Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-01-18

an asylum lOr aupeTs ana crlfnlnalS,
Paris has on the lie de la Cite its
stateliest cathedral, its central courts
of justice. a great hospital. the tri-
bunal of commerce., the prefecture OF
police. etc.
European cities are discarding the
checkerboard street plan. Paris led
the way in Napoleon his time, when
Baron Haussmann, project of the Seine.
built great boulevards n avenues by
the hundred, laid out diagonal avenues
between important points and on
structed engirdling boulevards. The
sum OF $240. OO0, 900 was spent in This
work, and last year it was decided to
devote $4,000, 900 more thereto.
London has one a similar but
smaller work in Kings Way. The Ger
man cities are following neither the
checkerboard nor the radial avenue.
wind perceptibly SO as to open fresh
vistas and permit of collateral effects
OF parking and statuary.
Arrange Their Public Buildings.
Instead of locating their public build
fngs at random. the capitals of Europe
arrange them with relation to each
other and to some park. open space or
boulevard. so that they contribute to
one central effect. The finest is the
Ringstrasse Of Vienna. and other nota-
BILE examples are Berlin's Inter den
Linden n Lustgarten, MoscOw's
Kremlin, Dresden's Zwfnger, the Lou
vre region of Paris and the Grande
Place of Brussels.
In Dresden citizens have undertaken
to induce every landlord and nan to
decorate yards. buildings and case
ments with plants, vines. shrubs n
window boxes. The authorities have
co-operated by decorating municipal
buildings, and at q small expenditure
the summer aspect of the city has been
transformed.
The color sense has been INDUCED in
all Russian cities. Building exteriors
are of plaster to protect the brick from
the frost and every year these are re-
buff, green, white and gilt diversified
with mOsaicS are successfully m
ployed.
Every important European city has
regulations restricting the height of
buildings. the width Of balconies. the
projection of cornices, the size of WIN
dows and the character of lamps, signs,
awnings. fences and doorways.
Ancient Athens and Rome set us an
example of civic centers in the Acropo-
lis and the Forum.
Frankfort purchased a number of me-
diaeval buildings near the city hall
and restored them to the original style.
that they should be in harmony with
Berlin has a school of town plan
ming.
Advice on City Planning.
Germany has experts like Stubben,
Fischer. Gurlett. Henrici and Baumeis-
ter, who give advice on town planning
and travel from city to city. 1t is IA
new NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
Frankfort has built an exposition
hall about the size of Madison Square
Garden. Munich has a group of expo
sition buildings comprising am audi
fnTillDr1 n fha0fa1> u hn1l fny nv1i1{fS
and q summer concert garden.
When a new street Is opened in
Brussels or Paris prizes running as
high as $4,000 in Brussels and equal to
one-half the street a in Paris are Of
fered by the authorities for the most
artistic facades.
Vienna RENTS a percentage of taxes
to landlords who will ear down an old
building and put up a bigger and bet
ter one.
Copenhagen gives a prize every year
to the architect who designs the most
1t with older buildings about it.
Paris requires that all Office and
house fronts shall be periodically re-
paired or repainted, so that the street
shall appear neat and fresh.
All wide Paris streets are in effect
parks. They AVE rows of shade trees.
Many of them have a central park
strip planted with trees. grass and
flowers n benches are placed here.
Along the chief streets are perhaps
1O0,O 900 trees. a large number for a city
so compactly built.
In practically all European cities
pavements are KEPT constantly in good
repair.
All those European cities whose good
government has something to teach
America are managed not by politicians
but by experts.