. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . age manufacturing or residence. The Packard Company, located on Fairfield Avenue, hasmade its grounds lovely with planting. Very striking, too,are the remarkable neatness and attractiveness of the groundsof the Wabash roundhouse, lower down, on the same is good work, sociologically as well as aesthetically, andis everywhere to be encouraged. But even an assurance ofsuch development will not justify, in a scientific city plan, theplacing of a factory in a high class residence district. A dog F
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . age manufacturing or residence. The Packard Company, located on Fairfield Avenue, hasmade its grounds lovely with planting. Very striking, too,are the remarkable neatness and attractiveness of the groundsof the Wabash roundhouse, lower down, on the same is good work, sociologically as well as aesthetically, andis everywhere to be encouraged. But even an assurance ofsuch development will not justify, in a scientific city plan, theplacing of a factory in a high class residence district. A dog Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association 4J is out of place at a cat show, even though he does wear a rib-bon around his neck. One particular reason for dislike of a factory in a resi-dence district is the smoke emitted from it. If the factoriesof a city are so located that under usual wind conditions theirsmoke is blown across the residence and trading portions of thetown, there is done on a great scale the injury that one factory,when erroneously placed, does on a small scale. In Fort. A bit of the Packard Grounds. Wayne the prevailing wind is southwest. The location of fac-tories southwest of the city, or even in the rolling mill district,is therefore, from this point of view, unfortunate. But the residences must not interfere with the factoriesany more than the factories should interfere with the resi-dences. If no equally good site for manufacturing can befound, or created, that high-class residence section which is nowestablished on West Jefferson, Washington, Wayne and Berry 5o Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association Streets will have to move, leaving its place for the homes ofoperatives. Generally speaking, it is easier to move dwell-ings than factories. The action is more or less automatic, andmay be witnessed today in operation in scores of cities. Fac-tories make a neighborhood unpleasant; those residents whocan afford to do so move away, and the character of the nei
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