The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-26

OpWeHt OTSdul1htiOh oAOulN ACSoA' -
the right, for all time, OF occupying
such portions of the roadway as may
be designated In the blue prints for
switch track facilities. These reser-
vations will permit the club to make
promises Of tracks without being COM
PEELED to appeal to the city council or
be subject to the criticisms of the
municipal authorities.
The growing tendency is to make a
city beautiful and to forget or neglect
the city useful.
Some of the advocates OF the city
beautiful would eliminate all activi-
ties in their zeal for establishing |
boulevards or parks, forgetting that
such improvements have value only
when they are utilized by those citi-
zens who otherwise could not enjoy
these advantages. The merchant, how
ever realizes that an unusued Doule-
ward or park means an empty factory
and depression of his business
Industrial areas should also consid-
er street car facilities for the labor
ers, sufficient space for enlargement
of plants, and development and light.
sewerage and drainage, fire protection
and, with sense of the esthetic,
breathing spots and Fairgrounds where
the laborers and their families can
meet their associates in the unem
ployed hours.
In laying out these areas such a
commission will plan for the city's
/ growth. its clearinghouse centers and
warehouse facilities, and such other
subjects as must be taken into ac-
count in a city's life. This planning
of industrial zones may be regarded
by many as a vision or dream. The
world owes more, however, to her
dreamers than she has yet acknowl-
edged, and a commercial club with
out vision Is in comatose condi-
ton.
The successful man works toward
an ideal; and town that has planned
, such an industrial zone may not fully
, realize the aim this year or next, or
perhaps for decade, but, consciously
or unconsciously, the town will build
to the plan, and when 1t has gained
its industrial sovereignty it will not
be compelled to appoint commissions
: to apply for legislation in order to
rectify conditions which the citizens
: of the town should have early antici
!, pated.
: The laying out of industrial zones
! is not dream unrealized. The writ
!. er has in mind two Industrial. ar4as
!. which were planned somewhat along
. the lines above suggested The result
!, has been that both of these zones are
now occupied by busy manufacturing
:. plants, and the demand for land with
:, in them is practically beyond the sup
: ply The value of real estate in theil
= immediate vicinity has increased 80,
!. per cent In the last ten years. TIL
= manufacturers having all the facili
!, ties above suggested are enabled t
:. enlarge their business, receive at
= low cost their raw materials, have
!. large market for laborers who hav
), built homes around these zones an
because Of railroad connections, cal
easily reach at a great saving o
! time and money all the great market
of the United States with the com
= modities which they produce. Manu-
! facturers in such district are no
u compelled to seek from the city coun
y Gil sidetrack ordinances, for the oriS
>, inal plats filed with the city provid
~ for the laying of such tracks whel
a. needed. Freight yards have been local
y ed or established in these zones, 81
d that there is never any shortage o
u cars or congestion causing della
u either in receiving or delivering o
"a cars Labor in these vicinities is di
le versified and sufficiently large to NEE
'e all demands. Street car facilities ar
ss ample for the conveyance of the pee
n pie, new transportation lines hav
" built to the districts and every advar
"a tage of freight rates gained by one i
AZ enjoyed by all of the other manufat
r turers.
y Private Rights Protected.