The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-21
EXPERTS TO BE BROUGHT
 HERE BY CITY PLANNERS
CASH NEEDED FOR EMPLOY MEzNT OF SPECIALISTS MAY BIB
 RAISED BY SUBSCRIPTION.
President O. D. Davis Has Been in Conference With New York En- gineer Who Will Probably Be
 Invited to Come Here and
 Look Over the Field.


 While they conduct a campaign of education, the members of the recent ly created City Planning Commission will ask for from $1O,O0O to $25;OO0 from the citizens. This money Is needed to pay the experts who Will De invited to tell us what Is the, matter with Bridgeport and how remedies may be applied. The aim will be to make Bridgeport a, better city to live in and it is believed that beauty will follow utility.
 The commission held it's meeting for organization in the mayors office in the City Hall last night. Charles D. Davis president of the Business Men s association was chosen chairman. Ar thur M. Marsh was named secretary and Bernard Heating. treasurer The other members present were George M Flames, president of the Park Board, Fred Enos, president of the Board of Trade, Alderman Cederholn and Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, who Is g. member, ex-officio. Walter E. LAashar, Lewis B. Curtis and Secretary Marsh were absent
 Before the commission asks for money the members decided to call a big public meeting in September when the commission will outline to the public what they proposed to do. When the board selects the experts who are to direct the city improve
  funds.
 It has been suggested that 100 men be asked to contribute $1oo each, that City Planning club be formed with membership fees a. sliding scale from $10 upward and that a cam paign be conducted all over the city for funds.
 Chairman Davis last night showed the members of the commission re- ports which show how work Is being carried on by similar boards in 72 cities in the United States. Hartford and New Haven have such. commis- sions and Greenwich is considering the plan now
 Alderman Cederhoim has interested himself in the work of the City Plan ming commission of Rochester, N. r. He suggested that the school houses might be used as civic centers and that housewives and mothers might be taught to care for their homes and babies more healthfully and economi- cally.
 The report of the city planning ex- perts at Jersey City interested the ters which were suggested for inn provement in that city were tabU1ated as follows:
 Street traffic, vehic1Iar and pedes- trian. Regulation of transit lines. Grading and surfacing, widening and
 
 ton of water front Factory deveI- opment. Food and water supply. Sewage and garbage disposal. Laws pertaining to housing of people, in all respects. Treatment of congestion and unsanitary conditions. New dis tricts and methods of layout Recrea- ton parks, playgrounds, streets schools, social centers. Development of parks and playgrounds. Grouping of public buildings Enabellishing bridges, quays, etc. Erection of monum ents, fountains, statuary. ley and telephone poles, public conn fort stations. Laws relating to city planning. Regulation of smoke nui- sance. Regulation of bill boards. Methods of handling public improve Hents, municipal government plans: Conduction of surveys Finances. Chairman Davis said among other things: tI would like to have the com mission think over whether they favor asking 100 men to contribute $100 each as was done in New Haven or whether they would like to raise money by some other plan. I believe Bridgeport can be made much more prosperous as a residential city as well as a commercial one.
 MT. Davis has been in conference with Charles W. Leavitt, a consulting engineer of New York who has offices in the St. Paul building, New York city MT. Leavitt is at present en- gagged on the laying out of streets and building lines through a plot of 25 acres the outskirts of Philadelphia. The City Planning commission of the l Quaker City is arranging the layout of the suburbs along lines of beauty as well as convenience.
 | Engineer Leavitt will probably be one of the experts invited to speak in 1 Bridgeport.
 SOLDIER WANTS U. s.