in Right Direction.
While This measure, in my opinion,
does not go far enough il is a splendid
step in the right direction. What may
be done with the sum that can be raised
! from this levy will serve 10 awaken a
| more general public sentiment and to
opportunities presented. opportunities
that have been neglected. but have been
of with profit in double sense. both
financially and in the satisfaction of the
artistic taste
When the question Of securing the pas
sage OF This park commission bill ap-
peared 10 he a serious one, luncheon
was arranged for last Friday at the Com
inercial club and IL was attended by
members of the Commercial club COM
mittee on improvements and parks. the
city park commission and a number of
other interested citizens
Laying Plans for Future.
In reviewing the sentiment manifest
a
al that time. Mr.. Wallace said:
1T is the hope OF the Commercial club
committee that the park commission and
the city will be able 10 secure the services
of some great landscape architect. some
man with the genius and ability to tell
us just what we should do and how lt
should be done, 1t is not primarily
question of spending money this year and
the next. il is the more vital problem
OF laying plans that VIII take the great
future into consideration. of understand
.,,r- hat ,tr,11 10
ditions that will confront us ten, twenty,
fifty years from now
Let me give you an illustration. Last
summer | had my guest Archltect
Bruner. secretary of the New York CIVIC
Improvement association. body that ao-
solutely passes upon every puolle nm.
York He rode with me up City Creek
CANYON to the old waterworks and was
enraptured both with the view and me
possibilities for bsautfYinE bN the con-
struction OF parks and bouleNards.
Need United Effort.
"A meeting was held at the CONNER.
cial club at which Bruner urged, oesHeo
and prayed the citizens to organize
civic association and 10 take up IN edrhIse sie
this great question Of beautliyinE me
city and the surrounding reslon, L
the people once be fully awakened t o,,,T 10 hs "a
realization OF this and the rest d n,I VIII ves e
seem TO understand that We ourselves are
losing by our neglect. l nave Learned pa
careful INVESTIGATION & that Inc axe s'ds is "a about
twelve hours the stay OF the average
tourist in Los Angeles is fourteeh oaN
II we can raise the time OF tne - - rv
rnnl,Sne the CITY so beautiful and at
tractive that he viii not oe nI,roiv
leave il means TO us from tne 80
business standpoint, an income OF 60
600 900 per year. ubat
NO l am not Wiling 10 sd! !aec;ded
should he done. That must oe usS,;ui ;ms
xyl have
training and experience TO speak WIZ
authority upoh a question that afier'S
millions OF people.
Unrivaled Opportunity.
Wallace grew enthusiastic when SPEAK
ing OF the natural beauties OF tne na,,,ons con-.
surroundings and what the hand ana
brain of man might do TO make the region
an artists delight. famed throughout 'ho
world. ,s ~
THE possibilities are simply beyond ex
PRESTON" he declared For illustrator;
Let the city buy 200o or 3ooo acres o.
There is an abundance of fresh water 10
be had the Transforming OF THIS usT,. ,
from a salty waste TO beantiluI PaIh
could be accomplished at compaTauNelS
small expense within ten years time ana
the city would have one of the worln
greatest parks right on the shores OF @ tne
most wonderful body of salt water In tne
world Would 1t not be nm attractliomii l,,i
Would not tourists come from every land
10 enjoy the double pleasure?
"1'hen there is Fort Douglas. almost
q natural park; City Creek canyon. which
should have a boulevard surpassed oy
none in any land: Pnrlcy's canyon and
American Fork canyon which sh9uiu inarpv
ark already creditable to the CITY, put
which requires time. money ana genius
10 make IT what Il should oe, o..,o,
one of the mos, vital OF all. The Com
nerclal club committee on improvements