PUTTING TOWNS ON DRESS PARADE 



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Mississippi Valley had won turn reputation, was made 

 chief engineer and there was gathered about him a group 

 of consultants that included the greatest hydraulic engi- 

 neering knowledge and experience the world afforded. A 

 series of dams and retarding basins to hold back any 

 surplus of water above channel capacity constitute the 

 chief feature of the program, but at critical points in the 

 cities channel enlargements and improvements were 

 added. It was this part of the program that gave to 

 Hamilton her great chance to redeem her river and to 

 develop a parkway system comparable to that Mr. Kessler 

 had conceived years before. 



"Hamilton thus had the unusual experience of having a 

 large nucleus for a complete boulevard and park system 

 handed to her without cost. It is true that the gift is in 

 the rough, but conservancy engineers pledged full co- 

 operation, so that the entire cost to the city would be 

 only the work of embellishment and the acquisition and 

 development of any desired additional lands. Public 

 opinion immediately crystalized in support of Mr. Mor- 

 gan's suggestion and the city council has authorized the 

 completion of a boulevard from the heart of the city 

 skirting the river front south for a distance of more 

 than two miles. A fifty foot driveway will be established 



Photograph by Kraus 



A LIBERTY ROW 



This Liberty Row has been started at Westminster, Maryland, by the Civic League, the plans being in charge of Mrs. Austin Gallagher. 

 This is an example of how the "Roads of Remembrance" idea of the American Forestry Association is being taken up in all parts of the 

 country. Eight pin oaks have also been dedicated in Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore. The trees in the picture will some day offer a fine 

 example of which is of more value to the road, memorial trees or telegraph poles. 



"The Miami Conservancy district is now widening the 

 channel through Hamilton and erecting levees. To ac- 

 complish this end the Conservancy Directors were forced 

 to acquire practically all the river front property, and as 

 a consequence buildings that have been eyesores for gen- 

 erations are being razed. The large equipment used in 

 the project has filled many acres of lowlands to the gen- 

 eral level and made available for public purposes much 

 ground hitherto useless. Mr. Morgan proposed to the 

 citizens of Hamilton the conversion of the entire levee 

 improvement into a parkway and boulevard. He sug- 

 gested the acquisition of various tracts of land for park 

 purposes and tendered the services of the Conservancy 

 district in moving all the material required for both 

 drives and park fills. 



and money has been appropriated for the purchase of 

 lands for two riverside parks conveniently accessible to 

 the population. At the south end the levee and boulevard 

 will give protection to about 200 acres of lowlands and it 

 is believed that this extensive tract will ultimately be 

 acquired for a large public park. A hardly less important 

 development will be made toward the north. By the 

 joint action of the city, county authorities and the con- 

 servancy directors a boulevard will be extended to the 

 north by extending North Third Street across the low- 

 lands of this district on a levee embankment skirting the 

 river. This road, to be known as Riverside Drive, will 

 be five miles in length, crossing the Great Miami River 

 once and connecting the city proper with the big blast 

 furnace and coke district to the north. With these im- 



