University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-08

Dancing always in the future are d
million fancies and few facts; maI
plucks at the lot and draws chance
Clutching it tight in his hand, he
waits for time, the greater adjuster,
to prove him an idle dreamer or the
far-seeing man.
What will Columbia be fifty years
from now? Men prOphesy. speculate,
dream.
"Yes, I'm dreamer" says J. A.
Stewart, but want to dream
fifty. but ten, five, one year ahead that
think about. There is a city hall
we need that now and we need parks.
not large ones, just three or four
rest-spots about ten acres each, scat
tered about the city"
An Architects Vision.
The thing Columbia needs most to
insure its beauty fifty years from
now is building inspector" says
George T. Sasse, an architect. "We
need building restrictions. supervision
of parkings, of tree and shrub plant
/ ing and city ordinances compelling
uniformity of lot line and controlling
/ the character of buildings The day
of the individual is going-it is how
man harmonizes with man that will
count in the future"
Let's not strain our vision over
! fifty years" advises n. d. Evans, 'ten
years will find Columbia a new city.
BY that time | believe We shall have
great system of boulevards begin
ming at Hinkson creek and, in Il
measure, encircling the city. Then.
| hope We shall have a more attrac-
tive railroad-approach. 1t does not
add to a strangers impression to en-
ter our city through backyards. If
strip, a hundred feet wide, of we'll
kept lawn fianked the Wabash tracks,
with the wedge of land between the
tracks and Christian College turned
into a park, even going so far as to
erect a small station for the College
there, the gain to Columbia would be
all out of proportion to the money
spent. And we ought to do this soon.
A city, like an individual. ought to do
thing before the other man does"
Now Is the Time to Plan Parks.
H. II. Banks says the time to plan
parks and boulevards is before they
are needed. After then, as many
cities have found out to their cost,
they are luxuries even when necessi-
ties.
Are you seeking the oratorical or
the practical vision of a new COlum-
bia?" parties Prof l.. NJ Defoe First
We need a re-classification to get bet
ter fire insurance rates. We need bet
ter connection between the water
mains of the University and those of
the city. We need a concrete reser-
voir at the water plant. We need
by the way, in all such visioning, do
you know who is the forgotten man?
He is the one who pays the bills
member of the Civic League out
lines a plan for grouping the muni-
cipal buildings about a community
center north of Broadway that would
balance the state buildings on the
south.
Erect the city hall on Eighth street |
just east of the courthouse" she says;
then to the north, with fair amount
of space between, place the public |
library. The time is coming when |
neighborhoods will cooperate in lay |
ing out their lawns and so secure har- |
mony of flowers and shrubs. This has
already been done here to some ex-
tent-note Virginia avenue. Another |
thing, the new Columbia will be weed
less"
4 Good Road Era.
This age will go down in history as
an era of good roads. Men talk, read |
and, as many can testify after a dusty
drive, eat good roads. Visionizing a
new Columbia. men see roads, boule-
wards and parks. 1T is what We need"
they say. And back the echo comes,
1T is what we will have"
1.-The good road movement started
here in 1866" says N T. Gentry,
when the county court ordered
sl50,000 spent on a gravel road be-
tween Columbia and Jefferson City.
Today We have more than six good
roads leading into town and twenty