. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . ool yards as a class be larger, but,I have said, they should be pleasanter to look upon. The fineHigh School, for instance, is a striking example. What citizenwould put up a house of such value, or even a good lookingfactory, and not improve the grounds ? There should at thevery least be shrubs on the Lewis Street corners, and on eitherside of the Lewis Street entrance. I append photographs giv-ing an idea of the setting of a high school in Cambridge, Mass.,and this is a fair example. 66 Fort Wayne Civic
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . ool yards as a class be larger, but,I have said, they should be pleasanter to look upon. The fineHigh School, for instance, is a striking example. What citizenwould put up a house of such value, or even a good lookingfactory, and not improve the grounds ? There should at thevery least be shrubs on the Lewis Street corners, and on eitherside of the Lewis Street entrance. I append photographs giv-ing an idea of the setting of a high school in Cambridge, Mass.,and this is a fair example. 66 Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association In Chicago, $150,000 is being expended this year simplyin the adornment of schoolyards. Flowers and shrubs areplaced around the borders and against the building, where theytrespass on no play space. But it may be added that the work,which has been in progress there for years, is exceedinglypopular with the children themselves, a rivalry in beauty ofgrounds growing up among the schools that have been thusimproved. That there is set an example and stimulus to the. High School Grounds, Cambridge, Mass. neighborhood, that the school becomes an inviting center andthat the child unconsciously learns to appreciate beauty, arefacts that need no telling. It is a curious circumstance thatamong the smaller public buildings of Fort Wayne the fire-houses are set in more attractively-kept lots than are the schools—though the latter are supposed to stand for and to raise thecommunitys ideals of culture. Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association 67 Very beautiful is the residential tract developed east ofHoagland Avenue, between Pontiac and Killea Streets. Herea lovely grove was not ruthlessly cut down, that bare lotsmight be created, and characterless streets put through to beplanted laboriously with stripling trees. But with only a littlethinning the grove was left to make for city homes an idealsetting and to offer in its beauty and success an example toowners of o
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