. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . 1830. ing the task of orderly city building. Thecity can much easier pay for the work thancan the people in any great Europeancity for the reason that our nation, gen-erally speaking, has had a career ofpeace. Old world nations are all bur-dened with debts growing out of greatwars, while we of America are almostfree from such burdens. We arefavored, also, in that we are not com-pelled, by fear of wars, to maintainlarge armies and navies at the tremen-dous cost borne by European conditions, within the city and thenation,
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . 1830. ing the task of orderly city building. Thecity can much easier pay for the work thancan the people in any great Europeancity for the reason that our nation, gen-erally speaking, has had a career ofpeace. Old world nations are all bur-dened with debts growing out of greatwars, while we of America are almostfree from such burdens. We arefavored, also, in that we are not com-pelled, by fear of wars, to maintainlarge armies and navies at the tremen-dous cost borne by European conditions, within the city and thenation, are favorable to Chicago un-dertaking and eas-ily comple tingmuch greater andmore expensivepublic works thanany city of is interestingto note, in viewingthe results of citybuilding and plan-ning in moderntimes, that all thegreat cities of Eu-rope, since the. 1880. Transformation of the Banks of the Seine in Paris. Chronological Views of the Petit Pont and Petit Chatelet Showing the Evolution of the Boulevards. 44 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OF CHICAGO close of the Franco-Prussian war in1870, have undertaken costly works ofimprovement. The peoples attentionfreed from war, . they everywhereturned at once to vast works of peace,determined to make their cities properplaces for their well-being, luxury. This era of peace opened with mostof the cities in Europe as great walledtowns, little changed from the condi-tions of the Middle Ages except in thecrowding together of their peace camethe progress of in-vention, the exten-sion of the use ofsteam power, thebirth of the electricrailway, generaluse of the telegraphand telephone andthe development ofall the agencies oftransportation, in-telligence and com-merce which work
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