Mar., 1917] 



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From Franklin Park northward, up Alum Creek to Minerva 

 Park, about eight miles, are many beautiful places which 

 could be similarly tied together by a broad boulevard and shady 

 walks. A cross line up a shady ravine, east of Linden, through 

 that suburb and down another ravine, or through Clintonville 

 to the Olentangy drive, or still further north from Minerva 

 Park to Worthington, would complete the northern loop. 



A loop is invited in the southeast part of the city from 

 Franklin Park down Alum Creek, past the Driving Park and 

 Infirmary and return to the Scioto Valley, through Schiller 

 Park (Fig. 18) about two miles south of the State House. 



Fig. 19. The ancient ill-kept residences and old shops along the Scioto banks 



which should be removed to make place for a public drive, bordered 



with grass and shade. (Photo by R. F. Griggs.) 



Instead of the unsightly, ancient, tumbled-down, unsanitary 

 houses and shops now crowded along the river (Fig. 19) from 

 Broad Street south, a broad, shady drive or walk on a large 

 levee could be built, which would devote natural scenic beauty 

 to the uses for which it is best adapted, and not strain it beyond 

 recognition to make sites for hovels of squalor. The people 

 living along these alleys would be vastly better off, too, if 

 forced to find more cleanly, homelike quarters in real residence 

 sections. 



Of course not all this forecast can come true at once, any 

 more than the present city with its maze of geographic adjust- 

 ments has arisen in a year. But the progress of the century 



