The problem of city beautification as observed in Europe . commercialism; but in no country does one see the monu-ments for the past better preserved or more reverently cared impression of intense and vital nationality is gained every-where. The quiet, orderly movement of the British industrialworld-machine, with its well-oiled journals and bearings and pon-derous fly-wheels, is borne in upon one throughout the north ofEngland. Sheffield gives an added impression as of all the forgesof the earth gathered together for a congress. Surely, this is theworkshop of the world. Birmingham show
The problem of city beautification as observed in Europe . commercialism; but in no country does one see the monu-ments for the past better preserved or more reverently cared impression of intense and vital nationality is gained every-where. The quiet, orderly movement of the British industrialworld-machine, with its well-oiled journals and bearings and pon-derous fly-wheels, is borne in upon one throughout the north ofEngland. Sheffield gives an added impression as of all the forgesof the earth gathered together for a congress. Surely, this is theworkshop of the world. Birmingham shows us at least two notable municipal object les-sons. The first is Mr. Chamberlains scheme of city rebuildingand beautification,— there having been previously to 1875 an areain the center of the city reeking with squalor, vice and disease. ^^^^^- ?JpSi „ 1:r^^!f^4-^g ^ 1 .^m^^M r-JI^I ^^1 i 1. ^i^A^M wK^^^^i i 1 iH |il|--j» M HvH BPl rfir rfiiihtll jM ^^^^^H 8 IT^H^ ^^ ^ ^K; ---x --:>. Hlfli (a) Pall Mall and Cockspur Streets, London, Plate I. (b) Piccadilly along Green Park, London, Eng. Civic Beautification Abroad. See page IL ENGLISH CITIES. 11 a slmn famed throughout England. Forty odd acres of land, in-cluding this pest-spot, were acquired by the city while Mr. Cham-berlain was Mayor, and laid out in business streets, well plannedand of dignified aspect. The venture paid for itself, as such ven-tures usually do, and will eventually afford the city a considerablesurplus income. Another is the efficient waste disposal and theworld-famous sewage disposal plant, designed by Mr. John , by means of which the sewage waste of a million peopleis discharged into a small stream of less volume than the purifiedsewage, without the slightest nuisance. Passing all too rapidly through England, neglecting the beau-tiful old city of Chester, vnth its memorials of the past; barelymentioning Oxford and Cambridge, both worthy of description;and York and Durham, with
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