The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20

 KELSEY SCANS CITY; SUGGESTS CHANGES IN CITY PLANNING lDepiores Three Deck Tene- nnents and Fears For
 Welfare of Trees. WIDEN NORTH MAIN
 STREET.. HE SAYS Danger That Pavement Will Rob Trees Of Their Need
 cd Moisture

ssMake a circle Of your parks, start ing at your beautiful Seaside park. sweeping over to Steeplechase Island, to Old Mil1 Green. thence to Beardsley Park and back again to Seaside Park said Albert Kelsey. of Philadelphia- one of the authorities of the country On city planning, speaking last even- ing before a large and interested gath ering of men in the First Presbyterian Achurch MT Kelsey had made trip all through the city by automobile and he suggested 2 number Of changes
 T see," he said, that the railroads strangIe your city as they do nearly all cities of the country The railroad has been damned through the town just about as the company wanted it to go and in some cases it has com pelled the city to change the grade Of the street where it goes under the than change the grade of the ' fad llct-
 ou still have some beautiful trees on yeur streets, especially on Park avenue. but the trees are already near Iy snothered and if in five years they are not all dead on that street 1t will be because they have a wonderful. vitality. There is the greatest danger of your trees being slnot hered to death because Of the IuMpy pavement. Provisien should be made when pay ing that the trees may obtain water want to congratulate you on your splendid wood pavement which mo- lticed throughout the city
 q was amazed to learn that you had no building code and was Sorry to see that the triple declxed tenement house seems to prevail in qllis city would also propose wi dening your streets Take Main street, for instance. and widen it out twenty or twenty i've feet above the hospital, planting trees on both sides Of it.
 ssA stranger who steps off the train into the back yard of your town as did today and is stuck 50 cents to go two blocks to his hotel can't hsip thinking that things might be done better
 Turning from the criticism Of con ditions Of our city, MT. Kelsey sh owed d number of interesting stereopteon views of cities in Europe, South Amer- Ica and a few Of those of our Asxvn country. which have awakened to the importance of city ? pIanning. Recause we of this country are rather apt to look down upon the South American people we are amazed to find that they are taking up city planning so care fully and are obtaining wonderful re- suits as their beautiful cities already show
 One Of the most progressive cities
 
 risburg. Pa, and what they have done there is due to the enthusiasm ofsone l woman who ssstarted the thing.
 Preceding Mfr KeIsey's address, sEd Fl win W Schriever and James A Stey-sl enson. both of the city engineering department spoke.
 MT Schriever who was chairman or the evening, told of what Germany l has done in city planning
 sss.Fae modern city is the result or a l trenendous development of industry l Tn our own cities especially Fridge port there is large opportunity Tor ] itnDrovernent- Any observer appreaeh-l ing Rridreport Or other American cit- Ies cannot help being struck by the ] natural beauty of the water front and of the great ug1iness which has been produced by man 4 water front IS a priceless possession and should never be allowed to pass into the hands ssof private individualss .
 Mir. Schriever showed how while 1 city planning is sonething new in this | country it is an old thing in Eurepe- City planning means primarily The city useful, the city prosperous and secondly the city beautiful The Ger many city can not rightly be com 1 pared to the American city beca1lse Of the difference in governn er1t Iti leaves nothing to chance but provides for the future. It takes good care of l the recreation and sanitation of its people Shade trees are the pride of European cities and they are always carefI1llv watered and protected. There are s5 oee trees in the streets of Paris alone.
 .sIn Germ any he said, .stlley have municipal opera houses, l1fun1c1paI Ice houses and so forth. Here in Bridge nort we might better have municipal ice houses and save the expense or z.44 ii .7is7zz n esxvs poor houses
 MT. Stevenson gave a short history Of the development of, city. piannlng, showing how the ancient peoples nao s,,, al1fel,eel their cities and proving that what ever we do in this age in that line is really but repeating his tory s.
 .SBridgep6rt is a city of great possi- biIfties and of rapid grown neeo to start our city planning now, said MT Stevenson.