Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1911-10-18
OLD-WORLD CITIES
THAT CAN TEACH US
Far Ahead of American Cities In
Many Particulars
WE SHOULD PROFIT BY SAME
Wide Range of Municipal Improve
menrs Presented

The New York World has made a
three-columr compilation of lessons
that New York might learn from
European cities. New York no
more needs TO go to school to older
ommunities than other American
cities. The Knoxville Sentinel
makes list of some hints that are
valuable. which list we follow:
In Berlin and other places street
advertising is confined chiefly TO
corner pillars, W hich shelter clocks.
fire alarms, weather reports, Their
mometers, barOmeters and official
Information. Bill boards are not
permitted.
Paris streets have"isles OF safety"
with artistic light posts.
Belgium has i NJ tional society TO
make lamp posts, letter boxes, fire
alarms, etc, artistic.
Glaring illuminated signs are re-
garded with much displeasure.
Paris sewers are pipe galleries,
carrying telephone and telegraph
wires, water pipes and pneumatic
tubes for letters.
Glasgow has sunken iron bins
with lids for street refuse.
Unnecessary noises are not per-
mitted.
London traffic is the largest aud
most frictionless in the world.
Paris streets are washed and ash
cans taken in before am.
Berlin has sewage farms that reap
a good revenue. do not rob the soil
and keep the city sanitary.
Stuttgart Ipark forestry returns
revenues enough to keep up the
parks and contribute to the general
fund.
Amsterdam makes fuel briquettes
of street waste, and sells them for
sl.40 the ton, the annual profit be-
ing $4,000
Frankfor6 eliminates honest
graft in park and street improve
ment by buying lands that will rise
/ in price after the improvement and
selling or renting them at profit.
} Fifteen hundred German towns
and villages have public lands, the
= revenues of which pay al. expen Sc.
! OF government ami five hundred o
them declare dividends of from -;
| TO 800 per capita.
= Dresden street cars stops at places
0 marked with shields which are tw,
s hundred and twenty yards apart
5 Much time is saved in this way.
S Berlin elevated railways are orna
y mental and almost nOiseless.
Straphangers are not known.
Plauen police and school teacher
Q make weekly inspections OF moving
= Picture shows.
= The honest and good characte
: of an ordinary London policeman i.
! taken to be as sure as that Of tn,
, prime minister.
d The floating lodging house vote is
d oisfranchised in England.
2 Berlin has drafted four thousand
t citizens into two hundred and fifty
c relief committees. which have t
a serve without pay, looking after
specified families.
Glasgow has steam washhouses
where woman may us the oes
/. appliances for four cents the hour.
: The public pawnshop ia Paris
@ makes loaRs averaging IS the yea
d per capita.
g Railroad stations are architecture
y al beautiful grounds.
y Dusseldorf refuses to allow fac
IS to. les. Office buildings, department
9 stores and similar structures to b
" built unless the designs are approx
r ed by a municipal art commission.
e Rivers almost without exceptio
5, are parked.
o The civic centre is traced to al
j. cient Athens, Babylon and Men
1T phis.
Jr Berlin has school for city pla
IS ming.
A fremdns helmet invented
g. IGermany NAV be- connected with