. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . veryway a better place to live in without unreasonable municipal ex-penditure, could not fail to be helpfully suggestive to othersimilar cities and hence to perform a great social and econo-mic service—social, because one would thus be brighteningmany lives; economic, because the result would be to increasethe efficiency of labor and to bring in and hold a high classof labor. The probability of this double service is the secondreason why the proffered problem appeals. Third, it is inter-esting because th
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . veryway a better place to live in without unreasonable municipal ex-penditure, could not fail to be helpfully suggestive to othersimilar cities and hence to perform a great social and econo-mic service—social, because one would thus be brighteningmany lives; economic, because the result would be to increasethe efficiency of labor and to bring in and hold a high classof labor. The probability of this double service is the secondreason why the proffered problem appeals. Third, it is inter-esting because the conditions surrounding its presentationwere so unusual, the Civic Revival having been, in itselfand in its effects, a remarkable movement. Without reference, therefore, to the local topographicalconditions, the problem demands ones best study. Becausethose conditions happen to prove exceptionally favorable, theproblem in concrete consideration becomes the more absorb-ing. As a result of my study, I have the honor to submit thefollowing conclusions, recommendations, and suggestions:. HE PROBLEM. Port Wayne has had nomushroom growth. It is com-paratively an old city, as citiesgo in the Middle West, and37et its population now is onlyabout 65,000. It is an im-portant railroad center, andthe traffic facilities thus offer-ed, its proximity to large mar-kets, and its location in a richtributary farming countryhave united to cause a con-sistently continuous growth,and to determine beyond question the citys character, presentand future, as a manufacturing and trading community. The gradnalness of the increase in population must havepresented, one might think, ideal opportunities for municipalimprovement. On the contrary, the very lack of spectacularbooms to shock the civic consciousness into a realization oftendencies and destiny, has invited, heretofore, a degree oflethargy and procrastination. The streets are well paved,good sidewalks have recently been laid, the pavements arereas
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