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But public sentiment had not been sufficiently crystallized to 

 demand much of these. 



The study of their city brought some surprise to the Sacramento 

 business men. They had certain self-satisfied, complacent 



Fig. 2. Blind children of Copenhagen upon a 

 nature study field excursion in the Royal Deer 

 Park. Even the afflicted may learn the music 

 of song birds. 



smugness about their home town. Business had flowed on with 

 an apparently regular average of prosperity and all seemed well, 

 just as it had from the days when the rush across the Indian- 

 infested plains by prairie-schooner, met, at Sacramento, the rush 

 over the fever stricken Panama, and from the long dreary trade 

 route "around the Horn." 



Then came the awakening — those few years when skyscrapers 

 commenced to replace the old one-and-two story store buildings — 

 when asphalt was laid in place of streets of cobbles, which once 

 unmercifully jolted the mule teams from the mines. 



As the city planning progressed, more than one lesson was 

 learned. A housing expert came. A connection was estabUshed 



