The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-03-02
SUGGESTIONS
FOR SOME CITY
IMPROVEMENTS
EXTRACTS FROM AN EXCEL
LENT PAPER WRITTEN
FOR A cHATAUQUA
CIRCLE
GOOD FOR PLYMOUTH
Mrs. Rose f. Grimes of Mishawaka
Discusses Needs of the
Progressive City.
GOOD FOR PLYMOUTH

The following excellent paper, read
recently before the Mishawaka Chau-
tauqua Circle, by Mrs. Rose F.
Grimes of that city, is so full of In
teresting suggestions that we give it
for the benefit of Plymouth people:
Water Fronts
A city to become progressive needs
three natural advantages, namely,
location, natural means to assist
sanitation, and a water front.
Terraced, cleaned and vine-cover.
ed banks, would not only be benefi-
clal but pleasure to every resident
of the city and an invitation to
strangers to linger in a place whose
people have such a fine notion of i'm
proving natural conditions. For this
work we need a Park Commission
whose duty it should be to see that
the banks of the river and adjacent
lands, designed in the beginning as
a garden, with instructions to subdue
and dress, are not used as dumping
grounds for tin cans, waste paper,
garbage and decaying and disease
breeding refuse. This commission
should be allowed to inspect the
charts for future additions to the
city, which should not be accepted
unless provision be made for open
spaces, squares and circles, these to
be used as small parks and beauty
spots for residents of that section of
the city. Some of the most slightly
hills for the masses. Winding drive
parks. The valleys are for few, the
hills for the masses. Winding drives
and walks, leading to the top, where
white buildings should be erected to
attract attention as well as beautify.
They would be an invitation to
mount above daily cares, be nearer
the sky with a wide outlook. The
pure, free air and whiteness would
impress the fact that God is good an.
that life should be clean and the
liver rise above sordidness and mono
tony Of toll
Sanitation
Sanitation is moving forward with
US. Each year sees something &C
complished, more sewers and drains,
drilling for pure water supply.
But the end is far away. While we
have council body and one division
of it has in charge the sewers and
drains of the city, they need the help
of Health Inspector; a ma& who
can devote his whole time to the
work. He should see that the good
laws that are made for city santa
ton are enforced and obeyed. That
garbage be cared for; that sluggish
sewers are flushed, that cutters are
washed and that weeds and decay
ing vegetables are cleared from these
cutters. He shoulded be acquainted
with the best ways of cleaning street
pavements. The sanitation of pri-
waite homes should be a part of his
work, especially in those parts of the
city where people live close together
He should insist that property own
ers in these districts make sewer con-
nections, that the water supply is
pure, and that crowded conditions
are not allowed.
Building Inspector
We need building inspector will,
a knowledge of economies and archi-
tectarc. to visit buildings in process
of erection, inspect material. give
helpful advice when needed 50 that
we nay have a mere comfortable and
sanitary housing.
Improvement COMMITTEE
We rec. an Improvement Com
mittee to look after the city, tosee
that unsightly bill-boards, with their
oft-times Objectionable advertise
ments, lie removed; that the APP
proaches to our two fine and expen-
sive bridges are improved, that all
Objectionable, old and shaddy build
ings, sheds and barns be removed III
torn down.
Public Library
We need Public Library build
ing, so that with the excellent be-
ginning made, we may increase our
present usefulness by reading rooms.
City Approaches
Progressive cities all over the
United States are giving much
thought and attention to the formal
entrances to them. The aim Il to
make them attractive, clean, ~s.h
well paved streets about them. cid
leading to them That nnsightly
and ugly buildings be torn down that
the right Of way through the city is
kept improved, and made attractive.
Those Of us who have occasion to