The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-20
WOULD MAKE PARIS
AS BIG AS new YORK
AND MORE BEAUTIFUL
Mould Increase Ares Or the City
From $1,000 Acres % 100000
Acres, Including Much
Open Space.

Paris. Special: The project OF Marcel
Delaney, project OF the Seine. entitled
lie Grand Paris" designed to make
the city OF Light rival New York as the
second largest city In the world, is the
most gigantic scheme, since Hauss-
mann made Paris q city beautiful with
ia wonderful boulevard system at the
time OF Napoleon III, that has ever been
submitted to any municipality. The
plan would result ! n giving the city an
area OF LOG, 900 acres. instead of the
present 10000, and giving open spaces
OF $500 acres, or, IL 1t included the
woods OF Boulogue and Vtncennes and
b forests bordering on the Seine, IA
900 acres.
The plan includes the widening Of
certain streets, q restraint OF the
height OF buildings, following the for
mula that the height should not ex-
coed the width OF the street. ind the
disappearance OF novels and their dis
placement by cheap model houses, for
which the municipal council he's al
ready voted $40, 200. 900. The public gar
128.
Circle Of Garden Cities.
For the suburbs the plan Is even
more ambitious, for 1t Will create out
OF the present miscellaneous streets q
circle OF garden cities, following tho
approaching destruction of the fortifi-,
cations and filling in OF the. trenches,
which space Will be utilized for parks
and lawns. Even further. the plan in-
cludes the hills bordering the Seine.
Marine and Disc rivers, and also the
fields about Paris. making them Inn
ntense gardens, all united and forming
a magnificient promenade. extending
over Is miles.
M. Delaney points out that he would
profit by the mistakes In the building
OF old Paris and safeguard hi beauty
of the new. He says that h Paris
suburbs are growing faster than Paris.
and must not be allowed to do so at
random. The suburbs, which means
outside the Qualifications. are therefore
not now included in the population.
Paris had 260,0 o Inhabitants In 1851 and.
1900 900 In 1911. In the last five years
the suburbs have increased 10000,
while Paris has only increased $4,000.
He goes n
If this growth be not organized in
streets, defined by a central plan, the
railroads and gardens will be In 20
years the dfshonor OF France, but IL
the plan be accomplished IL will make
the population OF Paris rival that OF
New York.
Would Relieve Congestion.
The plan would relieve the present
great congestion Of Paris proper, where.
there are nearly 400 inhabitants to the
acre, while Berlin counts q third less.
and London only half. The plan would
also make Paris exceed London In NUM-
Der OF parks M open spaces.
M. Delaney has also pointed out that
the liberation OF the space now Occu-
pied by the Notifications will decrease
the cost, and he suggests the purchase,
OF more ground than is needed for
promeRades, as its subsequent sale,
when the plan Is finished, at q greatly
increased price, would be a good In
vestment.
The plan Is causing much discussion
In the press and diverse opinions. The,
majority think Il admirable and feas-I
ible. A few are ironic and increduloua,
but It Is pointed out by LIE Martin.
which Is enthusiastic. that Hanssman's
plans for a beautiful and hyEtenlc Paris
were received with the same increduli-l
~ and encouragement, and I'm 20 years,
from 1850 to 1870, there were twice the
amount OF improvements made a In
the previous As years.