. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. ctures have told a story whichevery Binghamtonian can apply with appreciation of its practica-bility. It is amazing how easily and inexpensively the improvementcan be made. In fact, there is no question that it will much morethan pay for itself in the enhanced value of property. We have toremember, also, that the South Side river bank park, now underconstruction from the Washington Street Bridge to above ExchangeStreet, is going to insure a pleasing outlook from a North Side park,while the converse
. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. ctures have told a story whichevery Binghamtonian can apply with appreciation of its practica-bility. It is amazing how easily and inexpensively the improvementcan be made. In fact, there is no question that it will much morethan pay for itself in the enhanced value of property. We have toremember, also, that the South Side river bank park, now underconstruction from the Washington Street Bridge to above ExchangeStreet, is going to insure a pleasing outlook from a North Side park,while the converse of this—as already suggested—is that the NorthSide improvement is required, if for no other reason than to securemaximum results from the investment on the South Side. As a manwould not put up a fine house and leave his grounds unimproved, soa city should not build a riverbank park and leave ash piles wherepeople who are trying to enjoy the park must look at them. One or two other points are to be noted. While it has beensuggested that the improvement of the riverbanks in the simple and. Photographed by J. Horace McFarland Co. Another view of the benefit the city of Harrlsburg gains from the river SI inexpensive manner proposed would mean much to women opera-tives, its benefits would not by any means be confined to them. Theyare spoken of only because no other park improvement would dofor them quite as much as would this. Every citizen, however,would enjoy the riverbanks, and I would urge that in the broadspace available just east of Washington Street, there be developeda childrens playground, north of the promenade and drive. Itwould be conveniently located, in a section that offers no other playfacilities to children, and in its relative isolation it would so concen-trate their activities at an unobjectionable point that the enjoymentby adults of all the rest of the strip of riverbank would be enhanced.
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