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sidewalks^ the walls and roofs of our houses, reflect the 

 heat from the burning rays of the sun until the whole 

 atmosphere at times becomes like a heated oven. No 

 wonder many persons become suddenly sick and 

 die. No wonder multitudes of little children, the light 

 and hope of the family, succumb, and our cemeteries 

 are dotted all over with little graves. 



Except in the business part of the city, one-half 

 of all our wide streets should be converted into grass 

 plats and flower beds and set in trees. Every property 

 owner should be requird to care for and protect these 

 grass plats and trees the same as and even more than 

 his sidewalks. 



Most of our streets are eighty feet wide. Make a 

 drive- way in the center thirty-five feet wide, which for 

 this purpose is now and always will be enough, pave 

 or gravel them, make the sidewalks eight feet wide, 

 which will give ample room, and leave the intervening 

 space on either side for grass plats, flower beds and 

 trees, and we will have streets that are convenient and 

 present a tasteful and elegant appearance. Or what 

 in some of the streets would be better, make the grass 

 plats in the center of the streets and have a drive- 

 way on each side of them. 



It is strange people have not before this learned 

 that such broad, bare drive-ways are unnecessary in 

 the resident part of any city. Give at least one-half 

 of all the streets to green grass, flowers and trees, 

 and we add immeasurably to the comfort, healthful- 

 ness and beauty of the city and have ample room for 

 driving every where. 



When this is done, and the trees have had a few 

 years to grow, the increased heat our improvements 

 have made will be materially modified, and our death 

 rate lessened in proportion. 



