Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-24

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present line of Seventh street, and
imposing architectural treatment at
the junction of the two streets.
Curying Approaches to Broad Niaduct
In order to meet the objections of
those who favor the erection of an
overhead bridge at Walnut street it is
proposed to have an approach to the
Viaduct at a point near the present
Royal Terrace road, with additional
approaches possibly from Twelfth
street and along the roadway leading
through a section of the Harrisburg
, Cemetery property to Thirteenth
street A suggestion was also made to
extend road along the face of the
bluff at Cameron street, terminating
at Cameron and Market, the line of
the old Jamestown road.
Under this arrangement the viaduct
will clear Tenth street and Cameron
street by great archways and the ef-
feet gained will be practically an eX-
tension of the Capitol Park treatment
along State to Thirteenth. 1t would
also mean that the bluff, looking east
ward from the Capitol, would be
merged into the Capitol Park area
with its trees and shrubbery. 1t is
believed that there can be no objec-
tion from those who heretofore ia
Vored the Walnut street bridge to this
comprehensive and imposing plan, in
as much as it will meet every eXpecta-
ton of the citizens east of Cameron
street. 1t is probable that some effort
will be made at the present session of
the Legislature to provide way by
which the loan authorized for the
Walnut street bridge may be availa BILE
for the city's share of this great inn
provement.
Comprehensive Landscape Treatment
Under the tentative plans approved
nv tho State hnrifiaS fhara will ha
covered terrace over the present line
of Fourth street, about fifty feet wide,
and extending the entire length of the
Capitol grounds. This will mean some
slight changeat the eastern approach
to the Capitol in the way of an en-
trance and the elimination of Fourth
street as public highway through
the park zone. In its place will be
substituted a wide street crossing the
park from a point near the Technical
high school building, in all probability
an extension of a widened Aberdeen
street, emerging at North street, where
the present narrow street will be
widened as far as Herr street. This
feature is, of course, to be a part of
the future planning of the city.
Instead of enlarging the present
building of the Capitol and dwarfing,
as a result, the other imposing fea-
lures of the present structure, it is
proposed to provide in the landscape
treatment for future expansion of the
Capitol by suitable buildings along
both sides of the extension eastwardly.
These buildings, which would be put
up from time to time as the increased
housing of the State forces should de-
mand. would be designed as detailed
structures to be located considerably
within the lines of Walnut and North
streets. The space in front of these
buildings would be planted with shrub
berry and the larger park area sweep
ing from between the lines of the pro-
posed buildings and from the Capitol
to the viaduct would be designed by a
formal sunken garden scheme at the
front of the covered terrace at Fourth
street leading to broad avenues of
trees toward the railroad. Boulevards
through the parkway for the use of
automobiles and horses. as well as at
tractive resting places for pedestrians,
will of course be included in the plans
Mr.. Brunner believes it will be pos
sible 10 provide in the main park
treatment for some fountain arrange
ment and pool of water in the midst
of the wide expanse of green. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh made a suggestion
which met with much favor among
those gathered together for the con-
ference. The Governor proposes that
when the time arrives for the planting
of trees. the occasion be made a state
wide one. and an invitation sent to