Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-02

from rage o.
fact that the highest efficiency of the
worker can only be expected under
the best living conditions.
Gary, Ind, built in the open on a
prearranged plan, generally looked
upon as the most efficiently organized
industrial city in the world, Is still
less than ten years old. The first
shacks for its construction gangs were
thrown up In 1906. The founders
wished to avoid the paternalism which
had proved so detrimental to the civic
development of Pullman, one of the
earliest preconceiVed industrial cities
of the country. without falling to the
haphazard methods which have bred
so many inconvenience in all cities
of the past.
The homes for the employees were
built with a proper consideration for
the health and comfort of the occu-
pants. They could be purchased upon
easy terms If desired. The parks.
streets recreation centers and other
adjuncts were well outlined. The pub
lie schools have been recognized as
the best in the country, as is evidenced
by the fact that New York city ar
ranged last month for the construc-
tion of twelve schools after the Gary
pattern. They are to be built and
organized under the supervision of the
Gary school superintendent, DR.. Will
liam Writ.
Town planning has received so much
attention within the past ten years
that 1t is developing into a new pro-
fession and one that promises to be
most remunerative. The obvious ad-
vantage of a brand new city, built
up from the ground on plan in har-
mony with modern developments,
over the city which was evolved from
a small village in which sanitation,
vi
unthought of. has been recognized by
number of corporations in the selec-
tion of sites for manufacturing plants
The need of persons competent to
plan new cities as we'll as to remodel
old ones led the University of Penn
sylvania to establish n course of city
planning this year in connection with
Its summer school. The instruction
for the present season will close next
week. It has been under the direc-
ton of r. Antrim Haldeman, city en-
gineer of Philadelphia; Carol Arono-
vici and Bernard Newman, of the
Philadelphia Housing Commission, and
Professor James P. Lichtenberger. OF
the university.
A number of cities are now es-
tablishiDg commissions for the pur-
pose of securing a definite plan suited
to individual municipal need. New
York recently esta ablished such a com
ings which are adding so materially
to the efficiency and beauty of CIeve-
land were built from plans which rec
ognized the peculiar and distinctive
conditions of that city. Dallas and
Galveston. Texas, Birmingham, Ala,
and Reading, Pa, are among other
cities which have recently adopted
definite plan upon which future i'm
provements WILL be based.
The we'll organized plan provides
for filing each municipal need with
the greatest possible efficiency. Streets.
parks, schools, hospitals, lighting.
water supply and. in some cities. even
heating. are considered as service
which the municipality must supply
uniformly for It's people. It must
administer to their esthetic as we'll as
their physical nature by giving them
at all times an attractive environment.
All of this service must be rendered
at O. minimum cost.
At a recent gathering of world
renowned architects Eduard Henard,
architect for the city of Paris, pre-
ber Of novel suggestions as to the re-
quirements in the city plan of the
future. He prophesied that public
service within the next quarter of a
century will include many details not
vet even under consideration. Most of
these are to be supplied by tube and
provisions for perfect network of
service tubes must be made in city
planning. They would seriously inter
fere with present arrangements.
Vacuum cleaning may be one Of
these. and It will require q pine from
every house for the pnaun1atie dust