El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-23

highways connecting the various Sec
tions of the city. Wherever possible,
the little parks should be so located as
to lie One-half on each side Of the main
driveway, instead of all on one side,
thus making the drive pass at intervals
through the center of a wide improved
park space. This would be much more
impressive and attractive than the pres
ent plan of taking a block all on one
side of a main drive.
The Railroad Spaces.
There is much to be done by the rail-
roads still, although a good deal has
been done in recent years to make the
scars Of the railroad reservations less
ugly.
Scenic Walks and Drives.
Under the ninth head fall the extern
siOns OF streets and near-in roads, the
ultimate use of the mountain itself,
and the Improvement of the canyO
in Alexander addition and adjacent
areas.
Grouping Public Buildings.
Under the tenth head in the schedule.
there is much to be done in the way
of thinking and planning, but little
more definite at present. On no &C
count should any .arge sum be spent
hereafter in public buildings, such as
court house, city hall, pOstOffice, IL
brary, museum, high school, lodge build
ings, railroad or trolley terminals, mar
kets. theaterS, or any costly public or
ering carefully their relation TO the
general city plan, and their relation
one with another.
FL PasO has spent hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in public and semi
public buildings without taking these
considerations into account, whereas
far more attractive and permanently
satisfying results might have been
achieved had we planned from the be-
ginning for the great city of the future.
Think how attractive Carnegie and
cleveland squares and their surround
lngs might have been by now, If all
agencies, public and private, had
worked together in harmony to achieve
something consistent, harmonious, and
trasted with the present scrappy and
small-town effect due to total lack Of
IorethOught.
Distant Resorts and Travel Ways.
Under the 18th head there must be
considered the ultimate esta blishinE of
practical communication with the HuecO
Tanks, the acquiring of that natural
wonder as a public reservation, and it's
conservation and improvement; also the
ultimate use of the beautiful scenery
about the Franklin, Organ, and Juarez
mountains, and the improvement OF
highways and resorts OF the Sacramento
mountains. All these things have a
defininte, though at present remote,
part in the general planning for FL
PaSO'S future.
Large Outlying Park.
We have put the large outlying park"
last 1t will be a long time, in the
nature of things, before FL PasO Will
find it to her advantage to spend much
money to acquire or beautify any large
outlying park When the time comes
after the other and far more important
things have been attended to, such
park may be located in the upper or
lower valley, at sufficient distance to
make the drive, or ride by trolley,
pleasant in itself, and of such a size
(seyeraI hundred acres) that, when i'm
proved, it may really initiate the
natural forests of luNuriant growth of
which nature has deprived this section.
In any event, we should go very
slow in this connection, and when we
do undertake it, let it be on a large
enough scale to serve the demands of
city of several hundred thousand peo-
pie If necessary.
Practical Considerations First.
Careful consideration of all the points
involved in the foregoing, and thought
and discussion based on the varying
views Of the public as to the recon-
mendatiOns made, will help nightly to
direct FL PaSO's future material deVel-
Opment into practical channels, so as
to get the greatest possible benefit out
OF every expenditure of public and pri-
vate funds, and so as to transform FL
PasO as soon as possible into a city
that we can truly boast of as one OF
the most beautiful and comfortable
places of residence in the United States,
and worth visiting merely as a show
place and a pleasant spot to rest in.