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tions to the Ford garage, all built
| and completed racentlY.

tions to the Ford garage, all built
and completed recently.
A most charming small store build
ing on West Washington was origin
ally built for an automobile sales
room but is now used at the home
of the Arizona Pimacotton Growers
association. This building. with an
arcaded front and in a modified ltal-
ian renaissance style, is executed in
a cement stone Stimulating Italian
Travertine; the building, with its
variegated tile roof, is a jewel and
warrants the attention of the pub
lie.
Federal Building
Those who remember the former
location of the old postoffice in the
present Central building should COM
pare it with the beautiful new Fed
eral building, housing the various
government departments. The build
ing is a very handsome structure,
well placed, and forms a nucleus for
a future development of Phoenix
! forthcoming civic center.
While many Phoenicians may re-
gret that the city still has to house
it's city and county governing bodies
| in the present city hall and county
/ 1OuiL AOuoG, WlllCil 4ldNC O0NiANCN
| their day, and forget the wonderful
work along other civic lines done in
the last few years. such as the COM
| pletion of the new Verde water sys-
tenn and the paving of miles Of our
! streets, besides other municipal work.
1 Notable among these is the recent
city plan for beautifying and CIV
! ing proper direction to growth by
procuring the services of city plan
ners, who after considerable thought
4 and study have presented to the city
governing bodies scheme for the
proper esthetic, municipal. business
educational and industrial develop
ment. This, in itself, is a greater
step forward than many people will
realize until they see the partial ex-
ecution of the ideas advanced by
these documents. AS every great un-
dertaking must have its probable
line of action directed, so with a
city which in most cases has just
grew up" thoroughfares following
former trails or wagon roads with
out any comprehensive plan as to
their functions, and causing later
| expensive alterations to bring or
der out of an often chaotic assem-
bly, of streets and evenues. Here is
an example of the broad and far
seeing policy OF the city. 1t has only
been Of late years that the leading
cities of this country have seen the
wisdom of this course, and many
of them have spent thousands of dol
lars to rectify mistaken courses of
the streets, which expense the city
of Phoenix will by early action dis
pense with.
Theater and Club Buildings
Last but not least, is the activity
and progress of this city's lodge.
theater and club buildings The new
Ell Zaribah Shrine auditorium on
West Washington street has been
completed and is now the social
center for the city's large functions,
having the greatest clear floor space
under one roof of any structure in
the city for the purose of dancing
and entertainments. This structure
with the skeleton steel frame and
immense steel trusses is one of the
finest structures of it's kind in the
state. Though the building needs its
interior color scheme completed to
make it present the right architec-
tural appearance, yet with its broad
lawn and newly started planting, 1t
is even now an impressive addition
to the fraternal buildings of the
city.
, The new Masonic Temple, also OH
/ West Washington street, which plans
have been completed, will soon arise
; and add it's attractive facade to the
5 beauty of this street.
The most ambitious undertaking
yet attempted in Phoenix in fraternal
buildings is the new Elks' club house
on Second avenue and Adams street
) to be built at an estimated cost OF
s500000 This building, of steel
construction, for which foundations
; have been installed, will be Phoe-
) nix finest club and lodge building
/ The building incorporates all of the
, kmost modern appliances and devices
: for rest and recreation, with mod