. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . up of vacant lots,the children have lost their play space. It has paused, takingaccount of these conditions, to learn what it can yet do tocorrect the omissions of the past and to prepare for the as-sured future. Thus is the problem concerned largely, but notalone, with the present needs of Fort Wayne. It is, How canthe present city better adjust itself to the requirements of that 12 Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association business and population which, in a now imminent future, liebefore it? Topographi
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . up of vacant lots,the children have lost their play space. It has paused, takingaccount of these conditions, to learn what it can yet do tocorrect the omissions of the past and to prepare for the as-sured future. Thus is the problem concerned largely, but notalone, with the present needs of Fort Wayne. It is, How canthe present city better adjust itself to the requirements of that 12 Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association business and population which, in a now imminent future, liebefore it? Topographically, the city is situated on a plain. Themain lines of the Pennsylvania and Wabash railroads, cuttinga broad swath through the city, practically bisect it. The River flows north along its western edge, until, aboutopposite the center of the city, it turns northeastward and theneast, to meet the St. Joseph, which comes out of the two form the Maumee, and flow eastward along whatpresently becomes the northern boundary of the city. So thecity bas rivers on two Railroads, Business Streets I shaded) and Rioers of Fort Wayne—The Citys Determining Lines. Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association 13 The meanderings of these streams have influenced thestreet system less than might have been expected. Perhapsthis is because the general north and east direction of theirflow is so nearly in harmony with a compass-laid parallelogramof streets. For example, the angle of divergence betweensuch streets as Jefferson, that parallel the general course of theeastward flowing rivers, and those which, in greater number,parallel Lewis, is very slight. The business of the city has long been done on CalhounStreet, between the Nickel Plate road, which skirts the river,and the Pennsylvania and Wabash railroads—a distance ofthree-quarters of a mile. Necessarily business is now extend-ing laterally from Calhoun Street. As yet such extension isprincipally on Main and Berry St
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